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Tweak says, "Narf!"

X-23, Laura Kinney (weapon_x_23) wrote in ridgewayresort,
@ 2010-10-20 02:52:00

Entry tags:

gabriel, x-23

Who: X and Gabriel
When: After this
Where: Cabin 004 Room C
What: Her senses returned, nothing was going to keep her from Gabriel's side.
Rating: TBD
Status: In Progress

She could tell by his scent alone that he was upset. That there was something amiss. Climbing out of the window with the ease that had always been her own. She moved along the rooftops. The act brought back the memory of their first night together, she had taken this same route. Though something told her there was no love making and hot tubs at the end of this road.

Not that there had to be, she simply enjoyed laying with Gabriel. Feeling his warmth around her. Laying with him had afforded her the best sleep she'd ever had in the whole of her existence. The past few days without him wasn't the worst, but she had slept poorly. Now that the cuff was off she was free to find him. To be with him.

It definitely took less time to get to him taking the rooftops. Not that there were guests to worry over this late at night. Though she was a good bit more bulky than she had been the first time she eased herself down from his rooftop. Her claws piercing the clapboard of the cabin. As she suspended herself upside down, just above his window. Freeing one hand she tapped lightly on the glass with a fingernail, letting him know she was there, before she eased herself down and into the window.

"As the saying goes. You look blue, my love." Of course he wasn't literally blue... She knew that. Even if he looked it a little bit, because of the moonlight.

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lucyimhome
2010-10-20 11:03 am UTC (link)

Gabriel lay on his back, hands behind his head. The thought of seeing Laura was the only bright point in what had been a pretty sucky day. Friends, true friends, were exceedingly rare for Gabriel and that meant his experience at the friendly falling out was also scarce. There was anger and hurt but, more than that, the fear he had lost something he was starting to find-

Tap tap tap.

Only that could have brought a smile to Gabriel's lips. He closed the distance between them and closed his arms around her, holding her tight, bypassing the kisses just to presses his body to hers. Close... all he could deal with, all he wanted, was to lay in her arms. If she asked him what was wrong he would tell her. He hoped she didn't ask.

"Come lie with me, my darling," he whispered. "Let's enjoy our guts staying where they are supposed to me." He smiled weakly and kept his body against her.

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weapon_x_23
2010-10-21 02:26 am UTC (link)

The smile did not fool her. She let him close the distance her arms sliding around him as he closed his around her. She took that moment to absorb what she could. His scent told her so much, yes he was happy to see her, but there was also something decidedly sad. "Of course, my love." She would not point out that the contents of her stomach never made a showing.

Leaning away from him, she did not take full contact away as she lead him toward the bed. "I will sit. You lay, and put your head in my lap. And I shall do my best to sooth your aches." She had full intention on giving him exactly what he needed. No matter the means.

She released him fully and moved to sit up by the headboard. "If you like I could stroke your wings. Or simply just..." She trailed off. She'd never had to do this before. There had been the one time she'd sat with Rachel Summers, but she simply listened, and did not offer physical contact as a way of soothing.

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lucyimhome
2010-10-21 04:25 am UTC (link)

"My aches?" He almost lied to spare her. The replaced his weak protects with a nod. "I'd... like that." He waited for her to settle on the bed and followed close behind, not wanting space between them for a moment more than necessary.

He lay across the huge bed, setting beside her on his stomach. "My wings... have been neglected for too long," the angel said. "Please... could you?" Although his wings were sensitive Gabriel was far more interested in a gentle distraction, not sex. He didn't feel ready for... damn you Tony.

"I..." she needed an explanation. He was worrying her. This wasn't the time. "I had a fight with Tony."

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weapon_x_23
2010-10-21 05:06 am UTC (link)

Even he would not have been able to convince her that he was not in pain, if not physically emotionally. Which was always far easier to detect. "Of course, my love." She did not need to be able to see his feathery appendages to know they were there. Closing her eyes she eased her hands down over his back, between his shoulder blades. She eased her palm over the thick joint that joined his wing to his back, up along the thick main bone.

Her fingers were especially gentle as the eased along the shafts of a few feathers as he confessed. "You won? You did not hurt him to much I hope." She only assumed he meant they came to blows, and that he won because he bore no marks at all that she could tell. There wasn't even the scent of blood on him. Neither Tony's nor his own.

Her other hand eased through his hair. Very delicately petting his head. She disliked that he was so distressed. Especially because of someone she knew he considered his friend.

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lucyimhome
2010-10-21 05:36 am UTC (link)

His voice cracked as he answered her. "No one won and... he hurt me." He could barely force the words out. He made the effort to focus on her gentle touch. To a mundane observed it would look as if she was touching thin air but Gabriel could see his own wings. He cast his eye upwards to watch his feathers pass for her fingers.

"And it was as well I didn't hit him. He wouldn't have survived that blow from me." Tony had hurt him beyond words but he had no desire to kill his... former friend.

He sighed against her hand on his hair, turned his head towards it. "It's... fine. It's over."

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weapon_x_23
2010-10-21 06:56 am UTC (link)

The cracking of his voice, made her breath catch. Leaning forward as much as she could she pressed a kiss close to his ear, without her fingers leaving his hair. She could not remain that way for long, she sat back against the headboard once more. Her fingertips were gentle as they massaged the delicate muscles within his wings. Careful not to cause damage to his feathers as she did. "I am sorry he hurt you, my love."

Yes she cared for Tony, but she loved Gabriel. And there was nothing she wouldn't do for him. His words confused her a touch though. "You resolved it? What do you mean?" If it was resolved surely he would not be in the pain that he was currently in. Her fingernails eased gently over his scalp as he moved toward her stroking fingers.

"Shall I hit him for you?" She offered, knowing she could kill Tony, but not by a single strike, unless she extended her claws with the blow. And she did not think that was something she could do.

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lucyimhome
2010-10-21 07:28 am UTC (link)

Gabriel chuckled. "I love you, Laura. A lot. There is no phase to say how much I love you but... don't hit him. It's nothing like that. I just won't be seeing him again. You are free to, of course. You can do anything you want with and to him but it's over and it's, yeah, resolved."

His head sank back onto the mattress. "Hmmm, that feels good," he said warmly. "You can do that any time. In front of-" he broke off. "Any time." He feel silent. As relaxed as he was starting to feel he was a long way from feeling like playing.

"Laura... will you just stay with me tonight?" Never had he sounded so small, no defeated, so human in her presence.

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weapon_x_23
2010-10-21 08:24 am UTC (link)

A frown tugged at her lips, he was not going to see Tony any more. But she did not push the issue. She was here to make him feel better, not worse. She was sure she knew what his 'in front of' would have been. "Anytime you need me to I will be happy to." Was her response. She stroked her fingers along the spines of his feathers, and very lightly, very gently she began rubbing one after the other.

She was tempted to give his head her full attention, massage away the tension. But she liked stroking his feathers far to much. "Of course my love. I will stay with you until you tell me to leave." She gave him a little teasing smile. "Even then I may not go."

She was sorely tempted to hit Tony anyway. She did not like how he had made Gabriel so... Sad. "I love you."

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