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[whatwas]

[The PCD clacks and the view shakes a bit, but finally centers on Horst's happy face. He's up on a roof, with four bottles of liquor and a chair.]

Right, you bunch of nutters, I'm going to sit up here and watch you all run about.

Tyki, you want a drink? I'm up here in the sane corner of the world.

Comments

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Very few.

...I'm not going to start offering candy as bribes.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Don't be cheap. I should get a free gift at the end of my tenth visit.

It's called marketing.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

I'm not selling anything- what would you want, anyway?

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

I don't know. [he takes Johannes's hat off, twirls it. Aha.]

A hat. If my brother ever comes back, he'll chew me out good for stealing this.

Or a blanket. Socks are always nice. You have to think simple, but functional.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

[Stares.]

You should be grateful I'm interested in vivisecting you to begin with, not expect free gifts.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

You should be grateful I want you to vivisect--dissect? I am dead--me. If I didn't, you'd have no vampires at all to work with.

If you make your practice more approachable, you won't have to kidnap people like Sasuke who are tied to people who will kill you for just doing your job.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Dissect- yes, I suppose that's more appropriate- and if you didn't want to be studied, I'd capture you anyway at some point or another. That's how it usually works.

...There's always a risk involved. I've made good offers to people before, but it doesn't work. Gifts aren't going to help.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

And I'd mind control you into letting me go. It'd be very boring for both of us. Except I might feed off you. You aren't interested in donating again, are you?

And anyway, a gift would help me. I'll let you cut me up a dozen more times if I get socks at the end.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Then I'd find a way to escape or counter it. [Pauses.] Do you need the blood?

...And if you're serious- [Which is hard for even him to believe] I could possibly find something.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[Sheepish shrug] As much as I ever do. I haven't fed in about a week.

And I am serious. I'm your best customer by now, am I not?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

If you don't take as much as last time, I don't mind. I'd just rather not be unconscious if Hitsugaya shows up earlier than predicted.

...And not yet, you're not. Maybe in a few more visits. [No complementary socks and coffee mug for you.]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I didn't mean to take so much--I thought you meant 'I've had worse' to mean 'It won't affect me'.

How many visits before I'm in the lead?

[He's drunk enough that he doesn't reach for an arm. Kurotsuchi's limbs are well clothed anyway. Instead he moves to settle behind him, and he bites his neck]

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

[He's not drunk himself, yet, but he is a bit off-balance by everything - and Horst's teeth were already in his neck before he had a chance to move out of the way or question it.

And once it was there, it wasn't unpleasant. So he held still and payed attention to what it felt like. He only answers quietly.]

A few more.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[Horst motions with a hand--how many? three?--but holds Kurotsuchi very still while he feeds. No sense tearing the good doctor's jugular.

And because he's drunk, he experiments with what he learned from Mina: making it feel like something besides fangs in your throat. Making it feel nice, at least.]

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

[Holds off on trying to reply, partially because that takes too much concentration, and partially because the sensation shifted into being actively pleasant.

Strange. Without realizing, he relaxed into it.]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[Now why didn't he know this trick when he first turned? It would've made things so much easier.

Besides, if he's getting socks at the end of his dissection, the least he can do is make this enjoyable for Kurotsuchi.

He pulls back when he's had enough, and holds off the wounds for him. He licks his lip and wipes his chin.]

You were saying?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

[It takes him a few moments to realize Horst had stopped, and he tries to glance back at him.]

What? Yes- [Trying to keep track of the conversation is slightly harder with the combination of blood loss and alcohol.] A few more.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[Horst sits down facing him. He has some color to his complexion; a few cuts from shaving are healing visibly.]

Are you all right?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

[Waves off any concern, watching the healing with a bit of curiosity.]

Well enough. You're looking less like death.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Not a moment too soon. It's a pain in the arse to get company for the night here.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

You invited half the city over with your post, didn't you?

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Only the sane ones.

And it's just us right now, what does that tell you?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

That you're more picky about sanity than I thought, or they were all here earlier.

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm picky. You saw my brother; I've only got room for one of him in my life at a time.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether I should be insulted or not.