Drift Fleet: IC Inbox

[everydayhero]

[A catch-all for privately contacting Hiro outside of posts on the network.]

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[everydayhero]

What the h--[no hiro]--eck?

What did they do?

[HE LOOKS... ANGRY. AND HE HASN'T TAKEN OFF YET. LOOK AT HIM DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT TO GET OUT OF THIS POD AND GO AFTER THEM.]

[ishere]

[ and. reaching over to gently smack the side of hiro's head. ]

Drive, please. Everything's fine, nerd.

[ AND THEN. because tadashi is tadashi. he frowns thoughtfully at his lap. ]

You don't think I'm boring, do you?

[ tadashi doesn't think he's boring........... oh my god this is the stupidest existential crisis ever........... ]

[everydayhero]

[swatting at his hand, don't hit me

[he starts driving, though. he's... irritated now. so when tadashi starts, he gets a pretty "what the fuck" look]

No? Why?

[ishere]

Just wondering. Jeez, relax.

[ because he is still actually pretty freaked out and the last thing he wants to do here is freak his little brother out, okay. at least any more than he already has. ]

I'd thank you for the ride, but you're really just paying me back for all the times I've bailed you out of things, so...

[everydayhero]

[hiro takes a deep breath in and out through his nose.]

... Did they kidnap you and call you boring?

[HE IS SO ANGRY WITH THEM.]

[ishere]

Didn't I just tell you to relax?

[ he's trying to sound stern. ]

[everydayhero]

Dude, you can't just tell me to be calm when you got tied up and hauled off.

[he can when you're the one driving, little man. no space road rage]

[ishere]

It was all just a big understanding. --and Ino's friends are a little insane. But it's fine now, Hiro, all you getting mad is gonna do is result in you crashing the shuttle into an asteroid or something.

[ he pretty much pledged to himself that he'd never let hiro worry about him again. ]

[everydayhero]

[tadashi that's not healthy]

If it's fine, why rush me out there to get you?

[he's learning, look out]

[ishere]

Because I was on a strange ship and the only two people there I knew had just given me the third degree?

[ and because he was totally wigged out, but. ]

[everydayhero]

You bribed me to get me there as fast as possible.

[kinda made it sound urgent there, big brother.]

... ugh. It doesn't even matter anymore, does it?

[ishere]

[ tadashi is... doing his best here. :| ]

What doesn't matter, exactly?

[ his tone is careful. ]

[everydayhero]

I can't do anything about it now.

[look at him, emulating aunt cass. BIG BROTHER GOT HURT WHERE DID I GO WRONG]

[ishere]

-- hey. You came and got me, didn't you? You're doing plenty about it.

[ okay, this time the hand that lands on hiro's head is gentle, not, you know, smacking. ]

[everydayhero]

[which is the only reason it doesn't get swatted off, to be honest. he huffs again, indignantly.]

Whatever... [mumblegrumblepout]

[ishere]

[ he gently scritches the top of his little brother's head, before finally dropping his hand and sighing. ]

... you think I should tell Ino?

[ yes, hiro, you were right: he has it bad. ]

[everydayhero]

... Yeah. You should. If she finds out down the road, she'll be angry at all three of you.

[ishere]

Ugh. Who said that it was your turn to be the wise one? What happened to my bratty, hard-headed baby brother?

[everydayhero]

I'm not the one getting kidnapped and falling all over himself. When I start getting arrested again, you can take over.

[ishere]

[ .... hahaha that gentle hand resting on hiro's head is going to give his hair a solid tug now. ]

You make it sound like it's something that's happened to just you and not the both of us.

[ which is to say: yep he is suspicious as fuck now. ]

[everydayhero]

[URK.]

Tadashi, this is not driving conversation. You're just stressed out.

[ishere]

And the right answer there would've been "no, Tadashi, I've never been arrested here," not that really awful attempt at a deflection.

[ but he lets him go and sighs, leaning back in his seat. ]

We're gonna talk.

[everydayhero]

[SIGHHHH.]

Not like it happens every week.

[ishere]

I take back everything I said about you not being bratty and hard-headed.

[everydayhero]

[good]

You're still worse off than I am right now.

[oh look the bishop! time to enter the blue flashing lights of home]