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Héctor
UN: OLLIN

STATUS: Graduate Student / Teacher's Assistant

ACCOLADES: I write music, know how to play a few instruments, mostly la guitarra.

BIO: !Hola¡ Soy Héctor. Yo hablo español y un poco inglés. I've come to Daybreak to learn a little about all this magic stuff and help out around the Campus. If you need an odd job taken care of, I'm your guy! (Unless you are la policía. Or someone I have borrowed from. If that is the case, do not contact me, por favor.)

© TESSISAMESS

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after all that meeting shit

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Really?

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What?

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In a MEETING?

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Oh! That! Yes! I mean, we're all friends, and I was just so excited. This is a big step! I wasn't sure if you two were ever going to

well

you know.

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how long have all of you been running the betting pool on this

[ he wants to know when he started embarrassing himself in public, APPARENTLY ]

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Oof, I don't know, amigo, you'd have to ask one of the others. I've only been here for a year as of last fall.

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WE LITERALLY USED TO HATE EACH OTHER

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Attraction works in mysterious ways...

I'll admit, I had my doubts when I didn't know you two as well and also when I overheard the whole stabby thing. That's retroactively unsettling. But you know, doing that just to calm Avery down when he was stressed out from me, I think that sold it for me. Plus it was clever. You two just read each other well. You're always involved with one another. It adds up over time and it starts to make sense. I can only imagine anyone who was around longer would have noticed more, not to mention all the seers.

Besides that, you're good for each other. He gets you out of that head of yours. And you can reach him in ways even I can't. You let him be who he is and he lets you be more and I think it makes you both happy. Which makes me happy because you're my dearest friends. Nothing to be embarrassed about.

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Well that seer possibility was something I hadn't considered. Please don't say that to me again. I don't want to think about it.

[ is this how jail knows what to place bets on? honestly, he can't rule it out as a factor...maybe she just has the devil's luck. ]

And it's very easy for you to say when it's not your private affairs. [ Even if it's more or less an open secret, having even a small amount of control over the situation is what he values. He's a little too prickly to be completely accepting about the whole thing being spun out of his grasp so quickly.

It's nothing life-threatening. Nothing that's a secret he has to keep, when he's used to the slightest slip of an impression meaning dire consequences.

He can't get too used to this. When he goes back to his other work - and he will, eventually, go back to his other work - this, too, is something he'll have to lock away. ]

And I was drunk when I said more than I should have. Not exactly something to be proud of.

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Okay. Consider the seer thing unsaid.

[It's not like he's always jazzed about the seer stuff either, but-]

I don't think there's any reason to be ashamed about having feelings for someone, even Avery, and it's not as if you haven't dealt with all my personal affairs, messy as that is. But okay. We'll agree that this is more difficult for you at the moment as well.

But drunk as you may have been, and doing this in whatever way you did not mean to, and even considering that some of your good friends know...

Do you actually regret it? Having feelings for him?

No one's making fun of you. Or at least I'm not. We care about you both. We're happy for you. But if you really do regret then

Well, I'll go and talk to everyone myself. I'll tell them it was a misunderstanding and I'm an idiot. They'll believe that. And you can stop speaking to me if you like too.

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Well it's not about cutting ties with you so you can get rid of that ridiculous notion right now. [ Honestly, when did he imply that. It's not as if Héctor is the problem. ]

It's not about shame, or being embarrassed. I don't regret having those feelings. I wouldn't have said it if I didn't mean it.

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I just wish it had been better. Better timing, better words...

That's all.

[ Héctor likely has no idea how difficult this is to admit in any capacity and Ekkehardt will NEVER

EVER

LET HIM KNOW ]

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[Look, Ekkehardt, he spent a long time being Ernesto's friend, he doesn't know how else fights go...

He reads those words and he smiles immediately, feeling his face soften.]

Ekkehardt. My dear friend. Take it from one of the biggest dumbasses you know. Sometimes the clumsy delivery is the best one. And I think, knowing Avery, you probably just about killed him with that anyway, so it's probably for the best.

The man's immortal. I'm pretty sure you are too. There will a thousand moments and chances to say the things you want. And a thousand more to say a bunch of stupid stuff you didn't mean to.

I think we both know, Avery's been afraid of this for a long time. And you work so hard, all the time. It's okay to fumble through this. Let him learn how to love. And let yourself try to embrace the uncontrollable madness that brings. If either of you really wanted a perfect romance, you wouldn't have picked each other. You can do better than perfect. You can have this.

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I've long since accepted anything to do with romance is nonsensical. I don't know if I like it or not but I suppose I'll have to get used to it.

As for killing him

Well

He froze up like a deer in headlights when I told him. I thought I'd upset him so much that he couldn't even respond, actually.

Though I suppose there's nothing I could have done to avoid that

In hindsight.

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That's the spirit. :)


And, no, I doubt there was anything you could have done there. Still, it worked out, didn't it? He was sitting by you. Comfortably.

The man's got a heart in there, even if it scares him to have it pointed out. He's come far with that. I know I said it already, but I really am proud of him.