#callahan:threads

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@lungsandlips is also getting Cal for reasons

"So, what I'm hearing is you don't think I'm funny and I feel like that's not a fair assessment of me as a person. I'm hilarious."

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"Kinky." The flashing of teeth might have looked like a smile but Cal had spent enough time on this side of things to know it was just as likely to be a threat here. "This sounds like the wind-up to a therapy speech."

"Interpret how you will, but the wrong guess could end quite badly for you," he answered, flashing a smile. "Could be a bit of both. Find better bridges to stand on, and don't light them on fire when you do."

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@bleedtheneonfromthebitemarks continued from [X]

Max didn’t know how to answer. Not this time. There was no witty or teasing remark, no clever comeback that oozed with his usual charm and confidence. He looked tired, paler that usual, a little drawn, like he hadn’t been eating or sleeping much of late, which in truth he hadn’t, but he considered that inconsequential in the wider scheme of things. “Bad,” he answered quietly, the word hollow as he bordered on tears, an unfamiliar fear in his eyes. “I fucked up. I’ve fucked up so fucking bad and I don’t know how to unfuck it without someone getting hurt.”

It was bad enough seeing Max like that, but the tone only further set Cal on edge. He wasn't good at emotional things, struggled enough with his own, but this was Max and he always tried at least a little harder where he was concerned.

"What happened? I know I was on the other side for a bit, but...Normally I come back to at least an update on what's going on but no one has been willing to tell me anything."

Instead he had been met with something akin to pitying stares or people doing their best to look anywhere but at him and it had been enough to make his skin itch with how worried he had become.

"You look like hell."

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@bleedtheneonfromthebitemarks gets Cal

"You know, most people knock," he started, leaning in the doorway and giving the other a once over. "Although I am a little curious as to how you knew I was here and not still on the other side."

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@neonbitemarks

It had taken some time and more than a little coaxing from the family to get Cal to even come home, but it had taken far longer for him to be able to face Max. In truth, he was still terrified of the response he was going to get but he knew the longer he waited, the worse it would be.

"Hey..." he muttered, hovering in the doorway as if waiting to be told to fuck off.

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"Yeah, I wasn't raised around the courts at all. Don't get me wrong, my one dad tried real hard to teach me politeness but the other, well..." Blake knew the rules but didn't seem to care and Callahan had, unfortunately, picked up on that a little more.

"As long as you're not trying to kill me? Someone as pretty as you can do damn near anything they want to me. If, of course, you don't mind me mouthing off the entire time."

"I only ask because I was taught that I must be polite at all times, but I suppose that only really applies in the Courts, so forgive me for the formalities. I'm not used to more casual interactions," Alejandro admitted, blushing slightly, though he did find the prospect of doing away with all of that in favor of a much more relaxed connection attractive.

"Directness I can do," he nodded, smiling more broadly. "Are there any other things you prefer aside from being manhandled, just so I know ahead of time?"

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@bleedtheneonfromthebitemarks liked for Cal

"How'd you find me here?"

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@linesofmagic sent: Handcuffed - from Molly for whoever wants this misadventure lol

"Well goddamn, Molls, if you wanted to be this close to me, all you had to do was ask."

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@linesofmagic sent: 🙌 okay but from molly for whoever

"Well, well, well, isn't this just the most delightful greeting! I knew you liked me at least a little, Molls, but goddamn, you're going to get me all worked up and you haven't even asked me for my safeword yet. Tsk, tsk."

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"I'm sure I can think of a few other things to make you feel better," he purred before leaning in and stealing yet another kiss, enjoying the closeness and the feel of Dimitri's lips against his own.

"That actually makes me feel a little better." Not that Dimitri wouldn't have gone through with it. He was determined and right now almost anyone would do. For now he would keep that information from Cal though, because it seemed a little cruel. "Yeah? Good. I'm not going to lie - I'm new to it. But it's what I need."

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@bleedtheneonfromthebitemarks didn't ask for a thing but I'm doing things

"I almost feel like you hate me and that's just insane, right? You couldn't possibly hate me."

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@babyitsmagic sent: send 🙌 to grab my muse by the throat - from aries?

Callahan smirked, completely unbothered by the gesture. "Ooh, did I strike a nerve? Or is this about to involve nudity?"

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"I'm saying that the pranks her and I pull on each other are fairly dangerous so we stick to each other." Which had them toeing the lines on the no family rules themselves. "See, now that's just rude. I can be plenty of fun."

"Are you saying that the only person who can put up with you is your sister? Because that's hardly surprising." The fact that anyone could get along with him was far more surprising, actually. "Oh, I have fun. Just not with you."

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"In my defense, it was the right thing to do?" Which wasn't Cal's usual MO but he liked Ali enough to take that risk. "I don't really have much else going on other than Brandon literally tracked me down here and you know my brother avoids being over here like the fucking plague."

"You did wh-- nope. Nope. Nope. No, I don't want to know. I don't need to know. I do not get involved in court business. I don't get involved in any business. Whatever you have or have not done, the less I know, the better. Please tell me about literally anything else. Please."

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"I have no intentions of being useful to anyone. I'm not a fighter, I don't fucking live over here, and my family will notice if I'm suddenly acting differently. You. Bet. On. The. Wrong. Kid." He didn't like calling himself a kid but, at the end of the day, he was still just young enough that most would consider him just that.

She waved off the concern. She knew how to handle that, at least. "You're not a pet," she agreed. "That's the point. I do not keep pets. Pets are meant to look cute and provide entertainment, and I don't need that. What I need is someone useful. So either you already are that or we figure out how to make you that."

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"They do but I was born in fae lands, mostly grew up in fae lands, and still picked up Blake's habit of pissing people off. At least you're cute, so I feel like I'm not getting the worst end of this deal." Not to mention his biological father had been higher up in a court, but Cal had never met the man and he couldn't remember everything his momma had told him before she had left him with Blake's dryad friend.

@ofviolentdeath sent: ⛓ from Cal for anyone because he likes to be annoying || arranged marriage meme (accepting)

"I've got to know -- how'd you end up in this arrangement? I feel like most of your family tries... quiet hard to stay out of court business."