#* nola

⤷ ✧ @calcifydamage said, ❝ i didn’t come here to open a vein. ❞

increasingly, this is how it goes. they have always quarreled, always been part friend, part adversary, part something. more and more, the ability civilly enjoy one another's company has ebbed, all that lies between them and all that is not yet forgiven ( on both sides ) fueling tempers that lash out from the very start. gone is any initial assumptions of well-meaning.

⤷ ✧ @calcifydamage said, ❝ oh, i’m just your run-of-the-mill asshole. ❞

❛ run-of-the-mill assholes ❜ — the words feel off on his tongue, and he restrains himself from swapping them for language more his own style ( barely, just barely, he refrains from uttering them with disdain ) ❛ don't generally survive five minutes in my company, mate. ❜

no, caleb is something far, far worse: one of those rare individuals whom klaus hates ( perhaps with less reason than he ought to have ) and yet dares not raise a finger against. such people are far beyond run-of-the-mill, and their very existence rankles him. klaus, unsentimental and fearsome klaus, never to be dissuaded from murder by heartfelt pleas, unable to harm those who anger him because of fear for the consequences from those that love them.

caleb has little idea, klaus thinks ( and not for the first time ), just how lucky he is.\

⤷ ✧ @calcifydamage said, ❝ i don’t wanna see you. ❞

most, standing in his place, would stop, perhaps look duly affronted ( or confused, depending on the situation ), maybe even a little hurt. they might then apologize, or turn upon their heels and go back the way they'd come. then again, klaus had never been most people, and his smug grin does not falter as he steps up beside her, dismissing her words with an unconcerned wave of his hand. ❛ yes, yes, I know. you despise every fiber of my being, I'm nothing but an annoyance on the best of days. ❜ he'd like to point out that surely, surely they are past all this, that after all the time that has passed I don't wanna see you has long since lost its meaning.