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Disgusted, he glances at his screen, hoping to find word from Typhoid Mary.

Nope.

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SCRATCH JOURNAL ENTRY

Scratch:Different people pull different things out in me. ::quietly:: I usually don’t like when the woman in me is pulled out… by someone else I mean. I did it once when I dressed up in drag. I mean stockings and heels. But, I hate it being yanked out by aggressive women or stupid men…

Winc:::not breathing… listening::

Scratch:I just don’t feel it! Whatever it is I’m supposed to, I don’t feel it! But if there’s a give and take, even if I’m being very “girl,” it’s quite wonderful.

Winc:::gently:: maybe the chief thing going on with you is that you’re a dominant type, no matter what gender.

Scratch:Dominant type?

Winc:::very gently:: When we were playing het characters, when we were gay guys, you took the “lead” both times.

Scratch:True. ::Sigh:: That disappoints me. I feel like such a shape-shifter in other ways…

Winc:::fingers moving through the leaves::

Scratch:::bewildered::

Winc:::speechless::

Scratch:Don’t like being dominated.

Winc:Like when I was Yar and starting to dominate you?

Scratch:Right… ::wriggling uncomfortably:: Makes me claustrophobic. But I don’t want to smother *you*!

Winc:But you wanted to take me down as Yar?

Scratch:Right.

Winc:And suppose you had? Then what?

Scratch:In the best of all possible worlds?

Winc:Uh huh.

Scratch:Then I’d have set you free, so you could move again. Literally and figuratively.

Winc:Do you like playing the top?

Scratch:Emphasis on top, or playing?

Winc:::smiling:: yeah.

Scratch:A lot of the time it’s unconscious…

Winc:Jeeze, we’re so similar, well I mean we fit together. I like playing the bottom…

Scratch:Ah. No matter the gender?

Winc:::nodding:: No matter the gender. I spend so much of my real life days being warrior, fighting off labels, being in third space, I *like* the traction you and I create. ::blinking:: at-traction?