Priestly's apartment, New Gotham, Thursday afternoon

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"Come on, Priestly!" Tia called through the door to Priestly's room. "You've gotta go out sometime!"

"I for one support Priestly's newfound interest in hermitage," Mark said. Tia ignored him with the ease borne of long practice.

"Priestly!"

The door cracked open, and Priestly peered out, Stevesie perched on his shoulders and peering over his head. "A) it's negative a billion degrees out. 2) the question mark guy is on the streets again. I'm not coming out until he's been arrested and it's spring."

Tia sighed. "You have classes."

"I can turn my assignments in online and the professors are video-podcasting the lectures."

"You have laundry," Tia tried.

"Not going outside means not needing clean clothes." Priestly smirked and started closing the door.

"I'm going to call Dinah on you!" Tia said quickly. The door stopped closing. After a moment, it opened up all the way.

"Dammit, Tia."

Tia smirked back, showing her phone in her hand, the screen already set to Dinah's number. "Come out and I won't have to." She looked him over and sighed. "And put some damn pants on."

[ooc: GUESS WHO'S CAR WON'T START BECAUSE OF THE COLD TODAY. Post is open to phone calls or visits, sure.]

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"Melting was not my concern." It was cold out. Priestly leaned out the door to the room. "Someone let Dinah into the apartment before she freezes! She's possibly cold-blooded and can't tell how cold it is!"

Tia snorted and went to open the front door.

"You're probably going to have to throw him over your shoulder and drag him outside yourself," she said.

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Dinah pocketed her phone with a sigh. "And I'll do that, 'cause I am just that good a friend." She stamped a little snow off her boots and called out, "I will drink your coffee and then come in there and dress you if you don't come out!"

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"I told you to put on pants!" Tia added.

Priestly came out -- wearing pants, yes (and long underwear and three shirts and a fashionable yet cozy scarf) -- folded his arms over his chest, and scowled. "I'm not going running."

Stevesie tried to climb from Priestly's shoulder onto his head, completely ruining any tough guy image he was trying to project.

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"You've been in here for a week!" Dinah protested, reaching for Stevesie. "It's time to see life outside your apartment. You're never going to adapt if you just hiberate until May or whatever." Coffee, nice coffee, being offered to you with one hand, as the panda is lured in with the other.

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Hey, that panda was warm, dammit! Priestly gave Stevesie and accusing look when the panda stretched his paws out towards Dinah in a toddlerish "pick me up!" move. "Traitor. Hibernating is a totally valid lifestyle choice," he said. "Especially when you can't migrate to warmer climates in the winter."

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Dinah refrained from pointing out he could, because that would not help in the long term. She snuggled Stevesie and gave Priestly's outfit the once-over. "Okay, looks like you're mostly good. Boots. Jacket. Gloves. Hat. And it's a valid lifestyle choice if you're a sloth or a popsicle, and you're neither."

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"Why would a popsicle hibernate?" Priestly asked, reaching for the coffee and making zero move for boots, jacket, gloves, or a hat. "They're supposed to be frozen."

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"They stay in the dark and out of the outside world because it is their nature. You're a human." Dinah let him have the coffee, and scritched behind Stevesie's ear with a coo. "A human who is totally missing stuff, pleeeeeeeease come out and play with me, come on."

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"There are bad guys out there," Priestly pointed out. "One of whom has literally actually kidnapped me before."

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Dinah's shoulders hunched at that, and she looked around to see if Mark or Tia were listening. "That's not going to happen today. I will literally throw people into traffic if they try anything."

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Reassuring, yet also slightly terrifying. "But if we stay in we don't have to cause any traffic accidents at all."

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"I said please!" Dinah waved one of Stevesie's paws at him. "Stevesie agrees with me. 'Go outdoors, Priestly! Find the sunshine! Forage for goods and berries!'"

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"Hey, don't use my panda against me. That's dirty pool."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Snickering, she pointed imperiously to the hall closet. "Outdoor clothes. The Panda has spoken."

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Priestly clutched his coffee closer to his chest. "I don't wanna."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"What are we gonna do with him?" Stevesie didn't seem to know. Dinah was taking the fact that Priestly was almost-dressed to be outside as an indicator that he did kind of want to leave. "We can go somewhere warm. I promise. Like the Arboretum, California boy. Don't make me move from bribery to blackmail."

...okay, she had no blackmail material she dared use, but still.

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Priestly snorted. "Please. I have way less shame than you do."

And he was dressed this way because he had overheard there was a possibility he would be actually dragged outside.

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Dinah sighed. "Fine. Bludgeoning it is."

Okay, not literally, but there was now a firm but inescapable grip on his jeans loops, and tugging down the hallway happening.

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"Hey. Hey! You're gonna stretch out my jeans!"

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"Not if you come along quietly!"

The roommates were probably recording this by now.

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Of course they were.

"What if I promise to go outside tomorrow?" Priestly tried desperately.

It was a lie. He wouldn't be any more willing to go outside tomorrow, either.

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"Tomorrow I have a stakeout. Do you want to join me on that?"

Now, see, that would be cold.

More tugging. And shoving. And a panda chittering at your socks.

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Hey, careful with that shoving! You were going to make him spill his coffee. "You're a crazy person. You know that, right?"

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"Crazy is just what genius is called before it makes it big," Dinah informed him, opening the closet door. Boots were tossed in his direction. A bobble hat was held out threateningly. "If you want me to make this a kidnapping, we can do that."

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Priestly pouted at her. "You're mean."