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 Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:21 pm
Now Calder really did have to leave on something, and his hands gripped the wet mattress to hold himself up. Barth was offering to WALK him home. He was volunteering to MOVE, to transport himself of his own free will, far away. Calder would have been blushing beyond words if Barth had offered to fetch him something from the other side of the room, but to take him to his dorm??!!
He was utterly speechless for a few moments, looking flustered and fluttering, before he nodded. "I'd like that." His grin was spreading wide. "I'd like that a lot. I'm.....thank you. That's awfully sweet of you." Was he tearing up a bit. Nope!
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:46 pm
At this rate, the end of the night was going to involve crashing into an unwakeable heap. Where was becoming the real problem. Lilith expected him, and had an actual bed, but he hadn't had time to talk about the thorns, and if he slept while her room was stuffed with follyjoxes there were bound to be...casualties. And she'd be sore at him all over again. Better than not talking at all, though. The Monster and Reaper dorms were right next to each other. He'd have a little longer to think it over.
He just nodded once at Calder shyly, and picked a jacket.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:04 pm
Calder did not mention that Barth didn't have to. The very thought that the demon would walk him home was too good to ruin with giving him a way out. He loved him, but he loved the idea of being walked home even more at the moment. It was good to give Barth a reason to sleep all the time. Like cashing in his sleeping, lazy points for one moment of normal, everyday exercise. Calder loved his soft, plush boilfriend, but not enough for him to turn into a blob right alongside Cheezbooger.
Giddy beyond words, Calder opened the door, shut the door behind them, and walked with Barth down the steps, Seeing as he didn't want the boil passing out on his way there, he assisted the boil by wrapping his arm around his back, and pulling him close. "You spoil me." Calder whispered, kissing the spot beside his ear. "The president of N.A.P. walking me home. What will the members think when I tell them?" He teased.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:30 pm
"They'd think I was forsaking my vows," Barth said, "and they'd be right. ...We haven't done any activities since that whole paintball fiasco anyway. Then again, that's rather the point of the club."
It was easy to get swept up in Calder's arms. When had he gotten so strong? The kiss made him shiver in a way the night air hadn't.
He tried to keep a toe on the skateboard, so it wouldn't escape.
"If I err, make it, haha," he was only sort of joking. "I wanted to...make the attempt. At least."
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:37 pm
"We haven't had much chance to do anything. I think every club is taking an page out of your club. Rest and relaxation is what everyone needs right now." To heal. To live. To ...cuddle up warmly with a snuggly, once-half-naked, totally thoughtful, armful of boil.
"Just offering is enough to sweep me off my feet. Actions due speak louder than words sometimes." Well, most of the time. Calder liked doing more than talking, even if he felt he was rather practiced and good at talking.
"If you don't make it, I'll just carry you someplace secret and safe where no one can find you ever again except me." He teased again, though it was a very lovely thought. Maybe if he ever managed to own his own place. How hard were dungeons to make anyway? Seems every home had them nowadays from what he heard. Just place about some comfy blankets, throw pillows here, and some bars and you were good to go.
"Though I do like going on dances with you, so I guess I'll let you out from time to time." He joked.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:51 pm
"So many threats this evening," Barth said, "and with rest and relaxation, too. You should get into the temptation business."
When they came to the end of the steps, the pavement outside was smooth. Hills went both ways, and they had struggled their way to the top. It was downhill from here. At least until... Barth leaned back to a little more, a little longer, then balanced himself on the skateboard.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:31 pm
Calder felt Barth rolling more, and matched his speed, releasing him to allow the boil to coast more easily. Smiling, he kept his hand lightly on Barth's back. "You forget, I'm already in the temptation business. It's what us kelpies do best. Demons aren't the only ones who know how to attract others to what seems like a good thing." He let his hand coast about Barth's back. "You're not the only dangerous one around here." To which he gave Barth a nice squeeze.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:02 am
"You are, that's right," Barth said, feeling a sudden rush of affection, "a tempter by nature. I'd forgotten. You're very good at it. You know, I'd never told anybody that I- err, that I...love them, but I really think with you that I- I do. That we- I think we're sort of...there's something..."
Calder squeezed.
"Yes, err, sort of like that," he said a little faintly.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:16 am
Calder smiled innocently enough about the action. "Something? I have to admit that I was a little concerned I was falling for a demon. I've always been warned to mind myself around demons and to never trust them, but in the end, out of everyone, out of all that has happened, I feel I really can with you. I've fallen hard for other people before, but with you, I think it's the first time I really trusted someone this much. You've stuck with me the longest, Barth, and it means a lot to me. I haven't gone this far and this long with anyone, and that you don't hate me....makes me feel good." That he didn't hate himself in the process.
"But I'll never get old tempting you to keep you with me. It's good to give a good refresher to keep the blood pumping."
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:52 pm
"I do like blood," Barth admitted, "and you're rightly concerned. But I think we understand each other. Like earth and water. ...I couldn't hate you."
Demons shouldn't be trusted, really. Barth didn't trust any. He really shouldn't trust Calder, either, with the whole deception leading to destruction thing...but somehow, in all the mutual danger, he felt like he'd...grown. And not just with the thorns. There was something fertile between them, as old as bogs and mud, where the decay was the a bed for other kinds of life.
The Reaper dorms were just across from the Monster dorms, but Barth stayed on course, trying to ride the momentum up the incline.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:40 pm
It was just more assurance, but the imagery that they worked, that they fit, that they belonged together weakened him in the knees, and he took a slightly misstep before he continued walking. Mudd. He never tied it together. With his name, meaning 'from wild waters', they were two different elements joining together at the bank. Crushed side by side together and moving alongside each other, much in this way. Mudd.
For the millionth time, he paired his name with the boil's last, and smiled to himself. Day dreaming now really had no place when he was already living a dream at the moment.
It wasn't long before the path turned and ended at the Monster dorms. The doors were side, and Calder opened them before gesturing down the steps leading to the basement. How far was Barth coming and ....well, the boil didn't have a bed.
He heard giggling and a dorm slam further down the hallway and his mind ran wild.
"So...this is my door."
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:17 pm
"Yes," Barth said. He recognized it, and heard the giggling too. It made his neck feel hot. "Well, err, this is goodnight, I guess." He leaned the skateboard gently against the wall.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:14 pm
Why was he nervous? They had made out plenty of times. Held each other. Even slept in the same bed countless times over. It was the giggling through that tickled his ears, whispering something else in his head.
They did work very well together.
"Well, ...about that.....I mean, you don't have a bed...and it is Scarentines." No. He should make a holiday a demand or expectation. "No. Not that it matters about today. I mean, what really matters is what we were saying. About ..about being very close to each other. Getting each other. Working well together.." He rubbed the back of his neck, feeling even more uncomfortable when he could actually feel the back of his neck. Short hair. AHH!
He stopped touching his neck to instead fiddle with the derpicorn charm on his dorm keychain. "Like how water and earth work well. And sometimes if you mix water and earth, you get mud, and that makes something better together cause it binds but it's both....." He didn't know what he was talking about at this point. OMJ he had to stop talking! "
Using Calder was a very good speaker. Right now was not one of those times.
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:53 pm
Barth should just kiss him, and say he had to be going.
Back down the long hallway, alone. Up the stairs. Across the way to Lilith's, and he hadn't brought his stair climber. He had been tired, not thinking. He was barely standing now, and making it up the Monster dormitory stairs was a stretch. Lilith was at very top of the Reaper dormitories. Even if he did make it, which he couldn't, he'd just...sleep in that bed for days. Her big, warm, bed.
The soft mossy floor was only a few inches away. Calder was talking, nervous.
Barth leaned forward to kiss Calder. He rested his claws on Calder's hips.
"It is...sort of a longish walk back," he said, quietly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:23 pm
If Barth had allowed him babbling to continue, Calder would have gone to talking about the finer points and uses of mud for a long while and never directly hit the mark of what he was getting at. The kiss was enough for him, and he smiled. It was more than enough to know that he would like to stay. Smiling, Calder opened the doors and showed Barth inside, before, looking about, giving his own giggle to match the ones he heard before, and shutting the doors shut.
*************************************** Calder woke, some time very late in the day, and did not save for peeling his eyes open. It was still dark, or so he first thought, before his vision focused and thorns crawled about the room around them. A few perplexed leeches were getting some exercise exploring the thorns, and Calder glanced over at the slumbering demon responsible. While he huffed at the demon, he was still too comfortable to slip out from under the knitted blankets. It was too warn, the ground, plush with a thick layer of moss that would rival many beds, was soft, and he just didn't have the energy.
Sighing, he rolled onto his back and looked up, then groaned and turned back on his stomach. "It feels too eaaarrrlllyyy." Not that he knew what time it was.
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