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the dog lives at the end

Summary:

Alec plays video games. Rachel misinterprets.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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“Didn’t mean anything by it,” Alec said, raising his hands in a gesture of surrender. “Just asking if you wanted to play.”

Rachel’s upper lip twitched, and Alec let his eyes fall from hers.

He didn’t need to be Lisa to figure out how she worked. He’d seen it before. Lashing out at anything and everything, because the alternative was being vulnerable, open to being hurt again.

“Why would I want to play?”

He unpaused New Vegas, and turned his character to look at Rex. The dog onscreen barked.

She gave him a look he couldn’t interpret, and slowly sat.

Notes:

Alec is playing Fallout: New Vegas, which has a canine cyborg party member named Rex. Maybe it's an Aleph import.

At my behest in the Birdcage Discord, injygo gave me a prompt; Regent, Bitch, Misunderstanding. You can probably anticipate more of these drabbles, as they're fairly quick and easy to write, helpful in practicing economy of prose, and good for warming up.