Meaning and Depth
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Peter and Nicholas were half-way down the boardwalk on a blustery Saturday afternoon, coat collars turned up against the wind, when Peter caught sight of a booth that boasted over-large stuffed animals for anyone who could knock down a pyramid of glass bottles - a game that was undoubtedly rigged, which did not seem to matter to Peter.
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- Part 1 of Meaning and Depth
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When Nicholas opened the door he was somewhat surprised to find Tess holding a gaudily-wrapped present in her arms. She immediately shoved it at him, forcing him to either catch it or drop it - had he known what it contained he likely would have let it drop - and brushed her way past him, into the apartment.
“It’s a “welcome back from watching people undress all day” present,” Tess said.
Nicholas sighed. “I was at a medical conference, Tess,” he said, “Not a strip club.”
“Yeah, and don’t think I haven’t seen all those pictures of naked people in your skanky medical journals.” Tess said. She even made finger quotes around medical journals. Good lord.
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- Part 2 of Meaning and Depth
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“Absolutely not,” Nicholas said, mere moments after stepping into - God help him - the fifth apartment of the last three days. Peter was looking across the room at the wall painted with a mural of what looked like something out of a particularly disturbing Tetsuya Ishada painting, the one with the dead crocodiles and the infant, perhaps.
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- Part 3 of Meaning and Depth
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“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Tess said, to his first choice.
“What?” Nicholas said, he would admit, somewhat defensively.
“That’s a sweater,” she said, “are you seriously going to buy Peter a sweater?”
“He gets cold,” Nicholas said.
“He also gets horny,” Tess said, and then barreled on even though Nicholas hissed, “Tess!” and a woman passing by gave them a horrified look and steered her children away from them - Nicholas flushed, mortified, “But you’re not buying him sex toys.” She seemed to consider this for a moment, and then added, “Actually that’d probably be a way better gift.”
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- Part 4 of Meaning and Depth
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They were at He’s Not Here when the news broke; Vasya was the first to know because he had, Nicholas thought, a vast and terrifying spy network and so knew of everything that happened in tristate area before anyone else did. That, and he compulsively checked his phone, his e-mail, and, more to the point, the news, despite the fact that he should be checking none of them while working.
“Hey, you fuckers!” he shouted across the bar. Reflexively, Nicholas turned around, Peter peering over his shoulder; he had been wrapped in Nicholas’ arms - Nicholas trying to keep some measure of control over his off-color dancing. “The Senate’s not a bunch of fucktards, after all! It’s time to get gay married!”
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- Part 5 of Meaning and Depth