お誕生日おめでとう~!
Sep. 29th, 2015 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A day planner laid out on Katsuya's kitchen counter has a big red circle over the date.
October first.
The officer wipes his glasses clean with a cloth and removes the apron he'd been wearing until moments ago. Changes back into his suit and tie and resolves that his kitchen will just have to be cleaned when he gets home.
He has gifts for a very special someone to go deliver. He scoops up the cake box and his keys and leaves his apartment for the Nexus. A certain magi's tower in the Nexus, to be exact. He does have the courtesy to text her to let her know he's on his way.
Still feels weird to announce 'I'm here to see Miss Verity Willis' to a wall of solid crystal though. Would it still open if he spoke in Japanese? Experiments for another time.
"Verity?"
October first.
The officer wipes his glasses clean with a cloth and removes the apron he'd been wearing until moments ago. Changes back into his suit and tie and resolves that his kitchen will just have to be cleaned when he gets home.
He has gifts for a very special someone to go deliver. He scoops up the cake box and his keys and leaves his apartment for the Nexus. A certain magi's tower in the Nexus, to be exact. He does have the courtesy to text her to let her know he's on his way.
Still feels weird to announce 'I'm here to see Miss Verity Willis' to a wall of solid crystal though. Would it still open if he spoke in Japanese? Experiments for another time.
"Verity?"
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Date: 2015-10-12 06:16 pm (UTC)Sometimes, everyone just needs a break.
"I like cute." Katsuya murmurs, voice taking on the airy lilting of a man drifting off in the late afternoon completely relaxed.
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Date: 2015-10-12 09:36 pm (UTC)"I noticed." It's almost like he can't tell she's been watching him. Silly boy. Speaking of... oh hell, he's falling asleep again isn't he? Fine. This time she's not leaving, he'll just have to sleep with her half on top of him and also asleep. Slippers off, feet up, complete sleepy-time cuddle commencing: now.
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Date: 2015-10-12 10:02 pm (UTC)Of course, this is only possible because he's so comfortable around Verity. At least he won't wake up screaming and throttling whoever's touching him in an hour.
His nightmares are typically more psychologically traumatizing than physically violent. Typically. None for now. Verity's mastery of cuddling has earned her a warm cuddle buddy that sort of naturally feels like Verity's curled up next to a fireplace.
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Date: 2015-10-12 10:20 pm (UTC)And she's trying not to say these things out loud. That counts for something, right? It's a start.
A warm and welcoming place to doze helps her keep the worst of the self-doubt at bay. Her nightmares aren't violent, she's not a violent person, and she learned young to be quiet. If he stays long enough for her to have one, he might not even realize what's happening. The damp spot on his shirt could be from her sweating. She should have taken off that cardigan before they started cuddling, she just got too hot, that's all.
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Date: 2015-10-13 01:05 am (UTC)Very rarely he would dream of all the times he was hurt or nearly killed. Phantom pains. Memories of what he thought would be his last moments.
The incident itself, and many like it since, have made the officer a light sleeper. He wakens on his own some time later, perhaps to a noise from Naugus upstairs, or even just because his body was protesting relaxing for this long. When he notices the moisture on his shirt he gently shakes Verity awake. He's not certain it from crying, but even if it's sweat he'd like to be sure she wasn't overheating or something.
"Verity? Is everything okay?"
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Date: 2015-10-13 01:28 am (UTC)"Yeah, I'm fine." Liar. "Just a nightmare. Nothing to worry about." Kind of true. She believes it to be true. "I'll be okay." Debatable.
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Date: 2015-10-13 01:44 am (UTC)"...Do you want to talk about it?" He extends a hand, an offering for comfort. She doesn't have to sit there all alone.
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Date: 2015-10-13 02:50 am (UTC)Because taking care of him is obviously far more important than taking care of herself.
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Date: 2015-10-13 04:04 am (UTC)That's what boyfriends are for.
"I'm here for you."
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Date: 2015-10-13 05:07 am (UTC)There will be a long quiet moment between them before she's ready to talk. "It was the wasteland dream again. Apocalypse."
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Date: 2015-10-13 05:27 am (UTC)"You'll have them for some time." He knows how this goes. "And that sounds awful now. But they do become less frequent as time passes. You will slowly become stronger than your nightmares." He believes this, too. Believes in her.
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Date: 2015-10-13 07:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-13 03:34 pm (UTC)"I see." Not that it changes Katsuya's belief in her. "Someone so young shouldn't have to see those kinds of things. DO you know why you dream about it?" Katsuya doesn't understand much about dreams or the Collective Unconscious, but he knows just enough to know there's usually no coincidence when it comes to these things.
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Date: 2015-10-13 04:59 pm (UTC)"How much longer can you stay?"
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Date: 2015-10-13 05:42 pm (UTC)"All evening if you'd like. I did take the day off."
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Date: 2015-10-13 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-13 08:49 pm (UTC)"That seems impossible not to do given the way you're using me as a pillow."
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Date: 2015-10-13 09:20 pm (UTC)"I dunno, you didn't notice when you fell asleep on me. You do know I have a read bed, right? We don't have to sleep on the couch."
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Date: 2015-10-13 09:57 pm (UTC)"Whichever works. I don't mean to drift off on you, admittedly. It's...I'm able to relax when i'm with you."
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Date: 2015-10-13 10:09 pm (UTC)His lack of enthusiasm isn't helping her lack of self-confidence. He doesn't care, and she can't bring herself to risk another rejection right now. "So long as you're comfortable."
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Date: 2015-10-14 12:31 am (UTC)"I believe you were the one who told me....that being with you is the only thing that matters. The rest is just details."
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Date: 2015-10-14 06:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-14 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-14 04:18 pm (UTC)"It's fine. Sweet dreams." They are nothing if not experts in not talking about their feelings.