genessia | [closed] silence is broken

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[closed] silence is broken

Who: Szelhamos and Tannusen
Where: Genessia City - Velvet Lust
When: Backdated to the heeeaaaatwaaaave.
What: Szel's been actively avoiding talking to Tannu, while still hanging around his bar, since the soul incident.
Warnings: Talk of old abuse.

After the first time Tannusen had approached the demon and Szel had literally just poofed away in a cloud of smoke, the tiger had backed off. Plenty of reasons ran through his head why the man may not want to deal with him directly anymore, and... well, he couldn't blame him.

Tannusen just went about business as usual, lounging around in his usual upstairs booth sipping tea. His legs were on the seat itself while his back was against the wall the booth stood beside, and he was actively doing something or other on a laptop on his lap. Reading, mostly. And sometimes a lot of typing.

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"I've seen who you flirt with."

WADE.

The touch to his collar bone did earn a slow lean back, still utterly devoted to the image of NO I DON'T CARE AND YOU ARE DUMB.

Oh, sorry, was Tannusen supposed to not chase after that slow lean back? Because that's exactly what he did, leaning further over the table to keep the exact same light pressure right there.

"I have excellent taste."

"With a few exceptions."

All of them that aren't Szel, pretty much. Clearly he's the best choice here, as a flicker of black sooty feathers comes and goes again from his back, the demon's shape rippling just slightly.

Uncomfortable? Enjoying it?

He couldn't even tell himself right now, what an awkward feeling.

"Now, now, don't talk about yourself like that," Tannusen teased, and went to idly trace that fingertip just ever-so-lightly up the side of Szel's neck. So, so lightly. "You're easily my favourite demon around."

"You're decidedly dedicated to this bothering me thing now aren't you."

That's what this is, clearly.

Tannusen is trying to bother him.

The finger at the neck did get more of a jerk away, but that was probably to be expected.

He had every chance in the world to wander away.

And yeeet.

"Well you don't seem a big fan of that other flirting method I've been using," Tannusen purred, following again and doing a whisper-soft circle over where a nerve should be. If ha circled it enough, oh ever so gently, it'd start to feel... electric. Just a faint tingle.

"I'm not an overly large fan of flirting with annoying people."

No, that's a lie, Szel, and everyone in this room knows it.

Yeah he sure as hell felt that, and now he had a point to prove, jerking forward to lean over the table, long, pitch black hair sliding over one shoulder to pool on the surface in front of him.

"If you're expecting me to go bright pink and giggle like a college coed, you have another thing coming."

Electrical little touch at his neck or not.

Tannusen was hardly in a backing down mood, not without an actual attempt to do more than mildly discourage him -- which wasn't working. He leaned forward, too, to speak silkily right near Szel's ear, voice pitched nice and low, really capitalising on that velvet purr. "If I wanted to flirt with a college coed, I assure you, I could find one."

Did a finger from his other hand curl into that nice piddle of silky hair and wind it 'round? Why yes, yes it did.

"I'm flirting with you, your crankiness."

Goddamnit.

Sound really was a weakness, wasn't it? Just couldn't say no to a pretty voice, especially when it was so fucking close. With no one here to bitch at him about making intelligent choices, it was so very, very, very tempting to just give right into that urge to indulge.

After all, overdoing it was his sin.

Tannusen was the obsession of the hour, or rather the obsession of the year. Maybe the next century. Whatever.

Oooh, but he didn't want to let go of this bad mood at all.

"If you mess up my hair, I'm going to explode that laptop."

"Like I don't have backups," Tannusen grinned, twisting the lock of silk tighter around his finger.

"I have.

All day."

God knows he has almost nothing to do here other than make bitchy broadcasts about the weather and annoy Cassian.

"Oh good," Tannusen chuckled, low and soft, right near that ear. He was well aware that this was the most infuriating response one could give to that flavor of sarcasm, "I'd hate to be keeping you from anything... important."

And he let the little twist of hair go, the silky strands unraveling from his finger to fall back in with the rest.

Of course, then Tannusen leaned away again, but only to snatch up his tea and slide out of the booth, then come around the table and slide onto the same seat as Szel was occupying. Personal space, what? Where's that? Not here!

YOU FUCK.

"Where are you-"

Yes he knew he got up, and he moved to listen to where Tannusen was walking and-

"No, goddamnit-"

And then he sat next to him. Goddamnit.

"Do you mind?"

"Not one bit," Tannusen sounded awfully cheerful about the whole thing.

Look, he'd watched Szel teleport almost continuously for a good long while there to make Cassian's swings only hit air and smoke. He knew the demon had an easy out. It had been a tool at his disposal too, once, if with limited uses restricted by his Glamour pool at the time. Szel didn't seem to have any such restrictions on his.

Thus, if he was putting up with this?

It must be by choice.

"You and Cass have something in common besides your world, you both seem to enjoy being cranky."

Yes he did have an easy out, one he was decidedly not taking right now, for whatever reasons they may be.

He didn't have to give a reason, he just didn't want to leave this seat.

"I'm not enjoying it, I'm... tolerating you just fine."

"He says, with extreme crankiness," Tannusen grinned again, and draped his arm across the back of the seat -- behind Szel. "We both know I'm not that charming."

"You're right, you're not."

Dick.

"So what's the end game to the flirting, because if you want me to leave you can just ask me to."

"No endgame, it's just fun," the tiger took a sip of his tea, "Gotta make up for all the time you were avoiding me so carefully."

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[closed] silence is broken

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(I made so many typos while I was on my phone earlier rofl)

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