Take Initiative.

[trustharder]

It seems things have been resolved - peacefully, if more than a little awkwardly for most parties involved. However, there's still work to do here, isn't there? Ryuunosuke shrugs after a long moment; tips his head up a bit. "Hey, Glory? Let everyone up." And apparently that's all it takes, though what that actually does isn't something that happens all at once - rather, panels slide out from the wall, forming a staircase up to that balcony they've been standing on. Mettaton doesn't really wait for the others to join them; he just leaves back through that section of wall they entered from, calling something back over his shoulder. "We've got another room to work from back here, darlings, this shouldn't take too long to work out." >Follow?

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[cherryblooded]

[...Yeah, okay, he'll break that promise.

Mettaton's getting hugged more tightly than Cherryblod's ever hugged him before.]

I missed you so much, my dear.

[ratingspoint]

[Well. He'll be getting that hug returned, though far less tightly.]

I...

[...Give him a moment.]

It's pretty rare that I don't know what to say to something, you know.

[cherryblooded]

I'm proud of being the one to make you speechless.

[ratingspoint]

You should be.

[He'll pull away a bit after a moment, though.]

...I don't know why you're still being so kind to me.

[It's not that he doesn't want him to, or genuinely thinks that he should be treated poorly, but...that's what people do in response to things like this, right?]

[cherryblooded]

Because you're family.

[And that's really enough of a reason, but he goes on anyway.]

You've done awful things. I've done awful things, for worse reasons than you. I've betrayed people I worked with, lied, done anything you might have done aside from specifically run a murder vault. For some reason, people are still kind to me. You were one of the kindest.

It's more important to me that you're alive and happy than to get revenge.

[ratingspoint]

Family's never really meant much to me. You know that.

[He shrugs a bit, though.]

I told Ryuunosuke that I'm done with abandoning people, though. So I guess that's. Something.

[cherryblooded]

A certain Kingmaker also told me you cared about me, even if you didn't know what to do with my feelings.

That's good enough for me. It doesn't matter if you call it family or not.

[ratingspoint]

[...]

...I couldn't just leave it like that. I guess I wanted you to know.

[cherryblooded]

I'm glad you told me. I looked at that message every day.

[ratingspoint]

...I know you did. I kept an eye on you.

[cherryblooded]

Thank you.

[Even if that would be a little creepy in other circumstances, he's choosing to interpret that as keeping an eye out for him. ...Even if there's no way he would have actually intervened.

Whatever. It was definitely out of concern.]

Anything I should know about living with you? Guessing food allergies aren't a concern.

[ratingspoint]

...I don't know. I haven't really lived with anyone else for a while.

[cherryblooded]

Alright, then. I'll expect you to keep your room clean and take up a reasonable number of household chores.

[This is the price you have paid for staying alive.]

[ratingspoint]

...Darling, I'm actually obscenely organized when I'm not going stir-crazy.

[cherryblooded]

Wonderful! Then I can't think of any problems we'd have.

[ratingspoint]

I used to live with my cousins before things changed between us. So it isn't as though I'm not accustomed to living with a good amount of people, either.

[cherryblooded]

That's good to hear. But even if we had to start from the basics of 'pick up after yourself' and 'don't keep people who have to sleep up past a reasonable hour', I'm sure I'd still enjoy living with you.

[ratingspoint]

...As long as you're sure.

[cherryblooded]

I've never been more sure of anything, my dear.

I'm not going to turn you out on the street once I get tired of you. Was that a concern?

[ratingspoint]

...Why would you ever get tired of me, though.

[...SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE.]

[cherryblooded]

[No, they never do. But it makes him chuckle.]

Glad to see you're still the same Mettaton I know and love.

[ratingspoint]

Oh, that's never going to change, don't worry about that.

[cherryblooded]

I won't, then.

[...he's getting the tiptoe forehead kiss again.]