FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org She describes you like family, but I mean
[since we were kids and taken in weren't necessarily exclusive to varying relationship interpretations. besides, it was obvious the two weren't biologically related.]
[and.]
[again, timing was awful. but it just followed to ask, guy to guy,]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org Have you two ever wanted to date?
[It's a strangely mundane question, one he definitely wasn't expecting. (Then, Hinata's like that, sometimes.) Dating means things like memories of Franz sneaking off to see Hannah while the rest of the barracks egged him on with hushed laughter and silly conspiratorial looks. He'd never spared much thought to that sort of thing, back home. Got impatient with them, too fiercely focused on achieving his goals.
(Too set on dedicating his heart to humanity. It's not really right to expect anyone (her) to compete with that. He doesn't want or expect her to try.)
So, honestly.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org no
[That sort of thing isn't really in the cards for them, even if it was like that. (It isn't, not really. It's complicated.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org why do you care so much? you remember what we're here for don't you
[Hint: it has a whole lot to do with blackmail and genocide and planets getting blown up and very little to do with frivolous things like dating. Or, y'know, being happy or something.]
[oh no is this how the other normal boys in Eren's troop felt.]
[Eren please. as one protag to another: girls. c'mon. take a break from hitting up the angst pipe to appreciate the ladies in your life.]
[that said, the fact they were talking like this with Mikasa in a coma was a little weird. not gonna lie.]
[whatever, they were already balls deep.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org well yeah but we're not exactly moving anywhere right now!!
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org Are you positive you're into girls?? I really wouldn't care, honest
In fact I'm pretty sure Jean's into that so you two could... talk about it or
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org go out for coffee or
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org I don't know, did your world even have revenues for that stuff?? Like not just guy stuff but girl stuff too, was there anything good to look at?
[(Excuse him while he short circuits around the apparent earnest suggestion that he ask Jean Kirstein out on a date, why this.)
It's a little weird to be talking about while Mikasa is in a coma, and they've just come off the end of a mission, and his patience for it has long whittled down in the first place. So, with shorter temper than Hinata usually earns from him—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org are you trying to piss me off
[Could he really, you're giving him a whole lot of credit, there.
But Hinata gets back to the point, and the point is something he's short tempered and aggravated over, but it's a nice thought, and he does actually get along with Hinata pretty well most of the time. So, after a little while to bleed out his irritation—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org armin didn't wake up until they transferred him out
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org I'm not letting that happen again
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She describes you like family, but I mean
[since we were kids and taken in weren't necessarily exclusive to varying relationship interpretations. besides, it was obvious the two weren't biologically related.]
[and.]
[again, timing was awful. but it just followed to ask, guy to guy,]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Have you two ever wanted to date?
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(Too set on dedicating his heart to humanity. It's not really right to expect anyone (her) to compete with that. He doesn't want or expect her to try.)
So, honestly.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
no
[That sort of thing isn't really in the cards for them, even if it was like that. (It isn't, not really. It's complicated.)]
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Oh
[...]
[a bit more may have been necessary.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Huh
[nailed it.]
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
what
[You weren't actually expecting a "yes" were you....]
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I mean... she's strong and devoted and loyal and honest and pretty good looking...
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
You rrrreeeally didn't ever want to date?
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
Hinata
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Or...
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Are you... that way?
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
It's fine if you are I wouldn't judge I'm just wondering!!
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??????????]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
what? no.
[?????Stop?????]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
why do you care so much? you remember what we're here for don't you
[Hint: it has a whole lot to do with blackmail and genocide and planets getting blown up and very little to do with frivolous things like dating. Or, y'know, being happy or something.]
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[Eren please. as one protag to another: girls. c'mon. take a break from hitting up the angst pipe to appreciate the ladies in your life.]
[that said, the fact they were talking like this with Mikasa in a coma was a little weird. not gonna lie.]
[whatever, they were already balls deep.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
well yeah but we're not exactly moving anywhere right now!!
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Are you positive you're into girls?? I really wouldn't care, honest
In fact I'm pretty sure Jean's into that so you two could... talk about it or
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
go out for coffee or
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
I don't know, did your world even have revenues for that stuff?? Like not just guy stuff but girl stuff too, was there anything good to look at?
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It's a little weird to be talking about while Mikasa is in a coma, and they've just come off the end of a mission, and his patience for it has long whittled down in the first place. So, with shorter temper than Hinata usually earns from him—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
are you trying to piss me off
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[(the Jean comment was a joke, honest! if Eren did swing for the same team, he could do much better!)]
[--- that response wasn't as surprising as it could've been.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
No!!!
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Wait ok the real point I had in messaging was just
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
to say
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
I hope Mikasa's better soon! It can't last much longer.
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But Hinata gets back to the point, and the point is something he's short tempered and aggravated over, but it's a nice thought, and he does actually get along with Hinata pretty well most of the time. So, after a little while to bleed out his irritation—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
armin didn't wake up until they transferred him out
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I'm not letting that happen again
[as if he has any say.]
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[Armin. Transferred too quickly.]
[he recognized the name, though--- well. Did the specifics realt matter? Any close friend would count the same.]
[mikasa was a good teammate to have. As the cdc knew: better the enemies you knew than the ones you didn't. They had no control. That didn't matter.]
FROM: Hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
It can't.
She'll be back before long.