hi i think you're the coolest person ever. even if you ARE secretly evil.
Gem almost shrieks. “Where! Have you heard that before!”
Both Scott and Impulse crack up. Gem’s tempted to cover her ears and start yelling loudly until they go away. Impulse says, “Don’t—don’t think about it, okay, just don’t think—”
“Gem, everybody sleeps with their allies,” Scott says, in that patient talking-to-a-toddler voice that Gem hates.
Gem wails. “I don’t!”
“It’s not everyone,” Impulse adds.
“No, yeah, obviously you don’t have to,” says Scott quickly. “It’s just a thing, like…”
The covering her ears and yelling idea is looking increasingly appealing. Gem says, “I don’t wanna hear about it! I don’t wanna know about it! If, if you two—”
Scott says, “Gem, you don’t actually have to, obviously.”
Yelling for one thousand years, actually. Maybe more. “I don’t even wanna think about it! He’s like my dad—it’s weird and gross—”
“Whatever the Clockers had going on last season was weirder than that,” Impulse says, to Scott, which isn’t helpful, and Gem doesn’t even know what that means.
“Or the Bad Boys,” Scott says, to Impulse.
Gem does give in, then, and claps her hands over her ears. Maybe if she ignores them for long enough they’ll leave her alone and stop talking about horrible things.
