AN: Thoughts on 1.15, Magnifying Glass at the end of this chapter.

Movie-Magician-n-Waffle-Wizard:

I'm sad to say that The Roommate Chronicles, as I have christened these little snippets of my life with my roomie, is coming to an end.

As of tomorrow, we will no longer be roomies!

*sniffles*

My roomie and his girl are moving out together, and I'm moving out to live with my computer goddess.

It's been a long time coming, TBH, since for the last six months or so his girl's been living here and I've more or less moved into my computer goddess's place anyway, and of course I'm happy that we have wonderful, stable, functional relationships with very special ladies (I love my computer goddess so, so much!)…but still, feels like the end of an era.

*sniffles again*

I'm gonna miss him SO, SO MUCH!

(He wishes it to be known that the feeling is very mutual, but he wants to remind me that we'll still see plenty of each other after all- being BFFs and all, and his new place has got a fire pit, so DEFINITELY many family fun nights in our future!)

*sniffles yet again*

So it's definitely not goodbye, and it's probably not goodbye to crazy tales of my crazy former roomie and his adventures either…but it's still the end of an era. Almost four and a half amazing years. No more coming home to jury-rigged hot tubs or modified blenders or giant houses of cards for me!

#end of an era #no longer roomies #BFFs #roomies in spirit #always #I love my bro #even though he's crazy #even when he science fails #won't need brain bleach anymore #no more bachelor pad

UPDATE: If me and my former roomie went shopping together for special somethings (expensive and shiny and exceedingly symbolically important special somethings) do you reckon we'll have plausible deniability and even the slightest potential of a surprise? (You know, since if both of us go at once it makes things not exactly clear…Look, you know my computer goddess and my former roomie's girl, you reckon they wouldn't work it out?)

Oh, I wonder if the old man will want to come along too? Maybe it's a little early for him and the boss lady (my computer goddess- and me- were TOTALLY right, even if it took AGES), but you know, they're older, they know what they want and who they are, wasted years, wasted chances…

#looking to the future #love #happily ever after #shopping #they cost HOW MUCH? #no price on love #four Cs #it's important symbolically #romance is not dead #OTPs #slow build

UPDATE: Shout-out to not-miss-moneypenny for offering to run interference…and prevent my computer goddess, my former roomie's girl or the boss lady from reading this post…

#friends forever #awesome friends #silly me #blonde moment #I'm so not blonde #my former roomie is #but still

AN: Bozer's shipper heart is probably jumping ahead a little, but hey, he's been pretty good at predicting the future, hasn't he? ;)

And pure sugar, I know, but I am a sucker for happily-ever-afters (absurdly happy happily-ever-afters) and I was still dealing with my post-Screwdriver feels when I wrote this. There's one more special chapter to come as an epilogue.

Thoughts on 1.15, Magnifying Glass – loved it, I think it was quite a safe and inoffensive/not risky Team-as-Badass-Family bonding episode, with everyone getting a moment to shine and use their particular skill sets. It was definitely fun.

I have two fics coming up, both for Valentine's Day. One is a Paperclip Charms special, the other is There's Something About MacGyver, or, the life of Mac and friends as a rom-com.

Problem: I have no valentine. Solution: Improvise and give my favourite fictional characters valentines instead.

I'm no Mac, but…not bad, eh? ;)