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"I don't suppose you get to try piloting them anywhere."

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He laughs. "Nope."

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"Pity. What've you been doing in your spare time, without the game - just flying and driving away roommates?"

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"Pretty much."

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"Gonna drive me away too? Steal my socks and play music loud at night?"

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He snorts. "Yep. By the time I graduate, there won't be a student in Tactical who hasn't transferred out of my room."

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"What have you been doing?"

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"Being me," he says lightly. "Not many people can handle it."

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"Well, I asked for you. Maybe I'll stay," she laughs, and she pirouettes through the air.

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"You can handle me if anybody can," laughs Sue.

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"But I mean did they cite specific objectionable habits or did the teachers actually move them on the grounds that you were being Sue at them?"

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"I just make people uncomfortable," he says. "They usually can't even figure out why, but they make enough noise about it that the teachers move 'em anyway."

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"Huh. Were there problems about that when you were commanding Phoenix too?"

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"Not as much. The commander lives separately."

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"I don't mean exactly the same thing, I mean people being all 'he's being Sue at meeeee'," she says.

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He shrugs. "And I'm telling you, there wasn't much when I commanded Phoenix, but before that I got some of it from my launch and my army."

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"I got some crap but it was mostly because I was being a girl at people," Aegis yawns.

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"What's that matter?"

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"Doesn't. But we're strange, exotic creatures, you know," she says, waggling her fingers at him while she bounces from wall to wall, "we have cooties, they don't make us cut our hair off, we must be aliens."

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Sue giggles.

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"People talked for a while about how you reacted when Suicide Watch got shortened."

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"Huh?"

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"They thought it was weird you'd go by a girls' name."

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"It's funny," he says, as though this is the ultimate rationale.

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"I just thought it was very like you, to pick a name that someone invented to tease you and adopt it. I'm not sure how it's funny."

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