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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-09 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I know it's deliberate enough times.

[ it'd be stupid for david to track him, and it's even stupider of him to think that's the case. but anger doesn't exactly give him much of an intellectual boost.

he can't make any sense of this. it's why he's so focused on this one little shitty gesture as the worst thing he's dealt with so far. ]


And even when it ain't, half the time all I'm doing is walking by and there you are. Starts to feel real personal. But everything last night was a choice. Your choice.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-10 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Looking at you ain't giving you a look.

[ he totally knows what he did, but he'll ignore that for the time being. ]

Next time, you ignore me, I ignore you. You keep parading around with girls you don't even give a shit about, and I'll pretend you actually do.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-10 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he wavers, at that. for a few seconds the rage hits a wall, and it's visible on his face. it doesn't last long, but it's doubt, plain and simple, and it takes the viciousness off the edge of his anger. ]

I know you're through girls faster than anything else. Besides, you and me, we know each other. We've known each other a long fucking time.

[ only ever as enemies, until the last six months or so. but that still means something. what's that stupid phrase about keeping enemies closer? not that close, obviously, but - ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-11 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the words it doesn't matter won't come. he knows they should, but they're not there. he almost bares his teeth over it, ready to kill, although he's not sure if he wants to kill david or himself over how furious he's getting about being here at all. you know. to the place he called david out to.

why does it matter? ]


You don't like anybody that much, you fuck. You can't. Especially not a woman.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-12 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the shove is almost enough to tip him over the edge, but evan's not quite at the precipice yet - inches away, another shove will do it, but he doesn't snap just yet. he steps back with the shove, which inches him closer to it. but he's still standing. still snarling.

he doesn't smirk when he talks. it's not even in his voice. all the smugness from the night before is gone, and was gone the second he found out what david did. ]


You're the guy who went on his knees without me even havin' to ask.

[ it's meant to be insulting, obviously, but it's a clear mark that he also hasn't been able to forget that first night they started whatever the hell this is. he probably never will. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-13 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
This ain't the same and you know it.

[ david's getting too close, and the anger's getting too sharp to resist. his hands curl into fists without him even realizing it. he's angry about - everything. every second of every day, now. it's not just about the tab and some part of him knows that, but that in and of itself is something to hold onto, to use as an excuse to not think. ]

You wouldn't have done it if you didn't want to. Not even to make me look bad.

[ notably, evan didn't argue. or resist. or do anything other than let him. and not even in a smug or superior way, he just - let him, like he wanted it for a reason, too. facts he's ignoring right now, as usual. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-14 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ unsurprisingly, that's what sets him off.

it is and isn't true, but it's true enough that he can't handle it. maybe if he was more hung over he'd have less energy to back up the rage but he sobered up quick last night and didn't drink enough to keep himself going afterward.

as close as they are, he can't really lunge. he just snatches, tries to grab david by the front of his shirt, tries to lay down as many punches as he can before this fight erupts for real. he knows that even hung over david's a hell of a brawler. there's a reason people other than evan don't try to fight him on the regular.

of course, evan has his own reasons for fighting him even when he shouldn't. they've come to blows in situations like this before plenty of times. just ... never in quite the same way, some part of him realizes. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-15 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's nothing new to him about getting his ass kicked by david. almost immediately he's seeing retaliation and where before it would make him madder, make him throw himself into the fight more with a sort of frantic energy some people might have confused for something like joy, this time he just gets frustrated. like he didn't want david to actually fight back despite knowing that was absolutely the only choice here.

he struggles in the grip, claws and twists at whatever he can reach, jerks his whole body to get out of the grab. gets as many hits in of his own as he can, aiming for david's kidneys. anything that'll hurt.

including the bone, one punch landing not entirely intentionally on his hip, which just about breaks one of evan's fingers. but he's not exactly thinking straight right now. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-16 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ evan stumbles back when david shoves him, feeling pain radiate through his hand and up his arm, and then david's on him again.

it keeps him moving backward, on the defensive, until he hits one of the walls - old and disintegrating as it is, he nearly goes through it when he hits it. he can feel it giving way behind him and tries to duck or at least dodge one of david's punches. so that his fist gets stuck in the wall, or at least takes some damage as the drywall gives way.

all he can do is try to keep up right now. avoid the worst of the blows and land a few of his own. uppercuts. hits to the gut, the ribs, anywhere that'll wind david or keep him off. evan hates having his back to the wall. hates it.

like this, anyway. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-16 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ david's fist getting stuck in the wall should be what evan needs to take charge of this. as soon as he hears it he's landing more punches, another what he hopes is a devastating hit to the kidney, but david's twisting and then he's shoving evan back against that deteriorating wall hard.

he can feel everything starting to give way behind him again, but this time not on his terms. now he's being pushed into the wall deliberately. david's got the same idea he does and he's turning it around.

evan tries to punch at david's trapped arm, hurt his elbow bad enough to force him to back off to try and free his hand, but the wall's already starting to crumble. he can feel the remains of piss-poor drywall starting to shred even through his coat. as he fights back, the whole thing collapses just like it did the last time they were here, and he pitches back onto the floor into the next room over. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-16 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he falls heavily, but having the wall crumble slowly like that means he was at least slightly braced for it. still, it knocks the wind out of him, hurts his arms when he uses those to try and cushion the blow. he'll have bruises up the back of his arms to his shoulders if he's unlucky.

evan tries to brace himself for david's almost guaranteed immediate attack, but it doesn't come. he has a few seconds to catch his breath. stabilize himself. when he finally shoves himself up on his elbows david's next to him. trying to recover almost as much. ]


You can't be done already. I've seen you fight harder in worse condition.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2025-02-17 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Tired?

[ evan's tired too, burned out, exhausted, beat up - but he wouldn't say it out loud. he stares at david incredulously, waiting for him to get up and start this shit again, but he doesn't. he just stays down.

he doesn't explain himself, either, and evan has an idea of why. it makes him angry to think about. he's tempted to just get up and walk away, snarl something insulting or dismissive on the way out, but that'll just keep this shit going.

why can't they just keep fighting? make things simple again? oh, yes. because of who they are. ]


Stupid fuckin' place to sleep.

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