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[onlyoneof]

[SHOOTING LINCOLN IN THE FACE.

I mean.

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[onlyoneof]

Dating history, but that might be breaking some sort of rule.

[skepticalities]

[shrugs]

I don't mind. I had a girlfriend in high school. Junior year until mid-way through senior year. College, I dated a guy for . . . sophmore year? For a few months. I didn't have many between then and when I first joined the FBI because I was too busy. Robert encouraged me to get involved with people after that, though, so there were a few people. It's not a long list.

[onlyoneof]

Shorter than mine, but your relationships have been more serious.

[skepticalities]

They tend to be.

[onlyoneof]

There was one girl before Olivia. Before that it was just casual dating and one-night stuff. I'd never dated a guy before.

[skepticalities]

. . . oh.

[onlyoneof]

I had... encounters when I was younger. Go to bar, get picked up by a stranger, feel like crap in the morning. Not the smartest choices I've made.

[skepticalities]

[rolls over, so he's facing him.]

. . .

[onlyoneof]

Don't give me that look, I was a troubled youth.

[skepticalities]

No, I know, I was just— I'm sorry. That you felt like that.

[onlyoneof]

It's fine, it's been over ten years.

[skepticalities]

Right . . .

[onlyoneof]

And technically, it never actually happened.

[skepticalities]

You remember it. It happened.

[onlyoneof]

...

[skepticalities]

I don't know, but I don't think that . . . whatever happened to you, your experiences still happened. Just because something was rewritten for everyone else doesn't make them any less real.

[onlyoneof]

If we lived in a normal world, I'd be institutionalized.

[skepticalities]

But we don't.

[onlyoneof]

And I'm strangely glad for that.

[skepticalities]

Heh . . .

[onlyoneof]

[stands up and offers him a hand]

Are we telling people?

[skepticalities]

[takes it]

I . . . don't know. Olivia's noticed something, and— I'm going to have to tell her something. How do you feel about it?

[onlyoneof]

[pulls him up]

I'm not entire sure of what we are, but I don't mind people knowing we're something.

[skepticalities]

What are we?

[onlyoneof]

I think this conversation is the reason I haven't had more serious relationships.