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𝕕𝕒𝕣π•ͺ𝕝 π••π•šπ•©π• π•Ÿ ([personal profile] dadyl) wrote2023-05-27 07:10 pm
poleaxed: sad; tired; emb; gent (they don't know you well.)

voice.

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-18 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, hey.

[A significant, but not exhaustive, pause.]

So, I was a bitch. I wanna ap- I'm sorry. I was real fucked up and I took it out on you. You- [She's pretty sure it's not totally her fault, but today? She is fucking tired of fighting. She tamps down on her battered ego and moves on.] You were just trying to be nice. And your jacket was pretty cool.
poleaxed: confus ; angry (at least the dark don't hide it.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-21 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...Fooling anybody about what?
poleaxed: joke; smile (i don't stare)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-22 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Daryl, I am taller than you.
poleaxed: fight; sad; hand (a master)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-22 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you proud of being shorter? I dunno, man; I got other shit to worry about.
poleaxed: sad; tired; emb; gent (they don't know you well.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-22 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm fucking confused, is what I am.

Look, I said my shit. I'm sorry for screaming at you. You were just trying to help. You wanna get on my shit for being tall, whatever.

I do want the jacket, though.
poleaxed: anger; static (is this what you think i do?)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-27 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Daryl, Joan reasons, is from the south. She can think of few better olive branches that aren't actively offensive than the bullshit she's been brewing in her kitchen-- it's nothing magical, just sweet tea, brewed hot with sugar, chilled and poured into a large glass jug. (Joan has no clue the tea house she's been getting the shit from puts aphrodisiacs in their mixes; why would she ask, and why would the shop girl tell her?)

So it's with this under her arm that Joan approaches the carpenter's shop. She smells something that unlocks almost three decades of sense memory, and wanders toward engine grease and sweat. Joan looks over Daryl and his fucking bike the same way a gambler looks over a winning hand: with the kind of practiced disinterest that begs not to be noticed.

"That yours?"
poleaxed: shock (but people like you)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-30 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Right now, something far more interesting is happening than a jacket. Joan puts her jug of tea down and watches Daryl's hands, smells the familiar scent of engine grease.] Runs on what? You got a secret Shell station out back?
poleaxed: shock; static (tell me something)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-30 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ethanol? [Joan whistles the way wolves do in cartoons.] That's fuckin' smart. Jesus. I used to be a mechanic, back home. Never worked on bikes, but- [Joan bends her head a little, walks around to Daryl's side so she can see what he's doing-] looks fucking nice, man.
poleaxed: smile; gent (i)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-06-30 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Joan smiles, eyes wide, and if she had any natural beauty it'd shine through in the summer light. She doesn't, though, so her smile's just too sharp and her hair's too red.]

Yeah. Damn. Got all nostalgic for a second, there.

[But her mood's significantly improved. Almost bouncing on her heels, she goes to get the jug.] I been making tea. Fuckin'- apology drink, I guess.

[She still can't make herself say sorry.]
poleaxed: joke (now death is gonna hold us up)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-07-01 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Daryl will find the jug is filled with sweet tea and lemon slices-- not the best, even Joan will admit that, but she thinks it's about as good as they can get without Lipton packets.]

Yeah, I kinda assume you're not trying to emotionally entrap me. [It's gentle ribbing. It probably comes on too strong. She always does.] Reckon it's the least I can do... considering. Always put my fucking foot in my mouth with you.

[It's not really always, but it feels like it to Joan, someone whose guilt is as overactive as her rage.]
poleaxed: joke (now death is gonna hold us up)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-07-06 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She looks at him with his greasy hair and grey beard, the sweat on his neck and the motor oil on his hands. She wants to touch him. She wonders if he fucks hard.]

[(The aphrodisiacs she doesn't know are in the tea and starting to kick in.)]


Nah. Didn't wanna go back in. Hey, d'you wanna, uh. Go out some time?

[She is trying to be gentle.]
poleaxed: smile; gent; static (do what it did)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-07-07 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[As much as Joan enjoys assertive, commanding presences, Rubilykskoye has opened her eyes to the appeal of shy bashfulness. She wonders how shy he'd be while she was touching him. She's sure, in this moment, that she could give him a good time. It would be a kindness. (A selfish kindness. It would be incredibly erotic, she is also sure.)]

[So she gives him space. Lets him take his time.]
I'm not great, either. Shocker, I know. [She tucks a lock of hair behind her ear.] But I like you, and you're very fucking nice to look at.

[And very much in her league, and kind, empathetic, knows his way around an engine, and-] I wouldn't mind giving you a good time. However you wanna do it.
poleaxed: static ; hands (you might be harboring a heartache.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2024-07-20 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Joan were pretty, she's sure this wouldn't happen. It's not that Daryl thinks she's ugly, exactly, but it wouldn't be so easy to reject her if she looked like a model, like everybody else here does. At this point, it's absurd to take it personally. It doesn't mean anything. It's just how life is.]

Yeah, well, I'm pretty cheap.

[That was pure bitterness, entirely unworthy of the kindness Daryl has shown her, unrelentingly if stubbornly applied. She shakes her head.]

Look, it's whatever. Just an offer, you know. [She looks away, frowning.] All I'm saying is-... thanks. For checking on me. That's all.

[She takes a step back, clearly preparing to turn tail and leave.]

πŸŽ€?

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