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week 7, monday.... later i hate it here

[sengokus]

[well.

if the meeting proved anything, it's that apparently they still need to figure some shit out don't they! he's searching for takeru after the meeting, looking literally everywhere, and it does take him a while to hit the spa - but he does!



and then he's immediately just going to shut the doors behind him, and move some furniture in the way so that they can't be interrupted or walked in on. fuckin barricade.]

... Takeru.

[dotcom]

No. Get out.

[ he is going to go and try to fuckin

move the furniture out of the way. ]

[sengokus]

[no

he is just going to pick him up and throw him over his shoulder, just like he did in week 0. bookends.]

No. We're doing this. Tell me what topics are absolutely off-limits in respect for your privacy but we have to talk.

He only gave me the copied one at half power anyway, and he might give you the full one tomorrow so we don't make a mess in public again - but I've decided I'm done with letting you run from me.

[dotcom]

It won't fucking matter if it's off-limits, if I just say anything.

[ he's going to try to wiggle out of his grasp. ]

Who did this?

[sengokus]

[no - he's still not holding tighter, just as firmly as ever as he walks further into the spa]

Then let me at least try.

I have no idea who did this to us - someone who thought we had shit to work out? Which, apparently we do!

[dotcom]

I'm going to eject them into space.

[ who did this. ]

What do you even want to know?

[sengokus]

[he's carrying him over to the koi pond. there's a nice waterfall there apparently. it's calming. maybe it'll keep them from tearing each other apart. but he'll eventually move to sit

he's trapping takeru on his lap, arms around his middle]

.... I know you're still cursed, and I'm like - half-cursed. But I'm always honest with you anyway. I'll try to match you as much as I can, in the moments I don't feel cursed. [that's his attempt at fairness]

Why are you so mad at me? I know you're a liar. I don't care as long as you don't lie to me in a way that'll hurt me. When I was saying things, it's not because I was pissed at you.

I know exactly who you are at this point - I still like you.

[thank god they're not talking about this in public]

[dotcom]

I'm not even that mad. I just don't like being forced to talk in front of a crowd because someone apparently does not know how to mind their damn business. And it's you-- of course I'm going to fight with you.

[ that's just how it is? they react so strongly to each other, and things will so easily collapse into a fight over nothing at all. ]

There were just some things I didn't think you needed to details for.

[sengokus]

Ah, that's true. I just answered it in a fight anyway. I feel like I'm always just going to argue with you by default, especially if you start yelling at me.

[he eases out pretty immediately then.]

... I probably didn't need the details - even if I already guessed.

You got her collar off though? Was that part of joining Adonis?

[dotcom]

[ he just nods his head.

She was asleep in the office, so I took it off her and then left. [ ... ] And then right after, I got the offer to come here.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he hates it, actually. and he just sighs then as he buries his face in takeru's shoulder.]

Okay.

Maybe I should've asked you earlier. I don't know. It doesn't really help or change anything to know. [ . . . ] I really do just trust that you'll tell me what's actually important, at this point.

[dotcom]

I didn't want you to know.

[ how tight the timing of it all is. it really is a case where there wasn't really much time between coming here and joining adonis, and it's part of why he's been so resigned about it. ]

Just in case.

[sengokus]

Just in case... what?

I can tackle you outside the office?

[





you can tell he's thinking about it now]

[dotcom]

You'd have to be very fast.

[ he frowns after he says that.

... and then sighs. ]

This is unfair.

[sengokus]

I am very fast.

[ . . . he lifts his head then.]

You can ask me anything back, you know. You're the one who asked me what I wanted to know.

Even if the curse doesn't hit me, I'll tell you whatever you want.

[dotcom]

Apparently you're not keeping anything from me.

[ so.

what would he even ask. ]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . he's quiet like he's trying to think if there's anything he might be?]

I don't think there's anything.

[a beat - and curse!]

Except for how I keep freaking out whenever they suggest the wishes might not be real, because I started to get my own hopes up that I'll get to go home with you.

[ . . . ]

Oh!

[he didn't even realize that one entirely, apparently]

[dotcom]

[ well, because this curse makes him more open and honest, he's going to try to turn so that he can kiss mineo. ]

[sengokus]

[oh.

he leans into it automatically enough, ignoring the little pleased flutter he gets from it. though when he pulls away, he does look sheepish.]

.... I'm okay, for the record. Harrow was right - we just need to figure out how we're going to get our wishes even if it's not the initial method. I won't give up.

[he pulls takeru closer to him]

Maybe I understood a little though - why you don't like when I make plans with you, when we don't know if it might work out the way we want for sure yet.

[dotcom]

Mm.

[ that's it, really. the idea of coming up with these grand plans of how to spend time together, without having any idea of they're really possible or not.

it feels like it'll hurt more than anything. ]

I don't want to get my hopes up, Mineo.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he shakes his head quietly at that before letting his forehead rest against takeru's.]

.... I still wish you would. It'd feel a little more like you trust me - trust us to actually figure this out.

Even if I'm nervous... I think I'm going to keep my hopes up for everything. I don't know how to keep going if I don't. I don't have a past I can fall back on - just a future I want.

[dotcom]

[ honestly, he kind of wonders how differently things might be if he didn't have a backup plan. because even when things didn't seem certain to work here, he would just think that at least he has a backup at home.

... but mineo doesn't. ]

I don't know about hope. All I know for sure is that I want you to be alive and happy.

[sengokus]

[ . . . the curse doesn't compel him to say anything this time - but he said he'd try to match the honesty.

and so.]

.... I don't think you'll get the second part, if I follow you and you leave me.

[he'll be alive - but he probably won't really know happiness for a while if takeru takes adonis' deal]

[dotcom]

... you'll probably be happy eventually.

[ not right away, no. but he thinks mineo would eventually get a life he deserves.

he presses his lips against mineo's again. ]

But you'd probably be miserable until then.

[sengokus]

I wouldn't.

[he'll take the kiss, return it, but he seems very serious. the curse makes his words instant, leaving his mouth before he even has a second to consider them]

I'd find small moments to be happy, just 'cause I'm not a gloomy person, but I'd get stuck on a case all over again, but it'd be different because it's yours. It's not a 'miserable until then', it's a 'miserable until I get you back'. Because you're not like Fuji-senpai - you'd be alive, and out there somewhere, and I'd risk everything for you.

I'm stubborn, and I can't give up once I'm set on something.

And I'd be entirely set on you.