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 Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:32 pm
He looked to the pool and then back to Lawr, tired, exhausted, and yet still afraid. One horrifying trip into water would not suddenly wash confidence into him, and he petted him as he looked at the water.
"Did you tell anyone you were coming here?" He asked. "I will not be able to stay here too longer before I'm summoned again. There is no lights here. No food." And he grew concerned. "They will not let anyone but me into the city."
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:39 pm
Lawr cleared his throat. "I left a note?" A note they might not think was urgent at all since he made it sound a bit like a mission. "I brought some food and drink with me, I didn't know if I'd need to go look for you in the city." He'd planned that far ahead.
"I can just...wait here."
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:50 pm
He heard his throat clear and frowned. "A note." He sighed, brushing his hair.
"If I was injured. If I needed help, who would help us both? You are risking your marriage and your family. They do not like me after all." And yet he smiled.
"I will get you a blanket, a pillow, and some rations. I can find a container for fresh water. I can come each day to check on you and see if there is some way we can call for help for you. I do not want you to waste at the gates on my behalf. I want you to be home safe and sound, like I had hoped to make all of Deus by coming here. I need someone to watch my room too." No doubt whatever was in his fridge would be spoiling.
"If you need to send me something then put it in a parcel. Send me a letter and give it sealed to be taken by someone else who might visit me. Tell them I requested you do not come if they ask why you do not dive down there. That way you do not have to hurt yourself and we can still communicate."
But for now...
"I suppose you will be my prisoner. It is a shame I will not be able to spend all my time with you in my lap, but then what work would I get done." He chuckled. "...but i can stay here a while longer. I do not wish to go back so soon when you risked everything to see me. When you showed how much you care." It was too bad that he often was the one needing to rescue Lawr, but it was nice to think that somewhere someone would come to find him if he ever became lost.
"I missed you."
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:59 pm
"I'm not risking my marriage." he said. "Rodney might not be fond of you but he can't grudge me coming to look for you and would need to understand why I did it. There's a story about a man who goes looking for a sheep that springs to mind."
He looked relieved at the very least about the idea of something warm and food to help tide him.
"It's fine, I wouldn't want to interrupt your important work. I'm glad you get to do it, when you've always been the one most devoted to it all."
He gave him a genuine smile. "I missed you too."
And added.
"Obviously."
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:58 pm
"I think the lost sheep is the one that goes astray due to temptation and the good Shepard is the one to see them home to the right path. Atlantis is a temptation and if this is wandering, then I am comfortable with that. I haven't made a home on Deus anyways.There was only one place I dared to call home."
To which he bent down and kissed his crown. "My castle." He whispered, before petting him again. "I can stay here a while, but then I'll have to leave to get you some things to make you comfortable here in the cove. Then I will have to leave you for the day. I hope you will be fine alone. There is nothing I can do otherwise. I cannot leave."
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:39 pm
"Well I'm not here to take you away from Atlantis, I know its important to you and it represents knowledge and all the things you are interested in." It just put an almost impossible ocean between them both more frequently than he would like.
He gave Melvin a grateful little squeeze for the kiss. "That's fine. I'm a big boy." he said with a smile, aware of the subtle irony given his height. "I'm good at entertaining myself when I need to. I just needed to know you were all right, I didn't know if the person who died was you."
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:55 am
He wrapped his arms tightly around him. "Lawr....if I died....running into a dangerous place wouldn't help me. It wouldn't help your family, big boy decisions or not. You ran into a horsemen base to save Rodney. You ran here to save me. But some day there won't be anyone to save but yourself."
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 8:59 am
"I refused to accept you were dead." he said flatly. "It was not logic I wanted to entertain at all." But he was right, he had done some monumentally crazy things in an attempt to save people who were important to him. Still, he couldn't justify just letting it happen. "I came here because I thought I could help somehow."
He looked a little grim at Melvin's final statement. "I've spent my whole life saving myself. I've gotten rather good at it." he said, as if it was a negative thing.
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:48 am
"Keep it up. I want you alive as long as possible. I didn't carry you out of the Sahara for you to drown in our backyard." He petted him softly, finding it soothing and taking comfort in the weight and presence of the other man.
"If only I could keep you a prisoner in my suite. In my own bowl to watch and be entertained. My white pearl washed up from the sea." He chuckled at using sea imagery on a man who hated the water. "Shipwrecked on this little island just you and I."
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 11:19 am
"Me too." Lawrence said. "I'm not interested in dying any time soon if I can avoid it." Melvin was familiar, all soft comfort and clean smells and with him he felt as at home as he did at his other home.
"I'd happily be a prisoner for ever if it meant I didn't have to go back out there. If Rodney wouldn't give me that dissapointed face for doing it either." he couldn't keep the genuine smile off his face though.
"Wouldn't think you'd ever be all right with being shipwrecked again after last time."
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 1:55 pm
"I didn't have you last time. Changes things from being shipwrecked to a vacation." He ran his hands through his hair again. "I miss our vacations together."
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 2:18 pm
"Me too." Lawrence said, seeming to sit up a little more on his own power, reassured by Melvin being there and the adrenaline finally receding enough to let him get his senses back together.
"I can't believe you got me on a jetski."
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:46 am
He barked a laugh instantly at the reminder, and smiled. "I did! I got you to ride a jetski, didn't I?" He had almost forgotten, but the vivid image of Lawr mortified on a jetski and staring at the water as it bobbed and without him wanting to turn the machine anywhere but close to shore was priceless.
"And I got you to get to Atlantis. Look how far you've come. He patted him very much like a good dog. "You deserve a reward for courage when I get back home."
Usually he would give him something sweet and nice, even a vacation, but as he thought of it, he found he was limited in what he could give a married man.
"I'll think of something.....marriage approved."
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:10 pm
"You did! I thought I was going to die. I thought I was going to die today as well." He hugged him again in a rare show of vulnerability. "I don't think I've ever been so scared of anything. Normally I'm not afraid. Someone could stand there with a gun pointed at my head and I'd feel nothing, think nothing other than oh well. But the ocean is different, it is like having something plugged into an outlet, some part of me I can't control. It is truly abominable."
He gave Melvin a gentle shove. "You make me do illogical things far too often. But yes, I'm sure you'll find something marriage approved. Loopholes."
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:16 pm
"Maybe they should feel the gun with water to make you take those dangers more seriously. I hope we never have a cruise ship mission or else I'll have to find a way to watch you without Rodney hissing me away."
He hugged him tightly when Lawr clung him, taking great joy in having the man hold onto him in such a rare show of need. "If only there were more loopholes. So many get plugged up, but I have time to think down here. I will think of something to show my great appreciation for you in the few ways I'm allowed but not in all the many, many, many ways I wish."
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