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[polemical]

[ Stop booing her, she's right! ]

yeah that's not a secret. joel knows already. i'm pretty sure tommy does too he's just been too nice to say anything to me and i'm terrified of his wife.

[ There's no way Eddie would have been able to hide a crush for any length of time, she's an open book at all times. Much to her chagrin. So she'd 'fessed up about her humiliating crush and now she's just owning it. It's fine. ]

[pinch_hitter]

[Yeah just like Steve and Joel but HE got raked over the coals for it!]

He's like.

A hundred years older than you.

[polemical]

i know, i know, he's older than my dad would be if he was here. i'm not going to do anything about it, obviously, he's married with a baby on the way.

he's still hot, though.

[pinch_hitter]

He's not hot, he's scary. Total difference.

WAIT is this why you're friends with Joel? Because you want in with the brother? Holy shit, Munson. You're devious.

[polemical]

he's totally hot. and scary too, sure. but who isn't in this day and age?

that is absolutely not why i am friends with joel, joel is friends with ME because i'm cool and funny and incredibly interesting. and i do not want in with his brother because his bother is MARRIED with a BABY on the way.

i may be many things but a homewrecker is not one of them.

[pinch_hitter]

But you just called yourself cool and funny and incredible interesting so

clearly delusional.

[polemical]

i never said i wasn't delusional. i'm just not a homewrecker. i have some standards, thanks.

[pinch_hitter]

There are goddamn infected out there and stealing a dude is your line?

I mean.

I guess I'm impressed.

[polemical]

don't sound so fucking surprised, shit.

[ All jokes aside, yes. That is her line. Tommy and Maria are happy, okay, or at least they seem happy to the outside observer. She's not going to even think about fucking that up. Not even to fantasize about it. Tommy's very nice to look at, but he's scary (Steve's right) and his wife is even scarier. Eddie's okay with just looking from afar. ]

[pinch_hitter]

[Eddie Munson shouldn't have lines like that. Literally no one should. Steve's mom didn't and it kept them fed.

It also felt fucking terrible.]

No worries. I'll find some Hoof & Tail and get all the studs shinning to save you some pain if you make that bat for me.

[polemical]

wait a minute, now i'm making it FOR you? i thought i was helping you make it yourself!

[pinch_hitter]

Uh I mean YOU told ME that I didn't know my way around a lathe.

[polemical]

which is true but there's no way to learn without doing it, so.

[pinch_hitter]

Look I'm not an idiot but I also need a usable bat.

[polemical]

okay so you can help me make one. then the next time you lose yours or whatever you can do it yourself.

teach a man to fish, and all that.

[pinch_hitter]

Lose?

Wow okay so now I know what you think of me for real. Lose. Lose my bat.

Lose it.

Christ.

[polemical]

what, was it taken from you? you see how that's worse, right?

[pinch_hitter]

I can't even with you.

I just can't.

[polemical]

relax, dude, you're so easy to rile up.

[pinch_hitter]

I told you it broke!

[Did he? He can't remember. He's a little sensitive when it comes to being listened to. Probably why he took to the kids so easily, back in Indy.]

[polemical]

did you?

[ She scrolls back to check, only to find out that he did. She was still kind of reeling from having all these familiar faces turn up and then having one actually reach out and talk to her that she let herself get distracted. ]

oh shit, you did. my bad. okay, fine. i'll stop razzing you for losing your bat when obviously it broke when you were doing something selfless and heroic or something.

[ She's heard Steve Stories from the younger kids already. ]

[pinch_hitter]

It's amazing how you just can't be nice. Like. Wow. That's your superpower.

[polemical]

wow you are really not ready to talk to joel miller if you think I'M mean.

also, excuse you, i am very nice! i just apologized to you!

[pinch_hitter]

You realize that you totally did not actually apologize, right?

[polemical]

fine. god.

oh stevie, i'm so sorry for doubting you. it was so wrong of me to imply that you could have possibly lost your primary weapon, like that's something that doesn't happen to people all the time. i shouldn't have even let myself think it let alone say it to your face and i am deeply sorry. please, if you can find the grace in your heart, try to forgive me for my transgressions. i am truly sorry and i humbly repent.