My cage has many rooms, damask and dark
Characters: Contract (phantomhivemind) and Animus (sins_sacrosanct)
Date/Time: November 27, let's say evening
Location: Temp housing
Rating: PG...probably
Summary: Contract fails at basic everything. Animus helps, and earns a little more of his trust.
Contract looked in the mirror and frowned. The new clothes were far preferable to the shapeless bits of cloth given to him and Animus at their "birth", there was no doubt about that, yet they presented their own problems. The trousers, the buttoned shirt, the jacket, the shoes--nothing fit right, nothing went together the way it was supposed to, nothing sat as it should on his frame. His hair was unkempt, and the laces of the shoes were hopelessly knotted.
Animus could dress himself. He, apparently, could not.
At least the eyepatch he'd received from Mirror was firmly in place.
He had resisted asking help for this long, mindful of his seemingly inborn aversion to touch. He let Animus do other things, of course--it was only natural to allow him to do the cooking where it was needed, the shopping, the other little tasks. But he couldn't be seen like this. "Animus?"
Date/Time: November 27, let's say evening
Location: Temp housing
Rating: PG...probably
Summary: Contract fails at basic everything. Animus helps, and earns a little more of his trust.
Contract looked in the mirror and frowned. The new clothes were far preferable to the shapeless bits of cloth given to him and Animus at their "birth", there was no doubt about that, yet they presented their own problems. The trousers, the buttoned shirt, the jacket, the shoes--nothing fit right, nothing went together the way it was supposed to, nothing sat as it should on his frame. His hair was unkempt, and the laces of the shoes were hopelessly knotted.
Animus could dress himself. He, apparently, could not.
At least the eyepatch he'd received from Mirror was firmly in place.
He had resisted asking help for this long, mindful of his seemingly inborn aversion to touch. He let Animus do other things, of course--it was only natural to allow him to do the cooking where it was needed, the shopping, the other little tasks. But he couldn't be seen like this. "Animus?"