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Post by qualapec on Apr 15, 2011 22:45:40 GMT -8
"I've been gone for a very long time, I'm not even sure I was ever here at all."
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Post by victoriousscarf on Apr 15, 2011 22:48:54 GMT -8
"No, Brachen, you..." Macavity floundered for a moment before taking those last steps and trying at least to gather the other tom into his arms. "Please don't..."
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Post by qualapec on Apr 15, 2011 23:16:23 GMT -8
Brachen let Mac wrap his arms around him, but it had been so long since he'd allowed another cat to touch him that he wasn't quite sure what to do in response. "I'd like to think it's not in my nature, that cats are born good and they can go back there. But what drew you to me, Mac, be honest? Not what I'm trying to be today."
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Post by victoriousscarf on Apr 15, 2011 23:27:09 GMT -8
"I don't know," Macavity replied softly, pulling the other a little tighter. "I think... When you showed me somethin' you hadn't shown others. That trust almost, that was it initially. Before you were just somecat else in the gan' and then you were somecat who was around me, and then you were somecat that was trustin' me with things you didn't others. It... it went from there. Brachen, I just..."
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Post by qualapec on Apr 16, 2011 19:21:43 GMT -8
Brachen shivered at the warmth of the other cat's arms. He and Mac had never actually talked about why they were together...and he'd always assumed it was because he was different, because he was dangerous. Something snapped and twanged in him when Mac said otherwise now. The other's name came out in a whisper, and before he knew what he was doing, he tilted his head up and brought his lips to Mac's.
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Post by victoriousscarf on Apr 16, 2011 19:27:43 GMT -8
Macavity started in shock, somehow not entirely having thought where they were standing or their past entirely through, but he tilted his head into the kiss for a long moment before drawing back slightly. "Brachen..." He knew he had to say something but couldn't think up what.
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Post by qualapec on Apr 16, 2011 19:36:05 GMT -8
Brachen kissed him again. "Being around you calms it down, Mac. No fronts, no trying to be something I'm not."
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Post by victoriousscarf on Apr 16, 2011 19:37:40 GMT -8
"I..." Macavity's ears flattened. "Brachen, I... you were gone a lon' time."
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Post by qualapec on Apr 16, 2011 19:39:43 GMT -8
Something cold ran down Brachen's spine at those words. "What?"
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Post by victoriousscarf on Apr 16, 2011 19:47:55 GMT -8
Macavity drew back enough to hold Brachen's face between his two paws. "Brachen, pay attention. I love you. I have for years. But you were 'one for years. And I... there... there is somecat else."
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Post by qualapec on Apr 16, 2011 19:55:07 GMT -8
Brachen's eyes widened, and he didn't quite know what to do with the information. He'd never really had an interest in another...it was more that he'd never considered that he'd come back and Mac would have somecat. He raised a paw. "No. I mean, I understand. It just never...crossed my mind."
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Post by victoriousscarf on Apr 16, 2011 20:01:26 GMT -8
"No I... Brachen, are you alright?" Macavity asked softly, frowning, still holding the other's face between his paws.
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Post by qualapec on Apr 16, 2011 20:04:05 GMT -8
"I'm fine," Brachen lied, forcing a smile. "So. You're with somecat else. What are they like?"
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Post by victoriousscarf on Apr 16, 2011 20:10:49 GMT -8
Macavity's ears flickered. "She's... good. Kind. Stron'. Beautiful. A good dancer. She's very different from you but..." Why couldn't he have both anyway? "I care about you, so much, I love you Brachen. If you need anythin'..."
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Post by qualapec on Apr 16, 2011 20:16:27 GMT -8
Brachen smiled, a little sadly, a little thinly, but it was genuine, and he gently stepped away from Mac. "What I need, you can't give me, Mac. I'm a lot of things, I know, bad things that'll get me a suit of flame, but I'm not selfish. At least not when it comes to you."
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