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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[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?

[protocol]

I imagine it means about as much to you as it does to me.

[unlawful]

then why bring it up

[protocol]

Because you have it.

Regardless of how little we actually give a shit about what happened during that week, you've still got that tattoo and we've still got a contract.

[unlawful]

the tattoo is completely irrelevant here wash

[protocol]

It's relevant because it was part of the contract.

Everything else was similar to other contracts we'd had before, where I apparently knew better than to keep you under too tight of a leash. Mostly legal shit with the city.

[unlawful]

( another very long pause. )

what do you want?

[protocol]

[ complicated question. he's just going to answer pragmatically. ]

I want this over with, same as you.

If we want to lie low and ride it out, that involves actually toeing the line of the contract.

[unlawful]

that doesn't answer my question

[protocol]

Then ask a more specific question.

[unlawful]

what do you want from me right now in this moment

[protocol]

[ an equally long pause. ]

Just get over here.

[unlawful]

( should just say no, but. )

30 minutes

[protocol]

Don't keep me waiting.