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[featherduster]

i preemptively know i'll need this

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Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ Quietly, without moving ]

I love you too.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[he feels Frost freeze, just for a moment, even his breath stopping

then he brings Aloe’s hand up to his face again, mouth against his fingers like a promise

he doesn’t say anything right away, but also wet warmth drips down Aloe’s hand, so there might be a good reason for that.]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ He starts a little, but doesn't move away. There's an uncertain concern in his voice ]

Frost...?

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

I love you.

[he sounds a bit wrecked, as one might when they just burst into tears on the spot, but he does get it out]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ Coming around to face him finally, cupping his free hand against the side of his face ]

Are you still afraid?

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[he cries like a fuckin romance novel lead, though it’s more an accident of evolution than anything: the scales hide a lot of the immediate blotchy puffiness that crying brings on, and just show the track of tears

leans his face into Aloe’s hand, starts to shake his head, hesitates, and then nods instead]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ Don't tell a man he's cute when he cries, that's fucked up............. ]

Me too.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[reaches for him, almost hauling him into a crushing hug]

Sorry.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ Just. Holds onto him like he might slip away, or dissipate, or change his mind. Something. ]

For what?

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

…for making it more frightening.

[he’s being held in much the same spirit, some part of Frost awaiting an ‘I take it back’]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

Well... I do believe you truly want this.

You just have to let yourself.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

As long as you do—I will.

You’re not the only one who…

…who thinks, ‘as long as he’ll have me.’

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ A small smile ]

I'm not a very mercurial guy. I've got the opposite problem, usually.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

Then—if we both want it—

It can work, right…?

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

I think so. We've overcome a lot already, if you think about it.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[god.

nods again and then fumbles for one of the bar napkins blindly. embarrassing to be emotionally collapsing in public]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ He... laughs, dabbing at a few of the tears with his thumb ]

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[makes an indignant noise at him and then mops his face]

This is—awful. I thought I had it—together.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

I like it better than when you're all stoic.

[ Drops his hand finally ]

Have a drink with me.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

Seems like—like a time for a toast, anyway…

[he needs a minute or two and a couple more napkins to be in shape for another drink of any sort, but he more or less can get it together]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ Patiently waits for him, watching like "he's sooooooooo cute when he's weepy" ]

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

What’s with that look…

[he flusters, ruffling full roused-up cockatoo style, and pours and pushes a glass towards him to distract him]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

It's nothing.

[ Still looking at him like it's not nothing even as he takes the glass ]

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

It’s obviously not nothing…

[their glasses change colour, to a very dark brandy]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ He takes his glass, still watching him with a patented Stupid Look ]

Don't worry about it.