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•maharani ([personal profile] mahalakshmi) wrote2017-03-24 12:49 am
vorrutyer: (punchable eyebrow)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-29 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A quirk upwards of his eyebrow. ]

To push people back? My word, you must think me a labyrinth of a man. I play games to have fun, dear lady.
vorrutyer: (world-weary (and smug))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-29 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His hand comes up to pet her head, stroking her hair as she leans against him. A sincere and gentle gesture, even as his voice remains wry. ]

To be fair, you amply deserve both those kisses and those rebukes.
vorrutyer: (god honestly what is this guy's face)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-29 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither seems like a hardship. I promise.
vorrutyer: (punchable intensity)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-29 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His hand stills, and the beat of his heart shudders, slowing its pace. A physical manifestation of the very real fear that meets her words. After a moment, though, he returns to stroking her hair. ]

I wonder. But I hope so.
vorrutyer: (warmth)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-29 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[ Another moment, and then he reaches out to wrap his hands around her upper arms. ]

All right. Up you get.
vorrutyer: (drugged out)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-31 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Mmn. It's morning.

[ He's quite sure of that. Not by the light - by the light it could be morning or evening, and with his schedule he's more likely to wake at the latter than at the former. But it can't be evening, because she's still with him. Every morning, when she goes, he feels her leave the bed to go riding or whatever other abominable activity that calls her, and he rolls over sleepily to press his face into the warmth she left behind. But she hadn't gone yet. Morning still.

He cracks open a bleary eye to look at her. Hooks an arm around her waist and rolls so he can pull her on top of him, so he can lay flat on his back with a blessed armful of warm Lakshmi atop him. And he closes his eyes again, sighing contentedly. ]
vorrutyer: (warmth)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-31 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His eye slides open again, reluctantly focusing on her. Another: ]

Mmh.

[ And then a sigh, and then he opens both eyes. Sleepy, but he's waiting expectantly. ]

Go on, then.
vorrutyer: (sweaty)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-07-31 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He comes awake as though she'd hurled freezing-cold water on him, sitting up abruptly. His eyes fly fully open, and his face is - in a rare moment of vulnerability - quite frightened. His lips part, and he - Byerly Vorrutyer, man of enormous wit - asks the idiotic question: ]

How?

[ And then the only slightly less idiotic: ]

How - do you know?
vorrutyer: (hung over 1)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-08-01 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ He lifts his hand to his lips. He is impossibly, utterly awake. God. It - it is idiotic to be so unmoored; he's certainly done his part in procreating enthusiastically enough. But he'd thought she'd have the forethought to keep it from happening... ]

That's...good. That's good.

[ He runs a hand over his face. ]

And you intend to keep it?
vorrutyer: (punchable intensity)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-08-01 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ He gives a twitchy little shrug. His face feels pale; his hands feel as though they're trembling. ]

I simply wished to offer you that option.

[ A shaky breath out. ]

We should - arrange for a removal to a uterine replicator, then. Before it grows any larger. I don't want you to risk having a body birth.
vorrutyer: (I'm honestly having a time telling)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-08-01 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ His face goes a little paler. He shakes his head, dismissing her request in favor of a desperate - ]

Absolutely - no! You'll be putting your health in jeopardy.
vorrutyer: (sweaty)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-08-01 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Hang the old man. He can think what he wants. It's not worth it for your...your pride, Lakshmi.
vorrutyer: (super broody)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-08-02 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ He reaches up, his hand cupping her cheek as she admits to her fear. But his voice is low and unhappy as he says: ]

I can get you...other things. Things to compensate. I could get you control of the staff.

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