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hold me in your arms

Who: Mikey and Leatherhead
What: Mikey seeks to sooth one of the two people he cares about that are at odds with each other
When: November 23rd (after thread in Donnie's apology post)
Where: Near the friendship district, outside to start

Mikey approached the friendship district, starting from the area closes to what had been the market place, looking for Leatherhead as he went.

"Leatherhead? I'm here... where are you?" He sounded slightly choked up, and more than a little worried, as he called for his boyfriend. Both Leormon and Leader hand opted to come with him, just to be sure he was safe, and were searching quietly around Mikey. He wasn't going to stop until he found his boyfriend. He may not be able to fix all of this for everyone, but he sure as shell wasn't going stop until he had helped someone.

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No, he didn't want more Mikey suffering. He didn't want anymore Mikey crying. This wasn't the Mikey he knew. It was probably selfish, but...he wanted the happy Mikey back. It made him calm, happy...it wasn't fair.

If he could make Mikey happy...if he could make him forget...it would be worth it. Rising from his own angst, he slowly brought his lips to his lover's cheek. Now was his turn to help him, "Then let us go away. We can live together only you and me. And we shall not worry again. About anything."

The feeling of Leatherhead's kiss to his cheek encouraged a soft smile to his face. He let out a soft and slightly sad chuckle at the idea. "That'd be fun... we would have to worry about anything at all.

B-but I can't. I can't just leave my brother, I can't leave him alone." And that brought more tears to his face. "And what about our other friends? I don't want to go back to hiding and not knowing people."

Why couldn't things be simple? Why couldn't he had both Leatherhead and Donnie around him, and be able to be around his friends? He wanted nothing more than to surround himself with people he cared about and be able to see them whenever he wanted.

It made his stomach churn to see Mikey cry again. He returned to hugging and nuzzling Michelangelo. Sometimes the digital world was both a blessing and a curse. Right now it was more a curse.

Monodramon, against his better judgement, ran up to hug Leatherhead's back, being so small didn't quite measure up. Duke merely let his palm connect with his face.

Leatherhead noticed, but kept focusing on Michelangelo. He rubbed the human's back, murmuring softly, "...let's go back. I want to go back."

From where she stood Leader winced slightly when Monodramon ran over. She saw the motion from Duke and watched as he put his hand over his face. On her other side Leormon covered his face with a paw in second hand embarrassment for Monodramon.

The fresh tears weren't stopping, thought they only felt like they hurt worse as he cried. He kept a hold of Leatherhead, afraid that if he let go he would lose the other and end up being alone. At Leatherhead's words he nodded, even if he wasn't entirely sure where the other meant by 'back' with as muddled as his thoughts were, right now it didn't matter. It only mattered that they would be together.

He moved back slowly, giving Leatherhead room to stand, but without losing contact with him.

Leatherhead didn't seem to mind Monodramon hugging him. The alligator didn't even notice the young digimon crawling up his back.

But in due time he gained the sense to stand up, Monodramon hanging off his shoulder. Duke grimaced hard, a face that almost could be weaponized.

As Leatherhead stood up, he gave a small affectionate nuzzle, murmuring, "I want to go back to your place."

Mikey leaned into the nuzzle as it happened, keeping a hold of Leatherhead as he stood up. He nodded softly to the comment, shifting his grip so that he was holding onto his lover's hand. He gave that hand a gentle tug as he started to move in the right direction.

Leormon saw that they were leaving and went off ahead to get back to the apartment. Mikey had left a few things out that needed to be cleaned up and he decided to take care of that before the two got there. Leader herself turned to start moving toward the apartment, glancing to see what Duke was going to do.

Mikey's walk was a little slower and much quieter than normal but he kept a tight hold on Leatherhead's hand.

Leatherhead didn't have much to say, only the hope that things could get normal...or at least the way things were. They went on the move, letting Mikey lead him on.

The Impmon yanked at Monodramon, taking the former alligator's lead. Duke kept his head down, thinking over this whole SCOPE business...

Leatherhead's grip stayed firm, gentle in Mikey's. He never wanted to let the turtle go.

Once they were on the move leader notice that Duke was looking thoughtful, and she maneuvered her way to walk beside him. "Bit for your thoughts?" she spoke softly says keep attention away from the two of them.

Mikey still found himself amazed at how much trust and care Leatherhead had showed him, it constantly reminded him how careful he had to be not betrayed that trust. Thinking of his boyfriend led him to give the others hand the soft squeeze and he looked at the taller boy and smiled at him. The smile wasn't exactly a happy one but it was happier than it had been just a bit before and already his tears seem to be drawing on his cheek.

Edited 2013-12-27 06:57 (UTC)

Duke looked at the other digimon, his look being one of both incredulity and sadness, "I've got a million of them."

Leatherhead never expected Mikey to betray him...ever. The boy did so much to prove his trust to him, how could he expect anything more? Still...he saw the tears in his eyes.

"...please don't be sad. Please?"

The look she gave in return was fairly tired and somewhat sad. "Then start from the top and I'll tell you when I'm out of bits?" She didn't know how else to find out if the impmon had been thinking about everything that had come up with the whole Scope virus, she was fairly certain a suggestion to 'talk about how they were feeling' would be turned away.

Mikey reached up to rub away the tears. Maybe he could just... not be sad. It was worth a try, anything was worth a try right now. "Y-yeah, okay." He answered, forcing a smile out. It wasn't quite his normal one, but it was a smile.

"You mean the fake partner junk?" something about the suggestion to talk just set off his instinct to moan and complain, "Yeah, really love getting shown up by a dork that can't even digivolve!

Leatherhead didn't really hear the digimon talking, he only focused on Mikey. And though he tried, the forced smile made Leatherhead feel a bit guilty. He stopped to hug his boyfriend. Hugs were good. His big hands stroked his boyfriend's back, trying to soothe.

"Yeah... that." She was thankful that it didn't take more prodding to get him to talk. "I'm less concerned with Leormon myself... and more... what Mikey's thinking. I mean after the whole his brother not really being his brother for a bit and all the damage that happened there... and now this." She was genuinely afraid that if they worked out Leormon digivolving she wouldn't be wanted or needed anymore.

Mikey wasn't paying attention to what Leader was saying at the moment, he really wasn't in the mind set to do so. Instead he let himself be hugged, hugging him back, and burying his face against Leatherhead's shoulder for a moment. "I'm sorry... I'm trying... I just... It's probably going to take some work... before I can just really smile again. But even without my smile... you make me happy, just by being here and loving me."

Edited 2013-12-30 09:26 (UTC)

"You too, huh? Yeah, guess after everything he's just gonna forget that and leave me. You see how he turned on that gap tooth nerd the minute he beat up Mikey."

Leatherhead felt disconsolate, lost. If Mikey couldn't truly smile, then everything else had little hope. He kept stroking Mikey, something to soothe himself, "...do you mean that?"

"I don't know... the thing with Donnie seems... different. It's not like you go around beating up Mikey." She sighs."Then again, I really don't know. I think that's what's messing with me the most. I don't know if I should be getting ready to leave, or if... I'm staying. I just... don't know." And that scared her. She didn't say it, but the fact lingered there, as if she may as well have.

"Of course I mean it. You are... you are the best thing in my life. You are someone that can't be replaced." He held on to Leatherhead a little tighter. "And without you here... I wouldn't be okay right now."

All griping aside, Duke never expected someone like Leader to sympathize with him before. The Impmon just sighed, speaking, "Yeah but until we figure it out then it's just us on our own, sticking for ourselves.

Leatherhead, moving again, kept an arm hung over his lover's shoulder, "I feel the same for you..."

Leader was quiet a moment after that before looking directly at Duke. "If we end up that way... maybe we could stick together, so we aren't completely on our own." In spite of her tough, no nonsense personality, Leader seemed to be very fragile about some things.

Mikey leaned slightly against Leatherhead as they walked, a small, almost not even there smile, but a real smile, showing up. "Thank you, for always caring."

He looks right back, his expression lost despite all his pride, "Yeah...that'd be good..."

There it is...Leatherhead felt a little weight in his heart lifting from seeing that. "It is all I can do..."

"Thank you." She says before finally going quiet. She wished she were Gatomon at the moment, so that she could have her front paw free to at least make a nice gesture, like touching Duke's hand, but as it was she was stuck walking on all four paws.

Mikey could tell Leatherhead felt better, seeing him smile even just that little bit, and while he couldn't smile more at the moment without forcing it, he made sure not to let it disappear. "It means a lot to me."

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