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 Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 7:30 pm
Rene sighed around his cup. This was stupid. Stupidly awkward. He should have done this sooner... not nearly a year later. Oh god, was he ever stupid.
His gaze flickered to the second coffee he had ordered and he groaned, dropping his head into his hands. Maybe he shouldn't have done this as Alex... Maybe Rene was better?
No. No on second thought, no. That brought a whole new round of awkwardness to the mix. Sessrumnir knew who he was. Why? Because Alexandria's dumb a** self ended up passing out soon after the ordeals on New Years Eve, and because of that, his glamour dropped. Why Sess hadn't said anything about that, was beyond the Squire. Not that he was particularly complaining about it... But still. He couldn't help but be nervous. Alex had gotten himself hurt, and this was now a consequence of that action.
Scrubbing at his face, the Squire sighed. Things would be fine, he hoped. It was just talking right? Or something. Again his gaze flickered to the second cup. He owed Sess more then just one cup of coffee though. So much more. Ugh, and with his luck, Sess probably wouldn't even like coffee. Great, now he was panicking over the small details... Paris was going to LOVE hearing this story... Maybe he should head home. Just forget he'd even bothered setting up this little meeting. Though that meant the Knight was likely to be pissy for leaving him high and dry...
Ugh... Damn that walking tank of a man.
Alexandria sighed, resigning himself to the fate he chose for himself.
Guine SO IM HORRIBLE AT THIS AND GOT REALLY INDECISIVE. IM SORRY
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:47 pm
Sessrumnir wasn’t entirely sure what to think when he got the request to meet up for coffee with the scrawny Mercury knight. At first he thought he would just ignore it because he didn’t think coffee was necessary, and as much as he would like to just be a jerk, he also knew Alexandria had been rather helpful in the past, especially where his brother was concerned.
“Sup,” he greeted when he caught sight of the knight, although he was sure Alexandria had noticed his aura well in advance. “What’s wrong?” he asked, wondering if this was just going to be a social meeting or if they were going to discuss things in regards to, well, being knights.
He tried to ignore the fact that he knew exactly who this kid was and resisted the urge to ask him why he wasn’t home and working on his homework. If anything, being a knight made Sessrumnir feel so old.
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:31 pm
Alexandria really wanted to say that he had calmed down by the time Sess had shown up. He really did. Except that wasn't the case.
"Hey.." He greeted back. The squire didn't reply right a way, mulling over the simple question. "...Everything and nothing at the same time." Alex said softly. "But I mostly just wanted to talk." He offered Sessrumnir the other cup. Whether he took it or not was up to him. "I didn't know how take it, so it's just a regular." Though now that he thought about it, Alexandria didn't even know if Sess drank coffee.
Time to get this out of the way and be incredibly awkward. Here goes nothing. He couldn't believe he was about to do this.
"I uh... wanted to apologize first. I'm sorry I took so long in doing this. I just, didn't know how to thank you I guess. Coffee seems like a piss poor way to do it." He really did suck at this. "I'm sorry for all the snark. Both then, and at Olympus with the Code. I'm sorry for yelling at you as much as I did that night, too. There I was yelling at you to not get hurt, and I went and did just that." Like the inexperienced dumb a** he was. "Second... I wanted to thank you for not leaving me passed out in some field as I bled out from those stupid gashes that night." Wounds Sessrumnir had in turn, warned him not to even get. "I really appreciated that."
Alexandria dropped his gaze to his cup suddenly, finding it hard to actually look the man in the eye. "I don't know how you did it." Sess had seemed so much calmer that night. "You had far better control over yourself, then I did. I acted like an idiot. I could have made things worse for everyone." So, so much worse.
"How do you do it Sess? How do you do any of this? Because I honestly don't know." The squire could feel a break down coming on. He could feel tears stinging the corners of his eyes. "I've been in situations like that before. I didn't know what I was doing then and I don't know what I'm doing now. How long before I get someone killed? How long before I get myself killed?"
Well that certainly wouldn't have been the first time.
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:44 pm
There was a part of him that wondered if he should have perhaps asked a different question the moment the Mercury knight began to speak. Cautiously, he reached out to take the coffee from the other with a small shrug. “Black is fine,” he added, as if they would ever meet again for coffee. Sessrumnir took a small sip, trying to keep his expression from changing as Alexandria began to apologize and thank him and apparently have a complete breakdown.
He was an engineer, not a therapist!
“Don’t apologize,” he said plainly when he pulled the cup away from his mouth. “If you’re going to snark and yell, at least be confident about it.” For the next part, he snorted softly and shook his head when he thanked him for not letting him bleed out. He didn’t think he was that much of an a*****e to leave someone to bleed to death after getting wounded, but he also didn’t bother to respond.
The question Alexandria asked about how he did this almost caught him off guard. How did he do it? He did it because he had to. Right…?
“You don’t have to power up, you know. You don’t have to do any of this. I do this because it gives me a purpose in life,” he admitted although why he did he wasn’t sure. He shrugged it off. He knew he was being harsher than he probably should be, but if he could convince Alexandria… if he could convince Rene… to give up this life threatening nonsense, he would.
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:15 pm
Alexandria mad a small noise, filling the information away on the off chance it was ever needed again.
"I just... wanted to make it up to you I guess. But in hindsight, coffee was probably a really dull way to go about it." The Squire sighed, trying to calm down. "I probably owe you more than Coffee." God, he was such a dumbass. A dumbass that acted like a child.
"I tried that once. Not powering up, I mean..." Alexandria shifted, running a gloved hand through his hair. "I saw some s**t I wasn't ready to see. A team I was going to be a part of got ambushed and a little girl died because of it. After that I just... stopped. That went on until, as strange as this may seem.. Olympus happened. That was the first time I had powered up since then." Rene had considered it multiple times after that. "I keep thinking, 'Next time will be different. No one's going to die or get tortured' or something... But that's all that's seemed to happen lately. Between last year, and those stupid memories, I'm really surprised I didn't try to melt my signet or something." His hand shifted, to rest on the bag against his hip. "Even with this, I'm not sure of what I can change... If I can even change anything."
Maybe he was just too scared to remain powered down for good.
"You know.." He said, and Alexandria found himself laughing nervously here. "Maybe I was doomed from the start... Did I ever tell you that my weapon as a Page was a key? Please tell me yours was something a little more functional then a key. " Though with Sess' build... Alexandria had no doubt in his mind that the man was fully capable of handling himself.
"Is it wrong of me to be scared? How did you make it your purpose?" He wondered if this was just something that came easy to the Knight. If Sessrumnir had to over come challenges like he was going through, or not.
Guine At least tiny babben isn't crying?
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:07 pm
”No one knows how anything is going to turn out,” Sessrumnir reminded Alexandria. His voice wasn’t sympathetic, but it wasn’t harsh either. “For all we know, we could die as civilians.” They could be hit by a car or struck by lightning, or any number of horrible things.
“If you feel strongly about something, and you want to do it, then that’s what you should do. No one really knows what will happen, though. That’s the risk, but also what makes it rewarding, I guess.”
As for the mention of his weapon, Sessrumnir shook his head lightly. “A small glass vial of water. That was mine. Valhalla had a compass. He can’t even use his magic now and the moron still goes out on patrol,” he added bitterly, wishing he would not.
“It’s not wrong to be scared. Before being a knight I was ready to give up. I didn’t want to face the memory of everything I’d been through. I was a coward and wanted to escape from the pain,” he said, but his voice was dull, as if he was forcing himself. He supposed that now that he’d spoken to his brother about it a little, it was easier to talk about, but not by much. And why Alexandria of all people? He didn’t know.
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:33 pm
"... Dying as a civilian would be leagues better compared to how I uh... died in those memories." Understatement of his night right there.
Alexandria laughed again, only this time it was more relaxed. It was more normal. "...Anyone ever tell you that you sound like a teacher sometimes? When you talk, I mean. The way you say things sometimes, it's very... matter of factly and straight to the point." It was different, and he liked that.
The squire went to take a sip of his coffee, only to get derailed from that at the mention of the knights weapon. "Are you kidding me? Oh my gooood." Alex wondered if that was what happened to all newly minted pages. He also wondered, how come the Negaverse didn't just pick them off at that stage. No magic, and useless weapons made them an easy target right?
"But that's Val for you. It's not like we could force him to stay home..." Alex shrugged. "He cares about people. He doesn't wanna see things go south like they have. Though, given his condition right now, I wish he'd take it a little bit easier then he is."
Then the Squire just seemed to stare at the Knight. "...You're not a coward." He said slowly. "At least, I don't think so." Alexandria thought Sess and coward didn't even belong in the same sentence. "You've always seemed strong. To me at least. I can't really picture anyone else tearing up and down, things and Negaverse Agents the way you did at the fun house. Have you seen yourself man? You're a freaking tank." He did have to wonder, what the other man had gone through that was so bad, that he thought he was a coward.
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:50 pm
Sessrumnir snorted at the mention of sounding like a teacher. “All teachers are different. And I’m not much of one,” he added. It was mostly true. The only reason he decided to be a teacher was because he had nothing better to do until he turned thirty. And now that he was thirty and had access to his trust fund… the only reason he remained a teacher was for his little brother.
He shrugged at Alexandria’s opinion of him, not thinking being physically strong had anything to do with whether or not he was a coward. “Nah, I was a coward. Still am. I’m trying to be better, of course. Strength of heart and mind is different than muscle or some bullshit like that.”
It seemed a little silly talking about things like this. While it wasn’t bad, he just was not sure what Alexandria wanted from him. He felt lost, despite his outward demeanor.
“Just be careful out there,” he said in a rare show of concern. Normally he would tell people good luck and have at it if that’s what they wanted, but he knew Valhalla would be upset if anything were to happen to this kid.
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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:59 pm
"You remind me of a teacher I had when I was in school. Pretty sure he thought we were all dumb kids." Alexandria chuckled lightly. For the most part, he'd been right. Even Rene wasn't sure how some of those kids had managed to get into Azure.
"Well, for what it's worth, if it's worth anything, I don't think you're a coward." Alex had always thought that Sess was pretty strong. Even if they seemed to bicker back and forth a lot. "You've always seemed to know what you were doing."
"Hm?? Ah, yeah. I try to keep myself outta trouble. No promises how well that's going to work out but, I'll give it my best shot." Probably not the most convincing speech ever but. It worked.
Alexandria rubbed at the back of his neck with his free hand as he fidgetted slightly, debating something. "My name is Rene." He said. "Rene Rivers. I figured, since you'd already seen who I was... what did it hurt if you knew my name?"
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