tramitem_log | Let me call you sweetheart...

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Let me call you sweetheart...

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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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."

"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?"

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."

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...

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."

"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.

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.

"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?

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.

"If you keep going like that you can walk by yourself." He pays for their teas and then grabs his messenger bag before heading out, hands stuffed in his own pockets just in case.

"Don't you have better things to do than follow around an old man? Are you that bored?" He didn't actually consider himself that old, despite how old he felt some days. But he definitely was compared to this kid.

He falls into step beside him, shivering a little once outside in the crisper air. He hates winter. "I am that bored. I have selected you to be my entertainment for the day. You should feel honored." Honestly with York gone, he has been feeling a little more lonely then he cares to admit. And staying inside his apartment alone all day doesn't appeal to him.

"Am I not allowed to enjoy the company of an old man?"

It sounded worse when he said it, but also cast things in a certain light he was more comfortable with. Now he more understood and inwardly berated himself for not understanding earlier.

"It's not going to be very interesting." He gave the boy a look. "Unless you like ice skating and then maybe I can show you a thing or two." It probably wasn't the best idea to do something so strenuous in his condition but he was really only delaying the inevitable at this point and maybe it would take his mind off the bloody candy.

Wei Wuxian laughs because ice skating is still terribly new to him. Somehow people must enjoy seeing him awkwardly try to balance on thin pieces of metal. "I won't say that I like it, but I have been learning. I know how to move forward and not fall down."

That really is an accomplishment considering how things started. Of course he can still count how many times he has been on skates on one hand. He really has the frozen world they were able to go to to thank for even bothering with such a thing.

"After that it's easy. You just have to keep not falling down." He shrugged, trying not to look as suddenly awkward as he felt. "We can. If you want."

He tilts his head and watches him in amusement, "What happened to a boring old guy that just had to drop off some library books?" Wei Wuxian had been content with that but now at the prospect of ice skating his interests have shifted.

He flushed, his ears going red as he hunched further into his jacket.

"If you don't want to, fine."

"Oh I definitely did not say that." He grins and takes a hand out of his pocket to link his arm through Alec's. "We are definitely going skating." Because now he simply can't resist taking him up on his offer.

"I'm not carrying you home when your arse is sore." And due to some latent effects of the candy heart, he will shift his arm and link fingers with Wuxian instead. Though he doesn't seem to notice it. "And it will be."

Wei Wuxian definitely notices but he somehow manages to keep himself from mentioning it. However what was said...is way too easy to play with. "Usually when someone says that to me, ice skating is not what they are talking about."

He tries to keep the shameless amusement out of his voice, "But does that mean you have very little trust in my skating ability?"

"I don't doubt." Alec doesn't have much of a radar but even he can tell something about Wuxian isn't exactly on the straight and narrow. "I'm surprised you're not with someone."

Not that it's his business but he is curious.

"And no. None at all."

He gives a little shrug, "Always figured it was more fun to have the freedom to play with whomever I wanted, whenever I wanted." And he certainly always had a lot to chose from at the club. Men and women, whomever he felt a connection with at the time. But with these powers he has started to temper those desires a little bit. "But when you wake up with random dreams or powers, not being able to explain what is going on to the person I'm in bed with is a little too complicated for me."

His more upbeat mood dampens slightly, "York and I had a little...friends with benefits thing going on that worked for us." Never had to explain why he woke up from nightmares if he didn't want to and had the emotional support he needed. He misses him more then he would ever admit.

But his smile returns a beat later, never one to get held down for long. "I am just going to have to prove to you that my skating is decent enough to not fall on my ass enough to make it sore." Even he doesn't believe that.

"Not me. It's too complicated to even figure out one relationship let alone multiple. But you're right, this just makes it worse. Especially if you wake up after a nightmare and you can't-- put it into words." Not that he had woken up to anyone beside Anthony in a long time.

"I'm sorry you lost your friend." Even if he didn't lose him exactly, it was just bad enough. He offered Wuxian a small smile of his own.

"Maybe we should make a wager?"

He nods, grinning at him, "Thanks. Just means I have more time to harass you." And the others of the group of course. "So I guess you still haven't found an answer to your dating dilemmas. Clearly we need to work on your dating skills."

Not that he will tell him, but he is doing pretty good at it right now.

"And what kind of wager would you like to place?"

"Clearly. But now I'm worried that whomever I end up dating they'll wonder when the wedding bells will ring. Can you imagine being trapped in that kind of lie?" He didn't want to think about it. Why couldn't they just leave well enough alone?

On the plus side--

On the plus side he--

Did he really want to try? Was there something...something worth it out there? Something more to grab on to?

No... no not for him. He couldn't imagine there would be.

But what if there was? What if there was some spark somewhere that could give meaning to-- everything?

Except he was too bloody old for that.

"Hm?" Wuxian was still talking and he'd missed whatever he'd said. It had sounded like a preference question so: "Whatever you like."

He laughs again and swings those hands that are still being held, "You really want me to come up with the terms of a wager? I think you might want to think about that a bit."

Because clearly his dating suggestion had distracted Alec just enough to put himself in a very precarious position. Wei Wuxian is not the person he should be putting in charge of the terms of a wager, especially not one that he felt he could win.

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