Once Dead King

Metis. Once upon a time, I died.

[valselune]

Well then Aurel can do polite, as well! After all, he may be more or less allied with Adelaide after the War, but he’s more or less allied with everyone, and has a decidedly careless attitude about shifts in power outside his Clan.

Metis, found a way to stoke the flames, I see. That’s as close as you’re going to get to a welcome back, take it and run with it.

[incendiummetis]

"Always." He nearly made a joke. Nearly. He's also curious to know where Aurel stands. (After all, Honey's on Metis's side, and no one's on Argent's side.) But for now, he'll just tip his head and smile.

[frigidknight]

Fresh air is good for your circulation.

[ …Says about the only real human with real circulation in a coven full of undead blood-drinkers. Yeah, that makes sense. Really, I think Winter’s just dead inside at this point if this is how he reacts to this sort of thing. ]

Define newest, Mr. Metis. I think you’ve been dead a little longer than you think you have been.

[incendiummetis]

And we won't break the house if we end up fighting. I wouldn't want Adelaide to bitch again. 

[Metis is just rolling with this. And smirking. Which grows wider and the next statement.]

Even when I was training her she went through pets like a normal woman goes through shoes. You're not the first. 

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

You are darling.

[incendiummetis]

Only the best for my Queen.

[frigidknight]

+ incendiummetis

[frigidknight]

As if we needed any more complications in this climate.

—I’m not supposed to let you in, by the way.

[ But, you could come in anyway. Give Winter a chance to work off this aggression by turning the room into a snowstorm— or more likely, a chance to hear out whatever you have to say with an expression of utmost contempt. ]

[incendiummetis]

I'm sure you have bigger problems than me. Like the fact that you don't have a door.

That's fine. I was just scoping out Adelaide's newest pet.

[Hey Winter. You're still missing a door. Also Metis is a bitch and he's just gonna laugh.]

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

The things you say, drive me crazy.

[incendiummetis]

I'll give you and Vi a part to run as well.

[incendiummetis]

I'm going to tear her apart.

[thebloodredqueen]

GET OUT!  I’ve killed you once don’t think for a second that I won’t do it again, even if I requires taking Crowley down myself I will fucking burn you.

[incendiummetis]

How cute. 

[magpiemagician-archive-blog]

incendiummetis volgt je nu

[magpiemagician-archive-blog]

Woah.

[ Dead guy walking alert, dead guy walking alert. Abort mission, y/n? ]

…So I finally cut my hair?

[incendiummetis]

Too bad. The longer hair looked good on you.

[Metis will just wait for you to mention him being dead.]

[incendiummetis]

valselune started following you

Aurel. It's nice to see you again.

[Hey look, he's being polite!]

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

Oh don’t do that.

Upsetting the little balance— the Knightsbane might take her side. And then where would you and me be. Grow, separately at first. Her mediocre mageling, is not a pretty one to fight he is frigid.

[incendiummetis]

She took another mage?

[The level of disgust he feels is amazing. Honestly amazing.]

Yes, however,I'm sure I could win on the clause of her killing me.

Aurel's still around?

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

…Well. That’s good.

What are the plans you’re having now, that you’re alive. Are you going to go see her.

[incendiummetis]

She's the reason I died in the first place.

The only reason I'll be seeing her is to inform her that I intend on taking my place again.

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

Of course we do.

Wherever there are desperate people, that is the place where Aleister Crowley is. He will sell you anything you could possibly want.

[ Sold Honey immortality, for the price of his sense of self and his stunted ability to love. So. ]

…Are you okay Metis.

[incendiummetis]

[He's just gonna stand here? He...he has no idea how he feels. There's a lot of confused. He knows that.]

I...

I think so?

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

Oh, what a lucky one.

What I did though. About three years ago, with Crowley. The name and the heart to not die like you did.

[ And finally, he can say that to someone who understands the gravity of just what a desperate, last-ditch attempt that deal was. Your name is your entire sense of being, is a crucial component in your magic, is basically your soul— that’s why magicals have codenames in the first place. ]

[incendiummetis]

[For a moment, he's dead silent. No pun intended.]

...Well.

It looks like we have someone in common.

[incendiummetis]

balancethelines started following you

I'm Metis. Can I help you?

[Metis, way to be stupidly smooth and ask zero questions.]

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

[ Oh dear. This mushy heartache feeling isn’t a flutter Honey’s had in a while, is it. ]

Nothing too worth losing I am hoping.

I think I must have made a deal after you died but, it is a cautionary tale.

…Oh, Metis.

[incendiummetis]

Just a lung and some other things. I've still got my magic so.

What'd you do? gosh, I can't turn my back for a minute can I?

[There's some more grinning.]

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

Death is a big ocean, stupid. It is not a line that can be crossed so easily you know.

[ Oh, you beautiful thing. You’re alive. I’ve never seen Honey hold such a visceral reaction to another person, but he still has his hands on Metis’ face, casting eyes that used to be green across the features he hadn’t forgotten a speck of. ]

What a deal must have been made. You look just alike to how you used to.

[incendiummetis]

Hey, I come back from the dead and you insult me? Gosh.

[Except he's so utterly pleased with himself that he's just got to grin, and maybe kiss your nose?]

Well, I may look the same, but I'm down a few things.

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

incendiummetis let the sky fall

[chalkdustprophets-archive]

—…?

[ Is that— it is. That’s him. ]

[ Well, I know who bounded the three steps it took to bring him level with a dead man, reaching down to put hands on either side of his face and kiss him, just once, on the mouth. ]

[incendiummetis]

[There may be a smile. A small one, but there all the same.]

Glad to see someone missed me.