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Duke Crocker ([personal profile] betterthanaplan) wrote2025-01-07 12:06 pm
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The deck of the Fin and Tonic, Tuesday afternoon

Duke had gone into town this morning, and come back with an acoustic guitar. It'd been ages since he'd last played, so he set about turning and warming up with unusual focus before eventually starting to play something relatively simple.

"Sorry
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like sorry, like sorry
. . . ."

Should the narrative pretend that his song choice was random? Obviously it was not. It had been running through his head for days.

[for those on the island, and likely slow play!]
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-08 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia looked confused. "... What?"

Sorry, it took a moment for the relevant memory to surface from beneath everything else that had been going on lately.

"Oh. From -- that's who you mentioned before, right?"
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-08 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"You've been thinking about songs?" Octavia asked.

It was more of a prompt than anything. It didn't take a particularly bright person to figure out why he might've been thinking about that song in particular, after all.
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"You like songs," Octavia echoed, something gently wry about her tone.

She slid her hand on top of his.
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia gave him a tiny nod back.

"But you've been thinking about specific ones."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"You wanna tell me about them?" Octavia asked, giving his fingers a little squeeze. "And... What you've been thinking about."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I... was trying not to read into it," Octavia admitted, looking past him as she thought about it. She shrugged, too. "Which I guess says something."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"No," Octavia agreed, as her gaze returned to meet his. "They really haven't."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia nodded.

(It wasn't like he could promise anything more than that. Neither could she.)

"And I'm going to..." she started, then drew a breath. "To try and ask more questions. If I feel like you're not getting what I'm saying."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The immediate discomfort somewhere in Octavia's gut at the mention of the word 'boundaries' probably said something.

She ignored it, for now, shifting closer with his tugging. Even if that only left her with a vague hum for a response.
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's... kind of a hard thing to even comment on," Octavia admitted, carefully, as she tried to lean against his side, "without just getting into it."
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia just had doubts about how much beyond the key word of 'boundary' she'd managed to communicate to him, before, in the middle of how wrong things had ended up going over New Year's.

So, complicated.

"Can we just... sit, for a while?" she asked, with some hesitation.
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay," Octavia murmured.

And tried to move his arm so that it was around her.
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[personal profile] okteiviakom 2025-01-09 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"It wasn't that... strict, this time," Octavia muttered. Mostly, it had been a way to get out of feeling like she needed to force some sort of topic of conversation out of herself.

She settled her head against his shoulder.

"I love you, too."

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