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Haviah / Re: Almond Milk, Half n Half [Boglin! 8D]
« on: February 27, 2022, 08:50:45 am »
Micah was quick to make her escape and Almond understood that she just wasn’t cute enough to entice every person her father liked. She teared up a little bit and sobbed into Deego’s shoulder in a last ditch effort as Micah departed, but also she was hungry, tired, and desperately wanted a nap.

The toys they’d gotten were sufficient entertainment for a time. But like all of Almond’s toys, inevitably, they started to wear out within a week. Work and piled up and Deego was having a hard time concentrating with Almond screaming in the background of his meeting calls and overall being a little terror.

He soon had enough, and scooped her up, packed a bag and they were off to a park. At least she could scream outside and get some filtered air. Maybe he could get some exercise too, but decided against it. It would disturb the pizza he’d eaten for breakfast after all. He held her hand as they walked out to the local park past several amazing delicatessens and a gaming lounge he’d wanted to visit since it opened but had been unable to with caring for Almond.

Once they reached the safety of the park, he unleashed the terror on the other children and Almond ripped across the sand screaming in delight. He smiled and sat down on a bench, calling out to her. “If you need your juice box, I got it right here, baby!” And she waved back at him, quickly finding another child to play tag with.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: February 27, 2022, 08:27:12 am »
He felt this stomach drop when he saw her eye. The faint green light emanating and igniting the room was haunting. He felt his mouth open, lips parting just enough and he said nothing as she spoke. Once she disappeared, he let out a soft breath, resuming his fixing his bed for the evening.

Being turned down for a partnered shower was a tad jarring. Theo didn’t expect her to say yes, but he also hadn’t expected her to say no. Her reasons, after everything she’d been through, were valid and he didn’t raise an argument. She’d been through hell, had come back to the world of the living. Theo wasn’t a combat Pilot and knew in the back of his mind that would be something he would never experience.

She was scarred and damaged in ways he would never understand. And once the shower was cleared and he was washed and bathed, he sat back down on the couch, staring at the neon lighting in the room. To be welcomed into her sanctuary was a privilege given to few, and he decided to appreciate it rather than to question it.

Maybe tomorrow he could hold her hand, give her a kiss on the cheek, just be there for her in ways he never had the opportunity to be for anyone else. In ways she probably never had either.  And soon he fell asleep, dropping himself into the cushions after turning down the lights.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: September 18, 2021, 06:45:33 pm »
Whatever the answers there were to be found, neither had found them here. To be sure, they explored what they both would have preferred to shut away. Theo himself, unaccustomed to strong feelings of loyalty, affection, and love, was surprised at the satisfaction he felt then. It wasn't a lot of satisfaction, but the fact that it was present at all was quite surprising.

And then, just like that, the conversation had found a natural conclusion. It was awkward now. Of course this whole situation had been nothing short of awkward, but now with the elephant tucked in the corner of the room, he was left nearly alone with a sofa and the option to leave. Theo nodded to her and gestured for her to go.

"You can get the blanket and I'll make up the sofa. I'm too tired to walk over to my place and I really don't want to be bothered by trying to take transport. I also really like your pad. It's pretty slick," he chuckled. "Here's the part where I make a joke about you taking all your hot dates back here for a swift lay, but you killed it with your sad sack 'no friends other than me' comment."

He snorted. His joke wasn't funny but he was trying to kill the awkward just a bit. Theo followed her to wherever the blankets were hidden and took a pillow too. It was hand that it was so plush. He hugged it on his way back to the sofa and set it down, glancing back at her.

"Want company for that shower?" he offered. "Or do you want to be alone?"

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 19, 2021, 05:58:22 pm »
It was inevitable, perhaps, that they would find something to argue about. They could not be entirely copacetic. They both experienced moments of inequity, Andy more than Theo, and now, feeling empty, were scrambling to fill the voids that their lives had become.  Theo no longer found satisfaction in just playing with Hamtato and dicking around in the chat, or lack thereof, or making sure the fish were kept alive and well in Samariel.

Andromeda had introduced an anomaly into his life that he otherwise might never experience with anyone else. She was the disruption, the bug in the code that he fixated on attending do. Was he really right in just inserting himself into her life? She’d just come back from a helluva time in the wastes, lost her eye, realized she had a friend she thought she lost and now was struggling to figure things out.

“I don’t want to make demands of you,” he found himself blurting out, but followed it up with a boyish grin that he tried to use to soothe her a bit.  “Ew, sorry. That grin was creepy.”  He gently slapped his cheeks and he moved toward her, gesturing the wine he poured himself to her.

“What I meant was I’m not expecting you to just turn around and say ‘OMG I love you too! Let’s get married right away and pop some babies out.’ Because no that’s not what I want. I don’t know if I ever want that necessarily but what I do want is for you to take all the time you need to actually do what you need to do to get yourself back together. Maybe find a counselor at DoSaM, someone to actually give you some kind of roadmap to getting better.”

He leaned against the counter, shrugging softly. “Far be it from me to give you life advice. I just want to be as clear as transparent as possible. I just want to be there for you, however you need me. I’m still your friend. At least I think so, even with the feels that I don’t really get.”

It was his turn to take a sip of the wine and the liquid warmed him, distracted him for a time to actually think about what he was going to say.

“So, whenever, if you ever, decide you feel the same way too, then you know where I am. And if you don’t, there I’ll still care about you. I just want you to find whatever makes you happy. That’ll take time, that’ll take a lot of work. But I guess I just want to be your support. Does that answer your question?”

He reached out and gently touched her arm, squeezing her shoulder slightly. “I’m sorry if I just came up real strong out of the blue like ‘Hey I wanna be your boyfriend.’ Nah, it’s not like that. I’m not even ready to be a partner yet. I’m still figuring out exactly what this means for me, being in love. I’ve never been in love before. I’m not sure I ever will again. You take care of you, and I can take care of me, then we can meet somewhere in the middle when you feel good, if you want. We stan a feelin’ good Andy in this house. Er, your house.”

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 17, 2021, 07:50:45 pm »
His mother often said stupid is as stupid does. Generally, stupid people were not quite irredeemable. But sometimes they were. In instances like this, Theo looked at Andy with a deadpan gaze as she went off on him.

He hadn’t quite expected her to be upset but he could immediately tell she was just confused and frustrated and therefore projecting those feelings onto him. Which wasn’t fair at all.

“You think I don’t fuckin’ know that?” He snickered. “You think I didn’t stay awake all night thinking about how dumb all that was? Because I know you’re kind of shitty to people. Like not even just kind of. You were pretty horrible and a lot of people hated you. You’re a mess and in need of serious help. Help I can’t provide.”

He got up and got himself some of that wine he wanted to save for the next day. Cracking it open he poured it into the water cup he’d used earlier and slid back into his seat.

“You don’t get it, you idiot. I can’t control how I feel! I know it’s dumb and irresponsible. And it’s there anyway. I tried to reason with myself but I couldn’t stand not telling you how I felt. I love your dumb ass even if it’s against my better jugment and I still don’t want anything from you. Not until you can figure out your own bullshit.

“Gods. It’s not that hard to figure out.” 

Theo knocked back a few sips and sighed. “So don’t try to white knight me. ‘Oh, oh I’m trying to save you from myself. Durrr-durrr.’ Fuck ass.”

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 17, 2021, 05:17:51 pm »
All of it was a sad attempt at filler. At the end of the day nothing could be avoided, no matter how much sushi Theo stuffed into his face.

When he was finally full, he pushed his trays away from him, setting down the chopsticks and sighing, feeling his stomach ache and he wanted to become a vegetable on her sofa. No swimming yet for him. What was he doing here? Did he really just barge into her apartment and start mooching off her food? Yeah, it really was what he did.

Theo didn’t know why he just decided to come over. He didn’t regret it, but he was confused by it. What did he want from her? What was he looking for? Closure? Or did he really just want more opportunities to be close to her? Nothing of what he told her was a lie but he couldn’t be sure the person he was lying to wasn’t himself.

He wanted to give her as much space and time as she needed but maybe she needed someone to talk to about how she was feeling that could understand her. Maybe that person was meant to be him. Maybe it was meant to be his mother or some DoSam counselor. He had no right to make demands on her time and presence. And part of him couldn’t help but feel like a burden as a result.

He refocused himself and his attention back on her and he remind himself that none of this really was about him. Andy had come back from one of the hardest things a Pilot had ever done and survived. Tales of the wastelands surrounding the domes were treated as youngsters stories meant to fascinate and warn. No one in their right might would ever willingly go out there. Even most Pilots blanched at the thought.

She had been ordered to and followed it without question. She was brave and no one expected her to come back. Yet here she was, in the flesh. He couldn’t be prouder in that respect. But now it was up to her to put her life back together again.

He couldn’t help that his heart thumped wildly at the mention that she missed him too. Letting her speak, just confess what she needed to or whatever came to mind was enough seal his trap shut. When she seemed to be done he softened his expression, trying to offer her a comforting smile.

“Far be it from me to sound like any expert on love or feelings. This is the first time anything like this has ever happened to me. Which was why I prefaced that I didn’t expect anything from you. I don’t even know what I expect from myself. And yeah, dropping that bomb on you while you were in the hospital was kind of not cool of me.” He brushed his fingers through his hair, playing with his earrings a bit to think for a bit.

“But anyway, I guess I’m trying to say, whether it should or shouldn’t be love isn’t up to either of us. I love you for all the reasons you probably can’t see in yourself. You’re such a strong person and I’ve always admired you. You said what you thought, barring the things that probably shouldn’t have been said but I don’t know much about that. You saved my sister without even being asked or requesting anything in return. You deserve friends as much as anyone and I dunno… I just like you. You’re so funny and stupid and I like hanging out with you.”

Boy that was quite the speech, but he found himself flushing like a teenager with his crush and he looked away, playing with his chopsticks and rolling them along the counter.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 16, 2021, 08:11:00 pm »
“Aside from missing you desperately? Not that much happened. I spent a lot of time working,” he said between ginger, sushi rolls, and water. He was starting to get full and this was him pacing himself. He hadn’t really spent that much time cooking now that he thought about it. Most of his meals were simple, nukeable, and/or prepackaged. He only really went all out for Hamtato who…

“My son had a birthday. He’s now twelve,” Theo announced proudly, sitting up and gently pushing one of the empty trays aside. He was definitely enjoying this sushi, so much so that he had to undo the top button on his jeans because they were pushing against his belly.

“He’s a good hamster and I love him and I’d love for you to meet him someday. He’s a cute little guy and hilarious! I make him little hats and take pictures which he loves to do.”  Theo was sure Hamtato didn’t actually enjoy having his pictures taken but he was too distracted by the seed and honey treats that Theo gave him to really complain.

Theo pulled out his comm and unlocked it, present it for Andromeda to see. He slid through videos and photos of Hamtato munching on his treat while Theo arranged different tiny hats on his head. There was a cowboy hat, a ushanka, a turban, and with different scenery in the background. The fat hamster was just content to be occasionally pet and run on his wheel.

“Ain’t he cute? I think you’d like him. And, to really answer your question I kind of just got drunk a lot and messaged you, checked the chat to see if you were there, went to work, hung out with my family, and rinse and repeat. But a lot of it felt really mechanical. I just wondered if you were okay. Just to hear from you one last time.”

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 16, 2021, 07:38:42 pm »
Lacking a thong costume was one of the few tidbits of truth that he actually told anyone else. He wasn’t in the habit of being dishonest. He just chuckled in thought. Yet the focus rekindled itself on the sushi. His own tower of trays were poised in the order that were meant to be devoured but he would go about enjoying each piece when ready.

And then she had to open her mouth.

He stared at the luxury he was just about to enjoy and blanched a bit. “Yeah, it’s a great way to make us regular folks feel like shit,” he said and stuck a spicy crab roll with his chopsticks and popped it into his mouth. He chewed slowly, letting the flavor savor on his tongue and he swallowed with a sip of water.

“Well i couldn’t have asked for a better answer to such a pointless question. But in other news, Mom knows your alive and moderately okay, so she’d be down to talk to you whenever you feel like it. If that won’t be for a while, she’ll understand. She doesn’t know if you still have your old comm or not. Only i was obsessively messaging you.” 

He ate some ginger and then popped another spicy roll into his mouth. “Mmmm, so good.”

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 16, 2021, 06:08:50 pm »
"Swear to gods if you try to come in here in a maid outfit I will kick you off the balcony."

That reply alone made Theo throw his head back and cackle. He had a feeling she’d say something like that. Old Andy would have either played up the joke or come up with some smart ass remark in return. But that was just the kind of response he was hoping for. It wasn’t exactly that he wanted the old Andy return, but he hoped she hadn’t lost touch with her sense of humor despite all she’d been through. That’d be hard going and all he wanted was to support her in any way that he could.

“Oh you know I’m not seriously going to do that. I don’t even own a maid outfit. And also like thongs are uncomfortable,” he chuckled when he got his bearings again. He snickered slightly, watching her, and noting the finality in her voice.  She really didn’t look like she was in any condition to host company.

Thankfully he wasn’t a very demanding guest. “Water’s fine,” he murmured. He got it himself and was just thankful for a refreshment. The wine can be saved for actual dinner tomorrow night and boy was his week long and fruitless.

When the gift of sushi was placed upon the counter, Theo felt himself salivating. “Oh boy, I’m actually way hungrier than I thought. Take out is just fine with me so I’m happy to help you finish it.” And frankly with her paying for it, it was better. Sushi wasn’t exactly cheap in Travica.

“So, should I ask how you’ve been?” He asked that question while distracting himself from looking at her and helping her dismantle the trays of sushi, setting aside the ones that he liked.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 16, 2021, 02:10:16 pm »
Wow. This was going to be way more awkward than he thought.

Theo blinked at her when she answered the door with so much less sass than he was used to. But he walked in anyway and gently shut it behind him one she welcomed him. He set his bag down by the door so it wasn’t in the way and carefully stepped into the kitchen.

“Wow,” he said aloud this time. “I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen your place before.” He gestured to her, well, everything. “So this is what a Noble’s salary is like, yeah? Shiiiiit. I gotta step up my game.”

It wasn’t like he hadn’t seen glamorous furnishing or large homes before, but even Amitra’s own fortune was nothing compared to what this was. This was a single family home spread out on the top floor of a what was basically a penthouse suite. And it was sweeeet.

“Can I crash here more often? Because…um, I see you have a pool and I love to go swimming,” he grinned before taking a seat next to her at the counter.

“Hey,” he murmured and gave her soft eyes, nudging her shoulder softly. “I get it, but y’know I’m gonna need a maid outfit if you want me to be your midnight cleaning lady.”  He was just joking and he hoped his soft laugh that followed showed her that.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 16, 2021, 01:42:23 pm »
He had wondered temporarily what his life would have been like if he hadn’t been a Pilot. If he hadn’t been born into the family he’d been born into and if he’d be a better person for it. It wasn’t like Theo thought himself as a horrible person, not the way Andy probably was feeling about herself, but he imagined he’d be some kind of bohemian starving artist that made custom fish-tanks for gentrified nobodies in the middle of Travica or Samariel or Ryun. Probably he’d live in the latter of the two because they were the closest to oceanic that he’d ever known.

He wonder if he’d ever see what nice ocean would be like. Maybe he’d go to Edanith some day and see one.

Such thoughts were wiped from his mind immediately when his comm buzzed with another response from Andy. 

He could come over, help her clean some stuff up. Maybe if he showed her he could be useful too she’d have an easier time figuring out how she felt. Maybe he just wanted to be in her life even if it was just ornamental. Theo had to figuratively slap himself of the thought because of how stupid it was.

He had to consider his own value as a person before everything else. He wasn’t anyone’s ornament or background object, even if he wasn’t on the forefront of anyone’s real attention, he reminded himself. That’s how his father ended up, and that’s why he was trash. How he was presented and how he was seen by other people was all that mattered to him.

Theo: Yeah, I’ll stop by. I can help you organize your stuff. was all he replied with.  Did he really want to help clean? No, but he’d guessed it was his subconscious trying to justify doing anything to see Andy again.

So he headed right over and buzzed at her apartment when he got there.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 15, 2021, 08:11:02 pm »
The radio silence was a genuine respite from the terrible response he’d assumed she’d give him. He’d assumed after he’d confessed his undying affection despite all else that she’d punch him and go into some kind of tirade as to why he was the dumbest idiot that ever lived. And while he’d wholeheartedly agree with her not entirely unfounded conclusions in this hypothetical, physical violence wasn’t the answer to a scenario like this.

He had time to digest what had happened. He had time to figure out what it really meant for him. It was strange to find that after such a groundbreaking event nothing about his life significantly changed. He still had breakfast and dinner at the same time every day. Still had tea when he woke up and went about his job like it was nothing. But at the back of his mind he still thought about Andy and what she was doing, what she was thinking, if she was thinking about him at all.

He knew she was alive and well and that made his thoughts suddenly more anxiety-inducing because even though he’d made himself pretty clear she could have a change of heart and maybe she did want to punch him in the face after all. Yet something about that entire scenario was foolish. Something had changed in Andy while she was out in the wastes. She wasn’t the same scared pup he knew when she left.

She was more tempered. And if he had Addie to thank for it, then so be it. He could always send them a box of Travica treats or something because Samariel candy just tasted like fish.

With the evening approaching into the weekend, he’d already had his weekend bag packed and had hit the rail to Travica to spend with is mother. When his comm buzzed.

Andy: Wanna come to my place for dinner tomorrow? We need to talk but not in public.

He blinked at the message, getting off the train and walking to his stop to his place.

Theo: Why not tonight? I just got into the city. He looked at his phone for a second longer. Tomorrow works too. I’m just heading to my crash pad now. Super tired. Long week, y’know.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 15, 2021, 07:08:28 pm »
He had a feeling something like this was going to happen. There was no genuine expectation but this, oh god, if he’d been a betting man he’d have a million more credits to his name. And that was a small consolation for the feelings she was unintentionally stomping all over. Theo didn’t actually have his feelings hurt because all of this was very new for both of them. But her confusion definitely didn’t make digesting this whole scenario that much easier.

Watching her cover her face, as if that would let her disappear from the rest of the world did make him want to hug her a bit. Just a bit.

“I said I didn’t expect anything from you,” he repeated, giving himself an extra inch of space between himself and her. She needed room to breath clearly. His suffocating presence would no doubt bring more tension where there shouldn’t be. Andy would have to figure out what she wanted, what she needed. He knew better than anyone else in her life, barring herself, that she was less than relationship material. Theo never really had a steady partner before. So this was just as jarring to him.

Except he was much less of a prick.

He stayed quiet while she was sorting out the rest of her thoughts until she managed the strength to stand on her own. Then she tucked herself away into the bathroom and screamed.

“Welp. That was so much better than what I was expecting.” He sighed and reclined back into her medical bed. Those mattresses were comfy as well, then got out his comm and started playing RockCandyMania 3000.  He was already on level 786 but he was going to shoot for 999. It was a good fifteen minutes before he got up and figured he might as well check on her.

He didn’t bother knocking, he just listened for a few seconds. “Andy… I’ll let you have some time. Focus on getting better then we can talk more yeah? You have my deets,” he muttered and tapped on the door with his knuckles. “Okay, pumpkin?” He snickered and vacated the hospital room. He didn’t actually mean the lovey-talk because that shit was just weird. He just wanted to get under her skin.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 14, 2021, 12:34:25 pm »
Theo didn’t know what to expect when it came to dropping bombs. Again, he wasn’t a combat Pilot. He was more of a running things behind the scenes, making sure none of the fish in Samariel died because of some accidental radiation or something else introduced into the water supply. But if he had to imagine what it was like, he supposed it was something similar to the expression Andy was stuck making for the better part of twenty long seconds.

There was the initial first blast and wave that knocked her off her feet, figuratively. Then followed by the fire that was meant to incinerate everything it touched. In the aftermath, the bodies that were burnt to a crisp, if they weren’t ripped to shreds by the shrapnel and other debris, probably looked like extra crispy fries.

She already had the crispy part down pat without his help, now she was asking for the fire of his response to lay her out like the dead. He didn’t stutter, but he damn sure knew she wasn’t prepared for what he’d said. Or what he was going to say again.

“Just to clarify, I’m not asking anything of you. I don’t expect you to ‘get it’. Or to reciprocate it. I just love you. Believe me, I’ve drunk texted and slapped myself upside the head, asking what the hell am I thinking? But the answer is always the same. I can’t help it. I love you and despite everything and how little it makes sense to me, I always will. The only thing that mattered up until now was getting a chance to tell you. So I’m not joking.”

His expression said that he wasn’t either. There was no sly grin, no playful undertones in his voice. He kept his gaze level with hers and he reached up to brush stray strands of hair from her face. She looked like she’d been kicked by one of those ugly meat-eating horses on Edanith. But he’d only heard the stories.

“Are you going to be okay?”

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 13, 2021, 06:47:24 pm »
And just like that the thin glass he was walking on cracked underneath him. It didn't quite shatter and for now bore the weight of a man that didn't know whether Andy was going to smile at him or break his neck. He'd been so despondent that he didn't care which one it would have been if only he got to tell her that he missed her, and see her one more time.

He liked hearing her speak, even if it was broken, tired, and wanted only a long restful sleep. But Pilots like Andy could only afford rest when they were permanently retired. And that was probably a long ways off. For now, she needed to heal and the progress she'd made was already miles more than what he could only imagine she'd been like when they found her. Or when she'd been hucked out of the Axis Point.

Well, he was trying to tell himself that to remain hopeful.

And then the glass did shatter, she tugged him forward and he thought she was going to wrangle his neck because that was a very Old Andy thing to do. Except he didn't, and the pressure around him was an embrace and he felt her relax against him. It was all very jarring, yet when he regained his composure, Theo's arms naturally fell around her and he likewise returned the hug.

He smiled somberly for it felt like years since he last got to hug someone like this that was his family. There was something about Andy that was oddly comforting, and he'd already come to terms with the fact that he needed her probably more than she needed him. "Yeah you really are a big dumb bimbo. I'm glad they could point that out to you," he muttered, his face pressed to her head so that his words were a soft mumble against her ear. "I love you, you know. I knew it when you returned Olivia back to me and my mom. I didn't know if I'd ever get a chance to tell you."

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 12, 2021, 08:27:53 pm »
Seeing her like this, in pain, suffering like a mortal, made Theo's heart twist into a knot. She was so small in this giant ass hospital bed, it seemed to consume her. And the big beautiful babe he remembered and admired and dreamt of on lonely nights was rough-housed, hardened, harrowed. She was different in more ways than what he could see, that much was evident. The softness of her features, like a pin-up model that had no time for small plebians like him, was dulled and in its wake the hollowed-out edges of her cheekbones were more prominent and her skin had been toasted by the merciless sun.

All he wanted to do was hold her. But he was still walking on sheer glass here over a chasm. He was going to wait until he knew at what level they were with each other first. Across that chasm was hope, however, and he'd walk through fire to see it through.

Then she began to cry. Theo gasped softly before leaning forward and squeezing her hand tighter. "Y'know I was really pissed off at you," he admitted before long. "I figured if you didn't like me you'd have the courtesy to tell me. This is me venting so please just listen. I guess I could only stay mad at you sometimes. Because other times I just really wanted to pretend you were still around."

He grinned and reached up to damp her tears away with the cloth again. Feeling her skin, as rough as it was, he kept it under his hand for a few long, tender seconds. He was trying to remember what her skin felt like, and while it wasn't this, the old familiarity of it returned.

"You scared me. I thought you were dead. But Pilots don't die. So they say."  He felt his heart escalating. "I forgive you. For whatever that's worth. For leaving me in the dark. Not that you did anything wrong, but so you don't beat yourself up about it y'know. No hard feelings, yeah?"  He squeeze her free hand in his again, giving it a mock shake.

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 12, 2021, 07:38:06 pm »
He didn't know if he expected some kind of explanation for what he just saw or if he just cared more that she didn't start hemorrhaging more blood and pass out. If anything, at least she was in the immediate care of those best equipped to help her if such a thing came to pass. When she seemed calm enough to recognize his presence, he breathed out heavily and relaxed against the side of the bed. The pain in his head subsided and he blocked out any further throbbing his mind ached with.

"You didn't seem yourself there," he commented, getting up and looking around for anything he could use to clean her off. He found a soft towel in the washroom that was connected with her room. After a minute he returned with a damp, warm towel, rung out and gently blotted her nose and face, not lingering for more than a few swipes before tossing it to the side.

"I got in not long ago," he muttered, sitting back down next to her, this time facing her now. He gently touched her hand, squeezing it and frowning a bit. "The Axis did a number on you it seems. You look really different. I don't mean bad, but I almost didn't recognize you, were it not for the sound of your voice."

He tried to smile. "I'm just glad to see that you're alive. I didn't think I'd ever see you again."

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 12, 2021, 04:39:12 pm »
He'd lost count of the hours, minutes, seconds, that it took to finally arrive in Haviah. He couldn't sleep no matter how many times he tried to close his eyes. All he could see was Andy's face looking at him, but not really. It was as if she was somewhere else, expression distant and the glaze to her eyes was actually something else he didn't recognize. Tears? Come to think of it he'd never seen her cry or become overwhelmed with emotion like he'd seen plenty of other people do time and again.

Of course, she wasn't heartless. He knew that long ago. And she proved it when she rescued his little sister from a life of living hell. No one that was heartless would have gone to such lengths to save someone else, when they gained nothing from doing so. Andy didn't even so much as ask for a drink or something.

And come to think of it that was about the last time that Theo remembered seeing Andy. After that she fell off the earth and all he had was her ghost.

When he came back to the land of the living, he stared at his stop when the announcement for Haviah chimed. Theo stalked off the train, feeling his body light and airy, walking without any input from his brain. He somehow made it to DoSaM. Every Pilot knew how to get there for the most part. He'd only been a few times before for nothing more than a check-up here and there.

Once inside he was directed to Miss Messiere's room once they understood she'd specifically requested for him to be there even though visiting hours were far from over. It was well into the early morning. The sun would be up soon no doubt.

And when he walked in the door, his stomach dropped and watched in silence. She was having a fit and he stepped forward as she struggled with blood and a pain she projected out to everyone that could bear it. His ears were ringing and he bit his tongue trying to hold back his own screams. He sat down beside Andromeda and reached for her hand, squeezing it.  When his tongue was saved from being halved, he shook her arm a bit and beheld her bruised, bleeding face with another.

"Andy!" he yelled at her. "Andy! Snap out of it! "

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Haviah / Re: All This Time [Lion]
« on: August 11, 2021, 07:42:51 pm »
As far as he was concerned, Theo was dead to Andromeda Messiere. Without so much as a scoff of a response from her in six months, he figured she dropped him like last week's fashionable panties and he was better off moving on to greener pastures. Normally that might not be the worst thing in the world except for a few concepts that stood in the way. Theo often described himself as a fly by the seat of his pants kind of guy. It was one of the few things that kept him going because of how much little commitment he required in life. Except that's what changed and the listlessness that allowed him to do whatever he wanted before now plagued him with something else: emptiness.

Just when he thought his life couldn't get anymore mundane, Andy had to up and leave it. For months he'd gone through the effort of trying to get her attention because if there was one thing he was really good at it was being really irritating. He wouldn't ever do anything that would cost him a career move, because, for one, there was so little for him to actually move up into. He wasn't a combat Pilot after all. But he could be just irritating enough to get people to notice him and when they did, they had a good time. And when they were bored of him, they conveniently moved on with their lives to be just as non-commital as he was trying to be.

If Andy really did move on, then why couldn't he?

He knew why. He was fooling himself trying to escape in late night movies at the cheap seats. The poor theatre staff didn't look that entertained by his presence after going for a few months in a row. Suddenly he'd seen every midnight showing of every single blockbuster that came out at least four times that they lost their luster. And every other showing of everything else at least ten times in rotation.

They really didn't make movies like they used to anymore.

Theo didn't know what that meant, but it sounded like something that was apt to this moment of watching the finale of "Furiously Fast 18" where Din Viezel was going to die in a fiery crash yet again only to be found 'he didn't die after all' in the inevitable sequel because the power of family kept him going.

He was the only one in the auditorium, and he'd already gone through his second refill of his big drink and extra large popcorn. The junk food didn't taste good anymore. He only got it because he had plenty of points on his rewards account. He even had a free ticket.

There was something about sitting in the dark at the top row that made it so that distanced himself from the rest of the world for a while. In here no one recognized him as a Pilot, no one stopped and stared (although so few did that anyway - one of the perks of not being a combat Pilot), and he was just another face in the crowd.

That anonymity was comforting. And at the same time, it was painful. Because the only person he wished he could be acknowledge by fell off the face of Aedolis.

His comm buzzed but he ignored it. Olivia was probably messaging him again asking for him to bring home some theatre snacks but the concession stand was closed by now. It was already 1 am.

When the movie was over, he figured he'd call her and see what she wanted. But his eyes widened when he checked his phone and his stomach dropped. He frowned and considered replying back. No, he'd wait...  He wanted to make her wait, to make her curl up into a ball and feel as miserable as he felt but something else kept him from pocketing his comm again.

Instead his thumb swiped across the screen and he wrote. "Ok. omw now but it might be a while." If she was in DoSaM, she wasn't going anywhere any time soon.  And he'd already slept through the first half of the movie.

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Margad / Re: An Unusual Suspect (Lion)
« on: January 23, 2021, 01:53:51 pm »
Sasha rarely had company. The convenience of a public place meant he didn't have to play host. His apartment wasn't begging for attention, and he hadn't cleaned up in a while. This place was better, it was even ground. And he could pretend he didn't have anything to worry about while he got shitfaced.

That said, V's sputtering was kind of annoying. Or maybe he just had too much to drink already.

"No, no," he said, shaking his head. "Don't even worry about it. Cover fees are nothing. Bars make more in booze anyway. Everybody knows that. Besides, you ain't ever been out to a bar before? Nevermind, loaded question. I know the answer to that already."

He held his hand up and when the drinks finally arrived he supposed he was still drinking alone after all.  V wasn't really here, even if they were here and somehow that made him feel even worse. It wasn't their fault, he knew. Nobody really liked hanging out with him anyway.

"I just need a break," he said, sounding defensive. "Don't you ever need a break sometimes? I'm sure your life ain't no less hectic than mine?"  He swigged a beer, burping immediately after. "Oh, sorry."

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