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[After talking with Julian and Kagerou on the journals and promising to drop by their rooms with dinner, Nick heads down to the kitchen. Monroe isn't really coming out of his room at the moment, either, which means Nick is pretty much just a food delivery service tonight.

Maybe he should try to get tips.

After grilling up some chicken, potatoes, and bread, and slicing up tomatoes and cheese, Nick brings the lot up to the barracks. He stops by Julian's room first, knocking on the door and announcing his presence.

He picks up some ale before he goes to Kagerou's room, because hell, if Kagerou's human, he might as well have some beer, too. Even if it isn't an Oregon microbrew.]

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[And that day will be so awesome.]

Oh, good. Well, yeah, that's where I'm from.

[Nick takes a drink of his own beer.]

It won't last long. Hopefully not more than a week or two.

I only know its name and location. Nothing else is in my databanks.

[Because he hadn't needed anything else. He studies the bottle in his hand, sighing slowly.]

If it's longer than that, I blame you.

I could tell you more, if you wanted.

[Not that it matters much, but Nick's always willing to talk about Portland.

Then he snorts, giving a wry chuckle.]

Yeah, yeah. I get blamed for everything. But it shouldn't be, not based on the evidence.

If you want to.

[He'd probably listen, regardless of what Nick was saying. Listening is something that doesn't require a lot of social skills. So he's... good at it. More or less.]

[He takes a cautious sip of the alcohol again.]

What if the evidence says it is your fault?

Everything is green, there. There's a river that cuts right through the town, and even in downtown, there's a ton of parks. And the people are -

[He laughs.]

Interesting.

[Nick takes a sip of his beer as well.]

I meant it shouldn't last longer than a week or two, based on the evidence. But hey, if the evidence says it's my fault, by all means, blame me.

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It sounds nice. Like a place I would want to see.

[A place he'd never had the chance to see, really. Sure, this place was all right, but...]

[There was a limit here. To how high and how far you could go.]

Mm.

Then I will... deal. For a week.

You can visit, when we get out of here.

[It's more complicated than that, Nick knows, especially when involving the possibility of other planets, but that has no place when making plans over drinks.]

It's not so bad, being human. There's things you could try that you can't as a robot.

I have nothing to go back to. It would be nice.

[He can't go back to the one who matters most. So what else is there?]

Like what?

[...awkward. And also really sad. Nick takes a moment to take another drink.]

You have something now, at least.

[Nothing that can compare, but still.]

Well, food and beer, for one, though not as much the second, since we're not in Oregon. You could go swimming in the lake. Get drunk, though you shouldn't combine those two. Have sex. Though you shouldn't combine that with getting drunk, either.

[Nick stop talking now.]

[He doesn't look at him. Just nods, ever so slightly.]

Yes. It... looks that way.

[Quietly, his listens, cataloging those options away for later. He doesn't think he can swim, but...]

[Then he blinks, and tilts his head to one side, frowning.]

... have what?

[Hi Nick. I am less than a year old and what is sex.]

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[Nick doesn't reply to that, but smiles, just a bit, glad to be able to at least offer that.

And then the smile turns to pretty much a deer in headlights look at Kagerou's question, because what.

No, really, what. This is - they were buddies have drinks, man, that is not the kind of question that is supposed to come up.]

...tell me you've heard of sex before.

[The deer in the headlights look is returned by a blank stare.]

[Seriously, Nick, he's a robot. What did you think he was going to answer?]

... I can't tell you that.

[...that he'd had the talk with someone else? Anyone else?

Seriously who builds a robot with human intelligence and feelings and doesn't tell him about sex. Didn't they consider the possibility that he'd be having drinks with an unsuspecting human friend sometime in the future?]

Uh. Okay. Well. It's something humans do, as a means of procreation. Or just to have fun. Usually just to have fun.

[No this isn't awkward at all.]

[... Saejima would probably have had no problem educating his robots on the subject. Toudou on the other hand...]

[So, no, he's a bit clueless on the entire subject. Which means he just ends up staring at Nick, still blank. He's clearly waiting for more of an explanation than that.]

But... what is it?

[Damn it Toudou.

Nick needs more to drink to deal with this, which means he pretty much downs the rest of his beer.]

Right. Well, it involves parts. That interlock.

[No seriously what is he supposed to say. Nick hadn't exactly planned on giving any version of The Talk any time soon.]

When two people who are interested in each other, in more than just friendship - or sometimes not even friendship, just sexually - they, well, have sex. For a man and a woman, that usually involves the man putting his penis in the woman's vagina. For two guys, or two girls, it's different, but just as fun. Or probably for the two girls, anyway, but I can't exactly say that from personal experience.

[Okay, tangents, Nick needs to not go on them.]

It's a part of a relationship, usually. Two people who love each other, or have a connection to each other. It's a way to be intimate, to feel pleasure and make your partner feel pleasure in return.

[Oh, interlocking parts. He can understand that.]

[But then the conversation keeps going. His head slowly tilts to one side. Honestly? He has never heard some of these words before. There was no reason to. He was just going to have his memory wiped, so why load him down with too much data he wasn't going to use.]

[And... some of this isn't adding up.]

If you need interlocking parts, how does... it happen if you have two of one?

[Yes, Nick, he is asking this question.]

Do... you need to do this...? To feel a connection...?

[...right, of course he asked that. Clearly this conversation wasn't done until Nick had to awkwardly attempt to explain gay sex.]

Well, then it's never for procreation, strictly for fun or intimacy. Even if you have two of one, there's still ways to, uh, interlock. There's a lot of things you can do with hands and mouths and other parts.

[This would be so much easier if they had access to the internet right now. Nick is really hoping he doesn't have to go into more detail than that, because he's only had enough alcohol to make this mildly less awkward.]

No, you don't. A lot of times, you feel the connection before. But sometimes it makes the connection stronger. And it's a way of expressing what you feel.

[He appears to process this in silence, toying with the bottle in his hands.]

What if you don't have any of those interlocking parts...? But... you want to make it stronger, anyway?

[Congratulations, Nick. You've progressed from being asked about gay sex to gay robot sex. How does that feel?]

[Silence is good. Silence means he's hopefully getting it, or at least he's not asking any more awkward questions.

Until that. So yes, apparently this conversation can get more weird and more awkward. If ever Nick wanted to know what could top having to explain sex to a man who looked like he was Nick's age, here it is.]

Is this the one you were talking about, back home?

[Nick's assuming yes, though, no matter Kagerou's answer.]

I don't think that's something anyone can tell you. That's the kind of thing you have to try for yourself, to see what works for you both. What you like, what feels good. You could always start with kissing.

[Sorry, Nick. He trusts you not to hurt him, or try and erase him. Which means you're the go-to guy for these kinds of confusing shenanigans. He might look your age, but that's probably due to the Keep being... itself... than his actual age.]

[More silence. Then, slowly, stiffly, he nods.]

Yes... there is no one else that I would want... that I have a connection with.

[He looks a little disappointed with the answer, though. But when he thinks about it -- kissing. Yes, he knows what that is. He'd never tried to though.]

[Thinking about it now...]

I would like to, I think. To kiss.

[Kissing Shadowmaru... that there is a very nice thought.]

[...oh. Well, the trusting part is nice. Nick's glad there's at least someone for Kagerou to go to, even if it's him. Normally that'd be especially if it's him, just... not in this exact situation.]

That kind of connection, anyway. There's more than one kind of connection to have with someone, but usually you only want this kind of connection with one person.

[Nick notices the disappointment, but there's not much he can do about it. He's not exactly equipped to discuss the finer points of robot sex.]

Kissing just for itself is really nice. It doesn't always have to lead to anything.

But after that, it's just... touching. It's learning what your partner likes. Half the fun is in experimenting, figuring out new spots.

[The other half is knowing them so well that you don't even have to try, but Nick hasn't gotten there with anyone, yet, not even Juliette.]

Yes. There's only one I want this with. No one else.

[And that's true. There's no one else he can think of that he'd want to be close to. Closer to. It would be so much easier if that person were here... if things hadn't had to change.]

[His head tilts. He's once more considering this.]

I would do that, too.

I think I'd like to. If... things were different.

That's good to know. A lot of people, it takes them a lot longer to even start to figure that out.

[He's speaking from personal experience, here, given his current relationship troubles. Even before all of this happened.

Nick's quiet for a minute, watching Kagerou closely.]

What about when we get out of here?

I'm not like a lot of people. I... think maybe I always had it figured out.

[If only because there never was anyone else in his life he'd ever wanted to be close to. To be near. To be with.]

[At the question, though, he looks away, toying with the bottle.]

That's what I... what I meant.

It wouldn't be possible. Even when we get out of here.

[Nick smiles a bit at that.]

No, you're definitely not like a lot of people I know. But yeah, I get that. Realizing you've known something for a long time, and wondering why you hadn't thought about it earlier.

[He considers, debating letting it go at that, or asking more. But well, why not? That's what drinking beers like this is for, anyway.]

Why not?

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