the part where charles and asellus bang
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encephalon[ The boys have their standards—ones that are only as high as Charles can help elevate them (he tries his best to procure for them disease-free and sane(ish) groupies but they're so determined to go over his head)—and so, too, does Charles have his. For the boys, sex is a matter of pointing into a throng of women congregated in an audience or outside Mordhaus and saying that one. Like picking out a lobster. They do this literally all the time; the department responsible for vetting Dethklok's prospective partners is very well paid and very busy. But Charles... Charles is different.
First of all, he doesn't indulge nearly so often. Not that he's averse, of course; Charles Ofdensen is a man who isn't shy about enjoying the fruits of his labor, but seldom is he in a position to prevent work from consuming all of his time and just as seldom does he risk the exposure of Mordhaus. See, the boys have their pick among... well, almost every woman in the world, but none of that would matter if they knew that Charles had chosen one for himself. They would badger, smother, stop at nothing to insinuate themselves into her life (and pants), childishly unable to handle the idea that something, for once, cannot be theirs. By now Charles knows that he will never marry, will never have children (mainly because the band has already occupied both roles); very little of Charles belongs to himself anymore, but what does he's learned to hold very close to the chest. He wants to pinch the bridge of his nose just thinking about the complications that would ensue.
And it would be complicated, because—and this is the second thing—while the boys may be willing to throw it in any hot chick who pulls off her top, Charles picks favorites and sticks with them. Trustworthy companionship is the hardest sort to find. You have to consider things like espionage, malicious intent, genuine crazies, or those who just have enough naivete to believe that it's possible to get a piece of Dethklok if they can get a piece of their manager first. You have to consider health history, reproductive opinions, the responsibilities that come with maintaining a certain level of confidentiality. You have to consider... whether they know how to carry on a decent conversation, their willingness to be whisked away across the globe on a somewhat irregular basis, whether they mind being left to languish in the lap of luxury while he chats up corporate reps, courts politicians, golfs with judges.
For the last year and a half, Asellus has been just that person. Their liaisons are infrequent—once a month would be too generous an estimate—but they make all the trips to London and Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi and Sao Paulo that much better. Asellus is simultaneously everything and nothing he would've expected: clever, brash, witty, with a shock of two-toned hair and a boyish slenderness that makes her look younger than she actually is. Damned strong. Amazing with her hands.
Of course he doesn't fool himself that theirs is a commodified relationship, predicated on a loose but very tangible exchange of favors: she goes through college and grad school if she chooses without paying a dime no matter when or if one of them chooses to end this, he gets a leisurely weekend or so with the company of a person with whom he doesn't have to negotiate for once (in part because they've already done that). He gives her a periodic taste of opulence few people can even fully comprehend and in return she gifts him with the strangeness of a warm body next to his.
They're in a palace of a suite encompassing the entire top floor of their high rise. It's Sydney again this time; Charles has to check in on Seth periodically. Ostensibly to meet with investors of various stripes, but mostly to make sure he hasn't royally fucked things up for being left to his own devices too long. It's often an ordeal. Charles understands why Pickles has tried to strangle him in the past, but Charles has cultivated a vast, vast reservoir of patience over the years and now his schedule is blissfully, alienly clear for the day. No doubt in one of the many rooms available, Asellus is nowhere to be seen as he sidles in. A soft rattle gets his attention: on the table nearest the foyer is a bottle stuck in the midst of the ice melting and shifting in its bucket, and as he sets aside his briefcase he wonders just who thought of that. ]
First of all, he doesn't indulge nearly so often. Not that he's averse, of course; Charles Ofdensen is a man who isn't shy about enjoying the fruits of his labor, but seldom is he in a position to prevent work from consuming all of his time and just as seldom does he risk the exposure of Mordhaus. See, the boys have their pick among... well, almost every woman in the world, but none of that would matter if they knew that Charles had chosen one for himself. They would badger, smother, stop at nothing to insinuate themselves into her life (and pants), childishly unable to handle the idea that something, for once, cannot be theirs. By now Charles knows that he will never marry, will never have children (mainly because the band has already occupied both roles); very little of Charles belongs to himself anymore, but what does he's learned to hold very close to the chest. He wants to pinch the bridge of his nose just thinking about the complications that would ensue.
And it would be complicated, because—and this is the second thing—while the boys may be willing to throw it in any hot chick who pulls off her top, Charles picks favorites and sticks with them. Trustworthy companionship is the hardest sort to find. You have to consider things like espionage, malicious intent, genuine crazies, or those who just have enough naivete to believe that it's possible to get a piece of Dethklok if they can get a piece of their manager first. You have to consider health history, reproductive opinions, the responsibilities that come with maintaining a certain level of confidentiality. You have to consider... whether they know how to carry on a decent conversation, their willingness to be whisked away across the globe on a somewhat irregular basis, whether they mind being left to languish in the lap of luxury while he chats up corporate reps, courts politicians, golfs with judges.
For the last year and a half, Asellus has been just that person. Their liaisons are infrequent—once a month would be too generous an estimate—but they make all the trips to London and Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi and Sao Paulo that much better. Asellus is simultaneously everything and nothing he would've expected: clever, brash, witty, with a shock of two-toned hair and a boyish slenderness that makes her look younger than she actually is. Damned strong. Amazing with her hands.
Of course he doesn't fool himself that theirs is a commodified relationship, predicated on a loose but very tangible exchange of favors: she goes through college and grad school if she chooses without paying a dime no matter when or if one of them chooses to end this, he gets a leisurely weekend or so with the company of a person with whom he doesn't have to negotiate for once (in part because they've already done that). He gives her a periodic taste of opulence few people can even fully comprehend and in return she gifts him with the strangeness of a warm body next to his.
They're in a palace of a suite encompassing the entire top floor of their high rise. It's Sydney again this time; Charles has to check in on Seth periodically. Ostensibly to meet with investors of various stripes, but mostly to make sure he hasn't royally fucked things up for being left to his own devices too long. It's often an ordeal. Charles understands why Pickles has tried to strangle him in the past, but Charles has cultivated a vast, vast reservoir of patience over the years and now his schedule is blissfully, alienly clear for the day. No doubt in one of the many rooms available, Asellus is nowhere to be seen as he sidles in. A soft rattle gets his attention: on the table nearest the foyer is a bottle stuck in the midst of the ice melting and shifting in its bucket, and as he sets aside his briefcase he wonders just who thought of that. ]
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Date: 2014-08-05 06:55 am (UTC)She's not naive enough, though, to forget just who it is that is making it possible for her to be half-sprawled belly-down on a fainting couch, a thick and dangerously dry-looking treatise on interpersonal communication in front of her, highlighter in hand. She's well on her way to a Masters in sociology-- her university is a liberal campus which has chosen to give her a great deal of leeway in what she studies, so she coordinates with her advisor via email on the well-used and well-loved laptop she has left in its case in the closet, tucked away out of respect for what expectations there are for her being here and a certain amount of professional pride.
But she's been in Sydney for a while by the time he's entered this suite, and it isn't as though she can't be using her downtime effectively.
Still, she's alert, and ears that are finely tuned to the sound of the door let her know he's here and her attention needs to be focused elsewhere. Making sure to make enough noise to announce herself, considering surprises to be somewhat clumsy and foolhardy, given Charles' nature, she closes the book, sets it aside, and gets up, smoothing the bright and brief silk of her blouse and adjusting the side-hems of her loose slacks. She doesn't bother checking her hair or makeup; her hair has always done what it wants and at the moment it is only slightly more green than streaked chestnut. Her makeup is minimal; overadornment of youth is vulgar and she doesn't like to come off like any other women who have chosen this profession.
Or any other women at all, really. She carries herself like a proud singularity, her steps light and graceful but with a tinge of energy that keeps her from coming across as truly sophisticated. Guileless, the word might be; she doesn't really have any motives outside of what they had already laid on the table, and she suspects that's one of the reasons this has gone on as long as it has. ]
Welcome back. [ Her energy carries through her voice, not so much shattering the general quiet of the suite so much as striking the first gentle blow, leaving a crack across the glass and letting it settle in, waiting to see what kind of person she should be to counterbalance his mood.
Practical application of the studies he's funded and the ones that don't require a degree. She is very good at her job. ]
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Date: 2014-08-05 07:25 am (UTC)Oh good, you're here.
[ It's not like she's forbidden to go outside or anything. Her downtime is hers. Hell, sometimes she's free to do what she pleases even while he's around, absorbed as he becomes in one situation or another. ]
Everything seem, uh, shipshape so far?
[ He's got to stop with the nautical lingo. To the champagne, head cocked curiously: ]
Planned ahead, did you.
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Date: 2014-08-06 06:44 pm (UTC)I always plan ahead.
[ It's not even a lie; she's been very responsible with her earnings and she takes the reasons she'd agreed to this arrangement very seriously. Never that much of a spendthrift, she has a few accounts, only two of which she touches at all: a checking where her tuition is drawn from, and a small (actually, remarkably modest given the number of digits in her other two accounts) personal fund.
It's from that that she'd bought the champagne, actually. Not that she'd bother mentioning it; it wouldn't be politic and there's no point in it. ]
Seems like it. I went to the Royal Botanical Gardens for a bit, but I've been here since 3 and had nothing to complain about. [ She perches on the back of the couch, watching him with laughter in her eyes. ] Staff's quiet, the bathrooms are clean, and everything is in its place. Your sort of thing, innit?
[ And then, offhanded and deliberate as all hell: ] You want me to open it? [ She's been on a champagne kick, lately; the dry burn is deeply nostalgic for her and she's become an old hand at finding quality. Distantly, she wonders at how spoiled this makes her and makes a note to start drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon once this jaunt is over. ]