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Sep. 11th, 2004 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kabeleced[[OOC: after the family talks and Despair.]]
"I might --"
Regulus cuts himself off, sighing, and leans against the closed door. Not too far away, Desire sits in a chair, eyeing him almost warily. Regulus wants to go over to him, to hold him and ignore what he just heard, but if what he thinks is about to happen really does then he'd rather not, for no reason he can think of. He takes a deep breath, and starts again.
"All right. Before -- before I say anything, remember something for me?"
"I might --"
Regulus cuts himself off, sighing, and leans against the closed door. Not too far away, Desire sits in a chair, eyeing him almost warily. Regulus wants to go over to him, to hold him and ignore what he just heard, but if what he thinks is about to happen really does then he'd rather not, for no reason he can think of. He takes a deep breath, and starts again.
"All right. Before -- before I say anything, remember something for me?"
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:16 pm (UTC)There has never been this much to consider at once before, and so immediately. Desire's head hurts a little, and he rubs his eyelids with a hand in another human gesture.
"What makes you think I wouldn't?"
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:24 pm (UTC)Regulus nods, mostly to himself, though he almost gives up when he sees Desire rubbing his eyes.
I should go over to him
but I shouldn't if it's my fault
"Um. Okay. I might not be the brightest person, dead or alive, in the universe. I know this. But. I do know that ... that you and your brothers and sisters aren't meant to go into each other's, um. Realms."
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:30 pm (UTC)If Desire wants Regulus to give up this line of conversation and touch him already, he gives no outward sign.
There is a point coming, and Desire isn't sure it's avoidable.
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:36 pm (UTC)"And. You don't often, right? Like ... not in the last century?"
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:50 pm (UTC)Desire's eyes meet grey: They lack the agony of his sister's, but similiar regardless. Desire feels the urge to stand, to wrap himself about Regulus where he stands -- but that isn't how this goes, is it?
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:53 pm (UTC)No. No, he can't.
"That makes sense, of course, but." He gestures vaguely to Desire's cheek, where the mark had been. "She wouldn't have done that to you if you'd just been watching, would she have?"
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Date: 2004-09-13 06:57 pm (UTC)He tries, but Reg can't keep his eyes on Desire. Instead, he looks down at the floor.
"Was it because of me?"
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:05 pm (UTC)"It was," Desire admits quietly, burying his face in Regulus' hair.
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:13 pm (UTC)"Then, then why didn't you tell me it'd got bad different? Cos I. Would've left. Will if you want me to."
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:22 pm (UTC)"She'll have me for sure, if you leave."
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:30 pm (UTC)He gives up trying to make sense, and just buries his face in Desire's neck again.
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:37 pm (UTC)"We play games. I can't really help it -- still. I'm willing to lose, if it means..."
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Date: 2004-09-13 11:37 pm (UTC)No right... But it's true.
Desire feels a sudden and acute sense of longing.
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Date: 2004-09-14 07:21 pm (UTC)Desire really can't voice the though without explaination, and... Well. Desire can't handle that conversation tonight.
He lifts Reg's chin up again, lightly kissing his cheeks. "I should probably go. I haven't been home in some time." And Desire means the Threshold, even if home has begun to refer more and more to this room.
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Date: 2004-09-14 07:28 pm (UTC)Regulus tries not to frown. Everyone should go home, after all. Still ...
"Hey. If I haven't over-asked you tonight ... do something for me?"
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Date: 2004-09-14 07:34 pm (UTC)And Desire did.