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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 10, 2011 17:30:45 GMT -5
"You'll never know 'im well enough to be 'im totally," said Adrien too quickly. "You'd never be allowed. A man like my 'usband, 'e keeps 'is secrets close."
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Post by Kirk Lazarus on Aug 10, 2011 23:55:45 GMT -5
"Then that's what I'll do" he looked up with a sad smile "I'll make sure to keep my secrets."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 11, 2011 0:49:06 GMT -5
"Sorr-ee, Mr. Lazareus," said Adrien lightly, but with a tight, distressed smile. "Too many sings I cannot tell you. Ask me somesing else, peur-'aps I can anseur zat."
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Post by Kirk Lazarus on Aug 11, 2011 0:57:07 GMT -5
Kirk stayed quiet for a moment before nestling himself closer to Adrien's stomach, it wasn't something too affectionate.
"What is your favorite food?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 11, 2011 1:02:27 GMT -5
It wasn't too affectionate, but it sure took him by surprise. Out of habit he pushed his fingers through his hair.
"Me? Christ, eef I knew I would tell you. Adrian 'as never asked and I 'ave never sought about it. 'E does not care for food much. Alzo, earlier in ze relationship, 'e would have been sulky at my doing zis to 'is 'air, bot 'e likes it more now."
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Post by Kirk Lazarus on Aug 11, 2011 1:05:56 GMT -5
"That is quite unfortunate, it feels phenomenal."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 11, 2011 1:11:31 GMT -5
"You underestimate Adrian Veidt's devotion to maintaining zat funny little flip," said Adrien, in an amused, but somewhat dark tone. "'E is - 'ow you say it, anal."
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Post by Kirk Lazarus on Aug 11, 2011 1:14:56 GMT -5
"I can definitely appreciate a man who's that dedicated to his hair."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 11, 2011 1:18:39 GMT -5
"Before we came out, 'e zhust 'ad to do it differently to disguise 'imself in public. And wear gloves, and somesing less flashy. Alzo 'e spoke wiss a Prussian accent. I don't know if zis is 'elpful?"
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Post by Kirk Lazarus on Aug 11, 2011 1:19:35 GMT -5
"It is" he said truthfully "all information given is helpful, thank you."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 11, 2011 1:35:27 GMT -5
He tried to think of more useful pieces of information.
"Let me sink. Well," he said, a little awkwardly, "early on, when I was still ze assistant to Micaela, I did my 'air like 'is, and he messed it on purpose whenever 'e could. And I called 'im 'daddy' in bed and 'e likes to be bitten 'ere-" He touched Kirk's throat. "-and 'ere." And then laid a hand on his chest. "...zis is telling too much, isn't it?"
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Post by Kirk Lazarus on Aug 11, 2011 1:36:34 GMT -5
Kirk looked up at him, with a very Adrian look and almost whispered "No."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 11, 2011 2:06:07 GMT -5
He felt he should have been more unnerved by this than he was, but wasn't.
"...someone once asked me if 'e is kinky. Moderately, I suppose. I feel zat.... 'e is 'ard to understand. As 'is partner, I cannot always be certain zat I am satisfying 'im-"
He was getting dangerously close to emotional over this, but stubbornly refused to show it. These problems weren't even the reason he wanted a divorce. Had wanted. He didn't know anymore. "-I weel say zo zat 'e does not like... wot is it, ze name-calling, et cetera. I believe... zat it reminds 'im of ze Comedian, you know. I am sure you researched 'im? When Adrian started out, ze Comedian.... wot did 'e tell me? Zat 'e is territorial and 'e.... stomped on 'is face, 'e said, and left 'im for dead. And now you know why 'is nose 'as a bump, see?" He sighed again. "If you ask 'im 'ow 'e feels, and you say, 'oh, but ze look on your face says you are distressed!', 'e says, zis exactly: "I sink I would know if I was distressed!" Or whatever. Bot I know no matter wot 'e says, 'e 'as a lot of demons from ze past, 'e zhust weel not confront zem. Even ze recent past."
He sighed yet again, hand still enmeshed in Kirk's hair. "I might as well tell you... afteur Micaela vanished, 'e would 'ardly talk about it. I 'ad begun studying Eenglish wiss 'er, bot 'e made me continue afteur - I could not even speak French, not even my bed, God! Of course I speak Eenglish now, but i was going to pieces, you know? We went to somesing in Brasov at ze end of October, and... well, I became very drunk, and slept wiss anozzeur man, and I almost left 'im. 'E was so angry zat 'e almost 'it me. 'E broke a mirror. I sink it upset 'im to 'ave almost done, bot I was too scared at ze time. 'E...." In spite of everything, it occurred to him that spilling Adrian's private weaknesses to Kirk was going to far, but he'd already gone far enough to not hold back now. "...begged me to stay. Zat was when everysing changed. I guess 'e found, 'e did not want to lose me."
Leaning back slightly in thought, he said, "Later, in Londres, 'e said, "I 'ave.... spent ze majority of my life alone and.... unbozzeured by ze emotional needs of ozzers. I am sorry zat you of all people 'ave to endure zis...""
After a small, painful pause, he said weakly, "Zat sums 'im up well."
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Post by Kirk Lazarus on Aug 11, 2011 2:50:00 GMT -5
Looking up from the boys lap, he absorbed all that he could as he spoke, nodding slowly with every bit of information given.
Adrien Veidt was a shattered man, torn to shreds by past mistakes and events.
Like any man Kirk thought.
But with every passing moment, he was more and more glad that he'd shown up that day. Something about laying in the lap of his husband, on his couch, in his home, made Kirk feel more at home in Adrian's skin than ever before. It was this that made him close his eyes and sigh deeply, imagining all the things that Veidt would be at that moment.
"Everyman has their matters of contention, it's up to those men to deal with him as they should."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Aug 11, 2011 3:04:06 GMT -5
"Great, you talk like 'im too," said Adrien weakly, thinking about Adrian's own manner of evasion. His behavior was justified, always, because it was his own. He was too emotional to deal with this right now. He kind of wished Kirk wasn't here, except that it was too comfortable - he was desperately unhappy and didn't want to be alone. He knew he wasn't technically a neglected little housewife - he was the one steadfastly avoiding Adrian - but he also felt that to some extent, he was one. Adrian should have been there for him in his time of need, and it was Adrian's fault he couldn't be - because Adrian was a madman who just had to save the world on his own terms, even if it meant being a murderer - even if it meant playing God.
"Bot - Christ, even for some men, zere are sings zat zhust should not be done," he pleaded. "Even for you- Adrian, even for Adrian Veidt, you 'ave to 'ave some rules - and cannot zhust abandon me becoss, becoss it is too far from your comfort to accommodate my emotional needs!"
Feeling like a complete wreck and too exhausted from the strain of trying to talk about his husband, he started sobbing weakly. "I'm sorr-ee, Meesteur Lazareus, actually sings wiss us are not so good now - zat ees why I do not weesh to be in ze feelm, wot if our marriage does not survive?"
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