[3rd Long] Evan Issac, Raven (Stan Marsh), and eventually Josh Myers
Summary: Raven returns to the dorm after a particular IM conversation with Henrietta only to find Evan there. After a few days of little interaction, they finally begin to talk, albeit things go from civil talk to sexual to fighting to sadistic pretty fast. Before they know it, Raven's pushed a little too far, too deep and needs rescuing from certain death from a certain TP loving roommate.
Takes Place: Friday, August 17th, evening.
Raven
Raven pushed casually through the dorm door, a twig or two still caught, a mess, on his black hair and dark clothing. He was in the middle of taking a drag on his cigarette, shoving idly through the room in the same large combat boots, dark pants and shirt he'd been wearing since he'd arrived; without a word tossing himself onto "Stanley's" old bed, propping his feet at the far end and not bothering to put the cigarette out. The boy honestly didn't seem to care who he disturbed, albeit glancing to the side to try and catch sight of either Dylan or Evan. It had honestly been a hectic hell of a couple of days, and not something he was at all enjoying. Not in a conformist dirtbag hell like this. Still, he'd just finished talking with Henri, and he was trying...at least. To make some kind of difference. Some sort of change.
Evan Issac
As to be expected, Evan was keeping a low profile in the shitty darkness that was the Ron Jeremy dormitory. The young man was not a stranger to reverting to hermit tendencies when he was not up to making life more miserable for the conformists. Currently, he was alone, Dylan elsewhere. He had been drifting in and out of sleep, feeling particularly lethargic. The sound of another entering the room caused Evan to stir, his frigid eyes opening in the dark. His bleary gaze took note of Raven on the nearby bed. "Come to lick at my heels, killer?" he greeted before yawning, not bothering to cover his mouth.
Raven
Raven took a rather long drag, as if letting Evan stew on the second before answering. When he did, it was dull, hinted on a slight of irritation. "Lick at your heels? Seems in this conformist hell you already have Dylan for that nonsense." As he spoke, a waft of smoke poured out between his teeth, the boy looking off darkly without turning to his dormmate. The only other one there for the moment, it seemed. "Or am I wrong? Guess you could always find someone else." He seemed particularly bitter about something, but didn't speak up on the subject, also keeping his tone somewhat smooth.
Evan Issac
"Aren't you all my droogs?" Evan asked, his voice its typical monotone. It was difficult to tell whether he was serious, but the answer was probably not, and the terminology came from a book Evan was actually partial to. "Yeah, everyone and everything's disposable. Everything fades and dies. Nothing's meant to last." Slowly, Evan sat up and stretched his long limbs on the small twin-sized bed.
Raven
"Droogs? The hell is that." He scrunched his nose slightly, seemingly in still an amount of bitter distaste. Eventually he sideglancing to the taller goth, the boy still continuing to appear on the same griping irritation. "But no. I'm not your anything, you damn shit. The fuck would I ever be."
Evan Issac
"Never mind," Evan replied, rubbing his eyes in an effort to get the sleep out of them. Once he felt a bit more awake, he took a sluggish look at Raven. "Oh, the abuse. I feel so at home," he said in a biting tone. Ironically, the language did remind him of his father. "Was that the status quo in your world?"
Raven
Raven stiffened slightly, looking off. He fell on a pause, still not turning to look over to Evan, gaze turning hard. "...No. Not exactly."
Evan Issac
"You certainly are wounded by our past encounter," Evan pointed out bluntly. "Tell me about us in your world, killer."
Raven
"Whatever..." He dismissed, but his gaze did eventually slide in the other's direction, taking him in, his own face shadowed only on the light of his cigarette. "We were. Roommates." He glanced away, as if indifferent. "Above a shop. Some comformist coffee place. What's there to tell?"
Evan Issac
"You tell me," Evan implored. He reached in the nightstand's nearby drawer and pulled out a pack of black-papered cigarettes. They were not as good as Djarum Blacks, but they were a cheap imitation with his name attached to them--something he had picked up at Beiber Fest at one of the gift shops. They were coffee flavored rather than cotton candy like the Gaga Sticks. "Sounds like a whole story."
Raven
Raven studied the other dully, in an edge of uncertain suspicion, as if not quite being certain on the other goth's motives. Eventually, not breaking his stiff gaze, he shrugged. "When I was nine I became Raven. Left Stanley behind and never went back." He shifted his gaze, staring out in front of him instead and taking another slow drag on his cigarette, as if thinking. "...I guess I've been Raven ever since. What's there to say. We hung out. We fought conformist assholes. Eventually you and me ended up with conformist jobs to try and pay for a place."
Evan Issac
Evan lit his cigarette with his cheap lighter and took a few puffs to get it going, listening to Raven as he spoke. "Wow, so you did not run away to your sunshine fairy tale," he commented, though his voice did not sound interested. "Selling out for a semblance of freedom. Yeah, sounds familiar," Evan decided. "Then you inexplicably ended up here?" He held Raven's gaze the entire time.
Raven
The boy seemed particularly annoyed at the "selling out for sunshine fairy tale bit," but shrugged regardless. "Pretty much. Yea." He seemed to hold on a frown, still as if on his own thoughts. "...it's different, isn't it. This hell hole. Like a rotting conformist prison, a world built in lies devoted to pop idol conformist and corporate culture. Even us, dancing just for the rapt audience to fall in line..." He paused, still looking off, studying the opposite wall and idly tapping ash off his cigarette. "...Henri seems to think we should be giving these other conformists, McCormick, Judas, Mole, some kind of chance. Some kind of...something. Like this hellhole has some worth."
Evan Issac
Evan took an exceptionally long drag, exhaling a cloud of smoke above his head. His attention turned to it, seeming more interested in the way the smoke moved than Stan's face. "Different? Everywhere is hell. Here, you're just on a shorter leash and it's more obvious." Evan digested that bit about Henrietta, taking another puff. "And what are your thoughts on that? Do you think Henrietta's being a slave to some kind of maternal instincts?"
Raven
He shrugged, "I think she's trying to....survive here. Or something." He stretched out on the bed slightly, staring blankly at the ceiling instead. "Kindergoth too seems pretty....into. That wedding."
Evan Issac
"Now that's just bullshit," Evan said very frankly. He put his mouth on his cigarette again. It really was amazing to be smoking something beside sugary garbage. "Are you going to get married?" he asked in a biting way.
Raven
He grinned, more on a dull, bitter note. "Marriage and relationships are for conformists."
Evan Issac
Now Evan's icy gaze connected with Stan's. "Therefore, Kindergoth is displaying characteristics that make her appear like one of the conformists. See how that logic works?"
Raven
His eyes shifted toward Evan's and he looked at him for a good moment. "....She says it's apart of her plan. Manipulate the lemmings to take over."
Evan Issac
"Sounds like a bullshit artist's fabrication to me," Evan offered before taking another drag of his cigarettes. "She's playing with fire. It's more likely she'll become one of them with that mentality."
Raven
Raven shrugged, glancing off again.. "Yea, well. Whatever. She said we had to do what we can to survive. Henri said something similar."
Evan Issac
"Surviving... Now that's a human instinct," Evan informed Raven. He tapped some ash lazily onto the floor. "Wouldn't you rather succumb to decay?"
Raven
He seemed to linger on a pause again, but the goth relaxed somewhat. As if more accustomed, used to this kind of discussion. Not like Hen's and his conversation. Not like the last few he'd been given. Even Kindergoth's promise of darkness seemed to involve so much giving into conforming, involve things that went against every instinct he had. "...So you don't think we should be changing?"
Evan Issac
The strangest thing happened to Evan. A soft, dark chortle actually left his mouth. He could not recollect the last time he did something that remotely resembled laughter. He shook his head, taking another drag from his cigarette before responding verbally. "No, I don't. Destroy yourself with dignity, Raven."
Raven
The boy frowned, stubbing his cigarette, finally, on the bedside table next to him, dark gaze settling again against Evan. He seemed to think on this for a second before turning his gaze again back to the ceiling and pushing his arms behind his head. "Yea....and make the conformists miserable."
Evan Issac
Evan's usual pokerface returned to him quickly. His gaze flitted towards Stan. "That's a tune we can both sing," he concurred, putting the cigarette to his lips again. "Someone has their priorities in order for once."
Raven
Again, this seemed along a completely different "tune" than Hen had been singing. Raven, still staring off against the ceiling dully, giving another disinterested shrug. "Is that how you've been living here?"
Evan Issac
Evan finished his cigarette, snuffing it out in the nearby ash tray. "I wouldn't say live. Exist. Waste time. Something less productive," he decided.
Raven
The goth nodded, as if in some form on understanding. "Yea. Sounds familair." He spoke dully and eventually turned over, idly grabbing a bottle of Jack Daniel's and bringing it onto the bed. "Basically like home."
Evan Issac
The smallest of smirks crept up onto Evan's lips. He rolled over onto his side, watching Stan with a bit more ease from this angle. "You found home with me, killer?"
Raven
"Raven." He said, on an automatic note, eyes narrowing slightly, "And what if I did." His voice was more dark as if preparing on a fight, or on the brink of a challenge.
Evan Issac
"It's endearing," Evan remarked in a sardonic sort of voice. "Tell me about 'your' Evan."
Raven
He twitched on a humoring, dark slight smile, untwisting the bottle in his hands. "He was apathetic. Knew how the world worked. And was a complete asshole."
Evan Issac
"So he did not differ from me much? Or would you disagree with that notion?" Evan inquired, continuing to watch Stan.
Raven
He shrugged. "I don't exactly know you yet, do I. But from what I can tell...all of you have...striking similarities."
Evan Issac
"Even Fuchsia?" Evan wondered idly. His version of Dylan had been completely different.
Raven
He snorted somewhat, giving still to that grin. "Well...no. Not really Dylan. He seems...different. Consorting with Judas, for one. And...less defensive, less..." He wasn't sure what the word was exactly. "....impulsive."
Evan Issac
"I had an inkling," Evan remarked. Even though Dylan was not what he had been expecting, there was something oddly satisfying about the teen not conforming to any other versions of himself. "Judas has nothing to offer."
Raven
"Judas is a wannabe cheerleader whore who would take it over the table from anyone." He said, just as dully, as if this was something on a statement of fact.
Evan Issac
"And would you play with him?" Evan asked, sounding bored despite being mildly interested in reality.
Raven
He gave something on a darker expression. "He would probably enjoy it. Judas is completely delusional. He believes I'm his born again lover, brain washed into not caring about him. Having trouble letting go of his loser conformist fag, "Stanely"."
Evan Issac
Evan could not dismiss those notions himself. There was something faint in those green eyes that seemed ridiculously familiar. He patted the bit of space on the twin-sized bed. "Here, killer. C'mere."
Raven
He glanced over, seemingly as if uncertain, on a hint of suspicious. "Why."
Evan Issac
"Because," Evan supplied unhelpfully. He patted the spot again.
Raven
Raven held a suspicious look, but eventually, he relented. Stepping off onto the space between their beds and setting the rum on the bedside table next to him, he stood for a second before, unimpressed, pulling himself onto the bed.
Evan Issac
"Now, I know you're not some dime store whore like Judas, but surely you have needs," Evan began, his hand creeping up to the hem of Raven's dark t-shirt. "Sound accurate?"
Raven
The boy snorted slightly. He seemed somewhat uncomfortable, looking to Evan, expression holding on dark. "Whatever. I get my needs met."
Evan Issac
Evan kept his stoic face but stared into Raven's eyes with no regard for any possible repercussions. "Do you? When was the last time?"
Raven
He studied the other on a good moment, expression remaining in the same stiffness. "Dylan. Back in my world." He replied, dully. "About two weeks ago."
Evan Issac
"Did we fuck each other's pain away?" Evan asked. His spindly fingers spidered their way underneath Raven's dark t-shirt, the tips touching Raven's flat stomach.
Raven
"...On occasion." He admitted, just as dully, holding his gaze and the boy tensed as Evan's fingers eventually moved beneath his shirt.
Evan Issac
"Tell me about the thoughts that went through your head," Evan implored, his fingers coaxingly continuing to caress Raven's skin. He kept staring at the other like he may have been waiting for a green light.
Raven
Raven didn't shove the other off of him, the goth making no movements one way or the other. He stared, dully, responding in a flat note. "...When we fucked? Why would you want to know that."
Evan Issac
"Curiosity," Evan supplied simply, continuing to state at Raven. He rested his hand on the boy's stomach underneath his shirt for the moment.
Raven
And Raven stared back, just as blankly, darkly. "....I don't know." He finally admitted, albeit it was a lie - not breaking his gaze either, still as if trying to decipher Evan's motives.
Evan Issac
"Do I have to test this somehow?" Evan wondered, his hand creeping up higher. He stopped on Raven's chest, fingertips idly circling the teen's right nipple from underneath his shirt. His gaze remained fixated on Raven.
Raven
He still didn't resist Evan's touch, but nor did he fall into it. His eyes fixating on the other boy, for his impression, not reacting beyond a short tension while Evan's finger flickered over his chest; gaze dull and unaffected as ever. "Why don't you try it." He eventually, perhaps on a final note, challenged darkly, still seemingly studying the older boy.
Evan Issac
Evan did not require an invitation engraved in stone. Incidentally, he usually just took what he wanted. He closed the space between their lips, not wasting any time as he nipped down on Raven's lower one, his eyes falling shut. His spindly fingers tweaked the boy's nipple.
Raven
Raven wasn't exactly the epitome of Stanley Marsh. At even the intrusion of their lips touching, he forced back, moving his head up to roughly catch Evan in on the kiss. He felt familair in the situation, and it showed, pushing back on some force and groaning in a growl into the other biting down at his lower lip, dark eyes shifting in to look on Evan's face. His reaction was clear despite the dullness in tone, even in the darker manner in which he took the older boy in, a hand slipping up the other's shirt to touch, grasping in on the older goth's colder skin.
Evan Issac
The jerky movements did not catch Evan off guard, but the roughness was a bit new to him. The sunshine he was accustomed to did not kiss like that, nor did he ever growl. Evan forced his tongue into Raven's mouth, his skin starting to heat up some against Raven's wandering hand. His own began to trail lower again, settling on the boy's hip.
Raven
The boy smiled instead of disgusted in the force Evan exhibited, allowing Evan's tongue to explore the inside of his mouth without question, nails digging in on the other's chest. Abruptly the goth attempted to shove the other off to the side of the bed while still against him as if a force of a simple game of dominence. Apparently one he, much unlike Stan, enjoyed to play.
Evan Issac
Evan's cold tongue stud flicked against Raven's tongue as the pair of them shared a heated kiss. The shove from the younger boy made Evan push back instinctively. Now he was making an effort at getting on top of Raven, hands reaching out to pin the boy's arms.
Raven
He didn't mind. In fact, he was used to this. The taste, the flavor and pinch on struggle; perhaps only one of the things in life that shot some form of feeling and interest, made him more than apathetic and distant. His eyes, dull and near on mirth, fixated still on the other, genuinely giving in on a taut grin as Evan pinned his arms down, looking up into the other's dark eyes. "So...Tell me. Do you play with Dylan like this?" He asked, still in a dark manner of taunting the other, as if unable to resist.
Evan Issac
Evan straddled on top of Raven's hips. He kept the other's arms pinned firmly, looking down at the other. The rogue grin on Raven's lips prompted a tiny smirk to show in turn on Evan's lips. "You never answered my questions about your thoughts, killer," he countered, squeezing onto Raven's wrists a bit roughly.
Raven
His exprssion seemed more amused on anything as he looked up at the other, studying him. Evan wanted to know about his thoughts? He grinned, not resisting on any measure as Evan stradled him, in fact seeming at this point quite relaxed in this game of cat and mouse. "You want my thoughts? What is it you're looking for, Evan. Do you want to be what's in my thoughts right now, Issac?"
Evan Issac
"You're painting me to be particularly narcissitic, Raven," Evan pointed out, looking down at the other with his cold gaze. Some of his own playfulness seemed to fade, his expression returning to its typical stoic nature. His hands released Raven's wrists and trailed down, lifting the other's shirt up to his chest. His eyes took in all the details of the other's abdomen, and he leaned down, running his tongue against Raven's navel, piercing cold against the boy's mostly smooth flesh. Evan noticed some scarring from old bullet wounds, and that confirmed everything he wanted to know.
Raven
He tilted his head, as if oddly placated by Evan's reaction, satisfied on some odd disturbing level, studying him in a cold distance. But as soon as Evan bent over the usual secret thrill ran through him, dark and dangerous, and on some level, he embraced the memory of each other time in his past, heat a flush in his mind.
If it were in all honesty he had no idea what Evan thought of him, pushing his buttons because he knew he could. He had no idea what kind of person Evan was looking for or the reality of what his own thoughts that sped in his own mind, captured and lost behind dark, promently chilled green eyes. His hands went to try and work the hem at the bottom of Evan's own shirt, tugging it up in some attempt to get the clothing off. He was okay in playing the sumbmissive for the moment, but he desperately wanted to know more. Not just the taste and feel and feeling, the pain that dulled the senses, but who Evan had become, who he was, what kind of person this Evan achieved even to be. In his world, that had been everything. And in his thoughts - it had usually been the other, even in his every day motivation. Raven was angry, typically, and it showed bitter and taunting in the cold gaze he offered to the opposing goth.
Evan Issac
The tugging on the back of his own shirt alerted Evan that Raven did not want to be alone in this level of nakedness. The odd thing was that Evan was not all that horny for once; the whole act had been a ploy to see underneath Raven's shirt to prove that this person was still Miss Stanley Sunshine. His body was there even if his mind was not. Evan straightened up, his tall frame looming over Raven's smaller one. He remained straddled on the boy's hips. "Have something to say?" Evan asked, his hands settling on Raven's to stop him from tugging his shirt completely off.
Raven
Raven's gaze flickered dark back up to Evan, tilting his head slightly on the dark of the room. He caught in on the other boy's expression, a frown slowly creasing his lips. "....What?" He asked, dully, gaze unwavering from the other goth.
Evan Issac
"Nothing." Evan rolled off of him and laid on his back. If Raven was not going to bother to talk, he was not going to put effort forward in playing with him. If the other came to him, then it would be a different story. But right now Evan was lacking ambition.
Raven
Raven lay there a second, looking as if on confused. He managed in silence for a few moments before finally speaking up, eyes on the ceiling. "....What was that." He turned his head, still dully, frowning at the other.
Evan Issac
Evan shut his eyes. He almost seemed tired at the moment. "Your wet dream," he answered in a sardonic fashion, not seeming to care about his stray dog at the moment.
Raven
He paused, still laying there. "You know what I mean." His voice held the same firm, dull note, eyes still focused on the other.
Evan Issac
"No, I don't. Why don't you waste some time elaborating for me?" Evan asked lazily. He turned away from the other and face the wall, resting on his side.
Raven
Raven continued to frown, laying there a second, studying the back of Evan's head on the darkness. "...What. You offended...?"
Evan Issac
"I'm tired," Evan supplied. The excuse was probably hard to believe since the goth wasted most of his time laying around in the dark and doing nothing. "Go bark at some conformists."
Raven
Raven continued looking at the other. It wasn't exactly difficult to figure that as a lie, but then it seemed like more of the point of it. "...Whatever." He eventually spoke, gruff, grudging. "Was it Dylan?"
Evan Issac
"Was what Fuchsia?" Evan asked, not bothering to give Raven a glance as he continued to lie there.
Raven
"Or is because I'm still "Sunshine"." He spoke, just as dully, not giving a direct answer; instead being rather blunt.
Evan Issac
"If you want attention, you're going to have to start humping my leg," Evan stated just as bluntly in return. "Like the dog you are, killer." He did not answer that question of Raven's directly.
Raven
"So it is." He spoke dryly, seeming on a tone of miffed, gaze narrowing at the cieling. "You're still thinking of him."
Evan Issac
"Come on, boy. Beg for me," Evan said in a biting and mocking way, still not truly acknowledging what Raven was saying about Stan.
Raven
"...You like him." He deadpanned, eventually, not seeming to be paying attention either on what Evan was trying to mock at him; voice blatant as his gaze remains, narrowed, at the cieling. "...Tell me. Do you love him?"
Evan Issac
Evan suddenly turned around. He actually pulled on Raven's shirt violently, bringing the other in close. "Love has been dead for a long time," he informed coldly, his stoic face actually turning dark.
Raven
Raven stared up, despite the abrupt change in the older goth, his own gaze remained fairly calm and dull; albeit it flickered in a hint of surpris. He held the other's expression on the dark, laying there. It would be impossible to miss the warning in Evan's eyes. "Dead?" He couldn't help himself, voice flat, "Is that so. Do you think he loved you?"
Evan Issac
This stray dog was out of line; he needed to be put down. Evan's hands griped tighter onto Raven's t-shirt. He was holding on so tight that his knuckles were turning white. It was rare to envoke any emotion in Evan. Right now, he was actually feeling alive with a terrible anger. He narrowed his eyes. "I said: Love. Is. Dead. You of all people know what that entails," he hissed. "Are you really insinatuing that I let my guard down for a sunshine fag?"
Raven
A sly smirk crept onto Raven's face, studying the other still, as if impressed, not bothering on raising his arms or fighting back from where he'd let them lay; gaze frigid. "I'm insinatuing you found true love. Do you see him in my face?"
Evan Issac
Evan was absolutely livid. He actually clenched his fist tight and hit Raven as hard as he could in the jaw. Then he shoved the other off of the bed. "Get out."
Raven
He'd been expecting the punch. And it came, leaving the taste of blood, thick, in his mouth. When he was shoved out of the bed, he fell to the ground with a thud, pushing himself to his feet like any fight with a wipe of his arm to the blood edging from the corner of his mouth. "You do. Don't you." He grinned on that in a show of red teeth, but his eyes were fairly dead and expressionless, standing on a slight hunch between his and Evan's bed.
Evan Issac
The fact that Raven was still here egged Evan on to a further extent. His body was rigid with tension and his hands were still clenched into tight fists. His cold blue eyes were shooting daggers into Raven's venemous green gaze. Evan honestly looked like he wanted to kill Raven at that point. "GET. OUT," he warned for the last time through gritted teeth.
Raven
Raven wasn't moving. In fact, that just seemed to push on his amusement, a dribble of blood spilling thickly on his chin as he laughed, a soft, vulgar kind of sound. "Oh? You want me out, Issac? What happened. Missing your little gay boyfriend? Tell me, what was he like in bed?"
Evan Issac
"I don't have boyfriends! EVER!" Evan snapped, rising from the bed. His height may have been somewhat intimidating, but he was horribly thin and lacked muscle. "I don't believe in those monogamous, fag fairy tales," he growled, shoving Raven as hard as he could. He was making an effort at pushing him out the front door.
Raven
Raven didn't just up and let him push him out. On the first few shoves, he was already throwing his own punch in a flash, straight up to Evan's jaw with a surprisingly strong force on anger.
Evan Issac
Now Evan was bleeding again when Raven's metal knuckles connected with his flesh yet again. He knew he did not have enough muscle to make the other leave, but he wanted him out so badly. Head reeling from the pain, he glared darkly at Raven. "Out," he ordered curtly again, giving the teen another rough shove.
Raven
Raven stood there on a heated breath, the anger vivid, clear, for the first time on his gaze, in his stance, reeling in every motion. "No, fuck you." He bit, abruptly, shoving Evan back as if on a heated second, and shoving hard. "You think this is easy? Getting tossed from one of you to the other like some kind of yesterday's left overs?" He shoved again, just as hard, the anger spiking against those eyes, almost on a childish, but venomous demeanor, blood spraying slightly as he talked. "You're little sunshine fag is gone you motherfucker. He's gone and you have to deal with that."
Evan Issac
Evan flinched with the other's harsh pushes. Nobody usually defied him to such an extent (perhaps Georgie, though that was different. Evan never usually became so livid with rage). Some of the blood from Raven's mouth splashed onto his pale skin. He kept glaring at Raven like he wanted the other to drop dead. Then he made an attempt at retreat, walking past the boy and heading for the door. Evan kept silent.
Raven
"What, are you going to run from me? Seriously?" Raven bit, barking after the boy as he pushed passed him, throwing his arms against the air. "Are you scared, Evan?"
Evan Issac
"Fuck off," Evan ordered, opening the door and not acknowledging the latter question.
Raven
A scowl went deep on Raven's face, and he pushed off, following and tailing after the other boy.
Evan Issac
Evan stopped abruptly at the door. He turned around sharply and glared at Raven. "Don't follow me," he implored in a firm and bitter voice.
Raven
Raven stopped, stubbornly, standing not too far from the other goth. He glared up at him. "Why? Can't handle being around me?"
Evan Issac
"When I tell you to fuck off, it means that I want to be left alone," Evan reminded, glaring down at Raven.
Raven
Raven continued to glare at Evan, looking fairly heated and stuborn, holding his eyes to the other goth's for a good moment intensely. After the second, eventually, he turned the burning look away. "....Yea. Yea, fine." He turned around, "Go out and cry over your fairy tale prince, Issac."
Evan Issac
The remark was not what Evan needed to hear right now. Even though Raven had his back turned, it did not stop Evan from punching Raven in the back of the head as hard as he could manage. He was hoping the other would go down and lose consciousness despite hope being dead. Misfortune and misery were all Evan could count on.
Raven
He went down. In a flash, head crashing on the floor and blood still filling in his mouth, spraying the carpet. Raven gave a scowl, somewhere between a growl and a grunt as he shifted somewhat, disoriented on an attempt to recover from the sudden blow. He laughed, weakly, something fairly soft, despite this, not looking up as he attempted to push on both arms gingerly against the ground. "What's the matter...? Too heartbroken to try and move on, Issac?" He turned a fierce green eye on Evan's from the floor, back still to the other; smirking bitterly. "Maybe we can mess around again and I can pretend to be him."
Evan Issac
Evan wished he could have hit harder, still in a white-hot fury. He was actually so angry that his body was beginning to tremble slightly. He could hardly remember a time where he felt like this. It was likely before Evan gave up on life. He was completely uncomfortable. "You just love hearing yourself yap and yap, don't you, killer?" Evan kicked Raven in the side, not wanting the other to get up from the floor. "Wake up and smell the coffee: I don't believe in fairy tales. The end."
Raven
"Hahah..." He was actually laughing, chuckling in against the rug even as Evan's boot connected to his side. "Oh...oh, yes, and that's exactly why you're so livid." He grinned, breathing out the words in pained, knowing demeanor.
Evan Issac
"Shut the fuck up," Evan ordered, drawing his lighter out of his pocket. He opened it and lit it, letting the flame and the metal around it heat up. He edged Raven over onto his back with his boot before plopping down on the floor, landing on top of Raven. He pinned one of the boy's hands. It may have been somewhat familiar, but Evan had no sexual intentions this time around. After the flame went out, Evan made an attempt at pressing the hot metal against Raven's wrist, wanting to make a small burn.
Raven
Raven actually broke into a fit of laugher, ranging in giggles as Evan's lighter burned against the front of his wrist, "You actually think that hurts me, fucker? Is that really the best you can do...?" He laughed again, even as the burn disolved into his skin.
Evan Issac
"You want to get set on fire?" Evan growled darkly. Despite the threat, Evan dropped the lighter. He had received far too many cigarette burns in the past from his father to actually want to carry through with the idea. His hands settled over Raven's throat. "Maybe I should just fucking strangle you so you'll never yap again."
Raven
He bit in a grin, looking up as if daring on Evan's eyes. "Why? Sick of your sunshine fairytale mutt already, Evan...?"
Evan Issac
There was no part of this that Evan liked. He never had lost so much control before. Usually, he was the one that got deep underneath people's skin. He was always too apathetic to become so enraged, but Raven kept poking the bear. Evan swallowed some, tasting his own blood thanks to Raven's punch. His hands squeezed around Raven's throat, wanting to wipe that smile right off the other's face. "I'm just putting down a stray," he claimed darkly as he trembled some.
Raven
Raven, for his part, didn't resist. The instant the breath left him, he kept his gaze against Evan's, as if still challenging, taunting. As if seeing him through this to the end. On reaction, a hand worked up to grab Evan's wrist, but he didn't remove his gaze, nor did it change aside from growing somewhat distant, despite the continuing and rapidly sufficating loss in air beneath his throat or the split in vision that began to appear in his gaze.
Evan Issac
Evan hated everything about that gaze of Raven's. The fact that he was challenging Evan through it all only added to his fury. He could not take the other's taunting any longer. He had been pushed too far. Despite the hand on his wrist, he continued to squeeze Raven's throat. Evan's piercing blue eyes were full of hate. It was as if he wanted to see the light leave Raven's eyes.
Josh Myers
Storming into the room, Josh swung the front door open, instantly lunging forward to break up the fight. He shoved Evan with unexpected furosity, pushing him into the wall despite the obvious differences in size and strength. With a twisted smile, he asked almost gently, "Just what do you think you're doing, Evan Issac?"
Raven
If Raven was going to die - it was going to be by Evan's hands. It was something he decided in that moment. He wasn't afraid of death. And in the instant, it felt somehow right, guiding the other, his mentor, his friend, everything he'd ever wanted to be, to his own murder. As if there was some kind of sick accomplishment laden somewhere against it for the other. As if Evan somehow got something out of all of this. His life had been Evan's to own for a long time, and despite his taunts and rises he got, despite what he might say he would always be loyal, when it mattered, to the very end. His breath left him, and the panic began pressing in at the base of his skull; ears ringing on the instinctive need for oxygen, his grip on Evan's wrist whiteknuckled and shaking but the control in his body's reaction, on his own dim gaze, seeming absolute. He continued on a smirk as if simply knowing, still deluded and filled in his own beliefs this was what it was - his life to Evan, that this was okay, before abruptly it all stopped.
He'd expected to slip into unconsciousness. Instead, he lay there, gasping hoarsely, coughing dry and long, blood spattering slightly into the air.
Evan Issac
The sudden lunge was not what Evan had been expecting at all. He was completely taken by surprise and now under Josh's grasp. His face was still contorted with rage. "Taking out the stray..." Evan managed to say, not needing Josh right now. Or so he thought. His body trembled more underneath the other boy. "Out. Get out of my way," he demanded, sanity seeming to be lost at the moment. That taunting smirk of Raven's was engraved in his mind, haunting him. Evan still felt a blood lust--a need to erase that smirk.
Josh Myers
Josh shoved Evan again to hold him in place against the wall, though with the gesture, he noticed the slight trembling in his hands. He felt as though he were in the middle of a dog fight, with two aggressive and trained fighters, one laying in defeat on the floor. Stan, or, well, Raven, looked fairly pathetic, and Myers wished he had his camera. He shook his head of distracting thoughts and leaned forward to whisper into Evan's ear, grip still holding the collar of his shirt. "No, Evan. Down boy! This is our good chum that we are dealing with here. The Raven that makes your blood boil is the same Stan that we've been living with for the past few months. Now then, if you would please, I command you to stand down."
Evan Issac
The fact that Evan himself was now being treated like a dog added insult to injury. It pained him, especially after all the dog quips he made towards Raven. "Fuck off, Lecter!" Evan cried. "I don't care who he is! Get out of my face and mind your own business for once in your fucking life!" he snarled, not wanting to cooperate one bit. The anger and adrenaline were still coursing through his veins. Evan made an attempt at pushing Josh off, though he would likely be unsuccessful at this point. He spent a lot of hate on Raven already, and his body still quivered some with that human reaction of fear.
Raven
His head was still ringing. Far too much for him to catch any conversation between Josh and Evan or even properly become aware that Josh had even entered into the game. When he did, he managed to deafly attempt to push himself on his hands and knees, still the goth making ravaged, dry coughing and gasping noises, head spinning on its top. He didn't interviene, but then it wasn't as if the boy was on any position to do so regardless.
Josh Myers
After some intense thinking, Myers found that the best solution to the dilemma at hand was to smack Evan across the face, wanting nothing more than to knock some sense into the older boy. "Settle down, Evan. Your business is mine," he rolled his eyes, patting Evan's cheek where he had made contact with his palm. A few 'shhh's escaped from between his teeth before he turned and smiled at Raven. "Would you mind digging underneath my bed for a bottle of rum? That might be an adequate pacifier."
Evan Issac
The manner in which Josh treated Evan humilated him further. He continued to glare at the other, extending a hand and swating at Josh's consoling one. "Just get him the fuck out of here," Evan implored through gritted teeth, wanting Raven to be gone in some sense. The concept of drowning himself in copious amounts of alcohol was highly appealing. Evan wanted to be away from all this rage. He would much rather be in a drunken stupor. That was at least familiar. This was insanity.
Raven
Disoriented, Raven looked up under a curtain on mussed, wild hair, eyes torn both dark and confused. "--What...? What the fuck are you doing here." He was still on all fours, a hand instinctive on the area of his throat, now red; still appearing somewhat lost.
Josh Myers
Somewhat obediantly, Josh backed away with his hands held up in a cautious, ready-to-hit-back-if-provoked manner. When all was safe and it was okay to turn his head away, he did so, only then returning his gaze back to Raven. He really did look like a lost little stray. Oh, how Josh wanted to capture this moment on camera. One hand took hold of the loosely flowing door; the other directed Raven outside, where CC the cat had remained throughout the whole ordeal, panicked and growling. "If you want my protection, I suggest you leave, while Evan isn't on the verge of killing you."
Raven
"Your...protection?" He rasped, looking on a second as if Josh was insane. And then there was that smirk again. "I don't need your protection." The boy, staggering slightly, pushed himself up, shaking, to his feet, leaning at the frame of the door for support. Blood matted down his jaw line, teeth still painted in red, jaw swelling and the imprints of Evan's hands still at his neck. Despite this, he smiled slightly.
Evan Issac
Evan stared at the scene for a few moments. While Raven may have appeared particualrly pathetic for a fraction of a second, the smirk came as quick as it had gone. "Out! NOW!" Evan snapped, picking his lighter up from the ground and chucking it at Raven's head. In this volatile state, the smirk sent him into that white-hot fury again.
Raven
His gaze, as if lazy, drug over to Evan and finally the smirk did vanish. He seemed more on anger though than anything, a dark glint even as, useless, the lighter hit off of him. "Or what? Going to kill me, Issac?" He rasped, "Maybe I can join your faggot boyfriend in hell, huh?"
Josh Myers
Josh immediately "pulled Stan to safety," as he would put it, shocked and borderline terrified of the sudden outburst coming from Evan. "Out, out, out, out, out, out, now, get out now, out, out, out," he slammed the door after Marsh, only to open it once again in the seconds that followed, "and here, take this toilet paper. Clean yourself up, you fool."
Evan Issac
The taunting from Raven was ringing in Evan's ears. He could not stand it any longer. Honestly, it was a relief to have that anathema out of his sight. He was thankful for Josh in a way he could not appreciate yet. Evan collapsed onto his bed, burying his face into his pillow as he resisted the powerful urge to scream. He just had to find his mind and apathy again.
Raven
Raven seemed to want to bite back on a retort as Josh shoved him out the door; the boy stumbling and catching to a handrail on the short stone steps to keep balance. His expression was dark, somewhat livid even as Myers opened the door again and tossed the toliet paper in his direction. He sneered on a scowl, but wasn't given a chance to respond, instead, after the door shut in his face, sinking to the ground, glaring cold at the door.
Josh Myers
Satisfied with witnessing Evan at such a weak point, Josh felt it was finally safe to duck underneath the bed he had neglected all weak in order to find the special-occasion rum. He flicked the lock on the doorknob, and tossed the bottle at Evan, a bit baffled that he was performing an act of such kindness, or doing anything for Evan for that matter. In a way, this was for everyone, as Josh had made it his duty to keep the dorm in order. Which it was not. Instead of asking for permission to stay, in case Evan wanted complete solitude, he began picking up this and that off of the floor.
Evan Issac
Evan did not mind Josh's presence in the slightest now. As long as Raven was gone, he could make some kind of attempt at collecting the shards of his sanity. Or he could drink himself into oblivion. Either way, Evan tried to actually believe he would come out 'okay' in the end, as conformist as that was. He greatly desired to not feel anything. Taking the bone he was thrown, Evan opened the bottle of rum, beginning to nurse it desperately while laying on his side.
Josh Myers
Now was not a time to speak, something that Josh easily recognized. He hoped to contribute a form of 'white noise' by flipping the boombox by the side of his bed on, letting it play the static of a pointless radio station. He, too, laid on the surface of his bed, watching the ceiling, just to stick around and keep an eye on Evan for once.














