#I'm currently calling this one 'polyam disasters'

[regallibellbright]

WIP Wednesday, I guess (hey, I haven’t gone to sleep yet)

This bit, springing off of my tags from this post, shout outs to @purplelea, punched me in the face while I was trying to take a nap or at least think about the two fics I’m actually seriously working on, so I guess you’re going in the rotation.

“Besides, he’s already rejected me,” Joshua says.

Shiki and Beat turn toward him. “What, for real, yo?” Beat asks. Joshua nods.

“He never mentioned it to us,” Shiki says, frowning. “Just that you offered him your job again. Without the guns this time.”

Joshua frowns. “Yeah, and? He turned me down.” When this only makes them look more confused, he goes on. “Clearly if he were interested, he’d have said yes. I’d name him my eventual successor, we stay in the UG together and visit you guys, and then eventually when he was ready to be Composer I’d take over the Producer role, and we'd rule the city together. Obviously.”

“Or maybe he just ain’t interested in the job,” Beat says. Joshua looks at him like he just suggested the moon doesn’t exist. “What? Jus’ sayin’, he didn’t say anything 'bout that, yo.”

“It was implied.”

“In other words, you didn’t confess, and Cowards Club continues,” Shiki says. Beat nods. Joshua groans.

“Like it matters? Even if he didn’t turn me down,” Joshua says, clearly humoring them, “he’s obviously way more into you two than me. One of you should go for it.”

“Uh, no? How’s it obvious?” Beat asks. “‘Cuz I heard ‘im when you showed up, Priss. He wasn't that happy to see me, yo.”

Joshua looks at Shiki. “Neku broke back through a hole in reality to save Beat and punched the power overload right out of Minamimoto. There was glowing. Sparkles. I have seen every ill-conceived dramatic romantic gesture anyone’s ever committed in this city, and it topped all of them.”

#wips #writing with Regalli #joshbeatneshiki #I'm currently calling this one 'polyam disasters' #I keep editing a 'happily ever after' in and out of the end of Joshua's first bit but honestly I'll decide that WAY later #I refuse to let this one be done before the others #just on principle #so it'll probably be edited even more than what I usually do as I do a first pass #and this was definitely the 'write whatever I need to get those two core bits DOWN' section so it's not at ALL polished #this isn't the end of this scene - it's not even the end of that bit - but this was the parts that I went 'sigh. writing you I guess' #but it is definitely fun to just bounce three lovesick dumbasses off each other like bouncy balls #the club name was absolutely someone else's dubbing and it's your guess as to who #(not pictured: the COMPLETE AND UTTER EXHAUSTION of everyone else who's had to deal with them all being Sad and Lovesick for three years) #(also not pictured: Neku has no clue what's going on but while he's happy his best friends *cough* crushes *cough* #are all best friends themselves now he's admittedly feeling left out that apparently the three of them regularly hang out just on their own #also he's been doing some Googling since he got back which means that by default he is in possession of the Only Brain Cell Here.)