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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan snorts at that. ]

If I wanted to shoot you, I'd have done it years ago.

[ not that it wouldn't be satisfying, but he doesn't want to shoot david. he wants him dead by his own hands, as literally as possible. but that's not really what he's thinking about now.

he can't tell him to put the jacket back on, because that's not going to help matters at all. ]


Don't worry. I'll fuck it all up for you if you get that bad.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he glares at david this time, turning away from the city, wishing he didn't have to but knowing the full force of his anger isn't going to make any difference when it's aimed away from david.

not that it usually has much effect anyway, but. ]


Would've put ten in your back by now if that was all I wanted. When I take you out, it ain't gonna be that easy.

[ ... for david. it won't be easy for david. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the double entendre went right past evan when he said it, but in the brief few moments before david responds, it hits him, and he wants to gouge out his own eyes.

david's followup lacks the snarl and bite he might expect ... or the subtle, aimed flirtation that would have driven him to a rage before everything that happened. god damn it. now they're both stuck in the same pit. he should have just left david alone with his drink. ]


Yeah, well.

[ that can't be how he ends it. ]

'If' doesn't cut it.

[ not with his family, and his life. of course, neither does the back end of decidedly not flirting with a lifelong enemy. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan almost visibly tenses when david says that.

no, he doesn't want to do anything about it, but david's got a point. someone's going to notice the way they act around each other has changed, and not in a way that should make sense with them having nearly killed each other in public. they shouldn't have ended up being almost at peace with each other. they should be still trying to kill each other. or at least trying to sabotage each other's lives.

deliberately, anyway.

his glare hardens. he wants to storm back into the party, of all things, the anger trying to take over but being chokechained by the knowledge of what'll happen if he lets that happen. instead, he snaps out a response he didn't think about before saying it. ]


Like what? Make out in some dark corner where nobody's gonna find us to try and - and fucking cut the tension?
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ david's surprise is a little gratifying, but evan's mostly shocked at himself. there's people twenty feet away who could be listening in to try and find something to sabotage either of them with. destroy both families, or just one.

and acting on it - no. hell no. he's insane. he's lost his goddamned mind. for a second, the sheer hatred and misery of it shows on his face, but it's gone quickly, replaced by the usual anger. ]


Not here. We'll get caught. Fuck up everything way worse.

[ but maybe somewhere else - no, he can't entertain that thought, either. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he wasn't expecting david to take it this seriously.

why wouldn't he? he started - no, he escalated this. evan started it. he keeps starting it, over and over. why didn't he just stay inside and try to look threatening? he can do that forever; keeping it up for a few hours couldn't have been a problem.

just say no, he tells himself, just say - ]


I don't know. Only been here a few times. [ but nobody goes upstairs. it's not a house, it's a reception hall, someone's private party place. they probably have hidden places and even rooms to rent, but they can't - ] But there's a - staircase around back.

[ he looked it up as a means of finding an escape if things went to shit. he didn't check where it led, because it wasn't outside and wasn't a fire escape. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan looks back at the party, but nobody's paying attention. nobody's even seen them. nobody wants either of their attention. they've played their part, and now they're forgotten, the heirs that only exist to be shown off for a little while. he can't use that as an excuse to back off.

he could use the threat of it, or leaning on his own sanity, to say no. but just like both times in his apartment, there's a pull there he doesn't really want to resist. ]


Party ain't going all night.

[ whether that means they should hurry or not bother isn't clear, but either way, evan turns and heads down the balcony, willing david to (not) follow. expecting disappointment and suspecting he's not going to get it.

there is a staircase. metal, installed later over what used to be a ladder, if the marks on the wall are any indication. he heads up, making sure it doesn't creak too much, and for some reason the storage door is unlocked. it's dusty and looks like someone was here recently, dragging out something big and heavy. maybe they left it unlocked in case they needed more.

but it's a dark storeroom with plenty of places to keep out of sight, even if someone does come up here.

he's so fucked. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-28 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's not much light, whether the do's open or shut. some dim bulbs up at the ceiling, dusty and fading over the years. they cast long shadows and show off all the darkest hidden places they could be.

he hears david follow him and half wishes he didn't. if david had just turned around and left, this would be so much simpler. now they're up here, together, alone.

once he hears the door shut he half-turns to give david a glower. it probably goes missed in the darkness, because he can barely make out more than a silhouette of david anyway.

then he turns and steps into the shadows, hands curled into fists against the shaking. he's not taking any chances, aside from the most massive and obvious one. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-29 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ for some reason, what david says pisses him off more than it reassures him. sure, there's a part of him that appreciates it, but the fact is that both of them have everything to lose here.

he's the one who brought it up. he wouldn't have even considered it if there wasn't a dark, strangled part of him that wanted to be here. no, it's not ideal. twenty feet below them is everyone who could destroy them. he really shouldn't be doing this. but he's as frustrated as david is with the way things have changed between them. it used to be so easy to hate him.

so he turns, as david follows him, and says nothing. just reaches out and grabs him by the tie - where it's knotted up by the shirt, where any damage is easily fixed or hidden - and drags him in and kisses him and it's hard and furious desperate. his other hand finally gets to touch that fucking shirt, black silk that feels exactly like he imagined it would, and feel the hard muscles underneath. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-29 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ in one second this could ruin his whole life. but he can't stop. he's never been truly impulsive, except when it comes to violence; even when dealing with women he was never this stupid. there was no sneaking away during high-profile events to do something like this, because that would have gotten him in shit, although maybe not particularly deep shit. this? this is fatal.

but all he does is dig his fingers into david's shirt harder.

he snarls when his back hits the wall but doesn't push david off. not when they're this close. not when he can let go of his tie and get both hands on his chest instead, feeling every line of muscle under the silk. not when there's hands on him in turn. when he can feel the heat searing between them.

and he thinks, as he tries to avoid biting too much, that this isn't going to do shit to cut the tension in the long run. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-29 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it was a mistake to start and a mistake to go forward, but it's too late to back off now - or at least, to shut it down like it never happened. he wants to do a lot more than just make out. or at least he wants to take it further than he knows he should. make david regret ever letting this go forward. make himself regret it.

his fingers curl against muscles, against david's ribs, against his spine - and it's not going to do enough, because he wants to bite down and anything will be visible at this point. he snarls against the kiss. wants to say something. wants to do something even more.

he manages to get a hand back up to the tie, and starts to undo it. pull it free from the knot so he can fight the buttons open on david's shirt. get to a place that is hidden from sight so he can try and leave a mark, no matter how stupid it is. nobody's going to ask david to strip down here, are they? this is classy, right? ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-09-29 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's only the shreds of his self-control that keep him from tearing david's perfect shirt. that, and the fact that he doesn't want to see something like that destroyed. a strange part of him that never sees the light of day until ... well, shit like this happens.

as soon as he's got the tie loose enough to get out of the way and he can feel the hard line of a collarbone under his fingers he's leaning in, teeth grazing and then biting, running on almost automatic as he doesn't draw blood but sucks a bruise into place - or at least something that might eventually be a bruise. it's well below the collar, so nobody's going to see it tonight. or the other one he leaves a few seconds later. ]

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