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i_speak_softly ([personal profile] i_speak_softly) wrote2011-02-27 10:09 am

Thirty-Ninth Theory [Action]

[The house is too quiet today. With April sent home, Derek hiding out who-knows-where, and Leo gone to battle, it's down to just Don and Raph again - and not in their little apartment now, but in a house that feels suddenly too big.]

[Fortunately, Don has some things to occupy himself with. After making sure Raph is all right to be left alone for a few hours, he heads out to visit some friends.]

[He goes first up the path to C7, to visit Frederic - to check on the man in his roommate's absence and to deliver a certain package.]

[After that he'll circle back to C3. He needs to see a certain resident that he's been visiting frequently of late. This time, however, he won't go around to the door of the apartment. Instead he'll knock on the window. There's something they need to talk about, and this seems like a more apt way to begin the conversation.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-28 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Such a reaction is mixed-message city for Robert's socially inept mind.]

I-I, I wouldn't want you to be unhappy, Donatello. [Robert tries to close the distance between them, pathetically.] ... I... I b-barely understand my own feelings as it is, right now.

All... All I know is that I want to be with you...

... a-and I am so very afraid.
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-28 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I...

I do.

[Donatello is close to him. Close, too close. But Robert doesn't care anymore, right now. Rejection hurt, yes; rejection hurts more than anything. But god he's lonely and finally it feels like something might just go right for once and...]

... [Robert leans forward, his gray eyes full of a mixture of desire and loneliness and panic, and takes Donatello's leathery green cheek softly in one hand. The memory of kissing Helios burns on his lips, and the memories of kissing Benjamin before then haunt his mind like a spectre - he knows this will be different, but... he wants to show that he really does care for Donatello - that maybe he loves Donatello. He doesn't know.

Maybe he'll learn.

Robert leans forward, closing his eyes, and presses his soft, yielding human lips to the turtle's beak. It's a clumsy, shameful, anxious little kiss, but it's a kiss.]

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[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-28 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Love advice in five seconds flat. You're not asking for much, are you, Donnie.

Now how to sum it up in a few sentences.]


...you know how you love your brothers, right?

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[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-28 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
All right.

Take that emotion--the base one, where you'll do anything for them, where they're family even if they aren't, and you have trouble even thinking about them not being there. Then add wanting to be around the person, even if your brothers aren't sure about them. Put on top of that wanting them in ways you'd never want your family...and then pile on a lot of respect, worry, and devotion that you wouldn't want to spend on just anyone, and probably won't.

That's the best approximation I can give you.
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-28 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Robert isn't any better, of course. Their clumsy kiss probably doesn't last more than half a minute, but when it breaks, gently, Robert curls up to Donatello and sort of hides his face against the turtle's plastron.

Muffled, he mumbles against Don's chest.]


I-I... ah... W-Was... was that alright? I, I probably should have a-asked and... [He trails off. The reality that he kissed somebody of, ostensibly, his own free will is a very powerful reality.]

... [He looks silently, but almost guiltily up at Donatello, his face flushed deeply, before a weak, shy little smile emerges.]

[Action]

[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-28 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh?]

...is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[Action]

[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-28 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay...

Derek will stop too, to process this. And think. And think some more.]


...that's going to be tough on you.

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[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-28 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[uh..yeah. Derek couldn't even get the guy to not tailspin over April going home, where it's at least...familiar for all of them.]

Tell Leo first. Maybe between the two of you...
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-28 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Robert curls into that embrace. Feeling genuinely wanted like that really makes him happy. Those strong, protective arms around him... it makes everything feel alright.]

... I am glad for that. Truly. I wouldn't have wanted to have been... sub-par, for you.

[Part of Robert feels a little silly here - and there's still panic, yes. But the majority doesn't really care. He's content to just rest against the turtle's cool body.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-28 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, are you busy? [Robert's expression is still happy, even if it falls a bit from having to break this contact with Donatello.] Please don't let me keep you.

... Unless I could assist, somehow? [It's a kind of lame attempt to try to spend more time with the turtle.]

[Action]

[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-28 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah...this'll go splendidly.]

...Do you need me to stick around for it?

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[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-28 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
All right.

...Good luck.

I'm happy for you, though.

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