[ Fabian had no idea this morning that this day would end up like this.
Then again, who would have? The series of utter shenanigans - and not even the good kind of shenanigans - that led up to this moment truly were too strange for anyone to imagine. One moment you're trying to take care of an AI baby you absolutely can't handle, then you run into your friend, and a series of shenanigans later you're sitting in the hallway of some sort of fake robot baby hospital.
.. It feels uncomfortable. For many reasons. The fact that the two of them seem to be the only people in here aside from the companion bots 'working' here, the sterile white and incredibly quiet hallway they're sitting in on some of those pathetic little plastic hospital waiting seats. It's a weird and awkward situation.
And the further they got into said weird and awkward situation, the more quiet Fabian got. At first he had still been yelling right alongside Gorgug in panic over the entire situation, but ever since the fake baby was handed over to the companion bots now working on repairing it, Fabian has grown.. quiet.
Weirdly quiet, in fact. The fact that the half-elf usually is so loud and present at any given time likely makes it stand out even more that he hasn't said a single word since they were told to wait here, even though they've been sitting here for a good twenty minutes now.
Fabian is just sitting there. He's not even looking over at Gorgug. Instead he's slumped forward, his face hidden by the two hands he's leaning it on. ]
Usually he's ready to rant about how annoying and dumb a mission was after it ends. But right now - he's not doing any of that, and it doesn't have anything to do with his fatigue. He remembers feeling so tired and hungry and aching to the bone after that dumb maze so soon after he arrived, but that was different. Back then, he didn't have anything to do. He just dragged himself back to the apartment with Riz, let Adaine come with them, and just spent time together recovering.
He has something to do now though, in the wake of the mission. His body feels sore from all the times it's been hurt and healed over the past while, especially during the battle with Gorgug at the end, but Fabian just pushes himself through it. At least enough to help get Gorgug back to the apartment, to put him into bed so he can rest after all of this, the other - for obvious reasons - seeming even more exhausted than Fabian himself. (Or maybe just less in a state to be able to cover it up.) Only after being absolutely sure that Gorgug would be sleeping in the bed for a while does Fabian leave the other's side, going to check up on Riz, shooting off texts to his other friends in this place, trying to get a handle of the state of things and trying to make a mental list of all the things he should be doing.
(Maybe this is why Riz always pushes himself so much, Fabian thinks - it's kind of nice to not have to stop and think about yourself in the wake of these things, to just shove that off to the side and ignore it. To feel like you're doing something better, something useful.)
It doesn't take too long though before Fabian gets back to Gorgug's room though, dragging a chair in there so he can sit down by the other's bedside. He is a little worried that he might fall asleep if he just has to sit there and wait though, and he doesn't want Gorgug to first wake up here to Fabian sleeping there, so he's grabbed a hand mirror and a comb to try and salvage his hair after the disaster that this past while has been. Might as well have something to focus on that keeps him awake.
Because he has to be awake when Gorgug wakes. Fabian wants to be there for him.
What else can he do to make up for all the times he fucked up in trying to bring Gorgug back to his senses? ]
( it had been some time since she last spoke to gorgug and while she had been busy with other affairs [a questionable dinner party], she didn't forget about what they had discussed. also she felt compelled to check on him. )
hey it's heather, it's been a while. I never did get a gun in the end.
Is he at the party anyway? Yes. A part of it is the fact that he didn't fully want to ignore someone's invitation - despite not knowing Heather well, she seemed nice enough when they spoke before - but that by itself wouldn't have done it with the mood Fabian has often found himself in lately. But getting quite literally dragged there by a friend is something Fabian can resist even less, so even though it's with an incredible amount of reluctance in his heart and a determination to not stay at the party for too long, Fabian does go. He even does his hair and dresses up for it, because even when he doesn't want to go to a party in the first place, he definitely will not be caught dead looking awful at a party, thanks.
But then there's the venue, and--
Honestly, Fabian has very little memory of what happened after that. He's talked to people, probably. Maybe he's done some stuff. It all blurs together in his mind, a haze behind the thoughts of what the fuck and where the fuck is Gorgug.
A haze that only clears a little bit when he finally gets an answer to the latter question once he manages to find the half-orc at the party. You'd think an incredibly tall friend with green skin would be easy enough to find in a world that isn't quite as diverse as the one they come from, but it feels like it's taken an eternity already by the time Fabian finally manages to spot the other, making his way through the crowd to approach the other. ]
Gorgug! [ He immediately hisses, one hand moving over, a finger extending until he's practically poking Gorgug in the chest in the most accusatory way possible. ] What did you do?!
[ I-Is Fabian angry? Is he upset? It might be difficult to tell, especially for one simple Gorgug.. He sure does seem worked up over something, though. It's some real dramatic Fabian energy. ]
It's also probably the best thing that's happened to Gorgug in a while. Even if, sure, coming to understand his friend's needs and where they're at should rank higher, and-- okay, it does rank higher. There's been a lot of feelings that had to come out and be said, and Gorgug appreciates that. But going back out to the party after what happened between him and Fabian was-- a lot, actually. More than Gorgug knew to be prepared for, and catching Fabian out of the corner of his vision was agonising. He had to look away. He had to tell himself to stop looking to catch his eye back, because--he always would. And it wasn't safe.
Maybe staying around was a bad thing, all things considered.
Gorgug chills out, somewhat, through it. Enough that at least when he gets back to the apartment with the others, he controls himself; he's loaded with an excuse on his tongue the entire time to speak with Fabian in private, but he hangs around in the chatter after their return. To hear Riz's thoughts, to contribute to the flow of the conversation.
And whether it's intentional or not, when Fabian announces that he's going to bed, Gorgug gives it a second or so before he slips out his, 'Oh, I wanna talk to you about something before you sleep. You go-- I wanna change.'
It gives him time. Gives them both time. No reason to catch Riz's attention (hopefully), and those five minutes should be enough to put him and Fabian out of Riz's mind. He can really do with changing too, Gorgug thinks; out from that night's clothes, and sparing a minute to splash his face with water. He knows what he wants, but he's telling himself he's going to hold back. He's going to resist. He's going to let Fabian speak first, as he always does, whether Gorgug wants that or not.
Gorgug gets to Fabian's room, knocks and waits for a response, then enters on in after it. Shuts the door behind him, turning with his back to it on the other side; looks over at Fabian, and-- ]
Can I kiss you?
[ He doesn't wait, eyes filled with both reservation and hope, his voice the same thing. Anticipating, waiting; and yet still mild enough that if he were to receive a no, he could swallow the disappointment well enough. Hide it, and not make a show.
The mood inside the booth is no longer with them, but still, Gorgug defers to Fabian. ]
[ Gorgug's come to the dance studio to spend a late lunch with Fabian.
The building is still enough of a novelty to hang out in (it's more new than old, still), and Gorgug thinks it isn't a bad idea to skip a few of his heavier projects for time with his new boyfriend. Even if said boyfriend has been a long time friend, and hanging out together at lunch (or a late lunch) isn't new itself, either. But they're exploring their relationship under this new designation, so they should do the kinds of things couples do, right?
And Gorgug does have a lot of effort to return to Fabian, especially when it comes to hanging out in their spot. So: he's here for a late lunch. Which is titled as such because someone has to make sure Riz is up for eating, and that guy has to be Fabian, currently. Which means that Gorgug gets to bring lunch for himself, and maybe he can watch Fabian dance, or they can sit and chill?
Regardless, Gorgug arrives to the studio wrapped up snug in a jacket (with a hood) and backpack on, peering into the different dance rooms until he finds the one Fabian is in. Watching him for a second, before letting himself in.
Hi, Fabian. What'cha up to? Gorgug will have a light smile and a wave to greet you with, even if he has to give it to the mirror. ]
[ Fabian truly is discovering the benefits of the bracelet Gorgug gave him during this mission. He wasn't sure if it'd work at first, but after briefly testing it out, he's found out that the people on this train definitely can't see through magic disguises.
Which is pretty good for trying to squeeze information out of people, yes, but it also makes traversing this entire train a lot easier. It's still not something Fabian can really do much with how busy he is with the work he's been given, but the moment he sees even the chance to slip away for a moment, he instantly goes for it.
Donning a similar guise to the one he had while talking to Lady Kestrel - a little older, fully human, this time ditching the eye patch to make himself seem like he has two eyes or his look might give away too much for this different purpose - it's not all that hard to slip past the Neon carriages and further down towards the Sprawl area, trying to spot an area where Gorgug likely might be busy with some engineering work.
It doesn't take too long, especially when Fabian just opts to follow the sounds of said engineering work. The moment he spots the half-orc, a grin spreads across his face, and he doesn't hesitate to walk right over to the other. ]
[ On Valentine's Day Gorgug will suddenly receive a text around the time that he usually starts wrapping things up in the lab to go to bed - or, well, to go to Fabian's bed, really. ]
don't come back to the manor just yet wait until i give you a sign this is VERY IMPORTANT make sure to not ignore this text!!!!!!!! [ --writes the frequent text ignorer. ]
And it's easy to blame that on Fabian being Fabian - really, patience is not his main virtue, and that's putting it mildly - but can you really blame him? That train mission might not have been the worst one they've been through, but he could easily name a whole lot of bad and dumb things about it. And one of the things on that list, perhaps even the one at the very top, might have been the fact he was separated from his friends like that.
So he immediately makes up with it. The moment they're back and off the train, the half-elf immediately drags his friends into some fun, yet kind of low-key activity-- in this case watching a movie together with some takeout meal. And when it's time to go to bed, Fabian immediately grabs Gorgug's hand after Riz has already departed to go to his room to sleep.
I was wondering — um. If you had any free time today?
I was thinking about going to the junkyard and looking for some parts.
[Despite everything that has happened in the last four years of his life, he still sounds like someone who is nervous that they're the uncool kid bugging someone else. Gorgug's a nice guy and it's good to have friends. Are they friends? Peter thinks they're friends.
This kind of thing was a lot easier for him once Ned was around.]
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Just wanted to check in. How are things going?
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action; during the july mission
Then again, who would have? The series of utter shenanigans - and not even the good kind of shenanigans - that led up to this moment truly were too strange for anyone to imagine. One moment you're trying to take care of an AI baby you absolutely can't handle, then you run into your friend, and a series of shenanigans later you're sitting in the hallway of some sort of fake robot baby hospital.
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And the further they got into said weird and awkward situation, the more quiet Fabian got. At first he had still been yelling right alongside Gorgug in panic over the entire situation, but ever since the fake baby was handed over to the companion bots now working on repairing it, Fabian has grown.. quiet.
Weirdly quiet, in fact. The fact that the half-elf usually is so loud and present at any given time likely makes it stand out even more that he hasn't said a single word since they were told to wait here, even though they've been sitting here for a good twenty minutes now.
Fabian is just sitting there. He's not even looking over at Gorgug. Instead he's slumped forward, his face hidden by the two hands he's leaning it on. ]
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cw: mention of alcoholism
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action; post-mission
Usually he's ready to rant about how annoying and dumb a mission was after it ends. But right now - he's not doing any of that, and it doesn't have anything to do with his fatigue. He remembers feeling so tired and hungry and aching to the bone after that dumb maze so soon after he arrived, but that was different. Back then, he didn't have anything to do. He just dragged himself back to the apartment with Riz, let Adaine come with them, and just spent time together recovering.
He has something to do now though, in the wake of the mission. His body feels sore from all the times it's been hurt and healed over the past while, especially during the battle with Gorgug at the end, but Fabian just pushes himself through it. At least enough to help get Gorgug back to the apartment, to put him into bed so he can rest after all of this, the other - for obvious reasons - seeming even more exhausted than Fabian himself. (Or maybe just less in a state to be able to cover it up.) Only after being absolutely sure that Gorgug would be sleeping in the bed for a while does Fabian leave the other's side, going to check up on Riz, shooting off texts to his other friends in this place, trying to get a handle of the state of things and trying to make a mental list of all the things he should be doing.
(Maybe this is why Riz always pushes himself so much, Fabian thinks - it's kind of nice to not have to stop and think about yourself in the wake of these things, to just shove that off to the side and ignore it. To feel like you're doing something better, something useful.)
It doesn't take too long though before Fabian gets back to Gorgug's room though, dragging a chair in there so he can sit down by the other's bedside. He is a little worried that he might fall asleep if he just has to sit there and wait though, and he doesn't want Gorgug to first wake up here to Fabian sleeping there, so he's grabbed a hand mirror and a comb to try and salvage his hair after the disaster that this past while has been. Might as well have something to focus on that keeps him awake.
Because he has to be awake when Gorgug wakes. Fabian wants to be there for him.
What else can he do to make up for all the times he fucked up in trying to bring Gorgug back to his senses? ]
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text | un; mason (because why not)
hey it's heather, it's been a while. I never did get a gun in the end.
how have you been?
gasp
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action; at the party
Is he at the party anyway? Yes. A part of it is the fact that he didn't fully want to ignore someone's invitation - despite not knowing Heather well, she seemed nice enough when they spoke before - but that by itself wouldn't have done it with the mood Fabian has often found himself in lately. But getting quite literally dragged there by a friend is something Fabian can resist even less, so even though it's with an incredible amount of reluctance in his heart and a determination to not stay at the party for too long, Fabian does go. He even does his hair and dresses up for it, because even when he doesn't want to go to a party in the first place, he definitely will not be caught dead looking awful at a party, thanks.
But then there's the venue, and--
Honestly, Fabian has very little memory of what happened after that. He's talked to people, probably. Maybe he's done some stuff. It all blurs together in his mind, a haze behind the thoughts of what the fuck and where the fuck is Gorgug.
A haze that only clears a little bit when he finally gets an answer to the latter question once he manages to find the half-orc at the party. You'd think an incredibly tall friend with green skin would be easy enough to find in a world that isn't quite as diverse as the one they come from, but it feels like it's taken an eternity already by the time Fabian finally manages to spot the other, making his way through the crowd to approach the other. ]
Gorgug! [ He immediately hisses, one hand moving over, a finger extending until he's practically poking Gorgug in the chest in the most accusatory way possible. ] What did you do?!
[ I-Is Fabian angry? Is he upset? It might be difficult to tell, especially for one simple Gorgug.. He sure does seem worked up over something, though. It's some real dramatic Fabian energy. ]
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cw: sexual language be in this thread, avert ur eyes
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after party;
It's also probably the best thing that's happened to Gorgug in a while. Even if, sure, coming to understand his friend's needs and where they're at should rank higher, and-- okay, it does rank higher. There's been a lot of feelings that had to come out and be said, and Gorgug appreciates that. But going back out to the party after what happened between him and Fabian was-- a lot, actually. More than Gorgug knew to be prepared for, and catching Fabian out of the corner of his vision was agonising. He had to look away. He had to tell himself to stop looking to catch his eye back, because--he always would. And it wasn't safe.
Maybe staying around was a bad thing, all things considered.
Gorgug chills out, somewhat, through it. Enough that at least when he gets back to the apartment with the others, he controls himself; he's loaded with an excuse on his tongue the entire time to speak with Fabian in private, but he hangs around in the chatter after their return. To hear Riz's thoughts, to contribute to the flow of the conversation.
And whether it's intentional or not, when Fabian announces that he's going to bed, Gorgug gives it a second or so before he slips out his, 'Oh, I wanna talk to you about something before you sleep. You go-- I wanna change.'
It gives him time. Gives them both time. No reason to catch Riz's attention (hopefully), and those five minutes should be enough to put him and Fabian out of Riz's mind. He can really do with changing too, Gorgug thinks; out from that night's clothes, and sparing a minute to splash his face with water. He knows what he wants, but he's telling himself he's going to hold back. He's going to resist. He's going to let Fabian speak first, as he always does, whether Gorgug wants that or not.
Gorgug gets to Fabian's room, knocks and waits for a response, then enters on in after it. Shuts the door behind him, turning with his back to it on the other side; looks over at Fabian, and-- ]
Can I kiss you?
[ He doesn't wait, eyes filled with both reservation and hope, his voice the same thing. Anticipating, waiting; and yet still mild enough that if he were to receive a no, he could swallow the disappointment well enough. Hide it, and not make a show.
The mood inside the booth is no longer with them, but still, Gorgug defers to Fabian. ]
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action | after Heather’s party
Hank doesn’t know where Gorgug lives, so he asks the RoboCops for help — gasp! — to leave him a note and a gift.
The note reads:
The gift is, predictably, a six-pack of beer. Hopefully it doesn’t have any ill effects — not more than the usual, anyway.
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[midway-later december]
The building is still enough of a novelty to hang out in (it's more new than old, still), and Gorgug thinks it isn't a bad idea to skip a few of his heavier projects for time with his new boyfriend. Even if said boyfriend has been a long time friend, and hanging out together at lunch (or a late lunch) isn't new itself, either. But they're exploring their relationship under this new designation, so they should do the kinds of things couples do, right?
And Gorgug does have a lot of effort to return to Fabian, especially when it comes to hanging out in their spot. So: he's here for a late lunch. Which is titled as such because someone has to make sure Riz is up for eating, and that guy has to be Fabian, currently. Which means that Gorgug gets to bring lunch for himself, and maybe he can watch Fabian dance, or they can sit and chill?
Regardless, Gorgug arrives to the studio wrapped up snug in a jacket (with a hood) and backpack on, peering into the different dance rooms until he finds the one Fabian is in. Watching him for a second, before letting himself in.
Hi, Fabian. What'cha up to? Gorgug will have a light smile and a wave to greet you with, even if he has to give it to the mirror. ]
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action; a while into the train mission
Which is pretty good for trying to squeeze information out of people, yes, but it also makes traversing this entire train a lot easier. It's still not something Fabian can really do much with how busy he is with the work he's been given, but the moment he sees even the chance to slip away for a moment, he instantly goes for it.
Donning a similar guise to the one he had while talking to Lady Kestrel - a little older, fully human, this time ditching the eye patch to make himself seem like he has two eyes or his look might give away too much for this different purpose - it's not all that hard to slip past the Neon carriages and further down towards the Sprawl area, trying to spot an area where Gorgug likely might be busy with some engineering work.
It doesn't take too long, especially when Fabian just opts to follow the sounds of said engineering work. The moment he spots the half-orc, a grin spreads across his face, and he doesn't hesitate to walk right over to the other. ]
Working here all by yourself, handsome?
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text to soon/eventual action; post-mission
don't come back to the manor just yet
wait until i give you a sign
this is VERY IMPORTANT make sure to not ignore this text!!!!!!!! [ --writes the frequent text ignorer. ]
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2/2; action
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action; right after the mission
And it's easy to blame that on Fabian being Fabian - really, patience is not his main virtue, and that's putting it mildly - but can you really blame him? That train mission might not have been the worst one they've been through, but he could easily name a whole lot of bad and dumb things about it. And one of the things on that list, perhaps even the one at the very top, might have been the fact he was separated from his friends like that.
So he immediately makes up with it. The moment they're back and off the train, the half-elf immediately drags his friends into some fun, yet kind of low-key activity-- in this case watching a movie together with some takeout meal. And when it's time to go to bed, Fabian immediately grabs Gorgug's hand after Riz has already departed to go to his room to sleep.
He grins at his boyfriend. ]
You're coming with me, actually.
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SURPRISE!!!!!!! voice.
Hey, Gorgug! It's Peter.
I was wondering — um. If you had any free time today?
I was thinking about going to the junkyard and looking for some parts.
[Despite everything that has happened in the last four years of his life, he still sounds like someone who is nervous that they're the uncool kid bugging someone else. Gorgug's a nice guy and it's good to have friends. Are they friends? Peter thinks they're friends.
This kind of thing was a lot easier for him once Ned was around.]
w-whoa!!!
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