bloodandbrass: (orly)

[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-17 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Was I supposed to just lie there and let you get on top? Beat my face into the ground?

[ it's the same with evan. he's irritated, still angry about everything, but the violence that would normally go with this is tempered. for now.

and he's got just enough alcohol in him to not immediately regret the phrase let you get on top. ]


Had to get you to stop your shit somehow.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-17 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That was the point. Or did you actually want me to go easy on you?

[ he takes a slow, deliberate sip. ]

Didn't think you were that delicate.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-18 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ evan almost laughs at that, too, because considering how badly they've beaten each other over the years, it's a stupid idea. it was meant to be an insult. an automatic thing. david not taking the bait should irritate him.

too much to drink, he supposes, makes that less of a problem. but shouldn't it be the other way around? ]


You do. Just doesn't keep you down.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-18 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
You've got too many of those to count.

[ strange how amenable they're being. maybe knowing neither one of them got the praise they thought they deserved for their work made dealing with each other more bearable. or -

it's the alcohol. must be. has to be. ]


Could do yourself and everyone else a favor and learn to stay the fuck down from time to time.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-18 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
And that's why you keep getting the shit kicked out of you.

[ the smirk is infuriating, but evan manages to keep a lid on the anger for now. they're being amicable enough, and he doesn't want to be the one getting slammed for starting a fight in a slightly more upscale place like this. ]

Another round?
bloodandbrass: (orly)

[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-18 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sure.

[ he knew david would offer. not that he would have refused to buy it if otherwise, but that'd tip the scales. david would owe him double. and neither one of them will let that happen.

he finishes off his drink while david's gone and takes the new glass without considering poison again. at this point, it really doesn't seem likely. ]


Might have less enemies if you weren't such an obnoxious prick.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-18 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ bare minimum. well, it's not like evan does any better. if anything, he's a lot worse. he must have just as many enemies as david, but for less varied reasons.

in the end, though, people just want them dead. very few want anything else. maybe money or influence. they don't have any real friends. the two of them are probably as close at that ever gets for either of them, which is alarming and very, very depressing. ]


Make me a hypocrite to try and make you do it. Just don't be so surprised when someone else tries to take a chunk outta you in desperation someday.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-18 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ of course they would be, he thinks. they're not him. they don't know david the way evan does.

which makes him grimace into his alcohol to think about, but fortunately david distracts him with another comment. ]


Yeah? They think your dad'll just toss you aside in favor of them if they can kick your ass?

[ something evan himself doesn't have to worry about, really. because no matter how many times people try it, family is more important. the only way he'd lose rank is if he was dead. even a nasty fuckup wouldn't do the trick, although maybe a really bad one would get him killed and put all that back at square one. there's tradeoffs to his life. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-18 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the business. Everyone trying to claw their way up and over you.

[ he looks back down into his drink, like he's trying to see a confirmation or rebuttal in the alcohol. it doesn't come. ]

Anyone try anything after the fight?
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-19 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Woulda figured someone'd be dumb enough.

[ evan would be dumb enough. but he was also bleeding out and being dragged away by his men, so it didn't really work out. ]

Still sorta wonder what they wanted us to do.

[ yes, this has been on his mind for weeks. it's better to think about than, say, almost making out with david king. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-21 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Probably.

[ expecting the ultimate turnaround from him, of all people? but that's absolutely something his father would do. it still wouldn't be good enough, ultimately, but he might have gotten a reassurance for it, instead of a cold dismissal. ]

Maybe this was the one chance they had to really ally. Split the city fairly. And we fucked it up.

[ he smirks when he says that. as if. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-22 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan knows his father well enough that he'd never actually ally with the kings, except in brief circumstances like they just dealt with. teaming up with a known enemy to take down an unknown one, fine. keeping his distance to avoid an out and out war, also fine. but actually dividing the city up?

maybe ten or twenty years ago. now, he wants it all, eventually. apparently beating the shit out of the heir wasn't good enough, though. ]


Maybe next time they need to flatten someone trying to take over their shit, we can team up and burn their place down. Like we actually get along.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-08-23 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan grunts in agreement, or at least half-agreement. a change of pace. teaming up. getting along.

yeah, right. he doesn't need a friend, especially not david king, of all people. even if it's some vague bullshit. ]


How long you think it'll take before they disown us both for trying it?

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