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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-17 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the tall table makes evan grimace, but standing after a day like the one he's had isn't appealing. it's not an obvious spot, but it's a little more public than he'd like. he just has to hope this really is an out of the way place, and that he's not a memorable face.

he heads there with david, finally picking up on that last little insult. ]


Step up from a dumpster.

[ at least the table's out of the way. not many people near them, and he doubts anyone will hear them over the crowd and the music, anyway. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-17 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan's grimace holds out after that comment, too. and because he somehow feels short at this table. that's a new experience for him as an adult, and not one he likes. ]

That bartender looked like she didn't like you bein' right.

[ small talk. anything to keep from the reason they're out here, or rather, the reason he called david out here. just ... idle chatter. and drinks. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-17 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ keep to the small talk, he thinks, opening the next beer. it's a good distraction. ]

This close to the highway, it might.

[ but again, he's not someone with any kind of serious knowledge about the lifespan of a bar. much as he was joking earlier, david probably is the one with an almost professional take. ]

'Til yours or mine take it over and tank it doing somethin' stupid.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-18 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this time evan gives david a flat look. keep their places running well ... usually. yeah, he knows that. he also knows which ones are on the verge of collapse, because he read some of the family accountant's ledgers the other day when there was an argument going on.

not because he wanted to know where to go to potentially find david, obviously. he's stupid, but not that stupid.

usually. ]


Right up to the day someone tries to rob it and ends up getting smeared across the pavement outside the door because none of your boys can keep their trigger fingers under control.

[ but it's said lightly, because it's evan saying it, and hypocrite or not he knows he has control problems. they've been more obvious than usual, lately. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-19 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, probably.

[ he can't argue with that. well, he can, but it'd make him look even stupider. ]

Better if we don't guess, probably. Either it'll happen or it won't.

[ the beer's not very good, but at least it's something. ]

You, uh ... get any flak from walking outta that party a few times?
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-20 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Good. Guess everyone was too boozed up to care.

[ not that he got any real flak for disappearing. one of the others did say he saw the two of them out on the balcony being reasonably cordial, which would have resulted in something much worse if the followup hadn't been a comment on how glad he'd been they didn't have to pull apart a shitshow of a fight. evan had managed to dismiss it with a shrug and a comment about things being less now that they'd almost killed each other for real, and that had done the trick.

he doesn't mention it, though. nobody saw them disappear. that's all that matters. ]


How many more of those things you think you got in you this year?
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-20 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he could offer to meet david somewhere less public if he wants to talk about this. you know. his apartment. david's apartment, now that he knows where it is (and he does know, having made his way there last week just to see if it was even a real place; he stayed a street away, but he knows, now, what he's dealing with). the abandoned brewery. an underpass.

but in a bar, where people could listen in, they probably won't. it's a stupid line of logic that he's found is true more often than not. they haven't been caught yet, have they?

yet. ]


What do you think?

[ his expression would be angrier if he wasn't so embarrassed about the fact that he called david out in the first place. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-20 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a shittier decision than that. he sneers for a second, but david's right. almost every time they've had drinks lately, it's ended with - something. and even when they didn't have drinks. he's got no idea how to address this; all he knows is that he needed to deal with this, except he doesn't know how the fuck he's going to do that. ]

How's the last two weeks been?

[ this isn't an idle question. it's almost an accusation. if he's the only part of this who's been distracted and spending most nights lying awake trying to think of anything but what they did, then he's going to walk out of the city and never come back. so he needs to know if david's been as ... preoccupied as him. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-20 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's that brief look of terror david was looking for as evan glances at the nearest people in the crowd, but none of them are listening. then it's gone, replaced with a similar anger for what david said - and no small hint of embarrassment, too.

he didn't have to say it like that. ]


Yeah? Same here. This ain't somethin' I can just ignore. I've tried.

[ why david fucking king, of all people? he could guess at why, but he's not going to, at least not right now. ]

We keep doing stupid shit, we're gonna get caught.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-20 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he wants to break the beer over david's skull for that. ]

You didn't have to come out. Could've told me to go fuck myself and solved the problem for both of us.

[ and he could have resisted the urge to text him. he's ignoring that. ]

If this is gonna - keep happening, then we need to figure out a way to make it happen like we aren't the dumbest motherfuckers alive.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-21 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ no more of this. that's probably for the best. evan's not social at the best of times, and honestly, he doesn't like going to bars, especially ones like this. he just couldn't find any other excuse to meet up with david other than drinking in communal places. ]

Didn't know a better way to get us in the same place.

[ texting regularly isn't going to work, either, because someone will find them both out eventually. so then how? ]

Can't be too cordial suddenly or someone's gonna get mad. [ he pauses, finds and idea, and hates it immediately. ] Fucking code isn't gonna work either.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-21 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan hesitates. for a second, his face says more than he ever could, or will.

yes, a burner's an option. he's trusted enough that nobody would think twice if he had two phones. but to him, personally, it feels like a betrayal. it is a betrayal. a separate phone just for texting or talking to one of his biggest, long-time enemies? to keep secrets not just from his family, but from his father?

the line of thought continues as he stares down into his beer: he's already keeping secrets. and has been, for a long time. besides, it's not like he's trading away secrets or giving up information. this is just for fucking. a distraction. an escape. ]


Might work for a while.

[ until they have the fortitude to find a better way to get in contact without having everyone around them realize something's going on. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-22 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's probably for the best if david doesn't, because if evan found out, they wouldn't need to worry about hiding anything anymore - he'd just kill david outright. or at the very least try. ]

Yeah. Later.

[ later ... when? short of arranging the meetups weeks ahead of time so there's no planning to track, their only other option as far as he can tell is their occasional accidental meetups turned into hookups. he'll just have to deal with the guilt crushing him over this. won't be anything new, really.

he shakes his head. time to get over the self-pity. ]


So you wanna finish these and crash at your place or just fuck off until I get what I need?

[ the phone. he can't even say it at this point. ]

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