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Number Five ([personal profile] youngtimer) wrote2020-09-01 12:09 am
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gothicgambit: (then perish)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2022-01-20 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[God she'd missed him, and she feels like a fucking sap at how much holding his hand lights her up. But she pushes that thought aside for now. It's just the two of them, and they're past the point of really judging each other. Especially right now.]

You are.

[She squeezes back. There's an admission sitting just behind her teeth, and maybe it's the fairy form and maybe it's the way he's meeting her, level for level, that draws the words out. She has to tell him in some manner how she feels.
And because she's Celestia Ludenberg, and she cannot help it, she looks him in the eyes with a very familiar ferocity.]


Do not ever do that again, Horatio Hargreeves. Because I swear to any god that I will level this island to find you.

[Because she would. It had nearly driven her crazy to find him gone, and that itch beneath her skin still hasn't faded yet. Celeste has always been selfish, almost transactional with people's value, and he's worth more to her than most innocent lives.]
Edited 2022-01-21 03:46 (UTC)
gothicgambit: (I...)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2022-02-05 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He's absolutely right, knew he wouldn't make such a promise when they both knew he would have to go back on it one day. Horatio has never, ever lied to her. Even if it would make her feel better-

it what?

And her brain halts fully when Five admits to any sort of feelings. Like what he's just said has completely caused a synapses to misfire. He's seen the expression on her face before, the momentary blink of unexpected recalculating when he does something that she has to step back to reassess.

It's just that she never did expect it. Ever. There's every reason in the book why he would not hold her so important. She is a traitor, a person who plucks at the weaknesses of others, someone who prides herself in the pain she can wreak. And he is absolutely none of those things, a martyr. More than that he's much more capable of a person, hell he was someone, he was born somebody when she just made herself so.

Silence. Is not the way to react to an admission like that. But sometimes for Celeste not speaking communicates far more than having an immediate rebuttal. She, to whom words are a weapon to be wielded, a master of every witty response, who cuts any and all fools to ribbons with her words, is struck silent. Even as her eyes hunt into his expression for any semblance of a lie, any dishonesty, and finds nothing but resignation laid truly bare.]
gothicgambit: (she's not blushing shut UP)

[personal profile] gothicgambit 2022-02-16 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[She feels a bit of burn behind her eyes, but embarrassingly blinks it down. Crying right now would be idiotic. Even as her heart seems to squeeze behind her ribs and she finds herself untangling their hands. Maybe it was time to take a page out of Mukuro's book, to act on instinct instead of speaking.

Celeste fists her hands in the crease of Five's lapel, crushing the fabric as she drags him closer and kisses him instead.

It's clumsy, rushed, and the second time she's ever kissed anyone in her life. But she decides that it doesn't matter, because she can't quite say anything back to him. Can't find the words. But she can do this.]