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[mayfairmonster]

[Oh good.]

The boxes that still haven't been unpacked and the piano. The contractor said they have to go somewhere else if he's going to be able to work on the walls to get the acoustics in the music room right.

You remember what we wanted for that room, right?

[rockandrollvampire]

[Ugggggggh]

darling they're your boxes
with all YOUR things in them
i'm going to box you into the bedroom and make you

[...WAIT A SECOND]

are they going to banging on the walls
while i'm trying to sleep???

DORIAN

[mayfairmonster]

They're definitely not my things. Everything that's mine I cleaned up and put in its place weeks ago. [... maybe. He's not completely sure one way or the other. He has a lot of things.]

They'll be banging on walls while /I'm/ sleeping, too. It's only going to be for a week or two, and after that the music room will be the way we need it. [It's possible that 'need' might be skewed a bit more towards him, but they both play piano !!]

We knew this was coming /eventually/. It'll be worth it in the end.

[rockandrollvampire]

bullshit
i never bought any lamps or decorative plates
ALL YOURS

doooorrrrriiiiaaannnnn
my sleep
MY SLEEP
i'm going to be a wreck
Ill waste away!!
i'll never recover


okay i will but im taking all my frustrations out on you
you better buy me really good coffee while this is going on :(

[mayfairmonster]

So you /did/ go through the boxes and then just... left them there? [UGH.]

Fine, if my things really are in there, I'll deal with them. But I can't do anything about the piano.

[Soulmate is in top form today, apparently. Dorian sighs.]

You've survived every time my nightmares have woken us both up; We'll be fine. I'll get us /both/ coffee and danishes for the earlier morning sessions.

[rockandrollvampire]

you told me to take care of MY things
so i did
ill put the boxes in the sitting room
and move the piano [Because that's very important and he absolutely agrees with Dorian about its safety being paramount.]

suppose i can bring home some whiskey for the latter
when their work wakes me up TOO DAMN EARLY for work
uggggh
now i get why you didnt want anyone working on the mayfair house
this shit is ridiculous

[mayfairmonster]

Thank you, dearest.

I didn't want anyone working on the Mayfair house because anything we would have gotten out of repairs to a home that old wouldn't have been worth the cost.

...And the contractors might not have made it out of the place in one piece. There's also that.

[rockandrollvampire]

oh
so my beauty sleep never factored in???
darling >(

[Yes, we are feeling mighty extra today.]

[mayfairmonster]

[Maybe he can wriggle out of this with a charm offensive.]

Even after your very worst night of beauty sleep, you'd still be the most spectacular man I've ever seen.

[rockandrollvampire]

[...dammit.]

even when my hairs mussed and i look like Hell???

[Compliment him, soulmate. >:( ]

[mayfairmonster]

[Wriggling: 100]

Even then.

Do you want me to go on?

[rockandrollvampire]

[Why did he even ask? ...oh wait, it's because he knows Toby and knows he wants to be asked. Damn this charmingly smooth twat of a soulmate.]

yes
tell me how pretty i am
all the things you love about me
even when I drive you mad

[mayfairmonster]

I'll borrow from Shakespeare to reach the necessary height of praise, then:

If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces.'

And if you ever stop finding ways to charm and surprise me, /I'll/ be surprised.

[rockandrollvampire]

[Goddammit. Straight to his unbeating heart.]

you know ill never stop trying
I cant help it with you
you romantic twat

[mayfairmonster]

How am I a twat when I just complimented you with /the Bard/?

[rockandrollvampire]

because i had to pry it out of you
Dont hear you quoting shakespeare at me otherwise
OR wordsworth
which you could always do
by the way

[HINT HINT, SOULMATE.]

[mayfairmonster]

If I ever did that, you'd end up being compared to the nobility of two hundred-year-old stone fencing or some other fucking dreadful thing like that.

[rockandrollvampire]

it's not ALL like that darling
if youd stop judging his work BEFORE you crack a damn cover
you'd know its deeper than all that

or you could pick literally any other naturalist
give me something darling
Im worth it >(

[mayfairmonster]

[His work is all about fostering a love of humanity by forming a connection with nature. It's sentimental dreck, Significant Vampire.]

Why does that part even matter? It isn't as if you've ever gone on a hike or to a natural history museum in your entire life.

[rockandrollvampire]

it's the fleeting beauty of it
everything fades and decays.
but theres still LIFE to everything before that
A beauty only captured in words
or pictures or song.
i need to hear about it sometimes
Remind me whats out there before it all falls apart

[Sound familiar and reminiscent of a very specific conversation at the beach, Dorian?]

[mayfairmonster]

[That particular phrasing presses lightly on an old, but very familiar, panic button.]




You still feel that way about life? [Their life?]

[rockandrollvampire]

[He had a feeling this wouldn't go over nicely.]

not in the same way I did
Im not looking to do anything
like before
i love you and i dont want to go anywhere
Theres nowhere I want to be but with you.
but I still appreciate the beauty of life that fades in a similar way
that hasnt changed
I only

[He's not sure how to say this, so he's going to brain dump a bit.]

I want to experience and appreciate those things that wont last
to see them fully with my eyes and hands
Then I want to come back to you.
ONLY you
every night
and be with you for the rest of time

[mayfairmonster]

[Their love has been tested and affirmed enough that he knows Toby won't abandon him again to the sleep of death.

But that doesn't mean he enjoys the reminder of the most terrible experience that anyone has ever left him to endure.]

I do understand, you know.

Death is part of your life in a way it'll never be a part of mine. [Even if he loses everyone he knows now and comes to meet in the future, and dies himself millions of times over. His body is alive, and will be eternally.] That can't be ignored, and it's the lens you see the world through.

[To find, or to even want to find, the beauty in that is the least of what Toby is owed after having his life taken from him at a young age.]

[rockandrollvampire]

[Dorian's the only person who could ever fully understand what all this means to him. Other vampires might understand some of it, other immortals might even get the basics, but they'll never, ever have the context to get the whole of it.]

it is
and Ill never be able to change that

but i love you
and I want this life with you
what we have here
fucked as it is at times
is the best thing that's ever happened to me
To US
Because i can hold you in our house and tell you with certainty one very important thing
I, Tobias Matthews, will NEVER choose to leave you. Never again.

[mayfairmonster]

I know. [On his end, Dorian smiles slightly to himself. As much as Toby might veer into hyperbole at any time for any reason, he knows the man would never say something like this and not mean it.]

You don't need to prove to me that you won't leave me, or make any sweeping pronouncements. I trust you. [More than anything or anyone.

And he won't go as far as saying it, but Toby's continued presence in his life alone was enough to earn the vampire his forgiveness. There's no pain the man could inflict on him that he can't let go of as long as Toby stays.]