[He doesn't know — it seems as though, over the course of dimensional experience, they've traveled in different directions. The more this recurs, the less willing and interested Itachi is in permanency; as though the intensity he'd dug himself into Aefenglom's problems had evaporated the moment Sasuke, Stiles, and Jonas had left and he was alone. Hell seemed even more pointless, except that it punished him rightly.
Yet similar is not something he would have ever called him and Stiles, so it doesn't alarm him. If Stiles weren't with him in Noctium now, would he even attempt to engage? Admitting that the boy is like an anchor toward whatever parts of humanity still exist within himself, and any real desire to be alive, feels unfair. A heavy burden. He determines never to say it.]
You will return home eventually. Your birthday, it's the 8th next month, correct?
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[He's about to argue further when it occurs to him that the point is not only ancient history, but perhaps hypocritical, when he himself has made executive decisions in the interest of "preventative measures" without explicit permission. Exhibit A: the massacre.
Maybe they are more alike than he wishes to admit.]
[ The response is a long time coming. Stiles has to talk himself into the idea, then take time to set up. Eventually, a picture is sent to Itachi – taken from his perspective, looking down at his reclining body on a bed. Pink, peaked nipples stand at attention in the cool air, his shirt discarded somewhere out of sight. The long, smooth plane of his abdomen gives way to pelvis bones, jutting out from where sweatpants ride dangerously low. One hand has disappeared under the waistband, fingers spread beneath the fabric. ]
[Of course, due to his attraction to Stiles, he is not immune to the image. In fact, the visual stimuli has a greater impact than he could have anticipated — a hot, swooping tug of arousal pulls down into his belly as he studies lines of bare skin and the implication of that hand’s placement. Unfortunately he is not a man of interpersonal acuity or charm, and so the reply is disappointingly blunt:]
Well, yeah. But that requires me getting off my ass to come visit you. And there's something sexy about doing it this way. It'll make seeing each other in person next time even better. Trust my methods.
Itachi's response is somewhat delayed, frozen in the temporary deliberation of how to proceed within new, foreign, uncomfortable territory. He's learned how to be intimate with Stiles through physical action, not through words. After tabbing back to the image sent and studying it with the dark, potent knowledge that is how Stiles looks right now—that is what he is doing at this very moment, all for him—a message finally comes.]
I'm not certain what's expected of me. Describing my clothes cannot be satisfying for you. Should I also send a picture?
[The effort and willingness to try is there; he will simply need Stiles' lead.]
[ For once, Stiles is patient. Nestled in his bed, covers kicked aside, he rereads Itachi’s previous messages while waiting for the man to respond. This is new territory for him; all attempts to sext Malia had crashed and burned spectacularly. But through the distant anxiety of trying something different, there’s a bud of anticipatory excitement too – one that blooms into a familiar warmth of affection when the shinobi finally texts back. ]
You can send a picture if you want. Or you can tell me how it made you feel, seeing that picture of me. Did it turn you on?
[The truth, but it feels insufficient in communicating what he means. He wishes he could see Stiles—the inability to have him physically present is a sudden and acute frustration, blistering hot, unsated. He knows no way of speaking about this eloquently or delicately. The sensation is like a hammer to his patience.
[ Another picture, this time of a different perspective. Stiles is lying on his front, camera staring down the length of his back from over a shoulder – where the waistband of his sweatpants has been hooked beneath his ass, plumping both cheeks. ]
You should know I touch myself everyday, thinking about you.
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Yet similar is not something he would have ever called him and Stiles, so it doesn't alarm him. If Stiles weren't with him in Noctium now, would he even attempt to engage? Admitting that the boy is like an anchor toward whatever parts of humanity still exist within himself, and any real desire to be alive, feels unfair. A heavy burden. He determines never to say it.]
You will return home eventually. Your birthday, it's the 8th next month, correct?
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You remembered. Yeah, it's the 8th of April. Or Diamil, in this world. At least it won't be a full moon this time.
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Nope, no plans. Maybe we can have our date then?
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You did not save my life.
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Why do you believe my life was endangered?
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Witches are at their weakest on the night of a full moon. Monsters are prone to go feral those nights. You do the math.
You're welcome.
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If anything, at the time, you were the only threat I encountered. There was no reason to escort me across the city.
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Maybe they are more alike than he wishes to admit.]
Fine.
Was there anything else you wished to ask me?
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Yeah.
What're you wearing?
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Tell me what you're wearing.
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A shirt and pants. Why did you send me that?
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I'm sexting you. Sex texting? As in, initiating long-distance sex through explicit pictures or descriptions.
[ Doubt begins to creep in, but he stubbornly pushes it to the side. Itachi's attracted to him. He knows that. There's no reason to be embarrassed. ]
Interested?
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Do you want to have sex? Wouldn’t you prefer that to happen in reality, instead of from a distance?
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Well, yeah. But that requires me getting off my ass to come visit you. And there's something sexy about doing it this way. It'll make seeing each other in person next time even better. Trust my methods.
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Itachi's response is somewhat delayed, frozen in the temporary deliberation of how to proceed within new, foreign, uncomfortable territory. He's learned how to be intimate with Stiles through physical action, not through words. After tabbing back to the image sent and studying it with the dark, potent knowledge that is how Stiles looks right now—that is what he is doing at this very moment, all for him—a message finally comes.]
I'm not certain what's expected of me. Describing my clothes cannot be satisfying for you. Should I also send a picture?
[The effort and willingness to try is there; he will simply need Stiles' lead.]
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You can send a picture if you want. Or you can tell me how it made you feel, seeing that picture of me. Did it turn you on?
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[The truth, but it feels insufficient in communicating what he means. He wishes he could see Stiles—the inability to have him physically present is a sudden and acute frustration, blistering hot, unsated. He knows no way of speaking about this eloquently or delicately. The sensation is like a hammer to his patience.
How he feels?]
I want to touch you.
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[ Another picture, this time of a different perspective. Stiles is lying on his front, camera staring down the length of his back from over a shoulder – where the waistband of his sweatpants has been hooked beneath his ass, plumping both cheeks. ]
You should know
I touch myself everyday, thinking about you.
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