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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-19 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[The man undresses in front of him. There's no coy look from Lovecraft. He just works on himself - and there's no precision here, no grace, no organization. He simply sloughs off his clothes like they're another skin.]

[Lovecraft does....not have a lot of meat on his bones. Slender, with angular elbows and knees and shoulders, and of course, long dark knee-length hair that covers this pale body like a shroud.]


I do not demand. People demand of me....a lot.

[He mutters before gesturing to the shower.]

Let us...go inside.
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-20 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't help but think about John. This man before him is no farm worker. His hands are clean, not worn. But still, the heft, the build, reminds him of that viciously sunny man, somehow.]

[It was nice having John around. He made things easier for him. Now, he's on his own.]

[The man stares. Lovecraft, with dark eyes, stares back - should he say something? - but then he moves, and steps inside.]

[Lovecraft follows. The water hits him and his dark hair, and he seems like he belongs here. Water's always been his element.]


Go here. Go there. Pick that up. Subdue that person. Do the...dirty work, as someone I know has said. Nonstop. No rest.

[Over and over and over again.]

[He's reaching for the shampoo bottle.]


And I have no choice. Really.
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-20 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
[If anything, Lovecraft is patient. Maybe not sincerely so, given that it seems to be more of a side effect of his slothfulness, but moving at a fast pace for anything has never been his style. The man comes to, and Lovecraft lets out a sigh.]

Everyone I work for.

[...There's something about it that itches under the skin. He doesn't know why. Something about it like an alarm bell. Why?]

I have worked for many, and every time...I am bound to heed the contract. How miserable.
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I...can't.

[He can't. He...doesn't know why he can't. He just knows he can't. It's impossible. He has to. He's bound. He's tied.]

[The offer, however, breaks him out of his dreary mental frustration, eyes widening - like this, he looks younger, surprisingly - and stares at the other man for a moment. Buy him...out of his contract? But that's another form of work.]

[And....]

[The main question is, here...]


Why?

[Why would he make an offer like that?]

You don't...even know my skills?
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
.....

[This feels so sudden - for a slothful man like he is, shuffling onto Bethlehem and other cities he's sent to, this is too much. Out of the frying pan, into the...shower? With a vivid man, who now reminds him of Fitzgerald. A forceful leader, but Fitzgerald was wrapped up in his own selfish wants.]

[What does this man want?]

[He reaches forward, almost unconsciously, grasping onto his wrist lightly.]


What would you have me do?
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He is guided - he naturally tenses, not used to being touched. Hypocrite that he is, touching and not expecting it in return.]

[He gets the idea. He must show his work. He has never done this before. But curiousity wins over exhaustion. His hands take the soap to start rubbing over the man's shoulders.]

[He seems golden, somehow.]


You are told, but you don't know?
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Never known...

[How sad. Maybe it isn't sad. Maybe that's how people are. Does really anyone know who they are? He had a discussion with someone here about nature, nurture. These are things he doesn't think about much - the world is already something exhausting, why add to it with useless discussions on what people may or may not be?]

[But others, they are weighed down by that question.]

[He thinks it must have been a solid weight to bear for John.]

[He tilts his head, voice a low murmur, going down over his chest.]


Who do you think...you are?
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he's in the right company. Lovecraft doesn't pause, doesn't judge. His hand doesn't move from his chest, stilling there, even as he meets that gaze with the dark purple of his own.]

Do you not wish to be?

[John struggled with that day in and day out. Humanity eroded over time for the sake of putting food on his family's plate.]

[People, Lovecraft finds, break themselves a lot over things like that.]
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Again, not used to touches, he freezes in place, holds his breath. Always, under his dour nature, lays true anxiety. The world has always seemed so overwhelming. People, even more so.]

[But the touch isn't rough, or painful, and he lets the tension ease even as his pupils seem to grow a little wider.]


Why...in my case? You don't know me.

[As if a stranger could simply understand. As if a....he lost his train of thought, suddenly, like he tripped. He doesn't know why. Breathing out through his nose, he slides the cloth over what was washed, the corners of it tickling over his skin.]

Shouldn't you free...yourself...?
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
[A gut feeling. Intuition. People like this man speak on it like it's that powerful. Outside of this space, he would simply set it aside, scoff at it. As if it meant anything.]

[But here, they're close. Too close. It makes the itching under his skin more potent, like he could simply rip it off to reveal...what? Its been plaguing him ever since he came here. Something he should know, but he can't as much as he can try. He wants to say it. Warn him. But warn him of what?]

[If it was something bad, would it matter? Would this man even care, relying on his intuition?]


Didn't answer...my question.

[He says, muttering, but he knows already its a fool's errand. This man wants him by his side. Sees something in him. Potential, possibility. Maybe he would use him as a tool just like the others.]

[But it is tempting to hear. Respect for what he wants. He wouldn't want to work all the time, and as much as this sounds like another cage, it feels bigger, freer than before.]

[He turns his head, nose brushing against the other- his hand still, cloth pressed over where the man's heart is. He almost feels he can hear it beating so restless in his chest.]


If I do...will you continue to give me more? Offer me...more?

[He is greedy. Offerings need to be made to keep him satisfied.]
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lofty promises. Again, he doesn't know this man. He doesn't even know his name, though perhaps if he spent a minute actually looking at the graves, he would. People move like shadows throughout life, save for a few shining instances that would burn into the back of his mind and not quite let go. John was one. Fitzgerald, though he disliked him, was another.]

[Is this man one of such instances? He's so sure. He's so ready to rise to the occasion. He could have nothing. This could be a bluff. Words, words, words. He's never liked people. They always have their own paltry desires.]

[Lovecraft heaves out a low, rumbling sigh.]

[An offering is an offering. In the end...tribute. Yes, tribute is tribute.. What a fitting word.]


Very well. [He will take the risk, because in the end, he is a man guided by simple, endless wants. Hunger, thirst, sleep. He will take all of this, and more.] I will trust you. But do not...make me...regret it.
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[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2025-08-21 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Admittedly, he is surprised by the sudden lips on his. He's never been one to think about such things as being in the realm of possibility in any sort of context, and his ability to read other's intentions in this regard is pathetic at best. He tenses, uncertain, but Nishi seems to have realized something. Lovecraft, as stubborn as he is, bends to active guidance. Such is the weakness of his passivity.]

[It continues. Not simply one, but many, as if to steal the breath out of him. Nishi is taking...or is he giving? No, he must be giving this to him, too. He said as much, didn't he? He would give him all he wants, and more. He didn't think he wanted this...does he want this, too? It seems like a fuzzy thing - warmth from hands through his hair, heat between their bodies, cold from the water, all boiling together into one overwhelming mess of sensation.]

[He's relaxing into it, though - Lovecraft drops the soap and cloth as to grasp at the other's body like an anchor. Nishi's heart pounds in his ear. How fretfully alive. He, who walks like a dead man, can't help but be a little obsessed.]

[Lovecraft ekes out a little noise, a half-groan, as his slender fingers press over the other's spine.]

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