[ liquor, pastries, and a file? oh my Mr. De Rolo. ]
Door is open darling, come on in.
[ true to her word he will find the door to her apartment open, unveiling a rather familiar living space. since the last time he's been here she has added a few things to the decor. a number of miscellaneous (and shiny) objects she's picked up over the years. he will find Vex'ahlia in the living room lounging languidly upon the couch with her hair down and wearing little more than an oversized shirt. ]
[Percy got here straight from work, judging from the slightly frazzled look in his eye and the soot stains on his clothes. He holds up a paper bag with the name of a lovely bakery emblazoned across the front.]
Croissants and bear claws.
[Holding out the other bag.]
The finest Chardonnay I could buy, aged in oak barrels.
[And he's going to kind of fold down on the couch next to her and hold out his own file.]
We're going to need it, because I took this file out of the Asgard library, and it's a very infuriating, very enraging read.
[ oh, but the slightly frazzled look is just so good on him as is the soot stains on his clothes. it brings to mind a half remembered memory of Percy leaning over a desk, tinkering with this or that. ]
You brought gifts! [ she shifts, reaching out to take the paper bag before he all but folds down on the couch beside her. automatically Vex takes a bear claw from the bag before handing it back and leans against him. ] And some terrible reading material.
[ still Vex takes the file, casually biting into the bear claw as she reads. after a moment her expression shifts, a frown quickly falling onto her features. ]
You're right, it is an incredibly infuriating read.
It explains their interest in me, I suppose. But it’s bloody idiotic—why massacre my parents and my older siblings? They weren’t unreasonable people! If you didn’t meet them with violence first thing, they were perfectly fine with just sitting down and having tea. [A beat.] A glass of whiskey in Julius’s case, but anyway.
[He pushes a hand through white hair, breathing out slowly. Smoke wisps out from his mouth—he was not lying when he said it was an enraging read. The reason why he isn’t hauling off to go kill someone about it right now is that he already did, in the Asgard incursion, and it’s done nothing, really.]
The gifts are to make up for the awful reading material. [Softly:] I tried to find their files—my siblings’ and our friends’ from before, but. No luck yet. I’m sorry, I know you’re still looking for Vax.
[ a few seconds later Vex breathes out heavily, tossing the file onto the coffee table. the whole thing leaves a bad taste in her mouth and reminds her too much of something she'd much rather forget. ]
Why play nice when you can eliminate the competition ahead of time? [ she bites down on her bear claw angrily, brown eyes flicking to the wisps of smoke coming from Percy's mouth. ] There's no point trying to understand how they think now, I suppose.
[ putting the bear claw down Vex turns to face Percy proper, a hand resting gently against his cheek. ]
You don't have to apologize, the fact that you tried is more than enough for me. [ although she had at least hoped he found something about his siblings. ] You know how Vax is, he makes it infuriatingly difficult to find him when he doesn't want to be found.
[ fingers move up to brush white hair from his face. ]
I've got some contacts I can reach out to, now that we know that your siblings survived.
Of course. Why try to negotiate when you can just steamroll over everyone else. [He remembers a flash of fang, a glint of light off a green gem on a choker. This is not the first time.
He leans into her touch, just sagging down next to her.] Little shit. [There's an exasperated fondness there. He and Vax had their differences, sure. At the end of the day, though—they had been family, and that means something to Percy.] When you find him, do let me yell at him for making it so difficult to find him.
...will they ask you for anything? I'm happy to take on commissions, do whatever job they ask, if it means a concrete lead.
[ she misses Vax, that much is true. there is an space in her chest that is painfully hollow without her twin, but it is a familiar ache she's lived with for so long now. an ache that feels like a old friend and has dulled finding Percy again. ]
Of course, you'll be the first person to know when I do. [ Vex shifts again pulling him down with her as she all but lays down on the couch, half using Percy as a blanket. ] He deserves to get yelled at after all the shit he's put us through.
[ congratulations Percy you're now using her chest as a pillow, don't freak out about it. just lay there and let her gently card her fingers through your hair, okay? ]
It's likely. I made a few shady friends over the years, but few of them owe me some favors.
[Cool he is going to do his best to be chill about his head on her chest. Wow these tits are so soft and squishy.]
I vaguely recall telling him that my final words to him would be irritated and indignant. I imagine my first words in this life to him will be just as irritated and even more indignant for this entire mess. [mrrrgh.] I'll go back and keep looking. The library is quite extensive, after all, and we weren't there very long. And...
[There's a silence, before he sighs.]
I'm going to try my best to convince the Order to let me destroy the inventions I made in past lives for them. If they're too dangerous to let out in the world they're too dangerous to be kept intact, and while I trust the people in charge now, I'm not so foolish as to believe that everyone in the Order is as well-intentioned as they are.
[He sighs. Where's her free hand? He's going to catch that one and just...stroke over her palm with this thumb.]
All right. Let them know, then. I'll do commissions for them in exchange for leads.
[ a something flashes across her vision; a sea of raven feathers, golden strings, a pale white mask. Vex breathes in, body tensing for just long enough before the vision fades. this isn't the first time they've been separated, but this the first time there is hope of getting him back.
she listens to Percy all but ramble while she absently plays with his hair. he is worried about the inventions his past lives made for the Order, just as he was worried about his inventions spreading across Exandria. it is for the best that they are destroyed just in case the wrong hands were to somehow find their way into this new edition of the Order─
Vex exhales. all of this is terribly grim and makes her feel as though she is uselessly trudging through a never ending mire. ]
We'll figure it out, Percy. Vax, your siblings, your inventions, all of it.
[ it's time for a change in subject. ]
You know... you wanted to talk after storming the castle, didn't you? [ she threads her fingers through his hair again, her gaze flicking down to where his head is resting. ] About this, us. You left me with quite the confession, darling. And now I suppose we should talk, perhaps even make things... official?
Oh shit now is the time to talk, isn't it. He actually had come over with that intention to try and work out the relationship now, because he loves her and she loves him and that's easy, and now the Black Order is gone and. There's really nothing stopping him.
Well, nothing except the yawning pit of anxiety, anyway, but he's used to working past that. He sighs, and moves to look her in the eye.]
I meant what I said. You have had my heart since I was fifteen years old. [Yep, that long.] If you want me, you will have me for as long as you're willing, in whatever form you wish. I just...
[A breath.]
I don't have much to give you. A little more now that the Unyielding are dead, but—I want to give you the best.
[ better now than leave it hanging over their heads, an uncertain nameless blade ready to drop at any moment. she can understand the anxiety, gods she even feels her fair share of it from merely bringing up the 'later talk' they agreed on.
Vex'ahlia takes a nervous breath in, something Percy will undoubtedly notice giving their position, catching his gaze with her own. immediately she feels all of her guards, her walls, everything crumble in the face of those earnest eyes. ]
As you have had mine. [ there's no denying it, no hiding from it. as aloof as she had been back then he had charmed her from the very beginning. ] You had me from hello.
[ her fingers still thread through his hair slowly but surely loosening it from how he styled it for work, her lips twitching in a fond smile. ]
Percy, darling, I don't need a castle or a fort. [ inch by inch her hand drifts from his hair, brushing gently over his ear then down to the line of his jaw. ] All I need is you. The rest we can figure out just as we always do.
From the very first? [Blink.] I had acne and the patchiest facial hair in the city and was, I'm told, insufferable at that age. Really?
[Percival you're still insufferable now. But he leans his head into her hand, before turning to kiss her palm, brushing his lips over the lines on her hand.]
Well, then. Vex'ahlia—I am yours, and so is whatever I have, little as that might be. [With a gentle little huff.] Suppose this is a good time to tell you I've been working on a bow for you, hm?
Really. [ what? there was something just so utterly irresistible that insufferable, acne riddled, patchy facial haired boy. something she couldn't help but fall head over heels back then. he was, and still is, a light she was inexplicably drawn towards. ] Acne aside you were pretty cute, Percy.
[ she exhales softly, trying to fight off the shiver that runs down her spine as his lips brush against her palm. ]
Have you? [ her eyes practically sparkle with excitement─ an undoubtedly familiar look from another life. ] If making me arrows back then was your way of flirting... What would we call making me a bow, hmm?
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Door is open darling, come on in.
[ true to her word he will find the door to her apartment open, unveiling a rather familiar living space. since the last time he's been here she has added a few things to the decor. a number of miscellaneous (and shiny) objects she's picked up over the years. he will find Vex'ahlia in the living room lounging languidly upon the couch with her hair down and wearing little more than an oversized shirt. ]
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Croissants and bear claws.
[Holding out the other bag.]
The finest Chardonnay I could buy, aged in oak barrels.
[And he's going to kind of fold down on the couch next to her and hold out his own file.]
We're going to need it, because I took this file out of the Asgard library, and it's a very infuriating, very enraging read.
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You brought gifts! [ she shifts, reaching out to take the paper bag before he all but folds down on the couch beside her. automatically Vex takes a bear claw from the bag before handing it back and leans against him. ] And some terrible reading material.
[ still Vex takes the file, casually biting into the bear claw as she reads. after a moment her expression shifts, a frown quickly falling onto her features. ]
You're right, it is an incredibly infuriating read.
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[He pushes a hand through white hair, breathing out slowly. Smoke wisps out from his mouth—he was not lying when he said it was an enraging read. The reason why he isn’t hauling off to go kill someone about it right now is that he already did, in the Asgard incursion, and it’s done nothing, really.]
The gifts are to make up for the awful reading material. [Softly:] I tried to find their files—my siblings’ and our friends’ from before, but. No luck yet. I’m sorry, I know you’re still looking for Vax.
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Why play nice when you can eliminate the competition ahead of time? [ she bites down on her bear claw angrily, brown eyes flicking to the wisps of smoke coming from Percy's mouth. ] There's no point trying to understand how they think now, I suppose.
[ putting the bear claw down Vex turns to face Percy proper, a hand resting gently against his cheek. ]
You don't have to apologize, the fact that you tried is more than enough for me. [ although she had at least hoped he found something about his siblings. ] You know how Vax is, he makes it infuriatingly difficult to find him when he doesn't want to be found.
[ fingers move up to brush white hair from his face. ]
I've got some contacts I can reach out to, now that we know that your siblings survived.
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He leans into her touch, just sagging down next to her.] Little shit. [There's an exasperated fondness there. He and Vax had their differences, sure. At the end of the day, though—they had been family, and that means something to Percy.] When you find him, do let me yell at him for making it so difficult to find him.
...will they ask you for anything? I'm happy to take on commissions, do whatever job they ask, if it means a concrete lead.
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Of course, you'll be the first person to know when I do. [ Vex shifts again pulling him down with her as she all but lays down on the couch, half using Percy as a blanket. ] He deserves to get yelled at after all the shit he's put us through.
[ congratulations Percy you're now using her chest as a pillow, don't freak out about it. just lay there and let her gently card her fingers through your hair, okay? ]
It's likely. I made a few shady friends over the years, but few of them owe me some favors.
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I vaguely recall telling him that my final words to him would be irritated and indignant. I imagine my first words in this life to him will be just as irritated and even more indignant for this entire mess. [mrrrgh.] I'll go back and keep looking. The library is quite extensive, after all, and we weren't there very long. And...
[There's a silence, before he sighs.]
I'm going to try my best to convince the Order to let me destroy the inventions I made in past lives for them. If they're too dangerous to let out in the world they're too dangerous to be kept intact, and while I trust the people in charge now, I'm not so foolish as to believe that everyone in the Order is as well-intentioned as they are.
[He sighs. Where's her free hand? He's going to catch that one and just...stroke over her palm with this thumb.]
All right. Let them know, then. I'll do commissions for them in exchange for leads.
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she listens to Percy all but ramble while she absently plays with his hair. he is worried about the inventions his past lives made for the Order, just as he was worried about his inventions spreading across Exandria. it is for the best that they are destroyed just in case the wrong hands were to somehow find their way into this new edition of the Order─
Vex exhales. all of this is terribly grim and makes her feel as though she is uselessly trudging through a never ending mire. ]
We'll figure it out, Percy. Vax, your siblings, your inventions, all of it.
[ it's time for a change in subject. ]
You know... you wanted to talk after storming the castle, didn't you? [ she threads her fingers through his hair again, her gaze flicking down to where his head is resting. ] About this, us. You left me with quite the confession, darling. And now I suppose we should talk, perhaps even make things... official?
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Oh shit now is the time to talk, isn't it. He actually had come over with that intention to try and work out the relationship now, because he loves her and she loves him and that's easy, and now the Black Order is gone and. There's really nothing stopping him.
Well, nothing except the yawning pit of anxiety, anyway, but he's used to working past that. He sighs, and moves to look her in the eye.]
I meant what I said. You have had my heart since I was fifteen years old. [Yep, that long.] If you want me, you will have me for as long as you're willing, in whatever form you wish. I just...
[A breath.]
I don't have much to give you. A little more now that the Unyielding are dead, but—I want to give you the best.
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Vex'ahlia takes a nervous breath in, something Percy will undoubtedly notice giving their position, catching his gaze with her own. immediately she feels all of her guards, her walls, everything crumble in the face of those earnest eyes. ]
As you have had mine. [ there's no denying it, no hiding from it. as aloof as she had been back then he had charmed her from the very beginning. ] You had me from hello.
[ her fingers still thread through his hair slowly but surely loosening it from how he styled it for work, her lips twitching in a fond smile. ]
Percy, darling, I don't need a castle or a fort. [ inch by inch her hand drifts from his hair, brushing gently over his ear then down to the line of his jaw. ] All I need is you. The rest we can figure out just as we always do.
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[Percival you're still insufferable now. But he leans his head into her hand, before turning to kiss her palm, brushing his lips over the lines on her hand.]
Well, then. Vex'ahlia—I am yours, and so is whatever I have, little as that might be. [With a gentle little huff.] Suppose this is a good time to tell you I've been working on a bow for you, hm?
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[ she exhales softly, trying to fight off the shiver that runs down her spine as his lips brush against her palm. ]
Have you? [ her eyes practically sparkle with excitement─ an undoubtedly familiar look from another life. ] If making me arrows back then was your way of flirting... What would we call making me a bow, hmm?