"I - I don't know. It's not a choice I thought I'd have to make," he admits, pulling the blankets over the both of them to ward off the chill in his bones.
"I don't know anything but that world. Maybe I'm too old to know any others."
"Maybe you ought to start shopping around," Astarion suggests. "Everyone here has their own home worlds, and I'm sure some of them aren't in existential peril."
He keeps his eyes closed, even as he moves closer to him.
"Yeah, where else do you think those pointy ears are gonna fit in?" he wonders, mostly teasing because it feels good to fucking laugh after a week of absolute hell.
"Oh, as if mine is the only world with elves," Astarion tuts. "Besides, it's incredible what people will just...overlook. I was wandering around with red eyes and fangs for days before I admitted I was a vampire, but - I was out in the sun, so nobody thought to suspect."
"I do have a few ways to make you feel better, but they don't work as well if you're half asleep," Astarion says, with a bit of a purr in his voice that makes his meaning clear. "I'll let you rest."
There's a part of him which would like to stay. Here, or really anywhere which doesn't feel like it's been tainted with Cazador's presence. But then he thinks of lying in bed with John Gaius, letting things get too far, and -
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:03 pm (UTC)"Do you intend to go back to that...inevitability, when you're done here?"
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:05 pm (UTC)"I don't know anything but that world. Maybe I'm too old to know any others."
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:10 pm (UTC)"Maybe you ought to start shopping around," Astarion suggests. "Everyone here has their own home worlds, and I'm sure some of them aren't in existential peril."
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:13 pm (UTC)"What about you, huh?"
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:28 pm (UTC)"Existential peril," he says, very dryly. "I don't really plan on going back."
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:31 pm (UTC)"Yeah, where else do you think those pointy ears are gonna fit in?" he wonders, mostly teasing because it feels good to fucking laugh after a week of absolute hell.
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:44 pm (UTC)"Oh, as if mine is the only world with elves," Astarion tuts. "Besides, it's incredible what people will just...overlook. I was wandering around with red eyes and fangs for days before I admitted I was a vampire, but - I was out in the sun, so nobody thought to suspect."
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:51 pm (UTC)"I'm sure it was because you distracted them with your winning fucking personality."
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Date: 2024-06-16 09:07 pm (UTC)"Oh, something like that," he says lightly. "Are you about to drift off on me?"
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Date: 2024-06-16 09:13 pm (UTC)"You gonna leave?"
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Date: 2024-06-16 09:30 pm (UTC)"I do have a few ways to make you feel better, but they don't work as well if you're half asleep," Astarion says, with a bit of a purr in his voice that makes his meaning clear. "I'll let you rest."
There's a part of him which would like to stay. Here, or really anywhere which doesn't feel like it's been tainted with Cazador's presence. But then he thinks of lying in bed with John Gaius, letting things get too far, and -
Best not.
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Date: 2024-06-16 09:35 pm (UTC)He does pull the last of his energy and places a gentle kiss to his cheek.
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Date: 2024-06-16 09:37 pm (UTC)Astarion graces him with a brief smile, and slides out from under the blanket without disturbing it overmuch.
"Feel better soon, darling. And - thank you. For what you did."
And then he's gone.