onefellswoop: it won't be long (watching your every move)
darius scarlett ([personal profile] onefellswoop) wrote in [community profile] kingdomsofrain2024-01-24 08:25 pm

texts texts texts

this one is for texts!
honeystuff: (an beautiful puppy)

[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-13 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll have to give it some serious thought - and brush up on my Latin. If you're the only one, you're technically "endangered", and an endangered species deserves it own binomial nomenclature.

Until I figure something out for you, I think "Highlander", "Sweetheart", and "my love" work very well, don't you?

[...]

You still want pups?

I guess if we had (more?) pups, they wouldn't be Dark Ones, exactly. Depending on how we went about it. If we went about it, I mean.

Seems to me we've got a lot to work through before we even think about bringing kids into


[...]

It's strange, isn't it? Going from dating for a few months - practically living together after our first date - to screwing around for a few months, to thinking maybe we've been together for decades and also knowing we were pretty antagonistic for a while, too. Every time we've built something even a little, something happens to knock it all back down.

This conversation's making me realize I don't really know anything about you. The real you, or the whole you. And you can't get to know who I was - the whole me - because I can't remember.

And I don't know how much of the past six months we get to keep, you know?

Like the conversation about children.

And whether you want me to keep being how I was for you, with that contract, or if we go back to how it was before. Or if we figure out how to be both ways together. And what happens if we remember who we were together in the forest and it's not like any of that?

And [...] whether you still would want to marry me if I asked.

And where we live. How we keep up the pretense that you don't remember anything. What we do about Regina.

[...]

We've got a lot of things to figure out together.

At least we're together, though. Right?
honeystuff: i'm just a man (i'm only flesh and bone)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-16 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know whether you were my husband, but I trust you if you say I was. The wolf in me wouldn't have asked for it; a mate is so much more, you know. Partner, lover, parent to our pups, hunter, protector. 'Husband' is for humans, I'd have thought.

But maybe you would've wanted it, because while you're not human, you're also not inhuman [...] and I know I'd have done anything to make you happy. Anything you asked.

[...]

I'm not inhuman, either. Even then, I wasn't quite or wasn't just a wolf. And I've been living as a human for years now. I understand a little better the beauty of being able to call you 'husband'.

I know how badly I wanted it both times around.

That's all a conversation for another day, of course. Maybe after you secure an annulment? Regina owes you. Or she owes me. I don't see her fighting it, in any case.

[...]

Did I tell you I went to see her? Aside from saying she thinks you don't remember anything, I mean. I paid her a visit and made her tell me everything.

She didn't appreciate my methods, but I don't appreciate being cursed, so I'd call us square.
honeystuff: and he's bringing me a surprise (Daddy works a long day)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-16 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Tonight - that sounds perfect. It's been a long time since either one of us has felt real peace - even before she came along. Now I know what I am, why things feel the way they do - and now you don't have to hide anything from me. To be able to be ourselves, or as much ourselves as this place will allow, would be peaceful.

Let's go to the cabin. That's the one place that's felt like it's just ours, right?

I'll get us some takeaway from that Italian place if you bring the whiskey.

And grab my blanket from our bedroom, please? It gets to live in the cabin from now on, not in the house getting all the remnant Lacey taint all over it.

[...]

She took the tablecloth, by the way. Hope she thinks to dry-clean it. 😇
honeystuff: gun in my hand (whistled for a stranger)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-16 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Several minutes pass in silence while Jack first stares at the texts, then rushes into the house to find Corbin. Corbin who, as suspected, still has the ring that he once gave Jack, then seemed to take again into safekeeping.

Corbin, who has, as it turns out, both rings.

Jack laughingly calls him 'quite the magpie', all the while feeling something in his chest like pride of the paternal sort.

He takes a moment to photograph the unusual rings, then sends this image to Desmond. ]


Look familiar?

Corbin gave me one of them when I decided to propose.

Maybe I should have asked that night, Regina be damned. Maybe if you'd seen the ring, things would've turned out differently.

Or maybe you'd have thought they were yours and hers. With all the mind games they played, I would've thought the same.

But it's all right.

Gold and red toned, just like you said. That's more proof, isn't it? Can't do anything but believe you.

Can't do anything but ask you to be my husband again - soon! - and make sure it sticks this time.
honeystuff: (an beautiful puppy)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-16 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't do anything to Regina except give her a bit of business. A little scare, you know?

I went in armed, yanked the cord out of the phone, and made her sit down and tell me what the fuck is happening in this town. I think it shocked her more that I knew who she was and what she could do, but the gun helped.

When I was walking out, that's when she asked me who I am. She should know who I am, right? Isn't that part of the curse? She knows who we are and she assigns us these identities. So if that's true, how'd I slip through the cracks?

How did Lacey?

Flaws like that are why whole systems fail. Jurassic Park, the Matrix, firewalls. You can't have unknown elements running around causing chaos.

But that makes me ask another question: if I'm an aberration in the curse's effects, am I a bug or a feature?

...And how many others here are like me?
honeystuff: (an beautiful puppy)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-17 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'll need to do a little digging. You shouldn't do anything to draw attention. As far as Regina's concerned, you go through whatever mental reset everyone else does every morning. Outside the cabin or the shop or the farm, you have to do whatever loop you want to set up for us, at least for a little while.

I told her she had to leave us alone - steer totally clear of us - and that she had to let me have you. In exchange, I'd make sure you didn't "wake up". She agreed to that. We made a deal.

Bought me and you some time to figure out what the hell is going on here.

(Bought you for me, too, and believe me, I mean to get my money's worth. >;3 )

I'll do whatever investigating you tell me to do, Daddy.

But. Behind closed doors, we can be the creature and the wolf. Outside, we're Desmond and Jack Gold. You're a loan shark and an antiques dealer and a lawyer, and I'm the gold-digging stripper that usurped your dull wife's cozy little setup.

[...]

Actually, about that.
honeystuff: i'm just a man (i'm only flesh and bone)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-17 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Graham was asking me all kinds of weird questions the other day, before you got to the house.

Stuff that didn't really settle into place with what was going on.

Yesterday, he sat next to me at the diner and asked if I've ever considered law enforcement. Casual as you please.

I don't know if it was his idea or Regina's, but she mentioned something similar when I [...] "spoke" with her. Said I'd have to keep my clothes on, though.

[...]

You do get a little erratic and I love you for your eccentricities as much as for every other wild part of you. Annnnnd - It wouldn't hurt to have me somewhere like the station, where I can run some interference. Just in case.

I'll do anything to keep you safe, my Love. I'll always protect you. All the pieces of you, inside and out.
honeystuff: i'm coming back again (bodies in my wake)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-21 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure. It has some clear benefits: keeping Regina on our side, keeping you out of trouble, being a "respectable" form of employment.

But I like what I do. I like it more knowing you're around sometimes to see, and that I get to come home to you. I like that I know what I am - we know what I am - and they don't.

It'll get old eventually, but right now it's thrilling.

So is driving around being your right-hand man. I love doing that. Bet it'll be even more fun now I know who these people really are.

The thing is, I could probably just put Graham off for a few years and he wouldn't notice any time going by, right? No real rush at all.

Yeah, I want a few years of you and me against the world. We spent enough time being you and me against each other.
honeystuff: and he's bringing me a surprise (Daddy works a long day)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-21 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell me more about this routine with its many, many Puppy encounters. I might be interested in the Premium Gold Package.

Seeing as technically, I still work for you when I'm not helping out here or showing off what the good curse gave me? That seems like a lot of special attention.

[...]

Hey, speaking of this...body.

I have an [...] other-skin. Not the wolf, but not quite a man. I don't [...] remember exactly how it looks or feels, but I don't think this is it.

It's just [...]

It's like someone took my shoes and copied them, but made them a half inch too small, you know? It feels off.

I thought I was just crazy before, but now I've got a little better awareness here, that's what it is: my body's literally wrong.

...Until you touch me, anyway. When you touch me, nothing feels wrong anymore. I think I chose my other-skin for you? Is that possible? I can't remember

I feel perfect with you, Desmond.
honeystuff: and he's bringing me a surprise (Daddy works a long day)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-22 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm very interested in the VIP experience and would like to inquire about the backstage encounter opportunities, as a matter of fact. ;)
honeystuff: the night's still good (never minding what we do)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-22 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

Joking aside, I [...]

I didn't realize how much it

I miss being kissed like that.

It's not your fault and I don't want you to be sorry; just let me say it.

I miss being kissed - You know. Without worrying who'll see. Without feeling like what we're doing is wrong. I mean, the past few months, I couldn't remember all the times someone's shoved me away or told me not to speak to them in public, and the allure of sneaking around was there with you. I had fun, being your secret. It was novel enough to be fun.

But [...] I remember now. I remember what I asked you the first time we spoke, and how much it meant to me to be called your pride. I remember how afraid I was that you'd turn out to be like all the others.

I was blissful, you know. Free and happy with you.

She put you in a position to take that away

She did this to us


[...]

Too many others.

Someone did that to us, too, and


[...]

So I'm going to need to ask for those Premium VIP perks as often as possible. Shop and Null Set and every goddamn street corner.

If we have to live here, I want the life we had for three perfect months.
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honeystuff: 'cause I want more, oh give me more (this will never end)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-22 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I really do miss your scales, you know. And your eyes. I miss how beautiful you were. Unearthly.

[...]

But also, I love this form, too. There's a lot to be said for the current presentation you have going on. Perfect blue eyes, perfect [...] other qualities. ;)

You're doing better with the human male form at "fifty" than most guys are at twenty-five or thirty.

[...]

I have, unfortunately, become an expert on that subject.

[...]

I guess hunting them all is out of the question for a while, huh?

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