( there is something heavy and bleak that settles in him, a contradiction to the roiling of unease in his stomach. the temperature of his anger evens to a persistent, scalding simmer.
he despises when stefan speaks like this, so easily and fully and factually, when he is naught but a riot inside. on the surface, his lover is the softer one, both amiable and sensitive, but it is klaus who cannot keep himself together, who so often cannot put words to his meaning, not when it is plain and vulnerable and obvious.
he hates and he loves and he pains, the wounding so deep that those three words, that confession, reverberates through him. it is not what he wants to hear and it is all he has ever wanted to hear.
has stefan never come when he's asked? when has he asked?
his gaze has hardened, wet still with tears. his voice, softened and slow. )
Out of my system? That would be convenient for you, wouldn't it? ( stefan did use him. klaus used him too, to forget. ) What a pillar I've been, while you wile away with your empire and all its little hiccups.
Shall I assume you'll solve all my issues like you solve your own? A band aid here, a talking-to there?
( he is cruel. this is the language he knows. ) I am not your world and you are not mine. ( the words are a burning poison in his throat. ) This is a school boy's love gone on too long.
no subject
he despises when stefan speaks like this, so easily and fully and factually, when he is naught but a riot inside. on the surface, his lover is the softer one, both amiable and sensitive, but it is klaus who cannot keep himself together, who so often cannot put words to his meaning, not when it is plain and vulnerable and obvious.
he hates and he loves and he pains, the wounding so deep that those three words, that confession, reverberates through him. it is not what he wants to hear and it is all he has ever wanted to hear.
has stefan never come when he's asked? when has he asked?
his gaze has hardened, wet still with tears. his voice, softened and slow. )
Out of my system? That would be convenient for you, wouldn't it? ( stefan did use him. klaus used him too, to forget. ) What a pillar I've been, while you wile away with your empire and all its little hiccups.
Shall I assume you'll solve all my issues like you solve your own? A band aid here, a talking-to there?
( he is cruel. this is the language he knows. ) I am not your world and you are not mine. ( the words are a burning poison in his throat. ) This is a school boy's love gone on too long.