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 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:40 pm
Finn had a pizza tightly grasped in his other hand when he knocked on Aleksy's door. He stepped around the excited dog and into his boyfriend's apartment. "Had a cop come by the ranger office today," he said, crossing the small living room and clearing space off for the pizza on the coffee table. "Asking about those missing kids." He found Aleksy and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, the kind of affection Finn liked and Aleksy sort of tolerated, much like a cat might tolerate a handsy human child. Then, he helped himself to plates out of the cabinet. "Do you think," he said, from back over by the coffee table, portioning out pizza, "that the Otherworld is involved?" The kids had been gone for a month. This was some real Chamber of Secrets bullshit.
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:14 am
Aleksy shrugged, accepting the kiss with bad grace and pushing himself off the floor of his studio. The piece of paper he'd been sitting on was covered in paint splatters and so was Aleksy, and for that reason he dawdled behind Finn. He joined his boyfriend on the couch in his binder and boxers, paint-covered clothing discarded in his studio laundry. "I don't think anything about it," he said, taking a bite of pizza. "I did ask a cop about it on Monday, though." He stuck his toes under Finn and flopped backwards, taking up most of the couch. "The department says they're just runaways."
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:45 pm
Finn lowered his piece of pizza for a moment when Aleksy mentioned speaking to a cop. "Huh," he said, "Maybe it was the same guy. Mercer? J-something? Jeremy, maybe." Or maybe detective Mercer had a partner... but Ashdown didn't seem big enough to devote like half the major crimes squad to looking for some missing kids. "He didn't seem so convinced when I spoke to him," Finn added, though if Aleksy hadn't given the situation further consideration already, he doubted he'd be able to get him to now. That in mind, he took a bite of pizza.
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:48 pm
"Jeremiah," said Aleksy, "the one who was investigating my neighbor that got shot." Got shot, like it was something Lillian had asked for. People were crazy, and only seemed to be getting crazier. How come it never went the other way?... "I was bitching about getting subpoena'd." Because like heck was he exposing himself to the court any more than he had to. He sighed and set aside his empty plate. "I don't want to talk about this."
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:40 pm
"That's the one," answered Finn, and then bit his tongue as Aleksy announced his desire for a change of subject. Finn was all about this magical superhero stuff - his boyfriend, less so. "Okay," he said, "yeah, sure, no problem. How about - can I get you another slice?" Or they could make out. But he was feeling kind of garlicky.
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:25 pm
"No," said Aleksy. "I'm watching my figure." He folded his hands over his bare stomach and contemplated the ceiling. It looked the same as it ever did: smooth, white, an odd little stain over there where he'd had to have the siding patched after the winter last year. By his shoulder, Laika watched him, big eyes rapt upon Finn's slice of pizza. "No, girl," said Aleksy, reaching over to pat her on top of her head. "No pizza for you." Her ears flopped down and Aleksy sighed. "Maybe bacon later. You know you don't like cheese." Laika gave a satisfied huff and laid down between the couch and the coffee table, contented. He looked back to Finn. "Tell me about work," he said. "There was some kind of trail maintenance thing?..."
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 10:02 pm
Finn gave Aleksy a sidelong look, doubting that he actually cared about the trail maintenance - but it was a change of subject, and he was willing to play along. "Yeah," he said, "gotta get the bike trails cleared before spring, or it'll be face-wreck city." He stared at Aleksy, trying to gauge if he looked like he actually cared. "Anyway," he added, "The weather's getting warmer, so if you wanted to do some life drawing, I could totally take the nude model train outside like... maybe after the equinox?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 10:06 pm
"How wrecked will the face-wrecks be," asked Aleksy, who was very interested in getting to paint people with smushed noses, as compared to painting people without them. "Because after a certain point it stops looking like a face at all, you know, it'd just be interesting..." He paused, and frowned. "If we tried doing nude paintings in public before April, firstly your d**k would freeze off, secondly we'd get arrested. Unless we did it in the backyard."
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:17 am
Finn shouldn't have discounted that Aleksy was probably one of the more morbid people he knew. " So wrecked," he replied. "We'd probably have to call ambulances for some of 'em, and they'd all be limping back to the trail head single-file, bleeding." Knowing Aleksy, there was the distinct possibility he was turned on right now. Finn didn't mind that. "And I never said anything about the nude drawing being in public," he objected, although he could see where Aleksy had gotten that idea. "Just that we could do it. But I'm glad you're so concerned for the state of my d**k."
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:15 am
"You should clearly separate your topic sentences," said Aleksy, frowning. He pushed himself up on his elbows to get a better look at Finn. "You cannot blame a man for getting confused when his boyfriend jumps topics so much." Also, English wasn't even Aleksy's first language, so, hey. Hey. Aleksy paused, and then poked Finn in the side with his toes. "Also, please stop sexting my sister. She texted me at four in the morning telling me how incredibly sexy you were and how much she wanted to, quote, <******** you into the floor. I love nothing and no one at four in the morning, and you know this."
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:39 pm
Finn went distinctly red about the ears. "Uh," he said, stammering a little. "I have no ******** clue why she would feel compelled to tell you that." Though he'd be lying if it didn't thrill him a little bit to hear it. "I'll tell her that her timing sucks." He frowned, then turned towards Aleksy. "Hey, you know that I don't do the sexting stuff on purpose, right? She starts it." But he encouraged it. He was a garbage person.
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 1:38 pm
"I don't actually care," Aleksy drawled. "Only it's a little hypocritical, isn't it? I can't ******** anyone else but Heaven ******** forfend that you should stop letting my sister start things." He said it with a heavy dose of irony: Tate might start s**t but if Finn had told her to lay off, she would've. "I would like some reciprocity."
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:28 pm
Oh. So they were going to fight about this again? But Aleksy had called him on a significant kind of bullshit - and Tate probably got off on telling her brother exactly how she was going to steal his boyfriend. Life was hard. Finn sighed. "I mean," he said, "I guess we could... we could try being open." If would mean significantly less drama for him.
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:38 pm
"That isn't the point." Aleksy rolled into his side with a huff, pointedly staring at the black screen of the TV. The point was definitely somewhere north of that, in so much as Aleksy knew, had known the first time he'd asked Finn out, that this whole relationship was temporary. Still, after the whole big deal about Aleksy having other partners, Finn's liaison (and he was being kind by calling it that) with Aleksy's (taller, prettier, warmer, kinder) sister stung. It was Finn who had insisted on the boring game that was pretending that Aleksy was more than a placeholder, and... He sighed and crossed his arms over his chest. "At least tell me when you're whacking off to my twin," he said.
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:17 pm
"Okay," said Finn, who wasn't sure whether this was an argument or not and wanted it to be over. He'd ******** up. He knew that. But he was doing his best to figure out what Aleksy was trying to achieve by bringing it up, and all of his attempts were winding up dead ends. This!!! Was!!! A stupid conversation!!! "The sexting is stupid," he added. "Why would I jerk off to her when you're right here?" A boyfriend in the hand was worth two potential girlfriends in the bush - and Finn only had one of those. There was only one thing that could salvage this evening. "I'll turn my phone off for the rest of the night," he said, holding said phone out to Aleksy. "I'll be good. I'll be really good if you let me."
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