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Kori Lynn Clarke (bound_kori) wrote in bound_rp,
@ 2014-12-15 01:27:00

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in progress, kori clarke, private, rafael valdez

I'll take the apron with the frills
Date: December 15, 2013
Time: Shortly after 1 a.m.
Location: Their house
Characters: Kori Clarke, Rafael Valdez
Description: From one perspective, making dinner. From another, worry and concern
Status: Private, In progress

For the span of the past couple weeks, her dreams had been more frequent. Not daily, by any means. But frequent enough where it bogged her down with worry. The images had always been cryptic. Though when they tended more toward the realm of violence, it was all the worse. Flashes of blood, torn flesh, fangs...it would always wake her with a start, pushing the blankets off her body to get herself untangled from them. The feeling was an awful one, and the images had their way of persisting and staying with her in wakefulness.

Whatever it was that Rafael had been doing, he hadn't been sharing any of it with her. Usually, he didn't go into much detail of what he did for his nest. But this was the first time that she'd seen so much of it. The brutality of it all was potent, even if she didn't see the entirety of what came to pass. More than once she had seen him getting wounded. Gravely. But when he did return to the house, he was unscathed. Kori didn't do well with the visions, though. Because even if the events didn't happen, the potential of them happening had to be strong enough to push into her dreams at night.

She tried her best not to let what she was thinking show in her behavior. Especially not when Rafael had come back, entirely excited and saying that they would cook dinner together. He really was a good cook for being someone who didn't actually eat. She'd smiled and gone along with it all, just glad he was there with her instead of doing whatever it was that could get him killed.

She cared. So sue her.

"I definitely made the right choice. You look better in the One Direction apron," she said, chuckling slightly. "Besides, you like Zayn more than me anyway."

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bound_rafael
2014-12-19 03:57 am UTC (link)

While some of Kori's visions may or may not come to pass, Rafael did get injured on the job. He usually waited until he was healed to return back to Kori. Sometimes this meant he went days, maybe a week or two, without touching base with Kori, which was probably not the best for her. Rafael was a professional in very few things. He was old enough to do away with professionalism. There were very few higher ups than him that required him to adhere to their expectations of him. But when it came to keeping his own world separate from that world in which Kori lived, Rafael was professional about it. He had a nest, and that was where he went when he was injured. But working this close with Eleanor, the queen of that nest, he had very few concerns when it came to his own morality.

So he didn't come back when he was injured, and when he did come back, he was always enthusiastic and excitable, purposefully removed from the world he was actively protecting Kori from. And he was wearing a ridiculous one direction apron, and Kori was wearing a ridiculous apron, and it made everything so ridiculous, it was easy to keep it removed from the reality Rafael lived in.

And he did look dashing in this apron. "Of course I do," he said, as if that was a foregone conclusion. "Now, should we make chicken, or fish, or both?"

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bound_kori
2014-12-25 03:00 am UTC (link)

The unknown made it difficult. Because not knowing whether or not her visions came true made the waiting worst. Days passed...sometimes whole weeks did. It was a terrible feeling, but it was one that she tried to push down whenever he was around. The logical part of her told her that he was trying to keep her separate from the rest of his life that she knew little to nothing about. It made perfect sense. But the thing of it was, that didn't mean she worried any less.

Her apron wasn't all that much less ridiculous. It was pink and white with ruffles. Had there also been the face of one of the members of One Direction, it would have been too crazy. "Hm. And so humble too." She poked him in the side a bit. "My personal opinion is that we should make chicken. But you're the expert, so I'll take your direction."

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