Mia cara, prendere il controllo
The freckled incubus smiled around a cigarette, breathing out wisps of smoke and watching with vague amusement as the nicotine cloud floated up into the sky. Across from him, glaring at him with the hateful wariness that seemed to always don his features when he saw this particular redhead, Ezio Auditore shoved his hands into his pockets and hunched his shoulders to show his displeasure.
"If I was stalking you, signore, I would not be so obvious about it," Angelo reassured, flicking ash to the concrete beneath their feet. The breeze was crisp and biting, winter's last swipe at tender flesh before it meekly shuffled into hibernation to allow for the spring. The sun shone weakly overhead through pale grey clouds.
It was quite pretty out, really. In some ways it reminded him of home. His true home.
The one he'd left burning.
"Then how do you always manage to find me?"
"The town is not so big," Angelo shrugged a shoulder, dropping his cigarette and smothering it into smoky silence with the heel of his shoe. He straightened his jacket, then, a comfortable ensemble that had appeared in his closet on day; wings folded and hidden beneath a brown cloak. "Do I displease you so?"
"Cruel words," the incubus murmured, pale gaze flickering away from Ezio to concentrate instead on the sky. "For a man who states he feels nothing more than the echoes of others, you certainly feel much hatred for me."
"Why, I believe that is because of your hatred for you, signor - or did we not already establish that?"
"Ah, but if it was just my own self-loathing, wouldn't you be despising yourself, as a proper echo should? Yet you put your anger on me. 'How dare you make me feel as you feel, you disgusting creature', 'how dare you cause me the simultaneous need to fuck you and kill myself'. You may be mimicking whatever it is I feel, Ezio Auditore, but the anger you feel towards me is all on you."
Ezio sneered, moving closer to the slighter man in both the need to throttle him and the undesired wish to be closer. Angelo tilted his chin up to look down his nose at the assassin, smiling at him thinly as he approached.
"I wonder if today is the day you'll finally hit me?"
"Cerchiamo di scoprire, d'accordo?"
The darker man grabbed Angelo's shirtfront, pushing him back as if setting him up for a beating - then dragging him back in and roughly slotting his mouth against the older incubus'.
It was not a kiss one would call a 'battle of teeth and tongues', nor was it something gentle and sweet. It was a ravishing; the kind of kiss where there was nothing but lust and hate involved. Where nails dug into scalps and canines attempted to make lips bleed so that they could actually taste something. It was the type that made breathing difficult but at the same time practically unnecessary, and one person pushed the other against the nearest surface if only to make sure neither of them would collapse to the ground.
When Angelo finally managed to push Ezio away, noses bumping and breathing into each other's mouths, he knew in an instant that that was just the warm-up to something far more vicious. Something he craved much more than anything else.
Ezio stumbled back once he forced the fog to lift from his brain, wiping at the back of his mouth and glaring at Angelo with lividness and a whisper of confusion in dark eyes.
"Does it revile you," Angelo hissed, leaning back against the brick wall he'd been pushed to; head tilted back and tongue peeking out to lick at a drip of blood, "mia cara - does it disgust you to know how easy it would be to let go, right here and now, and do as you please?"
"...if only because it is not what I would please - but what you would please."
"At the end of the day, Ezio - what's the difference?" He pushed away from the wall, starting towards home and pausing just beside Ezio. The other man was rubbing his shoulders, staring at the ground and seething quietly to himself, refusing to look at the faux-Italian beside him.
Angelo smiled dully, looking away and walking passed him, slipping his hands into trouser pockets.
"Let me give you a hint: there is no difference."