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romxna.
in the situation they found themselves in, his vision for what the weekend should have been, sounded marvelous. warm beds and cozy bathtubs were something the drab motel didn’t have to offer, but she was never one to complain. she always looked at the bigger picture, finding something good the situation had to offer. it may not have been much, but it still meant they were together. they were safe and somewhat warm, rather than stuck in the elements of the storm. nothing else mattered.
“even if this isn’t what you had in mind, we’re safe. we’re not stuck out in the storm anymore, which is all i could ask for.” while they could have risked the drive to make it to the cabin on time, the snow would have eventually made them stop. they could have ended up stranded on the side of the road, stuck inside of a cold car. “we have time to go to the cabin. this isn’t the only weekend we have to be together.” however, as she said the words, she found herself uncertain of the truth behind. they had found their way back into each others lives, but there was no set path for the future. reconciling their love for one another had only been brought up in passing conversations. the two couldn’t be considered a couple anymore, even if the weekend away could have been the start.
his words, however, made her heart beat hard inside her chest. this was a moment she only found herself dreaming of, wishing one day it’d come true, and it did. hazel eyes gazed into his, showing the amount of love she held beneath. “i’d like to try again too.” words were soft as she leaned her cheek into his touch, happy to have such closeness. “we can take it as slow as we need to. i just.. want to be with you. i don’t want to be without you again.” despite having agreed to the break up, being without him tore her heart in two. it was easier to hide as time went on, but it had never fully healed until in that moment. “i think i’ve caught your heart more than you’d like to admit.” a soft laugh escaped her lips as her hand came to rest upon his chest, fingertips dancing across the fabric of his shirt.
❛ &. ┊ Perhaps was the laugh coming from the back of her throat just what he had needed; some sort of simplicity that could outweigh the weight upon his shoulders. It really wasn’t how he had imagined it to be, how he’d imagined the reconcilement, but the fingertips pressing lightly against the heartbeat hiding underneath silken cotton and her breath tumbling slowly, softly, across amusement-parted lips sufficed to persuade a hand to pull her face a little closer. He’d never been quite much of a talker outside the court. Knowledgeable how to get his point across, surely, knowledgeable also how to manipulate the opponent into giving him the benefit of the doubt but… he didn’t think any further words to be necessary. Not here, not now, and certainly not with walnut-coloured eyes dropping onto the curve of her lips.
The kiss came sudden, quite unexpected. But for the briefest of moments vanished all doubt that none of this would work out and he found a sense of rightness in the way teeth dug into a lower lip. Could almost taste irresolution melt away as hand dropped from her cheek to the side of her waist. He wanted to pull her on his lap, wanted to feel her pressed against his frame – and part of him didn’t feel motivated enough to resist the pull. But broke the kiss apart regardless, lungs left breathless and fingertips itching to feel skin on skin. To be whole again, once more after feeling so empty for months, years. Part of him would say decades. The only time he truly felt complete was in the arms of a lover that he’d forcefully expelled from his thoughts.
“ My phone— ” an incomplete apology as long digits rummaged around to find the cause for the separation; a vibrating cellphone announcing several text messages sent in a desperate haste. He didn’t think too much about it, gave Romana the small semblance of a grin – a non-verbal promise that he’d go further if she so wanted, that he’d make her forget about the shabby surroundings. But the grin faded the moment a picture popped up on screen. On it, the unmistakeable shape of a pregnancy test.
And it was positive.
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hazel eyes focused on his face, watching the features of his expression. her admission could change things completely, a thought she struggled with before the words ever left her lips. after what happened between them, the way they ended, she was scared he wouldn’t want anything more. maybe their time had passed, though his words caught her attention, causing her heart to flutter with hope. it was all she ever wanted. she longed for the moment she could have him back, rekindling the love she was sure they both still held for one another. “i know we can’t pick it up from where we left off, but i’m willing to try anything. we can start completely new and move as slowly as we need to.” admittedly, that wasn’t the option she wanted. she wanted to have the moments they used to share, wrapped up in one another’s arms, holding their bodies close to one another. she missed having her head against his chest and his arms wrapped firm around her. “however we do this, i want it to end with us together. i want it to end the way it should have the first time around. i love you far too much to ever give up what we had.”
❛ &. ┊ Neither did it sound entirely doable to him; to forget. To act as if the words that he’d never spoken, the explanations he’d never given, and the dreams he’d had, didn’t matter from the beginning on – in hindsight, perhaps he should have viewed all of it from an entirely rational lens. She’d been a wonderful girlfriend, patient, forgiving. Part of him believed she could once perhaps be an equally as wonderful mother. And that’s what he ultimately wanted, wasn’t it? To have another family of his own, to make it right this time? He had been so terribly young when he first married, had done it mostly out of necessity. Out of love, also, but perhaps out of love for the unborn child. And the home had crumbled as quickly as he’d built it; the lie of a happy marriage held up to give the children a loving environment. Madeleine had loved him also, in the same desperate way. It hadn’t kept him from further dwelling on his infidelity. How high were the chances that the past would repeat itself? With Romana he’d broken up before he could make the same mistake again – if it even were a mistake, felt much more like a deliberate desire. Jaw tensed. It should have. Made it sound so easy, didn’t it? Pull yourself together and play along. “ So are we going on a date and… getting to know eachother? ” A ridiculous idea – or was it?
xxloneblackwolfxx.
“Says me y’know the guy who is currently talkin’ t’you while also tryin’ t’serve drinks at the same time. But like I said before I can’t give you a alcoholic drink until ya have given me some form of ID to prove to me that ya are indeed over the age of 21. We do have a wide selection of non alcoholic beverages at this bar and I would recommend y’tryin’ the fizzy apple juice. I’ve heard from my nine year old son that it is quite… refreshin’.” He says sweetly as he points over to his son who was currently in the MIDDLE of drinking a glass of fizzy apple juice while being looked after by his Uncle Lupin. He secretly found it funny that he was recommending his son’s favorite drink to someone who was twice his age. “I have to say ya do look oddly… like my boyfriend Kua. Are ya one of his… relatives?”
❛ &. ┊ By god, the last he needs at the moment is to be reminded of familial matters; a grimace distorts juvenile features, replacing the frown that almost immediately follows the bartender’s suggestion. To be pushed into the same category as a child, however sweet the kid is, is insult enough – to bring up Kua Hale? Completely unnecessary. “ Both of us know that if you’re not giving me a beer, then I’ll be finding someone else who buys me one. ” Thumb points in the direction of a man perhaps a few years older, certainly not his type – isn’t sure whether men in general are his type, but he’s inherited his mother’s French charm. That he deliberately ignores the question that resulted in his grimacing is evident. “ Don’t you think it’d be more responsible if you just sold me a drink than to leave me trading favours for a pint? ”
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“Ain’t ya a bit young to be drinkin’ on y’own?”
❛ &. ┊ “ Says who? ” The law, he’s quite sure -- but stubbornness prevails and even more so when he’s surpassed the age limit by two years in his home country; tongue drips of Marseillan accent, that he’s a tourist is rather obvious. That his holiday isn’t quite going as he’s hoped, is also. “ Unless you’re a cop, there’s no need to pull out my ID. ”
xxloneblackwolfxx.
Crimson red eyes find it difficult not to focus on the older man’s bulge pressed against his legs, figure leans forward to grind up against it, actions DISRUPTED when his teeth scrape across his jaw. He enjoys what they are doing more than he would like to admit and he couldn’t stop the grin spreading playfully across slowly parting lips. It had been almost a year since he was last intimate with another man. “I don’ think about her when m’with my son or when m’in the bathroom. Maybe now wasn’t a good time to bring Moa up when we were jus’ gettin’ intimate. I want ya to know that she is like a second mother to me. She’s a lot better than my own mother ever was. ” A admission that comes slightly reluctant, lips searching for any piece of skin he could dig his fangs into an attempt to make him fully drop his guard. He fumbles with Kua’s belt, palming him hungrily through his jeans, he wants him to be inside him, to make him forget everything –– and he leans forwards to press another kiss to his lips. “No he doesn’t and why should he. He never tells me who is sleepin’ with. But I think he knows somethin’ is goin’ on between us. He is a very observant man. Though I actually couldn’t care less if he doesn’t approve of our relationship. Can we continue this in my… bedroom? I don’t want my son walkin’ in on us.”
❛ &. ┊ God knows how Moa keeps up with his talkative mouth, he talks and talks and talks -- and Kua Hale is not particularly known to be a patient man. A growl thunders in the back of a throat when palm is pressed against his clothed member, hips eager to buckle into the touch but not quite as eager as the hand that finds another man’s throat, presses him momentarily against the nearest wall to interrupt the seemingly endless outpour of words. He wants him, wants to leave his marks on him, and breath is hot when mouth ghost just inches above Morgan’s ear after the rough collision. “ Let’s not talk about either Moa or your father. ” An order, not quite just an invitation -- yet follow hands the werewolf’s request regardless and usher figure into the safe walls of a bedroom. Door is kicked shut with a foot, hands preoccupied in attempting to rid himself and the other off all remaining fabric, until Morgan’s frame is pushed back onto the mattress and hot mouth travels southwards from collarbones on...
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oh—- a sheepish smile, an earnest one this time, a faint flush accompanying it, colouring her cheeks in soft hues. ‘ right ’ she manages, half stammers, looking everywhere but at him ‘ I–I—- you mentioned before, didn’ t you? ’ stating that much doesn’t help, only makes her feel worse. fuck. she treasures all that he tells her, all that is personal and raw, knows that he wouldn’t share most of it with just anyone, likes to tell herself that this is a sign that it means something, that this is something, even if it’s nothing serious. ‘ I’m—- ’ heat radiates off of her cheeks, she can feel it, knows that he can see it, can no doubt feel it too. kassandra of sparta, mighty misthios king and beast slayer doesn’t blush easily. kuahale just got fortunate enough to witness it. ‘ god !’ for a brief moment features are buried in the palms of her hands, a display of the fact that she would vanish right now, if she could. one could think that after the years she had had wandering this earth, she’d be a little more elaborate whenever words came into play. she’d always been a woman of actions, rather than words.
‘ can we pretend I did not just do that? ’ she questions, a soft hue still on her cheeks as he leads her down the street, his fingers lingering in his ( she finds she quite likes that ). she regards him curiously once he does let go, can’t help but laugh over her own ridiculousness. something warm and comfortable settling into her chest. happiness, she’d realize, were she to ponder over it, but that would mean needing to admit that kua made her happy and needing to decide what it all meant—-
she follows him inside, his comment still lingering in her ears, when she’s realizing she hasn’t answered him yet. the smile on her lips turns cocky, smug ‘ maybe—- ’ she states ‘ but maybe I don’t care, when it doesn’t come from you. ’
❛ &. ┊ In truth, heart is already far too attached to the woman whose fingertips feel so perfectly fit in his -- but he knows his record, known his own fallibility. To keep whatever spark has been lit between two completely different figures without labels and without rules, frees his shoulder of unbearable weight. He lets her down, if not now then another time and perhaps he already has. But in this moment, where cheeks flush pink, feels he pride in the capability of making her happy; the wonderful, unbeatable Kassandra of Sparta, grinning like an infatuated teenager at his humble compliment. He could get used to it -- perhaps permanently, but that thought is brushed aside as quickly as it has come.
The stroll is interrupted if ever so gently when fingertips escape her palms and wrap around the sides of her waist instead. He pulls her close until proximity is reduced to the bare minimum and lungs fill with the soft scent of her perfume. Lips hover just inches above her mouth, almost contemplating whether it’s worth the publicity. But he’s got nothing to lose -- and it’s an oddly satisfactory emotion that floods through veins when he imagines to make it all public. Even more public than the holding of hands could ever make it be. One hand rises, thumb brushing along the length of her arm until palm settles against the back of her neck and he pulls her even closer. Slower, gradually -- deliberately. But lips don’t find hers yet. He’s trained himself in patience.
❛ &. ┊ “ The last time your cheeks were that colour, my head was between your thighs. Can’t say which version I like better. ” It’s breathed against a lower lip, sticky like honey and comparably sweet -- but alone the memory of it is capable of darkening the hazel colour of his eyes. A grin then and he urges figures to break apart; he likes it, the way she makes him feel. Like he’s completely in control... and then not at all. Hand finds hers again as feet lead both towards their destination. He still chuckles, a wonderful sight. Hasn’t felt half as alive in years. “ You must like me terribly much then, hm? ” A rhetorical question meant to egg her on, though part of him would like to hear it verbatim.
xxaustralianwerewolfxx.
Now, a split second in which his accusations were uttered he could forgive––– though the increase in agitation that pushed forward from the depths of his throat, the aggravating hatred glinting in his dark brown eyes caused his defenses to immediately go up. Shoulders pushed back, back straightened, honey brown eyes had absentmindedly attempted to trace patterns into the table cloth snapped back to the man laughably trying to intimidate him. The corners of his LIPS curled upward revealing a glimpse of unnaturally sharp teeth ––– though not into a smile.
He could not remember meeting a man ( in the past ten years ) who was more irritating than his son Lupin apart from the demon who had decided to drain him off his blood before pumping it’s own cursed blood back into his veins. Focus SHIFTS away from his own thoughts back onto the conversation that had THANKFULLY came to a halt. Gaze drops down onto his gold Celtic embossed engagement ring, it’s golden surface reflecting the orange sunlight light coming through the nearby window. He had forgotten he had decided to put it on before leaving his house to meet Moa at the posh Chinese restaurant. He found it rather ironic that the man sitting in front of him was also wearing a ring that was also given to him by a former lover.
“He gets it from me. I can talk someone’s EAR off when m’in a good mood. Moa can vouch for me on that. But if ya think us wolves are so bloody primitive why th’heck are y’datin me son, Morgan. I thought ya would go for a fox instead like me son Lupin. He is more right up your street than Morgan is. What with how ARROGANT y’both can be. ” The toxicity of his words is unnecessary, but he loathes the way the other man hits the right buttons. Another mouthful of whiskey vanishes into the depths of his stomach and then he hears his next words.
What happens next is a reaction that burns itself into a mind like a hot branding forever to be remembered, a ball of fire flies threw the air, missing Kua’s body by inches and slams into the wall behind Kua’s head. He leans forwards, hands firmly wrapping round his throat and slams his body into the still burning wall. “Ya maybe her husband but that doesn’t give ya the right to try an’ ruin the relationship I have with Moa.” There is a threat in the roaring sound of his voice, reverberating around the restaurant turning into a deafening scream. His eyes start to glow a unnatural shade of red as he allows his demon side to come through. “I wanna use my chaos magic to rip ya to pieces but I also don’t want to break Moa’s heart. Ya should leave while y’still can, lover boy.”
❛ &. ┊ Nothing quite might be capable of explaining the amusement that ghosts across his features like an unsettling harbinger of trouble when the plastering of a wall briefly catches fire and then smoulders against the dim gold of his skin. Back collides with a construction with such sharp collision that the sound of his head hitting a hard surface outweighs the mayhem that erupts in spates. Ruin. A coarse laugh in the back of his throat, suffocated by the tight grasp around a neck. But what ruined the moment wasn’t his skilfully presented talent of provocation, was it? Noah’s quite capable of doing it himself, far too blinded by his own rage to see his girlfriend’s jaw tighten in the background.
Are you happy now, Kua? Voice rings in the inside of his skull clear as ever, eyes not tearing off the demonic countenance that hovers just inches from his face -- but they don’t need to, not to sense her getting up on her feet. He just grins, teeth reddened by the blood that an explosive collision pressed out of his insides. Very happy, indeed.
“ Restrain yourself, Noah. I am still the strongest of the three of us. ” But you did have to push him, didn’t you? Hazel eyes flicker to the side to meet charcoal ones as she speaks, slender fingertips lightly wrapping around a forcefully strained wrist and withdrawing it from the lawyer’s throat as though it meant nothing. Was nothing. “ Making me sad is your least concern -- embarrassing me is all the more dangerous. ”
❛ &. ┊ A cough comes out of the depths of his lungs when Kua Hale is set free. Hands glide over the suit to adjust the fabric’s awfully hideous wrinkles and wipe away the crimson stain from his lips. His injuries will heal, eventually -- the insult that he takes might take much longer to become redundant. “ At least you’re already willing to kill for her. ” His voice lacks the smugness of before but is it clear regardless, almost nonchalant, “ But don’t think you impress me much, Noah Delmont. It takes a monster to make her stay. ”
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xxaustralianwerewolfxx.
The moments he spent with Moa were undoubtedly some of his favorite ones as she could always guarantee to put a smile on his face even on the nights where he had to stand in the pouring rain to watch people he suspected to be Supernatural creatures. He had found a liking to her more than he wanted to admit. He just hadn’t anticipated that their quiet night at a fancy restaurant would be interrupted by a man that strangely reminded him a lot of his deceased younger brother Adrian.
The joint he lit in the hopes of getting rid of a annoying headache is reluctantly pulled out from parted lips its embers extinguished against his hand when he isn’t looking and is placed back into the box of normal looking cigarettes. He found it odd that she hadn’t asked his son Morgan to help them with the case. He was after all a former lawyer who often dealt with the Supernatural.
“I have to say m’not exactly impressed by your choice of lawyer, Moa. He seems to smug to me an’ I hate the way he stole y’drink. Only idiots go around stealin’ a ladies drink.” A pause to place his feet onto the table as he pops a piece of chicken into his mouth and looks him up and down. It was CLEAR from the look on his face that he didn’t like this man. “We like… our space. Although that doesn’t mean we don’ sleep in each other’s beds from time to time. M’actually more interested in the relationship y’share with me son. He told me last week that ya kissed him. Are y’plannin’ on datin’ me son? ” Jaw tenses as he picked up a piece of chicken and threw it at him. “What’s y’name?”
❛ &. ┊ It is with a monster’s love for detail that hazel eyes notice the way that the eldest of three observes the callous mannerisms of a werewolf -- and with a monster’s tendency for schadenfreude, the realisation that Moa finds her date’s attitude in public more incriminating than his own bluntness. Although isn’t he blind either; her brows shoot up at the mention of that small, completely neglectable detail. Perhaps she’s surprised neither of them has told her, perhaps angered to find herself in a more and more uncomfortable situation. But when the piece of disgustingly reeking meat hits the fabric of his suit, is it only Moa’s claw pressed against his chest that keeps him in place.
“ I’m sure all of us can sit down and discuss the case like proper adults would, ” he hears her say -- twice in fact, though her thoughts ringing in the cage of his skull don’t appear quite as diplomatic as her spoken request; she snubs him, waves vaguely for him to pull a chair closer and take a seat. And he does; adjusts his tie with grim features ( whatever sauce the chicken must have been coated in, he fears it might leave a stain ), tenses jaw, and eventually places the emptied glass of wine back within Moa’s reach.
“ Your son talks terribly much. ” It’s a monotonously spoken assessment, though carries it no neutrality whatsoever. As hand reaches out to refill the immortal’s glass and she, insinuating a small nod in gratitude, takes it, finds he still the energy to offer yet another smug grin. Surely, if Morgan remembered to have been kissed, he also must have remembered by whom? “ He must’ve forgotten to mention that it was him who practically slobbered when he saw me coming out of Moa’s shower. Shouldn’t have surprised me, wolves are so terribly primitive. ” Enough. Frame twitches almost noticeably when the order sets all nerves on fire. Hand momentarily shakes, terribly briefly so but enough to threaten a spill of crimson liquor -- and Moa’s hand moves, catches the drop with her glass before the stain ruins the terrific cleanliness of a table cloth. Eyes find hers. Don’t, Kua.
❛ &. ┊ “ Don’t you think you’ve trusted her too quickly, Noah? She hasn’t even told you that she’s married -- ” Stop. “ Has she at least told you that you’re not her only loverboy? ”
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It takes him by surprise, the hand that wraps round the back of his neck, draws chin upwards and causes him to melt almost instantly into the kiss. Fingertips once occupied with scrolling through countless old files that once belonged to his mother on his tablet instinctively find their way around Kua’s waist, pulling him closer to his own shirtless frame in almost willing fashion. ( He NEEDED this ) Tongue runs across his lower lip, parting mouth as if to gain entrance—- but he tilts his head to one side, withdraws, crimson red eyes rest their gaze upon the older man’s handsome features with a playful smile. “How much did ya have to drink? Or are ya jus’ happy to see me?” He was already drunk by the slurred sound in his voice. “Does Moa know your here?”
❛ &. ┊ Regardless how many glasses of whiskey it must have been, they were too much -- and the blind could have seen the way that stare bore holes into his flesh the moment Morgan had run into him in his wife’s apartment. The tension had been stiff enough for fingers to wrap ‘round it, but he hadn’t done it, didn’t mean it. Not until heart grew sullen enough to drown all his sorrows in alcohol and desperately began to yearn for something to fix it. Now fingertips press against a pulse until heartbeats forcefully align and comes a growl when mouths separate against his will, tongue leaving him cold, empty. “ Is there no moment where you don’t think of her? ” A slurred question, angered beyond repression -- and projects he his own jealousy into the smug grin of a werewolf, knows his flaw long ago has become a serious burden. Lips abandon Morgan’s mouth as if superficially accepting of his own defeat, but press against a jaw instead, a neck. There’s hardly any remnant of innocence when hands pull the werewolf closer by his hips, eradicate all ounces of distance until there’s no possibility of him dismissing the older male’s arousal. “ Does your father know you’re fantasizing about his girlfriend’s husband? ”
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❛ &. ┊ He sees the way she presses her fingertips against the bridge of her nose; the stalwart Moa Zhao, placed in a situation of utmost discomfort when his presence all too suddenly interrupts a dinner. The restaurant’s interior is beyond surprisingly impressive -- unfit, he deems, for her apparent date’s unremarkable appearance but of course would it have been her to pick the location. Clothes maketh man and she never wears cheap ones. Truth though is that he enjoys it, the slight sting that is portrayed in the way the other man formulates his question; fingertips wrap around the wine glass stood next to his wife’s yet untouched plate, takes a sip, cherishes the fruity taste... until her voice cuts him off before he gets to speak. “ I mentioned I have a lawyer specialising in nonhuman crime who could help us with our recent case. But I, ” a sour look given in his direction and yet could the dark-haired man hardly hide the smug grin behind the brim of her, now his, drink, “ hadn’t expected him until later tonight. ”
❛ &. ┊ It’s a warning, he knows but takes it as an invitation to extend his hand for Noah to take. “ I was surprised to see that both of you had been given separate bedrooms. Your son informed me quite well of your... sexual relationship. ”
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The situation is by far not the one he expected to find himself in when he decided to catch a taxi to Moa’s house. He remembers being in a SIMILAR situation before where he had walked into his Dad’s kitchen and found a man dressed in only a towel sitting at the breakfast table, sipping on a glass of orange juice while classical music played in the background. It was the moment he discovered he was sexually attracted to men.
Focus shifts away from his memories back onto the conversation that somehow he believes had abruptly come to a halt. Gaze drops onto the small rose plant in his grasp, it’s red petals shining brightly in the setting sun. A moment of silence follows as he tries to FIGURE out if the man was telling him the truth about being Moa’s husband. “No it wasn’t the response I was expectin’. But m’actually more surprised to hear y’say your her husband. I don’ suppose ya would know that shes… been sleepin’ with my Dad, Noah behind your back. How long have you and Moa been married?” A pause as he places the rose plant onto the wooden table. “I actually only came over to drop off this rose plant an’ to tell her m’goin’ to be leavin’ the country for a couple of weeks. M’goin’ on holiday with my son Darwin and thought she might want to come along. We are goin to be travellin’ around Asia. M’Morgan by the way. Who are you?”
❛ &. ┊ Mouth exhales almost a scoff at the unprompted admission, hands picking up the pot where he’s placed it only to relocate it to the table’s center. It has become a habit, somewhat, he knows Moa’s preference for complete and utter tidiness as much as he knows her... promiscuous way of living. Minds the former perhaps a little less than the latter. “ Not behind my back. We’re not exclusive. ” It’s a nonchalant way of describing the complex history of their relationship; he has his own affairs, no true relationships -- greatly prefers it that way, but nonetheless is what makes a heart so fond of the woman, her capability to make him forget the life that came before Moa Zhao. He is jealous, every time anew, but perhaps only because there hardly ever is much time when paths do meet. She’s an enigma, a fleeting indulgence -- and gone as unexpectedly as she comes.
Frame returns to the counter, the muscles of his back rippling when arm stretches to pick out another mug. His counterpart has mentioned his intentions to keep the visit brief -- but is that no reason to not offer him a cup of coffee. “ Kua Hale, ” he answers his second question, sliding the mug aptly across the table’s wooden surface. “ And thirty years. But I live up in Quebec at the moment. I’ve just now applied for a chair in criminology down here alongside to offering my service as a lawyer. -- She’s mentioned you before. You and your kid. ”
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❛ &. ┊ As much as he admits the authenticity of keeping the door unlocked at all times, is this by far not the first time he stumbles across a visitor -- a friend, perhaps, only god knows -- while peeking into the fridge in only a towel. It’s hardly something he can change even with utmost persuasion, but every other time that he’s caught in the middle of fixing himself a drink in Moa’s kitchen, he wonders if it wouldn’t be easier to take her to his hotel room instead. Brows rise, eyes scan the newcomer’s silhouette momentarily before a coarse voice replies, “ Technically, I’m still her husband. But I doubt that’s the response you were hoping for. ” He’s young, hardly Moa’s type he believes -- but it’s not his duty to question whatever Moa does in her spare time. Hand wraps around a glass bottle of cold-brew coffee and adds a cup of hazelnut milk before he takes a sip. “ She wanted to run some errands. You’re free to wait here if you’re not in a hurry. ”
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He hadn’t been there to talk about what had happened. Just wanted an escape from the hovering and worrying when he suddenly became some sort of cripple. Air streamed out of his mouth in a sigh or laugh, possibly a disgusted mix of the two at Kua’s apology. “You’re stubborn and think you know better then thousands of years of experience.” He’d walked this Earth a lot longer then Moa had. “And the person that you met wasn’t someone that I’d ever win against anyways.”
That was a lie. Ezio had just wasted a movement on Kua. And saving Kua. He’d spent a long time working on getting strong enough to kill his father but he’d thrown it away on emotions. Foolishly. His old man had said as much when they were fighting.
Curls on his head shake, knocking the thought out of his mind. “I needed to ask for a place to stay anyways. So how about skipping dinner and offering a place for me to pass out safely.” There was always that nagging feeling that Kua would try to ……. and Ezio’s mind blanked. “… or alternatively.” He said it slowly, weighing the pros and cons in his mind. Right now everything seemed hopeless but he did have an instant solution. Well possibly not instant.
“Do you want to become immortal?”
❛ &. ┊ Part of him can recognise a liar when he sees one, recognise the stupidity of a decision -- but is silence more persuasive. Ezio chose his failure out of love for a shared friend and her love, if rarely uttered, for the lawyer. Perhaps he should celebrate it, thank every possible higher being for the small reassurance that he was not just another replaceable pawn in Moa Zhao’s ploy with old gods. But everything had changed in the moment that all remnants of the confrontation disappeared into thin air. She had regarded him with a semblance of absolute and undeniable agony in dark eyes and then slipped into the bathroom. The sound of a pouring shower went on for hours, almost until dawn. He could almost imagine her sitting there, knees pulled to her chest and staring off into the distance. Ástríður. Æthelthryth. The sound of both names still tastes like copper on his tongue as he pushes aside the memory of her coming out of the shower, the red glow of a thoroughly scrubbed skin fading.
“ It’s a hotel room, Ezio, not an apartment. But I offer you the bed and take the couch myself. ” What that what he’d like to call integrity? To offer hospitality to someone he hardly knew, hardly was fond of -- and perhaps only pitied in hopes of calming his own conscience? Moa would have gritted her teeth, called him cowardly for shrinking once again when faced with feelings of guilt. Perhaps she would have been right, and yet... can he not imagine her heart to be cold enough to turn away a friend. Whatever she claims, whatever words she insists on sticking to, the Moa he fell in love with all those years back would have rather died than fail a promise of loyalty.
❛ &. ┊ The suggestion than comes as an agitating surprise; brows rise, a silent question followed suit by its verbalisation. “ I already am. ” The untruthfulness of his words and the underlying meaning of Ezio’s own only settle in his mind after he’s uttered his startled response and posture immediately changes. There’s defensiveness, alienation, but more so a desperate attempt at hiding the insult he takes. At least his voice remains sober when he proceeds, even if his eyes can’t do the same, “ Moa is my only sire, Ezio. I would betray her. ”
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something like a barely concealed eyeroll is her response, though the smile still rests on her lips, soft in nature. if kassandra wouldn’t know it any better she’d believe herself to be utterly smitten with kua hale ( well, she was, but that was beside the point ). she manages to look innocent and sheepish, — hopes she does at least ‘ I couldn’t help myself. ’ she supplies, tongue rolling over her lips, catching the faint memory of his. what a dangerous game they played. but kassandra had never shied from anything dangerous before, had rather gravitated towards it, she’d always loved to play with fire. a grin tugs on her lips, somewhat destroys the sheepish expression she’d adopted ‘ a coffee shop? ’ she questions with a tilt of her head and an arched eyebrow.
she does like the sound of that, alas she likes it here too, likes the books, the low murmur of the crowd passing by. ‘ anything I want you say? ’ she reaches out, the pad of her thumb wiping a little smudge lipstick she’d left behind, from beneath his bottom lip. ‘ sounds very tempting. ’ gentle fingers tug the book from his grasp and open it, mindlessly flicking through pages, skimming over words. ‘ curious choice. ’ she remarks, looking up at him ‘ I had no idea that you are interested in the history of hawaiian monarchy. ’ she is, essentially, buying herself some time, not quite wanting to answer just yet.
the book eventually returns to it’s place and her eyes find his once more, holding them for a small eternity. not the first time she catches herself getting lost in his eyes. ‘ a coffee date then ’ she responds eventually, the smile on her lips only blooming ‘ do lead the way. ’
❛ &. ┊ The brush of a fingertip against a lower lip sets fire to sunkissed skin, the hairs on the back of a neck rising when the desire to close a mouth around the shape of a tongue arises -- and vanishes with the same suddenness. Every moment in her presence reminds him of the subtle wisp of otherwordliness that seemed to have settled in his bones when he first had caught sight of gentle, all-encompassing love. She doesn’t pale in comparison to the memory, isn’t meant to compare in the first place, and when mind settles on the realisation that she’s not genuinely interested in his choice of literature, can’t he help but offer a crooked grin nonetheless. The answer he gives is short-lived, self-evident. “ I’m Samoan, Kass. I’ve felt the need to... relearn my own history. ”
And with that perhaps find peace in the knowledge that not all his memories were irrevocably tinted by the presence of a woman who couldn’t die -- and couldn’t love him half as much as he loved her, either. Yet finds brain it difficult to focus on the past when the expression upon Kassandra’s gentle features prospers and the heart in his chest feels as though it might collapse under the weight that was her smile. For a moment cling hands onto the book once it’s back in his possession, only for one palm to loosen and wrap around his counterpart’s fingertips. A kiss is placed upon knuckles, old-schooled, emotionally withdrawn. But is it all the more wholesome when compared to the animalistic grasp his hand usually has around her throat; it’s gentle, warm. He cannot remember the last time he felt it necessary to woo a woman in quite such way but feels it worthwhile. She always does.
❛ &. ┊ “ You’re a sight today, has someone told you already? ” The compliment hardly hides, grin visible underneath a neatly groomed beard as he saunters, hand interlaced with her for a dangerously long amount of time, onto the main road.