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Re: Tea with Cake [P]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/25/2015 9:09 PM

Cyril's grip on her hands was steady as he watched her flicker in and out of awareness, his chest constricting slightly to think that something horrible could have happened--worse than what had happened--if he hadn't gotten there when he did. Then again... he'd never seen what happened to Sencha's victims after he'd completely sucked them dry of energy. Did they die? Or just fall asleep? Cyril wasn't actually completely sure. As he felt her grip loosen, he gently laid her hands on the covers and stepped back, his eyes glittering slightly as he leered at thin air, deep in thought. And now, Sencha had his knife. That could certainly be bad...

With a small, short sigh through his nose that sent a dull pain to his ribcage, Cyril moved away from her bed to go towards the bathroom, intending to wash off the worst of the demon blood from his clothes and skin. As for first aid, he'd get that taken care of before she woke up, as well.



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Re: Tea with Cake [P]

Postby Baconwizard » 01/25/2015 10:06 PM

Ava's sleep was deep and dark, dragging her down into strange dreams that she wouldn't be able to remember clearly. Sencha, smiling at her with that sleepy, lazy smile of his, as they sat on the floor of her kitchen eating cake. Sencha, suddenly a monster, blood dripping from his fangs and long, ivory claws. Cyril was there, gasping for breath, a slick hand pressing up against the gashes in his sides. Ava's dream self tried to go to Cyril, to help him somehow, but she couldn't. Sencha had taken all of her energy, and she couldn't move; she had to watch as the giant beast stalked closer to Cyril. Laughter was coming from the creature, but it was human laughter. It sounded so familiar, so dear, but it was wrong, wrong, wrong.  Then Sencha attacked again. Every slash from the demon's claws, every tear made by the demon's razor teeth felt like a spear stabbing in Ava's chest. She needed to wake up; she knew she had to wake up from the spell Sencha had put her under–she had to help Cyril–but her dream self couldn't move. Sencha's eyes stared at her, glittering balefully, absolutely nothing like the sweet friend she thought she knew. The laughter grew louder, drowning out all sound until Ava couldn't even hear herself screaming.

The apartment was dim, all the lights turned off, but the mid-afternoon sun shone through the cracks in the blinds, illuminating the floor like a spotlight. The clock on the wall ticked rhythmically on the wall above Ava's head. It was her old clock, the one designed to look like a color wheel. The sounds of traffic leaked into the quiet of the apartment building. In the rooms beyond, a faucet was running, a deep voice humming softly a tuneless song. Ava couldn't move, couldn't move her eyes away from what she knew was there in front of her. There was blood everywhere. The rug covering the floor was soaked with it. She'd have to clean it up soon. The body couldn't stay in the apartment, and neither could they. Ava turned away, feeling as if she'd vomit, nausea crawling up inside of her. The faucet turned off, and footsteps crew close, the humming growing louder. Ava shut her eyes, not wanting to see him. Even with blood splattering his white shirt, he would still be beautiful. His voice would be rough from use, but it would still hold that kind tone as he knelt down to ask her if she was alright. But all Ava could hear anymore was the laughter, echoing off the walls of the apartment as he straddled the thing that used to be a person and stabbed and stabbed and stabbed and stabbed until it was just the mess left on the middle of the floor in Ava's apartment. Opening her eyes, Ava would nod, give Cyril a weak smile, lie, and say that she was fine.

When Ava woke up, she was crying, and she was alone. Rubbing at her eyes, she tried to recall her dream, confused and extremely groggy. Thoughts came back to her in a slow trickle. Cyril. Sencha. Demons. She fell asleep. Cyril. Ava blinked, looking around her bedroom. The house was quiet. Her heart suddenly leaping in her chest, Ava scrambled to get out of bed, quickly moving into the hallway. Did he leave already? Did he get himself taken care of? His injuries had been so bad... Breathing fast with panic, Ava ran towards the kitchen, hoping–praying–that Cyril would be in there.
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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/27/2015 9:00 PM

Cyril was standing at the sink, the water running on his hands as he hummed softly under his breath, washing the plates and kettle from the tea party Ava had set up earlier. At the sudden approach of fast footsteps, Cyril turned off the faucet and turned to face Ava, his eyes a little wide with alarm at her panicked flight. "Ava, are you alright?" he murmured, setting a plate on the counter and moving towards her, drying his hands on his pants before reaching to gently steady her arms, his hands a bit damp from the hot water. "Ava?" he asked a bit louder, his brows knitting together.



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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby Baconwizard » 01/27/2015 9:47 PM

Ava stopped short when she entered the kitchen, staring at Cyril with wide eyes. Breathing fast, she looked around, leaning against his hands, then made a small sound. "I-I thought––" Ava gasped, reaching out to clutch at Cyril's sleeves. She swallowed with difficulty, realizing that there were still tears in her eyelashes, and she quickly moved her hand up to wipe them away. "Um... Y-your injuries?"
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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/27/2015 10:19 PM

Cyril's expression grew increasingly concerned at Ava's bewildered, wild eyed expression, and he lightly rubbed her arms, frowning softly at the tears in her eyes. He blinked at her words, then smiled, releasing one arm to tug his collar to the side slightly, to show a few bandages wrapped over his shoulder, nodding his head. "I took care of them," he murmured, his voice reassuring before he straightened up with a soft wince, tilting his head at her. "Is everything alright?" he repeated himself, his brows barely raised, almost as if nothing had happened, with the open expression on his face.



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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby Baconwizard » 01/28/2015 12:48 PM

At Cyril's words, ava began to relax slightly, or at least lose the panicked look in her eyes. She let out a held breath, her shoulders slumping, bringing up a hand to wipe at her face. "Ah, um... Just a bad dream." Ava looked at the window, out at the dark night. She must have been out for hours. "Um... C-could you... tell me what happened, again? It all gets kind of blurry near the end."
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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/28/2015 9:09 PM

Cyril glanced at the window as Ava did, then looked back at her with a soft look of concerned bemusement. "Alright..." he murmured softly, nodding. "Well..." Cyril paused for a moment, his hands moving to gently hold hers, his thumbs brushing over her knuckles. "Sencha must have come over to your house... and you were watching a movie until I came in. Because I had been away for awhile..." Cyril frowned slightly, a bit rueful. "And then... Sencha had been taking energy from you, and I was angry with him. So we fought, and he turned into a terrible monster, and almost hurt me very badly. He ran away, though," he finished, his voice gentle, as if reading a bedtime story. "The living room is a mess, though. You shouldn't go in there," he added, leaning down to press a soft kiss to her forehead. "Alright?"



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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby Baconwizard » 01/28/2015 11:05 PM

Ava looked up at Cyril, an almost pained look on her face as he spoke. She let him play with her hands, and listened to his words intently, brown eyes flickering. As he kissed her forehead, she closed her eyes for a moment, trying to sort out her muddled feelings. Cyril was doing that again. She sighed, leaning her face away and looked up at Cyril with a worried expression. "Cyril... What do you mean, feeding? Sencha--Sencha was my friend. What was he doing to me?"
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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/29/2015 1:35 AM

Cyril's eyes flickered as Ava leaned away, something a bit less gentle threatening to flash there, before they softened again to his previous, calm expression. "Sencha is a demon, Ava," he murmured, shaking his head and reaching a hand up to move Ava's face back to facing his own, meeting her eyes with a gentle but somehow cold look in his eyes, despite his smile. "You should never trust demons, especially ones who want to be friends. Even if he did enjoy your company--and I would hope he did--he was likely using you for energy as well." Cyril's smile fell a bit at that, then finally dropped off his face in a small sigh. "I'm just glad I arrived when I did... things could have gotten dangerous, potentially. He'd already drained so much of your energy, you looked about ready to drop..."



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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby Baconwizard » 01/29/2015 10:25 AM

Ava moved with Cyril's touch, tears brimming in her eyes as she looked up into his blue stare. She let out a shaky breath, a pained expression on her face. "I thought we were friends..." She murmured, her hands squeezing at the other, white-knuckled. Closing her eyes, Ava took another breath, trying to keep her turbulent emotions under control so she could still ask more questions. If she let the matter be, the more time passed, the harder it would be to ask. "How do you know him? Has--has he taken energy from you?"
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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/30/2015 10:54 PM

Cyril's eyes flickered at her question, his smile growing fixed for a moment before it softened, then fell off completely to a more serious expression. "Well..." he began, his expression faltering for a moment as a look of anger flashed behind his eyes. "He... mm... Similarly to you, he... approached me, for lack of a better word," Cyril began, choosing his words carefully. It had been a bit different than that, of course, but... no one had to really know about that bit of the story. "And then he wouldn't leave, once I showed him a bit of kindness. Until I tried to leave him somewhere and he turned on me and tried to kill me then, too." Cyril paused for a moment, his expression softening again. "We fought but both got out of it. I believe one of his friends came to save him. Another demon."



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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby Baconwizard » 01/30/2015 11:12 PM

Ava's frown deepened at Cyril's vague explanation, and her eyes flickered for a moment, the tears beading in her eyes threatening to spill over. So Sencha hadn't been her friend, after all. That fact hurt the most, Sencha's betrayal building up in her chest until Ava felt like she couldn't take it. He had been the first person that Ava had befriended in this town. The only person, really, when she thought about it. It was best, after all, given her and Cyril's circumstances. Ava let out a shaky sigh, her hands moving to rub at her temples, and she moved away from Cyril to sit down at the table, her shoulders slumped, defeated. She glanced at Cyril, holding herself slightly, as if bracing for the worst. "Do we have to leave now?" She asked, her voice too quiet in the small kitchen.
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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/30/2015 11:27 PM

Cyril's soft expression faded to a kind of dullness as she moved away from him, and he stood there for a few beats before following her to the table and leaning a hand on it. He leaned down to look in her face, meeting her eyes with a solemn expression. "It would be for the best," he murmured, nodding slowly and sitting down across from her, his eyes flicking to the dark windows with a glazed look in his eyes. "After all... the demon took my knife." Cyril rubbed at his face for a moment, unable to lean on his elbows for fear of injuring his ribcage worse with bending over. "He could be dangerous, now."



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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby Baconwizard » 01/31/2015 12:22 AM

There was a small pause while Ava's heart silently sunk down into her chest, leaving a little hollow pain behind. She had known it was coming, but still, it had been a slight hope. Ava had grown fond of the old house, with the creaks and gentle wear and tear, and the garden out back. She had made vague plans about growing a vegetable garden, and growing their own food. Now, she'd have to pack those dreams up and put them aside, go to a new, unfamiliar place, start all over. A sob threatened to leak out of her, but Ava held it back, her hands clutching, white-knuckled, on the table. She let out a small sound, staring at a point just to the left of Cyril, her voice coming out shaky. "Ah... Th-that kind of sucks. I liked this house... B-but I'm sure you'll find a better place, wh-wherever we go. You found this place, so––so the next place will be better, right..."
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Re: Tea with Cake [P; M: E]

Postby zapdragon555 » 01/31/2015 12:29 AM

Cyril felt a small stab of pain in his chest at the soft sound that came out of her, and he sighed through his nose, looking at his hands folded on the table in an almost businesslike manner. "Of course it will," he said softly, his tone gentle. "I'll find a wonderful place for us to stay. I promise," he nodded, assuring her with a quiet smile, willing her to understand that this was what was best for the both of them. Really, it was.

"We'll need to leave as soon as possible. First thing in the morning may be best," he mused softly, glancing around the kitchen, then continued, "but that's a bit unrealistic. Tomorrow night, perhaps. I could help you pack."



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