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Heath (heathism) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-01-07 21:29:00

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!1998: 01, !incomplete, gideon crumb, heathcote barbary, merton graves

Who: Heath and Merton and Gideon
What: Talking, maybe awkwardly
Where: Gid's house
When: Tonight
Rating/Warning: TBA

Heath looked for the fifth time at what Orsino had said in the journals.

It seems safe, now, anyway. My dad went in, and they let him go off.

It seems safe. From where he was sitting, it didn't feel like it seemed anywhere close to being bloody safe, and he still hadn't made a decision about whether or not he'd go in himself. It didn't help that some woman had been ranting on the things about muggleborn theives, and green lights ending their begging, or whatever the bloody hell it was she'd said. Damn nutters, everywhere.

He tossed his journal onto the living room coffee table, next to his bare feet, and picked up his guitar again and the new package of strings he'd had to pick up. He'd gotten distracted during restringing when he'd picked up the journal in the first place. He'd rather be doing this, anyway.

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whereismerton
2010-01-08 03:45 am UTC (link)

Merton had returned from staying with Linda, but then he'd buggered off again to his parents, and from there he'd gone to London and wandered around for a day.

So he still hadn't been about all that much, really. But he'd been around enough to catch on to certain things. Mainly that neither Heath nor Gideon were exactly thrilled about the muggleborn thing. Neither was Merton, but he still didn't really get what it was all about. How was anyone supposed to have stolen magic, anyway? It's not like it was sitting out on a shelf and they shoved it in their pockets and ran off with it.

Merton was a bit used to things not making sense though. So he was trying not to worry about it all that much. It wasn't that difficult for him, since Merton was easily distracted.

He was a little worried too about the other thing he'd noticed. Namely Gideon coming out of Heath's room the other day looking all rumpled and sexed. Which wasn't that surprising. But it made Merton wonder if he was supposed to move out now. Leigh would have to find him a flat again.

He'd been in the kitchen, making eggs - which Merton was very good at, and only rarely set on fire - and came out with an egg sandwich and a beer. Because they didn't have anything else to drink. He stopped when he saw Heath and then held the plate out in offering. "Want half?" Merton asked.

It was the first time he'd seen one of them alone, so Merton added, almost in the same breath and without any segue to help Heath out about where it was coming from, "should I find a flat?"

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heathism
2010-01-08 03:49 am UTC (link)

The promise of food made Heath sit up, and he very carefully sat the guitar away - because sometimes he was sloppy and messy, but no crumbs touched the guitars. "Sure," He said, and then blinked a little at Merton at the next question.

Mostly because he didn't know where it was coming from, or what he was talking about.

"Er...Why?" he ventured, after he'd taken half the sandwich off of Merton's plate.

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whereismerton
2010-01-08 04:24 am UTC (link)

"It's good, right? I added some peppers," Merton told him, looking pleased.

He dropped down to sit next to Heath, legs stretched out and plate balanced somewhat precariously on one knee. "Oh, because you're shagging Gid, so you might want to run about the house naked or shack up or something? I don't want to be in the way. Leigh can get me a flat and tell me where to stay and she's putting a tracking charm on me, she says. I want a dragon. Do they have little ones?"

Leigh had dragons. Merton didn't see why he could have one. Well maybe not in a flat. It might burn it down. Maybe he could have a dragon that lived on a farm somewhere and he just visited it.

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heathism
2010-01-08 04:30 am UTC (link)

"When they're babies they're little," Heath answered, because really that was easier to answer than the bit that had almost made him choke on what was actually a really passable egg sandwich, the peppers were a good addition.

He took a few more bites before he had a formulated answer. "Just because we shagged doesn't mean we're doing it again," he said, finally, the added, "And even if we are, it doesn't mean you need to leave. We run around naked when we're not shagging each other, why would that be weird?"

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whereismerton
2010-01-08 04:45 am UTC (link)

"They don't make miniature dragons? Why not? There's miniature everything else. I saw a miniature cow once. I think it was angry about being small." Or it'd seemed angry. Maybe it was a tiny bull though. Bulls were usually angry.

"Well it'd be different if you wanted to shag. Since then I'd be watching, and that'd just be a bit off. I don't usually watch. I used to date a bird who always wanted me to watch but what's the point when you don't get to touch too? And the other girl had big teeth. I was always worried when she bit her." Merton shrugged. "So you're not shagging all the time then? Just once? Or was that what you did when I was with Linda?"

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heathism
2010-01-08 04:48 am UTC (link)

"Just the once," Heath said, and then because he wouldn't lie to Merton, he gave him a loose, relaxed sort of shrug and turned so that his legs were drooped over his friend's. "Doesn't mean we won't do it again, but it doesn't really mean anything. I mean, we shag a lot of people, yeah?" And Gideon was his best friend, but he could separate the two in his head - the Gideon who he did everything else with, and the Gideon who'd fucked him into the sodding mattress after he'd made him beg for it. "Don't get your own place."

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whereismerton
2010-01-08 05:02 am UTC (link)

"Not everyone. I mean some of us are married." Merton paused. "One of us," he amended. "And some of us have girlfriends, sometimes, or boyfriends, or people we like better. And I think I slept with Leigh. . ." Which didn't have anything to do with anything, since it was just the once if it happened anyway. Merton couldn't remember that well. He also couldn't remember if he'd ever slept with Gideon, and then there had been that night when he thought he was bitten by a vampire.

So there was a lot of things Merton didn't quite remember.

"Okay. Well tell me if you want to start dating and you have to buy him flowers and I have to move out so you can adopt Chinese babies," Merton told him, grinning widely.

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heathism
2010-01-08 05:07 am UTC (link)

"Right, when I said 'we' that time I meant we as in, the three of us. We who live in this house, right now. And we bring home people and shag around and that's not changing, so there's no reason to move." Or to buy flowers or ... why would they be adopting Chinese babies?

"Why Chinese?" He said after a minute, then shook his head and reached out to smack Merton on the chest softly. "No, nevermind, I don't want to know. Besides, you move out and that d'Eath guy will start hovering around you again, all vulnerable and on your own. And didn't you burn down your last flat? So you've got to stay."

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whereismerton
2010-01-08 05:18 am UTC (link)

"Right," Merton agreed. "Gideon doesn't shag as many people as he says he does, though," he added sagely, grinning. And Merton hadn't had anyone back for a while either, actually. But that was mostly because he'd been eating pudding with Linda.

He wrinkled his nose, shuddering. "I would put up garlic and crosses." Which might not work. Maybe he should get silver bullets and stakes and big windows with lots of light. "I didn't burn it down. It was just sort of blackened," Merton protested. "And because they've got extra babies in China so they drown them. Or something like that. I saw something on the telly once." Or maybe they'd been talking about puppies in Australia. It was hard to remember. "It was sad though. It was a charity advert. I sent them money." Or he'd told Leigh to, anyway.

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heathism
2010-01-08 05:21 am UTC (link)

"Haven't we made a rule about you and watching the telly late at night yet?" Heath laughed though, not quite believing that Merton had that right, because there were millions of Chinese, right, so they couldn't be drowning babies. That was barbaric - and not in the sense that his fanclub would be proud of.

"He doesn't?" Heath said instead, his hand snaking up to tug at Merton's hair because it was there, and he could, and now that the moving talk was over he was back to feeling lazy and putting off restringing the guitar and worrying about things. "I knew he was full of shit."

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whereismerton
2010-01-08 05:26 am UTC (link)

"No," Merton answered. There'd been strong suggestions about him staying away from the telly, and even stronger suggestions from Leigh about why he shouldn't pop by her place at three in the morning to ask her to order something he'd seen on an infomercial for him. There'd also been discussions of him not trying things he saw on a cooking show, and then once a discussion on why tigers didn't make good housepets, even if he'd seen it on a nature show where they had a baby one that played with their dog. (Which led to a subsequent discussion on why he couldn't have a tiger. Or a dog.)

But technically, there wasn't a rule about telly late at night.

Merton leaned in to the petting. finishing off his own half of the sandwich in a few large bites and then chewing contentedly while Heath petted, not answering until he'd swallowed. "He does sometimes. Just not as much as he says."

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giddypiper
2010-01-08 08:31 am UTC (link)

"Who doesn't do what as much as he says?" Gideon came in from the front entry way where he'd just apparated in with an armload of groceries, because damned if he was going to drink nothing but water because there was nothing left but beer to drink. He eyes Heath petting Merton and then started towards the kitchen island to set the bags down so he could put the food away.

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whereismerton
2010-01-08 08:53 am UTC (link)

"You don't get laid as much as you say you do," Merton informed him. He craned his neck a little to see what Gideon was doing without moving out of petting range. "Except when you get laid with Heath. He remembers it, at least. Do you want me to move out? Heath said no, but I figured I should ask. Since it's your house. My room could be a nursery," Merton told him.

"Did you get Ginger Ale? Or strawberries so I can make that cake I saw that woman on telly make, with the rum in it? Or rum? Or lube. You'll need it if you and Heath are going to be shagging all over the place. Or bread? We're out."