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Istredd ([personal profile] magicalarchaeologist) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs2023-04-03 05:45 pm

Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire

WHO: Istredd and anyone!
WHAT: Catch-all for April
WHERE: Thorne, Horizon
WHEN: EARLY April for now, will put later prompts up as time goes on
WARNINGS: PTSD from the event, NSFW thread in comments





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thedevilwhorose: (of all that was learnt)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-27 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I dare you to break it, he sings.

He smooths a hand into the back pocket of Istredd's pants, encouragement if anything.

He's done pacing. He's vibing enough from their dance that his 'openness' fuel tank is full and his vulnerability levels are empty. Lucifer's settled into the fact that he's going to be vulnerable in this situation. But it's nearly always Istredd seeing him the most carved open, and it's because it's continually Istredd that he allows the vulnerability, allows the weakness.

Istredd's had Lucifer's skin under his hands before. That wound cleaning in itself should have left Lucifer more exposed than this, and he's still alive, still mentally kicking.

More uncomfortable keeping them on, he all-but growls, thoughts vibrating with the intensity.

That's likely fine. Nothing to worry about. He was in full-power last time and there were no uncontained problems. Surely running on empty as he is will be fine. Right?

Hopefully there's no additional cleaning fee slapped onto their room charge, is all.

He slips his other hand down between them. Istredd's a bit easier to unbutton than his own pants, and it offers the 'delicate' pass of knuckles. Whoops, sorry/not sorry.
thedevilwhorose: (we must learn to sing)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-27 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Won't that be interesting to find out? he hums, another pass of his hand, thumb twisting just so.

He likely wouldn't be so keen to follow instructions further down the road, but the 'safety' and trust is strong enough that he defaults to Istredd's assurances. Because despite his dare for Istredd to break-in this body, he could very well break Istredd if he isn't careful to an extent. The healers of Hayle do not need that late at night.

He's already pressing lips to a shoulder the moment Istredd's back in his hands, both their banquet outfits fully in a couple haphazard piles. He breaks away only to make eye contact.

Lucifer may just get out of one portion of his head. The complex, grace-deprived, closer-to-human thoughts. That is good for them both.

But he won't leave his head entirely. That angelic, alien entity will always be his primarily, no matter how watered down it is. And that part of his head is very, very present.

In the sense you need me to be, he starts through thoughts, and finishes, "yes." But I could get lost in the breakdown of this. It's quite fascinating now that I have the time to process it. Just a simple... He kneads the heel of his kept-low palm against Istredd, giving him the touch he craves. Still a mild chill to it despite their activities, his eyes not breaking contact from Istredd's own, interested, drinking in and absorbing the reactions. ... Elicits a response. Sensitive nerves and sensitive minds, convoluted and crossed, not even the mind and body trying to find balance, just... mess.

He folds his legs behind Istredd's, maybe learned, maybe some instinct from that complicated 'mind and body' babble, and repeats, strikingly fond, Just mess. That he doesn't seem to have any particular problem with.
thedevilwhorose: » hallucination (of the angels)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-27 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Don't let it go too much to your head, he groans, but you do that simply by existing in my presence.

... Most times, anyway. There are definitely times Lucifer wants to ring his neck, and not in an appealing way. And it should still go to the idiot's head.

His hips buck involuntary the lower Istredd goes, his thoughts for the first time becoming fuzzy. Distracted. Highly distracted. He usually shifts so frequently back and forth between thoughts and speaking and he's having more trouble with one more than the other.

There's a loose power about him, dribbling out and around and back through mostly unnoticed by Lucifer like a leaking helium balloon. Just a subtle shift in air currents. That might not be able to handle it. The part of him that recognizes it surely doesn't care.

Istredd. It's close a whine. Words, he needs words. He's all about words. Won't know until we find out.
thedevilwhorose: (there goes my mind)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-28 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Istredd's welcome to the compliment. See, Lucifer can be nice sometimes. It's just in rare, small doses.

The response that follows is a mangled sputtered string of Enochian, untranslated.

He does get a hand to Istredd's head, nearly talon-like in the way his fingers splay and his nails twist in through hair to scalp.

Lord.

Isn't nice that in normal circumstances you'd be shut up in this situation but you've got your thoughts wide open with me. It might just be those open thoughts that make Lucifer grit his teeth more than the ministrations but honestly given who they both are that is what makes the most sense. You ever consider bringing this level of confidence to your day to day life? Would really help you out.

For all his litany he is hyper-aware. He wants to pay attention to each aspect. See the domino effect. One action lead to another, split the path, continue on. He can't. His mind's falling to the whim of this body.

Slow is going to equally kill me, Istredd, you know that, right.
thedevilwhorose: (your life)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-28 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
You-- He did, in fact, ask for this. Not that he's upset by any means, but ask and he shall receive. His mind maybe checks out for a few moments too many, fine on any other day, any other vessel, any other level of his grace reserves and control.

It's like misplacing a nuke, though lucky this one's currently, mostly, a dud.

When he checks back in he's unconcerned, one hand still marking up Istredd's head, the other wrapping around one of his wrists, not at all restricting his movements--following, even--but very much keying into a heartbeat, resonating it through them in a rocky, heady loop. An archangel shouldn't get high on life, the force and presence of it, but he's always been the abnormal one.

I'm already yours, try to keep up, would you-- the messy tumbled response falls away partway through, a distant ping in Lucifer's own blurry senses, an understanding about himself, missing the signs, or the absence, or, or...

Ah, fuck.

"Oh," drags out of Lucifer's mouth in a warble, hand clapped rudely to the back of Istredd's head now, pushing, holding, his hips jerking, "hell," follows in time with a sudden up-swelled chime droning through the air and the shattering of all the fancy, expensive, decorative glassware in the room.

Found the nuke.
thedevilwhorose: » hallucination (and I just want to taste)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-28 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Shaddup. He's already gathering Istredd into his arms--partially out of rapidly becoming cool, partially because he doesn't know what to do with his hands now--despite the difficulty of it. Awkward angles and long limbs and Lucifer's catching-up breaths.

Istredd's lucky with how much Lucifer likes him that he lets him have his smugness instead of shoving it all under the shard-covered rug. Though there is a level of impressiveness at the fact Istredd was still able to throw up a shield. He'd have used his wings if he hadn't been so out of it.

You know we're likely going to have to pay for that?

We. They're both at fault. Istredd may as well have lit the fuse.

But you clearly need better partners if that's a first.

And Lucifer clearly needs to come to terms with a new issue. Well. Not new. It was there the first time they joined minds, but he had enough cognizance to stop it. It really only makes sense that it'd be ringing there the first time they joined bodies and that he wasn't able to stop it this time, under the circumstances.

The shards are a later problem.

He drops his mental voice low, warm. His oversensitivity hasn't faded and he's highly charged up despite the escape of power. What do you need?
thedevilwhorose: (went down to the river)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-28 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think it would have mattered. In terms of the warning. It would've happened one way or another, feeding that thought into Istredd's continued smugness.

There's no explaining this away to Hayle. Even if they claim mysterious accident, it's their room, the repercussions are on them. At the moment he doesn't feel particularly guilty, though he has to wonder how many people heard that. Maybe should've considered some warding.

Way too late now.

He smooths down overtop Istredd. Never let it be said that he's not a reciprocal partner, if a troublemaker in his own right. He catches one of Istredd's wrists, pulling it to his mouth and coiling his tongue around a finger.

And then rudely captures the other one to stop it from its work, momentarily depriving Istredd of anything at all, manhandling both wrists together above his head, held secured by Lucifer with one steady grip. Casual, deceptively lazy thoughts drift between them.

Lucifer may not have telempathy but he is a fast learner and he does know how to read people and quite literally use things against them. It's never been in this exact light. He can stretch his manipulations, adapt. It's why he looks Istredd in the eyes, maintains that eye contact, wisps of mental energy now more languid but very attentive, and latching into parts of Istredd's mind. He easily hands off the truth. Simple. Possessive. Alive and bright. You're mine mingled with his own desires and want for Istredd.

He leans in, ghosted breath cresting around Istredd's ear, presses their cheeks together, draws away once more to resume eye contact. He trails a cool touch up Istredd's inner thigh, following no prescribed pattern, watching, calculating. "My hands are cold," is his warning; a genuine one at that. Rarely the chill is ever quite gone. He's not sure that's going to be too much a hindrance in this moment.
thedevilwhorose: » power (so is the life of a resentful man)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-28 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmmm?

Istredd's mistake, likely the last time he might ever make it, is to assume anything about Lucifer.

He hovers his touch so impossibly close that if Istredd tries to move in his grip he might just barely get a graze. Lucifer continues to watch him, his eyes lidded.

He says each word very distinctly, a minor light backing his irises: "I didn't hear that." He wants the words, spoken.
thedevilwhorose: » hallucination (you thought you found my limit)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-28 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, is the playful, gremlin response, you probably should have. But then, I wonder, if I would just get exponentially worse?

There is no wonder he very much would have drawn this out longer. Equally given torture opportunities!

But he may as well be purring in response to the two spoken words and he won't make Istredd suffer any longer, wrapping that icy touch around Istredd and laughing a little about how much Istredd very much was correct in it not being a problem. Is this man ever not molten?

"You might have to do some of this work yourself," he murmurs, though he does start in on an experimental rhythm. It should be from Lucifer not knowing how to set the pace. It really is more echoing that desire of Istredd's--wanting to see someone unwind so thoroughly out of need, desperate desire unspooling between them, his mind pressed more closely into Istredd's than he would usually dare.

Lucifer could very well sync in and feed off and shudder apart again just from that alone.
thedevilwhorose: (the ballad of life)

finally dw

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-28 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I expected as much. They challenge each other daily in all things, that it would come out in this, too, is only right. It's good. He's been spoiled, allowed to be himself. But there are benefits to that. They match up quite nicely, after all.

Besides, Istredd still needs to break this body; Lucifer instead broke everything around him.

We're both so careful about losing control. He kisses Istredd, swallowing down his moans, and shifts his grip and speed. He releases his restraining hold on Istredd's wrists, unable to keep focus, pulling it down to lay it over his face, another cool point of contact. Let go for me, Istredd.
thedevilwhorose: (see the devil dressed in white)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-29 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
He is looking at his hand with minor discomfort about what the heck he's supposed to do with this and just sorta slaps it somewhere to the side of the mattress which he may regret later on sometime in the night, but hey.

Or I can lie and not apologize. Thorne knows what to expect from me by now. Relatively. Ish. With some mixed feelings. Easy. It was a magic accident. A combination of abilities that had explosive results. He stretches out besides Istredd. When you think about it, it's not even a lie, aside from I don't appreciate being referred to as a magic being, but in this case I'll let it slide.

He shuffles around and yanks the blanket up from under them and primarily cocoons it around himself on one side and allows Istredd to get under it if he'll suffer the extra heat for the benefit of skin contact.
thedevilwhorose: » hallucination (but I see you through)

[personal profile] thedevilwhorose 2023-04-29 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah but also hundreds of tiny shards on a bare foot is like stepping on a bunch of LEGOs. That worst irritant that you don't want to deal with accidentally. So! Not all that pleasant, a surprise, and then continued walking on coals because there is glass everywhere. Despite the fact that, oh, Lucifer can fly.

He sighs with satisfaction into the new heat, satisfaction in general, really. Satiated cat devil.

"Yes, definitely about the problem of seeing glass," he says, flicking a hand up through the air and summoning the basic Academic light spell with a few whispered words. He tosses it to hover over the floor for it to gleam over all the glass. He snaps and the spell winks out again and he flops the arm over Istredd. "No other reason at all."

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