( the dog days are over )

[prescind]

Who: stefan salvatore (prescind) + amos burton (rocinantes) + katherine pierce (manipulative + wanda maximoff (explosion)
What: event + other shenanigans
When: january
Where: all over the place

Content Warnings: possible nsfw, language, violence

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[prescind]

Katherine.

( he laughs quietly and then shakes his head, stepping closer to he and reaching to cradle her fae with his hands. )

That could never ever happen. Never.

[manipulative]

How can you be so sure?

[ she cocks her brow as if she's speaking of something based on fact. katherine knows by now that if stefan commits to something, he's committed.

but she's also katherine and she knows that she can be a lot of work sometimes. ]

[prescind]

Katherine.

( he doesn't like that question. he frowns. )

I can be sure because I'm sure. Because I love you.

[manipulative]

[ katherine knows it's silly, and the moment he doesn't say it, she knows he knows it's silly. but even someone as confident as her is sometimes plagued by very ridiculous insecurities.

at least he doesn't laugh. ]

You what?

[ she peers up at him and playfully furrows her brows as she feigns confusion. tilting her head to the side, she shakes her head ever so gently. ]

I didn't hear that bit.

[prescind]

I can't understand how you didn't hear it considering I tell it to you like ten times a day.

( but if she wants to hear it again... )

I love you, Katherine Pierce. Blush or not, I'm always going to love you.

[manipulative]

[ oh, that just makes her heart go all a flutter.

katherine pokes out her tongue, but her attempt to appear disgusted is severely undermined by her very pleased smile. peering down at her plate, she smiles innocently. ]

And what about Katerina Petrova? Don't you love her?

[prescind]

Yes, I do.

( stefan rolls his eyes because she knows he loves katherine and katerina and whoever else she might be. )

Adore her, actually.

[manipulative]

[ she allows herself to smile happily at that rather than hide it. after what they've spoken about today, she thinks maybe she'll give him this one win for now. ]

You're a charmer, you know. First, you make me dinner. Now, you're practically reciting poetry. You'd be the entire package if it wasn't for your square head.

[ she smiles sweetly at him. ]

[prescind]

( it catches him off guard and he laughs before he shakes his square head. )

You want me to get plastic surgery, see if I can't make it more oval for you?

( he laughs and tilts his head at her. )

[manipulative]

[ katherine makes a show of eyeing him noticeably, trying to imagine him with a more oval head…

and she decides, with a disgruntled purse of her lips and shake of her head, that wouldn't be entirely good at all. ]

No. [ she scrunches her nose even more. ] Luca inherited your square head and I'd like him to have something that makes him look like his father. [ her gaze lifts up to his hairline. ] Hopefully he doesn't inherit your forehead.

[prescind]

What's wrong with my forehead?

( it wasn't square or anything, katherine. you were just picking at his features now. )

It's fine. There's nothing wrong with my forehead.

[manipulative]

Other than it's a little on the square side?

[ she holds her hands up and mimics a large square. pursing her lips, she drops her hands and hums. ]

It is a little broad.

[prescind]

And yours is a little vee shaped.

( two could play that game. )

Like an arrowhead.

[manipulative]

[ for a split second, katherine narrows her eyes in annoyance. she's quick to smile and tilt her head up as she preens beneath the backhanded compliment. ]

A cute arrowhead, of course.

[ no, that was not a question. ]

[prescind]

Has anyone in their life ever described an arrowhead as cute?

( he's pretty sure the answer is no. )

You're reaching.

[manipulative]

[ she's slow to smile and look at the back of his head pointedly. ]

You'd be the first. How does it feel to do something for the first time, hm?

[ and, if he plays his cards right, the last. she sits smugly in her chair and digs into her dinner happily. ]

[prescind]

This isn't the first time that I've...done something for the first time.

( he doesn't know why that sentence sounds weird. he makes a face. )

I've taken some of your firsts.

[manipulative]

[ at his face, katherine playfully scrunches up her face. she chuckles low and gently brushes her toes against his ankle. ]

Some.

[ she'll concede, of course. there are not a lot of firsts and she doesn't wish to take that away from either of them. but she wants him to accept that he's taken yet another one. ]

And now another one. You shot through it like a cupid's bow. [ she snorts in amusement. ]

[prescind]

Good. I'll be sure to write about it in my journal tonight.

( he holds up a hand to forestall her next question. )

Nope, you don't get to read it.

[manipulative]

[ with a heavy, disappointed sigh, she sinks with depression into her hair. she pouts and mouths "no fun". ]

Will you read it to me?

[ she's slow to smile. that's a loophole he didn't cover. ]

[prescind]

No, I won't do that either.

( he shakes his head. )

I've gifted you a few of my journals and you still want more?

[manipulative]

Duh.

[ katherine rolls her eyes before regarding him like he's grown four extra heads. honestly, what kind of question is that? has water suddenly become dry? she wants and will always want to read his journals, even if he writes "stefan" over and over and over again. by that point, she'll merely analyse his calligraphy.

she smiles slowly much like a predator. ]

I can't get enough of you, Stefan.

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( that's about the answer he expected. he shakes his head because she's incorrigible. he laughs. )

Well, I don't have a journal that I want to give you so I guess you're going to have to content yourself with me for now.

( what an awful fate, he's sure. she'll never want to do that. )

[manipulative]

[ she scrunches up her face in mock distaste as if she's tasted a lemon. that isn't as ideal as reading a journal. after all, the journal doesn't talk back or refuse to give her the details she's after.

but then she settles back in her chair and crosses her arms against her chest. ]

Then tell me something you'd write in your journal right now.

[prescind]

Right now?

( stefan watches her and then crosses his arms, mirroring her stance. he thinks for a moment and then arches an eyebrow. )

I'd write that you are a very stubborn, very nosey person but I love you anyway.