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From:

tothosewhobait

[Doesn't even look up from his paperwork at first]

I suggest you take it easy on the lounge or I'm making you handle replacing whatever you damage.

[Sets his pen aside, pushing back from the desk and finally looking up at Envy]

Now. Who were you attempting to call when it did that?

From:

infinitecruelty

[He does not seem too concerned about your decor unfortunately. He stomps on over to the desk, rattling the books and baubles on their various surfaces.]

Velvet! She hasn't answered her phone all day, and she wouldn't come to the door! I tried to break in but it wouldn't budge. I don't know what the hell her deal is, but it's starting to piss me off!

[It's a casual thing, to attempt to break in to your bestie's room when she's not answering you. Definitely not something he's so concerned about that he'd go straight to breaking shit to quell his worries-- ]

Do you think she's mad at me? Or... [The inevitability has always been there, it's inevitable. They came for her brother like this, too, just whisking him away overnight. But Envy doesn't offer that possibility, for fear that speaking it into the air could make it real.]

Edited Date: 2024-12-31 05:34 am (UTC)

From:

tothosewhobait

I feel that if she were mad at you, she would make sure you know it? At that rate…did you do or say anything that would have upset her?

From:

infinitecruelty

I mean yeah she would, but!! I don't know! We shit talk each other all the time! It's our "love language" or whatever!! [That isn't what that means, but Envy is still learning, okay.

Flopping over the edge of the desk, draping himself across whatever free space is available, turning the biggest, most pathetic pout Azul's way.]

She wouldn't be that mad at me without me knowing. [Sniffle]

From:

tothosewhobait

[Digs out his own phone, dialing Velvet with one hand and reaching out to run his free hand through Envy's hair slowly]

Then I am sure she is not mad at you, at least.

From:

infinitecruelty

[Azul will receive the same automatic message... The number is completely disconnected.]

I mean, she started acting kinda weird after her brother disappeared, but I thought she was getting better. [Closing his eyes and sinking into Azul's touch with a sigh.]

...Maybe she got the offer and took it, too. [But why does the prospect of that... suck? So bad??]

From:

tothosewhobait

....maybe she's just on a trip to check on him? Her phone is disconnected...but that does not answer things for certain. And certainly not in any real detail.

From:

infinitecruelty

[Sniffles again, brows furrowing.]

You can't just "go check" on someone that's gone. He's not here. She got kicked out of his room in Heaven because it wasn't his room anymore, because he's gone.

And now I'm kicked out of her room because she's--!!

[He shakes his head and pushes himself up off the desk, moving to instead perch on the edge, his back turned to Azul so he can wipe his face in peace.]

Ugh. Greed's gonna be so pissed. [Let's think about how this affects other people and not how bad it sucks to lose one of the first people you could actually call a friend!!]

From:

tothosewhobait

[Reaches out to smooth his hand down Envy's back]

....I'm sorry. Truly, I am.

From:

infinitecruelty

...It was bound to happen. None of this is supposed to last.

[Stupid eyes! Stupid weird pain in his chest!! Why did he have to be the crybaby of the family??? This sucks!!!! ]

...I guess it's a good thing. She can be alive again, with her brother. I know she missed him. She missed home. [But she liked it here, too. She liked being able to be herself. Now she's gone back to her world where she has to keep pretending to be something else? That part won't be easy for her... but then again, there's no guarantee she would recall the life she led here at all... And that part hurts more than he'd care to acknowledge. If only his body weren't already doing it for him.

He pushes the heels of his palms against his eyes, hoping that if he cannot will them to cease their persistent weeping, he may be able to force them to stop.]

...What about you. Do you miss home enough to wanna leave? [Be careful, Azul. Right now, there is a right answer and a wrong answer--]

From:

tothosewhobait

[Keeps up the careful passes of his hand, rubbing little circles against the small of Envy's back...thinking to himself quietly for a moment before-]

I won't go anywhere if you're not coming with me.

From:

infinitecruelty

[Azul knows him well enough to respond with the meat of the answer Envy wanted, but his evasion of the question itself does not go unnoticed. Saving that for later, Envy slips off the edge of the desk to move to Azul's lap instead, burying his face in the crook of the mer's neck.]

You better mean that. [It would have been a threat if he didn't sound so tired.] If you left without me, I'd find a way to get there just to kick your ass.

From:

tothosewhobait

I would expect nothing less than a thorough beating.

[Allows Envy onto his lap without any fuss, arms immediately going up to wrap around his waist as he leans in to press a kiss to the skin of Envy's shoulder]

And I do mean it. You are mine and I am yours and that makes us a set now.

From:

infinitecruelty

[Laughs, despite his pitiful sniffling. It still makes him nauseous to think that he's become so dependent on this octojerk, but by now he certainly can't imagine anything else. There's a part of him that wants to be defiant, to say "I'm fine by myself, it's not like I NEED you or anything, baka" but they would both know he'd be lying.]

You're damn right. Stuck with me now.

[He's quiet for a few moments, searching his mind for what he wants to say next, and finally settling on:] Man... Caring about people sucks. Why would someone put themselves through this on purpose? [Obviously not talking about he and Azul, of course, but not quite done processing the fact that his first real friend has left this realm--]

The highs are so high and so good, but the lows, the loss...[Shaking his head.] This is why I don't get attached to people, you know. Like, if you got taken away from me... I'd just raze heaven and hell to the ground. They'd have to make a super-hell and super-heaven just to have somewhere to put all the cherubs I'd roast--

[It's probably hard to take threats of violence coming from a sniveling lizard boy but it's still pretty obvious that he means it.]

From:

tothosewhobait

[Hums in quiet agreement, idly doodling little patterns against Envy's back with the tip of his finger]

That was no small part of my overblot... You can only control others so much. Caring is the riskiest investment of them all for that reason. The return is high, but so is the risk... You could lose it all at any moment for any number of reasons and there would be little to nothing you could do about it.

[The corner of his mouth quirks up slightly despite the somber nature of the conversation]

I must admit. I would love to see what you would do....but not enough to leave. I'll have to settle for my imagination.

From:

infinitecruelty

Well, yeah. If you left, you wouldn't be around to see it.

[He hums a curious note, leaning back a bit to look Azul in the eye again.]

What's your "overblot"? [Blinks. All the chatting they've done over all these months and he hasn't heard that word before.]

From:

tothosewhobait

[His hand immediately stills for a brief moment before continuing the little backrub, glancing down to watch his hand slide over Envy’s back in a bid to seem more nonchalant than he actually feels about this topic]

That’s a rather long story. Are you sure you want to hear about it today?