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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ the way thorns spends his entire shower wondering if he needs to write an apology letter to kitten or something. he has no idea how to send it to her... the chances of elysium handing over her contact info are low, considering he barely talks about her already.

...

he did not bring clothes with him in here. but he does have a towel, so thorns just wraps that around himself and quietly walks out to get his change of clothing. he was assuming elysium was still asleep, but he is gone??? somewhere??? ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ this is so delusional, their luck is below the ground.

there is a point where someone actually enters the cargo hold. thorns freezes, and he tries to make sure that elysium is out of view. thankfully, the crew members are not aware that there are people stowed away on the ship, so they aren't really looking around and just go straight for what they came in here for.

thorns judges them for being so noisy... it is still not daylight... people are trying to sleep, assholes... ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ thorns needs to stop thinking about kitten he can't let a person that doesn't exist win



elysium just trudges back into the room miserably, sets a bag of water and fruit at the foot of thorns' bed, then collapses back into his own face first. dies a second time.
]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ the heaviness in the air stirs him awake ahead of schedule. he blinks awake, but doesn't move, just taps thorns' thigh in morse… everything okay?

he is not going back to sleep like this……
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh.....

he walks over to throw a blanket over elysium. ]


Goodnight.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ he nods his head.

the crew members spend about five more minutes here before they finally leave. thorns sighs, and turns his attention back to elysium. ]


Go back to sleep.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ there is no response. it was nice knowing thorns.



just kidding there's one thing:
]

Stay hydrated…

[ dies for real. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ he could let himself drift back to sleep… but instead, he lifts his hand, fingers brushing along thorns' jaw before settling to cup his cheek. ]

Mm. Don't wanna. I realised something just now.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh he is so dead. why did they do this.

he will get water to pathetically sip at and then climb back into his own bed. he has a lot to consider... elysium had accused him of trying to make him fall in love with him again (that is not what he said). does thorns just want to keep elysium's attention for himself? what does that mean exactly?

he should not be doing character analysis of himself while he has a pounding headache but here we are. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ okay this is going against their contract?

thorns frowns as he peers down at him. ]


What?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he stares at thorns and frowns when he doesn't get it. ]

It'll be harder to flirt when we're on the move.

[ an hour is enough rest…… ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they did this because they cannot be normal about their friendship ever


deeply relieved i'm no longer the one stuck writing about midlife crises; he just snores, completely gone.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ an hour is not enough rest. he'll kill you. the expression on his face shares this sentiment. ]

This is cheating.

[ thorns got to nap for three hours... ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is hell!!!!

... thorns just quietly pads over to elysium's bed and does the creepy thing of watch him sleep. he is not quite sure what he is trying to figure out but he knows it is not good. perhaps he should go back to that cliff and live there forever...? ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ also glad i can just write tremendously stupid things. he rolls over in his sleep and smacks thorns in the face with his hand, only for it to end up clutching his arm a moment later. don't go, thorns…

zzzzzzzz
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I wrong?

[ he cheated before he can cheat again. his fingers curl into back of thorns' head, pulling him down into a kiss. thorns can always knock him out again? there's that option. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he isn't sure how to feel about this because he just got hit in the face.

thorns just sits here, trapped. he is not trapped at all because he could easily dislodge elysium from him, but he is also definitely trapped. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm starting to think I spoil you too much.

[ is this a problem? has thorns been letting elysium get away with things for too long?

the answer is yes, of course. even when thorns complains about elysium's actions, he still just lets him get away with it now. the most they may do is just smack each other but isn't that often followed by kisses to make it better...? this is fucked up. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it fine because I spoil you, too?

[ it feels almost like their roles have flipped. elysium used to overthink every little thing, always worrying about how their relationship might unravel and how it'll come between the many other things they had in their lives. it had seemed easier to stay friends: one less burden for thorns, one less risk for him. it's possible there's a timeline out there where they didn't have to rush headlong into their feelings, where things simply fell into place on their own, but that ship has long sailed.

in this timeline, the only question that mattered was: once he had thorns again, could he ever let go?

the answer is no. whatever he wants to indulge in, whatever thorns craves in return—they've agreed to gracelessly fall together.
]

Kiss me back.

[ he is so openly demanding… he kisses thorns again, adding a bite to it this time. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the longer thorns accepts this the worse it's just going to get. after everything elysium did to stage it so they didn't share a bed together… sniff.

holding thorns' arm is not enough. it escalates into elysium using it as a pillow, nuzzling his face into it. he is so much more trapped than before.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
See? Now you know how I felt.

[ when elysium didn't kiss him back before... rude.

but thorns very easily does give in, even though he just commented on how easily he's been doing this. it really doesn't matter if he wonders if they spoil each other too much or not. neither of them are going to change anything about that at this point, so there's no point in thinking about it. ]


You really are pampered.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ OKAY.

this is his life now. the way he can't even scroll on his phone or anything because it's over on his own bed, so he's just here.

unfortunately this is just making thorns thinks he should buy elysium a body pillow as a gift...? ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ elysium is out so cold he could probably be hauled like a corpse halfway across the bed. isn't the temptation to snap a photo high… maybe even a video?

he's drooling a little. this is the self-proclaimed campus adonis.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-05 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair, you never said to say it back.

[ there is nothing remotely fair about this. between them, some things are simply meant to be reciprocated, and when they aren't, the silence and inaction cuts deeper than any physical wound ever would. asking outright only peels back another layer of defenses, exposing you further to rejection.

this is where thorns is kinder than him, unfortunately. this is deeply ill.
]

Who made it so I couldn't live without him, huh?

[ he very gently coaxes thorns' mouth open. they are so beyond being vanilla. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-05 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh.

thorns wipes the drool off. like, he uses elysium's shirt to wipe it off, so it's not as sweet as it could be. ]


Aren't you comfortable?