dead to the power of two | OPEN

[runeing]

Who: celen's boys (aka charles and viktor), you?
Where: viktor's lab, lupin, the farm
What: viktor finally loses the battle against his illness and comes back. meanwhile, charles is learning magic (badly).
Warnings: death and dying, mentions of child abuse



PROMPTS IN COMMENTS.

▷ charles.
▷ viktor.

Comments

[incorrigibles]

[ how was he to know? yes, indeed — and yet, he feels bad regardless, almost as if the fact that they have at least some similarity in their experiences should have been obvious to him, from... something.

still. he aims a soft, earnest smile at rafal. ]

Yeah, you are. [ "so am i," he would say, except he's dead, so. instead, ]

But I'll remember it. I won't touch you without warning, from now on, I promise.

[nilhilistic]

[ hm. he wonders if he should say more but he dismisses it. no need to plague charles with his issues. ]

It is already forgotten. Pay it no mind.

[incorrigibles]

[ there's a moment he wonders if rafal is going to say something else — but then he waves the issue away, tucks it into a box, and charles has done the same so many times in the past he doesn't have it in him to try and open the lid again.

but he will remember. ]

Right. Well, I'm gonna work on magic later, so... wanna do something else? [ let's hang out, rafal — ]

[nilhilistic]

Something?

[ rafal looks at him blankly. ]

Ah, a hobby or an interest. I don't have those. Beyond making desserts.

[ he exercised with alfred and did things around the somnius but those were unique situations. where rafal was attempting repatriations. ]