escordvi | [closed] 🌱🏛️ quiz, vol. 03

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alhaitham,
kaveh

[closed] 🌱🏛️ quiz, vol. 03

Who: Alhaitham & Kaveh
Status: Closed
Where: Their home in Eltrut, the Roost and some other places
What: Just roommates being roommates
Warnings: 🏳️‍🌈 and also mild NSFW warnings, don't say I didn't warn you.

APRIL/MAY 2024

→ 🌱️ mixed emotions, fixed devotions
→ 🏛️ in the shade of trees
→ 🏛️ gentle song and treasured memories
→ 🏛️ I want to feel your heart right now
→ 🌱️ you keep waiting for something called love
→ 🏛️ the only truth that has existed

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...He did say G'raha is cuter than you a--ON THE NETWORK?

[Kaveh just went sheet white. Pale as a ghost. Oh no. oh no oh no.]

M-maybe not many people saw it?

[...yeah Alhaitham had kind of been expecting that.]

There were over a thousand responses on it, the last time I checked.

[...how Alhaitham is able to say this calmly is beyond anyone's understanding.]

O--one thousand?!

[Kaveh just shoves the plate away so he can thunk his head right onto the breakfast table. Oh no. What has he done.]

[Yeah Alhaitham isn't surprised by this either.]

Perhaps now you'll think twice before allowing yourself to get that inebriated in public.

[Not that Alhaitham didn't enjoy the very private parts that he got but, you know. It's not as fun when Kaveh can't even remember it in the end.]

I wasn't--I didn't---oh god what pictures did I post?!

I didn't look thoroughly, but I assume its from your collection of... [A pause as he recalls what number Kaveh dropped last night.] ...288 photos.

[Yeah. He went there.]

Two-hundred-eighty-eight? It was two-eighty-seven last night--

[Erk.

He kind of freezes in place.]

[Have a snort here now because how's that hole you're digging look like now, Kaveh.]

You made me take one with you. Something about putting you in a headlock.

[Siiip—oh, wait, he's out of coffee.]

A--headlock? Why did I want to be put in a headlock?

[Drunk Kaveh what did you DO.]

Your drinking partner asked you to.

[Bleh, no more coffee... he's gonna put his mug back down.]

That, and you also said it would 'feel nice'.

[He's still skeptical about that but it also allowed him to hold Kaveh close so... he can't fully complain.]

...I mean, I guess I could see why but...why would he even ask that? That's so strange.

[He's sighing a bit, but finally peels himself up to try and swipe the coffee mug.

What? He's going to make them both coffee.]

You were the one who said yes.

[Which, to be fair, doesn't mean much since Alhaitham is well aware of how ~~unhinged~~ creative Kaveh's mind can get, but it should still be stated for the record.

Anyway, he has no qualms at all about Kaveh taking his mug since its already empty, so he just lets it happen. Give him that coffee ASAP Kaveh, he's waiting for it.]

[Kaveh is slower than he'd usually be, shuffling slowly to the coffee grinder, but he's still pulling down his own mug and starting the process. He wants coffee too!!]

Why must you hold what my drunken self agreed to against me?

Just because you were inebriated by copious amounts of alcohol doesn't change the fact that it was still you who did those things.

[Alhaitham says this as he leans against the entrance to the kitchen, apparently having decided to follow his senior in his quest for coffee.]

And have I not already paid for this? I'll remind you again it wasn't like I set out to get plastered last night.

[GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE. Alright, beans ground (with minimal wincing), into the pot and onto the stove it goes...]

You certainly could have stopped at one, like your original plan.

[Which he didn't, and never has. It is just a fallacy at this point and they both know it.]

And you could stop at one coffee in the morning, what difference does pointing out things that didn't happen do now?

[As soon as the coffee is properly heated, into the mugs it goes. Sugar and milk into his, just a touch of cardamom for Alhaitham's, right into his ridiculously silly mug. The things he does for love!]

For one, I don't get drunk on coffee.

[But he'll take that finished cup of coffee Kaveh's hands once it's been handed to him so that he can promptly start on his second cup of coffee for the day. Jury's up if he will go onto a third; only time will tell.]

Do you even remember the last time you got drunk at all?

[Because if he just can't get drunk then it's an invalid argument!

...Kaveh is going to drink his coffee now. It helps the hangover greatly.]

Go bring me the dishes.

I do. It was the first and only time, in order to learn where my limits lie.

[There wasn't anything too terribly special about the occurrence itself. He simply wanted to know for future reference, and so he did it. The fact that it was his first night in the newly refurbished house that'd once been a research center did not factor into his decision at all.

But the dishes do need to be cleaned, so Alhaitham puts down his coffee on the nearby counter and step out to grab the used plates from the dining table to bring them back in. It only takes a minute, and once he returns with said plates he passes them to Kaveh so that he can wash them, then returns to his much appreciated cup of coffee.]

Edited 2024-05-28 13:47 (UTC)

[Kaveh gives Alhaitham a sidelong glance, but there are dishes to be done, and while his head is pounding, he can at least do his chores before he crawls back into bed to hide from the entire world.

...It's comfortable, a bit, just standing here together in the kitchen, with Alhaitham doing absolutely nothing beyond what was asked of him. It feels like home. For a little while Kaveh can not think about the absolute idiot he's made of himself.]

[Alhaitham is content with standing close by, doing nothing but drinking the coffee Kaveh made for him while his senior washes the dishes. In that aspect its something that's occurred back in Sumeru multiple times, so there is nothing different just based on that alone. But when taken with everything else...

It is a strange thing to consider, how something so inherently familiar could also be so foreign in the same breadth. That they are here, in this space together, doing something that they have gone through many times, yet the context surrounding it is unlike anything else they would have ever expected. Everything is so different, yet at the same time...]

We haven't stocked up on painkillers since the other night. [He remarks after a few more sips of his coffee.] I can go and get them in a bit.

[No point dwelling on those thoughts, at least not right now. He'll come back to them later.]

Dehya offered to bring some...

[Obviously, Kaveh isn't super comfy accepting favors, but if it means Alhaitham stays right here with him.... well, then it's a sacrifice he's willing to make.]

[Both of Alhaitham's eyebrows briefly rise up there, since he wasn't expecting that—Kaveh accepting said offer rather than the fact that Dehya made it—but he's certainly not complaining since that will save him the effort of a trip.]

Did she say when she'd be coming?

[Just so he knows so that he won't be startled by any sudden visitors he wasn't expecting.]

In an hour...closer to 45 minutes now, probably.

[he sets the dishes aside in the drying rack and sighs a bit.]

I might lay back down...I'm too scared to look at the network.

so soon....

very very soon....

:3c

:D

>:D

poor kaveh just dying further and further

help him....save him....

nobody will save him

he is praying to celestia rn

celestia is too far away to hear him

he is crying

cry more so that alhaitham can drink his tears—

Degenerate

only for his dearest senior kaveh :]

bullying!!!!!

bullying out of love~

;A;

:]

>:<

:]]]

;3;

wehs...

Gently handwaves minor continuity

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Timey wimey