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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[scalpedsociety]

Aramat looks at the boy, like really looks at him.

"Shin, I'm old enough to plausibly be your mother."

[bass_instincts]

Shin doesn't look impressed, "My partners are usually your age." There's no hint of deceit in his voice, nor does it sound like he's trying to impress her. It's just a fact.

[scalpedsociety]

"Do you have some sort of strange kink for older women?" Aramat questions.

[bass_instincts]

Shin smiles and laughs a little, "Maybe. Usually it's the women that come to me."

[scalpedsociety]

"Are you some sort of cougar whisperer then?" Little does she know.

[bass_instincts]

Shin laughs a bit, looking up at her through his lashes from half-lidded eyes. He's got the look down, at least. "I'm still pretty sure you're too young to be a cougar, even if you're old enough to be my mom. Definitely attractive enough."

[scalpedsociety]

"You're just a baby, Shin." This rock star life is crazy, she's not gonna sleep with kids old enough to be her son. That's just awful.

[bass_instincts]

Shin smiles a bit at that. "Not something I hear often," he says as he gets himself a drink and offers one to her. "But I'm too mature for my age. At least in some ways." It's not something he says with pride. He actually sounds disappointed about it, if anything.

[scalpedsociety]

"A lot of young people say that." But most of them don't throw themselves at available older women, it's almost like he's looking for a sugar mama.

[bass_instincts]

Shin steps in closer, pitting down his beer. He puts his Hans on the back of the chair and leans in close to use a husky voice that manages to not sound forced, "do you want to find out how true it is?"

He is testing her, seeing if she was going to take him for his body, or if that edge of concern is real.

[scalpedsociety]

That... unsettles her. He seems practiced, like he's done this many times before.

"Not really." She doesn't feel comfortable taking a boy barely out of high school to bed.

[bass_instincts]

He withdraws, smiling a little. He takes his beer with him as he goes to sit down across from her. "I'm glad. You're very attractive, but..." He can't just bring up remembering things from before without risking sounding crazy. "It's complicated. "

[scalpedsociety]

Now it's her turn to lean forward, placing a hand on Shin's own. It's a sign of trust, you can tell her anything.

"Like to tell me how? I'm willing to listen."

[bass_instincts]

"Do you ever feel like you can remember a... past life?" He pauses before 'past life' to try to indicate he means something different while giving him an out if she didn't get what he was saying. Believing in past lives isn't too strange, after all. Less strange than being kidnapped to be forced to play music.

[scalpedsociety]

"I do... I prefer to not think too much about it." The Aramat from that world would've slept with as a trap and cut your body into pieces.

[bass_instincts]

"This can't leave this room." He warns. But he also gets the feeling he can trust her. "The older women I was always with in my world... didn't pay me, but I was always compensated. It's... nice to have someone that isn't just looking for that kind of relationship."

He was looking for a sugar mama in a way, but he didn't need Aramat for that. He'd been running his own thing on the side. He wasn't being pushed into it any more. There was no need to do it, "I just... keep going back to that. It's easier."

[scalpedsociety]

"You know, if you wanted something you can just ask me, no sex required." Besides her bed is kept warm enough with Jecht and Xanxus.

"Why are you even doing that? I've heard you play, you don't need to turn tricks for ladies."

[bass_instincts]

"I don't know," he admits, looking distressed. "I can't stop. I've done it so long...."

He sighs deeply and drinks from his beer. "I guess Ryoko taught me well."

[scalpedsociety]

"Listen, being an sort-of escort for older women might be one of the safest and cushiony jobs ever and far be it from me to judge where you get your pocket money from, but I have the feeling you're unhappy with this."

"Who's Ryoko?" Aramat asks.

[bass_instincts]

He's looking for something more, but it's such a vague concept that Shin can't put his finger on it. He lifts a foot on the chair to lean on it. "She's the one that introduced me into it, and the closest thing I had to a mother."

[scalpedsociety]

"Shin, Mothers do not do that to their sons. That's what pimps do." Straight to the point.

[bass_instincts]

"I know," he sighs, defeated. "But she's all I had. My father preferred to pretend I didn't exist at all."

[scalpedsociety]

"...I know how that feels." With the Dad that hated her, not the pimp mother figure.

[bass_instincts]

Shin gives a dark and humourless smile at that. "I... don't think I ever had a birthday party. I remember my brother sneaking me a piece of his cake one year. Father was furious," he laughs dryly, "of course only I got punished. I think I spent the next few days at Ryoko's."

[scalpedsociety]

Aramat almost wants to utter: 'At least you had siblings.' But she holds her tongue.