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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 3, 2017 16:01:58 GMT -8
After his giant money haul, Orion ‘called out’ of work several days. Some of that was taking time to chill out and healing while others were spent dealing with moving and house things. The bruising had started its cycle of getting uglier than sin while also healing slowly but surely. Thank Arceus it was cool enough that wearing sweaters and jackets was acceptable at all times, but damn. This had been such a mess, heh.
When he finally did get a chance to get back to work, Orion found quite a bit waiting for him. Heh, well, what else did he expect? Orion welcomed the distraction and— then promptly remembered he was supposed to sit down and talk to Nik about some things that had just sorta flown out the window during all of the madness passed that point. Well, well. He’d figure out what to say maybe today or the next day, he promised himself.
After a couple of things were settled here and there, Orion hesitated on actually following up with Marceline in person. He could just shoot her some emails with information, or he could text her or even call her…. But somehow he found himself walking down the street towards her penthouse again without even really thinking about it. Hhhhhhh heh? Heh.
Heading in again and up the elevator, he only then briefly remembered he’d ‘supposed’ to bring cookies. Well… ah well. This would be short, and he’d remember it for next time, he promised. Coming down the hallway, he’d knock on her door again before trying to let himself in. Shesh her apartment was warm— or he was jus wearing a lot of clothes heh.
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Post by Marceline Labele on Dec 3, 2017 17:10:05 GMT -8
(sadly tldr version from losing the post)
Thankfully with some time apart from Orion Marcie had gotten over her desire to get what she'd been denied much like she'd hoped, and while she was briefly curious as to why Orion, such a dilligant worker, needed time off, she wasn't about to question it when they both needed the space. Much like she after Orion's last visit, right now she was taking a bath, only to be startled by the knock 10 minutes into her quiet soak as she heard a knock at the door and recalled her poor habit of not locking the door since people needed a keycard to get up here anyway.
Right now, somehow shouting at someone to get out from the bath didn't seem like the smart option even if it was, pushing up and away from the tub she grabbed a towel and gave herself a quick dry, practically darting across the first floor (most of which was visible from the ground floor) of her penthouse with her towel wrapped around her, the back of it held down just incase as she darted to her room to get dressed. "Just a moment! I'll be down in a second!"
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‘Cause these words are knives that often leave scars The fear of falling apart |
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 3, 2017 17:19:41 GMT -8
The sounds from the floor up had Orion’s head jolting up— right in time for him to watch her move from the bathroom to her bedroom. Oh…. Yellow eyes dropped and flickered around Marceline’s apartment a couple of times before settling on some part of her kitchen which was visible from where he was standing. Somewhere in the back of his mind, the word shit echoed loud and clear, and he immediately regretted not having talked to Nik about any of this beforehand. This was as bad as putting off meeting Niso Konto face to— fucking shit had he forgotten to do that too??? Fuck. He swore at some point he’d been planning to but???
Orion walked to the kitchen and poured a glass of water for himself, downing it pretty quickly before stepping back into the living room again. Winding around the couch, he considered sitting down but ended up leaning against the back of it while standing instead. Chill, be calm… chill…. It was kind of hard to be chill when it was warm in here, heh. Fuck brain did you have to make that a pun?
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Post by Marceline Labele on Dec 3, 2017 17:48:12 GMT -8
Marcie managed to catch a brief glance over her shoulder and the green head of hair told her it was either Jazz or Orion who was in her home, and...well process of elimination cut that down to just Orion. Greeeeat. While she was fine she was smart enough to know if he was still feeling off from their last meeting this probably didn't help. She briefly reached for her usual comfy 'home alone' clothes before realizing they probably weren't the best thing after being caught like that.
Deciding for something a little less revealing, but still comfortable, she threw on a long loose shirt, some sweatpants, and took a second to brush her hair, still damp but not bad enough to moisten her shirt or anything. Her reflection wasn't the most flattering, and while that annoyed her on some level, it was also pretty much the point, a light sigh before she made he way back downstairs, a light skip to her step put on just to try and make sure neither of their minds locked too hard onto the image Orion had likely been granted on his way in, trying to move on sharply as she held a chipper tone.
"Orion!~ Didn't think I deserved a personal check in. Finish a local job?" She paused a little as she slowed down, glancing briefly to a door at the end of the room that lead to the penthouse's private heating system, then back to Orion who was wearing some thicker clothes. She'd just come out of a warm bath so maybe she just didn't realize how cold it was...? "Nippy outside...?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 3, 2017 17:56:12 GMT -8
Yellow eyes immediately flicked to Marceline’s door again. Some part of him told him to drop them, but as Marceline stepped out clothed, he felt a little …. less tense heh. The lightness of her voice had him chuckling softly. “Indeed,” he replied to her question briefly. As she slowed off the last couple of steps, he shifted a bit to stand up fully again. “Quite, the season’s starting to change,” he chuckled softly. “Though it is quite warm in here— Sorry if I ruined your heated bath…” His voice fell a bit, and he shrugged his shoulders. “I suppose a text would have sufficed heh. It wasn’t too serious a job, after all.” And yet here he was.
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Post by Marceline Labele on Dec 3, 2017 18:09:33 GMT -8
"..." Orion just felt...off, though she couldn't quite place why specifically, walking past him into the kitchen, flicking her gaze at him curiously. His words just felt oddly stilted the way she was hearing them but maybe it was her, her head was still a little warm and numb from the bath. She chuckled a little as he called it heated, her mind making a weird joke of the choice of wording. "Sadly it was just a relaxing bath alone. Nothing 'heated' about it.~" She stuck out her tongue teasingly as she pulled some filtered water from the fridge and poured herself a glass, leaning against the kitchen counter.
A text might of sufficed but..."Well...I do always appreciate your personal visits." She smiled softly and placed the glass down to the side. "IAny excuse for your company is one I'll accept.~" She glanced to Orion's clothes again, then briefly to a thermostat...no it wasn't just her, the apartment should have been fairly toast. "Aren't you roasting in that deer?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 4, 2017 6:43:19 GMT -8
Pfffffffheh. He …. walked right into that, didn’t he? Orion snorted and smirked despite himself. Ok, yeah he did. Shifting a little in stance, Orion leaned against the back of the couch again as Marcie grabbed water for herself. He might have said something witty back, but her question cut his thoughts. “A- ah a bit,” he answered pulling at the sleeves of the green turtle neck sweater he wore. Jeans were an everyday occasion— some days with chains some days without— but his favorite baseball cut shirts and t-shirts weren’t going to cut it considering—
“Perhaps I broke out the winter clothes too soon,” he chuckled once, shifting up one sleeve at least. His uncut un-cut forearm looked roughly normal at first glance, and he hoped she wouldn’t take too much interest in it to catch the bruising that started at and around his elbow. It extended up through his bicep and recycled all around his chest but ah heh. “Eran winters are much colder…” Especially when a good portion of his life had been spent in the north.
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Post by Marceline Labele on Dec 4, 2017 7:13:52 GMT -8
Marcie was faintly curious why Orion didn't take off the sweater outright, given the room was quite warm despite the weather outside, but she supposed Orion didn't have to stay too long now did he? Her image of an Eran winter wasn't a pleasant one, though in part that was because her picture of the region wasn't too advanced. She doubted it'd be very easy to put a heating system into a castle or some such afterall...
"Well so long as your comfortable...did you have anything specific to tell me about the last job or..." She paused her words as she noticed the edge of the bruising around Orion's elbow, walking across to him and, while being gentle, wasn't exactly giving him a choice either as she took his arm, easing up his sleeve just a little more. It...was somewhat unusual for her to see him coming out of a job all that roughed up, sure he may have had a few injuries here or there before, but they were still rare and far between. "Are you okay? This looks old..." Had he gotten this on a recent mission? No...must have been before his break but...she was sure she hadn't put him on anything too dangerous. Her eyes flashed up to his, wanting an answer to how he got such a harsh looking bruise, not even knowing the full extent yet. A faint chuckle came out of her as she tried to manage a joke.
"This isn't where you tell me you tripped down the stairs and I worry about Nik is it?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 4, 2017 7:41:40 GMT -8
Oh. Fuck. Welp. Orion winced slightly as Marceline pulled up the rest of the sleeve. “Yeah it’s fine—“ he answered knowing that wasn’t what she’d asked. As her eyes met his, however, he stopped. This isn’t where you tell me you tripped down the stairs and I worry about Nik, is it? WHAT?? “NO— no not… no…I….No, that’s not….”
Orion sighed shifting up his other sleeve revealing the long bandages that was up his arm and the numerous bruises that were there as well. “I ….” Wow, his brain was taking longer to process this than expected. “Went to a fight club and kinda got wrecked…” That was the gist of it, but hearing his own wording had him snickering softly. “It wasn’t terrible but fighting like… five nutjobs in a row was kinda made of suck.” She’d understand, though, right? He wasn’t…. about to get another lecture was he? Hhhhhhhh…..
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Post by Marceline Labele on Dec 4, 2017 8:47:41 GMT -8
A fight club? Marcie hadn't ever known or thought that would be the kind of place Orion would go to, be it for fun or cash. She thought she paid him fairly well all things considered, and she'd displayed in the past that she was more than generous when he needed the help. Why on earth would he...? She wasn't even mad, just mildly curious and confused. All the same however her mind just focused on the bruising and the bandages...five in a row? What sort of club put you against those odds? "Well...by the sounds of it you won at least..."
She lifted up his other arm, much, much more carefully this time, examining the bandages to see how heavy the wounds must have been underneath. The didn't seem professional but they were hardly slap dash either. Had he not gone to a hospital...? Probably not. He didn't seem like he'd appreciate a lecture from a doctor. All she could really think to ask was "...where they clean fights? You know I can help get some payback if anyone pulled a cheap trick." And...a part of her wanted the payback herself. Who the hell dealt such damage? And she'd only seen the arms.
"...Wait you were still performing jobs when you hadn't recovered?" Her eyes shot back up to his, she wasn't scolding in the slightest, her tone seemed to display worry more than anything. "Dear if you were taking that time off because you were injured you should have said. You know full well I would have allowed you some more time." She scoffed briefly before adding. "Heck I would have made it paid vacation."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 4, 2017 9:14:31 GMT -8
A small sigh escaped from Orion. “Yep,” he gave a small nod. “I did.” If he hadn’t, that would have been made of even more suck, and he didn’t want to think about it too hard, heh. As she looked over them more carefully, some part of him wanted to insist that he was fine and to pull his sleeves down again.
The question, however, caught him off guard. “Er…” Did he want payback? Not particularly? He had been pretty aware of what he was getting into when he went in, high stakes high rewards, but…. It was still kind of nice that she was concerned in that manner??? “I…” he thought back to the guy with the knives at the very end, but even Orion had whipped out knives when he needed them so… “There was nothing out of the ordinary…. For that kind of place,” he finally answered.
And then she tripped him up again. AHhahahhahaa— paid vacation? Orion’s lips pressed together before breaking into an apologetic grin. “Ah I…. yeah…. That was why I called out the other days…” he answered shifting a bit and reaching to touch his neck only to drop his hand at the last second. “It’s not a big deal I can still move pretty fine…” But the worry in her tone was enough to have him considering otherwise. “And…. I know….” he answered a bit quieter meeting her gaze. He … hadn’t actually considered using the excuse ‘I’m calling out cause I got my ass kicked’ but in that moment with Marceline speaking, it …. Was pretty much a ‘yeah duh’ moment heh.
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Post by Marceline Labele on Dec 4, 2017 9:39:50 GMT -8
Marcie could tell by the way he staggered his words that someone had broken whatever rules this establishment had, but he was more than happy to cover for them. Good really. If she'd gotten a name or even a face out of him she probably would have had them hunted down. Not killed, but he'd make sure they were in as bad a state as Orion was now. He was her worker. Her Orion. Who the fuck thought they could beat him up like this. She'd have hunted down all 5 of his opponents if she felt she had a good enough excuse...!
Slow breath...calm down and just..."Well...you do what. 2. 3 jobs a day? Consider yourself back-paid on the next pay day." The tone she was taking was oddly bossy despite the generosity behind it. She wasn't about to let him give her any "Oh no i don't need that" lip. He was getting paid whether he liked it or not. She looked him briefly up and down, thinking of how to ask him to do something, before just rolling her eyes and, rather forwardly, yanking his shirt up at the front, taking in whatever bruises and bandages he had before she pushed it back down, and just as quickly- "And consider yourself on paid leave for another week...Momo-'s been eager for more field work anyway..."
She glanced to him briefly before letting out a sigh, walking towards a first aid cabinet that had things strong enough to be qualified as everything from first to FINAL aid thanks to the scrapes they could get into in this business. "Have you at least taken anything?" She rested a hand on the cabinet's handle to make it obvious what she was offering. "I'm sure I can spare a perscriptions worth of something in here if you need it."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 4, 2017 10:14:35 GMT -8
Marcie’s bossiness was…. so weirdly endearing? Perhaps it was just him processing everything related to the incident weirdly since Luke. The fact that she wasn’t blaming him personally though was such a relief. A small half-laugh escaped from him. Consider yourself back-paid on the next pay day. “Are you sure?” he teased only once before following up with an. “Alright, alright….”
--WELP. As much as he could have probably held onto the sweater to keep Marceline from yanking it up, he’d already showed his arms so…. Ugh. The bruises on his abs were darker and uglier now than they had been initially. Green, black, blue blotches were what had once been refined bruises with very intricate lines. Paid leave for a— But— BUT… BUT— A weird, not quite laugh escaped from Orion. He shouldn’t have been so averse to this order. He should have been taking it as her grace but??? Well… Well. At least she had Momo but… BUT???
Watching her turn towards the cabinets, Orion frowned a bit. Ah yeah some… Both over the counter stuff and prescription— which was probably why he was feeling like moving at all if he was actually honest with himself but of course he wasn’t. But ignoring that he… could not help but be a bit surprised and amused by her drug collection. Given her business it really didn’t surprise him but seeing it so close in her own home actually kind of did. “Ah— some over the counter stuff…” he answered reaching up and mushing his hair a bit. “Didn’t go to the hospital or anything, obviously.” Obviously. "Quite a collection you have there..." he commented somewhat after the fact.
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Post by Marceline Labele on Dec 4, 2017 11:04:56 GMT -8
"Obviously." She confirmed, unaware it was actually the third time and opening up the cabinet. If he was already using the over the counter stuff and managing she didn't want to hand him anything too strong, but over-estimated what she thought was necessary to make sure he could relax a bit with it too. Her writer had no idea how strong pain meds could really be, but she assumed what Marcie handed over might have been just a tad stronger than whatever Nikolai took for his hip, tossing the pill bottle across, smirking a little at the comment. "Well I don't usually partake myself, but every now and then I hand Misora or Momo a bottle to hand to a toughed up grunt." She chuckled a little and added. "Don't worry, saved you some of the good stuff."
She offered a faint smile before closing up the cabinet, stepping a little closer to Orion as she rubbed her hands along one another...really knowing he was healing still she shouldn't really be keeping him but...she felt like she wasn't doing enough here. Her mind flashed back to what she'd seen under his sweater. She wasn't an idiot, she knew bruises looked worse the more they were healing but...god that looked bad...Despite the earlier bossiness, her tone was just faintly...meek? Yeah. That seemed the best word.
"Is...is erm...there anything else I can do for you dear...?"
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 4, 2017 14:23:50 GMT -8
As the pill bottle was handed over to him, Orion read over it briefly before slipping it into his pant pocket for later. He wasn’t in too much pain now or he would most certainly have opened it right then, heh— as much in a sense of gratitude as to put himself into a functioning capacity. The explanation that came thereafter, however, had him smirking a bit. “Don’t I feel honored,” he chuckled more to himself than to her.
Her quiet words had his features flattening some. It wasn’t so much the words themselves as the tone that was used, and immediately gears in the back of his mind started to twist and turn. Was this cause of him? Well, duh obviously, but still? Lips pressed together, and he fought the urge to shrug and downplay it again. “You do a lot already,” he admitted instead, smiling a bit sheepishly by saying it like that. “I… don’t think I’d be even in this good a shape without you…” Ok??? Orion. “So… thank you for that.” 2 genuine 4 lyf.
He chuckled a bit weakly as a different thought occurred to him. How had he forgotten to ask till now? Perhaps because so much shit was going on at once. “Actually I…do have one little request if you wouldn’t mind…” he smiled a little reaching to rub the side of his neck that wasn’t bruised up. “Nik and I are closing in on a house and…pushing and pulling with the owners and realtor and could you maybe persuade them to knock down that price a bit?” Jeeze he felt cheesy for some reason, and he had no idea why.
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