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He grins, catching Onyx off guard was a good feeling. When Onyx looks away first for once, hiding something in his eyes it gives him such a thrill. A different part of Onyx he guarded jealously in the back recesses of his mind. "Sure-" He's quick to respond, giddy as Onyx moves in on him. Andres doesn't move back, doesn't falter until- [break][break]

SNAP! Onyx has him caught in the mousetrap and he just forgets to breathe. Out of anything Onyx Straub could've said tonight, this was not a possibility Andres had ever imagined. They'd gone completely back to normal-ish. As normal as their friendship had been. Neither one brought up that night. Sure, Andres had zoned out a lot of the most of December but, for the most part, Onyx had acted the same as before. Texts, hang outs, breaking and entering. [break][break]

Shit even now hadn't been anything special. Just an invite Andres had latched onto. [break][break]

"You tell me. You came to my door." he said, pushing back despite the overwhelming urge to get up and go home. This wasn't a conversation he wanted to have half drunk. This wasn't something he wanted to revisit. He got the message the first time. [break][break]

"You know, that night was the first time you've ever really knocked at my door." Any other time he'd come over. He'd forced his way in. Andres could get the message he was coming over and come home to Onyx already on his couch. He'd considered giving him a key but...that'd be awkward now wouldn't it?

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[attr="class","thadmain"]There’s the softest exhale of breath as Andres’ lips open, ever so slightly; in a beat, all the angles and lines of his face, slick and charming and just a bit skeezy, fade away. Onyx trembles with the delicacy of it, a barely-suppressed shiver that has him grinding his palm into the meat of his thigh.

It’s intoxicating to have such an effect on a person, to physically be able to see them pushed and pulled within your gravitational sway; terrifying to know their heft and weave is so intricately mimicked in your own life.

“I did.”

A push and a pull. A rise and a fall.

You let me stay.”

Andres makes a point that has Onyx frowning-- not in sadness or anger, but a genuine, gentle confusion.

“Huh. Never thought about it like that before.”


They were going to die. They were supposed to die.

“Guess I’m not enough of a prick to force you to spend your last night on earth with me.” One shoulder drops, the tiniest smidge. A relenting, a shifting. “Wanted to give you a choice.”

A give and a take.


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Andres struggled to keep it cool, to go back to normal. It's irritating how little he can hide from Onyx. But Andres had never had a good poker face. "Would you have preferred I hadn't?" He'd barely opened the door before they were tangled in each other, desperate. [break][break]

"Guess I'm not that bad of a fuck for you to come to me." [break][break]

Andres smiles, hard and fake. The flags down a waiter. 2 more rounds. Tequila, and a refresh on the salt and lime. [break][break]

Onyx pushes the weight of responsibility on him and he snickers. [break][break]

“But you picked me, for your last night on earth. When we’re just friends?”


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[attr="class","thadmain"]Onyx’s eyebrows knit together, and he sets his jaw, stubborn. What had been a passing repartee now puts him on the offensive.

“I never said that,” he says, and his voice has gone… not cold, but definitely more severe. “I never said any of that.” He may have been emotionally constipated but he sure as hell wasn’t cool with Andres putting words in his mouth.

His tone quiets, and he looks away. “But I would have left, if you’d wanted. I wouldn’t have… forced you.”

Andres slides the tequila shot across the table to him and Onyx catches it in practiced fingers. Wonders, off-hand, how it’s going to taste in Andres’ mouth after this is all done. He stares down at the golden liquid, torn between being aggressive or, for once in his fucking life, vulnerable.

“Of course I fucking did.” He swallows, holds the glass up for clinking. “Where else would I have gone?”

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He denies it's just sex, but Andres finds it hard to believe when he'd lived through the night and Onyx had gone. He had poured his heart out that night. He'd had it smashed to pieces. And then in the end, had all the pain numbed out by warm kisses and sweet nothings. In the relief of the following morning, he’d wanted him to stay, but he had watched him go.
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So even if he hadn’t said anything out loud, it sure as hell felt like it.
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Andres looks from his empty glasses to Onyx when he gets a little quieter. Onyx couldn’t have forced him because Andres would never have said no to seeing him. Even after the Minior shower, he’d run straight back to him the second the moment presented itself. It frustrated him how easy it was for him to forget all the wrong Onyx had accumulated. Even now, when he’s irritated with Onyx, he wants to comfort him. He wants so badly to stifle himself and offer him reprieve.
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He knocks back his own glass, clinking it without fanfare. The gesture is more automatic than friendly at this point. “I don’t know. Go wherever it is you go when you’re not around me.” He almost says Rocket, but holds his tongue. Any number of places. Any number of people. Andres had that option, but for once he hadn’t wanted company. “I never would’ve asked you to leave.” It’s irritating to feel used and in the same breath to wholeheartedly have allowed it. Maybe they should’ve died. At least then he wouldn’t have had to continue ruminating over how pathetic he was. Andres can’t help but frown, sighing through his nose as he stacks up his glasses together.
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It felt like he was on the verge of hurting himself again. Not just him- Onyx too. So he tries to swallow it all back down, fake smile and all. A defense mechanism to pull him out of any sticky situation. “Think I’ll cash out, before I take anymore.”


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[attr="class","thadmain"]“We could be at this all night if you want to sit there and put words in my mouth,” Onyx says, and immediately regrets it, but-- he’s tired. Tired of this constant back and forth, this push and pull, this circling around the goddamn shower drain.

The fact of the matter was he didn’t know what to do with Andres when they were together and having him sit in his lap and tell him he loved him after all their history was-- terrifying. It was terrifying. Andres was so strong and yet so fragile-- Onyx, of all people, knew that.

“When I’m not with you, usually I’m working,” he says, and it’s flat and deadpan and dripping scathing because he had been operating under the assumption that Andres knew what he did for a living. And now Onyx really did know what happened when people assumed, because it had blown up in his face far more explosively than he ever could have imagined. “I’m not fucking other people, if that’s what you’re suggesting.”

God, he’s so tired. He’s horny and he’s tired.

Andres starts to clam up on him again like he did that night under the stars and Onyx--

--”I don’t understand--,” but he shakes his head and pinches the bridge of his nose, digging in his pocket for his wallet. “Don’t worry about it, I’ll get it. You sit there and then you’re going to tell me what it is that’s fucking bothering you. And if you’re gone when I get back I’m going to find you.” He pushes away from the table and fishes for his wallet.

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"I'm not-" He protested, back on the defensive. Why couldn't he just be happy with whatever the hell it was they had? Why couldn't he just be appeased by the simple pleasures of seeing Onyx every few weeks or so. Running into him in the city. Hosting him. The occasional hook up? Why did it have to mean anything at all? [break][break]

It didn't. The issue was self inflicted. And that made it all the more frustrating when Onyx tried to understand it. Because it didn't make any sense. He felt possessive over a man that wasn't even really his. It was unhealthy to behave like this and so he should stop. Shut up and move on. [break][break]

He tried not to flinch when Onyx mentioned work. Another sticking point in this farce of a relationship. Something Andres didn't have a right to know, much less be upset about. "It's not, and even if it was that's not my fucking business." Andres asserted. Because if Onyx really was just using him as an outlet for Rocket, he didn't need to know about anybody else involved in that operation. [break][break]

"No-!" he said, turning to watch as Onyx got up to pay. No, he didn't need him to cover the tab, and no he wasn't staying. He wants to talk, for once. It's unclear to him why and as much as he would delight in going home, maybe it was better if he stayed. But he needs a break from the noise and Onyx's threat doesn't scare him. He gets up, and heads straight for the bathroom to wash his face and figure out how it is he got here. [break][break]

"Get it together, asshole." he murmured staring daggers into his own eyes through the dingy mirror.

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[attr="class","thadmain"]He is tracking Andres the whole way, of course, because he never makes a threat he can’t make good on and also because he’s half-convinced the man will just get up and leave. He doesn’t, though-- he makes for the bathroom, which gives Onyx a fantastic idea.

The bartender slides him the two receipts for their tabs and Onyx tips twenty percent on each (he might be an abusive, murderous psychopath, but he’s not a total dick) and slides both the cards into his back pocket. He takes a slow and roundabout route to the men’s room, swiping a pack of Marlboro’s out of some drunk’s back pocket and a lighter out of an intoxicated woman’s hand on the way.

The door swings shut and he locks it with a flick of his fingers, tapping the pack of smokes in his palm to single one out. He strolls into the main area, his reflection appearing down the long mirror, with Andres at the other end, as he lights up.

“So,” he says, exhaling long, closing his eye and letting it wash over him, “we gonna talk, or are you gonna get so pissed you spark out again?”

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Andres is busy having an angry pep talk with himself when the door swings open and he stands up abruptly. His hands grip the edge of the sink as he watched himself in the mirror, pretending everything is ok. A beat later...it's just Onyx. Who else would it be. "We gotta stop meeting like this." he said, grin faint and words almost cheeky as he feigned normalcy. [break][break]

He leans back, away from Onyx and the light, and most importantly his one eye locked on him. He does his best to give away nothing but its too late for that tonight. "I'm not sparking out." he returned evenly. [break][break]

What did he say? I'm sad? I'm sad we lived when I thought we should've died? I'm mad you're Rocket? I'm mad I don't care as much as I say I do? I'm sad I feel so strongly about you? [break][break]

That last one was cruel. Even if it was partially true. But maybe the euphoria of love came with a price, and this was just his. [break][break]

"I'm all ears." But that isn't what Onyx had meant.


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[attr="class","thadmain"]Onyx would wink and click his tongue in cheeky agreement if he, you know, had two eyes. “I don’t know, kitten, this seems a bit like our natural habitat.” It’s certainly more familiar than whatever charade he’d been putting on for Andres at that picnic. Romance and platitudes, I think of you all the time? Horseshit. As foreign to him as another language.

But this? Grimy tile and the smell of wet paper and nicotine. The far off clink of glass and the taste of tequila. This he knew like his own name.

“Not now,” he says, ashing his cigarette in a sink, grey soot on dingy, chipped white porcelain, “but you were. You get all clammed up like a gear that won’t turn. You grind and you spit sparks and you walk away.”

He’s still walking forward, taking predatory slow steps.

“I don’t doubt I’ve upset you. I’m an upsetting guy. But if I’m going to be accused and treated like it, I want to know why.”

He exhales a final burst of smoke-- to the side-- and pitches the remnant down a drain.

“So talk, sunshine.”


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He blinks slow, in disbelief at the new moniker Onyx had chosen. But Onyx doesn't give him enough time to dwell on it. He gives a glance at the club bathroom, empty aside from the two of them. And if not, shit was it about to be awkward for them. It brings back memories of Halloween. Of being stuck in a stall with someone else before Onyx interrupted- [break][break]

Andres blinked again, dismissing the thought entirely. Because he was mad at Onyx. Or- maybe that's harsh to say but now was not the time. He tried to hold his own again Onyx, but old habits die hard. "Sometimes it's better to walk away. Clear my head." Suppress. Compartmentalize. Grieve and accept your shortcomings. [break][break]

"You're not-" the blatant lie is cut off by the final puff of smoke. He peers down into Onyx's eye, nervous and quite. He is trimming his words, pulling as the little bit he wants to reveal. Because he could handle this. He could control it, suppress it. He just needed time. "I-" [break][break]

I love you. [break][break]

It's nothing- [break][break]

I've hurt you? [break][break]


"It's nothing- I just...get in my head sometimes." Not untrue. But not the full truth either. He's holding back. But he needs time to build something convincing. Something that sounds ok but doesn't get to the root of it all because he doesn't want to vulnerable anymore. Not again.


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[attr="class","thadmain"]Onyx snorts. “Well, that’s obvious,” he says out of the corner of his mouth, eye going a little wide as he lays the sarcasm on real thick. Step after careful step, he gets closer, until they’re close enough to touch.

It’s like Halloween and it isn’t. Because that had been… scary. Something fire-red in his normally very cool toned body; and the way it had all burnt out, well, it turned out okay.

Onyx reaches out and sets his hands at Andres hips-- gently, so he could pull away if he wanted. He strums his thumbs along the front of his stomach, dipping ever so slightly below the waistband, and then back up again.

“You got two minutes,” he said, voice low and husky, but not threatening; it’s laced with approval, some growly type of affection, “to tell me what’s got you so in your head before I do like I shoulda done on Halloween and fuck you in a bathroom.” His eyebrow goes up as his mouth flattens into a line and he shrugs, as if to say, so there’s that.

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Despite himself, Andres takes a step back. He moves slowly, matching with Onyx until his back is to the wall and there's nowhere left to go but through Onyx. And he's not getting through Onyx. This feels familiar, except isn't as wasted as he had been back in October.[break][break]

The softest touch of his hands and his skin burns under them. His face flashes with heat, eyes wide and looking panicked for a moment. This is familiar. This is the only business he has with another man in a shitty club bathroom. But the dissonance freezes him on the spot. And also the fact that he doesn't want to pull away, melting under the touch like he knew he would. Like he hated that he did. But it's hard to feel sorry for yourself when he's busy hanging onto every word Onyx said. [break][break]

And then Onyx pulls back the thing Andres had been trying to avoid while mid conversation. Halloween. It's blurry, but he remembers how badly he'd wanted them, Onyx not the Dracula. When he'd kissed him it had been all over. And that's the timeline Onyx had dropped into his lap all over again. And he's too stupid, too shocked to think. Thoughts interspliced with the memory of his hands on him and the night of the Minior shower. It all mixes together strangely and he stutters out, "I- I uh...it's just-" [break][break]

So he settles on Rocket, a catalyst from his previous conversations. And he complains. Because he's not ready to confess to Onyx again. His eyes flutter trying to see straight amidst the tinge of alcohol and the very welcome declaration. "I- You-" He is staring. "You don't just drop you're life commitment to a terror group- just- on a picnic?" he blurted out. His eyes dart around now tying to pull as gracefully as he could under time constraints.

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[attr="class","thadmain"]he can, for all his issues, usually read andres like an open book. it's made easier by the sheer amount of want that rolls of of the guy, in waves. maybe that was one reason why this kept happening: andres made onyx felt wanted. even though he told himself it was impossible, that he shouldn't (want or be wanted). like kicking an addiction cold turkey and failing miserably.

he's not rough about it, seeing the panic on andres' face for a split second. he's not here for work or anything like that-- he's here for the man standing in front of him. so he takes his time, slips his hands up andres' sides, pets at the muscles over his shirt.

his mouth flattens out into a thin line. he knows his involvement with Rocket bothers Andres but he also knows this isn't the main reason he's upset. onyx drags his knuckles gently up and down andres' abs, humming a thoughtful note.

"like i said, i thought you knew. if not rocket then at least-- something unsavory." he cocks his head and wets his lips, eyes following the flush slowly creeping down andres' neck. "i would've found a better way to say it if i hadn't just-- assumed. so, i'm sorry." his hands don't stop moving the entire time

he slowly moves a hand up to cup at the back of andres' head, the nape of his neck.

"they had a place for my... skillset. you should know better than most i'm only good at breaking things." he lowers his head ever so slightly. "but is that what's really bothering you, sunshine?"

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He shivered in need, excited at the proximity. It runs concurrent with all his other broken thoughts. He sucks in a breath staying still and trying not to be so obvious. But he is. He's hopeless in this kind of situation, with the rumble of Onyx's words so close and his touch so gentle. And it would be a lie if he hadn't imagined something similar happening a dozen times over. [Break][break]

Rocket is sobering, but not enough. It doesn't pull Andres out his spell completely. "Anything I imagined would've been better than Rocket." But then again was it? Hadn't they been consolidating power under themselves? All underground led back to the big red R? But its not enough to mark Onyx as a danger. Its not enough to keep him away. He'd come back to him willingly after all. [Break][break]

He swallowed back a protest as Onyx reached back to his head, and he wondered if Onyx had taken a good look at the scars he'd left hidden in his scalp. He can't conjure up the same bitterness in that moment. Andres meets Onyx's gaze, faltering. His eyes soften, and body stiff. He couldn't get away and it felt like no matter how much he tried, Onyx would see through it. "I…" he opened and closed his mouth trying to find the words. [Break][break]

All his insecurity, his doubt, his anger fight for a chance to speak. His throat tightens, not wanting to mix that with this. He wants to lean into the growing heat between them. He wants to forget everything else but all the good in the moment. He wished Onyx was just another hook up. [Break][break]

Just a guy he liked that he'd found in a shady club. No history. No bitterness. No doubt. Maybe that way, his expectations wouldn't be so high. [Break][break]

"It…it bothered me you left when the meteor didn't kill us. But I didn't say anything after because we're friends, and it bothered me more." He carves little closer to the root of it all. "Why did you bring it up?" He slid his hands over Onyx's shoulders in a gesture that kept him close and held him at bay.




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The Enroi Region
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Vyrehaven
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Code and Crown: An advanced literate warriors cats RP, set in medieval times
Swords Clashing