Once, the green-eyed man had been a familiar sight around the hotel. Always polite, always smiling, he usually had a softly murmured greeting for people he passed in the hallway. If once caught him in the bar, he would smile that placid smile of his and offer nothing more than a simple game of cards, and even if he lost, there was that soft glint
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If the room looked familiar, it wasn't by accident. This was the bedroom of that tiny house just outside of Chang'an, and the bed she sat on was the one where Hakkai -- not Hakkai then, not yet, but no longer Gonou -- had laid as the wound in his belly knitted.
But all the little details that has made the room a home were gone. The television and the pile of unboxed pornographic VHS tapes, the clothing that never seemed to manage to get all the way into the dresser drawers, the hairbrush and the empty packs of cigarettes and the half-full glasses... everything that he had touched, gone. The room was bare, save for the bedframe and the old striped and stained mattress. And the woman.
If she really was a woman. ]
I've been waiting for you.
((ooc: CR only with this one! I never play sex with her.))
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Closing the door silently behind him, he stepped further into the room as his gaze finally fell on his new found companion. The tone of her skin brought back memories he prayed would stay buried and sent a fresh wash of nausea through him suddenly knotted stomach. ]
I feel as if I already know you, but I'm not sure of your name. Why?
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You know me, Zhu Bajie.
[ Her Mandarin wasn't the common Beijing accent that Hakkai spoke, was it? Or Chang'an's Zhongyuan either. At first it had sounded so, but the way she pronounced his name -- one of his names, anyway -- was pure Lanyin. Gojyo's accent. ]
You've been mine from the beginning.
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I would prefer to be my own. I have no desire to belong to anyone else.
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His voice was soft and rough, as if he hadn't been speaking much recently. At least, not since his run in with Adela and Muraki. He knew he wasn't at his best, not with the bandages still covering where Adela had stabbed him to free herself.
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Sheena's jaw dropped and embarrassed, she called the wolf back, but he stayed where he was, offering the stick to the new "player". "I am so sorry," she said to Hakkai. "He can be stubborn, but he won't hurt you."
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"It's quite alright. I don't mind at all."
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