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[i_vanquish_evil]

Michael is sitting on the floor, in front of the fireplace. What is he doing beyond that? Knitting? Reading? Picking at the rug? He could be doing anything, really.

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Definitely cuddling. He can tell, being as he's the one being cuddled.

"You've been quiet lately."

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"Nothing to be loud about."

His eyes shift out of focus as he stares at the fire.

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"Well, no, you're not usually the most talkative sort in general, I suppose, but you've been thoughful lately. Is it about anything inparticular or do you just find the fire absolutely riveting entertainment fit to make the Emmy winners pout?"

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He manages a grin at that.

"No. It's nothing." He kisses the top of Stephen's head. "I... maybe I sometimes wonder what would've happened had you not shown up in Toronto when you did."

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He looks at Michael.

"But I always show up, beloved. It's what I've always done."

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He nods.

"I know. I meant specifically when you showed up. If you'd been a day later... an hour... a minute..."

Yes, Michael thinks too much when he's not otherwise engaged.

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He chuckles and pulls Michael closer.

"That's another part of what I've always done, beloved."

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"Doesn't mean I don't think about it."

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"Do you consider what might happen were the moon really made of cheese and the sky turned green?"

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"No."

He blinks.

"Though I might now."

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"Well, it's just as likely as me not showing up at the right place and time."

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"Well, yes, but at the time, I didn't know that you did that."

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"But you're not wondering then. You're wondering now."

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"I didn't say it followed logic."

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"You never do, beloved."

But it's said with a smile.

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"Logic isn't any fun. It's too much like work."

His arms may tighten around the Stephen he's sitting with.

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He smirks and pulls closer to him as well.

"S'not work. The universe is supposed to make sense...to some people anyway. It's just that logic thinks that the universe is goibng to make its sense is the problem."

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"The universe needs to leave me alone and stop trying to make my life make different sense."

He closes his eyes and leans his cheek against Stephen's head.

"I keep feeling like something wants me to go back. I've spent hours studying the door blankly and I don't know why. I don't want to go back. There's nothing there that I want."

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"You want closure?"

I do.

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He shakes his head.

"No. I want them to leave me the hell alone."

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"Who?"

He's watching, a little curious.

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"I don't know. Whoever it is that wants me to walk back through that door."

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"Hmm..."

He looks to Luc.

"I find it funny you haven't asked me bout it, considering. Or is it one of those 'I want to find out for myself' things?"

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He kisses Raz and sighs.

"Trying to figure it out on my own first. Contrary to popular belief, I can get to the bottom of things all by m'self." He twitches a grin at Raz. "I'd've gotten around to asking you eventually." He looks at Raz. "I don't come to you with all of my problems." There's another kiss after that one.

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He shakes his head and kisses back, one arm wrapping around Luc's waist.

"No, but you should. I solve the problems and then you beat them heavily with blunt and or sharp objects while I hide behind you like the scared mouse of an angel that I am, beloved. It really works best that way if you remember."

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"For fighting evil, yes. Not everything." He sighs. "Is it so wrong that every now and I then I want to be a little independent?" Slightly smiling.

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He snickers.

"Of course, beloved. I think I should expire if you were dependent on me."

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He blinks. "I am dependent on you."

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"Then we're co-dependent, I believe is the term. Because I am very, highly, exceedingly, dependent on you if you didn't notice."

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"You know, I hadn't noticed."

He smiles; he kisses him; he holds him close; he whispers, "I love you."

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"Silly man..." is murmured against Luc's lips. "I love you too, my Light."

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He kisses mouth, chin, jaw, ear, neck, all as he asks, "So, thoughts on who's waving the carrot from the other side of the door?"

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"Who is always at it, beloved?"

And he's just leaning back, arching to the touches and allowing Luc access to him should he feel the need to add more.

"Though I will pay them a visit sometime soon. "Holy Order" indeed."

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He nibbles at Stephen's neck. "They weren't always quite this bad." He's not defending the Order, he just wants to get across that had someone other than Jinette been there at the turn of the century, the miindwipe of 1998 would have taken place 100 years earlier. "Jinette let us get away with a lot more than he could have."

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"Jinette had his mind on the prize, so to speak. His goal was to eradicate evil, not to fuck with your skull. For all that he was a devious son of a goat, he was at least honest in his intentions."

He smiles at Luc and kisses him onces more.

"It's good to know he went where he was expecting to go."

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"Personally? I prefer that to whatever it is DeClerque's pulled out of his ass."

Luc's hands might be sliding down Stephen's chest, curling around his hips.

"DeClerque's going to hell whether he wants it or not. And not happy shiny hell either. He gets to live with Judas."

Believe it or not, he's holding back.

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"I know."

He doesn't like the idea. He doesn't like the idea in general.

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Eyes closed, he shakes his head. "I can't attempt to redeem the man who tore my mind apart; who used me and fucked me over like a cheap hooker."

Oh, he's well aware that his analogies suck; he just doesn't care.

He actually growls. "There is no greater betrayal than what he did to me. Nothing worse than that."

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"Just because I don't like it doesn't mean I don't know it should be done. I just don't like pain. I'm allowed to not like something, even if I'm more aware than anyone that he deserves it."

It was the problem with knowing.

"And the part that is entirely Stephen wishes to rip his dick off and stuff it in his ear."

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He nods against the side of Stephen's head. "I know. But the unfading fire of anger that wants to tear him into little pieces burns out any feelings about the act itself."

Eyes closed again, he takes a deep breath and his arms tighten around Stephen.

"I know..." and his voice catches, because if he says more there will either be fiery anger to rival hell itself or tears and he doesn't want either.

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"And here I thougt that the mental image of sticking genitals in a man's ear might crack a smile. Horrible miscalculation, that."

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"Might've if I hadn't immediately remembered why Stephen wants to do that."

He really did think it was funny... but he got smacked with evil memories first.

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"Hmm...replace that thought with one that involves Barney the Dinosaur and a bazooka pointed in his direction."

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At that, he does laugh.

"That's just absurd."

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"If one doesn't make space for the absurd, one will never laugh."

He smiles and leans up to kiss Luc on the lips.

"And it made you smile."

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"Yes, it did." He kisses back. "But, please, no more purple dinosaurs. Especially evil ones." The smile stays.

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He nods.

"Certainly. Perhaps more kisses and a few groping attempts at my slacks and I shall do my best to retaliate, but you are a ravishingly handsome man, Luc. I might just have to let you do what you like with me."

He's grinning. Beaming.

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"Oh my... and what might I try to do to you that would make you squeal in utter delight?"

Perhaps he is attempting the preliminaries of such just now... wandering hands and all.