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7 votes for <span class="mu-s">"Fuck you?"</span>
2 votes for the write-in, <span class="mu-s">"... You think I would betray Cocoa like that?"</span>
1 vote for the write-in, <span class="mu-s">Get Krysmus hooked up with that stylist anyway, bro can stuff it,</span> doesn't make it
1 vote for <span class="mu-s">[Smack Him],</span> doesn't make it
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Now, Peppa would do anything for her brother's sake. She would avenge his death, wish him back to life, and even copy notes for him when he's out with a cold.
This... grub, grubbing before her, grubbily, was not recognizable as her brother.
The only thing she can say to his request, she does.
...
"...'fuck me'?" asks Gohan.
Peppa sniffs. "Y'know what? Yeah, fuck you, dude."
Gohan recoils, as if he had been smacked. As if she was being unreasonable. "Why?"
She wonders if her brother had hit his head and lost his mind, but tries to focus and put into words what he is doing that makes her want to throttle him-
The boor interrupts her thinking time. "Why can't you let me have this? Do you not have plenty? To call your own? You have to win mine over?" he rants, getting more bitter with each whine he makes.
Hoo boy, Peppa has to tap deep into her lessons on Spiritual Control from Yardrat, to prevent herself from doing anything she would regret, though the more he lashes out the more she thinks taking this from him any longer would be the most regrettable thing she could do.
She narrows down her thoughts, and finally asks him, "You think I would betray Cocoa like that?"
He looks at her like she said something stupid, like she's a stupid dumbass, and asks, "What?"
Peppa bites her lip, ah, too hard, ouch. She repeats, "Do you think so little of me, that I would betray her trust?"
...
"What are you-" Gohan begins, then shakes his head, mirthlessly chuckling. "Y'know what, screw it, don't care. But, I will admit, that's funny, you're funny with that, good one sis."
Peppa elects to look at snow falling instead. "I'm a joke now, huh." Her eyes are hot despite the cold. "Care to let me in on what's 'funny'?"
"Heh, it's just, you're one to talk about trustworthiness, the trustiest one to ever trust, when you don't have that for others."
"Oh." She looks at her brother's shoes. "You can trust me then. You don't have to worry about me being, 'friendly.' Around them." She looks up at his face. "Around you."
Despite his block for a head, Gohan does note the venom in that last statement. He snarls, but bites down whatever retort he has. He instead opts to plaster a smile on his face, and says, "Thank you."
They turn back to see that most have left, but Krysmus is still waiting, in the cold.
Gohan walks up and apologizes to the girl, and looks around, noting there's no bystanders he cares about seeing them. Then, he offers to show her a neat trick, and she nods. They teleport away.
Peppa thinks of teleporting herself, and raises her hand... but it's trembling. The mittens, they do nothing.