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Jun 25, 2015 23:58:20 GMT -5
Post by corbett on Jun 25, 2015 23:58:20 GMT -5
the afternoon glow is a hazy red glow on the back of his eyelids, warm but too bright for his sensitive eyes—relentless. curtains wilmer left parted over the livingroom windows lets in the sun. he curses them for being so far away. how simple it’d be to get up with a hand shading his eyes, and yet how equally difficult for he is comfortable and lazy in his fullness. so content he is in his place on the couch with the fluffy blanked full of wilmer’s scent wrapped around him. the rare lazy afternoon for him, who is so accustomed to roaming when wilmer isn’t around to occupy him.
a hinge creaks on the front door, footsteps pound in his ears. wilmer is home early, he must be.
“wilmer, you’re home early. can you please close the curtains? the sun’s in my eyes.” he stretches listlessly, covering his eyes briefly.
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Jun 26, 2015 0:15:17 GMT -5
Post by marlin faye on Jun 26, 2015 0:15:17 GMT -5
It's like a dream that he has such casual access to an amazing and prominent magician's house. And on top of that he even gets to converse with him and ask for his advice, Marlin's grip on his books and notes tighten in his excitement. He's been working on new ways to adjust his contract, to fix it so Nasnan listens to what he says, and while this time had failed too now he has the chance to ask an outside source how he can better it! (His mentor is also an option, but... he's not quite ready to showcase how little control he still has over his contractee.)
Bursting into Wilmer's home with little consideration, over eager and naive, the magician excitedly looks around ready to ask if the man in question is home when a voice beats him to it.
A voice he's certain he knows. His adrenaline dropping instantly, Marlin takes his next steps cautiously before the head of blond hair that can't be anyone else appears before him.
He drops everything.
"Cor?"
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Jun 26, 2015 0:33:01 GMT -5
Post by corbett on Jun 26, 2015 0:33:01 GMT -5
so careless of him to lounge on the couch when he was meant to hide. hadn’t that been asked of him by wilmer? a danger corbett is to him, a liability, and yet he’s forgotten. how easy it is when he’s snuck out each time wilmer’s gone away, even that is a threat to wilmer’s standings.
what need is there to hide when he’s not even there to be found?
slow steps draw ever closer, yet no voice sounds in reply. he struggles with the light beating ceaseless in his eyes, but relents to merely covering them with the crook of his arm, no use. unsated is the curiosity at the silence of who he assumes is wilmer. that assumption dies quickly when so familiar a voice speaks his name after a clattering of things to the floor (probably books and paper, it sounds like).
with a start he sits up. an arm is thrown up to protect his eyes from the light until they adjust enough to make out the familiar features materializing in his bleary vision. his heart throbbing so rapidly in his chest ceases all activity once realization sets in.
“arty?” his voice is choked in his through so much the name sounds warped to his own hearing. “why are you here?”
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Jun 26, 2015 0:49:50 GMT -5
Post by marlin faye on Jun 26, 2015 0:49:50 GMT -5
When something unimaginable happens, Marlin thinks it's natural to doubt reality. Which is exactly what he does, in that illogical corner of his mind, before his old name is spoken to crush any uncertainty he ever had. The memories rush back in an instant, all replaying in the span of a few seconds it feels. The careful assistance, the affectionate head pats, the comforting presence reading over his shoulder at his incantations and studies, it's like a childhood so far away has rushed back to meet him.
And in a way, it has. He hasn't seen Corbett since he was... well, even before he'd become an apprentice. His studies had eventually consumed him, as well as his Djinn, but that doesn't mean he hadn't also been confused and lonely. He'd looked forward to the familiar face he was sure he'd see with "graduation" only to find that there was none.
"Why am I here...?" he repeats numbly. Then he's rushing forward and he's taking fistfuls of the other's shirt in his hands. "Why are you here?!" His knuckles whiten as his grip trembles, but with all his emotions hitting him at once he can't decide which to express first. "Where did you even go...?! You never said anything, I... I never knew...!" It's easy to forget, to push things to the back of his mind, when the person isn't sitting in front of him. But clearly, that's just not true anymore.
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Jun 26, 2015 1:36:36 GMT -5
Post by corbett on Jun 26, 2015 1:36:36 GMT -5
horror, cold and sharply piercing like a knife, seeps into every inch of him. fear for wilmer, the consequence of his carelessness. short lived this feeling. arty, little arthur, stands before him in glowing sunlight. he is a magician, most likely. pride swells to push out the horror. such fondness he had for the boy, and the memories they shared. like a little brother he had been, and corbett his ever loving older brother.
the joy to know he was spared from the catacombs is immense yet brief. arty's white knuckled grip is on his color in a blink. he stares, shocked, and listens to him.
misery is in the smile that twist ugly and dull eyed on his face. "i'm sorry arty. i'm so sorry." he lays gently a hand over his straining fingers. "i was sent away. i couldn't become a magician. you've grown so much. are you a magician now? i'm so happy you made it. i'm proud of you."
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Jun 26, 2015 2:44:05 GMT -5
Post by marlin faye on Jun 26, 2015 2:44:05 GMT -5
Marlin doesn't know what kind of answer would have satisfied him. Maybe nothing, because his ideal world had already been shattered when Corbett hadn't been awaiting him. But he can't say the response he gets pleases him.
"You couldn't? But why? You always helped me so you should have..." It doesn't make sense. Regardless of Corbett's talents and his qualifications, Marlin above all simply believes that Corbett should have made it because he wanted him to. But his anger is never as stubborn as his will.
"I am... I'm an apprentice." But that doesn't matter. "But, I've missed you so much!" His anger ebbs until only loneliness is left, enough to draw tears from his eyes that force him to release his brother to press his palms forcefully against his eyes. If only he could be rid of them with force alone.
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Jun 26, 2015 9:09:29 GMT -5
Post by corbett on Jun 26, 2015 9:09:29 GMT -5
such cruelty the turning wheel of fate possessed. to reunite with both wilmer and, to follow shortly after, arty in his current state, and after all he's suffered. he had been livestock but a year before his near-death and relocation to the service of her, that enigmatic strigoi of motherly warmth, thereafter. he knew the fate of no one he called family.
"i don't know." so abruptly he'd been ripped from his bed in dead of night, and tossed cruelly to a world of darkness like nothing even nightmares could craft. "i guess i didn't have the makings for it. they never explained."
tears gloss over expectant eyes. his heart is wrenched with emotions so painful he wishes he could feel nothing. arty didn't know, couldn't know so young what await those not fit to be magicians. he had been so hurt to find corbett missing from his idolized future. little he could do or say for sheer fear the truth would hurt him worse.
lightly, he presses his palm to the younger boy's head. the longish, dark hair disturbed by his comforting touch is soft under hand. fear bleeds into his viens, holds him distant.
"don't cry. i'm here now, and wilmer says i can stay. i won't be going anywhere." a sad little smile collect light in the eyes in a way wholly different. "i'm sorry i wasn't there. i wanted to be more than anything. i'm sorry i met you down. has your master treated you well? what's it been like?"
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Jun 26, 2015 22:15:58 GMT -5
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Post by marlin faye on Jun 26, 2015 22:15:58 GMT -5
"That's stupid," is all he contributes. Marlin still doesn't understand, doesn't want to understand, why Corbett couldn't have been there. Only seventeen he hasn't gotten to accept that the world doesn't run on his ideals, still innocent, naive, and just.
But as the tears flow and his frustration bleeds out with them, the silver lining that Corbett is here now and he won't be going anywhere begins to shine through. The comforting touch of the one he thinks of as a brother is soothing and familiar, Marlin pulls himself together.
"I wouldn't let you," he mumbles childishly. In ten years though, it's a little scary to think how he's not much more able to follow through with such a promise than before. "It's not your fault, they were stupid, or made a mistake..." Anything that isn't pushing the blame on the blond. "My master is... good. I learn a lot, and—"
Oh.
He'd been so caught up in the past, he'd almost forgotten. Arty isn't his name anymore. "I'm Marlin now." Not quite King Arthur, and not wholly Merlin either.
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Jun 27, 2015 20:24:47 GMT -5
Post by corbett on Jun 27, 2015 20:24:47 GMT -5
similar, yet so different from the child who followed lines of text in books corbett read to him. he’s taller, older, and yet still so innocent and full of ideals. the world had been kind to him, yet to taint him. and there was a confidence he never possessed when they’d been just orphans raised with magical tutelage.
could time have frozen in those years so full of happiness, he would have been content. but times never stops, and he stands a bruised and fractured version of himself. so changed from the elder brotherly figure who so many children looked up to as he once did to wilmer. the warmth of those he loved so is healing though painful as well. he can be content in their presence.
“i won’t go anywhere.” not anymore, no matter who tries to tear him from the one he love.
he listens, eyebrow perking when arty stops. the new name, not quite merlin. fitting nonetheless this name he’s undoubtedly chosen for himself. “it’s a good name.”
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Jun 28, 2015 14:38:53 GMT -5
Post by marlin faye on Jun 28, 2015 14:38:53 GMT -5
It's weird. Corbett had kept his name, his old one, the one he would have (should have) discarded when he became an apprentice while Marlin is reintroducing himself. In some ways he's surpassed someone who used to be above him (that he'd looked up to), but the magician isn't quite ready to accept that. And he isn't too sure he believes it to be true either. He's just an apprentice, and while Corbett isn't, Marlin can't really say his accomplishments distinguish him.
"Thanks," he mutters nonetheless. "I wish I could live up to it though." He's calming down, the tears have stopped except for a stray sniffle, and he looks up into his brother's eyes. It's not easy for him to stay somber, it never has been.
"But what about you Cor? How have you been what've you been... doing?"
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Jul 4, 2015 20:51:38 GMT -5
Post by corbett on Jul 4, 2015 20:51:38 GMT -5
cold the grip that seizes his heart, tightens. even the breath he draws in yet caught in his throat. anxiety overflows, scarcely contained. the question so simple and expected is one he knows no answer to. the truth difficult to share.
“i can’t talk about it.” with notable effort, he contains smothering dismay. “i’m not supposed to even be here. so you can’t tell anyone we met.”
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