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losthunter ([personal profile] losthunter) wrote2017-06-25 12:43 pm

The Stories We Keep Secret

Hunter has received a few phone calls after completing his memorial to Kendra, and getting the opportunity to display the artwork in his dimension. His goal of finding the other people who might have had Kendra affect their lives had been successful. And now he is ready to go speak to them personally.

But first, he didn't want to go alone. And at the same time, he didn't want those he was meeting to know that he didn't trust them. So he called Faris to join him in the adventure. Hopefully he would be able to put more of Kendra's memory to peace by doing this.
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Faris is happy to do so, and the force of his leap will only momentarily weigh against Hunter's chest as the K'da wraps himself around the man's torso.

Jim is already in fairly comfortable clothes for lounging around, but he does take the time to toe off his boots before getting into the bed next to Hunter. "How much do you remember?"
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
"That part happened," Jim confirms, shifting a little until the two of them fit together comfortably, familiarly.

"We would not have succeeded without guidance from Kendra," Faris adds. "There is a part of her still inside your subconscious."
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
"She said they were things that normally wouldn't bother you." Jim debates whether or not to mention his next thought, but he decides he has to know. "You don't really think that I'm just using you, right?"
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Jim holds onto him too, his worries reassured by that. "You're important to me too. I'm glad that we met. And that won't change, no matter what happens. Or who else we might end up meeting along the way."

He's not sure if this will come as a reassurance to someone of Hunter's century, but Hunter's contact with the Nexus and other timeframes has put him in a more modern mindset, by Jim's reckoning. "I'm still friends with most of the people I've dated. I didn't stop caring about any of them once we weren't seeing each other anymore."
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Jim doesn't attach as much emotional implications to the term as Hunter might be, but it's really the only appropriate term. "Sure. If that road trip we went on wasn't a date, it's news to me," he says, lightly teasing.

"I like spending time with you too," he agrees. "And if and when we get to the point where we're not seeing each other like that, it doesn't mean we can't see each other anymore."
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Faris rouses slightly at the sound of his name, but he remains silent, giving his human friends as much privacy as a symbiont can.

Jim smiles a little at Hunter. "I love you too," he says, and gives him a lightly amused look. "Though now that we've both done the Sleeping Beauty thing, I think we should probably pick a different fairytale."
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Jim chuckles a little in response. "Depends on the fairytale. Not all of them are bad or depressing. One of my favorites has always been the one about stone soup."
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah." Jim had already been fond of that story before living through the famine on Tarsus IV, but now he holds it all the more important.

Mostly he just tries not to think of the reason.

He also doesn't want to keep Hunter awake if the other man needs his sleep, so he doesn't immediately ask any more questions about his trip today, before the whole thing was ruined by the curse.
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds like a plan," Jim says, returning the kiss. He's not terribly tired, but he is more than content to sit quietly as Hunter gets the rest he needs, with more than enough to think about to keep his mind occupied as his body rests.
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Jim does manage to nap for an hour or two somewhere in there, but he honestly hasn't been sleeping well for several months, since the events that put him in the hospital. But no nightmares have disturbed him this time, and he smiles at Hunter once the other man is awake.

"Good morning. How're you feeling?"
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"It sounds like things got pretty exciting for you yesterday," Jim agrees. He's still curious, still new to all this talk about magic and fairytales that are apparently real, but he also doesn't want to push. Besides, Hunter just woke up.

"I too am rested," Faris pipes up from his position on Hunter's chest, and the K'da drops from Hunter's exposed skin onto the floor, now that he can do so without disturbing the two humans.
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
"She wasn't?" Jim repeats, a little surprised to hear that Kendra would appear as anything other than female. Mostly because all the little girls they met during their trip back in time were clearly... well, girls. The names being different comes as no surprise, however.

"I shall," Faris agrees, stretching out his paws and back, and curling his whiplike tail to loosen up the joints. "As one who knows little of magic or oracles, the experience was an interesting glimpse into a world I do not know. All persons involved displayed distinct talents that had been gifted to them."
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[personal profile] boldygoing 2017-07-03 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Now it makes all the more sense why those doubts plagued Hunter so strongly, why he and Faris had spoken about romantic partners, and Jim frowns a little. Sure, Hunter has said that he no longer feels a need to define their relationship, and that the lack of permanence doesn't bother him, but Jim is an expert at pretending everything's fine when it's not.

"And you don't have that in common."

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