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text; hexd

[vexy]

Did you just come out of the oven? Because you're hot!

If I told you that you had a great body, would you hold it against me?

Darling, if you were words on a page, you'd be what they call FINE PRINT!

You wanna know what's beautiful? Read the first word again.

Your arse is so nice that it is a shame that you have to sit on it.

[pleasant]

Tossing everything at the wall to see what sticks, huh? Not a bad tactic. Have you had much luck?

[vexy]

only with you. or is that just me getting lost in my imagination?

[pleasant]

Getting a bit ahead of ourselves, are we?

[vexy]

i could always do with a bit of head, luv

not that i'd call what you're packing "a bit"

[pleasant]

( what )

Uh huh.

That's pretty weird, that you seem confident that you know that?

[vexy]

[ there was the sound of a record scratch in his head ]

you're not just playing coy

you don't remember me




typical

[pleasant]

If you always introduce yourself like this, I'm pretty sure I'd remember you, man.

Text; daemon: kyd

[mordacita]

dick grayson?

[ What seems too good to be true often is. ]

[pleasant]

In the flesh! In the elephant, I should say.
Who's this?

[mordacita]

it is rafa
dick i am so glad you are here
when we arrived and i could not find you i was so afraid
i have been so afraid. but now you are here and


can i see you?

[pleasant]

Whoa whoa.
Let's take it back a few steps and start with, who's Rafa?
Sorry man. I'm coming up blank. If it's any consolation, this is now the second time this has happened to me.

[mordacita]

[ Delay.


Types for a while.

He knew it was too good to be true. ]

you do not know me

i thought that
because you look just the same.

it does not matter. my apologies
i knew a dick grayson in another world. he was important to me
you can call me a friend. i am sorry for the confusion.

[pleasant]

( well this is

this is something.

dick swallows emotion, firstly, and then puts his detective thinking cap on. )

Do you know someone named Vex? Overly sexual, completely lacking any semblance of tact?

[mordacita]

yes
we were in that world together. it was called eudio
in fact the first place i met dick grayson was at a party vex threw

[ ... ]

did he offend you?

[pleasant]

I'm decently hard to offend, but I was a little uncomfortable. It seemed like he knew me pretty intimately.
It seems like you knew me pretty intimately too, if you don't mind me saying so.
I know it's
it's probably hard, for you. And I'm sorry that I'm not who you thought I was.

video; quothed

[deathkid]

[ it's dick. but if dick's here, is loki with him? nico's heart feels like it's being squeezed. it's good to know he's alive after the fall of eudio, but... ]

Dick? I knew you weren't dead. Is Loki with you?

[pleasant]

Um.

( squinting, dick looks clearly uncomfortable on camera. video chatting with random teens is exactly how your face gets featured in the bludhaven newspaper. )

The, uh, Norse god Loki? No, can't say I've seen him lately. Maybe if you sacrifice a goat he'll pop up from the great beyond, kid.

[deathkid]

[ a long pause as he stares at dick. several things are going through his mind including the fact that dick doesn't seem at all to remember anything about his relationship with loki. which... is a bit awkward and sad. ]

You don't know who I am, do you? Especially if you're calling me a kid.

[pleasant]

( he stresses his eyebrows together momentarily, lips stuck in a pucker. )

Bruce Wayne's latest adoptee? Welcome to the fam.

( just kidding. bruce wayne is dead and dick -- dick deals with that through humor, apparently. this whole situation sucks. there's a tight coil in his belly, built on the notion of people knowing him but him being unaware -- and people expecting something, either greatness or sexual prowess, that dick can't provide.

dick's just dick. orphan mourning the loss of his adoptive father, brother trying to get jason todd locked behind bars. ( brother mourning tim drake, he doesn't allow himself to think. ) he's not -- whoever all these people think he is. and he's honestly sick of it. )

Just kidding. No, I don't know you. That's kind of becoming the norm here.

Please don't tell me I slept with you, too.

[deathkid]

[ opens and closes his mouth a few times before shaking his head. he doesn't know who bruce wayne is and nothing about what dick is referring to, but nico can guess it's probably related to his secret personality as nightwing. ]

My name is Nico di Angelo, and only once, really. I was... kinda more involved with your fiance. Who... you probably don't remember either.

[ it's probably not what he wants to hear, but nico has never been the type to hold back information to save someone's feelings. ]

[pleasant]

Fiance?

( it's almost insulting, hearing that word. dick grayson -- this dick grayson, with a word that means a future, and a life, dangling right in front of him and he ... he can't reach out and take it. that isn't him. he's a vigilante, and his entire family is dead or estranged -- the whole world might very well be dead on top of that, and

and nico says fiance, and dick has the gall to think, i want that.

bruce always taught him to be selfless. it's the mission, the people, justice that comes first, and the rest is all white noise. he'd be profoundly disappointed, dick thinks, to see his eldest son with a secret, dirty, domestic desire. )

N-no, I, uh. ( he shakes his head, knitting his eyebrows like that might shake memories back into his head. ) That's definitely not me, sorry. For what it's worth, this is the third time this has happened, now and, I'm, um. ( fuck. fuck. ) Sorry, again. I'm not who you expected. Dick freaking Grayson, huh? What a Casanova. Haha.

( not only did that dick have someone, he had someones. he had so man someones, his someones had someones. how can one version have at least four people, and this version have absolutely fucking no one? dick would like a refund on his shitty life, thanks. )

1/2

[deathkid]

[ lifting his hands in what he hopes is a placating manner, nico quickly shakes his head. in a way, he gets it. if their places were switched, if dick was telling him about loki, about vex, about will, about percy... would he want to know? or would ignorance be kinder. he wants to be kind to dick; the older ( younger ) man had always been kind, even when he'd been jealous of nico. he doesn't want that kindness to go to waste on him. ]

It's okay. I get it. It must be really weird having all these people tell you who you are when you're not that person. I'm sorry I mistook you for him. It's just...

Whatever the case is with you, I want you to be happy. So if you need help settling in, I'm just a call away. And- There's one other thing...

private;

[deathkid]

[ and here is when the feed switches because beyond loki, nico isn't sure who might've known about dick's secret identity. out of respect of the vigilante and his duty, nico figures it's safer to keep it under wraps. ]

The others probably don't know, but I do. It's dangerous to be out at night, even as skilled as you are, and there isn't much in the way of crime. So... Nightwing might not need to make much of an appearance, if you know what I mean. But if he does, I hope he's very careful. There's monsters in the forest and more than that to go bump in the night.

[mordacita]

[ A single rose is left at Dick's windowsill on New Year's Eve. The note attached wishes him a Happy New Year, and is signed with a cursive letter R. ]