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@vilestblood said: ❛ No, it’s okay. You didn’t wake me. ❜

DAVY FRETS. "Are you sure? Are you certain?" His phone is pressed so close to the side of his face that the warmth of its screen begins to feel oppressive. Sighing, he brings his phone away from his face to check his email—again—and put Antonín on speaker.

"I cannot sleep," he blurts. He sounds loud and abrupt in his dark, empty apartment—in his lumpy, empty bed. (He loves and hates living alone.)

"And you are always working, I know, so I thought that, maybe, you would be awake. Hopefully not too busy, but awake. — are you busy?"

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@kylo-wrecked said: "being a professional yourself, you should know, it wasn't personal.”

DAVY, INCENSED, CONVEYS HIS VEHEMENT DISAGREEMENT WITH A SHARP GLANCE. Too sharp, he realizes; he softens immediately. It's not in his nature to treat someone with disdain, even if vitriolic disdain is exactly what he feels.

"Even when I am working, I treat people like people."

Has Ben ever considered this?

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@kylo-wrecked said all kinds of crazy stuff, such as: “some things are so horrible that the only sane response is a bit of madness.” Ben tosses the horrible thing in question onto the boardroom table. His aim is good. He likes how the jacket designer jolts; it’s the best part of his day. Sales nods. “find an audience for this. i don’t care if you have to peddle it to Columbiners, make it shoot off the shelves.”

THAT WAS REALLY RUDE. This is, he'd admit, the worst part of Davy's day. And the best part of Ben's! It's funny, how those things work—how two people can be so fundamentally incompatible in any context, particularly professionally. And Davy truly believes it can be attributed almost entirely to Ben's pathological crankiness and hostility.

"I am not going to make an appeal, subtle or overt, to that particular sub-culture." Maybe Ben isn't meant to be taken at face value. Davy struggles with that on a good day, of course, but his reckless reference deserved a direct address. Davy is acutely aware of how many people are in the room.

"Have you ever reckoned with your pessimism?"

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@theirmadness // brian said: arrogance is a greater threat to justice than evil and ineptitude.

"I am not arrogant." Therefore, "I could not agree with you more."

Brian never said anything about Davy specifically. He's speaking in grandiose thematic blanket statements. Davy simply felt it appropriate to get that out of the way.

Sue him for wanting to appear virtuous to a noble, intelligent man.

And forgive him, while you're at it, for how he flounders in a contemplative pause. Does saying he isn't arrogant mean he's more arrogant than he could possibly realize? Fuck.

"—but if there is something else you are trying to say, you could speak more plainly. I appreciate honesty."

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@bruisedpenny // lorelei asked for: 💏 // ...to wake [davy] up

LET'S ALL JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO APPRECIATE THAT THE YOUNG WOMAN DIDN'T KILL HIM IN HIS SLEEP.

Davy wasn't worried about that for a second. He slept soundly as hell—he often does. His own apartment is more comfortable, more finely-tuned to his tastes, but his current surroundings will do just fine in a pinch.

Anyway. He isn't as grateful for his life as I currently am.

Here, now, he wishes he were still asleep. She kisses him like she's trying to startle him—or maybe he only feels that way because he is so remarkably startled. He wraps the duvet tighter around himself, pouts for a few moments, then remembers to turn on the charm as much as he can.

"My alarm was set. Did I miss it?"

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@vilestblood asked for: [davy's reaction to receiving an accidental nude]

[ sms: Antonín C ] Oh [ sms: Antonín C ] Should I delete this? [ sms: Antonín C ] You might not have realized but [ sms: Antonín C ] It is VERY revealing.

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@catfcng // x

DAVY IS TRYING SO, SO HARD TO BE COMPLETELY NORMAL AND CASUAL ABOUT THIS. And he should be capable of that; he's seen his cousins do freaky shit all the time, just to impress Davy and his siblings.

But this is something else entirely. And a little unexpected.

"As soon as I think I know everything there is to know about you, you manage to surprise me. Why is that?"

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@catfcng // tck

"I know your title. Of course. But I have no idea what you were born as. Is that not funny?"