A/N: Twenty second piece of Advent Fic! For those keeping count! And this is technically New Year fic! Have grown bored of this Christmas thing!
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"...huh?"
"Didn't say anything."
"Oh. Right."
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"Still not talking to me, huh."
"Thought you weren't talking to me either."
"I'm not."
"Right. Of course you're not."
"...I'm bored."
"Who'd have thought? Prison is boring. Must be why some of us work so hard to keep us out of it."
"We're not in prison. Stop being melodramatic."
"Locks, bars, concrete and it smells like - "
" - I know what it smells like. That doesn't make it prison."
"Uh huh."
"We're in a police holding cell. That's all."
"Right. Of course. How stupid of me. Nothing to worry about at all."
"Hey! Pretty boy! You got a light?"
"Look. I know it's not - "
" - oh, believe me, I always wanted to spend New Year's Eve in a police holding cell that smells like - "
" - but you can't blame me.
"I can't blame you?"
"No."
"Fifty four parking tickets."
"Ah. Yeah."
"That's more than one a week."
"Only if they were all from this year."
"You think that makes it better?
"Well - "
" - Fifty. Four. Parking tickets."
"Okay. I admit that part might be my fault."
"I don't even get how. I mean, you don't even drive!"
"Sometimes I drive."
"You don't - "
" - Sometimes I drive."
"But apparently you don't park."
"I park."
"You stop. There's a difference."
"Come on, fag. Give me a light."
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"You think Tess is angry?"
"That we got arrested? Or that we got arrested before we bought the peaches."
"You'd think she'd have stopped sending me out for the shopping by now."
"How did she - "
" - how do you think she sounded?"
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"I told her we were fine."
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"We are fine."
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"We're fine."
"You know, normally we wouldn't have been arrested for a few - "
" - fifty four - "
" - parking tickets."
"Mmm."
"Mmm? You don't think that the fact that we got arrested might be related to the fact that it was Zeke that pulled us over."
"Mmm."
"Face it. We got arrested because two years ago you left another relationship via the - "
" - it was the living room window - "
" - you really think that's the point?"
"You really want that for me? I told you at the time, Zeke said he likes to - "
" - he also likes to arrest people for a few - "
" - fifty four - "
" - parking tickets."
"Go on. Give me a light, you lousy cocksucking bastard."
"You really blaming me for not - "
" - no! God, no. Just that if you hadn't - "
" - yeah - "
" - or even if you didn't make a habit of - "
" - believe me, I know."
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"Fucking faggot. If you're not going to give me a light, how about me and - "
" - hi there."
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"Danny."
"Fine. How about you take yourself over to the other side of the cell and sit very, very still and very, very quietly and hope that we forget that you exist?"
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"That's right."
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"He wasn't exactly - "
" - not the point."
"Danny - "
" - Tess is gonna be worried."
"You called her."
"Yeah."
"You told her you were fine."
"We were fine. Yeah."
"Still a lousy way to see in the new year. Danny - "
" - wasn't all your fault."
"Wasn't all yours."
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"He can't just arrest us for no reason."
"Technically, he had fifty four reasons."
"I'm serious. This is police harassment."
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"What?"
"'s nothing."
"What?"
"When Zeke was checking for weapons he, uh, got a little inquisitive."
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"Danny, the door is locked."
"He - "
" - it's - "
" - it is not fine. It is very fucking far from being fine."
"Ooh, scary."
"And you can sit down and shut the fuck up...Rus' - "
" - I said it's fine."
"And I said it's not. Fuck."
"Danny..."
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"Danny."
"Rus', I - "
" - it's fine. C'mon. Sit down."
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"Stop it."
"Stop what?"
"We are not declaring war on the NYPD. Again."
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"Bobby still has paperwork outstanding from the last time."
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"And don't say if you explained he wouldn't mind, because we both know you'd never explain."
"Yeah. Rus', 'm - "
" - I know. And I'm - "
" - she'll forgive me. And in a few hours she'll come down here and post my bail."
"Our bail?"
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"Danny."
"Our bail. Think I'd leave you in here by yourself?"
"Can't say I care for the experience."
"Yeah. There's a New Year's resolution. I swear, I'm going to do my best not to get arrested."
"I swear I'm going to stop running away from relationships. Literally, anyway."
"Is that - "
" - bells. 's midnight."
"Happy New Year, Rus'."
"Happy New Year, Danny. Here's to 1997."
