Aidan McAllister (becomesthisart) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2012-07-19 13:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | aidan mcallister, jade aldebrandi, lena rainmayr |
Who: Jade, Aidan, Lena, and Florian
What: Burying things with the help of friends
When: Sunday afternoon
Where: The Rainmayr-Aldebrandi residence
Warnings: Language, drinking?, TBD
At times like this, Aidan was really very glad that he had friends like Lena and Jade to help him through shit like this, as well as a lovely Titan who would give him all the hugs he wanted and tell him he was loved. It made things easier to get through, and, in this case, even easier to forget. Honestly, he thought he'd put that all behind him, but apparently all it took was five minutes to bring everything rushing back.
But dammit, he was going to tamp down those memories and shove them back in their box if it killed him. OK, maybe not literally, but close enough. He'd brought a couple of pizzas with him, stashing a bottle of rum in his bag as well, and then heading for Lena and Jade's.
He found the right building and leaned on the buzzer, waiting for someone to come down and let him in.
It was Lena who skipped down the stairs like a pink pixie and let Aiden in through the heavy door that led up to their warehouse apartment. "Come in!" she sang at him with a grin. "Flo and Jade are upstairs being ridiculous. Oooh pizzas!" She took the boxes from him so he had less to carry.
Florian had stolen Jade's book from her when she seemed to be paying more attention to it, and now she had made her attempt to steal it back. When Lena and Aidan appeared in the room was was straddling Florian on the couch, laughing as she tried to get the book from his outstretched hands and pretending she wasn't grinding herself against him as she did so.
"Aidan!" Jade cried happily at seeing him. "And pizza!"
Aidan pulled Lena into a one-armed hug and said, "That does not surprise me at all." He smiled at her. "Thanks for having me, today sounds like just what the doctor ordered."
He raised an eyebrow at the scene in front of him. "I can always come back later," he joked. "Pretty sure the pizza will still be here when you're done."
Florian bit his lip and he looked over at Aiden and Lena. "Hello, McAllister. Your timing is awesome." But he didn't look like he thought it was all that awesome.
Lena just snorted and she swatted Florian on the back of the head before putting the pizzas on the coffeetable. "Down boy."
Jade threw a smile over her shoulder at Aidan. "You could always join us," she teased him, wriggling a little on Florian's lap with a laugh. (Living with a very attractive man she enjoyed fucking was dangerous for Jade's ability to get out of the house.)
"I might find a slightly less comfortable seat for pizza," she grinned. "Oh!" she added. "And I've got a bottle of wine in the fridge!" Jade always had a bottle of wine somewhere.
Aidan stuck his tongue out at Florian and said, "Sorry." He didn't sound very sorry.
"Perhaps when Florian looks less put out with me," he said with a wink, opening the boxes and letting the smell of melted cheese fill the apartment.
"I have rum, too!" he called after her. "Though I should have guessed you'd have wine too. But more booze is good booze, I say."
Florian, who wouldn't mind Aidan joining in at all, grinned wolfishly at the other boy.
"YOU ARE NOT HAVING A THREESOME AND LEAVING ME HERE WITH MY THUMB UP MY ASS!" Lena informed them all at the top of her lungs. Then she bounced and clapped, "rummmm!"
Jade - who had gotten up and gone to the fridge to get the bottles of wine - called out: "why the fuck are your thumbs up your ass?"
When she reappeared in the room it was with four wine glasses balanced along with the bottles and she put them on the table with a pizza before approaching Aidan and pressing herself against his back as she wrapped her arms around him. She kissed his shoulder gently - an action without ulterior motives - and said (only loud enough for Aidan to hear) "love you, yeah?"
"Because apparently you, Florian, and I are having a threesome. Not that I'd be against that, mind you, but we can't have Lena feeling left out," he called back.
He took her hands in his and squeezed them, laying his head on her shoulder. "Yeah, love you too," he said just as quietly. "Thanks for being here for me."
Lena chuckled and she leaned over to help herself to pizza. "To be honest, it wouldn't be the first time that people came over to see me and then ran off to have happy pants time with my brother while leaving me to play solitaire." Lena didn't look too broken up about it, and she really wasn't.
Florian simply shook his head. "So dramatic. How you doin', McAllister?"
"Guilty," Jade said to Lena as she slipped free of Aidan and sat down on the couch. She poured them all a tall glass of wine before grabbed a slice of pizza for herself.
Aidan laughed. "As much fun as having happy pants time with your brother would undoubtedly be, today I came to see both Rainmayrs, and Jade. I just needed some friends time, I guess."
He shrugged. "Seen better days, but I still can't complain, you know?" he said, taking a long swallow of wine. "Ran into an ex, which I was definitely not expecting. This experience will probably turn into some kind of drawing once I get home."
Lena reached out for her wine and she took a big gulp of it. She drank wine like water. "Friend time is good time," she eventually got out.
"Oh man. Sucks," Florian said while making a face. "I made a sculpture after a breakup once and then fell on top of it accidentally a few weeks later. It was pokey."
"Exes," Jade sighed, shaking her head. "Such ball crushing mind-fucks. If only we could kill them all..." (This despite that fact that she was sitting next to Florian, who she had actually dated soon after moving to New York. What they'd had could have easily become something more serious had Jade not decided to end it pre-emptively. She'd had a messy divorce and the idea of dealing with a messy breakup was intolerable. Florian remained the only man she'd actually dated in the decade since her divorce.)
"The wine will cure you though," Jade promised with a solemn nod. "It's magic like that."
Aidan nodded in return, taking another large swallow of wine. He'd managed to down half the glass in two swallows, apparently it was that kind of night. "It is," he agreed. "I guess I just needed something uncomplicated right now."
"Yeah," he said, then winced. "That sounds really, really not fun. Hopefully the sculpture took more of the hit than you did."
"I entertained the thought for a while," he admitted. "But after an hour, I just sort of let that idea go. It wasn't worth it. He wasn't worth it. Besides, tall, sexy, stern, and ginger is going to go with me next time and loom at him. So that should be fun."
Florian was Jade's ex, but there was absolutely no bad blood between them, so he didn't consider himself a ball-crushing mind-fuck in the least. "The sculpture did, thankfully. And I live to tell the tale."
"Oooh, tall sexy and stern sounds wonderful!" Lena said with a grin. "I enjoy a man who can loom. That's why I'm friends with that firefighter. He's loomy and so hot."
Jade grinned at the mention of Prometheus going to loom, because he'd probably be good at that. (Jade couldn't imagine him being even the least bit threatening, but that would be because she knew what a puppy he was around humans and because she quite enjoyed having control over him.)
"Firefighters," Jade said with amusement. "It's such a cliche of what women want but... yeah, I'd totally fuck that firefighter of yours." She grinned and sipped her wine. "Maybe Aidan needs a go on him!"
"Well good," Aidan said with a nod. "Between life and limb and saving something I've made, I'll always choose life and limb."
"Quite wonderful," he agreed with a grin. "Plus, I'm too short to properly loom."
Aidan laughed into his wineglass, because, yeah, OK, he knew Prometheus wouldn't actually do anything, but it would be worth it for the look on the other guy's face. And if he had to walk a couple extra blocks for coffee, well then...so be it.
He choked on his mouthful of wine because he started laughing. Coughing, he asked, "Is there a reason you're throwing men at me? Not that I mind at all, you understand, but I have to admit I'm curious."