how are you not going to show your scar?

[scalpedsociety]

Who: Aramat and YOU
What: Various things around Vista City, and watch fame slowly grate on the woman. See the prompts for more details.
When: Early April, 1st to the 15th
Where: All around the city
Warnings: Lotsa sexual things and stuff that could be that way. Also cursing and all that junk.


01 | LOFT | come on baby/all I wanna see you in is just skin | FOR XANXUS

It took 4-5 months of dancing around each other, but he got her. The first time was hurried, almost desperate for both of them. Hands grabbing everywhere, clothes getting nearly torn off, Aramat's makeup being smudged on Xanxus' scarred face and unspeakable places, sweat, claw marks on skin and bites. It was amazing, exhausting and almost to her very limit but amazing.

It was meant to be a one time thing at best, just have a taste of him and never do again.

But it wasn't. This was what Squalo was trying to warn her about. A person could be addicted to him very easily.

Occasionally they met in a hotel or two for their rompings, but nothing regular or in Pride HQ. (That's Squalo's territory now and she still wanted it to be secret.) But she wanted something more private, more akin to home. So she bought the loft. At once industrial and warm, harsh and feminine, it's far better than any hotel in the area to her.

She admits she's having the bassist around for the wrong reasons (and it's risky, seeing as he's with Squalo now), he's primarily there just for the sex and the relaxation. Times have been getting more and more stressful lately and sometimes she needs someone to screw her senseless, stay around to hold for a hour or two and have the good sense to leave.

It's not like she doesn't appreciate Xanxus though, they help each other in a way. (And her Incubus looks good naked in her sheets, hell looks good anywhere.) She'll reach for a cigarette nearby her bed, her back towards him.

Thank god the bed is reinforced.


02 | COT PENTHOUSE | to find something real to hold on to

As discussed with Tooru during Fairy Trials, Aramat is busy preparing lunch for the band family. (She thinks it's good for 'rallying the troops' before the marathon practice sessions.) And she's hoping they can do this regularly.

She's not too good at Japanese cuisine so she orders Sushi from the best restaurant in town. (With all the trimmings any lover of the dish could desire.) The milk bread for dessert however, she did make.

She finds that things have changed in the months since she's signed. Wolfram went away (and she still doesn't know what exactly happened to him.) Mai and Tooru have become more adverse to the media (and Pride period,) Wolfram was replaced by Sariel and he became Sawbones and Artolo? Artolo became a rap star. Other's in Pride can come through to enjoy the lunch, but it's still for Crown of Thorns and the Court.

03| VISTA CITY PARK | into the rose-garden/my words echo/thus, in your mind

With all practicing in HQ. (Which she secretly hates, the place is pretty much a gilded cage for all the 'songbirds' of Pride, complete with a abusive owner. Sometimes she just feels the need to walk around the local park, taking in the sun.

...Well she would if Avery didn't keep trailing her. She knows he's there to keep the 'unwanted' out but she can't help but feel hate for him too. Aramat wishes he'd leave, even for an hour.

She feels the bars of the cage even more.

04 | PRIDE HQ | and she'll scream/and she'll shout/and she'll pray/and she had a name/yeah she had a name

Aramat understands that the tour has to be perfect, but even she didn't know that practicing would be this grueling on her. By the time they play these tracks, all of them will hate these songs. Hell, they kind of already do with hearing it over, and over and over again.

After these hours Aramat sits at her piano, listless and alone with a cigarette in her mouth. Maybe someone can bring her back to Terra?

05 | WILDCARD

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3.

[lightthedarkness]

"You look like you could use something sweet," she suddenly said, a bag of sweet buns in her arms as she held out one to Aramat, offering a little wave to Avery since she saw him often enough and he her.

[scalpedsociety]

It's a good thing that Serena is here, she feels a little less lonely now.

"Thank you." And she takes out a bun and eats. "How's the phone I gave you?"

[lightthedarkness]

"It's great!" she pulled it out of her skirt pocket. "I heard about the world tour! I wanted to text you good luck but figured I'd see you at Thistle before then. Turns out I was right! Well... sorta. But thank you again so much! I still don't know how I can repay you!"

[scalpedsociety]

"Just keep being you, darling." Aramat coos out. She feels better already.

[lightthedarkness]

"Well, that's easy enough to do, especially in such wonderful company... OH!" Usagi grabbed Aramat's hand, smiling big while the other still held her prize of sweet buns.

"Apparently they just opened up a new hedge maze here in the park, we should check it out!"

[twoscompany]

"Oh my god!!"

Avery didn't quite have the time to stop the fan from breaching the invisible parameter, as her friends had tried to get through first. Dealing with a half-dozen girls prevented him from stopping the gangly boy from rushing towards Aramat.

"Its you! Its really you! Holy shit!!! I am your biggest fan!!!!"

[scalpedsociety]

Oh no. She knew that being what she is, she will catch attention from fans. And the last time this happened she was chased out a bar. Still she's polite. (At least this one is not snapping photo like a crazy person.) Meanwhile Avery stays close to her.

"Oh stop it, do you need anything signed?"

[twoscompany]

"Oh, yes! Um..." The boy looked sheepish, left and right. "Actually, me and the guys...we were wondering if you could sign, um."

He held up a bag. In it were several pairs of clean, newly-bought boxers.

"...We're gonna wear them when the World Tour starts, you see..."

[scalpedsociety]

"...Oh." As weird as this shit is this is not the strangest thing she's signed.

"Where would you want the signature?"

02

[maipokerface]

A lot of things have changed. If it hadn't been apparent after the ghost trials then now it was becoming readily more apparent that everything was messed up. Tooru's unspoken note of their dreams not just being dreams had become more and more real and she's begun watching the facade she thought was reality crumble away. Hiding from the media is the least she can do.

Hiding from lunch is another thing altogether. She's here, picking out the spicier rolls and pausing to prod the milk bread before she states with a raised brow, "You're going to either spoil Tooru or fatten him up."

[scalpedsociety]

Right now, Aramat doesn't want to think about it. All she wants to have is a peaceful lunch with her band family.

"He asked for it. Besides, she needed dessert."

[maipokerface]

"He'd ask for it if he was in a coma and couldn't talk at all."

[scalpedsociety]

"Then he really likes it." Yep, totally spoiling Tooru.

"Besides, I always wanted to try out the Recipe."

02

[psyvampexperiment]

It's been a rough few weeks for Sariel - he's already starting to regret the Sawbones appellation and persona - and he might not show his pale face until towards noon. When he does, he'll look a bit worse for the wear, his eyes red-rimmed from trouble sleep and he might have a slight hangover (and his system might still hum with the thujone from the absinthe he's been drinking). He'll smile at the meal she's spread (hopefully the rest of the gang has left him some), and look to her. "Food for the family, I gather?" he asks, curious.

[scalpedsociety]

"Yes. Although you're a bit late." She teases, although out of kindness. "You should be lucky the band chose not to eat everything up."

[psyvampexperiment]

He'll smirk a little, ducking his head slightly. "My punishment for staying up late, drinking absinthe and reading the Emperor in Violet stores of Richard V Hollows," he says, self-deprecatingly before helping himself to some of the milk bread. "Is there any tea at hand? I could use a cuppa to clear my head.

[scalpedsociety]

"They just brought in some yesterday, it's in the cabinet near the stove. May I ask what were you doing reading literature and drinking?" Aramat asks.

Wildcard

[bass_instincts]

Shin got himself a hotel room for his own sake. He needed time away from HQ and the losers filling in for the actual skill in the band, and he figures Roxas needs some time away from him too right now. So instead he texted the lovely lady Aramat, "Same place as last time?" and is currently hoping that she'll show up.

It hasn't even yet occurred to him that he might have chosen to message her over anyone else because of how much she looks like Reira or Ryoko. Maybe because she had a motherly feel like Hachi.

He may have decided to do a line of coke already, but he's been finding that he's having an increasingly difficult time doing anything without it, and something in his gut is telling him that it's reminding him of something else from home.

He's not sure yet what he's going to say to Ryoko Aramat, or how much he should say about remembering where he came from and his life before this, but, as usual, he's looking for love for the wrong reasons in the wrong places. Maybe for once he'll luck out and it won't be so bad.

[scalpedsociety]

Honestly Aramat just think Shin is a lonely kid that has a older woman phase right now. So she humors him with mahjong games and him sneaking peeks at her on occasion. It's nothing too concrete though. He's still just a kid figuring stuff out.

Of course., she texts back.

She arrives, expecting another good game and Shin's wandering eyes.

[bass_instincts]

She has no idea that it's not just a 'phase' for him. He's been doing this for way too long. All his 'lady friends' take care of him, dress him up, fawn over how cute he is. Of course, it's all in exchange for him knowing just how to please them.

He gives her an easy smile as he lets her into the room. Last time he really did just want a game of mahjong, but without even thinking about it he's actually laying on the charm tonight. It isn't heavy or overbearing, either. He's not some kid trying to pretend to be a man. It's that smooth kind of practised that comes from experience, not make-believe. He doesn't even seem to realize that he's made the change in demeanour. It's just a little change in how he moves, how he turns to face her. The slant of his smile and angle of his head is just a little different. Enough to be much more alluring in tone without being unnatural.

He closes the door behind her, leaning against it just a little with a hand in his pocket, "I'm a little surprised you agreed so easily."

[scalpedsociety]

"I like learning Mahjong from you. You're a good teacher and it's quite relaxing." Aramat responds.

just for meeee

[variaboss]

The wait had been well worth it. Xanxus had never worked so hard to get into someone's pants. He would have thought once he got it, that would be that and he would move on, but he finds he genuinely enjoys the sex. Aramat is a wild woman in the sack.

He's lounging on her bed with those sheets just barely wrapped around his lower half in some semblance of modesty. There's that lazy I just had amazing sex and am probably going to have it again if I have my way glow about him.

He reaches out, strangely smooth fingertips sliding over her spine. "You got a smoke for me, Bella Donna?"

[scalpedsociety]

Lets just say Aramat was hiding a lot of pent up lust for her Incubus all that time. The foreplay was gentle and nice but when it came down to the main event she allowed Xanxus to be rough as he wanted, to nearly use her body to it's limits and leave marks of where he's been.

Someone can easily get addicted to this.

Granted she finds she likes the aftermath too, Aramat likes his voice after sex. Smooth and calm with that hint of roughness. She shivers a bit at that touch.

"Sure."

She hands him a cigarette, a plain one because that's what's she craves after sex most of the time. "Do you need a light?"

[variaboss]

His back still stings a little from the furrows her nails left behind from their last round. He's going to miss those when they heal, but the plus is that he's so heavily scarred already that a few more won't really be noticed.

He keeps right on touching her because he likes the feel of his skin under his hands. He has to let go in order to take the smoke from her. Then he pauses. For a moment, he considers lighting it up the fun way. But he doesn't know how Aramat would react to his hands suddenly going on fire. Instead, his mouth curls around the stick as he speaks. "No. I got this." Then he's leaning forward, pressing the tip of his cigarette to hers to use it to light up.

"Ahhh. That's so good."

[scalpedsociety]

The roughness goes both ways, it's fine really. He can handle it.

To be fair, she would kinda think flames from his fingertips would be neat. (And would confirm what he did on stage with Squalo as real.) But for now, she settles for Xanxus being close to her, looking at her with those crimson eyes while they start a fire together.

"Glad to be of help. Thank you for coming over by the way, I really needed that."