@daily-writing-challenge August Day 7 8/17
Nahi got out of the strange bed in her shirt and underwear, well that was a good sign. Kyean was sprawled next to her, not a good sign. Her headached but she had worse hangovers in her life, she could even still see colors and wasn’t shrinking from what little light was coming through the blinds. Her shorts were folded on the dresser of the room and her shoes lined up perfectly by the door, something she did at home, another good sign. She picked them up, ready to sneak from the room, “Don’t you fucking dare.”
“I am going home, I have things to handle before the calamity.” She still was struggling with everything people were saying was coming, people always overreacted when these things came up, right? She had no choice though, she had family to think of.
With a quickness no man that was that big should have, he was up and an arm was wrapped around her waist tossing her back onto the bed. Oh her head, “I said, don’t you fucking dare.”
She started to get up again and became trapped as his head laid on her stomach as it had that night, that felt so long ago just earlier in the week, and now it felt like yesterday. “Asshole…” Sometime during the night, oh yes, not just sometime, it was when he started asking her about her life and she told him it was none of his business then he told her it was, she had begun adopting the cousins’ habit of calling each other that. It felt very appropriate though.
“We need to talk,” Kyean said simply, then lifted her hand and put it on his head so she could play with his hair like the night before the attack, something she was very much not going to do.
Nahi sighed and just relaxed, not like she could get him off her, “What is worth holding me prisoner?” She snapped the question but there was resignation, not fire, behind it.
He lifted his head to look at her, “Nahi, really? You can go if you want, but I would like to talk some things out with you.” His tone was suddenly reasonable, even if his weight still had her trapped.
“Who got me into bed last night?” This question actually meant a lot to her.
She could feel his breathing stop for a couple heartbeats, then he spoke, “Pathyn, the asshole said I wasn’t going to be near you when you were drunk enough to make bad decisions.” The whole night had been a bad decision it seemed.
‘Thank you Pathyn, if we see each other again I will make you cookies.’ Nahi calmed more and her fingers did start moving through his hair idly.
“My contact is in your comm unit.” Kyean said simply.
Nahi’s head lifted and she smacked his horn, “That is company property! How did you get it anyway?”
He paused and lifted his head too, surprised at her slap. “Not that one, the other one,”
Her private one for family, that was worse. “Who the FUCK told you that you could violate my privacy? How did you get it???” She yelled, “And where the FUCK are we anyway?”
“My cousin’s home in Azsuna. I thought it was best to have you somewhere you couldn’t escape so we could talk.” His tone was still reasonable, fel take it.
She was becoming more and more pissed off with every revelation. “Assholes, both of you are fucking assholes.” Well there went Path’s cookie reward.
He had the gall to chuckle, which earned him a smack to his head this time, ‘No more scalp massages asshole.’ There that totally told him from within her thoughts. “Yes actually, we both are at times. We saw you check that comm four times through the night, my sneaky ass cousin decided that he should check it so I didn’t go kill whatever booty call you were waiting for, so he slipped it from your bag. When you passed out in the diner on his shoulder, he programmed his comm link into it and then I made him put mine in.”
Fuck.. Fuck… Fuck….
“Nice invasion of privacy, I am going to kick both your asses.” Nahi grumbled. “I am deleting them.”
“He thought you might say that but he locked his with a code only he knows, he said you could delete mine, he didn’t care… asshole.” The next came out in a low, dangerous rumble, “Don’t delete it, because unless you block me I have yours.”
She calmed again, even his head was heavy and clearly fighting him was going to be useless. “I could stand on a chair,” Nahi said. There, a solution, good for her. “Wait, did you get me drunk so I would stay?”
A small shake of his head was her answer, “Oh no, you did that all on your own, and you have such interesting things to say. Where are you going today that almost made you cry? Do you want me to go?”
Fuck.. Fuck… Fuck…. Fuck….
That made her smirk down at him, she remembered in practice, when she almost dropped a bottle on her foot he reached across the bar and caught it, Pathyn leaned in and whispered, ‘Illi-daddy.’ Which made her dissolve into a giggle fit. “None of your fucking business…”
“I can help Nahi, no one is going to bother you if I am there.” This is exactly what she didn’t want in her life. Why had she thought intimacy was missing? This is what manifests when you think something hard enough.
Her fingers found their way back into his hair, betrayers. “Not unless you are an attorney, or accountant, you can’t.”
He grinned at her wickedly, those dangerous fangs catching the little light from around the curtains. Illidari did that on purpose she bet, just another way to show how big and bad they were… oooh… scary... Alright maybe she did have more of a hangover than she thought, as she lifted her head. “I am an assistant for an attorney, I draft documents perfectly.”
“Asshole…” He deserved that one because she had started laughing at the image.
His grin turned from wicked to smug, but then he got serious, “Look, shit is about to go down. As you said last night, we don’t know what is going to happen or how bad it will be. If you hadn’t said you were already leaving the city I would have kidnapped you to somewhere further than Azsuna.”
Point for Nahi there. “See, you did kidnap me…”
Fuck.. Fuck… Fuck.… Fuck….. Fuck……
He kept grinning, “Technically Pathyn did, but that is not the point. He and I are both bad asses, for real, like ‘fighting for 5,000 plus years’ brand of bad ass.I am going to check in on you, and he plans on it too. Pretty sure even if I wasn’t going to, he still would. I might be jealous but he said he wouldn’t even fuck you if you asked.”
“Wait… why? Not the checking in point I get your ‘protect your sudden crush’ complex, but why wouldn’t he fuck me?” She was kind of hurt by that.
From outside the room Pathyn spoke loudly, “Because you already fuck too many assholes and I didn’t even know about Kyean, the biggest asshole of all.”
Nahi started giggling at the same time Kyean barked, “Shut up, why are you awake anyway?” Then she placed a finger on her lips, “Shhhh hangover.”
“Because you made her yell at you. Who could sleep?” Path replied, “I have coffee and breakfast started for the hangover. Also, Kyean did not kidnap you, I did.”
“Asshole…” She grumbled.
“You bet I am Nahi, take pride in it too. Kyean and I have asshole off contests, he always wins though.” he said, amazingly chipper for this early, bar staff and Kaldorei kept the same hours she did, didn’t they? It was too early for this. ‘Fuck them both.’ A statement which would be more believable, even in her mind, if she wasn’t laughing
“Sorry, I won’t yell if you don’t.” the big headed man laying on her said. When had she allowed him into getting this close? Oh yeah about an hour into her practice when he showed up with a ton of fried food she started giving him a pass on certain things, not kidnapping though, clearly.
“I bet you helped him kidnap me, he is too nice to do such things.” She needed to blame the Illidari, so she grumbled at him. Nahi couldn't really be mad though, and her hangover hurt too much to physically fight, besides the fact she didn’t have enough training to manage a single attack that wasn’t slapping his head right now.
He chuckled and laid his head back down on her stomach. “I didn’t stop him, if that counts.”
Nahi closed her eyes and played with his hair more, “It does count, another black mark against you in my book.”
“Make it fel green, and you have a book? Should I be jealous? How many fel green marks do I have already?” If he was the jealous type he would definitely be, if she kept such a book.
“You have no reason to be jealous, we aren’t dating or anything, we fucked once.” She paused like she just realized he had slept with her, “Just once right?”
He gave another of those sexy chuckles, “If we do it again it won’t be when you are passed out and you WILL remember it.”
Fuck.. Fuck… Fuck.… Fuck….. Fuck…… Fuck…….
Nahi sighed, he was impossible, “I will continue to fuck who I want, I might even find someone I want to keep around more than a night. You have no hold over me Kyean. Sticking your nose into my business does not make us a thing, in fact, it makes us less of a thing. I don’t want anyone bossing me around, forcing me to do things.” Alright that was a downright lie, but he didn’t need a reminder of that, yet he lifted his head to look at her with a dubious expression so she just went on while ignoring that look, “Trying to control me.” Oops. Yeah, That one was not the context she meant it in. “I am a big girl, I don’t need you to play hero, or be my daddy, or fuck with my life in any way.” She meant that daddy completely.
“You are taking this wrong Nahi,” he spoke lowly and laid his head back on her. “For years now I have had so much guilt about leaving you that night. Brat or not, we had just spent some glorious time together and I just went back to the temple. I felt I should have stayed and helped. Not just you, but more people. Your Prince was a dick, but those of you there didn’t have to pay like you did. What happened to your mother?”
Damn she talked a lot to these two when she was drunk, even her mind had betrayed her. “You felt bad about that night and focused it on me Kyean. I am your misplaced emotional baggage.” That was a brutal, bitchy thing to say but she was sure she was right, mostly. She couldn’t be sure of how he felt, but that made more sense to her than the possibility he had formed an attachment to her directly in the time they enjoyed, he said so himself. “She got hit in the head that night and has slowly been deteriorating since.”
That made him pause, way to add to his guilt there Nahi. “You are probably right, but seeing you made me feel like shit.”
“Gee thanks,” she said snarkily.
“Stop it,” he said, his tone firm. “I thought you dead, then there you were alive, and thriving, all my feelings about that night rushed back. All my memories flashed back, all centered on you, on us. I have spent years pissed off at myself about leaving you, then there you were and you were essentially flipping me off at every turn.”
Nahilvi gave a baby shake of her head, “You were being a dick, you deserved it.” No affectionate use of asshole there.
“He did!” Path chimed in making her laugh again, thanks to the Light for him, or she might be having a worse reaction to all this.
“Shut up,” Kyean said, no reason to yell since Pathyn could hear them anyway she supposed, and her head was very grateful for it.
She sighed and blew a curl off her forehead, “Look Kyean, I kind of understand what you might be feeling and I empathize with it, but it was not your fault mother got hurt, or what has happened since. We got out safe and I didn’t, don’t, need a savior in my life. I get it, now you want to protect me like you couldn’t then, but I don’t need that kind of babysitting. Go find a girl that wants the big, bad hero. Now, please let me up. I want breakfast.”
After a way too long silence he let her up, so why didn’t it feel like a victory?
