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🔮mollymauk tealeaf ([personal profile] headmt) wrote2021-02-06 05:11 pm
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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[ i almost used the uwu emoji on accident ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it takes him a second to come down from the loft, but.

... eventually, the door opens. here's gu yun! he looks fine, liuli glass in place, robes on, red cinnabar mark close to pink. ]


... [

awkward ]


What is it?
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...

after a second, he just nudges the door open all the way with his foot. ]


...sorry. Bit of a migraine coming on. [ but molly can come in if he wants, as he steps back to let him do so. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I didn't want to interrupt! And the more time I spend around White, the kinder I feel like I have to be to him, which is odd. [ he's very light and teasing about it, playfully. he doesn't really feel the urge to be mean to molly besides like, normal asshole bullying in general so at least the effect isn't in place much! everything is great.

he does wander over to the mini fridge for a moment, but it's to fetch out a bottle of booze. ]


But no, no. I'm alright, it's not bad. Shi Qingxuan brought me a bottle of baiju, and I'm quite good at self medicating. [ gu yun gives the bottle a wiggle. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he looks so deeply dead inside at the bottle in his hand for a minute and then just. takes a swig of it. ]

Right. You know me. Not much of a sweet tooth. The saccharine and I don't mesh. Besides, the migraine was coming on.

[ eventually he sighs and screws the cap back on. might as well bring it with. ]

...Fine, fine. I suppose I could take a nap. [ this is so

weird. everything about it is terrible. he has zero idea what to do with it, either, besides hide it and pretend like nothing is different and the world is not upside down. no gay drama here. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yeah definitely

he's feeling the urge to down this entire bottle for the second time today, but that's fine. the nudge is the escape route, and he turns, going for the stairs to make his way up. ]


Sure, sure. Reminds me of home. [ it's got that same sort of cavernous feel as the marquis' mansion does. big, empty, the bare bones of a home not lived in despite two generations of gus calling it home.

as he gets up the stairs there's a moment where gu yun stops, right at the top - and then takes a bigger step, over towards the coffee table, swiping something off of it with a rustling noise and heading over to the closet. if molly's really quick in looking, he might catch a flash of yellow or purple before its being swept off into the closet and the door's shut.

he's using that quick motion to go drop onto the bed, though. yes. all very planned. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well it is kind of embarrassing!!!

gu yun's.

quiet for a moment.

looking at the coat, at molly standing in his room. how normal everything is and how completely normal it isn't.

and you know what. ]


Come here. [ he says, and sets either of his hands on his knees where he's sitting, palm up. ]

Do you trust me? [ it. he knows the answer to this question already (he thinks???) but. it doesn't sound like he thinks molly doesn't, at least. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-08 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is the worst time for his heart to do that flipping thing, yeah. trust is a really big thing for him don't do this rn ]

... So if I tell you something seriously, even if you don't want to hear it, then you'll trust the fact that what I'm saying is true, and I'm not just blowing smoke up either of our asses. Right?
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-09 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
I - oh, fuck it.

[ as he's finishing saying "i'm shutting up" gu yun lets go of his hands, then grabs molly's stupid face with his cold fingers and kisses him.

it's just once, but it lingers, maybe a little graceless, maybe a little long, close mouthed, but it gets his point across better than any words either of them have completely failed at making in the past few days.

he pulls back. not far, red in the cheeks, flustered, but staring dead on at him because this situation is fucking ridiculous. kind of what-are-you-an-idiot-sandwich-ing him, too, as gu yun just goes and says it. ]


Someone cursed you. It's uncomplicated because it'll wear off. [ there. god. he hopes it'll wear off. ] I'm not - I don't care. [ that's. that sounded more callous than he meant it to, but not enough to kick in any forced kindness so-- that's fine, he's just gonna be the one to keep talking and not shutting up. maybe the universe will sense that he's trying.

the fierce quality to his voice doesn't fade, but it's. a little softer than before, maybe. ]
I care that someone's manipulated you for no reason. And. With White too, I guess, you said two days ago it made him angry when you joked about it, but that's -- that isn't the point. Don't really want to talk about him right now. [ alright maybe like. a tiny bit. it's not a lot, though. he'd be less annoyed by it if he could bully white over it. ]

You don't have to believe me, and, when it's over and I can rub it in your face, you can tell me how many times I was right, and I will be keeping track of how many times you do.

I'm not jealous of anything. I don't - that's not the kind of person I am. There's. [ a beat. he pauses, wavering before soldiering on, finally, looking away from him for a half a second and swallowing a lump in his throat of something before returning back to it - ]...I don't think there's a reason to be, because - I said something, and you liked what I said. And that's more...

... it's just more.

Right? [ maybe he's bad at this, and maybe it's all new and most of it makes him want to run screaming a hundred miles in the other direction and then very tentatively come back, but. this is something a little more than that. full bakeries, and the like.

gu yun's not a very jealous person, anyway, and, there's - everything is complicated here, but this is. well. they've complicated parts of this enough on their own. did someone else really have to step in?

belatedly, intense look and all finally fading, he releases his face. ]


...There. I ran my mouth too. [ embarrassing. gu yun's ears are red again. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-09 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ ah, he's really gone and impaled this, hasn't he.

it's. talking about things like this is like jumping off of a fucking cliff. no gu man has ever dared to show a single ounce of emotion and gu yun is his father's son. talking about feelings makes him feel like he's stripped naked and run down the main streets of great liang for no reason - weird, and embarrassed, and wanting to run away.

so he just. when that miserable tone comes out, he clamps down on himself, locks it away and throws the key. ]


... Guess I complicated it. [ there's a huff, to that, a little humorless, as he drops his hands into his lap. god. he hates this. he's going to find the person who did this and wring their neck. because what he said was true - it's the part about putting molly through this that makes him the most annoyed. it's the part that he knows how hard it is to talk about this sort of thing when it's real, and it's shitty, and he deserves a lot more than being someone's puppet for their amusement, or something worse. ] I'll figure it out.

[ find a way to try and break it, anyway. he's gonna try. there has to be something. ]

... If it makes you feel good, then go with it. Sort of what matters. [ just don't sound that miserable. fuck. ] I'll be here.
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-09 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Mmph.

[ (the truth is, he doesn't have a migraine at all. it's just much easier to lie, than to show for a second that something bothers you deeper than surface level.)

some part of him will always tense up, but the phrase knocks some of it out of him, and gu yun drops, letting molly kiss him. and it's not - sweet, but this is so much easier. it's so much fewer words, and despite being a silver-tongued kind of person, when it comes to something this big, gu yun's a fish trying to walk on land. his hands come back up, again, one at the opening at the front of molly's shirt, the other at the back of his neck, fingers snarling into his hair and holding him there, so he doesn't move away.

this is a conversation in its own right, and some of the frustration from earlier leaks into it. it's not at molly. it's at having his sharpness taken from him, softened into false kindness at moments when he doesn't want it, and how moments where he's trying to do something right still come out sharp. it's at this stupid situation, and how much he despises not knowing things, how much gu yun hates how many actions are so wildly out of his control no matter what. it's frustration at his vision, fading the world into darkness at the corners, like he's constantly viewing everything through cupped hands, and knowing that there's no way to fix it, no dose of miss chen's medicine waiting. everything is in the dark, and soon, that won't just be metaphorical.

so yeah, fuck it! he's not letting molly get away from that kiss, anytime soon. he'll be the one sinking his claws in, and not letting go. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-09 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ there's a beat, a little breathless, as molly presses those words like kisses in their own right. and then, barely a second later, comes his muttered - ] I'll absolutely yank your tail. [ in the sort of bawdy, tongue in cheek humor that's so much more familiar, so much easier to grab onto. it's not quite as spirited as it usually is, but it's a start, and when he turns his head for another fierce kiss, the corner of his mouth is lifted briefly in a smile.

and besides, molly's asking. giving permission, really - and not granting what he asks for wouldn't be very kind.

pushing a knee into the side of his hips and squirming out of the top of his robes in the process, he pivots his weight to send them rolling over, throwing a leg over molly's waist instead and bracketing his head with his forearms as he hits the bed. i liked what you said. it's maybe i just like you, and he chomps down on the words before they come anywhere close to his mouth, replacing it with a little kinder truth. ]
I don't really have a migraine. I'm just tired of having to play nice against my will.

[ don't you just want to go apeshit? yeah!! sometimes you do a little bit! this is going to be a very long, very terrible week, and throwing "not getting to spend time with molly" on top of everything else, after - after everything that happened last week had put him in a very, very sour mood, more than gu yun was even remotely ready to try and put a name to.

he nips molly's lower lip when he kisses him again, hungry and wanting and taking, a little. maybe it's selfish. maybe it's not. maybe leaving a hickey on him where anyone can see it with his stupid open shirt is selfish, too. it's indulgent, at the very least. ]
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[personal profile] liuli 2021-03-09 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ it just - it shouldn't make him more frustrated to hear that last part, but it does. because gu yun's heart is soft, ultimately - it's the only part of him that's not forged into iron - and it's heartbreaking to hear that. not in the sense of 'rejection', or something, because that isn't the case it all. it just pisses him off, to know that someone fucked up molly for what he imagines was just because someone thought it would be funny. at least if there was malicious intent to it, there was a point.

he's listening, though, while he can. the hands that move down his body catch the length of his massive scar and the little ones underneath it, and by now he's used to molly's hands on him. finding them touching without tickling is maybe the one blessing of this week, right now, but he'll take it for what it is, naturally arching into it as he ducks down and presses another suckling kiss, another, another, leaving his mark on molly among those tattoos and little scars.

it feels like the mantra of this week is really if you have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. some part of him thinks, because it's not true, and another part fights against it, with, because i know how you sound when you mean it. doesn't he? all of their tripping and falling and failing up to this point, leading up to something ridiculous like this.

instead, the compulsion of kindness finds its way to his mouth, as he pulls off for air, leaving a trail of darker purple in his wake. ]
I've got you. [ is what comes out, low from his chest, hot with low restlessness and irritation, but with something more than that, too. i've got you, because if molly says he don't play nice, then he won't. he'll take what's being given, selfishly, greedily, and mark up the column of his throat with reckless abandon. his teeth aren't sharp, like a tiefling, but every part of him makes up for it otherwise.

i've got you, like, i hear what you're saying. you aren't crazy - someone was just unbelievably cruel. ]

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