[ct] 67.5 - discuss your current living situation with your partner (formerly 64.1)

Me and Zee been living together since…well, before we were together. Hell, if you wanna get technical, we been living together since we first met. It wasn’t anything we planned or talked about, it just ended up that way. It’s like pretty much every other aspect of our relationship: we just fit together.

Zee came to LA to help me out during a crisis, and she stayed for business reasons. She stayed with me because…well, I asked her to. I didn’t think it would be for long, and when it turned out to be? It didn’t faze either of us. Personal space was never a big issue, we kept different hours and I moved my office stuff out of the guest room when it was clear she was there for a while. We bugged each other, yeah, but we didn’t drive each other crazy.

Then there were the nights we shared a bed, before we started dating. I’d just wake up sometimes and find her there, and there were a couple times when the shadows came for me and she was there. Maybe it was a fight and I was broken, bleeding, or maybe it was in my sleep…nightmares, or a touch of despair that took my breath. She’d wrap her arms around me, keep me warm and draw the blankets over both of us. It was innocent as brother and sister. It was warmth, it was healing.

I also wrestled with how I felt about her. I was in denial for a while, living with this…fucking supermodel and knowing I was just not that guy. Yeah, I wanted her, but if I thought about it too much I got all tongue tied and crap like I do around most beautiful women.

She was forceful, independent, beautiful…she intimidated the shit out of me.

I think living with Zee did more than just get me used to cohabitation again (only person I ever lived with was my buddy Benji in college), I think it stripped me of a lot of fear. It made me stronger because I had to be strong enough just to confront her about wet towels on the bathroom floor. I had to get over myself enough to just fight with her, and when I did? She respected me for it. Still does, I’d like to think.

My girl don’t take shit from nobody, that includes her man. And now, thanks to her? I don’t, either. Well…much.

After being without her for so long? I’m starting to enjoy it.

Muse: Tommy Karras
Fandom: Original Character
Words: 421
Partner: Ziyah Ambrogio (zee_ali) [Highlander OC]

[mad muses] june 5.1 - gummy bear homicide

NOTE: Effie is effiecat and is used without permission, but copious heaping helpings of love. Channing is what_its_not and Kyle is inside_mydreams, both of whom belong to me so I can murderlize them at will. :P

“Seriously, how many innocent gummy bears had to sacrifice their lives for that thing?”

Effie just stuck her tongue out at Tommy, giggling as she dipped another piece of shredded red gummy bear in her glass of water and carefully applied it to the severed head of the little candy tableaux she was creating on the café table the group was sharing stageside during lunch.

“Come on, look at that! When did Norman Bates ever look so squishy and delicious?”

( “Did Norman Bates actually decapitate anyone?” )