15 ♐ Baby it's cold outside

[aim_exorable]

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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[rebull]

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

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

[thekidsare0kay]

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."

[rebull]

"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.

[thekidsare0kay]

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..."

[rebull]

"Yeah, I uh, I get that, it's just-" A nervous laugh, moving a hand to rub the back of his own neck nervous.

"I mean, you sure you want some old dude in your diamond mine?"

[thekidsare0kay]

Okay, he's really cute when he's nervous, and Sollux is starting to smile a little, still shy, but starting to feel better and more confident. "Are you sure you want some little freakazoid wiggler in your diamond mine?"

[rebull]

"Hey now, I've seen what that wriggler can do." Smiles a bit wider, leaning on a hand.

"But uh, I dunno, things can get pretty dangerous, you know? But I guess I've always been a fly by the seat of my pants kinda guy." Nervous chuckle before he grows silent before-

"Yeah what the hell, just don't complain if your shoulders get too heavy, all right?"

[thekidsare0kay]

"I'm not scared of any single person in this bubble," Sollux says, though that's a tiny lie. He is a bit nervous about the Grand Highblood. And things change when he loses his powers.

He inches closer, arms slipping around Summoner's neck and giving him a tight squeeze, grinning. "I can carry anything that you can lay on me, Lysunder. It can't possibly be worse than the daily hell that's already my entire life."

[aim_exorable]

There's a small grunt from Summoner's other side.

"Congratulations," Darkleer mutters, pushing up just a bit to stare groggily at the two warmblood from underneath a near waterfall of hair. He's been up for a few minutes now, but it was mostly only half awake. Still, considering Sollux is now in their bed, it's not much of a mystery to figure out what's going on.

"Should I get myself decent, then, lest we traumatize the boy?" His words are ruined by a yawn at the end, and he reaches up to wipe the sleep from his eyes.

[rebull]

Summoner almost spits as he half laughs half jumps from that.

"Ah hah- uh. Shit-" Looks to Darkleer before relaxing and sliding a hand up into that long black hair.

"Might want to, poor kid wouldn't even know what to do with all that."

[thekidsare0kay]

Sollux also jumps at the sudden movement from Darkleer, but he just laughs and resists the urge to hide his face against Summoner's neck. "Too late, man. I've already gotten a huge eyeful of what you're hung with, and I promise it'll haunt my dreams for sweeps to come."

[aim_exorable]

"I thought it polite to ask." Look, he's even giving the mun an icon excuse reaching over for his pants that were flung to the side of the bed and wiggling into them again. Doing his best to avoid traumatizing Sollux with accidental bulge shots some more, even!

With that done, he slinks his arm around Summoner's middle again. "Mmm, are you staying the night then?" He's too tired to protest, and besides. This was something he was looking forward to, one of the few things that would come with Summoner's awakening. It's good to know the both of them will hopefully be more stable. Maybe Summoner will even stop making stupid decisions!

...Let him hope, okay?

[rebull]

"Promise it'll haunt my dreams too, Tink." A nervous laugh as he moves to softly grip Darkleer's arms as they come around his waist. Summoner's still... really nervous about Mindfang being back and staying with Darkleer. He's not sure how Mindfang will act after all, especially since it's not the same Mindfang that had been here before. But he'll just have to play it by ear, right?

"You can if you want, guessing you were going to anyways, heh. And sorry about big blue showing you his big blue by accident. Guess it's what you get for stopping by so late." Chuckles under his breath.

[thekidsare0kay]

Sollux is trying not to feel like a third wheel, but he's also a little happy still that Summoner wants to be his moirail even if the mood has been changed. And it is nice that Darkleer approves, too, he just doesn't want to intrude.

"It's okay, I like blue things. You both want me to stay? I don't mind leaving if you guys need, like, more pail time or something."

[aim_exorable]

Feel free to ignore that startled and choked sound. Sollux, he's trying hard to remember why he lets you in his hive. There are so many things that don't need to be in this conversation.

"We were sleeping!" he protests, face a deep blue and his brows furrowed. Pail time! Really! "We do not need anything of the sort!"

[rebull]

He can't help but laugh himself though, shaking his head a little.

"Don't mind him, he's just being a tight ass." Which only continues to make him laugh by saying.

"Feel free to crash, hey? And if tons a fun over here has anything to say against it we can take our fine selves back to my hive." Place probably needs a little love anyway. But he wouldn't stay there long of course, considering thing.

[thekidsare0kay]

"You're the one parading his bulge all over the place," Sollux protests, smacking Darkleer on the shoulder. It probably feels like a gnat punching him.

He buries himself against Summoner's shoulder. "I'm officially crashing here and you can't stop me," he declares, smiling. When Summoner laughs, it makes him feel better about, well, just about anything. "If you need to pail, just be quiet about it."

[aim_exorable]

"I wasn't expecting a guest!" Huffing, he just presses his face into his pillow. "You two are wretched. Please cease talking about our pail."

Yeah, right now? He's regretting encouraging this. With Sollux and Summoner combined, their lewd comments and jokes will only increase. The things he does for love.

[rebull]

A snerk, laying back with a sigh.

"You won't have to worry about that, Sollux, we're on a down period for now. Atleast I thought we were, heh, with how uh, how embarrassed Tink's getting it's like you caught us mid-lay." Grins, moving a hand to curl some of Darkleer's hair back behind his ear.

"But no, seriously, it's not a problem. I might not be crashing myself for a bit though, heh. But you two feel free." A small smile.

[thekidsare0kay]

"You shouldn't have encouraged me to keep coming back if you hated having me around so much," Sollux taunts Darkleer, grinning against Summoner's shoulder. It feels kinda neat to be, well, in bed with a couple of naked adult trolls and wow that line of thought went the wrong place suddenly.

See, here's the thing. It sort of feels adult, to be dealing with adult things, and being part of a quadrants group that involves some adult trolls and we'll just leave it there.

"You're not tired, huh?"

[aim_exorable]

"He caught sight of my genitalia. I am allowed to feel however I care to." but it's really only half hearted exasperation, and he simply leans into Summoner's touch.

"I could always rescind the invitation you know." Seriously, Sollux, you jerk. The question about Summoner's energy just has him shake his head, but he lets him answer it. Really, the city's whims are the only reason why Summoner gets any decent sleep at all.

[rebull]

A laugh at the both of them, allowing himself that much anyways, even with his head still full.

"Not really, heh, just got a lot on my mind, ya know?" His voice softens a little as his eyes close, shifting abit, one arm around Sollux and the other lightly rubbing Darkleer's outer thigh.

"Don't let that stop you from clocking out."

[thekidsare0kay]

"You can try," Sollux returns, tightening his arms around Summoner. Right now, he's not going anywhere unless they seriously don't want him here. Then he'd probably go.

He snuggles into the crook of Summoner's arm and puts his lips near his ear - trying not to hit his head on his horn, and whispers. "Want to sneak out for a bit? If you've got stuff on your mind..."

[aim_exorable]

A lot on his mind... Doesn't Darkleer know it. Normally, he'd just lay there and try to figure out how to fix the mess they're in, or at least wallow in his own misery. However, with a certain young psionic in the picture, things have changed.

He'd rather not let go of Summoner- he's too warm, and Darkleer a bit too clingy at times- but he gives him a small nudge. If he wanted to go talk with his new moirail, then maybe it would help.

[rebull]

"Heh." Summoner lets out small sigh, smiling to himself as he nudges into Sollux's hair shaking his head. He'll have plenty of time for that later and he kinda knows Darkleer needs some more time with him after all.

"Mmm-" Nuzzles back a bit, closing his eyes as he sets his head back. "Gotta remember to let some other people know I'm back later, I'll give it a little I think." He says softly to himself, trying to keep out the heavy stuff for now. He'll... talk to Sollux about it later.