metacognition: fei du is bringing eggplant. (69)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ on a random friday evening, fei du has found himself not at his usual haunts - that would be the best of the best of yan city, of course, penthouse clubs and hidden race tracks, billionaires mansions and unending bars, or jetting halfway across the world for the night for the sake of doing so. no, in fact, lately, he's found himself... here. on luo wenzhou's couch, in his tiny little apartment, sans a glass of wine, sans a pretty girl (or boy, he's not picky) on his arm, unless you count the very fat cat who is eying him from three couches over.

he doesn't have any particular plans, today. at least, not in the overarching way - business contacts and the like are doing their jobs, lu jia is out investigating the goings on of an upper echelon vampire under disguise and occasionally texting an update in code. despite the slow workings of the toppling of an empire, they are - well. slow. it means there are slow days like this.

... sort of. the wenzhou thing is new.

he's not unaware he's being looked at. how could he not be? wenzhou is obvious even when he is trying to be subtle, in a way that used to be sort of funny but is now both that and a little blockheadedly charming (when that happened, he doesn't want to think about and will not think about) but he might as well take advantage of it. he stretches, content, unfolds his long legs from where he was curled up in a half ball with his phone on the couch, and lolls his head back, idly. ]


Shixiong, [ he starts, a hint of a drawl on the word, a sweetness that's not quite so sweet, ] is spending your Friday evenings like this what makes you a spinster, or were you already one?

[ a little barb that is almost playfully antagonizing. pay attention to me. ]
metacognition: fei du will not bless you. (8.)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he seems to think about this for a moment. thoughtful, watching the cigarette in his hands, the stream of smoke. ignoring yiguo, because he's winning the cold war.

and then, loftily: ]


It was only a question. I'm just concerned about your socialization. All work and no play makes Captain Luo a dull boy.

[ Okay

anyway. he waves a hand, magnanimously forgiving luo wenzhou's misunderstanding that clearly he is just a concerned citizen and adds ]


Besides. This sort of time is still early for me; someone might just call it time for pregaming.
metacognition: fei du is ready for the afterlife. (80)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ fei du raises a single eyebrow as wenzhou effortlessly confirms his spinster status with that little remark, and doesn't deign it with a single other response because he doesn't have to. victory.

instead, he just shakes his head, like he is suffering the long suffering of watching a child you raised poorly do something dumb (?) and drapes his arm across the back of wenzhou's couch, clearly not planning on going anywhere. ]


By someone's standards, at least. [ lamenting: ] I'm too hungry to go out.
metacognition: fei du forced to agree. (35.)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas.

[ he says, with a sigh. dramatic, and he drapes further like he is but a waif, tilting his head back. a sad waif. just a creature. ]

I'm being denied my food [ read: a particularly red glass of wine ] and have to just waste away. Bringing new meaning to the word wastrel.
metacognition: fei du's heart is full of sugar. (87)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's just a little guy

anyway, rude? he lolls his head back up from where he was draping across the back of the couch. ]


It's a survivable recipe. [ smartass. wenzhou is aware you mix blood in it. it's the only thing that makes the blood itself not make him gag, anyway, and he lays there for a moment before he rolls up to his feet and pads into the kitchen to follow him, out of curiosity. cooking, likely. ] Though, if you wanted to be an expert in my physiology, all you'd have to do ask.
metacognition: fei du will share his secrets. (33.)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Want to try me?

[ the flirt is easy and natural as always, the suggestive lilt to the question like honey. he walks over to where wenzhou is, pauses... and though his brows lift at first, it shifts into a look that can only be described as pleased, and he walks his fingertips across wenzhou's shoulder bit by bit, then pushes off and goes to the cabinet to fetch a glass.

yay... wow, spoiled. handling the glass delicately between two fingers, fei du steps back, and then leans against the counter and waits for him there, as relaxed as relaxed can be. (maybe.) ]
metacognition: fei du wants out of the tote life. (52.)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ etc

but really though. it's the smell that gets him, because his finely tuned supernatural senses can't miss it. his eyes do dilate, and the smell is almost intoxicating, followed immediately by a sense of stomach-churning revulsion. his throat clicks when he swallows, an instinctual reaction, and he holds very, very still. ]


Not particularly sanitary.

[ he sounds a touch exasperated like he's making a very light joke, but he's white knuckling the counter with one hand, feeling an itch like he needs to reach for his phone or his airpods for a certain tune or he needs to bump his hand into the sharp corner of the counter or -- ]
metacognition: fei du will cut out middle man. (101)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-04 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ohhh, watching him stick his finger in his mouth makes it worse. god, he wants. wants to pull his hand away and do exactly the same, wants to lave away the blood until the iron taste melts in his mouth, wants to -

does not want to. for a second, he's out of it, but the tried and trained conditioning takes hold, and he feels his stomach churn, suddenly very, very not hungry as his head swims with images, with faint reminders of old pain. it's a familiar song and dance as he pulls the wine glass away from wenzhou and gives it a swirl like he's blooming the bouquet of tannin and alcohol, of the animal blood that mixes in, and the drips of human blood like rare spices mixed in.

before he drinks, just because he can (and because he hopes to irritate wenzhou enough he'll look away), he quips, dryly; ]
I think you just enjoy bleeding.

[ seeing as how wenzhou is the most reckless man on god's green earth. he closes his eyes and lifts the cup, feels his stomach churn into actually no i'm not hungry at all, and does not immediately drink, just kind of holding it between his fingers in a minute internal battle. ]
metacognition: fei du deadliest rich man in the world (66)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-05 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
You should be careful who you say that around, Captain Luo.

[ there's a light, airy way that fei du delivers the phrase, as he finally decides he's stirred his wine enough and takes a drink of it. the taste of the blood is, naturally, absolutely delicious, the difference between a two dollar bottle of wine and a thousand dollar one, and with it mixed in with the liquor, it becomes palatable in a way he can handle. there's the sharp smell of it as a reminder. you don't want any more than this.

that's what goes on in his head, at least. his eyes are slightly darker than usual, as he looks at luo wenzhou from under his thick eyelashes, peach blossom eyes carrying something a little dangerous. like a threat and a promise, something mysterious and heady. ]
Some people are greedy.

[ you don't want any more than this. ]
metacognition: fei du ready for round two. (16.)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-05 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
You think you know me awfully well.

[ that same lofty tone continues. it's easier for him to hide behind this, to play at being the monster, a beast in human skin, while he muffles the actual beastly instincts with practice, careful precision. he doesn't even look at wenzhou's hand, because he is well trained, and with it hidden, he's able to pull on the facade. the corner of his mouth lifts, that same, dangerous little smirk. ]

Maybe this is a honey pot.

[ and then he chuckles, amused at his own joke, and sips his drink. ]
metacognition: fei du comes prepared. (9.)

[personal profile] metacognition 2023-05-05 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ hehe. well, now the tension's broken sufficiently - he's distracted enough that he just smiles and looks pleased with himself, much like a cat swishing its tail, and sips his wine, shifting from leaning on the counter to hop carefully up onto it and sit on the surface.

a little wine, a little snack. a little poking and prodding at wenzhou, a little victory where it felt like he kept his walls up as carefully as he wanted to. victory puts fei du in a good mood. (it may also be that he just needs to eat really badly and this probably would help.) ]


Your generosity is unmatched. [ somehow he makes this sound like an insult ] As for what I would get from it, your body would be acceptable.

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