for @doggonemad

[throughbamboo]

just bros being bros

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[doggonemad]

[ SERIOUSLY. ]

. . .

Anyway. Got a room all made up for ya, like before.

[ like before he threw his ass back in prison. ]

[throughbamboo]

[so like, a room he'll barely use]

Y'know you don't gotta do that.

[doggonemad]

'Course I do. What's mine is yours.

[throughbamboo]

Majima -

[he can't use the "I'm just gonna be sent back to jail" argument.

He sighs softly]

I appreciate it, bro. I'll make it up to ya.

[doggonemad]

Nothin' ta make up for.

[ his brows crease a bit as he continues to stare up at the ceiling. ]

[throughbamboo]

We'll see.

[doggonemad]

Bro . . . just, like, add to it an' shit.

[throughbamboo]

Add to it?

[doggonemad]

Yeah, yanno, this is our place. So if ya see somethin' ya wanna get for it, just do it. Whatever.

[throughbamboo]

. . . yeah, guess I could do that . . .

[it isn't resistance so much as it's surprise that hey, he can actually do that]

[doggonemad]

Could even have yer own guys deliver groceries an' shit here.

[throughbamboo]

[a little ruefully]

That might be more likely.

[doggonemad]

Nothin' wrong with that.

[throughbamboo]

Hn. Ain't used to havin' space.

[doggonemad]

. . .

S'really weird at first.

[throughbamboo]

[he glances over]

Yeah?

[doggonemad]

[ still staring up at the ceiling. ]

Yeah. S'like . . . what the hell am I doin' with all this shit? I don't need this. But it ain't about needin' it.

[throughbamboo]

What's it about, then?

[doggonemad]

It's about . . . I dunno how ta describe it. Just lookin' 'round an' goin' — this is my place, an' I deserve it.

[throughbamboo]

[he considers that, nodding slowly]

Y'earned it.

[doggonemad]

Right. Do I need all this space? Naw. I lived in a shithole of a studio for years in the nineties, before I became a patriarch. But did I earn it? Hell yeah.

[throughbamboo]

Think ya more than earned it.

But I get it.

[doggonemad]

Ya've done yer time, too. An' 'sides, we stick together, right?

[throughbamboo]

We stick together.

. . . heh. Now who's bein' soft?

[doggonemad]

It's your fault.