#stainedglasssniper

[ionlyhaveone]

+stainedglasssniper is at the door

"Yes, yes, do come in.  Sit down.  Start from the beginning - be descriptive but brief."

"You may begin."

[sunshineandsemtex]

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[ He isn’t dead yet, which is a cautious start— but he doesn’t try to approach either, even though Jim’s using the inclusive ‘we’. He’s too scared to come closer. ] Do we— ah. Do we feel… angry?

[The coffee in the mug is swirling. He realizes abruptly he's the one swirling it, and he stops. Raises the cup to his lips. Takes another sip.

It's not enough, it's never been enough and it will never be enough but he has been living in famine his entire life, he doesn't know why that should change now.]

Precisely. We, Sebastian, darling, POSSESSION LOVE OF MINE, are fit to spit. And what do we do when we're angry? [Hint: we plan.]

[sunshineandsemtex]

[ Sebastian stills utterly, when that furious stare is pinned on him. He'd wanted to bolt for it once the coffee was safely in the room, but now Jim is looking at him-- and if there's one thing you don't do, it's try to avoid Jim when he knows you're there. Unfortunately though, he doesn't know what answer Jim is fishing for with that particular question-- the stricken, panicked expression that crosses his face is a testament to that, and he offers his response hesitantly. ] Um... no?

[Would have been smart of him to bolt, would have been smart of them to die to (do a BETTER JOB at dying) stay dead except maybe they were never dead and maybe they have never been alive and either WAY—! 

Either way there’s only one important fact, and it is that James Moriarty is alive, and he is so angry that his hands are trembling.]

Funny, that— NEITHER DID I.

[A pause, and then he’s going to take the mug of coffee, seeking its stability perhaps, seeking refuge in one of the only two drugs he allows seeking — it doesn’t matter what he’s seeking, because what he gets is the mug in one hand and the other still up in a pinning gesture, and what he gets is the familiar sensation of his mouth burning. After a sip he folds the finger back down, raises an eyebrow at Sebastian.]

How do you suppose we feel about this.

[sunshineandsemtex]

[ Ever so casually sliiiiiiiides a cup of coffee into the room from the doorway using the handle of a broom. Can you tell Sebastian is kinda too freaked out to get too close to Jim right now. Can you. ]

[Flat, furious eyes traipse slowly over to stare at the cup, flicker towards the doorway, towards Sebastian. A finger is raised, meticulous.]

Did. [Oh, that tone isn’t good, that tone is nine kinds of not. good.] Did you know, we aren’t dead.

[dukecrockerx]

stainedglasssniper started following you

"Did you need something?" 

[Excuse Duke. He's a bit tired of random people showing up in town lately.]

[sunshineandsemtex]

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[ You say that like Sebastian thinks that Jim not opening the present is anything other than entirely deliberate, though. I guess these two grown men are going to ignore the mint-green lumpy sweater shaped elephant in the room, huh. ]

[Oh dear fuck how do we always end up here.

I mean. At the least Jim breaks the silence, eventually.] 

On a scale of one to ten - how tangible would you say you are, just about now, dear?

[sunshineandsemtex]

[ Guess who has a neatly-wrapped present just for Jim. Because I guess Sebastian. I'd wonder what the present could be, but we're all kidding ourselves if we don't think it's a lumpy halloween sweater. ]

[Guess who's staring at the neatly-wrapped present like he doesn't actually remember what those are. Because I guess Jim.

You might want to remind him that one typically unwraps those things.

He might be vaguely distracted.]

[sunshineandsemtex]

♛

Sebastian is an experiment. Jim will act however is necessary to get the answers he wants.

What that means is Jim is completely okay with anything required, be it gentle caring support, a few brutal torture sessions, a couple hundred brutal torture sessions, whatever is needed.

There's always a sort of glee to the way he treats Sebastian, and that's mostly because Jim didn't have to do this and he did anyway and Sebastian l o v e s him for it and isn't that just a lark?

Sebastian is fun to have around and Jim treats him as something fun to have around!