It is rather early still when Teja comes in, bringing several small leather bags from the forge. One by one, he sets them upon the bar, with instructions; one by one, they vanish. Among them is the finely extruded gold and silver wire for Ravin Lichwell, the pin for Enzo Matrix, and the ring for Billy Kaplan.
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"Don't you look lonely. Missing someone?"
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Count jumps from Teja's shoulder right onto Charlie's arm.
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He lets Count jump, and catches him, bringing him up to nuzzle the soft fur. "I told you I wouldn't be gone long."
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Deep sigh.
"Time is strange around this place, and the door is fickle. When my Asher last came back, after three months of absence from me, he swore only a day had passed in his world. For many others, time passes more quickly in their world than here: - they live a month or two, and return here after what is, in this place, but a few days. It is that way for Carlotta, the girl that Demeter and I have taken under our wings. And then there are the truly dark tales..."
He sighs again, then bends forwards to touch his lips to Charlie's brow.
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Charlie curled his hand around the back of Teja's neck, to pull him into a short kiss. "The door won't be that finicky with me. If it turns out to be, I can just stay here." He touched the end of his nose against Teja's. "Really."
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And something he'd said about 'belonging with his world' moderately irked him. "Teja, even if I am alive, I can go between worlds quite easily, for now. I'm simply not going to stay in mine permanently, unless something happens to keep me from coming back."
He carefully brushed his fingers into the soft hair at Teja's temples, bringing him forward for a soft kiss. "Just like I'm simply not an LC anymore. I can be rather stubborn that way." And he'd be damned if a door of all things was going to keep him away. That just was not happening.
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But for now, his thoughts are lost to the caress; he sighs, reaches out to cup Charlie's cheek in his hand, and kiss him again, deeply and lovingly. Ahh, the was his kisses taste, and the tickle of stubborn curls, and the faint but unmistakeable scent of his skin...
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He rarely took notice of scent before this, but it's something he doubts he would ever ignore, now. "I can't tell you how much I like it when you do that, Teja." He sighed quietly, smiling into the kiss. "But i love it."
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"I love you," Teja murmurs. "To learn you were gone was a painful, if brief, stab to my soul. To see that you are back already, on the other hand..."
More kisses, now, first, before he goes on speaking. One could forget about speaking, as mouths and tongues can be used for so much lovelier things.
"It was a great surge of deep relief, to see you again," he finally manages, when he can stop chasing the tip of Charlie's tongue with his own.
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Charlie sighed softly into it, pulling Teja closer with a hand at the back of his neck. "I love you very, very dearly, my Teja."
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"If being away from me made you realise that," Teja murmurs, his voice thick with emotion, "then, maybe, it was indeed right that you went, and stayed away for several days of your time."
Long pause, with a deep sigh of pure happiness.
"I shall sit on a couch, from now on, instead of this chair -- I think," he then ventures, bending to kiss Charlie again.
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He smiled at the next words. "Oh, will you?" Another small kiss. "And why?"
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A basket full of muffins.
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"It appears you have a delivery, my Teja..." He nodded lightly at the woman, smiling. She hadn't really interrupted anything; at least not as far as he was concerned.
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