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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-07 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the wink sets him off. david probably knew that would happen. that's probably why he did it.

despite years of people trying to teach him how to handle himself, how to ignore bait, how to not do what he always wants to do, evan can't stop himself. he wouldn't be able to stop himself his father was here, telling him not to do it.

there's not much distance to cross now. he hurls himself at david, a punch already coming, ready to attack. he's almost completely forgotten that this is staged, which is probably for the best. the more real it is, the better a distraction it is, and the two of them tearing each other apart for real is ideal.

but he wants david dead right now, which isn't. that's what the rest of his guys are for. they hang back for now, ready to jump in if david's do, but it's rare that anyone interferes with a fight between the two heirs to the crime families, mostly out of the interest of not getting ripped in half. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-07 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ his fist lands on david's arms. as he's trying to bring his other fist up for a followup hit, david launches back, nearly hits him, and as evan tries to duck to avoid the blow david drags him in.

the hits send his skull ringing but he's used to this. he gets an arm up between himself and david and wrenches, breaking them apart after a few more blows, and follows it up with a swinging elbow to try and crush something - a jaw, a nose, cheekbone, even his shoulder, whatever he hits is fine. the other hand's already reaching out to try and get the front of david's shirt. to drag him in for a headbutt, the crown of evan's skull against any part of david's face he can land. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-08 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ the blood spurs evan on. he doesn't like being in pain, but he's used to it. that's another place where he and david differ. bearing with something instead of reveling in it. he's always hated david's feral, bloodstained grins when things get rough. hated the idea that fighting was fun for him.

the blow to his chin makes his teeth crash together. disorients him long enough for david to get him close enough for a series of hits that make his vision flicker. the pain doesn't clear anything, but they're this close, and that means he can get in just as much damage. and he tries, with both fists, with a knee to the hipbone, with his skull. by keeping his hold on the front of david's shirt and twisting it, trying to throw him off balance.

the street's clearing, as expected, with yells and a growing crowd at the edges. his men are keeping their distance, watching uneasily, some wondering out loud if they should get weapons out? but the answer from those who know is no, just stay put, this is between them. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-08 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ david twists with him, and then as evan tries to get a fresh grip he breaks free. smashes his arm on the way, making him let go of david's shirt with a snarl, but his fingers are still half-twisted in the fabric and it rips as he pulls away.

the sight of his chest is an appealing target. break his ribs, see them break. or more likely his collarbone, since that's most of what's visible. but his arm is still throbbing, so he swings with his other arm, going for david's head in a move that seems too obvious even for them. a sign of his uncontrollable rage? or a feint, as he kicks out at david's knee, trying to break it, make him limp, or at the very least get a little distance?

they didn't need to plan anything. this was going to happen one way or another. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-09 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the space is brief. it's not enough to recuperate. but it is enough for evan to spit blood onto the pavement, wipe his jaw off despite the stinging pain, before david's rushing at him again. blood smeared on his face, sweat dripping, bruises already forming, his skin red and raised. eyes fixed on evan with a bright, intense violence.

evan lets him shove him back with the shoulder check but doesn't go down yet. he skids back, then locks his knees and takes the first two punches before ducking under them and trying with everything he has to get his arms around david's waist and hurl him to the ground. if he goes with him, fine. the intent is to get him down and curbstomp the hell out of him, but he doesn't expect it to be that easy. it's never that easy with david king. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-10 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan braces against the grip. he'd do the same thing. he'd do worse. it means that when he throws david he goes down, too, but he was hoping he could deal with it, expect that, and get his head out in time.

but he doesn't. he goes down hard, as hard as david does. tries to rip himself free, and when that doesn't work, he tries to crush david's torso in his grip while at the same time trying to get david on his back.

it's difficult with the blows raining down on his back, his spine, his kidneys. and with his arms caught he can't protect or retaliate. he just tries to squeeze as hard as he can, because even if he can't choke his breath out he can still hurt him. rupture something, fracture a rib if he's lucky. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-11 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the strain on his neck gets his attention for once. david's trying to kill him. no - he's trying to get him to let go by threatening to kill him. both thoughts clash in his head as violently as he's fighting with david. he's trying to kill him. he should be trying to kill him. evan should be trying to do the same -

as the attention focuses on the pair of them, people move in on the headquarters. infiltrating the place. taking down people too distracted by one thing or another, or the fight outside, to realize what's happening. work that neither one of them could ever do, no matter how hard they tried, no matter how much it burns them.

evan snarls something vulgar and lets go, ripping himself free from david's grip and instantly going for a beatdown. still trying to get him on his back and then smash whatever he can see into a pulp, or get his hands around david's throat to choke him out enough to make him recoil. do something. do something to make him regret. do something to make him glare up at evan with something other than smug confidence and the self-knowledge of who's about to win, here. something. anything. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-12 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ every attempt to get david down, other than actually getting him on the ground, has failed. and now he's trying to flatten himself to protect his vitals. his face. evan tries not to completely lose his shit - or at least what's left of it - in the wake of this. everything he does, david tries to undo. tries to one-up him on.

so he lets david roll and push up and as david pushes up, evan slams an elbow down onto him. low enough that he hopes with every ounce of rage in him that it hits a point right over his kidney. not close enough to the spine to actually turn this into a life-or-death fight - well, at least any closer than it already is - but enough to hurt.

he tries to follow it up with a rain of blows to the rest of him, his shoulderblades and neck and the back of his head, to smash his face into the ground when he tries to rise. tries as he goes to get on top of him, or at least over him. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-13 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ despite everything he's doing, david's getting up. evan can feel it, pushed up as david goes, trying to keep his balance without giving up a single hit. and he's losing. somehow david's just - getting back up. relentless. always fucking relentless in this kind of shit. never willing to stay down when she should.

the fury boils over as he tries to grind david's face into the pavement with no success, and instead he lets go to climb further over him and clamp both hands around david's neck. thumbs pressed against the back of his spine, fingers curled around his throat, squeezing like he can rip david's head off right where they are. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-13 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he wants him dead. has for years. and right here, right now, maybe he can do it. it's not the way he wanted it to happen, but he'll take it now, bloody and bruised and a concussion already well on its way through his skull. he wanted to beat david into a pulp, see his face ruined, his chest caved in. but this is going to be enough.

but david's not giving up, because when does he ever? he fights back. it's what they both do. he grabs and pulls at evan's grip, which doesn't do much, and slams an elbow back, which does a little more. more than a little more.

it hits his stomach over a spot already sensitive from a series of blows earlier and while evan's grip loosens just slightly, between the hit and david reeling back to deliver it, the main result is that evan drops back, dragging david with him. the grip is still tight but loosening, and now he's on his back. but at least david's still struggling. doesn't have the upper hand yet. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-13 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ david lands on him, hard. it's enough to wind him, make him choke on his own breath as it's forced out of his lungs, makes him loosen his grip enough that when david starts to land blows again he lets go out of instinct to defend himself.

and then david's trying to turn himself around, get on top, get in a position where he can beat evan down. exactly what evan was trying to do. that can't happen. he can't let that happen. he won't let that happen.

he tries with everything he has to wrap one arm around david's throat - not quite the crushing grip, but still a grip - and punches upward again. back into that same spot he landed his elbow not so long ago. against his side. his ribs. the easiest places to reach like this.

and, without thinking, he bites. david's ear is in reach and everything in him wants blood. it's not his best moment, but then again, what is? ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-14 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ the taste of someone else's blood both shocks him and spurs him on. he lets go almost instantly once the blood hits his tongue, but part of him wants to do it again. get his teeth in david's neck and rip out a chunk, make him collapse, make him bleed out right here, right in the street.

but then david's being dragged away, and he's getting shoved, and then he's being pulled. evan forgets that this was a setup and fights like a wild animal to get back to the fight. it takes four of his own guys, and a hard kick to the side of the leg by someone who knows he'll get away with it for once, before he's far enough away for sense to settle back in.

but it's not enough. he's cursing, yelling, trying to get david to break loose and come at him just so they have an excuse to jump him as a group. but david's guys know what they're doing, too. david doesn't break free. evan doesn't, either. it doesn't help that all he can see is red. ]

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