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[aughhhh well, whatever. This is better than being steered by the shoulders.]

After last time? No thanks, I can handle it.

It wasn't that bad last time! Didn't you finish it?

[ He vaguely remembers asking/forcing Maverick to finish that awful drink, expecting him to dump it down the sink while he was in his room before meeting back up with him. ]

Yeah, I'm not a fucking coward. Of course I finished it. Doesn't mean I'm gonna subject myself to another one without good reason.

You drank that first one for no good reason.

I said "another," didn't I? Keep up.

[He felt...really bad that night, it wasn't like he could feel much worse.]

[ That's true, the drink couldn't make anything worse, I hope Kano fake-falling off the roof was the highlight of Maverick's night that night. ]

Haha, so you learned your lesson from the first one~ Too bad!! I would've put a lot more effort into it if I knew you'd only drink the one!

[Honestly, it was the pinkie promise before the drink that was the highlight. That or when Rex dropped half a snowman on him. That was pretty damn good.]

Aaand I said "without good reason." The real fucking thing I learned is that nothing is ever an impossibility when it fucking comes to you. I'm leaving the option open. Just not tonight, with this particular drink.

Haha... it took you long enough to learn that~

[ He'll make things happen and things will go his way, in the end, with the long game that he prefers to play. The short term just keep throwing a wrench into his plans, from the people he meet to the places they drag him out to- and this isn't an exception. How's he supposed to properly mope if Mav's taking him out to junkyards and buying him ice cream? Kano wasn't supposed to make friends in this school he never intended to make it to graduation in the first place, what a problem this has all become. ]

I guess I'll have to poison you some other day.

[Hey, Mav's with him on that one -- except for him, the only focus was the whole graduating thing. How dare this rugrat distract him from that, and make him actually consider the end of the world as something he could try to take part in preventing? It'd be nice...to graduate alongside Kano, he thinks. Though that means not catching up in his year.]

There you go, that's the spirit. Kinda fucks up your plan when you just straight-up tell me, though.

[ Graduating alongside Kano would mean being held back even more years, because there comes to a point in one's education where one can't just skate by exams by answering things intuitively, and the end of high school is about where it is. ]

It's called fair warning~ Prepare to die by my hand, Maverick Marten-Taylor.

[Let him dream. And let him try!!!]

Damn. That's cold. I'm buying you ice cream, dude.

...You're pardoned from death until after the ice cream.

[Just uh...gonna tug Kano's hand.]

You know, that'd be a good reason to not get you ice cream...? I'll be forever-pardoned.

[ Oh. Hmm. He takes Maverick's hand— laces his fingers with his and everything- and squeezes. ]

Hot 'bout like this, then~ Buy me ice cream every day or die!

[s c r e a m that's not at all what he was trying to do!!!! Boy really is trying to kill him, huh...]

Mmm, pass. Once a month?

[ That'll teach Maverick not to touch him unless he wants Kano to destroy everything he loves. ]

Haggling for your life, huh? Haha, how bold~!

[ But does Kano want to eat ice cream/foam/waffle cones every single day? No, that's the quickest way to ruin something. ]

Hm, hm~ Once a week, and it doesn't have to be ice cream, final offer~

[He thought he was safe already being dragged along!! Life is so hard. He really, really hates how he's thinking about the temperature of Kano's hand against his own and the difference in where their skin is touching and where his fingerless gloves act as a thin barrier. He hates it so much.]

Deal. Because I basically already buy you some fucking thing once a week, don't I?

[ Maverick is never safe, ever, not when Kano is here with his cold fingers but warm palms, squeezing Maverick's hand tightly so he can't pull away. ]

Yep, that's right~ And I already don't kill you once a week, so it's like nothing changes. Easy, easy~ The contract is sealed~

[Eugh. People being that cold is a fuzzy memory, but still a bad one, and combined with Kano's glibness... Good thing he didn't have any of the snacks earlier, because otherwise he would be feeling them churn unpleasantly in his stomach.]

Can you, like, fucking not joke about shit like that?

[ The killing thing or- the contract, probably? Ramona said something about that, that Maverick would probably hate him if he learned that Kano's contracted, and twice over in the near future, at that. It'd be really funny to joke around and pretend that he's a demon himself, but he really doesn't want Maverick to hate him, so he just swings their hands high back and forth as they walk, motion to distract where his words cannot. ]

Alright, alright~ Shall we pinky promise instead? Would that be better?

[The very little amount of Ramona inside me would like to make it clear that she didn't say he'd hate him specifically!!! It just freaks him out. And if he pretended to be the demon, yeah, he'd probably hate him, then, because who does that? (Kano. Kano does that.)

Anyway, now he's being called out on his preferred method of deal-making and that's no good, either? So he'll just grumble and look vaguely embarrassed in an angry way. Don't make fun of him and his dumb love of soft, intimate, hand-related shit...........]

[ Freaking him out for real and on purpose is different than freaking him out for real and on purpose and as a joke, and Kano's convinced Maverick would definitely hate him if he gave any indication he's anything but a basic Candle.

The vaguely embarrassed grumbly face is very telling, anyways, so Kano turns around so he's walking backwards and still holding onto Maverick's hand, but reaches for his other with his pinky to hook them. ]

Like this is alright? I could cross my heart, too~

[look at this fucking asshole, Mav hates him.]

You're so fucking stupid.

[he says, holding out his own pinkie.]

Haha, yeah, yeah~

[ But he takes Maverick's other hand and brings it up to his chest so he can cross their hands over his heart, he doesn't mind being stupid so long as he's not hated. ]

[ugh!!! this stupid bastard. Promise now carved into their souls, as far as he's concerned, he takes his hand back and tries to flick Kano in the forehead. Brat!!]

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