A fool and his soul is soon parted

[master_troven]

After talking with Sauriel about some things he can't change, Alec needed to talk to Phoenix about something he might be able to help with. Or at least warn Phoenix about. If Phoenix actually pays attention to him is up in the air, but he knows the angel does listen to him.

It's always kind of awkward when you have an alt who wants to kill the love of your life. Alec can't do anything about the alt either. The Fool is separated enough that he's only tangentially an alternate of him now which means his influence over the Forgotten is lesser.

After waiting for a moment when Vahl and his younger self are occupied and Phoenix is by himself, Alec pulls the angel to his location. One moment Phoenix would be walking through a doorway and the next he'd be in a bar with stars and the universe dying outside the window.

It's much nicer than the ghost dimension... realm... whatever.

They serve better drinks for starters.

"Phoenix! Over here!" he called out from a corner booth; a nice private corner for just the two of them.

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[ashes_ascended]

This needs to happen, although Phoenix will take temporal measures to fit all of his life in.

He's glad for the private booth, because it doesn't do to be seen snuggling. Phoenix burrows a bit, and kisses Alec's neck.

"Okay, I'm gonna talk to Simon about that. If it needs to be kept safe - and I promise you, I won't accept it - then the hiding place needs to be known. I'm used to that kind of weird paradoxical shit."

[master_troven]

It does get rather messy, doesn't it? They'll figure something out. They always do. Or even if they don't something interesting will happen.

Poor big strong tough angel afraid to be snuggling. Though perhaps the neck kissing might not be appropriate.

"If you don't have it or know where it is, you should be alright." Simon can go fuck himself.

[ashes_ascended]

It'll work out. Phoenix has confidence.

He does quit the kissing though, seeing as they're slap in the middle of Milliways.

"I can't even know where it is?" He takes that on board, still trying to figure out how he can help Simon cover all the angles.

[master_troven]

Sometimes Alec worries about that one time he'll fail Phoenix.

While Phoenix might stop kissing, Alec isn't interested in letting him go.

"He knows secrets. If you help keep it a secret..." he gives a helpless shrug and bites his lip. It's hard. "You can take a risk, I guess. I'm not sure if they can actually find it if it's hidden off earth. They are bound to Earth."

[ashes_ascended]

Angels have an inordinate capacity to forgive.

Neither is Phoenix interested in letting go. He gives up and snuggles a bit... and then his eyes widen.

"Off-world would be perfect. I wouldn't even have to know where." Getting Simon to trust some third party might be a nightmare, though, but that's not Alec's problem.

[master_troven]

Which might be a problem. On the other hand Alec is very good at being spiteful.

Snuggling is always good and he played with Phoenix's hair a little, lost in thought for a moment.

"Now that that's sorted out," If not to his satisfaction. Really, he'd rather do the gerbil or hamster thing, "Are you busy?"

[ashes_ascended]

It's not that Phoenix is blind to the faults of those he loves. He's a dark angel. He can see those shadows, those unpleasant characteristics - even the dangers - he just finds a way to love them, in ways possibly only an angel can.

Right now, he's relaxed and happily loving Alec.

“Busy? We're at the end of the universe. I can go back to any point in time I want.” A peck on the nose. “Guess I'm all yours for as long as you want me.”

[master_troven]

Which is something that Alec couldn't do. But he isn't an angel of any sort.

"Well, you might have had something you really wanted to do right now," he said. "Even if you had all the time in the world."

[ashes_ascended]

“I do have all the time in the world,” Phoenix insists, albeit lovingly. “The universe even. And the only thing I really wanna do right now, is be with you some more.”

And then he looks a bit sheepish. "Unless you're busy."

[master_troven]

"I was planning on clipping my toenails..." But he can't keep a straight face when he says that.

"No, I've got all the time in multiverse. We could even do a few days or something?"