take a card, any card

At least Remy doesn’t seem to be pushing the subject, doesn’t seem hellbent on convincing Aki to talk about something he doesn’t want to talk about. Avoidance might not be the best way to deal with all of this but right now it’s the best way he’s got, and he’s going to stick with it until someone gives him something better. “That sounds good. What did you have in mind?”

“fair.” would he have the same problem with he had to go through all that with his father? nope. but this was pascal and he was too pure and should be protected from such topics. he was taking one for the team, you could say. “yeah. it’s safer than send you over to urban dictionary.”

“Children usually do stupid things, bless their hearts,” Jesse says, not quite agreeing or disagreeing. Brief flash of a moment: Jesse, aged eleven, praying to God to kill his Daddy for sending Tulip away. Praying for his Daddy to go to Hell. God delivered, or perhaps it was the Devil incarnate, using the guise of old Marie L’Angelle. “You able to do smoke rings?” He asks, grinning widely.

He takes a long, deep drag of his cigarette, gives himself a moment to think through his answer. “Not so much anymore, no, but the urge never really goes away,” he admits, carefully. “Not used t’being one of the good guys.” Wry grin, as he takes another quick swig from the bottle, passes it back to Remy with a chuckle. “Thank you for that, but that’s nothin’ compared to bein’ raised by the king of thieves himself.”

Remy holds the cigarette between two of his fingers, moving it to be put between his lips. He takes another drag of it, a smirk on his face. He blows the smoke out into the room. “I can, is dat a challenge I hear?”  He says as he sets out to do just that with the next drag. There’s a ring of smoke between them. “How about dat?”

“’S good to know, but aye. Been a wee while since I had one of those kinds of people . Wanna stick around, y’know?” Which said quite a bit as far as Cassidy was concerned. He’s had more than his fair share of friends and loved ones, that he’s learned to try to avoid the inevitable pain that is caused by his condition on both sides of the equation more often than not. Friends are easy for the Irishman to make, but to stay…

To say Cass was impressed with Remy’s card trick was an understatement. It reminded him a bit of his own little hobby, to a small degree. It was certainly not quite as clean as Remy’s. “No, mate; your trick’s way, way cooler than any of mine. Trust me. All I do is drink, ‘n do…. uh. Other stuff, an’ not get permanently fecked up. Might die on a real good bender; I’ve givin’ many a coroner a fright, let me tell yeh.” And with that, Cass snorted out a brisk laugh.

His smile fell a little bit as he sighed softly. He then scrunched his nose as he finished his thought, “They never seem to find it as funny as I do, though…”

“Yeah, ya deserve some happiness.” Remy doesn’t know the other very well, but he thinks that everyone should have that happy ending. Even if it was temporary, no one should end up alone. If you find something worth keeping he believes that you should fight of it. Which is why he has been trying SO HARD with Anna over the years. Not that he should talk much when his own love life was a mess now.

There’s a grin when he can see that the other man was IMPRESSED by his trick. “I’m glad ya like it. I’ll show ya some more sometime. If ya ever need somethin’ blown up I’m de one to call.” He could even use just his hands if he had to. “Oh? I’d love t’hear dat story.” He admits wth a laugh of his own. 

“Beyond that, they do seem to love you. I don’t think they’d run away, even if they wanted to.” Aki’s never had a pet, he doesn’t exactly know what it would be like, but he knows hoe attached Remy is to his cats, and they to him. His expression falls at the question, heart sinking as the conversation turns back to exactly what Aki wanted to avoid - him. “I’m -” He pauses for a moment, ready to say he’s fine, but he knows Remy won’t believe it. And the man deserves better. “I’m.. getting there.”

“People do like a horror, especially if its good and its something new that they haven’t seen much of on television or on a movie.” Sabrina said with a shrug. “I think that fact it can be a bit dangerous sounds very exciting and maybe it’ll draw people in. Wait really? Do you think I can maybe see something?”

“Dey remake too many classics, but sometimes dey do come up wit a good idea.” Remy comments with a grin as he looks at Sabrina. “Alright, sure I can show ya a trick if ya want.” He pulls his own deck out of his pocket, the edges a little burnt, but the numbers all there.

“you’re very welcome. your kids have been too negligent, man. you can’t send someone into the black hole of social media without some basic knowledge,” he shakes his head. “if you ever see anything else you don’t get, you know who to call.”

“i really feel this is something one of your kids should talk to you about, but just because i really like pascal, i’ll do them this solid,” he explains. “but yeah, basically. if they think you’re attractive, odds are you will get called daddy at some point. so, you know, if you see that sort of comment don’t freak out and think you have a long lost kid trying to reach out. they’re just sexualizing you, as one does.”

“I’m an old soul. Or something.” Aki says with a snort, shrugging his shoulders. “I guess it’s easier to see from the outside looking in, that’s all.” He raises an eyebrow at Remy’s sudden list of worries, things that are mostly out of his control really - but it’s interesting to know what he’s thinking anyway. “I doubt your cats would go missing, if that helps. They love you way too much to leave.”

“She can’t stay away forever. If she could, you two would have ended a long time ago.” Something Aki doesn’t want to consider - if they’d never been able to figure things out, he might not have two of his best friends in his life at all. A sad thought in itself. “Oh? What else has you worried?”

laughter takes over, he isn’t even surprised by the lack of knowledge. “i don’t think you want to know. ⏤ but maybe i do need to explain because i can see a lot of daddy related messages coming your way once we get those followers up,” he muses. 

Aki has seen the two of them go through a lot over the years, he knows they have a.. troublesome history. It’s unfortunate too, because they can be so happy together, very sweet to see, and Aki has grown fond of both of them over the years. It’s a shame to see them still struggling with this. “You really worry about that?“ He asks with a raised eyebrow. “I don’t think it’ll come to that. I think the two of you can figure this out.”

“My grandfather was also a magician and my…dad also does magic to but not like my mom or my grandpa.” She said to him. It was still weird to her to talk about her dad sometimes. “I kind of do want to but I don’t know if my abilities would be suited for that. I kind of have a preference for things like necromancy and elemental control but who knows people might want to see that a magic show.”

“You never know what de public would be interested in. Dey like a good horror show right? I t’ink dere could be a crowd for dat sort of t’ing. Sounds dangerous though, but also like it would be a lot of fun. I’m good wit cards, and personally what I do can look like magic, but it really ain’t.” Remy thinks there’s a bright future in this one. 

“Must of impressed him, if that’s the case,” Jesse comments, briefly getting lost in thoughts of his own daddy. Of Marie L’Angelle, being forcibly taken in, taken away from Texas. “If you’re raised by the head of thieves, can’t but expect to be better than some petty yanks,” Jesse snorts, shaking his head before blowing out a stream of smoke.

Hums in agreement, grinning at the memory. “She was basically raised takin’ men’s money. No way in hell they could beat her, and I was there makin’ sure no one messed with her when they got angry at bein’ beaten by a woman.” Jesse shakes his head in disbelief, still stumped by men refusing to see how wonderfully badass women can be. Tulip could kick his ass ten ways from Sunday – hell, she has been since they were ten or so.

“I must’ve done somethin’ right. It was also a stupid t’ing t’do.” Remy knows that he would have still gave it a shot though, if he could successfully steal from the king of the thieves guild then tat would have been quite the thing to brag about. “Exactly, I learned from de best.” He says with a grin before blowing some smoke into the air between them.

“ what flavor is it ? “ laura asked , emerald eyes looking at remy , hoping that he had gotten chocolate.