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Right.

I'll be by in a few days with the computer. [ Probably no great mystery that he knows your address. He did some recon before asking someone to dig in his brain. ]

I'll need to remember I have a trackable address here.

[ITS NEW and unsure how he feels about it.]

I could find you no matter how untraceable you were, if it helps.

That sounds like a challenge, which is usually when I invent new things.

Knock yourself out, at least until I bring you the computer.

New forms of mystictech security project it is.

Any timeline for when you and that computer will be ready to do this thing?

The hardware is put together and I'm just about done with the schematics for the MRI machine. I should be able to do it today or tomorrow, just need a place that can contain a machine the size of a small car.

Wonderful.

I have a line on some places. You want to meet at your place in a bit and I can take you and whatever equipment needs moved? Portals are useful for that.

They are very useful for that. Portals are a major quality of life improvement feature.

But yes, come by in about two hours and I should have the entire thing built in my head.

I'm not sure if I could teach you those, but we can try making it work with your tech and mystic abilities.

I'll see you then.

Unfortunately, I will need to pass on portals for now. Leo is quite good at them, and with how difficult and energy intensive they are on the rest of our bodies, I think it'd be best to focus my energy elsewhere. My family doesn't have a need for me to learn.

[Also Leo has some ISSUES he doesn't want to needlessly provoke. Donnie knowing medic stuff is about practicalities for Leo's sake, but the portals are usually not a life or death thing and even a bedridden Leo can make them as long as he can be conscious.]

[Donnie makes Many Decisions because it'd better for his family.]

See you then.

Checking in after 24 hours as instructed.

I feel pretty good. The dizziness passed quickly enough, and my mood is indescribably better than it was so I'm more or less attributing that brief bout of feeling hazy to adrenaline.

That's good to hear. Have you had any exposure with the subject?

I made a point to see him, yes. It was so much easier than before. No worries, no being so overly careful. Seems like your treatment worked like a charm.

But there is still a level of fondness, correct? Since you still wanted the friendship feelings.

I still feel friendly towards him. Or I shouldn't say "still" because it's the first time, I guess. But it's very comfortable.

So yes, still friendship feelings. At least until he does something stupid.

Was it love at first sight originally?

Well, that is just the way of any close relationship.

Close, yes. From very soon after we met, I knew I'd never love anyone else.

Maybe I could now, if things with him go nowhere... that is something I wouldn't even have been able to type out before, it was unthinkable. But now if there's going to be any love between us it can grow mutually instead of me tapping my foot waiting for him. And if not, he wouldn't want me hung up on him for eternity so it's better for everyone.

I don't know what the hell you did in there, but it worked like a charm.

Oh.

I'm not entirely sure if that particular connection can form again.

Did you want that to be possible?

Is that so?

Well, not a big deal. I wouldn't have done this if I thought there was any hope of that. I don't regret it.

It depends on how much neural plasticity an immortal has, but to stop love, but not all emotion meant having to put a number of blockers on that particular pathway. It might be possible, but that path would have to go an extremely long way around.

It's fine, don't worry about it. I'm actually happy right now, so I'll take this even if I can't fall for him again. If the worst that happens is I get my best friend back without it being weird, then there's no problem.

True. Even when there's feelings on his end, its only really a problem when it becomes all consuming. In my experience, at least.

If he was going to get all consuming feelings for me, it would have happened long ago. Trust me, this is better. He'll be happier with me more able to relax around him.

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