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[rockandrollvampire]

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[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.]

[rockandrollvampire]

that doesn't mean I dont need to tell you
every day for the rest of time
how much I love you
YOU, Dorian Gray
and no one else

[It's unnecessary, but he'll do it anyway. Today. Tomorrow. Next Thursday. Next year. Next century. He'll say it again and again, because it's who he is and it's what he needs to do for his soulmate.]

let me prove it to you anyway tonight
or tomorrow morning
keep you from your nightmares by dreaming about me instead

[mayfairmonster]

You old romantic.


So. What's the thing you'll do for me that's enough to chase away the angel God once loved best? [From his nightmares, that is.]

[rockandrollvampire]

always

going to stop at some bakery after work
right as they open
find something so decadent we cant make it at home
Heat it up in the oven
make some coffee
and we're having breakfast in bed
mimosas and all
after I wake you with the best sex of your entire life

[mayfairmonster]

You really /do/ love me.

Let's eat cake in bed, [he decides spontaneously.] It's been a while since we've done a proper tea and coffee.

[rockandrollvampire]

mmm coffee cake
Im in
I'll find us some decadent cake
and make some of that good coffee you're getting us
itll be a grand start to your morning and end to my day

[mayfairmonster]

I’ll get us a collection of petite cakes in different flavors. If this really /is/ going to be an extravagantly decadent morning in bed, there need to be choices and chances to sample lots of things.

And to start it all, you’re going to wake me with your… hands? Mouth? Cock?