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ada wong ([personal profile] droppingin) wrote2023-04-21 01:21 am
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knife2meetu: (I just wanna know why)

[personal profile] knife2meetu 2023-07-10 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ It would hurt Leon's wounded pride more if she wasn't looking for the levity here, and that's stinging enough that he had to ring backup. Not that it's unexpected, getting up close and personal with Krauser in the full, heated throes of a violent rage. Still, Leon heaves a shallow sigh as she leads her mare over, ascends into it and indicates where he'll be sitting. ]

Yes, ma'am.

[ The rickety bed of this cart rotting away in the yard by this seabreeze-weathered shed will serve as a step up just fine, and although it takes some work, Leon eventually slides his weight right up behind her in the saddle. The way his body knocks up against her back is unintentional, a flinch when his side flares up with a hot seize of pain.

He does everything he can to keep that to himself, jaw tight and hands... hilariously indecisive about where they should go to secure himself without getting handsy without invitation. ]


Down this road. That way.
knife2meetu: (But since you put these)

[personal profile] knife2meetu 2023-07-10 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, Leon might have liked it a little, or a very specific part of him, for very specific reasons, such as the way her backside fits against his lap. He's in too much discomfort to appreciate it, eventually taking hold of the horn of her saddle in one hand, arm threaded under one of hers against her side, his other hand clasped over his ribs like it's the one thing holding them in place.

Her comment prompts a very abbreviated puff of breath that resolves into a gasp when, oof, laughing is not medicine for a banged up ribcage. ]


My hero. [ Leon quips dryly, but not without sincerity — it might not seem so, until his right hand strays from his left side and rests, just for a moment, on her hip, his thumb brushing against the side of her back in silent appreciation.

It doesn't last, he presses it against his own side, lapsing into tense silence. ]
knife2meetu: (a couple of vodka and tonics)

[personal profile] knife2meetu 2023-07-10 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A smile changes the sound of the words that pass through it. He hears it, it takes him out of his own pain and not only for the glimmer of heartsick hope it sparks in him. It's the shimmer of pleasant, warm Thumos, a mere thread between them when he replies against the shell of her ear: ]

Wasn't aware we were still keeping score.

[ A calling back to more than six years ago.

Though, it's not entirely true. He's been keeping score ever since, the score was what prompted that vindicated smile when they encountered each other in Spain, the bitterness when they did in Andovale at the Trident, still high on their survival of the flood.

He's reminded, then, of the benefits of Thumos that often go unnoticed in such times of peace, the way it files off the sharpest corners of his pain, makes this into less of an exercise in sheer endurance. His left hand leaves the horn of the saddle, laying across the taut plane of her belly. Pushing his luck, certainly, counting on Ada to sharply tell him if he's crossed a line. ]
knife2meetu: (Sniffing for tidbits like you on the gro)

[personal profile] knife2meetu 2023-07-14 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Beginning to think you'd miss me if you didn't swing by now and then.

[ She doesn't react, and another time Leon might have been disappointed. Not now, not when her unaffected tolerance means Leon can act without being waved off, can indulge himself in the distracting micromovements of his fingers, feeling her and the texture of the material between his fingertips and her skin.

He still smells like woodsmoke, summer sweat, and the whisky he sipped on the shore. She smells like heaven, his only excuse for indulging in the scent of her hair is there's no way he can back off without slipping from the horse's back. She said she'd leave him there, can't be helped, right? But god, if a moment could last hours, he'd try to preserve this, the hot pain of his injuries and all.

Not that lucky; Whetstone rises like a pale ghost under the moonlight, a square stone gargoyle squatting near the wine-dark sea, a long slope of green leading to its drawbridge. It's down. Which spares Leon from the need of calling ahead. Which... he should have done anyway, rather than just drop in on Shaxx like this. Leon starts to fumble for his communicator, only to change his mind when he has to clutch at his side again. ]


There it is.
knife2meetu: (I see all the angry faces)

[personal profile] knife2meetu 2023-07-20 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Pheme hasn't made me go soft yet.

[ In the end, though, as they reach the small courtyard of the fort, Leon has to disembark and chooses to just get the painful business dealt with — by not exactly hurling himself from the back but it's hardly graceful, and for a few moments he'd appreciate no spectating or interference while he stands, slightly bent, significantly pale, and potentially trying not to heave at the agonized protest of his ribs.

Is he good? Fuck no. And there isn't any protest when he carefully steps into the fort's hall towards what is, presumably, a larger common area inside the fort's walls. It's some time before he speaks, and when he does, it's with mere sips of words and breath. ]


Storage room. Got supplies there.