[closed] the only road I've ever been down

[likethelight]

Who: Allen Walker and Kaworu Nagisa
What: fruition of this. jesusy exorcists and angels meeting. and pastries. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
When: day 165
Where: Bakery near Sigyn hall
Rating: PG-PG-13?


[The bakery he'd mentioned was a short distance from the Sigyn hall; just a small sort of shop, really. Easy enough to find, though. ...The white-haired boy in a black and red uniform with the scarred face and a golden golem on his shoulder waiting outside helps in terms of being recognizable, though. Leaned up against the wall with a brown paper sack in white gloved (always gloved) hands.

...And a long black cloak with a hood pulled up that mostly keeps him dry. Though he does try not to sigh about or pull too sour a face at it; he really hadn't been counting on it raining this day after he'd had to put it off so long (honestly, he felt really bad about it)...

His luck...

But the golem flicks its wings after for a moment, snapping the rainwater out of them and peering its head (body?) closer to Allen's.] ... Mm.

[Idly petting it a little and letting his eyes close.] I know, Tim.

[—funny, you'd think it (him?) had... spoken to him.

It's alright. Nothing to do about it now.

So they were just waiting for Kaworu. Slightly melancholic despite having warm scones so close at hand, but that's more for feeling guilty about the last few days and postponing.

...But he'd made sure to try and get here early, after all, so he could pour on all his charm and score some of the day's extra pastries on the house. Occasionally he knows how charming he can be. Occasionally.]

Comments

[5thchild]

[ He eyes the scone curiously before his hand reaches to take it. ] Thank you. [ scones don't have eggs, right? The boy takes a small bite and munches on, mostly tasting it. He takes sometime, as f analyzing every single flavor and ingredient with just that bite, before he decides -] It's good. It's really good.

[ and this is how you make a child happy. Because he really is - these sort of thing, Kaworu never had the chance to taste them.

He takes another bite, this time not so reluctantly, and rather enjoying it ]

1/2

[likethelight]

[?

Ah, is it okay? He'd meant perhaps he could have the blackberries in it if he couldn't have the scone itself; honestly, as much as he loves food, the nuances of what's in what is... mostly beyond Allen. (Maybe he should ask Link about things that have eggs or don't. He'd probably know.)

But apparently it's okay, so—]

2/2

[likethelight]

[...]

[Beaming for it and the reaction, propping chin on hand. Aha—]

You never had one before? [Something about how he had stopped to consider it so intently.

...Somehow that. Kind of absolutely makes his day.

It also, if one... stopped to realize it... hadn't been that long ago he'd had them for the first time, too. And a lot of it's for enjoying the memories that go with that.]

[5thchild]

[ Like they say, "out of sight, out of mind" and Kaworu will forgive it this once because scones don't take much eggs.

And the taste sort of makes up for it.

Honestly, he had no idea baked things would taste this good.


Kaworu shakes his head ] I haven't. [ and then he takes a blackberries to his mouth and enjoys the flavor like he never has before, and he closes his eyes to focus a bit on it. Aha, humans are capable of amazing things. ]

[likethelight]

I'm glad. [Still lit up, chin propped.] I hadn't either, until not all that long ago. [Or, well... it's going on two years or something? Since he went back to England. He's been... distracted. Time goes by fast.]

They're usually done a little differently where I'm from, but— [Still smiling, and retrieving one for himself.]

—they're really good like this, too.

[5thchild]

Why not? Didn't they exist where you lived? [ Allen may be careful with his questions because he doesn't want to pry, but kaworu has no sense of personal space and intimacy. ]

[likethelight]

[He's actually rather okay with that. Oddly enough. He's just prone to weighing his answers first, too.]

Mm, no— [Thoughtful for a moment, and taking a bite. And considering how to respond.]

They did, but I traveled a lot. I didn't really get a chance to for a long time. [He was too broke and too grubby an orphan for such things the first time he was there, then he was travelling and grievously forever in debt...]

[5thchild]

Why? [ oh, he also asks "why" a lot.

Kaworu munches on the scone once again and finally the tea arrives. He thanks the lady with a kind smile, though he will forever stare at her - what, he is a curious boy. ]

[likethelight]

[—it's a little. er. peculiar. yes.

Which makes him blink a little for a moment, before setting it aside.] Ah—

My master traveled a lot, so I went with him.

[5thchild]

Did you enjoy it? [ he takes a sip of his tea. ]

1/2

[likethelight]

[—hah.

Dryly kneejerk:] It wasn't really about enjoying it.

[The man was a devil.]

2/2

[likethelight]

[Except, ah...

(Blast it.)

Stupid master. He can't shake that uneasiness still. (Heavyness. Twitchy. Things that regret becomes when we refuse to admit it's there.) So he continues after a second.]

... It wasn't all bad, though. [He pauses to lick some of the crumbs off his thumb. Still wearing those white gloves. And if he were being honest with himself...

—no. Not being honest yet.] I got to see a lot of places. And meet a lot of [incredibly dangerous and seedy] people. I just had to work most of the time. [To put it so very kindly.

But:] Why? Did you [er—] ever much? [Hedging for a second and glancing up lightly, just because, ah—it would seem not, probably.]

[5thchild]

Do you love him? Your master.

[ Kaworu's red eyes fall on Allen for a second ] If I traveled? I went from Antarctica to Germany when I was born. And recently, from Germany to Japan, few days before coming here.

[likethelight]

[DID HE—

...WHAT.

...THAT BASTARD??

WHAT IS MANNERS, BLURTING NOW.]

Tha—! [—erk.

Sorry, Kaworu. In his horror surprise, he seems to have choked on a bit of scone. GIVE HIM A MOMENT, he's doubled over in a violent coughing fit now.]

[5thchild]

[ Kaworu will peacefully stare at Allen, waiting for an answer ]

[likethelight]

[Ugh.

He collects himself after a second and just—]

...

[It's not for sourness at Kaworu. It's mostly just—what kind of question is that oh my god why would you ask that. He doesn't want to think about that.]

He was a monster. [Weird how flatly calm about it he is, though. What is actually answering the question.]

[5thchild]

Then, you must be glad that he is gone. [ since Allen keeps talking about him in the past tense ]

[likethelight]

[The sad thing is, really...

... he wasn't even aware he was using the past tense.]

Why... [Beginning slowly, then stopping himself.

A blink. Flickers of a great many small expressions he swallows past. Just like that everything he'd been holding onto so tightly is let go, just an expression that's smooth—and maybe a little haunted left.]

...What makes you say that? That he's gone. [Gone, not just that he's not here in Asgard. It's an obvious enough difference.]

[5thchild]

You used the past tense. If he was alive, you would still address him in the present because you knew he was there, in your world.

[ so kaworu likes to poke at small details

like the fact that you didn't outright say "yes" and instead focused on the fact that kaworu assumed the man was dead ]

[likethelight]

[Blinking still for a moment, a little rapidly.]

... ah. [He's...

Actually he's a little ashamed of himself for that, and just cracks a bit of a smile that isn't a smile, eyes lowered and hooded by white lashes.]

You're right, I guess I did.

[5thchild]

Are you glad he is gone? [Kaworu knows the answer to this. Do you, Allen?]

[likethelight]

No. [But he's lifting his chin a little then. Quieter and more serious, but in a calm way. Certain.

Because that's not quite the point to Allen, either.]

Because I can't believe he'd be gone [ever], either. [Even if Allen is using the past tense. And he's not happy with himself for that.]

My master isn't like that. [It takes more than a little death to kill him.

It probably is an answer more than any simple yes or no, though. Because it almost sounds like pride.]

[5thchild]

[ Kaworu smiles at those words ] I thought he was a monster. Shouldn't you hope for him to be gone?

[likethelight]

He'd just come back to haunt me. [Quipping. His bills would, at least. ... Actually they really would and that's no joke at all.]

You said [wait right that was odd] you were in Antarctica?

[Allen that wasn't a painfully obvious dodge or anything.]

[5thchild]

[ it is obvious. ]

I was born there, fifteen years ago.