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hotheadwarmheart ([personal profile] hotheadwarmheart) wrote in [community profile] genessia2019-11-15 12:17 am
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Movin' on up- Closed log

Who: Lea and Dove
Where: Dove's- and now Lea's- place
When: A little while after Namor's returned home
What: Lea is moving in with Dove for both practical and personal reasons. There's a sitcom in the making here somewhere...
Warnings: Possible feelings and angst. And lots of boxes.

Lea took one look one last look around his old 6th floor apartment. It looked strange, stripped of anything personal and restored as closely as possible to how it had been when he and Xion had first moved in. He fought the absurd notion to leave Xion a note on the counter, explaining where he'd gone. Stupid... whether she ever came back or not, the note would get thrown away the next time someone came in to clean the place.

He sighed, then carried the last box through the Dark Corridor, letting it finally close behind him as he emerged once again into Dove's penthouse. And his now too, he supposed. He added the box to the stack of others in the living room, straightening up and stretching a bit. "Well, that's it," he said. "I'm officially moved."

He looked at the boxes with another sigh. "Now we just need to unpack all this stuff again, and figure out where we're going to put it all." Not that Dove lacked the space. On the contrary; she had plenty of that. To say that the penthouse was spacious would be an understatement, and the furniture and possessions within didn't seem to fill much of the space. But that in itself made it daunting. Everything there looked so clean and orderly to him, each thing in its appointed place; how was he and his rather mismatched set of possessions going to fit in here?
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[personal profile] phoenixstrut 2020-03-15 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
She laughed, shaking her head at him over her shoulder, light dancing in her eyes. "I guess you'll just have to find out for us both," she told him with a knowing shrug, before pushing open another door, this one closer to the living room. "....maybe I need a cuddly ghost in my room."

"Two more guest rooms up this one... that one over there is just another washroom," she told him, pointing to another door across the hall. "And my... office? Consultation room? ...whatever this is."

She leaned into another door, gracefully swinging with it as it opened. Light once more spilled in through the large glass panels, casting the nearly pure white room in dazzling rays. A faux fur carpet and modest seating arrangement took up one side of the room, a book with her signature in gold scrawled across the front sitting atop the coffee table between the chairs. A desk sat along the opposite side of the room, a blanket tossed across the chair as if she hadn't quite thought to tidy it up.... at least that looked used. Her laptop and tablet sat atop the desk, and beside them... a now-polished glass rose that Lea might find familiar and that Dove couldn't quite bring herself to move to her bedroom. Not yet.

... and never mind the scattering of polaroids in the document basket.
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[personal profile] phoenixstrut 2020-05-21 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
In time, with his being there, that warmth might return in a whole new way.

"Probably," she laughed, leaning back against the desk and reaching over to swipe some invisible dust from its edge. "I was told it was best to have a 'clean canvas' in case any of my employers decide to bring outfits with them during consultations. It's been alright... just a nightmare to clean. I actually spilled wine on the rug while Diana's team was here setting it up." Her cheeks flush a little. "There were portraits of me hanging here and there but it felt... vain." And some of her best work had been done in her skin- only her skin- and with Lea moving in...

She watched him with mild interest, then tilted her head, quietly amused. "What?"
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[personal profile] phoenixstrut 2020-05-25 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Or... a nice big metalwork?" she offered, shrugging before crossing her arms over her middle. "I might know a guy."

Her eyes drifted to a few wrapped frames in the corner beside the desk, and she sighed. "I've got a few more...personal pieces that I just don't have the heart to hang just yet, but it would be nice to warm things up a bit with work that means something..."

She laughed at his apology, but shook her head and scooped up the photos to examine them herself. "Don't worry about it. I was supposed to approve these ages ago. Just...haven't gotten around to it yet. They're just Digitals, anyway, and most of the people I'm working with know what I look like." She frowns down at the one atop the stack. "Though I guess they do help with pre-planning the touchups."

Even in the low, natural lighting, the scars across her abdomen are pretty prominent.

"... at least I'm semi-clothed in these," she added flippantly, trying to shift the mood a touch.
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[personal profile] phoenixstrut 2020-07-10 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
She mirrors his smile, even if it's quieter, and nods. She has plenty of space out at the studio. Maybe she could set something up for him there...

She laughs softly and shuffles them back into a stack and sets them face down atop the envelopes in the basket. "Thanks...but I'll pay more attention to where I leave my proofs laying around," she promises, making a mental note to be sure of it. "I'll...also have to go shopping for some actual bedclothes, too, now that I think about it..." she adds casually, heading back for her office door. Sure, it's a tease, but she...really will have to think on that one also.
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[personal profile] phoenixstrut 2020-08-19 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
She slipped back into the hall with a grin, glancing back at him. "Don't worry about it," she laughed. "That's more than enough if that's what you're comfortable in."

To be fair, that had been almost exactly what she had meant for herself when she had mentioned 'proper nightclothes'.