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[hulkbusted]

Kevin Ford's NV is offline and Mimsy is gone.

I seem to be living alone now.

At the same time, two people I know from home are in the Port. Strange how things work here.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Less not human. She's not a succubus is she? That sounds like your sort of luck.

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[hulkbusted]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Leonard. She's not a succubus and she really doesn't like the term vampire, but that's closer. Just not the "I vant to suck your blood" type.

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[doctor_mccoy]

I have only your best interests at heart.

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[hulkbusted]

You're a good friend. If it helps, I haven't been on the menu. Anger's not much her flavor of choice.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Anger as in... she feeds off of?

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[hulkbusted]

Emotion. She consensually feeds off of emotion, and no, I haven't seen her do it.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Well I don't imagine that it would take a fork and knife. [Luckily he's at the point where nothing really surprises him.]

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[hulkbusted]

I'm expecting not. As you can imagine, she doesn't have a whole lot of use for my cooking, even if she's nice about it.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Sorry, now I'm trying to determine how a life form can sustain it'self on something we would consider intangible.

...I promise not to poke at your girlfriend with a scalpel.

[Shit, science brain is on... better turn it off with another glass of bourbon.]

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[hulkbusted]

I can almost guarantee you that whatever you're thinking, it's already gone through my head and more.

She's generally armed, so that's probably a good idea, but I'm pretty sure she'd laugh if you called her my girlfriend to her face.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Not quite to the hand-holding stage yet?

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[hulkbusted]

I let her meet my alter-ego. That's pretty intimate for my life these days.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Most guys start with chocolates.

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[hulkbusted]

That's not really her speed. Dean Martin movies, mayhem, and bowling are more her thing. I can provide two out of three on my own, but then I have to call in backup.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Not that good at bowling, eh?

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[hulkbusted]

Have you ever thought about a physicist bowling?

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[doctor_mccoy]

[Chuckles] Scratch that. How are you at billiards?

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[hulkbusted]

You should try me and find out. Two hermits, two sticks, one pitcher of beer for you.

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[doctor_mccoy]

Those numbers sound pretty good. I'll let you know when my local stomping ground opens up again, they have a few tables and a bartender that spoils me.

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[hulkbusted]

You're on.

And thanks.

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[doctor_mccoy]

[Then Bruce and Mccoy proceed to become pool-sharks, give up their jobs as scientists and become rich swindling the local population]

I owe ya plenty.

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[hulkbusted]

[Cross-canon science bros break bad. News at 11.]

I was going to say the same thing, so let's call it even instead.