[That was just about all it took to turn Kakyoin into a puddle. He fumbled to recover for a few seconds, deciding to just let Jotaro set whatever kind of pace he wanted and answering it eagerly with a hand raised to his face.]
[He pauses, shifting the positioning of his hands for the moment, so that one settles on Kakyoin's waist above his hip, and the other can skim along the length of his spine.]
I want to tell you something. About that. That day, I mean, and that kiss.
[He murmurs a little, unintelligible sounds standing in for words, and focuses on keeping up the rhythm of his steady caresses for a minute while he puts words together.]
Star...reacted. To my surprise. He...
[Breathe.]
...I didn't order it to happen. I promised I wouldn't do that to you, I didn't break my word. It...it just happened.
[Blinking a couple of times as he connected point A with point B, Kakyoin's reaction was difficult to judge. He didn't look angry, and if anything 'surprise' seemed to be winning out over several other options.]
[After thinking about this for just a few seconds, his face broke out into an awkward smile that was just barely holding back laughter.]
You stopped time because I kissed you.
[...Apparently that was hilarious for some reason--the reason being something in the realm of 'seriously?']
[...Well, that's — okay, that's a lot better than being mad, at least, though it doesn't help the splashes of hot blush that rise to the surface of his cheeks, which he promptly tries to hide by tipping down his chin and using his hat as cover.]
Just...in case you were wondering. The world stood still for your first kiss...or something.
[Sentimental or not, it's...good to hear. Reassuring. Nice.]
Would it help if...maybe, if you closed your eyes? To start with, I could...move you, but with your eyes closed. So...you control when you see the world changing. Even just in a little way.
Then put your arms around my neck. So you can feel where I am, that I've got you. Arms around my neck, and look at me...and count backwards from five. When you reach two...close your eyes.
[He leans forward, brushing a kiss against Kakyoin's temple in what he hopes is a soothing way.]
[He put his arms back around Jotaro's neck, answering with another light kiss before silently counting--five, four...]
[Kakyoin was nervous, somewhere in the back of his mind, but that was the point of this. He asked to see it so that this power could be something a little less deeply terrifying. So that if he saw things just change and move, he wouldn't want to instinctively recoil or lash out in panicked self-defense.]
[It wasn't just Dio's power. It never would be again.]
[-three, two...taking a deep breath and bracing himself, Kakyoin closed his eyes.]
[He waits one beat beyond the moment when he sees Kakyoin's eyes fall closed, and when that one beat has passed, a silent command to Star Platinum stops time in its tracks.
That gives him five seconds, now. He hadn't said where they were going because frankly, he doesn't really know; he hasn't decided, hasn't thought this out much further beyond little flashes of impulse. Maybe he should've, because the sight of Kakyoin's face frozen in time is...it's enough to make a lump well up in his throat. Some things, he's sure, will never go away. Understanding that every time he looks at his boyfriend's face while time is standing still, he's seeing what Dio saw in the moment before he killed him...that's never going to go away.
Now he has four seconds. He'd better get to work.
Lifting Kakyoin is as effortless in stopped time as it is while it's flowing. He's even more careful than he needs to be, maybe, because he is supreme in this environment; there's no one who can stop or challenge him, no one who can tell him no. That's a Dio-ish thought, too, or at least could be, until he adamantly tempers it with, and that's why I have to rely on myself to do it, and uses the utmost of care as they wander through the corridors of the house.
In the end, he takes Kakyoin outside. The trip to the back porch takes a second and a half; the leap up onto the roof with Star Platinum's help takes another second on its own.
With the remaining time he has left, he carefully checks his grip and their angle, making absolutely sure the clock tower is well out of Kakyoin's line of sight, and nuzzling against his shoulder for the benefit of contact as —
[Kakyoin almost flinched at what was, from his perspective, a sudden touch to his shoulder. A faint silver and green flicker behind him was the only real indication he'd been startled at all, and Hierophant vanished as quickly as it had manifested.]
[He didn't feel the twinge of broken tripwires running through his nerves like an electric shock, and there was no sudden impact or blinding pain. Of course there wasn't, but some irrationally paranoid part of him had half-expected disaster.]
[But that was stupid. There was nowhere the two of them could ever be more safe and secure than with each other. Even if he couldn't come any closer than this to the edge of a world he barely understood, Kakyoin was confident it was never going to be used against him again.]
[...one, zero.]
[He opened his eyes and blinked, looking around as he tried to process having moved instantaneously. If he didn't already know how it worked, Kakyoin would almost have compared it to outright teleporting.]
...wow.
[Even knowing how it worked, seeing the effects firsthand were still a little disorienting.]
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Date: 2015-12-10 10:08 pm (UTC)[That was just about all it took to turn Kakyoin into a puddle. He fumbled to recover for a few seconds, deciding to just let Jotaro set whatever kind of pace he wanted and answering it eagerly with a hand raised to his face.]
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Date: 2015-12-10 10:25 pm (UTC)[He draws back just a little, brushing their noses together rather than withdrawing completely once he's ready to break for air.]
Was I your first kiss? That one day, when you did it.
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Date: 2015-12-10 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-10 11:59 pm (UTC)[Speaking of kisses, hello.]
Thanks for letting me be the one to have it.
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Date: 2015-12-11 12:11 am (UTC)I wouldn't want it to be anyone else's.
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Date: 2015-12-11 12:31 am (UTC)[He pauses, shifting the positioning of his hands for the moment, so that one settles on Kakyoin's waist above his hip, and the other can skim along the length of his spine.]
I want to tell you something. About that. That day, I mean, and that kiss.
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Date: 2015-12-11 12:35 am (UTC)[Kakyoin's hands dropped to Jotaro's shoulders, waiting for him to keep talking.]
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Date: 2015-12-11 12:43 am (UTC)[He murmurs a little, unintelligible sounds standing in for words, and focuses on keeping up the rhythm of his steady caresses for a minute while he puts words together.]
Star...reacted. To my surprise. He...
[Breathe.]
...I didn't order it to happen. I promised I wouldn't do that to you, I didn't break my word. It...it just happened.
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Date: 2015-12-11 12:56 am (UTC)[Blinking a couple of times as he connected point A with point B, Kakyoin's reaction was difficult to judge. He didn't look angry, and if anything 'surprise' seemed to be winning out over several other options.]
[After thinking about this for just a few seconds, his face broke out into an awkward smile that was just barely holding back laughter.]
You stopped time because I kissed you.
[...Apparently that was hilarious for some reason--the reason being something in the realm of 'seriously?']
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Date: 2015-12-11 01:16 am (UTC)Just...in case you were wondering. The world stood still for your first kiss...or something.
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Date: 2015-12-11 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-11 03:03 am (UTC)...Never around you, like I said. I promise.
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Date: 2015-12-11 03:08 am (UTC)[...]
Do you think...you could show me, sometime? If you wanted to.
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Date: 2015-12-11 03:16 am (UTC)[But...that seems worth re-emphasizing, so.]
Only what you say. So you'll know what will change.
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Date: 2015-12-11 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-11 04:10 am (UTC)[...]
I'm not okay with hurting you.
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Date: 2015-12-11 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-11 04:30 am (UTC)It's a little more mine, every time.
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Date: 2015-12-11 05:28 am (UTC)[Kakyoin leaned in for a light, quick kiss to the cheek again, before pulling back and glancing around.]
What do you think? What'd be easy to change in a few seconds?
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Date: 2015-12-11 05:38 am (UTC)[Sentimental or not, it's...good to hear. Reassuring. Nice.]
Would it help if...maybe, if you closed your eyes? To start with, I could...move you, but with your eyes closed. So...you control when you see the world changing. Even just in a little way.
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Date: 2015-12-11 05:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-11 06:13 am (UTC)[He leans forward, brushing a kiss against Kakyoin's temple in what he hopes is a soothing way.]
When you reach zero, we'll be somewhere else.
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Date: 2015-12-11 06:39 am (UTC)[He put his arms back around Jotaro's neck, answering with another light kiss before silently counting--five, four...]
[Kakyoin was nervous, somewhere in the back of his mind, but that was the point of this. He asked to see it so that this power could be something a little less deeply terrifying. So that if he saw things just change and move, he wouldn't want to instinctively recoil or lash out in panicked self-defense.]
[It wasn't just Dio's power. It never would be again.]
[-three, two...taking a deep breath and bracing himself, Kakyoin closed his eyes.]
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Date: 2015-12-11 07:01 am (UTC)That gives him five seconds, now. He hadn't said where they were going because frankly, he doesn't really know; he hasn't decided, hasn't thought this out much further beyond little flashes of impulse. Maybe he should've, because the sight of Kakyoin's face frozen in time is...it's enough to make a lump well up in his throat. Some things, he's sure, will never go away. Understanding that every time he looks at his boyfriend's face while time is standing still, he's seeing what Dio saw in the moment before he killed him...that's never going to go away.
Now he has four seconds. He'd better get to work.
Lifting Kakyoin is as effortless in stopped time as it is while it's flowing. He's even more careful than he needs to be, maybe, because he is supreme in this environment; there's no one who can stop or challenge him, no one who can tell him no. That's a Dio-ish thought, too, or at least could be, until he adamantly tempers it with, and that's why I have to rely on myself to do it, and uses the utmost of care as they wander through the corridors of the house.
In the end, he takes Kakyoin outside. The trip to the back porch takes a second and a half; the leap up onto the roof with Star Platinum's help takes another second on its own.
With the remaining time he has left, he carefully checks his grip and their angle, making absolutely sure the clock tower is well out of Kakyoin's line of sight, and nuzzling against his shoulder for the benefit of contact as —
Time resumes.]
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Date: 2015-12-11 07:30 am (UTC)[He didn't feel the twinge of broken tripwires running through his nerves like an electric shock, and there was no sudden impact or blinding pain. Of course there wasn't, but some irrationally paranoid part of him had half-expected disaster.]
[But that was stupid. There was nowhere the two of them could ever be more safe and secure than with each other. Even if he couldn't come any closer than this to the edge of a world he barely understood, Kakyoin was confident it was never going to be used against him again.]
[...one, zero.]
[He opened his eyes and blinked, looking around as he tried to process having moved instantaneously. If he didn't already know how it worked, Kakyoin would almost have compared it to outright teleporting.]
...wow.
[Even knowing how it worked, seeing the effects firsthand were still a little disorienting.]
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