[closed] 🌱🏛️ quiz, vol. 01

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Who: Alhaitham & Kaveh
Status: Closed :]
Where: Everywhere (wherever the prompts take them)
What: A pair of roommates get very busy in the month of February
Warnings: The warning you need in seeing two men pine for each other so hard they grow an entire forest.

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FEBRUARY 2024

→ 🌱 a tale of birthday shenanigans
→ 🏛️ dragonapping aftermath
→ 🌱 treading grounds, both new & old
→ 🏛️ zombie mermaids, round 3

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just winning the gay competition

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[How long had it been, since Kaveh and Alhaitham had sat so peacefully together? Not since they were students, at least. And Kaveh hadn't realized just how badly he missed it--he'd known, but not truly understood, how much he had missed this quite assurance, the understanding that they existed and would always exist in each other's orbits.

They don't need each other, not the way they had when they were young. Kaveh has walked away before and been fine. Alhaitham will always be fine without them. But in the quiet moments like this, Kaveh can admit and know that he is better, with Alhaitham.

...He'll have to be braver than he thinks he knows how, if he ever hopes to be honest. But even so...]

Mm...I wonder if we could bring flower seeds across the rift.

[Padisarahs, Sumeru Roses, even harra fruits...but what Kaveh misses and wants are Mourning Flowers.]

they're so real for that... heavy traces of homosexuality indeed

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[Alhaitham has never forgotten what it'd been like, to lay with Kaveh like this and simply exist in each other's space. Like this, when they can be together without need of a sexual tryst beforehand like what they have been constantly doing since their reunion in the tavern. It's something that they haven't been truly able to do since their time as students, and its only now does he realize the depths of how badly he has longed for this. He'd made his peace with putting all of that in the past when Kaveh chose to walk out of his life back then, knowing that all of that could never return, and yet now...

It's nice. This is nice, and he wants Kaveh to keep on doing it, for as long as he wants to. Alhaitham will take whatever Kaveh is willing to give.]

At this rate you might as well bring in everything from Sumeru to this place. [He remarks with a faint huff, the words slightly muffled as his face is still pressed against Kaveh's stomach.] Still, if something as specific book can be retrieved, it stands to reason that a few packets of seeds would also be doable.

[Or maybe its not. Who knows? Those rifts continue to be fairly inexplicable.]

their strange friendship....

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Don't sass me, if I can bring in Padisarah, I can get harra fruits too.

[He does chuckle a bit, though, and gently removes Alhaitham's earpieces so they are no longer digging into his thigh or the man's head, smoothing out his hair as he does. What need is there to ask? Understanding each other's comfort had been so easy, once.

...It's a little terrifying, how quickly it becomes easy again, when they let it. How much time have they wasted in fear?]

obviously they're just best friends amirite

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[Though Alhaitham doesn't chuckle, the huff that he lets out might as well be the same thing. He also allows Kaveh to take off his ear pieces, and while he doesn't verbally express his gratitude the quiet sigh that comes out from him next as Kaveh runs a hand through his hair along with the way he relaxes further to Kaveh's touch does all the talking for him.

...its really nice. It's almost a shame that he'll have to wait for a whole year to have this again after tonight.]

It'd be nice to have harra spice. [Another muffled murmur into Kaveh's clothes. Black pepper is nice and all but it really does not compare to harra. Alhaitham does miss it more than he'd anticipated himself to, just as how he didn't think how right this all feels until he actually gets to experience it for himself. Part of him had thought what he'd felt with those memories had been through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia... but if anything, the memories hold only a fraction of what he feels now.]

the very best of friends...

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Then I'll look into it. We've got a big enough yard to do some proper gardening...though I'll have to make a system to keep it watered.

[Both of them like to wander off and explore too frequently to count on always doing it themselves, but Kaveh rigged up a system for the Enterprise, he can rig something up for their house all the same.

He keeps gently running his fingers through Alhaitham's hair, smoothing out bits of fluff that haven't yet become tangles, and smiles, in spite of himself. This is almost better, he thinks, than his final gift, but...well. That's for later tonight.]

Hey, you're not falling asleep on me now, are you?

only real homies break up and then get back together and sleep together under the pretense of rent

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[The only response Alhaitham lets out here is a quiet hum, mostly to show that he's listening even if the words are starting to make less sense to him now as comprehension gives way to a rising sense of drowsiness. His body relaxes even more, encouraged by the way Kaveh's fingers continue to run through his hair, gentle and warm.

Though Alhaitham can fall asleep easily if he wants to, its been a long time since he allowed himself to gradually drift off like this. It's different from the way they curl up in bed each night, different from the naps that he takes when the mood comes. Because its not so much as him desiring to fall asleep but him relaxing enough to be able to drift off without much thought, lulled into an easy sense of comfort that permeates through his entire being.]

oh my god they were roommates

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[Kaveh huffs a faint laugh, but he doesn't stop gently stroking through Alhaitham's hair, not until he feels the man full doze off. Even then, all he does is have Mehrak store the leftovers and then bring them a blanket and a book...Kaveh doesn't like to read as much as Alhaitham does, but he's still picked up a few novels here and there, and he doesn't want to do anything that would disturb Alhaitham's nap.

Once the blanket is properly draped over the younger man, and the book is in hand, Kaveh's other hand returns to gently playing with Alhaitham's hair, a soft smile on his face.]

...Happy birthday, Alhaitham.