Room 307, Monday Early Afternoon

[dollpocalypse]

The second Topher stepped out of his portal onto the Causeway, he wanted to turn back and head back to Peter's place. That place had technology, a blissful lack of noise and visitors, and a guilt-free environment free of awkward apologies and blaming himself for stuff. Basically, it was perfect. Fandom was... not.

It was even less perfect after Topher went to class, where all that guilt-free philosophy imparted unto him by Peter was promptly zapped away by the same scarily-persuasive Wiggin rationalizing that had gotten it into his head in the first place. Weighed down by the fresh reminder of all the bad stuff he'd done that week, he trudged back to his room and without even bothering to close the door properly, strode on in, flopped on the bed, and stared at the ceiling.

Seriously, he'd love a portal back to Haiti. Even one that took him through a layover filled with giant rats would be fine. Maybe if he intentionally took one of those, the schadenfreude would be enough for Peter to let him stay a little longer?

...Whatever, he could dream.

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[selfhelphero]

Billy had spent all morning on the phone talking to his parents and making plans for going home during the break week, and it had been a nice distraction from everything else. He hadn't wanted to bother Topher right away last week, afraid that talking to him about the things that had happened with that crazy witch lady would only upset him, and then right when he'd been ready to approach him, Topher had gone away with Peter.

Clearly, Billy needed to work on his timing.

When he passed 307 and saw the door cracked open, he peered inside and smiled when he saw that Topher was back, at least until he noticed how he looked. "Uh, hey," he said, knocking on the door to let Topher know he was there. "Can I come in?"

[dollpocalypse]

So, seeing Billy was usually a good thing. Almost always a good thing, and even right now it was partly a good thing. Because he was Billy. That made him comforting and stuff.

But there was also the bit where Topher had very recently sicced a friend on Billy to bring him in to Umbridge and either throw him in prison or mess with his brain, so 'comforting' didn't quite sum all of it up.

Topher sat up, since laying down and staring at the ceiling probably wasn't going to cut it for this discussion. "Yeah," he said, sounding a little more quiet than usual. "Hey. Um." He scooted back against his headboard. "Wanna sit?"

[selfhelphero]

"Yeah, sure," Billy said, shutting the door behind himself as he came in, and going to sit on the bed next to Topher. "So, I guess Peter's doing okay, if you're back?"

[dollpocalypse]

"Yeah, he's kinda scary-okay, actually," Topher said, glad to be starting out with a conversation topic that wasn't directly related to his own alternate-universe self being an asshole. "He kept saying it was all water under the bridge or whatever and not a big deal. Which is... weird."

[selfhelphero]

"Well, I mean, it's not like there was any lasting damage done." Except to everyone's psyches. Billy smiled softly, and nudged Topher with his shoulder. "I'm glad you're back."

[dollpocalypse]

Topher had to grin in relief at that shoulder-nudge, because Billy couldn't hate him too much if there was that going on.

"You too." Wait, that didn't make any sense. "I mean, I'm glad you're here, and that you're normal and I'm normal and not psychotic and that you aren't in detention or with a messed-up brain or tased or something and by the way I'm really sorry."

[selfhelphero]

"Hey, you don't have to be sorry." Billy frowned and reached to try to take Topher's hand, for comfort and for contact. "It's like Peter said, it's water under the bridge. Do you have any interest in turning me in to the principal right now for... I don't know, being me?"

[dollpocalypse]

Topher was maybe squeezing the hell out of his hand, thanks. "Totally not," he promised. "Plus I don't even have one of those disruptor things here, and if I ever touch Victor's programming in this universe, someone needs to, like, kick me in the face or something, so even if I did want to, I'm pretty sure you could take me."

That was sort of a joke?

[selfhelphero]

Billy laughed, and squeezed Topher's hand in return. "See? I have no reason to be mad at you. And yeah, I could totally take you, spandexed or not. I mean, the costume alone would be such a distraction..."

[dollpocalypse]

Damn those shiny pants!

"Yeah, I'd be way too busy looking at your legs and stuff," Topher admitted, grinning. "So. I mean. You really don't hate me?"

[selfhelphero]

"I really don't hate you. Do you hate me for breaking up with you instead of joining your side?" Billy asked.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher stared. "Dude, no," he said. "You're all... heroey for doing it. I mean it was annoying back there, but here I'm just kinda all, 'way to have principles.'"

Principles were hard.

[ultron_junior]

Victor, it should be noted, had not been stalking Topher's dorm room.

All right, so maybe after he wasn't in robotics the week before he'd poked around a little and realized Topher must have taken off. And maybe since then, he'd been taking the long way up to his room just to check the third floor. He wasn't, like, slipping notes under the door or tapping into the school security cameras' feed to search for Topher, so he figured it was probably all good and not at all stalkerish.

And it wasn't like he even knew what he would say. What did you say to somebody who reprogrammed you? Was just punching okay? Victor suspected just punching was okay in terms of his personal ethics ... but probably not in terms of the school's opinions.

Which was why, when he looked in and realized Topher was actually in his room for once, he looked so surprised. "Oh," he said, and crossed his arms across his chest. ".... hey."

His voice was notably frosty.

[dollpocalypse]

It occured to Topher that Victor was probably not going to be quite as (bizarrely, irrationally) forgiving as Billy had been.

"Um," he said. "Hey."

[ultron_junior]

Yeah. Forgiveness was not necessarily Victor's thing, precisely. It was harder to do when you could never forget.

"So," he said, and tried his hardest to think of something to say that was not a fist in the face. "Want a sandwich?"

Not the least civil thing he could have said, at least?

[dollpocalypse]

"...I am not sure how to answer that without dying."

Good answer, Topher!

"Do... you... maybe want some Doritos?" That was almost fair, right? Several months' worth of meticulous sandwiches in exchange for... oh, crap, he was totally going to get punched. Again.

[ultron_junior]

Victor snorted. "No. Thank you, but no."

Look, manners stuck, okay?

"I'm not going to kill you," he said, stepping in and closing the door most of the way behind him. "I'm not going to kill you because, a, it would be way too easy, and b, I'd get kicked out if I did. But, seriously, that was messed up."

[dollpocalypse]

Topher grimaced and made a tiny noise that might have been a whine. "I know," he admitted. "I'm. I mean. You know. Sorry, and stuff. I... yeah, it was completely messed up."

[ultron_junior]

"Completely," Victor repeated, thawing the slightest bit because the word sorry had been invoked without prompting. "It just -- what even was that? You didn't even have me, like, assassinating your enemies. I was just ... making sandwiches."

Not that he wanted to be an assassin.

[dollpocalypse]

"There was the Billy thing," Topher felt compelled to remind him, even if the idea of it made him feel -- and look -- a little disgusted now. "But otherwise I guess I... mostly liked being the one to do the assassinating."

Um.

"Sorry?"

[ultron_junior]

"Sorry?" Victor repeated, with an incredulous laugh. "No, I should probably thank you. I don't need dead friends on my conscience."

He ran a hand through his hair. "I haven't even talked to Billy yet," he admitted. "Just ... not sure where to start with him."

[dollpocalypse]

"He was really cool about it when I talked to him," Topher offered. "Like really cool. Him and Peter both." And it was getting a little maddening, honestly. "It's... probably easier to get over the whole thing if you were one of the good guys."

So... sucked for them.

[ultron_junior]

"Yeah, well, not something I'd know," Victor said dryly. "But at least I have the cyborg excuse. You ... what is your excuse, anyhow? Not just for me, but for helping her."

[dollpocalypse]

Oh, that was a fun question. Even Ender hadn't gone there. Way to go, Victor.

"I guess I sorta liked her... values?" Values. Yes. "Like the dress code and the no-touching and the part where I got to tase people who treated me like crap instead of, you know, just getting treated like crap, and... it was fucked up, okay? I wouldn't do that here."

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