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Tweak says, "This is going to cost you $100"

Niklas Kalliope Wright (knowingmore) wrote in lost_world,
@ 2013-06-09 20:38:00

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!status: complete, niklas wright, simon forte

This is different (Simon)
The librarian yelped as she came to. She wasn't waking from a bad dream, just that feeling of not being wherever she should have been. With a deep breath, she opened her eyes again, not realizing that she had closed them in the first place. There were people everywhere, faces she knew somewhat. Somewhere moving, others were reacting, and it was not at all what she wanted to see. The lack of color, finally registering, was just as off putting.

Grey eyes, not just because the world had decided to turn grey scale, turned to the other person sitting across from her. While she didn't mind the face she saw, it wasn't the face she had been expecting to see. A manicured brow rose slightly.

"This is an interesting turn of events." Her gloved hands rest on the table before her. She noticed the bracelet around her wrist; it hadn't been there before, but she wondered at the sparkle. It may have been suiting that her booth mate did enjoy the shiny. She turned her hand over to get a better look at it.

"Did you poke something you shouldn't have, Simon? Or was this totally unknown to you? Although, I must say, I like the cut of your suit, what I can see of it." Her eyes lifted to the fairy's face. She had to push the fear that something might have happened to her partner; she couldn't see him from her seat, and she could only hope that Evan were somewhere else in this place. Whatever, wherever, and whenever they were.

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silently
2013-06-16 07:03 am UTC (link)

"I take what I know of you when we're alone, and I expand on it." He shook his head just a little. "I don't pry and I don't watch. I don't truly know. I just imagine. I see the freedom in you, what little bit of it there is, when we stand together in my office where none can tread unless I give my say so. I see more of that when we're in the Dreamlands, where you give in to what you really want more than you would in the waking world. No, Niklas, I have no real knowledge of how you are when you're with your playthings."

She was very right that he didn't want to see her angry. And so the puppy lived on. Untouched, unscathed. Without a speck of retaliation. And without his secrets vomited onto the lap of the librarian they both cared for.

Simon took Niks' hand gently in his and brought it to his lips to place a dainty kiss before he went on. He held it close to his heart as he spoke, but he did not look at her. He'd never given anyone so much information before. And certainly not without payment.

It felt strange.

Nice. But strange.

"Because I don't wish to coerce your affections. I want you to come to me of your own volition. Under your own decision. I could have you with a kiss. Make you need me beyond your ability to resist, with just a kiss. I follow your rules because I have to. You've put them in place, and I will not break them before you do. I don't wish for you to be my plaything, Niklas. I have no desire to have my fun until you break."

Simon sighed and let go of her hand. "I know he's more." That was one matter he wasn't going to expound upon. It frustrated him endlessly that they lately always circled back around to Evan Vang. Simon cursed the day the Tower brought him to Electric City to stay.

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knowingmore
2013-06-16 07:14 am UTC (link)

"Then why tell me that you like to break pretty things after telling me I am such a thing?" Niks had liked the kiss, the touch of his hand on hers, and she felt guilty. She felt guilty because she had felt no guilt when she had a possibility in Evan, yet could see herself enjoying Simon. It was wrong to feel as if she could have both without seeing either as a plaything; she'd laughed at more than one story she'd read with such things taking place. They were usually just smut, but this felt different - wasn't that what they always said, those heroines who had multiple lovers or possibilities?

"I want to know what you feel like." It was a statement, not a request, and there was no burning or yearning in it. It was a fact. She'd wanted to know the moment she'd met him, even if she wanted to poke him very hard with something very sharp. She'd wanted it even more when she saw his true self, perhaps not the small creature he became - that seemed too much like a strange bit of erotica. She also knew it wasn't just a sexual needed, perhaps that's why she could say it so matter of factly.

"I've read too much." She sighed softly, allowing herself to rest her head on his shoulder. "There is a spirituality I long to share..." With Simon, and with Evan though she'd have to say Evan called to her more physically at times. "And, now I sound like some bloody book; I hate sounding like books with pat lines that make one cry or smile. They're so ridiculous."

Her knee lightly touched his, and her hands rested in her lap as she rested against him. "What are we to do?" The question was rather open ended, and at the moment, she didn't care to give a specific direction to it.

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silently
2013-06-16 07:20 am UTC (link)

Simon let the statements and question hang in the air. He couldn't answer any of it right now. She had to know the rest of what he needed to tell her before he could really react to any of it.

And he had to decide if he was going to tell her, or simply show her. There were reasons behind all of it, every single bit of what she was saying. It would all likely make more sense to her once she knew. He knew that many things in Niks' life would likely make more sense after that, be it for the better or worse.

He just didn't know if he wished to describe what was on the other side of the door, or simply open it.

"You will find yourself a place to stay, as will I. In a few days, we'll meet again. After that, you'll better know what it is that you want, or see a path to it more clearly."

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knowingmore
2013-06-16 07:25 am UTC (link)

Niks nodded slightly, giving a soft sigh. She didn't sit up straight as might have been expected. She knew that she would do as he said, not because he was commanding it or demanding it but because it was simply what would happen.

"I don't want to wait, you know." She sat up looking at him. "I don't care for waiting for answers." She leaned in and gave him a kiss on the cheek She wasn't in the mood to live so dangerously as to give him a kiss near the lips.

"Though I have a feeling you may have an easier time of it. As long as you don't call anyone a 'ridiculous human." Just a light teasing.

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silently
2013-06-16 07:30 am UTC (link)

"I know you don't." Simon smiled at her. "But it's best if you do. Trust me on this, lamb, if you have never trusted me before. The time will be good for you."

Before they could get into another round of conversation, Simon eased himself away and stood up. He had things to do, after all. A suitable place to live wasn't going to be the most difficult thing he'd ever done, but he was pretty picky.

"In a few days." He promised without so much as coming out and saying those words.

Simon left Niklas on the bench, confident she'd be alright on her own.

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