Duke Crocker (
betterthanaplan) wrote2019-12-01 01:37 pm
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The Cape Rouge, Port of Fandom, Sunday evening
The joys of sailing in from 2008, Duke was not dealing with a giant winter storm as he made his way down the coast from Maine. The weather had in fact been perfectly fine until he crossed into Fandom waters and the first of the white flakes hit the boat. He'd had some warning about this, sort of, thanks to Octavia's voicemail, but it still took him a couple minutes to work out that it really was powdered sugar falling from the sky instead of snow.
He managed to get his boat docked without getting too much of a contact sugar high, and paused on the deck for a few moments to just watch it drift in the glow of his string lights. It didn't sparkle quite the same way a good snowfall would, but it was pretty enough in its own way, and with the hood of his slicker pulled to protect his hair, he could let himself relax for a minute and just enjoy it.
A porg landed on the deck, liberally dusted and practically buzzing like a hummingbird as it rolled around in a small sugar drift. He was going to be cleaning up tiny sugar porg prints for days. Duke watched it for a moment, then turned his face back up towards the sky, tasting sugar on his lips.
"Home sweet Fandom."
This couldn't possibly be good for the fish.
[can be open, sure!]
He managed to get his boat docked without getting too much of a contact sugar high, and paused on the deck for a few moments to just watch it drift in the glow of his string lights. It didn't sparkle quite the same way a good snowfall would, but it was pretty enough in its own way, and with the hood of his slicker pulled to protect his hair, he could let himself relax for a minute and just enjoy it.
A porg landed on the deck, liberally dusted and practically buzzing like a hummingbird as it rolled around in a small sugar drift. He was going to be cleaning up tiny sugar porg prints for days. Duke watched it for a moment, then turned his face back up towards the sky, tasting sugar on his lips.
"Home sweet Fandom."
This couldn't possibly be good for the fish.
[can be open, sure!]
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That probably still qualified as the answer he was expecting.
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He figured it would, sooner or later, and it was going to hurt like hell when it did, but he was just foolish enough to want it anyway.
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And that meant trust.
"It's not that weird, flapkrasha." And this time, there was no mistaking that word for an insult. Not with the soft fondness she put into it. "You... you make me want to laugh with you. If not wanting to give that up is weird, then so's you wanting to keep telling me part by part what's supposed to be so lovely about me."
She shrugged a tiny bit, and looked down at their joined hands.
(And no, she hadn't missed that this had been the first time he'd reached for hers first.)
"I'm not saying it's smart --" She'd been hurt enough times by things beyond her control to expect that to come eventually. "-- but it's not that weird. "
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"It's -- unique, then. Most people are relieved when I leave."
Most people, he left before they had time to become attached. To make sure they couldn't leave him first.
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She was fine with being unique.
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The only reason she wouldn't have laughed in their face would've been that she'd mostly only regained that ability within the last three months.
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Basically, himself and Magnus. He figured that was it.
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"I mean, what's the point in listening to nonsense?"
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Did it make that less rude if she also gave his hand a squeeze?
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He had kind of terrible luck when it came to exes, let's be real.
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It was funny how some things seemed easier a war zone.
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Which had to mean she was comfortable, yes.
She also snorted. "I'm not mean, I'm just honest." No, she was a ruthless snarker when her environment wasn't beating her into submission. "And you don't know the half of it, about my tongue."
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"Sure," she said, giving his hand a light tug, not even for any real reason. "And no sense of self-preservation."
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She'd come back to English in a second.
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