psychoshenanigans | Accord // Canon

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robin,
tekhetsio

Accord // Canon

He has had... a fantastic break. Finding Michael again, making a new "friend", even Euri showing up has put him in a better place than he was before. He hadn't realized it, but Tek is a lot of work. It was nice to not have to battle off mind games and manipulation and his many petty fits over nothing.

But just like he said Tek was a real snake, he also said he liked him. And it's true, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered showing up again so soon. Tracking down the distinct feeling of him through the tower, he's eventually knocking on his door.

"Hey," called through the door. "You busy?"

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And he's not the only one who has had a wonderful week. Detached and free to explore, not bogged down with matters of emotion, only having to worry about the kinds of unpredictability that he can effortlessly handle... it's been a refreshing change of pace.

Despite how undemanding it's been, he's almost worn out from it all, hence the lazing around his room. There were too many things to do, too much to think about and play with; sleep had fallen by the wayside.

So, it takes him a minute--yawning and streeeeetching--before he calls back.

"No, not particularly."

The answer is plenty; Robin lets himself into the room, closing the door behind him. He does it without thinking, at this point, having been in here so constantly before.

"Great." Since he's not interrupting anything, he walks right over and takes a familiar seat on the edge of Tek's nest. "I just thought I'd say hello."

And stay the night, but that's implied by now.

It's something close to habit, but that fact is somehow much easier to take, now. It feels as though it's been much longer than it actually has.

So, there's no hesitation when Robin comes over. He rolls onto his stomach, hoists himself over to the edge of the bed, already smiling.

"All of the sudden?"

"I realized I hadn't seen you in a while."

He's smiling too. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, or something like that. Stretching up, Robin leans back and half-slides head-first into the mass of pillows. He cranes his neck to look back at Tek, though.

"This is the first night in a while I haven't had anything to do, actually. People are showing up left and right."

Something like that, yeah. He goes creep-crawling over to Robin's landing place, smirking down at his face.

"You've noticed too, hmm? It's been hard to keep up."

"Oh?"

His gaze drifts over those pretty eyes of his. Impulsively, he twines fingers in his hair and pushes himself up so that he can kiss his pretty mouth, too.

Sparks all over again. Visiting was definitely a good idea.

After a moment he separates and settles back down, keeping his hand in his hair.

"What have you been up to, then?"

Yes... yes, all he finds there is the compulsion to lean against Robin's hand, shimmying the rest of himself closer. There's nothing there that he'd like to ignore or pick at, nothing he feels the need to punish.

He'd missed this.

"Everything but sleeping."

He's more than happy to oblige, settling a little himself. He can still manage to prop his feet up on the edge of the bed, so he does. It seems like a slice of perfection for him, too.

"Everything, huh?" A comfortable laugh. "Then you might have me beat."

"I went on a date." Maybe making the two points seem more related than they really are.

And it's not said with any spite. Bragging, sure, but simply stated as a point of interest. One of the many small adventures he'd had lately--for once, not trying to twist some certain reaction out of Robin.

How nice. He's not in the mood to suspect such, so even if he was twisting, Robin probably wouldn't have even noticed. He thinks it's funny--genuinely so--given that he remembers very well what happened the last time Tek and him went on a "date".

"Oh yeah? With who?" That poor bastard.

He thinks it's funny too. He certainly did at the time, and that sentiment has carried over to now. It's nice to be around someone who would get the joke.

Fresh blood is nice, but they miss everything.

"She called herself Nicole. She's a clever little thing."

And if she was calling herself something, that means it's probably a fake name. That, and he doesn't know of anyone who could be named Nicole... aside from maybe the new girl he didn't get a name from. Seems right.

"Huh..." He fidgets with strands of Tek's hair while he thinks. "Is that the new girl who showed up?"

He makes no attempt to hide the fact that he's just eating up that little bit of affection. He is absurdly pleased with the world, right now. Shutting his eyes, he nudges against Robin's hand like a pushy cat.

He's had felines on the brain, lately. That's probably why.

"Mhmm. I think we really hit it off." --Smirking his way through the words.

If he likes that so much, Robin chuckles and gives in and runs his fingers through his hair proper. Almost like petting a cat.

"Good on you, making friends," spoken with his own satirical smirk.

Like a cat, indeed. He folds his arms across Robin's chest and rests his chin. If he'd had a tail, he'd be curling it comfortably around himself right now. Don't stop petting him, this is nice.

"She even gave me a present. I think she likes me."

Yep, really can't keep a straight face through that one.

He does stop petting him for a moment, but that's just so that he can drag a pillow over and shove it under his shoulders, propping himself up a little. No worries, though. He's still very interested, both about Tek's little adventure and what this mysterious, guarded 'new girl' is like.

He resumes running his fingers through his bedmate's hair, tucking little strands out of the way--not that there's much of that to do, given that Tek's hair is usually perfect anyway. "What kind of a present?"

"I can show you, later. I got something else too, which I'd been waiting to show you anyway."

He still can't wait to show what became of the necklace that Robin had helped him buy. He'd been so busy, arranging deals, acquiring unique little treasures for himself, gathering stories, collecting acquaintances. He hadn't realized how much he'd been looking forward to playing show-and-tell with it all until now.

"I also had a pet for a very short while."

He hums a note. He's excited to see. He doesn't know much about half the stuff Tek collects, whether that's jewelry or glass bottles or pointless shiny things, but he does appreciate things that people have given value. He likes if there are stories behind them.

Pets, though-- "Now you're just showing off." He laughs at the ridiculous idea. "What do you mean?"

"I had a cat." Recycling the story into this form makes the whole thing seem less annoying, anyway.

"It came scratching at my door of all places."

He pauses for a moment, trying to come up with the statistics for whether or not it was his cat. That thing is a stray, after all.

"What did it look like?"

"Black. And very needy."

He's entirely too amused at his own story, with that inside-joke smirk on his face.

"Not any cat I know of."

His cat's a tabby. Nothing to worry about, then. And with the way Tek is smirking about it, he's starting to wonder if it was really a cat at all. He resumes his fidgeting, slowly starting up little braids out of want for direction.

"And it went and picked you, huh?"

"It did. Imagine that, hmm?"

And when he notices that Robin isn't just running his fingers along as he had before, he opens his eyes, looking up like he'd be able to see what is being done to his hair.

"...It was a short-lived affair, however. After it got what it wanted, and I refused to feed it, it left."

He just keeps braiding. Finishes one, moves onto another one, looking close to giggling about it because it's such a silly, girly thing to do.

"Perhaps for the better. You're enough of a cat to make up for not having one."

"That seems to be a popular opinion--what are you doing?"

Rolling from one thing to the other without pause, shaking his head a little.

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