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Apollo (apollolicious) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2021-04-04 19:22:00

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apollo, cin warmoth

WHO: Apollo and Cin
WHEN: Sunday evening
WHERE: The Hole and his penthouse
WHAT: This is NOT a date
WARNINGS: Talk of attempted suicide

Apollo was feeling pretty pleased with himself when he arrived at Cin's place. There was just something encouraging about inspiring terror in your enemies, something wholesome and satisfying about it.

He had to admit he was a little bit disappointed in Tragos' intelligence, though. Burying an immortal god a couple of blocks over from where you actually lived? Iiiidiot. Well, no one ever said Ares picked 'em for their brains.

But, hey, the boy's stupid choices had led him to Cin, and Apollo was pretty confident his stupid choices weren't over. The future wasn't an exact science, so he couldn't be one hundred percent sure, but past behaviour was a pretty good indicator of future performance, so Apollo's hopes were high.

He swung himself out of his car, having parked right up Cin's driveway incase the little shits decided to slash his tyres while he was inside, and rapped a funky rhythm on her door.

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	bloodandwords 2021-04-04 11:13 am UTC (link)
	Cin was silent for a very long time, just watching the lights of the cars moving below. "When I was sixteen," she said, still with her back to Archie, "my best friend hanged herself. I went to pick her up for school and she was just hanging from the fan in her bedroom. I tried to get her down, but she'd already been there all night." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

apollolicious
2021-04-04 12:46 pm UTC (link)

Apollo stood up in a smooth and slow motion, stepping across the room toward her. He didn't get close, though, he just leaned his shoulder up against the glass and looked out across the city with her. "Someone I loved died in my arms," he told her, remembering the bright life of Hyacinth cut short in front of him. An accident, or a jealous interference from the West Wind. Either way, Hyacinth had died, and the mark it had left on Apollo remained. "Some people you can't save, no matter what."

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bloodandwords
2021-04-04 01:22 pm UTC (link)

"It fuckin' sucks," Cin said quietly, trying not to feel so hopeless about it. There was so much to feel hopeless about though: the way her life had gone, Barak in the hospital, Bailey planning to leave them all, Jake fucking up at school, Brody being too soft to make it. There had been one other thing constantly weighing on her, but Archie's presence in her life had gotten rid of that for now: money. Everything before meeting him had been all about how to stretch the money she didn't have to keep them all okay, and now it was easier.

It was nice to have one thing that was easier.

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apollolicious
2021-04-05 01:21 am UTC (link)

Apollo watched her for a while, this vulnerability was a part of her he hadn't seen before. But then, it had been a long time since he'd mentioned Hyacinth to anyone, especially a mortal. "Yeah, it does," he agreed with her. Even at the height of his power, he hadn't been able to stop Hyacinth dying.

He stepped back and retrieved their glasses from the coffee table, passing Cin hers before stepping back to his original spot, taking a mouthful of the wine.

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bloodandwords
2021-04-05 01:35 am UTC (link)

Cin took her wine with a nod and then raised it to her lips, feeling as though parts of her were coming away tonight, as though all of the things that made her her were flying away at great speed, and she wasn't sure what would be left behind.

She was angry at Gabe for doing this to her, for putting her in the position where she'd done what she had done, for dragging up all these feelings she'd pushed down and let go of. She was angry at him for reminding her how easy and close death always was.

"My boyfriend's in hospital," she told Archie, looking over at him, though only moving her head a little. "He's in a gang and in December something happened with the leader. He crossed him or something, and got himself beaten almost to death. So fuckin stupid. So now he's basically a vegetable. He sits there in a wheelchair, can't even talk right anymore."

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apollolicious
2021-04-05 01:53 am UTC (link)

Apollo raised both eyebrows into his glass. Her boyfriend must have really pissed off Ares to be reduced to that. Ares had such a hard-on about dying a warrior's death. The shame of dying slowly in hospital was enormous.

Huh. December, though. The same month Tragos killed Hecate? What was the connection there? He'd ask Cin for more, but doubted she'd have any details.

"Well that fucking sucks too," he said. "You must really love him, to have not given up on him."

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bloodandwords
2021-04-05 02:08 am UTC (link)

"I do," Cin said, her words strong and true. "I've loved him since I was thirteen when just thought I was some dumb kid. There's nothing I wouldn't do for Barak, and one day he's going to get better." The last part was said with the sort of ferocity that one used when they were trying to will their words to be true, even against impossible odds. She didn't know how, but Barak was going to get better and they were going to be together again.

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apollolicious
2021-04-05 03:08 am UTC (link)

This was the most passion Apollo had ever seen Cin use when talking about anyone, and it made him want to step in, offer to heal the dumb fuck just to make her happy. That was crazy on multiple levels, he wasn't out to her, he'd be shooting himself in the foot romantically, and her boyfriend belonged to Ares.

But this woman, this loyal, passionate queen, deserved a better life. "That's why I'm studying medicine, to fix people like that," he said. "I hope one day he gets better. You deserve someone who loves you," he raised his glass to her for a moment, then drank from it.

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bloodandwords
2021-04-05 03:34 am UTC (link)

Cin knew that he was studying medicine, but she'd always sort of assumed he was in it for the money. Doctors made bank, after all. It was the sort of job you did if daddy was rich: doctors, lawyers, stock market dudes. But she found she believed him right now when he was saying he was in it to help people. Could never have been Cin - why would she want to be helping people she didn't even know? He own family needed enough of her attention.

"I'm hungry," Cin said, taking a sip of her wine and going back to sit down. "Thanks for dinner," she added, not looking at him and slightly uncomfortable. Cin usually felt she was owed things, but maybe right now it could pay to say a thank you.

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	apollolicious 2021-04-05 03:47 am UTC (link)
	"Anytime," Apollo said, joining her on the chairs again. "I'm always happy to buy you dinner, I like our weekly meet ups," he was careful this time not to say dates. He didn't want her guard getting up again. This Cin, open and sharing, was a Cin he wanted to explore, not spook. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bloodandwords 2021-04-05 06:09 am UTC (link)
	"This one is definitely the bright point of my weekend," Cin said, though she sounded tired and defeated about it. But still it was true. Eating Italian in an amazing apartment was the best that that was going to happen to her this whole week. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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