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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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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-24 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ should he have asked that? but he already said they can't keep going to his place. someone's going to notice. or maybe that's not the issue. maybe he shouldn't be continuing this at all.

as if that's not the whole reason he called david out here. figuring it out. ]


Finally get to see what kind of gaudy shithole you live in.

[ his smirk is thin, but slightly less nasty than it would be before all this. he's kind of interested to see it - whether david lives like he shows off in everyday life, or if he's more like evan: with nothing to show that the place is his. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-26 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ the neighborhood surprised him, on that first surreptitious visit, but then again, who'd look for david in a place like that? it's the same principle that got him his shitty apartment. nobody would consider it. it's genius, in a way, except it's the two of them. he knows neither one of them thought that far ahead; they just didn't want to be found.

he tilts his beer in david's direction, almost a salute. ]


I'm sure you'll fuck it up.

[ he finishes off the drink and grimaces at the crowd. getting out will have its own problems. he'll wait for david to leave first, the same way they do things when it's his place they're going to. then he'll follow, going a different route (probably), showing up later, just in case. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-26 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan lingers a little, waits to see if he recognizes anyone around, and then leaves.

he takes his time to make sure that nobody's following him (they aren't) and to make sure he gets there after david. he's not going to hang around, being noticed. in a place like that someone will, even if they don't know who he is. no records of him in this shitty place need to exist.

the building is even more of a shithole than he one he lives in, but again, that's a hiding strategy. nobody would expect david lives here. he sure as hell never would have guessed it. there's a part of him thinking, planning, ready to move in, land the killing blow ... but he waves it off today. david hasn't torn up his apartment. fair play not to do the same to his.

the door looks ready to fall apart at a knock, but he does it anyway. lightly. loud enough to be heard inside but maybe not in the other apartments nearby. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-26 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ once he's past the entryway, he realizes: this is actually an apartment where david lives. it's not just some empty abandoned place to sleep off a hangover or ignore. this is an actual living space.

there's furniture, there's evidence of a life lived. he looks around in silence, taking in the little details. it's still not what he expects of david. not the flashy nightmare he suspects his actual apartment or room at home might look like. but it's more than what he's got.

that could be a bad thing to know for both of them. but he's here anyway. ]


Could be worse.

[ the untouched electric piano has his attention for a little longer than it probably should, but the dust loses his attention. evan stops in the kitchenette. ]

This where you go when shit's going bad or when you're hooking up?

[ or both, but his guess is that no women have ever been in here. it's too small, in too bad a place, to be anything but private. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-26 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ home away from home. it's a phrase evan's heard before, but even now, he's not sure he's ever experienced it. he's got one home. even the places he goes to try and unwind aren't another home.

he'd be jealous if he recognized why that was. as it is, he just makes a distant noise, eyeing the books, the bed in the corner, the little signs that someone really lives here. ]


Guess it must be one of your other apartments that looks like a fashion magazine.

[ not a very funny joke, but since when was he funny at all? he heads over to the couch and sits down. it's old. the kind he's got, but still a little nicer. that kind of irritates him. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-27 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's not sure what the hell he's doing, but like fuck he was going to keep standing around, looking awkward. at least this is more normal.

he glances around at david's 'tour', wondering if it's possible that david's just as weirded out by all of this as him. it's one thing to go to a borderline abandoned apartment for a drink or a fight or ... the the other shit they've done, but his own space - it must be too strange to handle. otherwise he wouldn't be touring what's basically one room, even as a joke. ]


Studio don't seem like your style.

[ god damn does he want a smoke right now, but he didn't bring any. didn't think this was going to be a stressful night until about two hours ago, and by then he was running on automatic. ]

You used to play the piano?
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-27 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan's not the sharpest, a fact he's been made keenly aware of in his life, but even he can see how much that catches david off-guard. because david's usually so confident no matter what, that moment where he falters is evidence that there's something else to that piano.

had a friend. it's clearly not in use, even slightly.

evan looks over at the books instead. ]


Guess if you were top of your class, I can't say I'm surprised you read on your own time.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-27 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ watching david abruptly go and get a drink, evan considers, briefly, that taking him to an apartment with no life or personality might have done him a favor. aside from the brief interlude with his shirt, david still doesn't know anything else about him. but now evan's got ... well, this.

he's not going to use it unless he has to. it's just surprising. then again, even if he did take him to an in-use apartment, there wouldn't be much to see. ]


Figures.

[ he takes the bottle and ignores the way david's right next to him, as if they haven't been closer already. ]

No time for anything but showing off and doing everyone else's dirty work.

[ that's not the insult he'd like it to be. part of it is a commiseration - because of course his life is exactly the same in too many ways, which still pisses him off to think about. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-10-27 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Sure.

[ the drink isn't great. then again, none of them have been. he doesn't comment on it, instead choosing to mull over it, wondering if he should just leave. this was absolutely a bad idea, but ...

he keeps looking around the apartment. seeing the little details, the hints of a life he's hated for decades. neither of them has really known anything about the other until recently, and a part of him thinks it shouldn't have been both of them realizing the other was into men that started all this. hell of a way to develop any kind of acquaintanceship past wanting to beat each other to death. ]


Might be nice having a place like this.

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