"I hate the cold. I hate snow. I hate winter. I hate ice. AND I hate ice skating even more! And children. They are evil! Evil I say!"
Marco takes a sip of his coffee, hiding the grin he not longer manages to suppress, while listening to the little ranting Raven he used to call his boyfriend.
"Yoi" he gave a little nod.
"DONT YOU DARE TO INTERRUPT ME!" said Raven whirled around, nearly knocking himself off his feet by the force, pointing towards Marco. "I'm not done jet!" ignoring the snort, he turned around again and continued his way across the kitchen to the living room.
Marco holds his free hand up in defense, making himself comfortable while leaning against the counter. He knows, this will take some time. Sadly. He had to do something against it. He want cuddles. But with Ace's in his present mood, that would not be easy.
"I mean, why. Just why. Ice. It's so... So slippery! I hate it. I hate it so much!" arriving at the Couch, Ace turned around and made his way back inside the kitchen, past Marco, around the counter. And he startes again, going to the living room. Like he had done it the last 10 minutes.
It was sort of soothing.
Fridge, turn around, counter, Marco, counter, door frame, bookshelf one and two, Cat 1, his bag, Cat 2, coffee table, couch, turn around. And back. Coffee table, Cat 2, Cat 1, his bag... Wait.
Ace stopped, closed his mouth, and looked down at his Pet. "Get back. I'm not done. That's irritating." ... "meow" he leaned forward, grabbed Aslan and sat him down again on 'his spot' where he was supposed to be. "Stay." He nodded in approval and takes off again, ignoring the protesting meow.
Where was he? Right. Cat 1, bookshelf one and two, door frame, counter, laughing Marco, counter with Marcos cup, fridge, turn around.
He sighs in annoyance. "Take that stupid cup back in your stupid hand and stop laughing! I'm trying to be serious! I'm angry! Marco!" he stopped in front of Marco, staring him down. "Are you CRYING?! MARCO! Stop it!" the laughter only got louder.
Marco was wheezing from laughter. That was beautiful. Absolute perfect! Hilarious even! Why did he not installed some security cameras. He should change that at soon as possible!
He calmed down again and took some deep breaths, he straightened his back again and looked down at the fuming, freckled, man. "I'm sorry" he snickered, wiping a single tear away. "Not funny. Yes. Totally not-yoi. You hate the cold, ice is slippery and children are evil. Continue." he made a swift motion with his hand in an encouraging manner.
"If you are not interested in listening to me, you should have said so." You could see the burning anger in Ace's eyes, while his voice dropped, it became cold and sounded hurt. More than it should. Marco was back to normal in not more than a split second. "Ace?"
"No. It's okay. Laugh as much as you want. If you want something, I'll take a bath, yeah? I'm a bit stressed out. My day was pretty bad. 'M Glad yours was so funny. You can tell me afterwards..." He turned around, about to leave, when Marco wrapped his arms around him, holding him close.
"Hey, Ace, Baby, I'm sorry, I truly am-yoi. I didn't want to hurt you in any way. What happene, that it worked you up so much." He apologized, carefully holding the smaller one in a comforting way.
Ace struggled a bit, trying to hold his anger up. He failed, his shoulders slumped down, he leaned back and closed his eyes. "I don't really want to talk about it. Not yet. Please let go of me. I really want to take a bath..." he sounded defeated. "Can I come with you?" Marco asks
"If you don't ask about it, yes. I'd really like that." Ace nodded and was about to free himself when Marco lifts him up and carried him to the bathroom before silently preparing the bathtub.
Ace unzipped his jacked, showing off the huge stains wich covered his chest. Without a word, he opened the buttonup and stripped down the rest of his clothes, hugging Marco as soon as he was done. Marco hugged back, comforting him, waiting for him to open up and tell him what happened, like he always did.
When the bathtube was ready Marco got in first, letting Ace sit in his lap and started to give him a massage, trying to relax him.
Ace took a calming breath. "I backed up from the job interview." He started, staring at the wall. "I was on my way, when I slipped and nearly fell down the stairs, you know, these near the market, where the icerink is installed." He made some motions with his hands, trying to describe it more. Of course Marco knew where. They had taken a walk and watched some of the children, how they screamed in joy when their parents played with them on the ice. "I stumbled and felt down..." A sigh can be heared. "Nothing happened." he added quickly, when he felt how Marco stiffened against his back. "But, of course, some kids where laughing their ass off. It was embarrassing but bearable. I got up and yeah.." He made some more motions and twitched uneasy.
"But at the office... Those men there had seen it too and made fun of me, calling me names, laughed and said how much more fun it would have been if I had fallen down the stairs instead. I don't even know why they were so mean, I don't know them..." Marco hugged Ace from behind, making sure he don't get cold, while listening carefully.
"The secretary walked by, one of them tripped her and I caught her just in time before she could fall down that weird step but I got coffee all over my shirt. They laughed again... I didn't want to hurt them so I let her down and ran out again. I visited Deuce instead... I'm sorry. I messed up. You where so proud when I got the interview... And I ran away because some men laughed at me... I-"
"It's allrigh-yoi. Ace. No need to apologize." Marco interrupted. "That's not your fault. It's okay-yoi. I'm proud you didn't beat them up the second they said something dumb against you. I would have. I'm glad you are okay-yoi. It's okay."
A sob escaped Ace, Marco reacted instantly and comforted him, letting him cry a bit, praised him how good he had managed the situation...
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Inwardly Marco scolded himself. He should have noticed Ace's behavior! Noticed that this wasn't like his normal ranting. He knew ace was bad with negative emotions. His little hothead was used to get angry when he was hurt. When he was sad. Why though he, Ace was simply ranting!
They bathed for more than 3 hours. Enough time for Ace to calm down again and for Marco to relax himself a bit, before he would go and secretly murder those men that dared to say such things.
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Marco carried his sleeping boyfriend to the bedroom and carefully placed him on their Bed. He laid down next to him, never letting go of him and running his fingers through those black locks, playing with them and softly massaging Ace's head. Hearing him giving a soft moan in response, Marco chuckled and kissed him gently.
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The next day, Ace got a call while he was eating, so he gave Marco the phone and let him speak in his name. Marco knows him, he would know what to say.
Turns out, it was the office director from where Ace had gotten the interview. The man apologized in the name of the office, saying his secretary had told him what had happened and how he had seen it in the evening on the freshly installed security cameras. He hadn't called yesterday because he wanted to make sure the whole situation was cleared and those men would have gotten their punishment bevor he messaged Ace and apologized. His Boss is involved had suggested they could hold a new appointment for said interview. If Ace would still be interested.
Ace had choked on his food and Marco had said yes for him before thanking the man and setting date and time for the interview.
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There he was. Sitting in his own office, and introducing himself to his new subordinates. Three of them didn't dare to look at him for a whole year.
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