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 Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:30 pm
The attack was organized but smal but after some time the threat was gone. After doing some healing around the camp, Melvin headed back to the infirmary tent to get some bandages and check in to see if Rodney and Lawr managed to get any rest with all the commotion.
Throwing the tent flap aside, he headed with casual purpose down the aisle of cots but he started to slow down as he noticed the bundle of shapes. Sleeping together? Had Rodney been scared? Lawr was holding his hand tightly. Lawr's bare back. How wasn't Rodney handling that? Rodney's bare shoulder.
...tight covers...
..heavy, familiar smell...
...closer yet...
He stopped and looked at them both before he looked down where his shoe touched the side of a unmistakable bottle; The words "pleasure" written in loopy font on the glossy label.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:45 pm
Lawrence had, for the most part, forgotten all about the rest of the world and that it actually existed for the last while. It was movement on the periphery of his vision which finally jarred him out of the half-doze he was in to sit up sharply.
There was something NEXT TO HIS BED and he summoned Butch to see by the light of his white runes rather than for any other purpose, but still Melvin was difficult to make out in the dim tent with sleep clouding his judgement and thoughts.
Finally he realised and desummoned, deciding that - in true Lawrence fashion - lying was absolutely the best policy and acting like nothing amiss had gone on at any point.
"Oh hello Melvin." he said groggily.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:51 pm
Rodney, also an incredibly light sleeper, sat bolt upright when Lawrence did, taking a tight hold of his armored arm. "Are they...are they back?" He asked in a terrified whisper, and he'd known, he'd known they could be, the jungle was all around them, dark and dense and with humanity having only carved out the one, glowing spot in the middle of the heavy oppression and death...and he'd known, too, that they'd see all their lights, that they'd come for them, for him, again...
He was still shaky with adrenaline when it was Melvin's face. When it was Melvin's name.
"Oh, oh, th-thank God," he said, slumping over to half cover his face. It was probably only a matter of time. But...but not now.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 5:13 pm
It was the ease of it, being able to deny yourself of everything. It was such an easy thing to spot once you were aware of it, how you could gloss over something so glaring instead for ease and comfort. The casual air brought with it the hovering tranquility that was offered to him, that said take it. It wouldn't taste sweet or filling, but it was easy to digest.
Reaching down took restraint, and his slow movements weren't lazy but contained and stiff as he took the bottle off the ground and turned it over. It was insulting to think that out of their worries, he didn't factor in at all. Not even to someone as timid as Rodney.
"Thank God, huh?" He glance at Lawr when he said His name.
He giveth and he taketh away.
Looking at the both, he slowly started to unscrew the bottle. "What. Are. You. Doing?" Each word was slow like a step on stones through a raging river.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:45 am
Lawrence was just not prepared at all to deal with Melvin right now. He’d been imagining talking to the other man in the warm calm of day, fully prepared to discuss what was a significant and weighty matter. This was less than ideal, put in a position which left him vulnerable and compromised, with no way to plausibly deny what had happened. He didn’t want to diminish Melvin either, making him feel like he hadn’t been considered when he was still one of the most important people in his life.
It took everything in him to resist the urge to state the clichéd “It’s not what it seems like”, because it both was and wasn’t what it seemed like. His eyes flicked to the bottle Melvin was holding and he cringed, there was no question Melvin would recognise it given that he’d brought it for both of them to use and had used it before.
“Look.” He said “It’s.. it’s.. We aren’t doing anything right now.” And that was true. “But ok, we were. I er. I’m going to be committed to Rodney. Full time relationship and that sort of thing.” And coming from the weaselly, slender man and his track record, it sounded like a joke. “I still want to live with you though. You are family to me.” It was awkward but so was Lawrence when he was out of his depth to such an extent. It pained him considerably to add. “And if you are with someone else they would be welcome too.” It felt better to blurt it out, to get it out there rather than prolong everything.
He had no idea how Melvin would take it, no idea at all if he’d be angry, if he’d leave, if he’d fight. He really didn’t want him to leave, but was resigned to the fact that like Maja, everyone left. If they weren’t getting what they wanted they’d leave and Melvin would no longer be getting what he wanted or needed.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 9:49 am
Rodney's relief immediately drained. But he didn't want to fight. Melvin and Lawrence had been in an...open relationship, he thought, but...he wasn't sure about the rest. The relationship had been sometimes affectionate, sometimes hostile. If Rodney could have shrunk to one foot tall, he could have. As it was he wrapped the blanket closer, apologizing automatically. "S-sorry."
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:21 am
Melvin expected Lawr to place some sort of spin in being caught, but either in the face of glaring evidence or maybe just being around Rodney, he didn't. Instead he went on to say what had gone on and would be going on, and at the word "committed," Melvin snapped the lid of the lube open with a startled heel and stared at Lawr with a tense, fixed gaze before he burst into laughter. "You?! In a committed relationship? Ohhhh Lawr, that's rich coming from you. So what? Decided whatever the ******** was going on was too boring that you want to play pretend with Rodney like you played pretend with me?" And it was bitterness that sank into him at hearing that after all this time, he wanted to try commitment with someone else. The only salve was that it wouldn't last.
What stung the most was hearing Lawr officially set him free to ******** who he pleased. There had always been a sense of possession before, but now it was a slap to a already stinging cheek. That Lawr was letting him move on and that he felt he had that power of ownership to set him loose. "You give me permission to ******** around? You? Did you think I was stopping because you just didn't give me the thumbs up? Are you that goddamn stupid?"
He stepped closer now and glared down at the other. "Why would I ******** anyone else?" He grabbed his throat tightly and pulled up slightly. "So I can infect people like you're infecting Him." He shot a sharp gaze at Rodney before snapping it back to Lawr. "I don't ******** around when I'm serious about someone, Lawr. You are just playing commitment. I've already owed realestate there." He released him before he grabbed the covers and jerked them off out of spite.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:33 am
Lawrence did what he tended to do in the face of accusation and pretended nothing was wrong and said as little as possible. "I'm not playing pretend." he said calmly.
It seemed most of what he'd said had gone a little wide of the mark, he hadn't even considered the whole giving permission to sleep with people angle, assuming that Melvin didn't sleep around because he wasn't strictly allowed to.
"We talked about the infecti-HEY"
He was not expecting the covers to be pulled off and immediately made an attempt to cover himself up. "Calm down!"
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:10 pm
Rodney was back on an emotional scale of terrified. There was nothing he could do, even if he wanted to, Lawrence and Melvin were both much stronger.
"St-stop, please, don't!" he cried as soon as Melvin had Lawrence by the throat, and they were both tired, and weak... But Melvin set him down. Rodney tried, through the panic, to see Lawrence's throat... "Are you...are you okay, I'm...really, it's my fault, I..."
Rodney covered himself when the covers were taken too, although there wasn't much to cover, his body was bruised and hunched and miserable and pale. He had a lot of light, old scars. There were religious tattoos on his arms and chest. Still, Melvin was one of the few people who saw him in clothes that weren't long jeans and bulky sweaters (when he went with him to work out), and he sported a surprisingly robust chest, abdomen, and very strong arms that were hidden more by posture than anything else.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:58 pm
He bundled the blanket, noticing a few things and glancing at how they were sleeping. "So what? Is that your loophole to keep him safe?" He gestured vaguely at them. Shouting to calm down never worked and he ignored it entirely. If anything, it only ruled him up more.
"I won't calm down. I don' t need your permission for that either by the way."
His attention flashed to Rodney.
"You've lived in the house long enough to know what's going on and how Lawr is most times. Because of that, whatever happens from this point on is something I'm not going to soften or warn you about. You're a grown man and if this is your decisions, then you can handle any conceqiences just as much as him. You ******** with me, the two of you. I don't appreciate that kind of ********."
He turned the bottle on the covers and poured the bottle of lube into it, soaking it through, before he tossed it slick mass back on top of them. The empty bottle he tossed on Lawr's lap. If Lawr was going to go at it, he might as well not have a easy time with it by having any product.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:30 pm
Lawrence let Rodney see that at least his throat was fine, used to being a bit manhandled by Melvin in and out of the bedroom but equipped with a shield that rendered it harmless. "I'm all right." he said gently and reassuringly to Rodney.
Melvin though got the beginnings of a tetchy sort of look, the kind of flash of a blue glare which was the Lawrence equivalent of a feline tail flick. In much the same way it potentially signified a bite. "I was not pursuing any loopholes" he said. "It was just how things went. I'm not afraid."
He was about to apologise to Melvin about messing him around, a fairly genuine apology, but Melvin chose that moment to throw the bottle on them, both wasting his supply. His ONLY supply in the jungle and making a mess. He all but bristled. "HEY." he said, raising his voice a little, a rare thing for Lawrence in general, before lowering it again for Rodney's benefit. "You never ONCE said we were exclusive.'
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:16 pm
"Of course," Rodney said, trembling, "I know him," and his past, "but...it's different," he said with quiet conviction.
He didn't resent the anger from Melvin, or the mess, he felt like he...deserved all of it, he'd misinterpreted things so badly, and he would have...waited, and talked to Melvin directly, and he had been...been thinking with...with that, just like he'd been warned, but in the aftermath of the rescue it had all made urgent and deeply-felt sense.
You know there's no showers out here, right? Seven asked, What are you letting him push you around for? We're on a job, right? Unprofessional.
"I...I had an affair," Rodney whispered in horror, covering his face again.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:53 pm
Melvin angled himself to bring husband face closer to Lawr. "That's because you wanted to ******** around. You didn't want to be exclusive. I took what I could get from you. What you were only willing to offer me. Seems that's dependent on the person though and I didn't make the team this season. You think I'd be thrilled to be cut off from what I love? It's like you get some sorta sick kick with changing the game whenever the itch you want scratched isn't working out, well guess what.."
He grabbed Lawr's throat agin, and while his grip was slick, it still held firm as he pressed a kiss against him. One that was quickly, open-mouthed, and deep.
Breaking it, he whisper, lips grazing his. "I'm not backing down." He released him and stepped back.
Melvin only glanced at Rodney. "Of course it's different. It's different for whoever he isn't with. Our lord and savior, high people-pleasure, and now newly bethothed, Lawrence. Congrats. I would have brought a gift but I think using my lube for the honeymoon makes up for it."
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 10:16 am
Lawrence didn't argue with all the discussions of him and what he was like. He didn't feel like dignifying it with a response. He did however give Rodney a sidelong look for his wailing about having an affair. "It isn't an affair if one is not in an official relationship." And it wasn't official and hadn't been, though he loved Melvin insofar as he was capable of it (Rodney's comments that love was an action had convinced him he was capable of it).
Melvin got a calm look for his rant, even as he was grabbed and only wriggled when he was grabbed and kissed, panicking immediately that this was a betrayal of Rodney.
Freed he indignantly fidgeted, narrowing his eyes at Melvin. "I have to insist that you back down. I wouldn't like this to have to come to a fight, because it is a fight I will very likely win."
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 1:29 pm
Rodney made an upset, sick noise at the kiss. That, too, had the feeling of violence in it.
"We...should have talked to you. I should have...talked with you, I'm sorry, p-please stop...grabbing him."
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