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giddypiper ([info]giddypiper) wrote in [info]wished,
@ 2010-08-25 18:41:00

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Entry tags:!2003: 08, !incomplete, essery oakby, gideon crumb

Who: Gideon Crumb and Essery Oakby
What: Gideon is a jealous nutcase
Where: A dive bar followed by Essery's home
When: Wed. Evening
Rated: TBA/More then likely R+



In his house. In HIS fucking house. In his fucking house in the fucking bed he'd shared. Fuck him. Fuck him and his stupid fucking guitars and his refusal to acknowledge the last six years as anything but casual fucking. Fuck him and his fucking slag, whoever they were.

When Gideon read the note Heath left, it would be a bit of an understatement to say he lost his cool. He had been, frankly, only sixty seconds or less from tossing Heathcote Fucking Barbary's belongings out on the fucking roof for the goat to chew on, especially his precious guitars. Only the fact that they seemed to be out of liquor and Gideon's desire to not be the fucking WOMAN in this thing kept his Irish temper in check long enough to scribble an angry reply, and slam his way out of his own house- HIS OWN FUCKING HOUSE, to leave for the evening, rather then face watching Heath play tonsil hockey with some fucking wanker.

It had better not be a damn Weirdie, either, he thought viciously to himself as he apparated away to a nice loud pub he knew of in Edinburgh, after making sure the house wards were set especially strong. Gideon worked hard to keep his private life private and he deeply resented the fact, on top of his raging jealousy, that Heath was bringing some fucking stranger to his house.

Gideon proceeded to, for the first time since he was fifteen, get rip-roaring, smashingly drunk on good Scotch and loud music and his own miserable company for the next hour. It wasn't nearly as much fun as he'd remembered it being then, and he was old enough now to recognize that he was getting ridiculously, and maybe a bit dangerously maudlin about the fact that he wasn't enough, would evidently never be enough and that being a rock star did not, in fact, guarantee happiness, if anything it seemed to make it something impossible and out of reach. He nursed his final double Scotch for another half hour while he berated himself for never bothering to make any real friends outside of the band, because he'd be damned if he'd go cause problems and cry on the shoulders of any of his other mates about this. Not that they'd believe it anyways. Gideon Crumb, worrying about monogamy. Worrying about a relationship. Ha. Gideon Crumb didn't have relationships. He sure as hell didn't have an arsehole of a best friend who was determined to smash his heart into bits. In fact, Gideon Crumb didn't need any such friend. Or fuck buddy. Or whatever. Gideon Crumb could have any damn person he wanted.

As soon as he sobered up.

Which reminded him.....

About fifteen minutes later, after soaking his head in the grimy bathroom sink at the back of the pub and managing to walk upright into the night, he was knocking, rather loudly, on one Essery Oakby's door.


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[info]oakbye
2010-08-26 02:20 am UTC (link)
Essery really should give up her flat. She knew it. Her job at Hogwarts was going to require her to live there and it didn't make sense to hold on to it just for the summers... But she liked her flat, since the divorce it had been a nice little haven, and giving it up just added to the school marm feeling, so she thought she'd keep it a while longer.

She had some things left she had to pack up to take to Hogwarts, though, so that night she was at her flat, in a ripped up pair of jeans and an old - ironically - Weird Sisters concert tee from their first tour, sorting through books and filling a box of things that had to make the move to her office and quarters there.

The knock surprised her. It surprised her even more when she opened the door. She wasn't unused to the image of drunk men hovering in her doorway smelling of the local pub - her brother was a champion, after all - but she was definitely not used to that man being Gideon Crumb.

"Gid..." She said, surprised, then she smiled at him easily and stepped back to let him in without asking. "You smell like a bottle of whiskey," She pointed out.

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[info]giddypiper
2010-08-26 02:22 am UTC (link)
"Only three-quarters of the bottle, I think, actually," he corrected, and even drunk, he wasn't slurring his words. He swayed only a little bit before he stepped inside, and then leaned against the wall just inside the door, because that seemed safer. "Essery, you are wearing my face on your chest. That is.... very strange at the moment."

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[info]oakbye
2010-08-26 02:25 am UTC (link)
"What?" Essery had no idea what type of sense he was making for a second, then looked down at herself and snorted, remembering. "Oh. Well, it was clean..." And one of her favourite shirts, but she didn't really need to say that to the man who's face was nearly front an center on it, did she?

"I suspect it's just as strange sober, though, if that helps."

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[info]giddypiper
2010-08-26 02:30 am UTC (link)
"No. Sober, it would make sense. I'm a rock star, right?" There was an edge of bitterness in Gideon's voice that wasn't usually there, however.

His eyes slid over Essery again slowly, remembering the past and lost in memory for a moment, a slow smile curving his lips, his expression wicked and charming for a moment before it faded. "I'm a lousy friend sometimes, aren't I?"

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[info]oakbye
2010-08-26 02:34 am UTC (link)
"That's the rumour I've heard," Essery said, still smiling though there was something sympathetic behind it now. Obviously something was wrong. "Still don't believe it, though. You know rumours..."

She was closing the door when he spoke again, missed the change in his expression until she'd turned back to her, her back nearly against the door. Then she had the sudden feeling that too much blood was rushing to her head at once - he'd looked at her like that before.

"Gideon..." she started, then she shook her head. "No, you're not. What's this about?"

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[info]giddypiper
2010-08-26 02:41 am UTC (link)
"Rumor says a lot of shit," he said flatly, thinking of the rumors that made him out to be a wild party man with a string of lovers and orgies behind him. Not that there hadn't been lovers- and orgies, but nowhere near what rumors claimed.

"About? Why does it have to be about anything?" His brogue was a lot thicker when he spoke, between being upset and drunk, it was a wonder he wasn't just slipping into Gaelic. "I'm getting old, Ess, that's all. Old and bitter and stupid."

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[info]oakbye
2010-08-27 12:48 am UTC (link)
"Oh, you are not," Essery chuckled, "If you're old, so am I, and I don't care how much a school marm I am - " which she didn't feel at all with him still looking at her that way, or at least imagining he was still looking at her that way.

"And Ravenclaws don't get stupid. Even rockstar one. What's wrong?"

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[info]giddypiper
2010-08-27 12:55 am UTC (link)
He was, indeed, still looking at her that way, even if he was slightly distracted by his own maudlin wanderings. "This one does," he said shortly. He paused, trying to debate how much he wanted to tell her and then decided that really, he didn't want to dump his bullshit on her shoulders. He didn't even really want to THINK about what might be going on back at his place now. "Nothing much. Just realizing I can't have my cake in life and eat it too. It's a very hard blow for a rock star to take," he answered, the flip answer clearly not the truth, but all he was willing to give at the moment. "How IS the school marm gig going, by the way?"

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[info]oakbye
2010-08-27 01:12 am UTC (link)
"Fine," She shrugged, "I've been getting things ready for term. I doubt you came over drunk to talk about muggle studies textbooks, though.." She grinned, finally stepping past him and back into the flat. "Just packing up a few things tonight that I might want in my rooms there. You .... don't want a drink. You smell like a drink. Something to eat, though?"

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[info]giddypiper
2010-08-27 01:27 am UTC (link)
"No, I was hoping for some hot school teacher action, that's all. You know, short robes, glasses, stockings all the way up to..." He grinned at her, relaxing into the teasing a little.

"No. I don't want a drink. There was a reason I swore it off when I was fifteen and I'm remembering that reason, albeit fuzzily. Food would be awesome," he added fervently. Gideon was never going to turn down food.

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[info]oakbye
2010-08-27 01:38 am UTC (link)
"I think you're thinking of school girls, not school teachers," Essery laughed, but then leaned in and kissed his cheek when he grinned and seemed more relaxed. Poor bloke. He'd regret the drinking more in the morning.

Then she stepped back and turned for the kitchen. "I've cleaned out most of what I had here when I moved in at the school, but I think I have some cans of soup."

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[info]giddypiper
2010-08-27 01:47 am UTC (link)
Gideon made a face. "I have enough school girls panting after me, I know the difference. Definitely thinking hot school teacher. Or librarian. I don't suppose you could oust the current one and oblige me with some dirty deeds in the Forbidden section some afternoon, hmm?" He grinned. "You know we used to have a running bet as to whether or not some of the younger female professors wore anything under their robes."

"Soup? Woman, you're killing me. If I pay, can we order pizza?"

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[info]oakbye
2010-08-27 01:50 am UTC (link)
Essery looked up to the clock and snorted. "If you can find someone who'll deliver here this late, I'll pay." She thought maybe there was one, but she never really ordered this late at night.

"You know there's a new library assistant coming in who's very young. Twenty four or so? Maybe you can try with her." Because thinking of Gideon in the restricted section brought up... well, fantasies from school, really, that hadn't ever really been indulged enough.

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[info]giddypiper
2010-08-27 01:53 am UTC (link)
Gideon snorted. "I'm a rock star, I can find someone who delivers." Even if he had to wake Leigh up to do it.

He rolled his eyes, leaning over close to her, arching a brow. "Hmmm. Nope. I don't go for younger women these days. I'll just have to find some excuse to drag you in there instead and hope you've learned to be quieter, or my silencing charms have gotten better."

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[info]oakbye
2010-09-06 11:21 pm UTC (link)
It happened fairly quickly - that bit of the conversation - one minute Essery was laughing with him and the second her back was up against the counter in the kitchen and he was leaning in like that, pretending that he...

Well, she wasn't sure. Except that he had the same look in his eyes she remembered from school, and you never really get over those first hard crushes after they go bad or turn into huge sodding rock stars.

"Gid..." She said, a laugh behind it that was half nervous and half something else. She should have asked why he was there, or what he was doing, but instead she said, "they couldn't have gotten any worse. Your dormmates all heard me...."

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[info]giddypiper
2010-09-06 11:34 pm UTC (link)
He arched a brow at her, lifting his fingertips to brush over her cheek gently, his smile somehow wicked and nostalgic all at once. "You were brilliant. They were terribly jealous. And I've gotten much better at those silencing charms."

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[info]oakbye
2010-09-06 11:42 pm UTC (link)
She wanted to be rational about this, but it was like she was sixteen again and he'd snuck her into Ravenclaw... Her stomach was turning into a mess of confused butterflies all flapping at once.

"Don't really need them here," she said,and her voice sounded breathy and something in it just as sly to answer that wicked note in his. "Flat next door is empty..."

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[info]giddypiper
2010-09-06 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Gideon's eyes widened for a moment before his smile deepened. He hadn't really THOUGHT about where he was leading this up too. He wasn't thinking much at ALL actually. The idea, however, of reigniting old flames, something he usually avoided at all costs, had a sort of poetic appeal to his unsettled mind.

"You do have an excellent point. Then again, I always told you you should have been in Ravenclaw. Would have made sneaking you into my room even easier, too."

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[info]oakbye
2010-09-06 11:47 pm UTC (link)
"You only snuck me in once," Essery pointed out, and she didn't add that she knew it hadn't been because it was hard to sneak her in that she hadn't gotten a repeat appearance. She couldn't think of anyone who had gotten one, really, and she'd known that going in.

Which made her wonder what all he must have learned since that night, and she felt her heard speeding up another notch.

"Gid. Why'd you come here?"

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[info]giddypiper
2010-09-06 11:49 pm UTC (link)
He arched a brow at her. "Just occurring to you to ask that now, is it? Am I making you nervous, Essery?" He leaned in a little closer, his breath warm against her lips, almost too close, grinning, both wicked and playful.

"I came because I have very few real friends that remember me before I was a rock star, Ess, and I needed a friend."

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[info]oakbye
2010-09-06 11:52 pm UTC (link)
"Right...." Nervous and and excited and fucking shuddery and how did he still have the power to do that. It seemed magnified somehow.

"A friend..." She echoed, and talking it was almost like she was kissing him, he was that close. "This doesn't seem exactly platonic."

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[info]giddypiper
2010-09-06 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Gideon smirked a little and then he leaned in a little more, until his lips just barely brushed against hers. "I suck at platonic. Always have."

And look where it'd gotten him this time? He shunted that thought off before it could remind him of all the things he wasn't thinking about. Some part of him thought he should feel bad, that he was using Essery to get over the sting of Heath's betrayal, but Gideon wasn't that deep a thinker, and it wasn't like he didn't like Essery, he was quiet fond of her.

"Luckily, I have other life skills that I'm not quite so bad at," he said silkily.

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[info]oakbye
2010-09-07 12:07 am UTC (link)
"I was just wondering what you'd learned since the last time you needed me to be your friend..." It could have sounded catty, but it came out soft - and then Essery was laughing and she reached up and slid her hands through his hair, down to his neck.

School was starting, and she had to be a school marm, and the closest thing to a male friend she had at the castle was Snape. And the only bloke who'd hit on her for months was her baby brother's best friend.

Whatever he was using her for, she could use him too.

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[info]giddypiper
2010-09-07 12:10 am UTC (link)
"Not a whole hell of a lot, unfortunately." He looked regretful for a moment. "I'm definitely no better at making promises, or commitments, but at least I've learned that repeat performances are sometimes worth the risk?"

He leaned in and kissed her properly this time, stepping in closer so he was pressing his lean frame against her.

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[info]oakbye
2010-09-07 12:15 am UTC (link)
"Not really worried about promises," Essery said, and she meant it. Even if she wanted promises, she wouldn't have trusted them from him.

He'd definitely become a better kisser, though, and she pressed in close to him, her arms winding around neck finally and holding him into it as she kissed him back.

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[info]giddypiper
2010-09-07 12:22 am UTC (link)
That at least, let Gideon off the hook and let him relax. His mouth tasted of scotch and heat and well, Gideon.
He wound his arms around her, pulling her against him, as he deepened the kiss, tasting her, exploring and relearning the way she felt and kissed. It'd been a really long time since he'd shagged a bird, actually, and he'd half-forgotten about all the lovely curves and such.

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[info]oakbye
2010-09-11 02:20 am UTC (link)
Essery still had that moment when she could have stopped this and sobered him up and pulled away and figured out what the hell was wrong. But then his arms were around her, and she was against him, and after that. Well, there was just no way.

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