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 Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 11:48 am
He had expected Arin to come home early but when he hadn't shown up by dinner time he figured he'd gone out patrolling. He'd made himself dinner and curled up to check emails and do some editing with his laptop to wait. He wasn't tired yet so there wasn't any point in going to sleep and he figured he could at least wait for his friend to get home. Sumi was in his room napping and he was enjoying the quiet even if it was slightly odd not go have things be that way. With Arin and Sumi around it usually wasn't as quiet as his apartment back when he'd been in school had been.
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:27 pm
The flat was quiet as he unlocked the door and let himself in. He didn't think that he would appreciate the silence, but knowing that Luc wasn't in the living room and wouldn't see him slipping into the kitchen to get an ice pack was somehow reassuring. It meant there was a chance he'd get to try and think things over before his friend asked about them. Arin shut the door behind him, confirming that it was shut and locked him before heading to the kitchen. He made a face at the way the refrigerator door squeaked and almost cursed at the twinge of pain said expression brought with it. He snagged an ice pack out of the freezer, wrapped it in a dish towel and held it against his jaw.
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:40 pm
He heard the front door open and looked over at the clock before he slipped out of his reading chair and headed out to the living room. He didn't want to nag Arin, knowing he was out late enough some days, but he did want to make sure he was alright. There hadn't been any trouble before but you were supposed to check on friends right? He peered around the edge of the hall to see where the other man was. He almost thought nothing of it since he was getting in the freezer but when he saw Arin go for an ice pack he stepped out in the room. "You alright?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:45 pm
This time the wince at the sound of Lucien's voice did draw a curse from him and he nearly dropped the ice pack. He shifted his grip on it, readjusting it on his face as he glanced over to the other man. "I suppose that depends entirely on what you're considering 'alright'. Physically, I'm pretty sure I've had worse. Emotionally..." He shrugged his shoulders, the corner of his mouth that wasn't bruised turning up into a halfassed attempt at a smirk. He'd been worse before emotionally. Right now he wasn't even sure how well he was processing it considering how badly his head was throbbing. "Didn't mean to wake you... Have we got any painkillers?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:04 pm
He walked over as Arin cursed and noticed the rapidly darkening bruise on his jaw and the cut down along his lip. "Who did you get in a fight with? Jesus." He reached up to tug the ice away a bit so he could see before letting Arin press it back against his face. "I've got some and something for your lip. Go sit down and you can explain when I get back." he pointed at the sofa before going into the bathroom to get the numbing gel and the bottle of painkillers.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:14 pm
Arin kicked off his shoes beside the sofa before moving around to flop down onto the cushions. Sinking onto the soft pillows ached more than he had expected, back sore from the time spent pinned to the ground beneath Arachne. Lysander. Christ, that was going to take some time to get used to the idea of. He tilted his head back, shifting to adjust the ice pack against his jaw. Whatever power up his former boyfriend got from being a scout sure packed one hell of a punch. Luc mentioned an explanation, though, and he wasn't sure that he had one. Telling the truth could compromise Lysander's identity, but not telling the truth could damage the fragile bond that he and Lucien were rebuilding.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:22 pm
He dug out a small bottle of ora-gel along with his bottle generic painkillers before going back out to the living room He set the both down on the table in front of Arin before going to get him a small glass of water so he could swallow the meds. When he came back with it he tapped on the hand holding the ice gently. "Let me see how bad it all is." He could at least assess the damage, and put some of the gel on the cut, before letting his friend take the meds and put the ice back on. Whoever or whatever had hit Arin packed a pretty good punch given how dark the bruise already was. He hoped that what he could see was the worst of the damage.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 8:38 pm
"Not as bad as it could have been, all things considered." He lowered the ice pack with a soft hissing intake of breath. He hadn't noticed the cut lip and the ache in his jaw seemed to come in second to the pain throbbing through his temples. "Honestly, if you'd told me the first fight I'd get into after all of this s**t was with someone on our side? Probably wouldn't have believed you. Should, given everything I've been told about how well everyone gets along and just how opinionated the 'good guys' are, but wouldn't." Talking wasn't helping things any and he was fully expecting Lucien to tell him to keep quiet for a minute as he poked and prodded.
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:53 am
"Someone on our side punched you? No,wait don't answer that right this second." With the ice completely out of the way he could see how bad it was. He held the water out to Arin before pouring out a few of the painkillers. "Swallow those and then let me see your lip." Once he'd handed over the glass and pills he picked up the gel to wait for Arin to finish. When he'd swallowed the pills he carefully tilted his friends jaw, fingers light. The cut wasn't too deep but it probably stung every time Arin spoke. Tsking he carefully put some of the numbing gel on the cut. "Give that a moment to start working."
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:17 am
Luc's touch was soft and he was certain he didn't deserve the other man's level of gentleness, all things considered. He brought his hand up to catch his friend by the wrist before his thumb could linger for too long on his lip. His own fingers lingered on Lucien's wrist before letting him go as he leaned back to settle the ice pack back against his jaw. "I can be infuriating sometimes. I'd think you'd know that better than anyone else... Telling me you've never considered punching me in the mouth before?" His brow lofted slightly as he looked to the other man, half annoyed at himself that he kept trying to make light of the situation.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 5:40 pm
"The fact that I want to punch you, put the ice back on your face, doesn't mean I'd actually do it so it's a pretty big difference." He crossed his arms for a moment as he looked down at Arin. He did look like he'd gotten in a pretty good fight but he couldn't think of what he'd have done to make someone hit him. He doubted Arin started it. "Besides. If I was going to punch you i'd at least do it at some point where you couldn't fight back. Since I know you hit harder.'
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:05 pm
"It is on my face." He huffed, closing his eyes as he pressed the ice pack a little bit closer for a moment. If the cold could just numb everything or the over the counter meds could kick in a little bit faster... "I let him have the first one for free. The second one was where I got the split lip-- Guess it's better than a black eye? Maybe?" He wasn't too sure about that. "Did you know Lysander was back in town, Luc?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:23 pm
"You can hide a black eye a lot easier. Kinda hard to hide a split lip unless you don't go out in public until it heals." He shook his head before dropping himself into a chair. "Really?" He was surprised at that and even more so that Arin knew it. That he remembered..."You remember Lysander?" That probably wasn't a good sign.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:55 pm
"Yes? No? I don't... I told you, the whole memory thing is a ******** mess. I know for a fact that I don't remember anything about Richterite other than what I've been told-- Things I said before, what Corvus and Denebola knew of me so that I'd have that much." He'd known that forgetting one of his two lives was part of the price that had to be paid for the removal of the Chaos taint, but he hadn't known which side it would be until the switch had actually happened. "Everything else? It wasn't all the purification-- The memory loss, that is. Some of it was the head trauma. I remember feelings more than I remember things or people." Putting the extra thought into it made his head throb again so he stopped, keeping his eyes closed as he shifted the ice pack against his jaw. "I remember... Telling him that I couldn't leave Destiny City. We talked, but I don't remember the words and I think that's because I'd slid deeper into the Chaos. He packs one hell of a ******** punch when he's mad," he snorted, opening one eye to peer over at Luc.
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:37 am
"I know that's what you said which is why I was surprised you remembered him. I guess running into him could have done that." He hoped that the painkillers started to kick in given how pinched Arin's face looked every time he tried to think too hard or remember something. He knew it couldn't be easy to talk about but he did need to know why he was getting in fights with someone on their side. "Wait ..." He paused for a moment as Arin's last words and his own thoughts clicked. "You said 'someone on our side' hit you and now Lysander hit you?" Arin hadn't said he'd been hit by two people but that couldn't be right.
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