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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ okay.

this is awkward. but there's no reason to immediately jump to it being a romantic interest because elysium does actually have friends. thorns puts his stuff down and then goes to grab a drink from the fridge.

does not greet him. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they are extremely outside.

thorns, instead of being concerned about elysium, just slumps against him and starts to nibble at his ear idly. sorry, the only thing he can see is hearts and the most amazing person in the world before him. will he be able to walk later?

well, he doesn't need to walk now, and that's what matters. ]


Can we go again?

[ please don't you're outside ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-11 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that's fine; alhaitham is not the type to care. he continues flipping through the pages of his book without so much as being disturbed.

when elysium drops down beside him, he immediately sprawls across the rest of the couch, leaning into him and asking what he's reading. the vibe is friendly, easy. they end up talking about their classes—well, more accurately, elysium ends up talking at him about their classes, with alhaitham quietly listening even as the book remains open in his hands.

i'm dying and need this arc to end. i was going to have scien cameo but i am not strong enough? coughs up blood his questionable thorns adjacents
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-11 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it tickles, but it's nowhere near as much as it would if thorns dragged himself just a touch lower. elysium's hand cradles thorns' cheek before sliding down to his chin, tilting it upward as though he's appraising a particularly exquisite gem. ]

You can still use your voice? That's surprising.

[ he draws thorns up until he's nearly straddling his lap, close enough to steal the breath from his mouth. he does—once, then twice. ]

Yeah. Until you can't say—or call—anyone else's name. If you've got this much energy left, then show me how much you want it.

[ please don't look at elysium for any impulse control whatsoever that was gone, like, two timelines ago ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ THIS ARC JUST STARTED

thorns is just. well. good for him? if it's a friend then that's nice and if it's a date then that is kind of fast but also nice... he supposed...





he will just try to quietly go to his room. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they need so much help

but thorns just grabs elysium's wrist and moves it until his hand is over thorns' h*le. he may regret this in a few hours, but right now it's the only thing that matters. because it's true that how much they can be intimate with each other may lessen (instead of banging every day it might be every few days, wow) so they need to do as much as they can when they can.

he does not consider being normal instead. ]


I hope you're ready to carry me.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-11 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ GOTTA GO FAST… neither of them disturb thorns on his way back to his room and it's only after that he finds out they literally have not said a single word to each other. okay. there's some chagrined comment about how he has zero social skills and isn't this kind of nostalgic…?

at some point during the evening there's a knock on thorns' door. it's elysium.
]
Edited (my autocorrect hates me) 2025-09-11 17:02 (UTC)
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thorns opens the door and peeks out. ]

Yes?

[ did he forget to do one of his chores... ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-11 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you feel empty without anything in you…?

[ what a thing to say. his hands stay poised where they are, and unless thorns inserts them himself, they aren't moving anywhere or in any way that would be gratifying. he laughs a light, amused sound, fingers curling just before thorns' entrance. ]

Now that's an in. [ double entendres. ] We're runaways and my husband ended up sick mid-journey. We need a place to stay; in the meantime, I'm good with my hands and willing to do any work that comes my way.

Ah.

Should I be calling you wifey?

[ hehe… ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-11 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
My— [ hmm. pauses. ] Alhaitham's having problems with his roommate. I've known him since our first year. Would you mind if he stayed with us for a bit?

I can cover two-thirds of the rent this month.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You can call me whatever you want.

[ he presses against his fingers, a low whine coming out of his throat that elysium isn't doing anything while ignoring that they literally just finished. it's fine. ]

Maybe I should have bought a dress instead? Lingerie?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he notices the pause and wonders if it would be weird to call it out?

well. if they're dating then thorns would probably find out if he stays with them. ]


... Yeah, sure. Where is he going to stay?

[ the couch... elysium's room...? ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-11 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ their asses are so broke they shouldn't be thinking about dresses and lingerie but elysium's mind is wandering in that direction anyway. if thorns needed more encouragement that it's an excellent and completely fiscally responsible idea, elysium's his fingers provide it, curling against the very spot he knows will make thorns sing. ]

You'd look nice in lace. [ he whispers, breath hot and reverent. his eyelids flutter, heat once again pooling low. ] —You'd look even nicer with the lace thoroughly debauched.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-11 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. That I haven't figured out yet.

[ there are only so many places he could sleep, so yes, it seems his room is under consideration… ]

I wanted to get your permission before extending the offer.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this really should not be anything they should be talking about, but here we are.

the thing is, he would also like to see elysium in this, but he is at least aware that the current scenario (cursed) does not really fall into that so he won't bring it up right this second. but he will like to see elysium in lace too, thank you.

for now, he just bites elysium to try to drown out a moan. ]


You can pick out your favorite.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-11 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. You have it.

[ ... ]

I'm going to be out for most of the day tomorrow. I might get back late.

[ if the two of them would like to be.... alone.....,,,, ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-12 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ with the way things are going, they literally won't have access to a nice lingerie store for another few weeks or even months. so all they're doing is making things worse for themselves unless thorns can suddenly transmute lace—sad!!

but that realisation will have to come later, or maybe that's even the point. he moans, low, at the feeling of thorns' teeth sinking into his skin.

without the explicit order, he isn't terribly patient these days, pulling his fingers out to pin thorns onto his back.
]

They'd all be my favourite. [ he leans in to kiss him on the mouth, biting down on his lip. ] Why don't you surprise me?

[ he has his praise kink, yes, but thorns also wanting his validation is empowering in its own way… it's cute… ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-12 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ okay. cool. elysium picks up what thorns is putting down and visibly brightens, clapping thorns' shoulder with his hand. he is such a bro? he is such a bro!

with that, he pads back to the couch, a conversation is had, and they both disappear for the next few hours. this is going great…
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-12 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ when they genuinely have no idea what each day is going to look like, it is nice to have small things to potentially look forward to. a little reward for getting through each day together and alive.

they threw away so much and thorns wants to make sure that elysium still gets nice things. he should never settle for less than that. ]


Okay. You can't complain.

[ he licks over the skin he bit. ]

Can you come inside me?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-12 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[




thorns goes back to the fridge, grabs like two beers, and returns to his room. he hates it here so bad. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-12 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ he has his nice thing! it's getting to start and end every day with thorns. it is such a novelty that it alone is enough to get through each day.

what's a better way of filling up the empty part of themselves than with each other? it's not settling when it's genuinely the best thing that's happened to him. he wonders why they didn't just do it sooner.
]

Only if you keep me inside of you in turn. Well?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-12 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ NOT THORNS FALLING TO ALCOHOLISM

if it makes thorns feel any better, alhaitham ends up sleeping on their sofa bed. not only that? it'll be his first weekend in a long, long time where he isn't rudely awakened earlier than he should be.

but that is also because elysium drags alhaitham to do their monthly costco run instead. they come back with a normal haul and one chicken. wild.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-12 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's fine.

[ that's not fine that is gross but thorns is only seeing elysium give a request and is like 'yay ❤️'

the way that even though they had to quickly grab what they considered most important and run off, presumably lube would have been considered one of those things. explodes them. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-09-12 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's going to kill elysium

at least, thorns won't be there. he ends up going to the modeling place to finalize some things. they don't want to do a shoot, but they do take some headshots and generic poses so that he can add them to a basic portfolio that he doesn't have, and then gives him the info for an actual shoot they want to have at a park at a later date.

he returns to the apartment wondering if he made a mistake but it's fine..... ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-09-12 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's done nothing except exactly what he said he was going to do.

meanwhile, thorns gets to contemplate the increased expendable income he can now funnel into his alcohol problem… wow.

the catch to all of this, of course, is that actively trying to date other people seriously diminishes the time he can spend with thorns between school, extracurriculars, and whatever else he gets up to but never mentions. it's such a far cry from kitten. a week in, he hasn't actually asked anyone out yet; he's testing the waters and going hmmm still on the high of believing he can get out of his years long rut.

the way they probably haven't acknowledged each other's existence. it's kind of funny witnessing two introverts from the sidelines. still, i guess thorns can have his nightmare scenario. he can eventually come home to them watching a documentary, elysium just

in this guy's lap???? okay.
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