comicshavefailedme | LL cont’

[Bad ideas. That’s what Rafael was famous for. Sometimes those bad ideas would pan out into groundbreaking technologies. Other times it would blow up spectacularly in his face - and by extension, all faces adjacent. Not that it ever stopped him from coming up with more.

This one, though. A bridge too far.

Aracha - if that really could be called his name anymore - sat, hunched over, cycling a trinket between his fingers as though in a trance. It felt like the slow, tactile motion was the only thing still keeping him grounded to reality (again, questionable). His mind was… far, far away, in a place that might not even exist anymore, lost. But more than that, alone, in a vast, empty field of deaf, silent rage. And that cold silence seeped into every crack in his brain, filling the folds of his thoughts, the hollow space in his bones, the pockets in his lungs.

He wasn’t real. He wasn’t real. None of this was real. He knew that now.

At some point, his fiance was going to walk through the door and find him sitting at the foot of ~~their~~ his bed. And one way or another, this lie would be shattered.]

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...love you...

[ mumbling evilly in his shallow dreaming, fingers curling in Maine's hair. ]

[HE HAS TO DIE!!!!!

...ignoring the way his insides melt when Miguel says the words. Love, love... Kaine sighs.

He can't kick Miguel off the bed...]

[ is it okay. can he stay on the bed. can he stay on the bed when his knee starts to bend upwards between Kaine's legs— ]

[Nope.

Miguel is now kissing the hotel floor, courtesy of Kaine's foot.]

ohhh godddd what the shock now...

[ comes the groan from the floor. ]

[Kaine rolls over so his back is towards Miguel >:( ]

You’re givin’ me a headache.

[That might be a hangover?]

[ STARING UP AT THE CEILING, STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT JUST HAPPENED. ]

Did you punch me again? It feels like I got punched, but all over my body.

[Flatly,]

I kicked you.

[a meaningful difference]

Oh, that's fine then.

[ THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE. ]

[erection go away go away go away]

I called the bed, didn't I?

Did you forget who put me in bed?

Nothing happened.

[ERECTION GO AWAY GO AWAY GO AWAY]

[ he is just slightly amused now. from his earned space on the floor. ]

And you definitely didn't jump on me.

[ and kiss me. ]

You deaf or something?

[DON'T SOUND AMUSED I'M FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE HERE]

[ Miguel sits up, dropping his elbow onto the sacred land of bed, gazing at him. ]

Someone else kissed me, then?

[Very deliberately not looking at him and facing the opposite way. It makes him look extra sulky.]

Maybe.

[It was Aracha. That's someone else, right.]