forum When night falls, when dawn breaks; the veil tears, the Earth shakes. // One on One // OPEN
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@croccin-champagne

Miyaki opened her mouth, fully intending to tell him that it wasn't a good idea, and that they'd both be better off not doing whatever they wanted to call that. And then she paused. It had been…amazing, admittedly, and she'd felt like someone worth something, at least in some way, for once. Instead of someone more something. "I-…only if you're sure that's something you're okay with." She said, looking away and at the wall to avoid his gaze.

@ElderGod-Icefire

He looked down at her. "Mm. I'm sure it's fine." He replied, smirking slightly. He leaned forward and brushed his lips against her cheek lightly, trailing his mouth down her jaw, then pulling away. "I mean, I don't have a problem with it, and I don't really care what everyone else thinks of me." He wondered briefly if she knew what his mother was, then brushed the thought away.

@croccin-champagne

"O-oh. Okay then." She nodded, hesitantly lifting her hands to rest them on his shoulders. "You might, though. Change your mind and start caring. Just…let me know when you do. That way I can avoid too much backlash if need be." She requested, meeting his eyes once more. Her collar had slipped again, a few splotches of dark purple peeking out.

@ElderGod-Icefire

He shook his head. "I won't. I don't typically change my mind once it's made up." He replied, looking at her with a slight smirk. "So what do you think of your lessons about the Night Court so far? Have they been… exhilarating?" He gave a bigger smirk as he looked down at her, silver eyes bright with suppressed laughter.

@croccin-champagne

She coughed, spluttering slightly as the blush returned full force. "I-uh, something like that." She admitted, half playing along and half just at a loss of how exactly to respond to that. "I'd still like to learn actual things, about the Night Court. Not just…about you."

@ElderGod-Icefire

"Why, was I boring?" He replied with a smirk. He was just teasing her, really. He knew that she knew what he meant, but wanted to tease her a bit. He couldn't say why, but he found it amusing and, well…adorable, the way she behaved when she got a bit flustered by his behavior.

@croccin-champagne

"I didn't say that." She said hastily, shaking her head just a bit too much too quickly. "I just thought I was supposed to be learning about your Court, so you could try and convince me to return with you for whatever reason. Not…other things, things about you that I have no business knowing, really."

@ElderGod-Icefire

(i gtg in about ten minutes, so I might not answer again)

He chuckled. "I would never try to use sex as a motive for you to come to my court." He replied honestly. But of course it was honest. He was a Fae, he couldn't lie in the first place. "But yes, fine, the next lesson won't end in that. Unless of course you want it to, in which case…" He smirked, giving her a small wink.

@croccin-champagne

"I guess we'll just have to see how it goes." She murmured, slightly emboldened by his continued insistence that he wasn't planning on just messing with her. At least not soon. "You really wouldn't use sex as a way to get me there? I'm not saying it would work, obviously, but that isn't on your list of ways?" Of course she knew he couldn't lie. That didn't mean he couldn't be working around the truth somehow.

@ElderGod-Icefire

"Of course it isn't. I'm not that crass." He replied. "Although if it serves as a motivator…I don't really mind." He shrugged, then raised an eyebrow. "Your High Lady won't mind, will she? Or do I risk her wrath if this continues?" He asked, smirking lightly.

@croccin-champagne

A motivator. A good one, for sure, but not enough to make her risk restarting hell in a new Court. “I won’t lie to Alina. She’s like that, she’ll figure it out somehow, and I won’t lie when she does. But you’ll be fine. Hopefully.” She looked off, tilting her head as though mulling over the possibilities.

@ElderGod-Icefire

Jin nodded. "You didn't answer my question of if she will be angry. I don't want this to strain relations between her court and mine. There is already far too much strain." The courts were nearly opposites. The Dawn Court, court of the sun and the day, of light. And the Night Court, court of the moon and the night, of darkness. The two were near opposites, it was little wonder that the relations were strained.

@croccin-champagne

"Alina is not a worrier. That said, be warned that should you manage to anger her, it might very well be the last thing you do." Miyaki said, her eyes still slightly unfocused and in the general direction of the wall. "It should be fine. As long as I explain that It's not something she needs to get angry over at any point. This is entirely unaffected by the Court relations."

@ElderGod-Icefire

(one of my favorite RP buddies deleted her account so now I'm sad…:( )

Jin nodded slowly, then frowned slightly. "Miyaki, are you alright?" He asked. "You're kind of staring at the wall. And I don't know about you, but I only stare at people or things that I find beautiful and attractive, and…that wall is neither." He chuckled softly, looking at her.

@croccin-champagne

((Aww. Who was she?))

Miyaki blinked, her gaze refocusing as she looked back up at him. "Huh? Oh, uh, yeah, sorry. Got a bit lost in thought. I was remembering the first and last time I saw Alina get mad. It was….slightly terrifying, even on my end, despite the fact that I wasn't on the receiving end."

@ElderGod-Icefire

(idk if you ever met her but Lori was her usual username, usually paired with different things like "lori-is-the-king" and "king-lori" and stuff)

Jin nodded. "I see." He replied slowly. "May I ask who the anger was directed at? Or is that classified?" He cocked an eyebrow at her. His hands were still on her hips, thumbs rubbing small circles, touch light, as if it wasn't even there. His silver eyes seemed almost to glitter, like they always did.

@croccin-champagne

((I remember seeing her around, it sucks that she left dude))

"It was…one of the Fae of her Court." Miyaki said, suddenly growing a bit quiet as she looked down, her eyes on his chin instead of his face. "Kalifer Hyran? He-was very vocal about his dislike for me. Physical about it too." The half blank memories of the night, a week before Alina had turned the Court on it's head, flashed through her mind.

@ElderGod-Icefire

(yeah…she said she'll be back next year, so i told her to hit me up when she's back, but we'll see)

Jin frowned slightly. Physical…sexual? Or just beaten? He looked at her. "Miyaki… did he…force you into bed with him?" He asked softly, gently tipping her chin with his finger so that she was looking at him. His silver eyes were gentle, and concerned.

@croccin-champagne

Miyaki's eyes widened, surprised he'd managed to hit the nail on the head so quickly. "No-not at first. At first it was just…you know, the usual things." She said, shrugging a shoulder as though that was an entirely normal way for someone to be treated. His gentle touch soothed the icy memories in her mind, almost pushing the thoughts out completely somehow. Grounding, for whatever reason. "And then towards the end of his time here…yeah. Well, sort of. Not really? I did it, so it's not like….too horrible, I guess." It was like she had managed to convince herself that what had happened wasn't as bad as it was.

@ElderGod-Icefire

Jin shook his head. "I don't believe you." He replied softly, gently brushing a strand of hair out of her face, cupping her chin in his hands. "I really don't. And besides. "The usual things"?" He shook his head. "I…" Watched my father hurt my mother for years, while I did nothing. "I have seen people in both healthy and abusive relationships. You said that he hurt you. So i have a hard time believing that you willingly went to bed with him."

@croccin-champagne

"Of course it was willingly. I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't. Right?" Then why did it almost sound like Miyaki was asking him instead of telling him? She kept her eyes on his nose now, as though afraid that looking directly at him would bring out the truth she had worked so hard to bury deep down. "It was just a thing that happened. What he had done before didn't really play any part in that." Liar. While lying may have been harder for her, thanks to the Fae blood running through her, she was till part human. She could lie. And it was so much easier when she had convinced herself of the lie.

@ElderGod-Icefire

"That's not how this works." Jin replied, thumb gently rubbing her cheek. "It really isn't. You don't sleep with someone who has hurt you and abused you and hated you. I never have. No one else I know has." Not by choice, anyway. He sighed softly.

@croccin-champagne

A crease appeared between Miyaki's brows as she frowned slightly, looking like she hadn't considered that. She hadn't let herself. Her head tilted to lean into his touch without her even realizing it, as she met his eyes. "It's not…? But it's what I'm supposed to do, right?"

@ElderGod-Icefire

Jin shook his head. "No, sweetheart." He replied, still holding her chin gently in his hands. "It's not." He sighed. "You're supposed to…even if you don't love the person you're sleeping with, you should still…still at least want to sleep with them. Last night, I gave you multiple chances to say no before we started. That's what people are supposed to do."

@croccin-champagne

You're supposed to want it. That was such a strange idea to her, but somehow, it put to ease some of the doubts that had been plaguing her. Miyaki looked down, thinking about that, before looking back up. "That's what's supposed to happen. I'm supposed to have a choice?"