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[clayking]

Myself.

I'm fine, Nate. Thankful to be able to move again.

[guylining]

i'm glad

i was really worried about you for a while

[clayking]

Really? I couldn't tell by the way your eyebrows knitted together half the time you looked at me.

Thank you- by the way, for everything. Bringing me back I mean.

[guylining]

i would never leave you behind

[clayking]

Hm, Heaven forbid you leave a demon like me behind. What would you do with that mark I left on you?

I wish I could have fought for you, however.

[guylining]

you did

i got you in more than enough trouble

[clayking]

Not in the end.

I didn't get you out. I didn't save you- in fact, it was quite the opposite.

Though there was trouble enough for both of us, I disliked the sight of their hands on you. Perhaps that was out of place but...

Well, as I said. Trouble.

[guylining]

it's not out of place. it is your place, you get to feel a kind of way about them touching me

you're allowed

you shouldn't have had to save me
but i like that you wanted to

[clayking]

Considering I want to flay all of them still very much alive for laying one finger on you, that's quite generous of you to allow.

If say so, Nate.

I might be a sadist but seeing you there...
If I had my magic I would have torn down the roof to get you out.
Of course, I wish to save you.

[guylining]

[ It's a good five minutes before he replies.

But then: ]

i love you

i think you knew that, but i hadn't said it, and we never know what's going to happen here.

[clayking]

[ Caliban's not even sure what to do with those words when he reads them. They'd talked around the issue more than ever addressing it properly after all. And Caliban had always mentally put Nate into "John's" life rather than his in his head. Even if that wasn't exactly true anymore.

He was tempted to make a crack about Thorm.

And suddenly it was like even more time was clicking by before he responded.]

And you don't want me to vanish from the city before I know, I take it.

I love you to Nate.

[guylining]

i don't want you to vanish before you know

i don't want you to vanish at all

but any of us could. nick did.

two nicks. anna. magnus. cy and crais.

so if you do, then i want you to know, i don't want to have regrets. and it's true, anyway. it's been true for a while.

[clayking]

It's a shame that I cannot make a promise not to be...gone from this world. As I have already been taken before.

There are no guarantees in this world or the next- but I am glad I've heard or at least read, those words. And I do hope you never have any regrets when it comes to my thoughts of me.

Oh? Has it? The cocky part of me wants to ask if it was since I licked the blood off your chest. Though those things can rarely be boiled down to a moment.

It's true for me- as well. The way your magic danced with mine..Well you left an impression.

[guylining]

i have one regret

that i didn't open up to you sooner. that i was closed off and untrusting for no good reason

but i won't have more.
it could've been when you licked the tears from my face
or when you burned your fire into me
or when you tasted my blood. all of it
it all just built

but i liked that too. when our magic connected. you're not alone in that.

[clayking]

You had Nick Scratch's words in your head. I could hardly blame you for such a thing as that.

And I am a demon after all. Trusting us is always something of a risk.

If I linger on those memories too much- I might have quite the issue to deal with.
But you did see that darkness I hold inside me. All those urges to see you hurt and whimper- to cry and beg. To hold such pain in my hands like that.

And you still say you love me. That's quite the feat.

[guylining]

caliban you've taken me to the edge of what i could tolerate and no further
you've held my life in your hands more than once and you've kept it safe

knowing all of that. how could i not love you?

[clayking]

Well when you put it like that- it rather makes sense.

I suppose I'm still getting rather used to the idea of mortals loving me.

[guylining]

it seems to have happened quite a lot here.
is it really so surprising?

[clayking]

Perhaps I am that charming.
At times, both Magnus and Sabrina had celestial blood, their attraction made a little more sense.

Everything else is...new. And I like to pretend I'm above lofty mortal desires most of the time.

[guylining]

as if you don't love it when poor, insignificant mortals like me worship at your feet

[clayking]

Well now- I can't deny that- can I? Even if you aren't insignificant by any means.

Though playing to my ego does always win an argument.

[guylining]

i like your kingly ego

plus you have this way of making me feel wanted literally all the time, i really like that too

[clayking]

You do seem to have a thing for arrogance.

I imagine that is because I want you all the time- sitting on my lap or spread under me, eyes full of tears, and my name on your lips. Or just pressed against me-

So you are wanted. Very much.

[guylining]

i want you too

you know exactly what i like, like you can tap into that part of me that just needs

i don't know
to lose control
and i love letting you, but i love when you make me. and i love how you hurt me and that you like it

[clayking]

Well, I am a demon, and being that sadistic is rather encoded into me. And it's certainly a part of me I don't get to explore and you're just...

breath-taking when I have you like that. Well, you're always hard to forget when you walk into a room but..

Dripping in blood and whining for me? Kinda favorite.

I still dislike you being hurt by any hand but mine. Those last few weeks have certainly proven that.