braveoff: <user name="wonjae">; commissioned (Default)
Drake Holloway ([personal profile] braveoff) wrote2025-03-23 11:44 am

[ DUPLICITY ] inbox



[ text | voice | video | action ]
hippie_ninja: (Default)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-24 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
He's getting comfortable enough with Drake that sometimes he almost forgets to knock. He'll grab the handle, then remember--that's what happens today. He starts to test it to see if it's locked, and then stops himself and knocks, three quick raps.
hippie_ninja: (concern)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-28 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
He can't hear anything from inside, but he also hasn't seen or heard from Drake in days. He tests the door, prepared now to pick the lock if he has to, but to his surprise it just opens.

"Drake?" He shuts and locks the door behind him and steps further inside, then sees him laying on the couch.

"Drake..."
hippie_ninja: (Default)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-28 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's okay." He's already made up his mind to stay unless Drake's ready to chase him away. He sets his coat and gloves on the table and comes, kneels by the couch, wary of the dog.

"Hey."
hippie_ninja: (concern)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-28 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," he says, soft, but firm. "I'm going to move in for a little while."
hippie_ninja: (Default)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-28 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact Drake's first instinct is always to jump to Jesus's defense tugs at a heart string most people never touch in him.

"No. I just want to stay with you."
hippie_ninja: (concern)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-28 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't have to entertain me," and this is just another shade of three thousand gentle tones Jesus has, each of them earnest and genuine.

"Just let me be here for you."
hippie_ninja: (sympathy)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-29 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not here because I owe you. I'm here because I care about you, and you're hurting."

Because he can guard Drake from the world while he mends. He can handle the tedious things that grief makes impossible to do--like eating and cleaning and, it seems, getting off the couch.

"I can't fix it," he agrees. "But tell me what's happened?"
hippie_ninja: (sympathy)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-29 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't say anything. What do you say to that? To this kind of loss?

Jesus spent his youth watching people walk away from him. He spent the last twelve years losing people in brutal, abrupt ways. There aren't words. But unlike most of his companions he doesn't believe in pushing it down and ignoring it to carry on.

He instead sets the note back on the nightstand and wraps his arms around Drake, who is sitting, which means when Jesus pulls him close Drake's head is chest-height. He just holds him, if Drake lets him.
hippie_ninja: (concern)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-29 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm so sorry," he whispers, but he doesn't let go. He meant what he'd said earlier: he's staying here. Drake doesn't have to do a thing.
hippie_ninja: (concern)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-29 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
He gives Drake a moment to clean up, to gather himself, but then he's back at his side, one hand gently on the small of his back. "What would he want you to do right now?"
hippie_ninja: (intent)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-29 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
"You don't have to entertain me," he says again, smiling at him, but there's something firm in his gaze. "I want to be here, and I want to be here for you."

He's seen how grief can destroy a person. It's the most dangerous part of life back home, and that's saying something. Nothing else can make a person just give up the way this kind of loss can.

He won't let that happen to Drake. He doesn't know how he'll help, but he'll figure it out.

"When is the last time you ate?"
hippie_ninja: (hilltop)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," he nods, glad that Drake is suggesting leaving the house even if it is just to walk up the block. He has a ready food in mind: "Pizza."

It's easy, it's comforting. "What toppings do you like?"
hippie_ninja: (listen)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja 2022-11-29 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Drake could have anything he wanted right now. Jesus would make it happen. Pepperoni and extra cheese is his favorite though, so he smiles. "I'll put the order in. Want to make it a movie night?"

All the shows have porn scenes edited in but he doubts Drake will pay strict attention to the screen anyway. It's more to have something in the background to direct his thoughts to in between the hollow moments where he's grief stricken.

(no subject)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja - 2022-11-29 02:52 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] hippie_ninja - 2022-11-30 20:32 (UTC) - Expand