Asclepius ([info]ace_md) wrote,
@ 2006-07-27 13:11:00
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[info]otherways; Sulking.
He'd seen Mark. In the bar. With Roger all but clamped to his mouth ... and he didn't need to see more than that.

He had scooped up Elphaba from a confused looking man with blue diamond tattoos and spent the rest of the evening fingerpainting with her. Now she was back with Fiyero and he was ... well, sulking.

Perhaps Hermes had been right. Monogamy was an overrated curse.


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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Mark has, since getting sober, been really feeling awful about the whole Roger thing. And since he hasn't seen Ace in the bar or in his room... he figures Ace either saw or found out.

So now he's taking a plunge and going to talk to him. He knocks.

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[info]ace_md
2006-07-27 07:17 pm UTC (link)
Li Mei answers the door, as Ace is rather busy scrawling horrible letters on the floor. Carving, really.

It's quite a feat for a snake to open the door, but it's a push-lever, so it's not as hard for her.

Ace doesn't actually look up. "Shouldn't you be busy with Roger, Mark?"

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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yes. This is exactly what Mark was afraid of. He winces a little (okay, a lot), and looks like he hasn't slept in a few nights (and not in the "I've been having constant sex" way), which is accurate.

"N-no." Mark replies almost inaudibly. "I... I guess you saw, huh?"

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[info]ace_md
2006-07-27 07:22 pm UTC (link)
Good thing he's not looking up, then. It might diminish his angry snapping.

"What did you expect, out in public like that?"

In a way, he's humiliated as much as he is hurt. Humiliated that the whole bar saw testament to Mark being unfaithful to him.

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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 07:24 pm UTC (link)
"I'm... I'm sorry, Ace, I..." Mark's voice? Is breaking like hell. From stress and from trying rather hard not to cry. "I mean, I... I kn-now that's n-not good enough, b-but... I was d-drunk, and..." trails off rather helplessly.

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[info]ace_md
2006-07-27 07:26 pm UTC (link)
Which of course makes everything acceptable.

Bloody fucking humans and their ... excuses.

"It is rather obvious that you wanted him. So have him." The only way he keeps the pain out of his voice is due to many centuries of practice.

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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that hurts. That hurts a lot. Mark looks right now... rather like an abused puppy.

"No, Ace, I... I d-don't want him, that's it." he looks down at the fringe of his scarf, which is rather tangled in his fingers. "I..." his voice pretty much goes away. "I want you..."

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[info]ace_md
2006-07-27 07:32 pm UTC (link)
He almost laughs. Almost.

"Obviously not enough to consider..." He shakes his head.

If he hadn't seen and Mark had just .. gone on with it, it would have been better. He didn't want to know.

"You only want me because I'm a replacement for him."

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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 07:35 pm UTC (link)
"No!" he sounds shocked and horrified at that thought. "No, god, Ace, you're not... I..."

He looks up at the ceiling, trying valiently not to cry. Because this fucking hurts. He's not exactly managing it.

"I made a mistake." he says slowly. "People make mistakes and I made one. A really bad one. But I... I want to make it up to you, if I can. If I have to spend my whole life..." can't really think of anything to add to that sentance.

And he means it, by the way. He would spend his entire life, however long it turns out to be, making up for this mistake.

"I love you..." in a... rather lost sort of voice.

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[info]ace_md
2006-07-27 07:39 pm UTC (link)
People. God, he hates them sometimes. Even the gods had a hard time understanding how they could be so cruel and horrible to each other. Ace had never understood it.

It was easier with gods, most of the time. You weren't monogamous and nobody got hurt. He'd thought maybe ... it could work. With Mark, who was sweet and kind.

But maybe they were all the same. He glances at the pictures he made with Elphie that are hanging on the wall, low because he doesn't have chairs and he wanted to look at them.

"And you don't love him? Of course you do."

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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 07:44 pm UTC (link)
Now Mark's just trying to put words to what he realized the morning after.

"Yes, yes I love him." Mark says slowly. "But... not like that. Not anymore. I... I didn't realize... I thought I still... I mean, I've only ever been in love with him for years and I didn't..."

He's not sure if he's making sense. He wants to make it clear to Ace that he's sorry. That he feels like shit for hurting him. That he wants... well, forever with him.

"I love Roger like you always love your first love. A little bit of your heart that will always remember how it felt. But..." he licks his lips, and is aware that they're a little salty. Oh, those would be tears. "I don't feel it anymore. I'm in love with you."

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[info]ace_md
2006-07-27 07:47 pm UTC (link)
"Until you find someone better."

He'd thought Mark wouldn't hurt him. He will get over it, but he's going to be very unreasonable for a while.

Maybe it was better that Mark left now, of his own free will. Ace's opinion was always that he would be left - of course, because Mark is mortal.

"I'm oh-so glad all it took for you to realize you weren't in love with him was a good shag." Yes, it's bitter. Can you blame him, really?

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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 07:52 pm UTC (link)
And this is where Mark is going to have to hold on to his composure for ten seconds before he rushes out to pretty much collapse in the hall and cry. A lot. So much so that he's making his TYPIST cry.

"I'm... I'm sorry..." he gulps down the tears again. "I l-love you..." and that would be his voice breaking, badly, and Mark is going to rush out into the hall and pretty much collapse two doors down and... break. Utterly and completely.

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[info]ace_md
2006-07-27 07:54 pm UTC (link)
He doesn't need to tell Li Mei to go and watch Mark, and it's probably good - he wouldn't think of it, right now.

But she likes Mark, so she slithers hurriedly down the hallway to squeeze under the man's door.

Ace goes back to scrawling on the floor, hurried symbols stained by god-tears that send unspeakable horrors to beings that can't feel it. But it's nice to watch someone looking how you feel, sometimes.

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[info]bohowithcamera
2006-07-27 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Mark is going to go here.

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