duplicity inbox / cw for nsfw shenanigans.

[unlawful]

TEXT / VOICE / VIDEO / ACTION NOTE: felix generally responds to everything in text, even voice or video calls. expect 90% of his replies to be text-based regardless of urgency.

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[unlawful]

was i strangled? did i have visible wounds on my body?

[protocol]

I didn't get that great of a look.

[ the initial image is seared into his mind, but he'd been in -- a state of shock, reeling from the dreams he'd woken up from and the weight of everything else. later when he got a hold of himself he would've gone to examine him more thoroughly, but his body had been taken away, by then. ]

You were naked, sheets thrown off. Plenty of blood. Didn't see the wound.

[unlawful]

doesn't seem you're the likeliest culprit if you weren't even in the bed with me

[protocol]

The fucked-up dreams were going on then. I woke up on the couch, somehow. Didn't entirely remember passing out or what happened before.

[ and wash, being wash, is extremely unhappy about any stretch of time that he can't remember with clarity. everything around then is a bit of a haze, and it seems entirely likely to him that he could've been in the bed with felix and then just left and cleaned up and whatever else before passing out. ]

[unlawful]

anything's possible in this carnival ride of a fucking city ig
don't see how it matters either way

[protocol]

Do you not even care about who might've killed you?

[ cause felix sure seems like the vindictive type. ]

[unlawful]

not really
for all i know i agreed to it

[protocol]

That's crossed my mind.

[unlawful]

then why the fuck are you so bothered?

[protocol]

[ lots of reasons, okay. the idea that he could've killed someone he cared deeply about is horrible, but the idea that maybe that it was just something they wanted fucks with him in a different way. it was an entire fake life and he shouldn't give a shit except he does, because the echoes of it don't fade as easily for him as they would for others. it's the worst kind of mess, either way, and yet. ]

What, do you care now?

I don't like it when I can't remember shit, especially if it's something as big as killing my own Submissive.

[unlawful]

you're so broody
it'd be kind of sexy if you weren't such a fucking loser

( he is especially attracted to broody men, after all. )

you real sensitive to the idea of losing control, wash?

[protocol]

[ immensely. ]

You sensitive to the idea of being controlled?

[unlawful]

( BITCH??????????? )












no

[protocol]

Very convincing.

[unlawful]

like you would have any remote hope of controlling me, asshole

[protocol]

Got some documents with your name on it that say otherwise.

It's a willing power exchange, though, isn't it? I don't get to do anything unless you let me.

[unlawful]

( okay fuck this )

what is the goddamn point of this conversation? you want me to come home? shine your shoes? suck your dick?
the contract's barely fucking valid and all we have to do is ride it out til it expires

[protocol]

I thought you liked talking. Must've hit a nerve.

[ the real answer though is that wash doesn't exactly know. there's just a thousand things circling around his head with no real resolution. felix doesn't and can't remember the way he does, and even if he did he wouldn't engage about it anyway. he's used to being alone with memories, but.

there are some practical issues, at least. ]

Contract's just as valid as any other. Have you actually been able to read it?

[unlawful]

( yeah, because felix is super good at adhering to rules and guidelines. )

nope but i'm sure you remember every single sordid detail

[protocol]

[ he figured, u unruly brat ]

You've seen at least one part of it by now.

[ given that there's something literally inked into his skin as part of their contract. ]

[unlawful]

( right, that. felix wasn't going to bring that up at all, honestly. he flexes his fingers, staring at the tattoo etched across his knuckles. hard to miss when he uses his hands for everything, though it'd taken him a week after coming back to realize that wash probably had something to do with it.

at least it wasn't his other hand. silver linings. )

i have

( playing it uncharacteristically safe. )

[protocol]

[ he notices that. more muted than someone like felix would normally be about having a goddamn tattoo put on him not-quite of his own volition. it was something they'd talked about on and off, felix never exactly fully rejecting it but always dancing away from it, too. his fake-self had insisted on it as part of their new contract. possessive, there was no other word for it, they both knew it at the time. it was entirely meant to be a mark of ownership. ]

We got you that during the week. Part of the terms.

You got to decide where to put it.

[ wash had half-expected for him to hide it away somewhere, but he didn't. ]

[unlawful]

( that is excessively unfortunate. )

and i enthusiastically agreed to this, presumably

[protocol]

Not exactly. But it was something we'd talked about before.

[ felix hadn't been overtly negative, but was always flighty. whatever it was he was running from this time, it was enough that he seemed willing to agree to just about anything wash asked of him. ]

[unlawful]

either i was down bad which i enormously doubt or i was fucked without your help
you do realize it means nothing to me?