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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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.

"--Nothing bad." Said immediately as he moves his hands away from Tek's head, the universal gesture for 'okay okay I'll stop'.

But he doesn't keep off for long, too happy to sit still; he goes back and starts undoing what he's done, at which point Tek might be able to feel what's been done to his hair.

Yeah, he can, and he'd kind of guessed as much. But he doesn't bother to even flick Robin's hands away in order to do it himself, only giving a halfhearted huff as he resettles. He's putting up less of a fuss than he probably should. Though, part of it might be that he's already thought of a way to return the favor.

"So, what have you been up to?"

"Me? Nothing nearly as exciting as a date."

He takes to running his fingers through the strands of hair he's been messing with, sinking easily back into how they were earlier. His expression drifts from mischief to a simple, satisfied kind of smirk.

"Someone I'm very fond of showed up again. So he was a nice surprise... But then Euri showed up too, which has been less than enjoyable. Busy, Busy."

And, as he'd probably predicted, Tek immediately considers picking at the first part of that statement. It's there in his face for the most flitting of instants, gazing ticking from one of Robin's eyes to the other, considering. Maybe searching.

But, he must be too satisfied right where he's at to risk upsetting it. For once, he opts to leave it and stay comfortable. He's too content to bother.

...So, he'll poke around at the second half instead.

"Ah, I'd wondered if you'd noticed."

There's a reason he wasn't specific, and a reason he quickly moved onto something more specific for Tek to sink his teeth into. With a gaze like that, he figures he's only just missed him digging around for more.

"Of course." He seems a little dismissive of the whole thing. "She's even more of a brat than she was the last time I saw her."

It's a good tactic. He's more than happy to play with this instead.

"Did she say why she's come back?"

"Ugh, Tega." From zero to sixty. Apathetic to annoyed. "It's so irritating."

He wasn't going to bitch about it. He really wasn't. But after a long period of scraping her out of his heart, he's just left with a sort of bitter resentment and a complete disdain for what he considers childish behavior (coming from the man who acts like he's twelve half the time). And damn it, he wants someone to witness his suffering. Gossip, gossip, gossip.

"She came back for that kid, Adel, because he's somewhere between sick and an amnesiac right now. But she finds out that whatshisname is already watching him, so now she won't even go near the guy because--Gods forbid--she'd have to get over herself and her stupid little romantic grudge-match to help a friend. It pisses me off."

He is more than happy to be the helpful listening ear, in this case. An attentive and sympathetic audience to Robin's woes. He won't even mention the fact that he'd caught part of this story on his own already.

Please, do tell him more.

"She's already hung up on something new, hmm? She's come all the way back for nothing?"

"It doesn't make sense, does it?" Coming all the way back and then practically giving up the day after she arrives. "I mean, it's obvious that she's got it bad for this guy, otherwise she wouldn't have gotten mad at him for... making out with that other guy, or whatever that was. But if she likes him, I mean, really likes him..."

He disappears back into his own mind for a moment, tapping his propped-up foot against nothing while he thinks.

"Why not go in, guns blazing, or just fucking... talk to him, or something? She's not twelve, that shouldn't be hard."

He watches him sink down into his own head for few minutes, lets him sit in there and stew--it's probably good for him. The only response he offers is a scoffed sound of agreement. Other than that, he just does his job of listening, keeping his presence small and unobtrusive while Robin hammers out his thoughts.

Until he decides that it's time to go in there and get him.

When there's that lull, Tek leans forward, sneaking in to press a small but decisive kiss against his mouth.

Aaaand he's back.

"Oh." He looks surprised to suddenly be there again. Surprised by the kiss. Surprised by how bizarrely cute that was. "...Hi."

"Sorry." Said with the least sorry smile ever, already settled back at his crossed-arms place on Robin's chest.

"You're cute when you're ranting."

"What...?" He almost scoffs at the idea, saved by half a chuckle. "I've never heard that before."

But he settles again too, brushes all of it out of his mind as he brushes Tek's bangs away from his face.

"Unrelated, though, I was thinking I might drag you to go eat somewhere..." Oh, woe. "But that was before I got all comfortable."

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