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kariachi · 4 months

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Some fic. Ben, Rook, shopping for a Kevin.

“You know, I’m kind of glad Kevin doesn’t celebrate the holiday,” Ben said as he dragged Rook through the third store of the day. “It’s bad enough trying to find him a birthday present, think I’d snap if I had to get a Christmas one of top of it.” Trailing just behind, Rook nodded slowly.

“I am sure,” he said with a complete lack of certainty. It was his first winter on the planet and while he would have been taking an interest in all the celebrations going on anyway, his partner being a local had made it all the more imperative to throw his all into understanding the season. He didn’t see how it all added up, but he was trying.

Ben had already sworn up and down that he had found the perfect present for him, though as far as Rook was concerned that had been when Argit left town for a week to participate in Kevin’s preferred seasonal celebration.

“Could you not just get him something for his car,” he asked, trawling his mind for what he knew of the man from their yet brief friendship. Ben scoffed.

“You would think that, but no.” He huffed, continuing to go through a rack full of sweaters. “He’s so fucking picky about what goes with his car.”

“A book then, maybe,” Rook offered with a hum, only to get another huff in return.

“Every time I find a book I think he’d like, I find out later he already had it. That’s the problem with him-” Ben turned around, shaking a finger. “-if there’s something he wants, he gets it himself. If he doesn’t, Argit gets it for him. If there’s something he wants that doesn’t fall into either of those categories? Nobody knows what it is, because he doesn’t bother to say anything!” Groaning, he turned back to the sweaters.

Rook was fiercely reminded of the struggle of finding gifts for Shim, who never seemed to want anything specific.

“No wonder you are focusing on clothes.” He’d done that three years in a row, until his father had pulled him aside and told him she would probably appreciate her new clothes at the turn of the year more if she weren’t getting them for everything else as well. Then he’d been right back to the struggle. Luckily now he would be able to send exotic Earth fare to them all. Certainly, she’d enjoy that.

“Did you know, he didn’t even bother to tell us his birthday was coming up when we first started hanging out? We learned a week beforehand, by pure chance! He was going to just let it pass by!” Reaching out to pat Ben’s shoulder, Rook continued turning the options in his mind.

“What is Gwendolyn getting him,” he settled on, “maybe you could coordinate?” Silently Ben stepped away from the sweaters, turning Rook’s way with his mouth set in a line. He pulled his phone from his pocket, fiddled with it a heartbeat, then held it up. The screen showed the continuous texts between himself and his cousin. The latest was highlighted.

This man is impossible

“Ah.” Yeeep, as bad as his sister. As he considered whether or not he should also join in on this tradition or at least save himself the struggle for this year- they hardly knew each other, it might be fine, right?- Ben stuffed his phone away and returned to his search.

“I’d put fifty on her just taking him out to dinner again if I didn’t need it to get him any-fucking-thing…”

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