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[brushoff]

"You've reached the inbox of one Dorian Gray. Don't forget to leave me a message. If you're interesting, I'll get back to you."

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[brushoff]

Happily. I'll see you soon.

[ And in about ten or so minutes, there's a knock on Godric's door. ]

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[loveisall]

[Godric opens the door for him and, as soon as he sees him, he draws him up in an embrace, hands along his back, resting his cheek against his chest.]

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[brushoff]

[ And Dorian just indulges in the embrace for a moment, holding Godric tight, not wanting to let go. When he does let go, he lets out a small sigh. ]

Christ, the past few days have been rough.

[loveisall]

Do you want to tell me? Or do you just want a drink?

[He smiles sadly as he steps inside. Annie is still in the infirmary and he doesn't want to hover over her the entire time.]

[brushoff]

Well we can start with that drink, [ Dorian points out. ] Then we can talk about how I got tossed between hell dimensions like a hackey sack, saw my dead lover, absolutely fucked up with regards to John Seed, and still kind of want to throttle Jon's inmate.

[loveisall]

I would hope you wouldn't throttle anyone.

[He walks to the kitchen and pulls out a bottle of very good whisky and pours it for him. He's been saving a bottle for him, or anyone who needs it.

He holds it out to Dorian.]

Least of all an inmate.

[brushoff]

Funnily enough, the 'absolutely fucked up with regards to John Seed' point involves throttling, [ Dorian sighs. He takes the bottle of whiskey and just takes a drink straight from it, no glass, no pouring, just whiskey from the bottle directly in the mouth. ]

But he turned into a rotting corpse with quite a lot of maggots before I could actually do the deed to get demoted. [ He sighs before adding, ] Though I wonder if it would have been better if I did.

[loveisall]

[Godric smiles at that and sets the glass in front of him anyway.]

I don't know if demotions would apply to those places. Would that not simply be self defense?

[brushoff]

That doesn't change the fact that I almost throttled an inmate, [ Dorian points out. ] That's not the sort of thing one does.

[loveisall]

No. But it is the sort of thing that happened.

[He walks over to the couch and sits down, gesturing for Dorian to join him.]

I will not tell you what you should or should not have done. The question becomes what will you do from here to ensure that it doesn't happen here? Where we are ourselves.

[brushoff]

[ Dorian happily goes to sit next to Godric, snuggling up to the man all the while. ]

What I'll do is not let him bait me. What's the worst that can happen, he kills me? He tortures me because I'm not playing his stupid little games? I'm bloody immortal. I'll revive soon enough.

[ that being said, he would really like to not be tortured. ]

[loveisall]

Godric is going to echo those thoughts.

"I would very much appreciate you not being killed or tortured, Dorian. Do not let him bait you and hopefully we can avoid that altogether."

[brushoff]

"Going to be blunt here, I would also appreciate not being killed or tortured, especially since I doubt we're going to be landing on the planet of designer brands any time soon." He snuggles further into Godric's personal space before continuing to bitch,

"I'll even take a Brooks Brothers at this point."

[loveisall]

Godric wraps an arm around him, pulling him close. He likes the touch. He likes feeling his warmth.

"I don't know where we will land, but no. You may not be able to get your designer shoes at our next port, but I do look forward to them. Most of the time."

[brushoff]

"With our powers combined, maybe we can badger the Admiral to let me get my designer shoes at the next next port," Dorian teases. "I need to take Trixie shopping anyway. She deserves something nice to wear."

[loveisall]

"Ah, yes. You have your own inmate now. I haven't met Trixie." He turns, pressing a kiss to his temple. "How is the pairing working out?"

[brushoff]

"I really like her," he admits, with a grin. "She's brash and strong—I doubt she'll let anyone give her grief. But she's had a hard life. Part of me wants to help show her that there are still some good things left in the world."

Granted, Dorian's plan is mostly 'material possessions and spa days.' But he's sure he'll think of other things as well.

[loveisall]

Godric can't help the smile at Dorian's words. "Good," he tells him. "Sometimes it isn't about morality and redemption. Sometimes, it's about showing another person that they deserve to be cared for and loved."

[brushoff]

"It wouldn't surprise me if there's more here who need that care and love than who need the morality and redemption in the first place," Dorian idly muses. "For every out and out psychopath, there seem to be three broken souls."

[loveisall]

Dancy needs that and Godric - tries his hardest to make sure that happens. For her. And for him.

"I think that it is so easy to be complacent," he admits. "And to think that your life cannot change. And to wonder why it cannot change but not know what to do. And here? Here they can find change."

[brushoff]

Dorian nods. At least in this regard, he's buying what Godric's selling.

"Sometimes you need something drastic to shake you out of your routine. Granted, I don't think many people were picturing 'dying and going to a prison barge' levels of drastic, but whatever works, works."

[loveisall]

Godric smiles. "I allowed myself to be taken and kidnapped," he tells Dorian gently, arm around his shoulders.

[brushoff]

"What, really?" He laughs at that, obviously interested. "Well go on, tell me that story."

[loveisall]

Godric trails his fingers along Dorian's arm. "There was a church. They called themselves the Fellowship of the Sun, and they hated us. Felt as if we were abominations before God." He leans into him. "I did not want them to harm any of the vampires in my territory, so I offered myself to them. And so for weeks, they kept me in the basement." They felt as if they had him locked up, but only because Godric wanted it.

[brushoff]

"And I'm sure that though they thought you were abominations, they were perfectly welcoming of the addicts, the poor, the unwed mothers, and the prostitutes, all those people who Jesus himself hung out with," Dorian responds, sarcasm dripping from his voice. He does not have many positive feelings about organized religion.

"How did you escape?"