Post by Muse on May 1, 2011 7:16:00 GMT 10
Title: Priorities
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 318
Pairing: Gary/Raoul – Team Moustache Curtains
Round/Fight: 2/C
Summary: She finally met a man who’s gonna put her first. Gary doesn’t like to talk about himself and Cythera in front of Raoul, but then Raoul offers him a drink. Breakeven part 6, set post-Lioness Rampant. Warning: Alcoholism discussed.
“You’ve come out of your cave,” Raoul notices, glancing up at Gary who stands, framed neatly in his doorway, out of his study for the first time in what seems like days.
Gary pretends not to hear the sour, sharp edge of Raoul’s words. “Its not a choice, you know that. There’s just so much paperwork left over after the earthquakes…”
It is a choice, even if Gary doesn’t know it. Raoul watches everyday as Gary chooses paperwork and parchment and ink and solitude over people and places and things and life and it isn’t quite anger but its getting there.
“Have a drink,” Raoul says; there’s no lift at the end of his words and it isn’t a question. He fills another wine glass—where did it come from, was it on the table this whole time? Gary wonders—and pushes it across the table.
“Do I need one?” Gary murmurs, but his fingers are already closing on the wineglass and Raoul’s overly bright eyes track his movements.
“You tell me.” Raoul answers with a non-answer, and Gary soothes away this mockery of their friendship, this sham of an imitation, with a bitter red swallow. One leads to another and a glass brings up words, words pouring out, and Gary misses the cynical twist of Raoul’s mouth as he listens to words about Gary and Cythera and all of this work and the never-ending work and none of it, none of it, concerns him.
Eventually, words and most of the bottle of wine have dulled Gary’s pain enough for him to wander away, bidding Raoul a good night and Raoul sits back, watches the door close, and eyes his last companion. There’s only one more glass of wine left in the bottle, but there’s a whole other bottle in his cabinet and Raoul is more than willing to let this mistress carry him off into ignorance tonight.
QC by PeroxidePirate
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 318
Pairing: Gary/Raoul – Team Moustache Curtains
Round/Fight: 2/C
Summary: She finally met a man who’s gonna put her first. Gary doesn’t like to talk about himself and Cythera in front of Raoul, but then Raoul offers him a drink. Breakeven part 6, set post-Lioness Rampant. Warning: Alcoholism discussed.
“You’ve come out of your cave,” Raoul notices, glancing up at Gary who stands, framed neatly in his doorway, out of his study for the first time in what seems like days.
Gary pretends not to hear the sour, sharp edge of Raoul’s words. “Its not a choice, you know that. There’s just so much paperwork left over after the earthquakes…”
It is a choice, even if Gary doesn’t know it. Raoul watches everyday as Gary chooses paperwork and parchment and ink and solitude over people and places and things and life and it isn’t quite anger but its getting there.
“Have a drink,” Raoul says; there’s no lift at the end of his words and it isn’t a question. He fills another wine glass—where did it come from, was it on the table this whole time? Gary wonders—and pushes it across the table.
“Do I need one?” Gary murmurs, but his fingers are already closing on the wineglass and Raoul’s overly bright eyes track his movements.
“You tell me.” Raoul answers with a non-answer, and Gary soothes away this mockery of their friendship, this sham of an imitation, with a bitter red swallow. One leads to another and a glass brings up words, words pouring out, and Gary misses the cynical twist of Raoul’s mouth as he listens to words about Gary and Cythera and all of this work and the never-ending work and none of it, none of it, concerns him.
Eventually, words and most of the bottle of wine have dulled Gary’s pain enough for him to wander away, bidding Raoul a good night and Raoul sits back, watches the door close, and eyes his last companion. There’s only one more glass of wine left in the bottle, but there’s a whole other bottle in his cabinet and Raoul is more than willing to let this mistress carry him off into ignorance tonight.
QC by PeroxidePirate