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.
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.
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.
[ Pretty intimately. That's one way to say it. There's a necklace Rafa has still not taken off because of how intimate they were. ]
we were intimate he and i
i do not know how intimate he was with vex. i think it was only sex but he has not told me about it i am sorry this must be difficult for you
there are others from eudio. there is nico and will, and hunter my husband. and others they may remember the other you but there was more than one dick grayson in eudio there was also a younger one. so this is not something new
( it's. a lot. all of it's a lot. dick grayson regularly considers himself -- frankly, unlovable. since his brother married his ex girlfriend, he's been more involved with his work than his personal life, since his personal life is a little bit. sad. hearing that he not only was intimate again, but with someone who was married?
who the fuck was this guy? )
This is a lot. Sorry. I think I should go, but if it wouldn't totally suck, I'm down for meeting up. If you still want to.
( jealousy is not a new feeling to dick grayson, the golden boy without a single trophy. but he's -- not really used to feeling jealous towards himself, especially not when a married vampire boyfriend comes into play. )
I'll try to shine a light! Hopefully I won't be too miserable in comparison. Vampire etiquette questions, what are your opinions on garlic and/or holy water?
garlic prevents me from touching you holy water burns me
but sunlight i can manage, these days. thanks to a friend
[ He doesn't answer the first part. He can't. This is so much harder than it should be. Everything this Dick says reminds him of his own Dick Grayson. And he looks like him. The picture looks like him.
It'll be harder in person.
But Rafa wants to see him in person, too. He's missed him, truly missed him. ]
have i now put you off? or do you still want to meet?
I'll be sure to clear out all the garlic and holy water from my coat pockets, then. And all my various other vampire paraphernalia I'm making up in an effort to cheer you up some, even though that might be a little insensitive? Or something?
It takes more than a couple of fangs to scare me off. :) I don't know my way around yet, so you pick a time and place and I'll be there.
( it gives dick the space and spans of time to regain himself a bit, wash up, reflect on all the information he's received over this decently short conversation. it's a lot, but dick doesn't need to be babied into understanding -- his spirits aren't so easily broken, his brain not so easy scrambled. so he makes his way to the coven ( it was mostly a lie when he said he didn't know his way around ) at his estimated time, eyeing the place up appreciatively.
and.
he could say he doesn't know rafa when he sees him, but -- that'd be a lie, too. dick grayson knows immediately on first sight that this man is someone he could've loved in another life, based off looks alone. he has kindness cuddled in the corners of his eyes, nice and chocolately, lit up like neon vacancy signs at the 'please love me i am so pretty' motel. he has a grace about him, some kind of air of otherworldliness, although dick suspects that might've been an effect from the vampirism.
he's also really, really pretty. and dick is staring, a little bit blatantly. those pretty eyes, and they used to look at him with some amount of affection? christ. he clears his throat. )
Rafa, I take it? ( his lips curl up handsomely, taking a seat at the bar. whatever you do, dick grayson, don't flirt with him!!! ) This whole situation makes a lot more sense, now that I'm looking at you.
[ The hour gives Rafa time to practice. In Eudio he could have made an appletini with his eyes closed. Now he has to test that theory. The liquor looks different here, the bottles are different. Sometimes they glow. He goes on scent, and ends with something flecked with gold and lurid pink. But it smells right.
So does Dick, when he arrives. Rafa catches the scent before he sees him, and it brings back every moment wrapped in warm arms, the smooth chest rising and falling beneath him while his fingers had traced over scars, the sweet words whispered in his ear, the bright blue of eyes that had crinkled when they looked at him.
He turns, the drink in hand, and sees Dick almost exactly as he'd left him in Eudio. Almost. Some scars are missing, the scars that Damon had left. That brings mixed feelings, because it's confirmation that this is not Rafa's Dick, but it means no other vampire has ever marked him.
That shouldn't matter.
It does matter a little bit. And then Dick is as sweet as ever, making Rafa smile as soon as he speaks. He goes over to him, with the bar standing between them. He leans over it to set the drink on a coaster in front of Dick, and then looks up, dark eyes meeting brilliant blue. His smile softens. ]
You always knew how to charm me. The way you look at me as if I am the handsome one, as if you have never seen a mirror in your life.
[ He taps the base of the glass. ]
It looks wrong, but trust me. It should taste right.
( dick's eyebrows lift at the mysterious color of the drink, a slippery gaze raising from the glass to meet rafa's eye. more than suspicious, he looks amused, silently picking himself out of the hoodie on his shoulders, folding it delicately over the back of his chair. underneath, he has on a dark blue henley, rolled to the elbows, frayed at the edges.
he supposes it's probably a good thing, to be told you're beautiful by someone you find stunning. but -- he's not a big fan. surely rafa must know how lovely he is, and if he doesn't, surely someone must remind him every now and then. he feels the carnal instinct to force rafa into trusting how beautiful he finds him -- and then he has the thought i probably told him that all the time. he swallows down a lump of emotion, stealing the glass with a brief tip in rafa's direction. )
If it tastes half as good as you look, I will be happy.
( yeah, he should definitely reel it back. from here on out, he's on his best behavior. he takes a drink smoothly, eyeing the drink with an understanding nod shortly after. )
Not bad, Rafa. You can make me drinks anytime.
( REEL IT BACK ... right. he nods more affirmatively in rafa's direction at the question, setting the glass down with a soft clink. )
It's something, alright. I'm not entirely sure how I'm feeling, but I think I really needed a drink, so. Thank you. And thank you for meeting up with me. I know it's probably ... it probably sucks, kind of.
[ Rafa comes around the bar now. He perches on the stool beside Dick and smiles at him. His eyes sweep briefly down over his arms, over his hands. Both are so well known to him.
His scent is the same to every last detail. The only difference is the scars. Which means that this Dick was never in Eudio, but he is still...
He is still. He is not like the other one, the one that had looked like Rafa. Or like Hunter. ]
You think that it sucks. [ Deadpan. Also, that phrase sounds strange on Rafa's tongue. ] To find you alive, to find you here, you think that would not make me happy. I thought you were lost.
[ And part of him is. That's a thing. The Dick that remembers Rafa kissing him is not here.
But this is Dick. In every way, it is. And he's alive. That's better than not knowing either way. ]
I will make you all the drinks you want. I hope I get to make many. I only worried I was making you...awkward, shall we say.
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Text; daemon: kyd
[ What seems too good to be true often is. ]
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Who's this?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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we were intimate
he and i
i do not know how intimate he was with vex. i think it was only sex but he has not told me about it
i am sorry this must be difficult for you
there are others from eudio. there is nico and will, and hunter my husband. and others
they may remember the other you
but there was more than one dick grayson in eudio
there was also a younger one. so this is not something new
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( it's. a lot. all of it's a lot. dick grayson regularly considers himself -- frankly, unlovable. since his brother married his ex girlfriend, he's been more involved with his work than his personal life, since his personal life is a little bit. sad. hearing that he not only was intimate again, but with someone who was married?
who the fuck was this guy? )
This is a lot. Sorry.
I think I should go, but if it wouldn't totally suck, I'm down for meeting up. If you still want to.
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i have never been exclusive, that is
[ Sure, because this is going to make it easier. ]
that is a human thing.
i would like to see you
i do not mean to overwhelm you. if it is easier, i do not have to speak of eudio.
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What are you?
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am i the first you have met?
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But possibly I can trust my alternate self and assume you aren't terrible, like the others I've met?
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he thought that of everyone
but me in particular.
i am no danger to you.
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( jealousy is not a new feeling to dick grayson, the golden boy without a single trophy. but he's -- not really used to feeling jealous towards himself, especially not when a married vampire boyfriend comes into play. )
I'll try to shine a light! Hopefully I won't be too miserable in comparison.
Vampire etiquette questions, what are your opinions on garlic and/or holy water?
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holy water burns me
but sunlight i can manage, these days. thanks to a friend
[ He doesn't answer the first part. He can't. This is so much harder than it should be. Everything this Dick says reminds him of his own Dick Grayson. And he looks like him. The picture looks like him.
It'll be harder in person.
But Rafa wants to see him in person, too. He's missed him, truly missed him. ]
have i now put you off? or do you still want to meet?
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And all my various other vampire paraphernalia I'm making up in an effort to cheer you up some, even though that might be a little insensitive? Or something?
It takes more than a couple of fangs to scare me off. :)
I don't know my way around yet, so you pick a time and place and I'll be there.
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i could show you around
if you wish?
i have been here some months now
do you enjoy cocktails as much as the dick i knew?
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If I can't taste the alcohol, I'm a big fan. Appletinis are fave.
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well then.
that happens to be one i can make
come to my bar, when you are ready
i will make you a drink. and show you the city
[ He sends a map point for The Coven to Dick's daemon. ]
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( it gives dick the space and spans of time to regain himself a bit, wash up, reflect on all the information he's received over this decently short conversation. it's a lot, but dick doesn't need to be babied into understanding -- his spirits aren't so easily broken, his brain not so easy scrambled. so he makes his way to the coven ( it was mostly a lie when he said he didn't know his way around ) at his estimated time, eyeing the place up appreciatively.
and.
he could say he doesn't know rafa when he sees him, but -- that'd be a lie, too. dick grayson knows immediately on first sight that this man is someone he could've loved in another life, based off looks alone. he has kindness cuddled in the corners of his eyes, nice and chocolately, lit up like neon vacancy signs at the 'please love me i am so pretty' motel. he has a grace about him, some kind of air of otherworldliness, although dick suspects that might've been an effect from the vampirism.
he's also really, really pretty. and dick is staring, a little bit blatantly. those pretty eyes, and they used to look at him with some amount of affection? christ. he clears his throat. )
Rafa, I take it? ( his lips curl up handsomely, taking a seat at the bar. whatever you do, dick grayson, don't flirt with him!!! ) This whole situation makes a lot more sense, now that I'm looking at you.
( :( fission mailed. )
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So does Dick, when he arrives. Rafa catches the scent before he sees him, and it brings back every moment wrapped in warm arms, the smooth chest rising and falling beneath him while his fingers had traced over scars, the sweet words whispered in his ear, the bright blue of eyes that had crinkled when they looked at him.
He turns, the drink in hand, and sees Dick almost exactly as he'd left him in Eudio. Almost. Some scars are missing, the scars that Damon had left. That brings mixed feelings, because it's confirmation that this is not Rafa's Dick, but it means no other vampire has ever marked him.
That shouldn't matter.
It does matter a little bit. And then Dick is as sweet as ever, making Rafa smile as soon as he speaks. He goes over to him, with the bar standing between them. He leans over it to set the drink on a coaster in front of Dick, and then looks up, dark eyes meeting brilliant blue. His smile softens. ]
You always knew how to charm me. The way you look at me as if I am the handsome one, as if you have never seen a mirror in your life.
[ He taps the base of the glass. ]
It looks wrong, but trust me. It should taste right.
This must all be so strange for you, my friend.
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he supposes it's probably a good thing, to be told you're beautiful by someone you find stunning. but -- he's not a big fan. surely rafa must know how lovely he is, and if he doesn't, surely someone must remind him every now and then. he feels the carnal instinct to force rafa into trusting how beautiful he finds him -- and then he has the thought i probably told him that all the time. he swallows down a lump of emotion, stealing the glass with a brief tip in rafa's direction. )
If it tastes half as good as you look, I will be happy.
( yeah, he should definitely reel it back. from here on out, he's on his best behavior. he takes a drink smoothly, eyeing the drink with an understanding nod shortly after. )
Not bad, Rafa. You can make me drinks anytime.
( REEL IT BACK ... right. he nods more affirmatively in rafa's direction at the question, setting the glass down with a soft clink. )
It's something, alright. I'm not entirely sure how I'm feeling, but I think I really needed a drink, so. Thank you. And thank you for meeting up with me. I know it's probably ... it probably sucks, kind of.
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His scent is the same to every last detail. The only difference is the scars. Which means that this Dick was never in Eudio, but he is still...
He is still. He is not like the other one, the one that had looked like Rafa. Or like Hunter. ]
You think that it sucks. [ Deadpan. Also, that phrase sounds strange on Rafa's tongue. ] To find you alive, to find you here, you think that would not make me happy. I thought you were lost.
[ And part of him is. That's a thing. The Dick that remembers Rafa kissing him is not here.
But this is Dick. In every way, it is. And he's alive. That's better than not knowing either way. ]
I will make you all the drinks you want. I hope I get to make many. I only worried I was making you...awkward, shall we say.
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