Oh, I'm so glad you liked it! (and weren't creeped out by the underaged-ness of it all - I was gonna put in something about Mikey going back to school and turning sixteen in September but then I forgot and posted and was like, 'crap, halfeatenmoon is gonna think I wrote him, like, twelve or something, hope I don't cause squick...')

And that line you gave in your prompt was SO PERFECT, OMG, I wrote this in like fifteen minutes. Because it'd totally go like that! Logic or emotional blackmail, so not the Ways' style. Scifi rhetoric, on the other hand... ♥