Let me call you sweetheart...

[scotch_egg]

Who: Alec & You
What: Valentines Event
Where: Anywhere
Warnings: Who knows



Alec cam be found anywhere, looking more cagey than usual. Find him in his office filling out endless forms or answering calls curtly, or in a bistro or cafe with a single cup of steaming tea, or even in the park bundled up against the cold day.

More to the point he has a box of Valentine's Day candies with him that he cannot seem to stop eating. It seems almost unconscious. However this meeting turns out is going to be an interesting ride.


[[ooc: feel free to chose the words of the heart that he eats and put it in the subject. Or leave it up to RNG]]

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Randomize that heart~

[chenqing_player]

Wei Wuxian spotted the familiar man when he was walking past the cafe. So he didn't waste any time getting his own warm drink and sliding into the seat across from him with a grin.

"There is something oddly addicting about those little candies. They don't taste that good but once you start, you can't stop."

Re: Randomize that heart~

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"Wuxian." He didn't invite him but he didn't turn him away either. He sipped his tea and made a face.

"They taste like shit. I don't know why I can't stop. I've always hated these bloody things." He held a heart between his forefinger and thumb, rocking it absently. "Besides which there's something strange about them, I just can't put my finger on what."

[chenqing_player]

"If it is so strange, then maybe you should stop eating them. Besides, they have to taste even worse when washed down with tea."

What is so addicting about this candy that tastes like chalk? He'll never understand it. But he also has been drawn to eating them recently, but he was blaming it on the time of year.

"Or is what is written on them strange? Did you get a practical joke pack of them?"

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"No. This one says..." he smirked. "Hold My Hand." He popped it into his mouth and made a face. "Disgusting."

And then-- he caught sight of Wuxian's hands on the table and suddenly... wanted to ask, jokingly, like a loser, if he wanted-- The need to burned in his throat as if he'd drunk a tumbler of whiskey. But he fought it. He wouldn't make such an arse of himself. He refused.

"It's ridiculous." But his voice was rough.

[chenqing_player]

He laughs as he calls it disgusting and yet still eats the thing. They really are the weirdest candies. And yet he feels an odd desire to get some while he is out and about.

He catches the roughness in his voice and quirks his eyebrow, "What's so ridiculous? The fact you are still eating chalk?"

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"No." He finds his own hand on the table resting perilously close, almost as if he's reaching out. But he curls it into a fist and leans back, jaw tightening. "Anyway, forget it. I suppose you have plans for that blasted holiday that don't include bringing things back from the dead?"

[chenqing_player]

Wei Wuxian is smart and has seen enough strangeness over the last half a year to know that maybe there is something a little off about the candy. He grins and leans forward, placing his hand on the table palm upwards.

"Aren't you supposed to do what the candy says?"

He shrugs a little at the question. "Not really. Definitely not going to be playing with any of those powers. I'd like a warm body to spend my time with not one that has been living in the ground."

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"Like hell. Don't tempt me." He wasn't giving in even if he burned to do so, glancing at that hand with a longing that was almost pain. He swallowed heavily and sipped his tea.

"Good, don't. Even if you think you need them, resist the urge. Nothing good is going to come from this bullshit."

[chenqing_player]

He wiggles his fingers teasingly as he leaves it resting on the table. He sees that look in Alec's eyes and this is too much fun.

"Agreed. Good party trick around Halloween maybe but not so good for the every day. I hear them all the time. When there is a lot in one area it is like listening to some creepy radio station."

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He puts both his hands under the table in glowering defiance. He knows he's being teased and hates it. He refuses to give in. Absolutely refuses. Wuxian's words feel like ice is forming in his spine. Before he wouldn't believe the supernatural stuff, but now he has no choice.

"Has that always been? Or only since you've... remembered." For lack of a better word.

[chenqing_player]

"I definitely didn't believe in ghosts before all of this happened. But then after another of those memories it was like a switch. Gave me quite a headache when it started. I've gotten good at tuning them out so the headaches aren't as often."

He lifts his hand up and runs his finger over the rim of his cup. He hasn't even touched his own tea but it was more as an excuse to be able to stay in the cafe as a paying customer.

[scotch_egg]

He finds himself watching that finger, trying to focus on what the hell Wuxian was saying. Fortunately, in a manner of speaking, it is horrifying enough so that at least he gets the gist of it. He isn't sure whether or not he's happy he hadn't gotten any abilities or depressed about it. It seems the only memories he had were of misery and death.


All of his own making.

"Maybe it will go away when we figure it all out." If he sounds distracted it's only because he is. He lifts his hand finally and places it over Wuxian's just to stop it moving. It's not quite filling the requirement and his hand trembles for more, but for now this is enough.

[chenqing_player]

Wei Wuxian's amusement grows as that hand lands on top of his own. He can feel the little tremble and finds this particularly fascinating. The power in these candies is strong. He moves quick and slides his fingers between Alec's.

"That would be nice. I wouldn't mind forgetting everything that has come back to me." Powers included. He misses his carefree and worry free lifestyle. Maybe if he had a better grasp on them he would think they were fun or cool but right now they are simply frustrating.

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"Fuck." The touch is unexpected and dangerous-- he jerks his hand away and folds his arms tightly. "Don't do that." Even if he'd-- There was no-- He was not even going to--

He pushed all those thoughts aside.

"Me too." He would forget it all if he thought he deserved to but did he? If that was really a true life somewhere-- didn't he still have to do the penance for it?

"I hope you will."

[chenqing_player]

He pouts a little when that hand jerks away but then retracts that hand so that he can finally lift the cup to his lips. "Afraid of a little hand holding?" He takes a sip and then sets it back down.

"Maybe someday we will all go back to normal and forget everything that has happened." He doesn't necessarily wish for that if it means forgetting about the people he has met because of it. But if he can keep the people and lose the memories and the powers he would jump on the chance.

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"You know exactly what you did." He gives Wuxian a level look, flexing his fingers absently. And then nods. He agrees. Although... at the same time...

"Let's just hope some things stay..." Like Fell and Anthony. They were so happy together...

"I can't help but think-- what if this is real? What if there are-- What does it mean? Do you ever wonder that? Which you is the real one."

[chenqing_player]

He tilts his head with a playful expression, "I fulfilled the wishes of the candy. Or are you upset because you really want to keep holding my hand?"

Perhaps the choice could be there...to remember or not remember depending on how one's life changed because of the memories.

"I have powers so it makes me a pretty big believer that this is real. Just because he existed and lived his life, doesn't mean I can't learn from his mistakes with those powers and live my own. I don't intend to let his life change who I am."

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"No and no one asked you to. You're too young for me." If he was hitting on him to begin with. It was hard to tell with him. He tried to ignore how red his ears were and dragged them back to the conversation at hand.

"So you're saying the mistakes of that life stay there?" He regards him. "You...no longer feel you have to make up for them?"

[chenqing_player]

He laughs and shakes his head. "Too young to hold hands? It's not like I'm ravishing you in the middle of the cafe." He did kiss him in the middle of a busy street though so it's not like Wei Wuxian is a shy man.

"Why should I make up for his mistakes? What is in the past is in the past. It's not like any of those people he dealt with are here now. I'm not going to waste this life making up for something I didn't personally do."

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He snorts. "If anything it'd be--" The opposite, he was going to say, but he isn't going to get dragged into that conversation.

"Forget it. What if someone from that past turns up here? Someone...from that past has for me, and my cousin. It's possible. What if you wronged someone and they appeared." He tries not to think about what happens if Beth shows up, or Tess, or any of the Gillespes... God...

[chenqing_player]

He leans on the table with a grin because that thing that was left unsaid was interesting and he doesn't have to have much of an imagination to figure out what it was.

"Oh? Do you want to ravish me in the middle of the cafe? I didn't know you were so bold."

He tap his finger on the to of the table, "Someone already did. I didn't know him at the time and he is already gone now. I don't know if I wronged him but if I did, it's not really me who did it. Just because I'm sharing someone's memories does not mean i have to have the same relationships."

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"No." Fairly growled and his face is beet red. "I don't even want to talk about it."

He ducked his head down a bit, looking anywhere but the kid. He wished he could do that too. He wished he could just let it go, but it didn't feel right.

"Fair enough." But he couldn't let go of his even if he tried. "Anyway-- stay out of trouble. I'll get that." He nodded at the tea.

[chenqing_player]

He looks down at the tea and then back up at him, "I appreciate the drink so I won't tease you anymore." Even though he has the best reactions to it.

"If I promise that I won't say anything else about ravishing, will you not run away? I'll even turn away until your face resumes it's normal color."

He can't help the grin on his lips though as he says it. He won't push the man to stay if he has to go but he can't help but want to talk with him more.

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"You're not making your case." Cheeky bastard. Alec can't quite deny him though since he's got nothing else better to do. "Fine, but walk with me. I need to stretch my legs and I've got some library books to return."

And hopefully out and about he'd be less inclined to be tempted by another candy. He didn't understand his taste for them but bitter cold should be enough to take it out of his mouth right?

[chenqing_player]

He laughs softly. He might not have made his case but apparently he still won since Alec isn't just going to run away. "I'll even keep my hands in my pockets so that I don't try to grab your hand."

He pushes himself up out of his seat and immediately puts his hands in his pocket as if to prove that he is being sincere.