vatheon | 15 ♐ Baby it's cold outside

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15 ♐ Baby it's cold outside

Who: Darkleer, Summoner, Disciple (plus others eventually)
When: The afternoon
Where: The highblood hive
Status: Open to anyone dropping by Darkleer's place!
Note: All interactions with Summoner will happen after his and Darkleer's thread, ic timewise. Summoner can also be found throughout the rest of the hive, not just Darkleer's room!

It's been two months now, soon to approach a third if this keeps going. Like he has been for most of October and November, Darkleer stays in his room. It's not an uncommon sight, him like this- bent over his workbench, hands strung through his hair. How much longer is Summoner going to sleep the days away? It's just like when he died... It seems Vatheon can never let things be easy for him. Yet at the same time, he's almost scared for him to wake up. There's Mindfang, after all, and what happened with the Highblood...

Sighing, he looks to Summoner again. He's let the other keep his bed, and tucked the blankets around him tight to protect him from the chill in the air. There's the miniature horse he got from the petting zoo, sleeping on his body. The sight makes him smile, just a bit.

Just a little longer, he tells himself. Just a little longer... hopefully.

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Sollux literally jerks up at the sudden, unexpected voice, narrowly avoiding giving a loud yelp. He closes his mouth on it, eyes wide and staring at Summoner.

He knew that Summoner would wake up eventually, but he never expected this, and now he feels completely embarrassed. He'd just been caught climbing into Summoner's bed, and he had really intended to broach that subject - you know, the <> thing - a lot more delicately than this. In fact, he'd come up with about a hundred cool scripts and none of them involved being caught with his prongs around his bulge like this.

"Um...hi," he squeaks, ducking his head a bit as Summoner ruffles his hair.

"Ah ah-!" Shakes his head a little, tsking at him as he pushes a hand over Sollux's mouth softly and glances over to Darkleer. Not that... Darleer will wake up with just that. The blueblood's bound to be rather exhausted about now-

heh.

"Uh, hey, heh." Just smiles, showing some teeth before slinging an arm around him and hugging him to his side.

"Come here often then?" Chuckle.

Sollux is a bit stiff, but doesn't actually pull away. He finds himself pulled against Summoner's side, blushing and feeling absolutely wretched. He doesn't want to lie, though. What if Darkleer told him already?

"I guess I've come a few times," he whispers. "Darkleer wouldn't let me stop," he adds defensively.

"Wouldn't let you stop?" He replies with a vexed tone, glancing down at him.

Okay, that wasn't exactly true. He squirms a little at that tone. "I mean, I came in once, and then he caught me, and he said it was okay and I should come any time I want."

"Oh, heh, well uh, well yeah. It's nice that you visited me. Sorry if I wasn't uh-" Teeters his head a little, chuckling again, softly to himself.

"The most entertaining of company for it, but I'm awake now, kind of. Though Darkleer did a number on waking me up."

"It's okay," Sollux hastens to try to reassure him. "I mean, it's not like you even wanted me around, and you definitely didn't need to entertain me or anything."

He snickers softly. "Yeah, I bet he did a number on you..."

"Hey now, I like having you around. You are a pretty cool guy, eh? Sorry I missed out though."

Grins at that comment, glancing over to a rather pantless Darkleer. He lifts a brow, tilting his head to look back at Sollux.

"Pretty obvious guess with sleeping beauty over here, hey?"

Edited 2012-12-12 05:37 (UTC)

"I'm really okay with not having all the details," Sollux says quickly, his teeth flashing in a grin. "So are you saying that you're okay with me crawling in your window and sprawling over you in the middle of the night?"

"Well apparently that was becoming the in thing while I was out, so I guess I can't complain if the fad got that popular." Darkleer, Sollux, Disciple, horses, apparently napping ontop of him like some kind of slumberbunkus is how shit was flying. He's more flattered than anything though, nice to know so many people missed him/enjoyed his company in some manner.

Sollux shrugs self-consciously. "You could complain. If you want me to fuck off, then you can say so... I was probably being stupidly pathetic, anyway."

He's been pretty lonely while Summoner was gone, in a lot of different ways.

"AA and FF both left the day you fell asleep," he murmurs.

"Well I'm not, I don't think anyway? Have I complained yet?" Smiles, tugging him closer and moving his other hand to give him a slight noogie before trailing off.

"Shit-" Moves a hand to rub the back of his neck.

"Sorry to uh, to hear that."

Sollux sighs and shrugs again, tucking himself a little more closely against Summoner. "FF came back," he says, hoping that he's not making Summoner feel bad about not being here. "But she doesn't remember us being together. It's sort of awkward - actually, a lot awkward, but I guess we're working it out."

He's already felt pretty bad about it, believe him. When Darkleer told him he had been out for two months his heart sank.

"Well, at least you have your friend back, hey? Romance or not, it's probably nice just to have her around, sucks you can't tap it anymore though, sorry kiddo." A smile, moving a hand to finally smooth his hair away from his eyes, getting a better look at the younger troll.

"Who knows, maybe you'll get to go through those awkward stages of a romance again? And I don't even mean with her. Being single's pretty great too." He'd be lying if he said he didn't miss certain parts of it from time to time.

Edited 2012-12-12 06:22 (UTC)

Sollux goes yellow again. "Yeah, that totally sucks," he says bravely. Tap that? He's never done more than kissing, anyway, as of yet, and so he's not really missing more than that. But he smiles up at Summoner and reaches up, combing back the hair to try to get it to stay back. "I don't know. Being single's never really been something I enjoyed."

Summoner didn't mean quite literally have intercourse with her, it was more- general. But he thinks he knows Sollux gets that for the most part, heh.

He gives him a softer smile as Sollux pulls his hair away. Lysunder's got some killer bags under his eyes, but he seems at a slight peace. He's atleast doing well to hide any turmoil he has though.

"Single leaves room for a hell of a lot of opportunities, kid, even if it feels kinda lonely." Slumps down a little, leaning in to give him a soft little headbump, pulling back with a small chuckle.

"Definitely not alone though, ever, got that?"

Sollux runs his fingers right back - pulling out for a second to accommodate the horns - to hold Summoner's hair against the back of his neck. He knows someone like Summoner might want to have a lot of opportunities, but Sollux has always been grateful for the opportunities he had, and didn't feel worthy of them.

And being alone...wasn't good. He ate so much better when he had Aradia and Feferi doting over him and reminding him to actually leave his room occasionally.

He's about to say something like that when Summoner bumps their heads together and then says that thing about not being alone, and an urge suddenly seizes him. "Do you want to be my moirail?" he blurts out.

Fuck.

His brows furrow.

"Uh..."

Fuck.

Fuck. Fuck.

Worst day ever.

"Never mind," he says hurriedly, and tucks his head down against Summoner's shoulder so he doesn't have to look at his face. "Forget I said anything. Just...you don't even have to say anything."

Summoner pulls his head back a little tilting it down to look at the back of the boy's head. It's not that...

he's really against it?

It's just quadrants can be tough, though, considering what shit he's gonna be going through soon maybe it's a good idea, but he isn't sure he'd want to load up what problems he has on a kid. Still-

"No it's all right, Watt, I'm just- I mean, you sure about that? With me? I uh, I'm not really the best choice for that kinda thing, heh, you know what I'm saying?" A small sigh, relaxing to set his hands on Sollux's upper back. He didn't mean to make Sollux so upset, there's just a lot of emotional stuff hitting him today, like wow. Mindfang, whatever the heck's going on with Darkleer and the Highblood, now this. Quadrants, man.

He honestly didn't mean to pile another bit of emotional stuff on top of Summoner. He had recognized that being unconscious for so long would give him a lot of shit to deal with once he woke up. So Sollux had honestly thought it through and planned not to say a thing for a while, but it had come out.

"I haven't been asleep for two months," Sollux murmurs miserably. "I've thought a lot about it. But I'm a stupid douche and I should have given you space, so you don't have to say yes just because you're so nice and awesome."

"Well, I am nice and awesome." Smiles, tightening his hug.

"But that's not why I'd say yes."

Sollux sort of feels like yelling at him, but everything that comes to mind sounds really stupid. Like, 'no, don't say yes, because I'm a fucktard'.

He huddles into the hug and his arms sneak around Summoner's neck. "You really don't have to say yes," he mutters helplessly. "I'll be a really good moirail, though... after this pathetic moment is over."

"Well pathetic moments are uh, kinda the point of it, right? Ya know," Teeters to either side a little bit. "You be pathetic and I try to help you be more smooth and cool, then I mess up and be pathetic and you try to help me out. A mentor kinda thing, right?" And he might be older an everything, right to be a mentor in age, but he doesn't really see the problem with a kid helping him out back. Hell, you can't really choose what you feel for, right? And Sollux has already proven to have an attitude that works to calm him down.

Still though-

"I just, there's a lot going on with me, I uh, I don't want to toss all that on someone," His expression calms a little, looking down, voice still hushed.

"You shouldn't have to listen to all my fuck ups." No one should, he's always believed that anyway.

This is actually sounding pretty good. As if Summoner actually wants to be moirails, but is just hesitant. Sollux had expected Summoner to feel Sollux wouldn't be good enough to be his moirail, but that's not what he's hearing.

He lifts his head and looks at him shyly. "What if I want to listen to your fuck ups? There's a lot going on with me, too, you know..."

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