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Riddler takes them out to try and calm Ed down.
Away from the house and temptation and messy emotions, Ed does start to settle again, until he's quieted down and able to function again. Riddler's relieved and lets Ed pick the lock on the framing shop, letting himself in and acquiring what he needs and letting himself back out again with no sign of robbery. It's possible it might take them months to realise it ever happened.
Ed, being the sentimental one, is satisfied with this.
Riddler is not.
He spends a while acquiring his present. It's not as valuable as it could be, but he's satisfied. And that's enough for them to go home and get changed into more casual clothes and settle on the bedclothes with a book. He might sleep. He might not. Either way, he could be quiet until morning.
Away from the house and temptation and messy emotions, Ed does start to settle again, until he's quieted down and able to function again. Riddler's relieved and lets Ed pick the lock on the framing shop, letting himself in and acquiring what he needs and letting himself back out again with no sign of robbery. It's possible it might take them months to realise it ever happened.
Ed, being the sentimental one, is satisfied with this.
Riddler is not.
He spends a while acquiring his present. It's not as valuable as it could be, but he's satisfied. And that's enough for them to go home and get changed into more casual clothes and settle on the bedclothes with a book. He might sleep. He might not. Either way, he could be quiet until morning.
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Date: 2019-12-25 04:40 am (UTC)[His heart is still racing wildly, as though he had jumped from a building and stuck a landing, unhurt.]
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Date: 2019-12-25 11:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-25 10:46 pm (UTC)[He sees Ed off with a shoulder pat and a smile, sliding out of his coat and shoes and making his way to the study where a fire still burns at the hearth, bathing the room and everything in it in a soft, inviting glow. Hanging his tailcoat on the back of a chair, he pours himself some scotch in the hopes of smoothing out his nerves, two burning gulps already in him by the time he has sank into one of the plush Victorian chaise-lounges and put his leg up. It's a long wait for Ed's return. Or at least, it feels that way while he jiggles his knee - the good one, of course - and the knot in his belly pulls tighter by the second, his eye fixed on the door.]
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Date: 2019-12-25 11:04 pm (UTC)He stands at the door for a moment, struck all over again by how beautiful Oswald is. Maybe other people didn't see it, but to Ed, there's something hypnotic about him, so much power and violence and sharpness in such a pale, fragile seeming form. His skin looked like the faintest touch would bruise it, but Ed had seen the scars of what he had survived.
"You're so perfect," he hears himself breathe out.
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Date: 2019-12-26 05:05 am (UTC)He swallows, heating his throat click. His eye burns.
In a city full of prettier faces and more handsome men, men without hawkish noses and lumpy ankles and feet that stick out at odd angles, dragging as they move, Ed had chosen him. Settled for him, his demons hiss, because Ed has no one and nothing else. But in this moment, they've gone so quiet for the first time since yesterday that they're barely heard over the sound of Ed's voice.]
...no one's ever told me that. [He answers in an equally hushed tone.
No one other than mother, anyway.]
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Date: 2019-12-26 05:22 am (UTC)"Then they were all blind idiots." He pushes away from the door frame and comes closer. He doesn't sit, not uninvited, not when he wants to perch on the side of the lounge, near Oswald.
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Date: 2019-12-26 08:31 am (UTC)[While not entirely true, he hopes it'll welcome Ed to relax if scooting over a little doesn't do the trick.]
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Date: 2019-12-26 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-26 10:55 pm (UTC)[And for good reason - which is why he fights to keep still, encouraging Ed to take the initiative and set a pace he's comfortable with. He swings his leg off the ottoman, turning to better face him.]
You don't have to keep doing that, by the way, under my own roof. I appreciate the consideration, but at this point I'm fairly confident you're not about to pounce on me with reckless abandon.
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Date: 2019-12-27 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-27 05:11 am (UTC)Pretty much, yes.
[He feels a flush crawl up his neck as he blinks at Ed's lap and back at him, not nearly drunk or aroused enough to consider propping himself up on him. Though he's coming up short, trying to figure out how best to position himself in a way that makes it easy for them and won't become physically uncomfortable within a few minutes. There is the option of lying down, but. Well.] So...
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Date: 2019-12-27 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-27 07:07 am (UTC)...are you happy? [He whispers against Ed's lips between kisses, a needful, child-like smallness to his voice.]
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Date: 2019-12-27 12:20 pm (UTC)Is he happy?
"Yes." More than he's ever known before, so yes, he's happy. He kisses Oswald again. "Even when I'm scared with you, I'm still happy because I'm with you."
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Date: 2019-12-27 04:49 pm (UTC)His tie and collar have gone tight around his neck, and he has to pause while peppering kisses along Ed's jaw to wrestle with them, the skin of his cheek burning against Ed's.]
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Date: 2019-12-27 11:48 pm (UTC)Once, he would've flinched and panicked at having his hand near Oswald's throat but the fear is gone. Oswald would no more let Ed hurt him as let him hurt MartÃn.
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Date: 2019-12-28 06:16 am (UTC)It's not until a log snaps in the fire, jerking him out of something approaching a trance, that he realizes he's shaking faintly. Though if he were afraid, a real, animal fear for his own life, he knows he wouldn't be here. Wouldn't be itching a sly, anxious little itch for the next moment to come, heat pooling between his legs.]
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Date: 2019-12-28 07:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-28 08:43 am (UTC)A beat passes and he opens his eye as he draws back, staring through Ed. His gaze sharpens after a few blinks.] ...Had I wanted you to stop, this would be over in a heartbeat.
[He points out, not unkindly; it's simply a fact as any other. Grass is green, Gotham is grey, and Oswald Cobblepot is a tightly coiled spring ready to jump - down anyone's throat - at the slightest provocation.]
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Date: 2019-12-28 09:37 am (UTC)It's not how Riddler would kiss. Neither would quite kiss like the next one, hand coming up to cradle the other side of Oswald's face and lips coming back to meet his, slow and pressing slightly deeper. But they both have an agreement for the moment. Oswald is more important, this is more important.
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Date: 2019-12-29 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-29 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-29 06:43 am (UTC)My turn... [He declares, not without a hint of triumph in his voice and in the amused twitch of his lips, after pulling away, his gaze tracking the sharp curve of Ed's Adam's apple. He's not far off the mark when he ducks his head and goes for the pulse point under Ed's jaw, staining his skin with soft, wet little kisses.] ...you, my friend... [he pauses to breathe him in] ...are very hard man to resist. I've... never felt this way about anyone before. [He chuckles lamely.] Not even in my dreams.
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Date: 2019-12-29 08:36 am (UTC)But Oswald wants his turn and Ed is not inclined to deny Oswald anything. He tips his head to bare more throat and finds his breath catching as Oswald's mouth slides over skin.
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Date: 2019-12-29 08:47 pm (UTC)Hold me... [He sighs into his neck, too soft and strained to come off as a demand.]
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