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[never_very_good]

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[ooc; for reference, old contact post is archived here.]

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[never_very_good]

Gonna get a shit reputation if I throw people out whenever I feel like it.

[But he's not actually saying no. It's not fair, the things she does to him. Fuck, he's grateful.]

[eiremagic]

Who gives a shit? It's three pm and it's a vampire bar.

[She tugs his hands. Come on.]

[never_very_good]

[He makes an odd, amused little noise that isn't quite a laugh. Eden, if you ever use your powers for evil... well, it won't affect much, but the Raven regulars will hate you.]

Wait here.

[It's a feat of willpower that lets him head back out to the floor to politely kick the handful of stragglers out.]

[eiremagic]

[She waits, and when he comes back, she reaches for his hand.]

[never_very_good]

Lucky I don't do this to you.

[eiremagic]

Why, do you think I would kick up a fuss?

[never_very_good]

Think it'd cause more trouble if you took off early, that's all.

[eiremagic]

Well, I don't have a boss.

[never_very_good]

Only reason I get away with this.

[He leans in to kiss her.]

[eiremagic]

Come on, when was the last time I took you home early for sex on the kitchen counter?

[never_very_good]

Never often enough.

[But he tugs idly at the hem of her shirt. His shirt, rather. The kitchen is really far away, just saying.]

[eiremagic]

Should I do it more?

Don't know how much longer we'll have.

[never_very_good]

[He tries not to falter at that, but.]

Never have known.

[eiremagic]

No, I think-

[She pauses.]

Nevermind.

[never_very_good]

[He freezes.]

You think what?

[eiremagic]

Something's going to happen, Frankie.

Something big.

[never_very_good]

[He doesn't ask how she knows, or what it means, or anything like that. He just frowns, taking her hands in his and looking at them, his brow furrowed slightly.]

[eiremagic]

Fuck.

[never_very_good]

Don't tell me how long.

[eiremagic]

I don't know how long.

[never_very_good]

Doesn't matter.

[Still not long enough. Still longer than he deserves. His grip tightens a little, reflexively, as if he can keep them together in the face of... Well, of nothing, since it's not yet. He's always known he was on borrowed time.]

[eiremagic]

Frankie, Frankie-

You're the best thing in me life, you know that?

[And she kisses him, on the mouth, on the cheek]

The best thing I've ever had.

[never_very_good]

[He kisses her, and he barely pulls away after, huffing a little almost-laugh against her cheek. Not that it's funny, it's just incredible. Impossible that anyone should feel like that about him. Least of all that Eden should.]

I never deserved anything as good as you.

[eiremagic]

[She doesn't let him go far.]

Frankie, you have to stop thinking like that.

[never_very_good]

It's all right. Just how it is.

[There's a twitch at the corner of his mouth as he looks for words.]

You make me better than I could've been. You're everything, half the time it's like you don't even know it, but you are.