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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 10, 2017 21:34:03 GMT -8
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Nik had grabbed Orion first, and part of him knew that. Another part still felt a wave of terror as Orion grabbed him back. Yet another part was far too pissed and exhausted to register that terror fully. "No, I didn't," he spat even as Orion recalled the Houndoom. "I wouldn't leave any of your dogs just like I wouldn't leave you, dickface. Even if someone insists on making me wonder why. What the fuck was that with the guards!?"What are you doing? that most paranoid part of him asked. Don't antagonize him, what are you doing?
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Nov 10, 2017 21:44:39 GMT -8
“I didn’t ask you to become my accomplice,” Orion snarled back on a dime. “What the fuck were you thinking dumbass?” A hand raised, flat, and had Nik been anyone else, he most certainly would have been backhanded right then and there. Instead, that hand trembled in the air for a few seconds before being forced back down. He gripped into his own hips, hard, hard enough that it hurt but he knew putting hands on Nik right now would most certainly break him. It took every ounce of self-control not to. “I could have gotten away just fine and you wouldn’t have to be involved!”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 10, 2017 21:55:26 GMT -8
"I--" That hand flew up, and Nik immediately flinched, withdrew, and clamped his mouth shut. Wh-- No, don't freeze now. Don't-- Don't shut down. Look, Orion didn't... he didn't do anything. He clearly wanted to. He didn't though. Orion... wouldn't hurt him. There was no reason for Nik to be reacting like this. For fuck's sake he literally saw Storm yesterday and all last week and everything was fine now.
"I just wanted to make sure you were safe," he forced out far weaker than he wanted. "I couldn't..." He swallowed hard and managed to muster his nerve, snapping, "Why was there anything for me to get involved in?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Nov 10, 2017 22:05:40 GMT -8
Teeth grit. Hands fidgeted ever so slightly even in their solid placement. Orion growled deep and low at those words. He would have been fine. He would have been perfectly fine. He’d been fine for weeks, months, had it been a year yet? Whatever. All these things he wanted to snap back but knew better than to. Why was there anything for me to get involved in? Orion took in a sharp breath. “Don’t know,” he snapped back. “Maybe because your League is restricting access to Silvally’s Memories for its own selfish reason. Maybe because there’s apparently so few other ways to get them?” A hand went up and immediately was forced back down again. “Maybe I’m just scum who don’t deserve them but want them anyways.”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 10, 2017 22:18:57 GMT -8
....What. What?? Orion you weren't. Even making sense and Nik didn't know whether to be angry or frustrated or just... some part of him had trouble taking this argument seriously, but not in any sort of way that would make the situation not serious. His nerves were still shot on multiple levels, and he was almost tempted to just.. walk away and be done with it.
Tone exhausted, he huffed, "You mean my League that I'm leaving literally in a few days? Or my League that you could have asked me to talk to??" He pulled the stack of Memories he'd taken and shoved half of them at Orion's chest. "Hey Nik," he mocked. "Can you help me get some Memories?" How fucking hard would that have been.
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Nov 10, 2017 22:36:21 GMT -8
“Leaving or losing, Nikolai?” Orion snapped back clasping the stack thrust at him with enough force to snap other things in two. “Pretty sure you said you were losing your job. That doesn’t really sound like it comes with benefits.” He snarled a little before gritting his teeth. “I don’t fucking need your special help either way!” Didn’t need Nik’s connections, Jazz’s or Michi’s powers, or even Luke’s brains. He didn’t need any of that. Shoving the discs in his hoddie pocket, Orion turned and unexpectedly started towards the door. Was he leaving? Maybe? Apparently. Already steps were closing to the door that would lead down the stairs.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 10, 2017 22:51:51 GMT -8
"I'm--" Words caught in his throat, and as Orion continued to lash and then started to storm off, he huffed. Lucy.. had been standing kind of awkwardly nearby all this time, and now Nik reached over and grabbed his arm tightly. The Gardevoir, after a slight jolt, took the queue, and in the next second Lucy was in the hall and Nik blocking the doorway in front of Orion.
"Leaving," he spat as both arms braced against the door frame. "I'm not getting fired, I'm stepping down. It's a bunch of complicated bullshit and I'm sorry I didn't tell you." His jaw clenched a bit. "But you--"
He huffed. Shifting gears from trying to reason with him, he ordered, "Sit down."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Nov 10, 2017 23:00:20 GMT -8
A ‘tch’ sound escaped from Orion as Nik reappeared there blocking the way. His eyes glared hard at Nik even as he explained himself. He might have snapped back with more, might have closed the distance between the two of them and shoved passed just as hard. However, that single order, two words, was enough to have him stopping short.
Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. It reverberated a couple more times even after that. Orion’s taught muscles seemed to visibly relax some if not completely. He continued to stare at Nik for a couple more seconds before turning without a word and starting back to the living room. If Nik followed him in step, he’d see him very literally sit down on the couch, arms folded. He couldn’t look at anything directly nor would he say any more but…
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 10, 2017 23:20:33 GMT -8
Nik let out a held breath that carried some of the tension out of his body. Good... This was... good, probably. He was listening, he... he wasn't leaving. Okay. Nik slowly pulled his arms back from the door frame, then turned around to look at Lucy. "...Sorry about this," he murmured. "Thanks for... thanks." Lucy nodded, and Nik, perhaps against his better judgment, recalled him.
Following Orion in, he debated what to even say now. He was entirely too exhausted to tear into him, as much as the most bitter parts of him wanted to. ... Some part kind of... wanted to just take a nap. Discuss this when they were both rested. But he almost worried he'd be too lenient then, and... the idea of Orion running off before he woke up wasn't one he could shake.
So he took a shaky breath, stopping a few feet away and crossing his arms, more in an uncertain and self-comforting manner than a judgmental or angry one. "I keep..." That came out too weak, and he wanted to try again with more confidence, but... Take two came out just as soft and pathetic. "I keep telling you how much I need you to talk to me. And... to be honest with me." That and 'try to be a half decent human being' were all he really asked for, at least as far as he could recall..?
"I..." He wanted to ask a lot of questions, but went for the most pressing he supposed. "If their Lucario hadn't intervened or had even been too slow, you could've hurt or killed those guys." Nik was... starting to tear up and choke a bit. "How can I trust you when you'd risk that so readily?" He bit his lip, and... nearly as pressing in his mind.. "You could've just... gotten on Song with me. We didn't have to fight that last fight at all."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Nov 10, 2017 23:38:46 GMT -8
Yellow eyes didn’t raise to blue ones but fixed somewhere a little lower. Orion blinked once but didn’t say anything in between either takes or the nor the emotional rhetoric that came after. What cut him, however, was the last part, the question of trust. Something akin to pain did flicker on his features but only for a second before his teeth grit behind his lips, and he looked away. They didn’t have to fight that last fight at all? Had he not seen how that Lucario moved? Did he not know what Arcanine’s species were known for? No, they had to deal with them as effectively as possible, and that was it.
He wanted to say more, to snap back that he’d been thinking about splitting up and escaping a different way. He wanted to argue that riding Song wouldn’t have guaranteed their safety nor would it have ensured they’d get away. He wanted to say that being stranded on a horse dog made them more open to attack in an entirely different way. These things he knew and understood instinctually. But... that wasn’t what Nik was upset about. His immediate reactions hadn’t been what had gotten Nik tripped up. That was… it was…
Orion’s gaze flickered back up to Nik a little duller now, a lot less hostile, and only a shred of the overall defiance. “Just hit me, Nik,” his voice came out a lot duller but still held an almost matter-of-factness to it. “Apologies don’t mean anything right now.”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 10, 2017 23:46:32 GMT -8
... That request was asinine, but he was also right. They wouldn't have meant jack shit right now. ...They still would have been nice, but wouldn't have meant anything, and Nik could half respect that Orion acknowledged that. There was... really no getting around that this was... this...
But he let out an exasperated half-sigh, half-groan, running a hand down his face. "I don't..." he weakly growled. "I don't want to hurt you, jackass, I want--..." Words caught again.
He slowly moved around the coffee table to the other side of the couch, and... more fell than sat, elbows resting on his legs and fingers nesting in his hair. "I want a future with you..." he murmured quietly. "I want... to know that's really possible..."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Nov 11, 2017 0:01:08 GMT -8
A small half-breath, half-laugh escaped from Orion at Nik’s insistence that he didn’t want to hurt him. Yeah, yeah, he already knew. Nik had only ever punched him once, and heh of course that was their very first reunion so. When the words suddenly stopped, however, Orion grimaced. Want me gone huh? Swept under the rug just like every other mistake he was. Yeah, he got it. It made complete sense.
But as Nik collapsed next to him, Orion fidgeted slightly. I want a future with you. Orion’s chest clenched. I want to know that’s really possible. He… couldn’t… breathe? For a couple of seconds Orion just sat there caught between being dumbfounded and also in a weird amount of pain.
He loves you, dumbass. You’ve already done worse in the past, and he’s already taken you despite that. Yeah but the past things, the historical things, didn’t quite count. It probably would have changed if he’d been right there the minute Nik opened the door knife in hand..
Well… obviously.
He just wants you to be happy and safe and— That was… that was part of the problem wasn’t it? He didn’t… didn’t know if….. that were even possible. He’d tested it out, had fun for a couple months, but getting caught just…. I want a future with you. Orion drew up a leg and wrapped one arm around it before resting his cheek on it, away from Nik. “Don’t know if I can promise that,” he answered. “Clearly can’t seem to keep even basic promises.”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 11, 2017 0:06:37 GMT -8
Nik... didn't really know what he'd expected. He guessed.. he didn't really expect anything at this point. He wasn't really surprised. Even 'disappointed' felt too strong. He was... certainly 'discontent' but... He quietly sighed. That nap was... sounding better and better.
Mia would never put me through this passed through his mind, and Nik lightly startled and shoved that as far into the dark void as it would go. He knew Orion wasn't going to develop telepathy at exactly that instant, yet the fear he could wouldn't seem to go away.
Trying to push past that, he asked, "...How often do you do this sort of thing, anyway?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Nov 11, 2017 0:14:01 GMT -8
How often do you do this sort of thing, anyway? What sort of thing? Breaking and entering? Stealing? Fighting unsanctioned battles? He could guess any number of ways Nik could spin it, and Orion guessed ‘all of them’ was probably closest to the truth. “Only taken one set of Memories before this,” he answered, not quite answering the question but not lying at least.
Everything else that came to mind was… less obvious, less regulated, less likely to gain notice anywhere but within the criminal underworld. He was Marceline’s enforcer more than anything else, and those kinds of people knew to keep their fucking mouths shut for their own good. Running to the police when you were already a criminal didn’t really do anyone any good. Squealers got even harsher treatment. Could he openly say that had been a one time thing? No, that would be lying to Nik, and right then, he wouldn't. But that didn't mean he had to come right out and explain everything either.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 11, 2017 0:26:01 GMT -8
Nik sat on that for a good ten seconds, waiting for more, before letting out a tired groan. One set of Memories... So this, specifically, was now a recurring offense, but... So much worse was how specific that reply was. This was what he got, wasn't it. He told Orion himself that secrets were one thing but just not to lie to him. Now he was starting to regret that. Maybe Orion had been right about the box being too flexible...
Ugh weren't you supposed to be a grown-ass adult, why was this.... ugh.
"I'm gonna be trying to get closer to Niso," he huffed. "I'm... literally stepping down from the League to help Dasha keep an eye on him, and anyone I meet through connections." He shouldn't be saying this, he knew he shouldn't, but...
"If you were robbing convenience stores or something, whatever but... League targets are... That's a serious offense and..." He grit his teeth a moment, regretting this already. "I don't want you wrapped up in this kind of shit," he admitted. "..But if you're gonna do it, I need to fucking know so I can protect you." He sighed. "I just... If you go and get yourself arrested and stick me with paying bills by myself I'm gonna be pissed..." ... That... was kind of meant as humor and yet.. he was still legitimately pretty angry.
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