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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-14 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sometimes Ephemera wonders if there was any saving Hunter. CT was manic, out of control. Barely lucid even in his quiet moments. His brother lost too much too violently. Blamed himself even though it was just —

It was just what happened. And maybe if Ephemera had been stronger, hadn’t been so badly injured he couldn’t even walk, maybe then —

But he couldn’t. He didn’t. And so his brother died sick, and surrounded by strangers. ]


Sometimes.

[ It comes out soft. ]

I feel like more of a person now.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-14 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ephemera closes his good eye and breathes out slow. He’s tired, more then anything. But he doesn’t feel insane. He doesn’t feel brittle, like he’s going to lose the thread. Like something in him is going to break if he doesn’t tap it down hard.

It happened. And then it ended. ]


It helps. Having this. Having you.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-15 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sometimes they share a bed and just lie down next to each other. Ephemera doesn't sleep well even on the good days, but having Drake at his side - helps. He can settle because he knows, deep down, that someone has his back. That he's safe. And he hopes he can offer that to Drake in turn. Something meaningful, even if he can't be steady.

He reaches up to cup Drake's face with his hand. Gentle. ]


I know.

[ It's said simply. They've always known how to move around each other. ]

Ah. Maybe?

[ Ephemera winces a little. ]

It's Felix.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-15 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah. That's a thing. Ephemera winces, then leans forward and just bumps their foreheads together. A small gesture. But a meaningful one. ]

Wasn't his fault. It was just - a thing that happened. Think I tore him up more anyway.

[ There was a lot of blood. They hit each other in the head more than a few times before things turned. ]
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-15 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
I know. I -

[ The timer dings before Ephemera can finish the thought. He exhales and drags a hand through his hair. It's starting to get long on him. He'll have to cut it soon. ]

I know. But just - not this time, okay? It wasn't on him.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-16 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The problem here — or one of them, anyway — is that Ephemera doesn’t know what he’s doing with Felix. Things swing from one moment to the next, the world tilts on its axis, and what would have been simple suddenly isn’t.

They haven’t killed each other. Despite opportunity and an abundance of vicious instinct, despite a lifetime building up all their brutal reflexes, they haven’t killed each other. And there were moments that edged onto —

Careful. Or something like merciful.

Ephemera exhales slowly. He doesn’t know what to do with any of that. He really doesn’t. But at least he can handle getting plates. ]


Yeah. I can do that.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-19 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ephemera shifts a little closer to Drake. Taking comfort from the closeness. Someone watching his back, covering his blind spot. ]

Fuck, yeah. I could use a drink.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-19 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Whiskey sounds damn good right now. Ephemera rubs his thumb along the rim of the glass, then lifts it. ]

To solid ground.

[ To being alive on solid ground. ]

And -

[ He hesitates, struggling for the words. ]

For whatever it was that pushed us together.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-19 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ephemera huffs a little. ]

Oh, yeah? You think I'm smooth?
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-19 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ephemera smiles again, leaning back. ]

Yeah?
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-19 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. For a moment, Ephemera just watches Drake. He feels better than he did earlier. Settled, in small ways. But the thing easier is still fresh on his mind, the way the sand felt as it stuck under his nails and the smell of the oil. How there was a crowd watching.

He twitches. Tries to smile. Because there's a part of him that wants to, is the thing. To make this something good. He thinks it could be good, with Drake. Something they chose versus a matter of survival and compromise. ]


You -

[ He hesitates. ]

If you go slow, then. You can.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2021-09-19 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ephemera breathes out and takes Drake's hand. Just holds it, rubbing his thumb along the span of Drake's knuckles. Gentle, always gentle. He needs that, he thinks. Something that isn't about violence or - surviving. ]

Okay.

[ He watches Drake for a moment. ]

I do. Want you. I think about it a lot.

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