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 Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:25 pm
Harrison had been waiting for Saturday. Rep was staying off the training fields, like he was supposed to. He half expected Rep to bury himself in some of the training runs, but Rep had steered clear of those too.
He'd given it a lot of thought.
Marcus, for once, had been thinking along the same lines he had. Even if Harrison didn't care much for sparring on the whole, Rep lived and breathed the stuff, and the best way to help him seemed pretty obvious.
He took an early morning shift in the infirmary, then signed out around 11. There'd been a lull in Missions, recently. The guys upstairs were still getting everything sorted, with the death of the council. Harrison tried not to think too hard about who could have gotten in and murdered the hunters who had been in the organization the longest.
His and Jordan's beds were home-projected together, curved frames making a wavy shape. Rep's bed had been too waterlogged to bring in. They didn't keep much in the room- Jordan's books, their clothes, a few of Rep's furs. The stuffed unicorn Jerry had gotten Harrison last Christmas was bristling with intimidation in one of the corners, and guarded the room while they were out.
Jordan wasn't much of a morning person, but he had coffee as a crutch, and could manage early shifts if he had them. Rep stayed in bed as long as he could.
At 11:30 AM, the room was dim, and Rep was right where Harrison had left him at 5.
Harrison shucked off his shoes and crawled into the open side of the bed. He settled close to Rep, resting his head in his arms and giving himself a minute to warm his feet under the covers.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:53 pm
Rep was glad to be back to his usual sleeping routine, the disruption while Harrison wasn't sleeping at all had been more upsetting than he'd really let on. He had found his own time sleeping stretched and strained almost to breaking point as he'd discreetly tried to match the other man's insomnia and failed. As things went back to normal, so had he for a time, but since the sparring disaster with Rin, he'd gone off in the other direction, sleeping longer and longer. After all, there was no point in getting up early when he couldn't even spar. Even summoning Tracey to train felt like it was somehow thumbing his nose at Rin's injury, as if it was dangerous to everyone around him. So he simply hadn't.
The shift of sheets and familiar weight on the bed beside him lured him slowly nearer to the surface of waking and he stirred, rolling onto his side to face Harrison. But stirring for the time being was all he did, letting out a heavy sigh as he stilled again. Once asleep he slept heavy.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:44 pm
The last night, the one before he started sleeping again, he'd spent in bed anyway. He hadn't grown tired, or bored.
He'd patiently watched the door, and sometimes Jordan and Rep, until the sun lightened the blinds.
He watched Rep's face now, a breath away, but his eyelids grew heavy as some of the thick, under-the-covers heat began to soak into his cold feet and hands. The work in the infirmary had been steady, but he wasn't worn out. B0nez kept him running at full capacity.
He rolled closer, tracing his fingers over Rep's piercing.
"Hey," he whispered, "you know what today is?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:57 pm
On his own, Rep tended to wake with a start, a raw panic seizing him when sleep ran out and there was no one nearby. Roused gradually by someone else, there was no trace of this response, grumbling low in his throat as he stirred again, stretched out with the low click of stiff bones and muscle, and opened the eye not pressed against the pillow.
His voice was still groggy and heavy with sleep as he murmured. "Is it m'birthday?", grinning big and stupid at his own joke.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:14 pm
"Uh-uh," Harrison said, making circles, "You've got another week. It's Saturday. And I just finished infirmary duty. So I've got the whole rest of the day off," he said the last part teasingly, tapping each of his fingers to each word, "to- spend- with- you." He grinned back.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:32 pm
Rep's thoughts were sluggish so soon after waking, wading through a mire of lazy contentment and affection. Any other time he might well have stayed confused a while longer, but it was amazing how fast physical contact cleared his mind and sharpened his senses.
"Then it's practically my birthday." he said, quietly impressed Harrison had remembered the date - he spent a whole ******** lot of his time being impressed with the attentiveness of the other man, even this far along in their relationship.
Reaching up to affectionately rub Harrison's wrist between his thumb and a forefinger, he gave him a suspicious little look. "Do we have plans?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:47 pm
"Yeah. I been thinking about it since the Saturday before last." He met Rep's eyes, and his touches stayed easy and light, enjoying the mutual attention. "You need a Moon to work on your charges with."
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:56 pm
There was a perceptible shift in Rep's demeanour at the mention of charges, a sharp twist of anxiety sullying his comfortable mood. He found himself holding onto Harrison's wrist rather than gently stroking it the way he had been.
"I'm better off keeping Tracey away from people."
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:27 pm
Harrison leaned forward a little, sharing Rep's pillow. "You can't keep going in blind. ...I trust you guys. I know you. And if both of us are going to do our jobs, if we're gonna keep each other alive, you have to know Tracey."
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:41 pm
Rep still couldn't help but look uncertain, he had been sure he knew himself before the spar with Rin and the limits of Tracey's capabilities. "Rin trusted me too." he said, but there was resignation in the statement. Harrison was right, it wasn't just Rep's life on the line if he got skittish and couldn't trust his weapon any longer, he would pay the price too. He didn't like the risks involved, but there weren't other options.
Heaving a sigh, he slunk his arms around Harrison and hugged him, needing the reassurance. "But fine." he said with that hint of playful sulkiness that generally meant he felt better. "If you insist."
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:20 am
"Well, I said I trusted you, not that I was going to let you kick my a**."
Harrison looped his arms around Rep's shoulders about the same time Rep reached for him.
"I've got a plan," he said, grinning again and resting his forehead against Rep's.
"It'll work out fine. What you need is numbers, and when it comes to that s**t, B0nez is probably the best guy on the island for it."
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:45 am
"That sounds like a challenge, probably not wise in the circumstances you know man."
He couldn't keep back the smirk that set up camp in his expression. It was softened with relief, the anxiety never keeping much traction in the face of Harrison's contagious assertiveness. "A plan? Maybe I should be ******** worried." he teased."With b0nez involved even moreso."
He reached up to the nape of his neck to toy with Harrison's rat tail idly, habitual by now, letting the smirk drop for honesty, too close to focus but nevertheless looking into blue so light it reminded him of the steely skies back home. "Really though, I trust you. And him - when his mathmatical pride is on the line."
"This means I have to like, get up, and have a shower and get dressed. The efforts you ask of me man."
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:49 pm
Harrison softened too. "They got a saying about many hands and light work."
He kissed Rep, the interaction airy and lazy. He could feel Rep's fingers brush the back of his neck.
"You want me to get the water running?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:02 pm
If Harrison wanted him to get up out of bed, he was going about it entirely the wrong way. It took monumental effort to nod, quite happy to laze just a bit longer. "That would be ******** lovely." he said, putting on an English accent as he added. "And I shall join you presently."
They would probably get to the training area at some point.
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 8-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-8)
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:24 pm
They did eventually get to the training field, freshly showered and everything.
Harrison didn't use the same part of the training field where Rin's arm had gotten mangled. He spat, then unloaded some of the s**t he normally carried on him- binoculars, room key, wallet, onto his windbreaker on the sidelines.
"I've got bandaids. Guess this isn't like, a real spar, since we're just trying to get numbers. So, first part is just to get our charges up," Harrison smirked, B0nez in each hand, watching Rep with keen attention. "Go ahead and try to hit like you normally would. We'll take a break to assess the damage before you use your charge."
HP: 50
Defending: Himself
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