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William "Billy" Kaplan (Wiccan) ([personal profile] selfhelp) wrote2019-07-30 03:29 am
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[IC] Appointments Post



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Thanks!
complicatedliar: (grin and a sideways look)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-03-30 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He can smell your fear, Billy.]

Ah... no. If you are truly too intimidated for the idea, I shall show you how to exercise him on the lunge line.
complicatedliar: (boyish smile)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-03-30 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
I think Vakri would prefer to have a rider. It's the difference between running laps on a track or going for a nice run in the countryside.

[Loki smiles.] But our time is also limited. So perhaps it would be best if I should you how to use the lunge line and gave you several routines he might work on.

If you decide you like horses by the time I have returned from the draft, I shall teach you to ride then.
complicatedliar: (the meaning of the word)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-03-30 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
All right. [The smile Loki gives Billy is not unkind. As much as he likes messing with people, he doesn't have an interest in seeing either Billy or his horse hurt.

Loki fetches the line and a bridle, and carefully goes over how to put the simple tack on Vakri, then has Billy do it to make certain he's understood everything.]
complicatedliar: (and i had a dream)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-03-30 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Once Loki's certain Billy knows what he's doing with the tack, he leads Vakri outside and shows Billy how to run him at the end of the line. He tells Billy the commands that will signal the horse to do different gaits and other little tricks, and goes over how to do a good workout for the horse.]

I think you would be all right to learn to ride on him. He is meant to be a magician's horse.

[He gets Vakri loping in easy circles around them and is silent for a long moment. Finally, he says:]

I was very depressed, Billy.
complicatedliar: (and i had a dream)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-03-30 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[This would be a much easier conversation to have if Loki could focus his eyes on Vakri. Unfortunately, he has to watch Billy's face closely.]

Indeed. I would have been surprised were that not the case.

[A small shrug.]

Though I had also expected blame for the debacle would fall to me. A lifetime of experience told me that would be the case. [A slight, humorless smile.] As did the person who threatened me prior to the experiment.
complicatedliar: (head tilt)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-01 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki shrugs.] Logan, I believe he is called.

It likely matters not.
complicatedliar: (calm)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-01 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs.]

He seemed serious. But he also has ample reason to dislike me. [He knows that Rogue told Logan. Among other things.]
complicatedliar: (with no colors on our skin)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-02 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
I don't particularly care for beer either.

[Loki falls silent for a long moment again, mulling things over. But really, outside of Obi-Wan, now that Gregor is gone Billy is his closest friend. It's an odd thought.

And it feels odd to be trying to forge more of a connection. But he's in a very odd place. He's starting to feel that there is a support network around him, and he's not entirely certain what to do with it. He's fumbling in the dark.]


When we exchanged those brief notes, I was in bed. And... well, nearly hoping Logan was about and prepared to make good on his threat. I felt much as I had after I had crawled from that black hole two years ago.

[Another pause, his lips moving slightly as if he's testing things out before he says them.]

I think I might still be laying about in bed now if my lover hadn't rather stubbornly made me acknowledge that I was not alone.
Edited (Okay I swear to god I'm not editing it again. >.>) 2013-04-02 06:17 (UTC)
complicatedliar: (concerned)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-04 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Good call, Billy. There's a very definite purpose to this, and he doesn't mean it to be ignored when he states something so baldly.

Hearing the approving tone, his shoulders relax ever so slightly, but visibly.]


I've... been very carefully keeping the matter secret. For several reasons. [He smiles crookedly.] 'Tis my natural inclination to be secretive, yes. But more that... I did not wish to be a source of trouble for my lover and that has been a true concern.

I think part of why Logan is so inclined to wish me harm is because he strongly disapproves. And... likely wrongly, but I had feared you would not approve either.

Your good opinion is important to me.
complicatedliar: (and i had a dream)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-04 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[He considers, then adds:] Since January.

[There is more he could add, of course. How he feels for her, that he has pursued her since September, that she chose to come to him.

But all of that feels defensive, to even have to speak it out loud. He should not have to defend himself on this matter.

This one fact, he does add, however:]
She makes me happy.
complicatedliar: (the eyebrows just look at them)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-04 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
[The corner of Loki's lips pulls up in a crooked smile.]

I said something very like that to her, several months ago. That I was tired of being told that I needed to reach out somehow, while in the next breath 'but not near me.'

She had something of the same look on her face.

[He gives Billy a relieved smile.]

I'm glad.

[He's silent for a moment. His instinct is to just leave it at that. But this is an experiment, as much as everything with Rogue has been. Cautiously, he's trying out something new, with the few people he actually trusts. It feels strange and tentative, but he's become so unmoored here over the last six months that he needs to try something.]

If you... want to ask anything... well, I cannot guarantee an answer, but I shall try.
complicatedliar: (giggley)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-04 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki laughs.] I can't even imagine.

[His smile becomes almost sheepish.] I don't know. I haven't tried to just... tell someone about something I care about in centuries.
Edited 2013-04-04 07:31 (UTC)
complicatedliar: (giggley)

[Action, March 26]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-04-04 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki snorts and gives Billy a seriously did you just ask me that look.] I might as well have invented it.