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[Dick looks a tiny bit in shock when he turns on the video feed and slowly holds up this enthusiastically patterned sweater for everyone to see.]

This is the third hideous sweater I've gotten from the Admiral since I got here. [Two years, Three Christmases. It's depressing. :|

He doesn't have much more to say besides that and reaches over to click off the camera.]

[Private to Tim]

I guess I should take the fact that there haven't been any reports of you or Jan winding up in the infirmary as a good thing?

[Private to Sara]

Are you ready for the next chapter in the "Awkward Ways in Which Sara is Introduced to Dick's Psychotic Family" saga?

[Private to Dean]

Any luck with Buffy?

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Wear the sweater and it's a date.

Fine, but only because it's you.

I'll be over in five.

[It's probably less than that. And there's a degree of solidarity going on here, so you can be happy about that. Knock knock.]

[Dick opens the door, wearing the sweater as promised, and can't help but laugh at her own gift from the Admiral, because just lol.]

Is that a train?

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Cute sweater. Did you get matching sweaters for everyone?

The Admiral gives them to everyone every December. Do your homework.

Someone has a case of the bah-humbugs.

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[Instead of answering the actual question - no, no luck, but then that's typical and he doesn't know why he's surprised - Dean replies somewhat belatedly, instead:]

Be a year for me in about a week.

[He's calmer now than he was before. Resigned. Sounds about normal, but there's the lackluster quality to his voice that gives it away.

Fuck these past two years.]

[They have pretty much sucked, it's true.]

Sorry. [It's genuinely sympathetic, but not pitying. It sucks that the Barge pulls this stuff, and he knows better than to suggest maybe she'll be back, because there's a greater chance she won't.] Do you need anything?

[He didn't want to talk about Buffy; he'd intended not to talk about Buffy. It's useless to talk about it because she's going to be back and she'll explain it then.

But when he opens his mouth to say that no, he's fine, thanks for asking, what comes out is,]

Did she say anything to you?

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[Cute. There's even a huff that's almost a laugh.]

Please. If anyone's going to wind up in the infirmary, it'll be Jan.

I never had any doubts, Cindy. How did it go?

He's still an asshole.

News at eleven.

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[She debates for a long time.

She's been stewing alone for quite a while, and it would be a lot easier to just keep doing that. Thing is, though - she kept hearing him die, in that Port. She knows people come back here, but there are never guarantees. Say she loses him, while they're like this?

And then there was the heart-wrenching thrill of seeing Jason again. Different, but still family.

Her voice is a little soft. A little hesitant. Not typical for her at all, but - maybe that's okay.]

I bet you can work it.

[Dick manages a sort of pained, self deprecating, I'm not sure if I want to set this on fire or not smile as he regards the sweater again.]

I guess it's not the worst thing I've ever worn.

[He's not really sure if he wants to talk to her about anything more serious than this, but this is okay. It's easier to talk about unimportant stuff when you're still nursing hurt feelings.]

[Barbara makes a show of examining it.]

Well, it doesn't have any feathers.

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I doubt we could even make anything decent out of these if we tore them up into threads. [ Yeah, she's made it to her third Christmas here as well. But at least she has some hope of leaving soon. ]

At least we aren't forced to actually wear them.