Lizard House / OTA

[eggshell]

Catch all for everything happening here (if you want to set a thread here)

House ref: https://pin.it/43LQyyPhW

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Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

Stop being stupid, why would I bring you here with your entire wardrobe.

[Perhaps all of her clothes are in a pile somewhere… Maybe a scavenger hunt of them… sorry Val!! He doesn’t say yes to anything, but starts stroking her hair instead.]

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

[ goddamnit dude ]

... The issue is-- if they do not want me here... I cannot force them to tolerate my presence. It's a matter of my comfort as much as theirs.

Ask them, Dan Feng. Please.

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

You are a confusing creature. But I will do you this favor just once.

[He turns his head to drop a kiss in her hair.] If you worry this much your face will get stuck that way.

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

[ she makes a small noise, fingers curling in his hair. ]

... mm. Probably.

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

Do not fear. Nobody in this house can hate you as much as I do.

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

[ she goes very still.

And then pulls back to punch him in the stomach as hard as she can, face flushed with indignant embarrassment. ]

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

[That at least gets a choked noise from him - very good, Valencia - but then he laughs (expected) and tries to kiss her (also expected).]

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

[ n. Immediately covers his mouth. ]

-- You don't get to say that and then kiss me!

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

But why not? I'll let you kiss me too!

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

I'm not going to kiss someone who hates me.

[ her voice wobbles a little. ]

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

I do not hate you all the time. I'm sure it's the same for you.

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

I have not hated you in a long time, Dan Feng. You have frightened me, and made me angry, but that is not hate.

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

...

[He squints at her.]

Are you just saying this to make me feel better?

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

No? Is it not proof enough that I let you kiss me, and have me? If I hated you, I would not allow it.

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

Yuan'er hates me and he allows it?

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

I am not him. I am Valencia.

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

[Thinking emoji...]

Would you kill me ever again?

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

You can't die.

[ tiredly ]

Not unless I had no other choice.

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

Even if I put microplastics in your ship's ventilation again?

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

...

[ pushes away from him and wobbles to her feet, unsteady. ]

I'm going back to Clubs.

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

[He sort of lies down where he left her, like a very sad puddle, but the puddle is radioactive and vaguely sticky.]

You always leave me. Everyone does. [He presses his face into the deck.] Cruel!

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

Then treat me properly! You say you want me to stay and do everything you can to try to chase me off!

Re: Day 47

[eggshell]

I am fundamentally incapable of treating anyone properly, do you think I have not tried? Do you think I wanted to be like this? Even as I look upon you now I want to tear out your throat and burn this place to ashes and all of you with it.

[He is telling the floor this. It's a little muffled.]

You know what I am like. You have my full dossier backed up in your ship's cold storage. I had faith that you would stay with me like all the times we have stayed together. Was I wrong? Tell me now.

Re: Day 47

[vitainmorte]

You're making excuses. You are not incapable. You have given me kindness, in this place.

[ she watches him, brow furrowed and frowning. ]

... You said you would try, with me. So don't go back on that now. My staying still hinges on the others being amenable to my presence, but even if I don't live in this house I will not leave you.