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Tweak says, "-and yet it lives?"

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-10-03 11:32:00

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:mingle, aidan reilly, aigis, angelina burnett, charlotte charles, felix gaeta, hazel levesque, jack harkness, jezebel mephistopheles, kija, kitty pryde (aoa), malcolm reynolds, miranda lotto (au), nico di angelo, pavel chekov (au), peter parker (stnas), sarah williams, spencer reid, spike, wade wilson

DAY 396 — Rhyme Mingle

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	chipswiththat 2016-10-14 03:25 am UTC (link)
	[ Hey, maybe he still had it from home or snatched it off Reid in an unguarded moment. He's sure holding on to some quarters still, for magic purposes. ] I kick you in the head. [ Heads. Heads. That's what he means. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-10-14 04:05 am UTC (link)
	[He gets it. Sure, talking would be easier without Spike's inner poet taking charge this evening (yes, he knows what they're quotes from, but it sure feels like poetry in that understanding requires extra concentration!) but he's managing all right.] Heads it is! [He gestures towards the table, pocketing the coin as he steps back.] Your break off. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-10-14 04:23 am UTC (link)
	[ Smirking, Spike takes the cue in a secure grip, leaning in to do the break. It's swift and forceful, like most things he does and sure enough, he does sink one — stripes. He lines up another shot and this time it misses, barely. Groaning he straightens up and looks at Jack — well? Are we asking questions or just making up our own bullshit? ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2016-10-14 04:58 am UTC (link)

[It's as impressive as he expected, given Spike's power and the amount of time he's presumably spent in establishments like this, whiling away the hours, and he nods his approval, taking another drink of whiskey because he suspects he's going to need it!

And then Spike misses his second shot, and he smirks at Spike's questioning face.

Then pauses to consider how to play this because the speaking only in quotes things could make this quite complicated. Will it be easier to interpret what Spike comes out with if he asks a direct question?

He shrugs.] How about I suggest a topic for you to confess something about? [That should cut down on the confusion. He grins.] Angel.

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chipswiththat
2016-10-14 05:21 am UTC (link)

[ Should've seen that coming really and it's a complicated topic to breach even if he knows what Jack is after — the sexy parts, of which there are very few. That one time, in the early days, out of boredom or perhaps it was all part of the young upstart yipping around the Alfa's heels. He had no shame in admitting that then, before Angel got his soul. He was Yoda. Angelus was everything and then he was nothing but pitiful.

It takes him a moment before he gets the words together. ]

I remember lying awake at night. There ain't no moonlight after midnight. There was fuck all else to do.

By Christ, you should've seen us.

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foreverjack
2016-10-14 05:54 am UTC (link)

[It's not just the sexy stuff. Angel is a topic Spike keeps on coming back to, even if just with oblique references, so it's a fairly natural choice. That said, he does rather enjoy the response he gets, poetry and all. It sounds very Spike.]

I wish I had! [Warmly, as he lines up his first shot. And misses. It's a long time since he last played pool. He draws in a breath and straightens, spreading his hands to Spike in invitation.]

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	chipswiththat 2016-10-14 06:41 am UTC (link)
	You've really gone and done it now. [ He snorts, quite pleased that Jack isn't as good at this as Spike thought he'd be. Sticks and balls and holes and all that. Question is what he'll ask and seeing as Jack apparently can't understand the Queen's english today, Spike takes a moment to find a pen and napkin. He jots down Ianto and slides it over to Jack. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2016-10-14 10:06 am UTC (link)

[Honestly, Spike? Does everything have to be a sex reference with you? ;-)

He watches as Spike writes but the name the napkin eventually shows him is hardly a surprise. He chuckles lightly.] I'm not sure I have anything new to confess about Ianto!

[He thinks for a bit, and then lifts his gaze to Spike's.] One of my biggest regrets, for a long time, was that even when he was dying in my arms, I couldn't tell him I loved him. I couldn't even really admit it to myself, until I'd lost him, that first time.

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chipswiththat
2016-10-14 10:48 am UTC (link)

[ Maybe he's getting rubbed off on.

This right here is what makes them so different. After Dru, Spike never hesitated in telling anyone he loves them. He also never hesitated on setting the world on fire to prove it. ]

And I think of times we were together, as time went on it seemed forever, but times have changed. Now things are better. Someone had to pay the price.

[ He lines up another shot. There's no point in arguing this today, when Jack is being weird. ]

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	foreverjack 2016-10-14 03:12 pm UTC (link)
	[Not literally, though. At least not yet! He narrows his eyes at Spike, trying to work through the poetry to what Spike's actually trying to tell him. The first part, 'forever', has to be about Dru, surely? But the rest of it...] 'Someone had to pay the price'? Who? You? Me? Ianto? [Work with him here, Spike. This is not his genre!] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

chipswiththat
2016-10-15 11:50 am UTC (link)

[ He stops mid-shot to roll his eyes again, abandoning the game for a moment to write something on the napkin. This is the worst. Jack, you're the worst. The thing he said wasn't really about Dru at all, though it could easily be interpreted as such. It was more a general commentary on life being short, which he knows all too much about despite being immortal.

He slides over the napkin again.

You can't be afraid of love. ]

if my hands are the color of blood then, baby, I can tell ya love kills.

[ Joe Strummer, not Ramones, not Sex Pistols, but it did feature in that one film about Sid Vicious so maybe it counts. ]

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foreverjack
2016-10-16 01:04 pm UTC (link)

[Life is definitely not short in Jack's case, but the lives of the people he lets himself care about are, so it's a good point to make. It's one he's come back to time after time, alternating between trying to make the most of every moment he's given, and trying not to care because it's always over far too soon.

He reads the napkin and smiles ruefully.]

Yeah. I know. Love is - well, all that stuff about it being a two-edged sword is accurate enough. Love gives, and then love takes away.

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chipswiththat
2016-10-17 01:00 pm UTC (link)

[ This is why you get together with other immortals, why he's stayed clear of humans for so long — well, one of the reasons. Either way you never know how long you end up having, so might as well make the most of it while you can. That's just what life is. Here one day, gone tomorrow.

Right. He was about to make a shot. Getting back into the game, Spike aims for the harder sink of the two and, as you've probably guessed by now, misses. ]

What do you wanna ask?

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foreverjack
2016-10-17 04:39 pm UTC (link)

[Jack would say Spike's been lucky in having other immortals around. The only one he knew before ending up here abandoned him on a space station thousands of years out of his own time and then wanted nothing to do with him for over a century.

...Which may have something to do with how long it's taken him to get used to the idea of Spike and Drusilla being together so long!

He watches Spike take the shot, and wonders briefly if he chose the more difficult shot deliberately for the sake of making another confession. Not that it makes much difference anyway. He grins, and goes for the obvious.] Ianto. Seems only fair!

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chipswiththat
2016-10-18 04:14 am UTC (link)

[ It probably helps that vampires are more common than you'd think. He's not exactly lacking choices, if he wanted to hook up with someone else. As for the shot, he might've done it to miss deliberately or he just wanted a challenge or maybe two things can be true. ]

Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it. [ He shrugs. Ianto is a weird thing to talk about, because Spike feels more than he thinks and that makes it difficult to explain when all you have is lyrics. ] I just wanna be a good boy, I don't wanna be bad.

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	foreverjack 2016-10-19 03:08 am UTC (link)
	[Yeah, he thought that one might be a little more difficult for Spike to express, even without the restrictions of speech today. Still, he thinks he gets Spike's meaning on this one.] Don't want to muck it up, eh? [With a wry grin as he lines up his shot.] I can certainly empathise with that one! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

chipswiththat
2016-10-19 04:47 am UTC (link)

[ He shrugs, which is quickly turning into his version of a nod, a more nonchalant way to say yes, exactly that, you're so right. He doesn't want to muck it up. He wouldn't have agreed to any of this if he didn't take it seriously, if he didn't see it as some way to redeem himself or at least ease this searing burn in his chest. He's trying to be more man than monster, something the Sex Pistols and the Ramones never really covered in so many words.

Leaning against the cue, he watches Jack prepare for the shot, paying more attention to the man than the act. There's that, still. It's not quite complete, the deal they made. ]

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foreverjack
2016-10-19 05:21 am UTC (link)

[Well, if its standing by appreciating the perfection of the physical male form he wants, pool is definitely a good game for it. All that bending over and stretching out (and yes, Jack did take his coat off when they got there even if his mun forgot to mention it), not to mention the sheer focus he's putting into it now because he feels it's only right that he should actually pot a few balls.

Which he manages, before ending up in a position where there's really nothing potable and so he plays safe instead, actually managing to put the white ball somewhere it'll be pretty hard for Spike to do anything much with his next shot too. He straightens with a smirk.]

All right, go for it!

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chipswiththat
2016-10-19 05:42 am UTC (link)

[ He's starting to see the draw of the physical male form. In some ways he did that even before all these shenanigans, as appreciation for a well-toned, well-built musculature or that sort of platonic acknowledgement of physical attractiveness. It's different now, though. Now he thinks more about what that body can do and not in the ways of snapping and breaking.

It's distracting to say the least and it's probably obvious he wasn't paying attention to the game with the way he startles. It doesn't take him long to come up with a topic though — another scribble, another napkin, two letters.

Me. ]

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foreverjack
2016-10-19 07:16 am UTC (link)

[Well, it probably is easier to appreciate when it's a form that's as pleasing to look at as Jack's is!

He chuckles a bit when Spike startles, but there's no malice in it. He likes being admired, after all - and he's certainly not above doing a bit of oggling himself!

The word written on the napkin is no more a surprise than the last one, but it does give him a moment's pause.] Oh, my - where to start!

[He swigs at the whisky while he thinks, enjoying the faint buzz it's starting to bring with it, and considers Spike thoughtfully.]

I always feel like you're expecting something to go wrong with us. Like you don't trust me not to put my great big foot in it. Which I'll admit is probably fair enough, but I feel like you don't believe there's enough of a lure about you to draw me in, beyond the obvious. [The obvious being the physical, but he's not leering this time. He's serious. And well aware he could get this kicked right back at him, but he's going to say it anyway.] It's almost like you think you're not good enough for me or something? Or perhaps that I'm not good enough, I don't know!

[Perhaps not the best thing to try and talk about on this day of all days, especially when he can't even really work out what he's trying to say, but it's what's at the front of his mind right now.]

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chipswiththat
2016-10-19 09:01 am UTC (link)

[ Right on the money there, Jack. It's not something he owns up to very often but Spike - William - always feel like he's the one who has to earn someone else. Harmony might've been an exception but she was an exception in every single way, he didn't love her, didn't feel like he should make it right by her. Other than her, he's been reaching. He's a good for nothing and he knows it.

The stretch of silence might be enough to tell Jack that he's right, and if it isn't then the way Spike clutches at the whiskey bottle, taking a deep, long swig, surely will. He sets the bottle down with a heavy clunk, readying the next shot and deliberately missing in such a blatant fashion that it'd be easy to assume this part of the game is losing interest to him. ]

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foreverjack
2016-10-19 11:45 am UTC (link)

[He's not quite sure what he expected - another shrug, perhaps, or a vehement denial - but what he gets is a long lack of response followed by whiskey followed by being ignored as Spike gets down to his next shot, which is rather unnerving in as much as it means he's got it dead right.

He watches Spike miss the shot, frowning, and then props his own cue against the table so as to have both hands free as he steps in front of Spike and closes his hands around leather-clad biceps, peering into Spike's face.]

Spike. You're good enough, all right? Sure, you've done some questionable things but so have we all and that's never stopped me wanting someone. There's a lot about you that's attractive, and it's not just that you're drop dead gorgeous and hotter than hell. You're straight talking, and perceptive in a way I'll never be, you're fiercely loyal and you're good for Ianto, which means more than perhaps anything else, to me.

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chipswiththat
2016-10-20 04:38 am UTC (link)

[ Not too long ago that would've been exactly what Spike would've done — shrug, deflect, squirm out of those too-warm hands grabbing him by the arms. He does none of those things, tho Jack can probably feel him tense, see the way he's avoiding eye contact. He's not good at vulnerability. It gets you killed and then you have moments like these where vulnerability is exactly what you need. He swallows, steels himself to look back at Jack. ]

Don't be fooled by the signs, don't read in between the lines.

[ He knows what he is. People've been telling him that his entire life. ]

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foreverjack
2016-10-20 05:15 am UTC (link)

[They've been deflecting long enough, the two of them, forever avoiding talking about the things they need to talk about. It's improved in recent weeks - they've managed to get down to some of the serious nitty gritty in their last couple of conversations - but there's still a lot more to be said, and this in particular, Jack feels, is something that needs to be addressed before they can go much further.]

Spike. For god's sake, Ianto's fallen in love with you, and he's one of the best men I've ever known! I don't think he would have done that if you hadn't been worth it.

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chipswiththat
2016-10-20 05:32 am UTC (link)

[ He can't help but flinch out of reflex — don't bring up God in this. Not that he's so sensitive but yeah, vulnerability and lowering his guard and some things are so ingrained in his very spine that he can't help himself.

He squirms himself out of Jack's grip to reach for the pen and napkin again, turning it over and jotting down a sentence. He doesn't trust his voice to properly convey what he wants to say.

Good people always do what's worst for them. Trust me on that. ]

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