Strigoi
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May 27, 2015 21:15:45 GMT -5
Post by corbett on May 27, 2015 21:15:45 GMT -5
Fingers dig into soft flesh, holding still the struggling figure wrapped in his arms. Teeth sink in, draw blood. He gulps it down like water, like he hasn't drank for days and the summer sun has brought thirst to new meanings.
An explosion. Light flashes in tones of red and orange. His eyes reflect the light, and the face of his attackers. The body drops.
Energy collects in his hands. He throws it. Like a soft ball, it carries on the wind and lands. Explosions. The noise is deafening. He retreats, leaping over bodies piled in the streets. Victims. Drained of blood, yet he still thirsts. He's being followed. Gunshots ring in his ears.
At some point he's lost his cloak. He turns now to face his pursuer, eyes bleary, limbs tired.
wilmer cook
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May 27, 2015 22:11:40 GMT -5
Post by wilmer cook on May 27, 2015 22:11:40 GMT -5
the inferno slams dead center into the task force, throws the group into chaotic confusion. he's the first to recover, a hastily formed shield negating the worst of the blast. from the corner of his eye he watches the target slip away—there's no time to make a decision.
he wobbles to his feet, ignoring the ringing in his ears, and follows. the djinni in his service speeds ahead in the guise of an almost-vulture, neck abnormally long like stretched putty.
the target'll be trapped, wilmer's confident. the strigoi slows to a dragging limp, low on stamina and magic. for all the casualties of the night, he's confident they haven't failed yet. he won't.
he has his gun cocked, aimed; his djinni hovering by, when the rogue turns. for the first time wilmer sees his face in entirety. recognition is instantaneous, uncomprehending. he flinches back, nearly drops his weapon.
wilmer looks again, and certainty slots into place like a cog. "corbett. you're—" he doesn't finish it, though he knows it to be true.
corbett absolute shit i've lost it
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Strigoi
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May 27, 2015 22:58:19 GMT -5
Post by corbett on May 27, 2015 22:58:19 GMT -5
down the barrel of a gun he's staring. silver bullets likely fill the chambers. enchanted too, with demons. no surprise there. his last stand, do or die.
something happens, unexpected. he's frozen, staring in confusion. blood runs cold in his veins. corbett. no one has said that name in years, not even her. she never called him by his name. did she even know it? (she's dead, doesn't matter.)
"...maddie?" horror seizes him, grips his heart and squeezes. "no. no. don't look at me. go away." amadeus couldn't be here. no, this wasn't real. a lie. all magicians do is lie. "you're not real. you're not here."
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May 28, 2015 18:01:20 GMT -5
Post by wilmer cook on May 28, 2015 18:01:20 GMT -5
maddie. the long-shelved, dusty nickname ices his bones and snaps him back, out of a wondering daze. he rips his gaze away from corbett, to the demon who's closer now, interested by the turn of events, listening. they have an audience. a slip of the tongue would be fatal.
"zaon." he commands the vulture. "return to the group and tally survivors. report the threat has been eliminated. you're dismissed after that."
the flap of imitated feathers, and they're alone. wilmer's never hesitant—but he steps closer slowly, approaches like the other's a wounded animal. his voice softens, quiet like the wan light the street lamps throw from above.
"i'm real, corbett. i'm here." the gun lowers. he makes himself vulnerable.
corbett
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May 28, 2015 23:52:55 GMT -5
Post by corbett on May 28, 2015 23:52:55 GMT -5
some rational strain of thought asserts itself, brings him round to shaky reason. maddie, three years his elder, stood before him with a spirit at his shoulder. he held the gun. oh god (if even there was a god), why was he here? why was this happening?
wings flap, carrying away the snooping spirit. alone, just he and maddie. the gun, aim still trained his way, holds him in silent horror until it’s lowered for some incomprehensible reason. he watches it, imagines he can feel the silver bullet in the barrel pierce him. the imagery so real he, for a second, believes he was shot until the voice registered, and maddie’s progress, slow and hesitant.
“are you here to kill me?” he spares a glance at blood stained clothes, remembers the metallic tang still enticing on his tongue. fresh spilt blood, charred flesh, the scents are suffocating.
his hands tremble. the thirst is a quiet voice in his ear.
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May 29, 2015 21:14:08 GMT -5
Post by wilmer cook on May 29, 2015 21:14:08 GMT -5
he stops, abruptly, one pace away—in the back of his mind it registers fully that corbett is no longer human, no longer defenseless like the boy whose hand he once held. he's put himself in danger, even this close, but all wilmer thinks is that the boy's grown.
"i was. but i won't now," he says.
he notices pale hands quaver and wants to hold them as before, but doesn't move.
corbett
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May 29, 2015 22:41:45 GMT -5
Post by corbett on May 29, 2015 22:41:45 GMT -5
the gun’s a magnet attracting his attention. he lingers on it, unable to overlook it. it draws closer with every step maddie takes, shining, deadly. so easy it’d be to knock it from his hand, to crush it under his feet or kick it away. corbett won’t do it.
“you haven’t changed at all.” a quiver in his voice, the gleam of starlight in his eyes, hint tears. he presses his shaking hands to his face. wet palms, shed tears dribbling down his arms. a breath exhaled put back in check his rampant emotions. “i had hoped to see you again.” a dry laugh tears from his lip. “you never came to visit. you promised.”
he reaches for the gun.
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May 30, 2015 17:39:28 GMT -5
Post by wilmer cook on May 30, 2015 17:39:28 GMT -5
"that's..." his voice is raspy, throat dry. corbett had cried the day wilmer left the orphanage, taken away in a lacquered black car. he hadn't known how to comfort the blond then. now, he still doesn't. pressure mounts in his chest, like fluid filling, pushes against his rib cage.
he tucks the artifact back in its holster, barrel down, before corbett reaches it. the very attempt sets him on edge, but wilmer blinks and doesn't let it show. his fingers brush the other's outstretched wrist, once, gently.
"i tried to. i wasn't allowed," he swallows. something rips down the seam of his sternum. it's guilt, wilmer realizes. that he'd stopped asking, stopped insisting, after months of refusals. that he'd lost hope. "i'm sorry, corbett."
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May 30, 2015 22:09:32 GMT -5
Post by corbett on May 30, 2015 22:09:32 GMT -5
in its holster the gleaming firearm went. gone away from the thin hand, present still on his hip. an urge to grab sustains, pleads before it’s death. he remembers watching maddie driven away. he was five, too young to understand why.
“are you?”
his stretched hand frozen still in reach for the gun grips now the wrist of the hand brushing his skin. arms coil like snakes round wilmer, constricting, unrelenting.
a whisper sounds inches from the ear; “you’re afraid of me. do you think i’m a monster?”
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Jun 1, 2015 20:03:53 GMT -5
Post by wilmer cook on Jun 1, 2015 20:03:53 GMT -5
he's trapped before he can react, in an embrace too tight, too painful to be comforting. someone's shaking; he can't tell who. he doesn't deny the visceral, primal fear that runs down his bones and electrifies his skin, kickstarting his heart into a wild, rapid thump. his body's poised for a fight, but wilmer believes adamantly, stupidly that corbett wouldn't hurt him.
he shivers despite himself at the strigoi's ghosting breath.
"you're not a—monster." wilmer tries for a small smile, in hopes that the soothing gesture leaks into his voice. "it…doesn't matter. you're just corbett." there's nothing surer. he'll say his name like a mantra, as many times as it'll take for the other to understand.
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Post by corbett on Jun 2, 2015 22:36:23 GMT -5
incense, smoky, sharp, soaked his clothes and lightly scented his skin, which smelt faintly of citrus. and beneath that, the subtle sweetness of the blood pumping through his veins. he could hear it—lub dub, lub dub—moving from the heart, through valves and the arteries and veins, an hypnotizing sound. his own heart throbbed against his sternum, erratic.
“liar.” voice slurred, laugh humorless, brittle. “you’re even lying to yourself.”
it slipped his brain, liquescent in his skull, the motive behind the impulsive embrace. what was it? tears dried on his cheeks and spilled anew. too tired he was for thirst, even for holding keeping on his feet. wilmer, the solidity of his shorter frame, was all that kept him standing.
“what are you going to do?”
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Jun 5, 2015 19:10:45 GMT -5
Post by wilmer cook on Jun 5, 2015 19:10:45 GMT -5
he can pinpoint the moment corbett gives into exhaustion, relaxing his grip and falling into him. he staggers back a step with the other's weight, then re-centers their joined mass and breathes. the ground is still shaky, but at least they've found stable footing.
"i'm not. it's alright." his heartbeat slows to a calmer pace, but his chest still hurts and heaves. corbett, wilmer notices, is still crying, silently.
he raises a hand to wipe at the tears. "i'm taking you home—my house. you need rest," wilmer says like the matter's settled.
corbett
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