Tate, Kyah, and Ari
Ari has just gotten back to the hotel room when their phone begins to buzz on the nightstand. It’s Tate, they know even before they check the screen. “I could be busy, you know. In the middle of something very important.” “Uh huh. But you’re not,” Tate says, all easy confidence. “How’s New York?” The […]
Tate knows that Shae has found him. For real, now that he knows she’s not dead. Whatever let her do it has opened some sort of door, but it goes both ways. He can tell that she’s… waiting for something. Ari doesn’t like it at all. They’ve closed the door between them for security reasons,
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Tate shrugs, everything about him easier since they got answers. Never mind that those answers were that the world was maybe about to end. “He does that sometimes, Ar.” “No, like he hasn’t answered in over a month. Wait no, let me amend that – he hasn’t just not answered anything in over two months.
The footsteps alone are not sufficient to make him stir. Not even that there are two steps, or that one of them sounds especially harried. “My Lord?” He exhales a silent sigh at the second disruption of the day. The first had been some lowly soldier who shouldn’t have been allowed in at all, claiming
cws for referenced torture, questioning reality, and general unpleasantness. playlist here It starts – as it always does – with screams. Not based in memory, but the fabrication doesn’t make them any less real in the moment. Sometimes it’s the horses. This time, it’s her. The sounds of agony – of being tortured, just far
Ari feels Tate coming before the sounds of his footsteps, his breathing, his heartbeat, his quiet, nervous, “Hey?” Like he’s the one who isn’t supposed to be here. Like Ari isn’t the one in his office without an invitation. Turning, Ari meets his eyes and is hit with the rush of hey hi mate mine.
The night before the next full moon, Kyah and Astrid come over to watch a movie; for years it had been tradition, although the details had shifted some as they got older. Still, it’s nice. When the movie ends, Astrid pulls him into a hug before she goes in another welcome return to normal. Kyah
tate’s horrible playlist that gets mentioned further down also exists here. Another week passes in what would be a blur, if not for the handful of moments that Tate manages to steal with Kyah or Ari. He wants more, but with all of them – mostly Kyah – still tiptoeing around this new thing, it’s
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takes place immediately after talk me down Something seems to settle a little, after that. Astrid still isn’t speaking to him beyond what’s necessary and that hurts, but the ache is a little easier with Ari and Kyah there. They get lunch, or dinner, or even breakfast a couple of times, sometimes all three of
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Somehow, Tate survives the rest of the week. Their schedules never quite align. A day where he could’ve met Ari for lunch, but he didn’t see the text until after. An evening where Kyah debated coming over for a bit, then talked herself out of it – all via a series of text messages while
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