Eudio: IC Inbox

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what's wrong with your phone?

[speedforcer]

nothing
why?

[firebrawl]

[Not using the space must be a speedster thing. Or just a Barry thing. He's puzzled through the one-word sentence now.]

what kind of friend? back from where?

[speedforcer]

[there's no text back this time. instead, it's just a picture. an answer to both of mick's questions, wrapped up in one.]

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where the hell'd you find a fluffy white dog?

[speedforcer]

i didn't find him he found me i was out running and i stopped to get something to eat and he was there and looking hungry and now he's not and he started to cry when i took him to the shelter look at his face though mick i think he needs a friend

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so what's his name?
don't pretend you didn't name him yet.

[Mick knows a lost cause when he sees one okay]

[speedforcer]

i haven't named him he had a name already but he's not a jeremy
okay maybe i kind of called him zoom for now because he's pretty fast but that's just a nickname because he's not coming home with me or is he am i allowed to bring him back???

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are you gonna make me give you the 'he's your responsibility' bullshit parent talk?

[speedforcer]

no? because that would be weird you're not my dad you're my best friend so can we just stick to you getting grumpy if he sheds?
wait is that a yes i can keep him??

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[The answer might take a couple minutes. Barry can assume it's because Mick is thinking about whether or not to allow a white fluffy dog into their dangerous badass lives. It's because Barry just called him his best friend, and maybe it's been coming for a while, but it still hits him hard.]

sure why not.
zoom's a good enough name. we'll get him a spiked collar he can wear in the bar.

[speedforcer]

i guess you guys are getting used to taking in strays

[is he talking about zoom? who knows]





is len going to kill me for this??

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depends, if it sheds all over maybe he will but you're pretty fast.

[speedforcer]

mick
MICK
YOU NEED TO PROTECT ME WHEN I SLEEP

[firebrawl]

I do that anyway. how's this any different?

[speedforcer]

[wait. hold up.]

you already protect me when i'm asleep

[look, it's the little things that make him the happiest]

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look kid, me and Len squatted in warehouses, I know how it works.

[It's no big deal]

[speedforcer]

yeah but
we're also in a city where there's next to no crime
and behind a bunch of locked doors
but you still protect me when i'm sleeping

[so whether mick gets why that means so much to him or not, he can't help but add-]

thank you

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you're family kid of course it's what I do.

[He does get why? But he also doesn't get the magnitude of it, at all. It's just a reasonable next step for Mick.]