I'd left him dreaming [closed]

[deservesadaisy]

Who: Ivan and Ilde
What: He's making a habit of turning up on doorsteps.
Where: Villa Roassieux
When: Shortly after receiving this text
Notes: It's just a one-night stand. That kept happening. Exclusively. And then he took care of her dog. ...you are no longer fooling anyone, guys.
Warnings: None yet, but give it time.

Ivan is not going to dignify that text with a reply. Instead he turns up, very shortly afterward, on her doorstep, expression closed.

At least he brought her purse with him.

Comments

[rhinemaid]

"Well, he's not sleeping with me," she murmurs -- though on that note, she has every intention of telling Hasi what she's just unsubtly finessed out of him.

[deservesadaisy]

"I'd do more than punch him once," he says, frankly.

[rhinemaid]

"No hitting," she contradicts him promptly - though presumably she means generally, since the likelihood of her and Mitchell sleeping together is slim to none. "It bothers Hasi."

[deservesadaisy]

"I didn't break anything," he says, automatically. "Am I allowed to hit people that Hasi isn't shagging?"

[rhinemaid]

"Yes." ...Ilde is well aware he kills in Baedal, and that's never been a problem; her morality is selective at best, and has a good deal more to do with 'not bothering her' than actual morals. (It's probably why she's suited to following Sonja around, whose goals coincide with morally right as a genuinely coincidental bonus.)

[deservesadaisy]

"I think I can live with that." He shouldn't have hit Mitchell the first time, in any case. It did no good, and it didn't make him feel better

[rhinemaid]

"So to speak." Because the evening wouldn't be complete without a hint of inappropriate gallows humour about death, surely. Ilde watches him for a few moments, still and dark-eyed, and finally settles on saying, "Thank you. For coming over."

[deservesadaisy]

He smiles a little at the joke, then says, "You're welcome. Though it was at least partly selfish." He'd wanted to see her, regardless of whether or not she was quite ready; it was just luck that she was.

[rhinemaid]

"Everything you do is partly selfish." Most things Ilde does are, too, one way or another; they're just complementary that way, dovetailing neatly when they aren't getting fussy with each other about what they do and do not discuss.

[deservesadaisy]

"Well yes, but it makes it hard for me to make grand romantic gestures when you see that so clearly." At least she doesn't seem to mind.

[rhinemaid]

Ilde lifts herself up far enough to rest her weight (on him) on her elbows to better give him a mildly skeptical look. "What grand romantic gestures are you ever going to make?"

[deservesadaisy]

"I could think of something," he says, half laughing. "If you wanted me to."

[rhinemaid]

"You probably could." It sounds more like 'you have a nasty mind', of course, but Ilde doesn't see that as a flaw of Ivan's.

[deservesadaisy]

He leaned down then to kiss her, slowly. He makes a mental note to think of some romantic gesture, later.