[video] just enough of a bastard

[temptationaccomplished]

[Fell looks into the camera (he's obviously holding the phone) and takes a sip from the red in his bulbous wine glass.]

Well, this has been the first and absolutely last day of business for the Crowley Cousin Mover Company.

[He turns the camera around and you get a view of his studio apartment, in all its jewel-toned, eclectic vintage charm. If you've been to his flat, or had enough footage from a past video, you'll see he's acquired a new (to him, it's vintage of course), wooden desk. With the plethora of drawers, it looks exceedingly heavy, but it's been placed expertly into his crowded living space.

The Crowley Cousins in question, Alec and Anthony, are both obviously nursing sore muscles. Alec is laying on Aziraphale's vintage leather sofa. Anthony has an ice pack on his foot.]

Oh, I haven't broken you, have I? It's just a desk. Those strapping young men I hired made it look positively easy.

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[serpentinthegarden]

[ Kisses soothe the savage serpent and the wine once sipped worked to dull the throbbing in his injured foot. ]]

I wouldn't mind being treated like a Prince.

[ More softly spoken he reached out to capture the wine offering hand and press a kiss to his thumb. Capture him, keep him in your den of antiquities, he would be entirely content here packed in amongst the books so long as you were here... and he had an entertaining phone game to play when you were off reading. ]

What if it needs xraying?

[temptationaccomplished]

Does it, you think? Oh my dear. [As if the thought had only really just occurred to him and now he has a Concern. The fretting sets in. He should call an uber and get them to an urgent care.] Alec, too?

I hadn't meant to hurt you. I'm very sorry. Though you did both look very [He wishes he still had the wine.] ...professional right before disaster struck.

[serpentinthegarden]

Bit too soon to tell. I think...

[ He leaned back into Fell as best as he could with the arm of the chair holding him back. ]

It needs an hour or two on ice, maybe some more wine... Pizza would go down a treat. They must make gourmet pizza?

[ Fuss away Fell. He loves it!

Anthony's gaze only shifts away from this golden opportunity at the mention of Alec's name. He looked beat, but then he would wouldn't he? What sort of dumb idea had it been to help Fell with his desk when Alec could barely do stairs? Alec could stand to live in an urgent care. ]

You weren't the one who dropped the desk.

[ A glare at Alec, you know what you did. ]

But at least that's another fantasy fulfilled. Prince being carried out by young men, strapping furniture mover... What should se go for next, doctor and his charming patient?

[scotch_egg]

[a muffled apology is all you're likely to get]

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Nothing more than that was expected... well, and maybe a touch of awkward shifting around on the sofa as Anthony and Fell shamelessly flirt with each other. ]

[temptationaccomplished]

This is New York. They make every kind of pizza imaginable. And because it's America, a few I wish I'd never heard of.

[He leaned into Anthony as well, his hand drifting down to Anthony's chest, absently toying with his collar, then under it, before remembering their audience.]

Oh, you're awful. [He needed no encouragement to have any kind of fantasies. Fell pushed up and away from Anthony as he returned to his phone.]

What sort of pizza would appease my heroic desk wranglers?

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Smirking from the contact he still bobbed his head at the review of American pizza. ]

Mn, but really bad pizza is always edible.

Get one of those loaded ones, supreme, too much meat and so many veg you can't actually see the crust.

[ He glanced back at his cousin. ]

And something bland and tasteless for Alec.

[temptationaccomplished]

[Fell's expression says "is it edible? really?" (And to think, he kisses that mouth)

He realized he didn't have pizza in his phone listing, so he set about looking up the pizza place's number in his little box of takeout menus.]

Alec, what can I get for you? Anything, from anywhere.

[scotch_egg]

No. [let him die]

[serpentinthegarden]

Alec doesn't eat. He absorbs power from the sun like superman.

[ Does that sound silly? Good, cause it is... like not eating anything after a hard day's failing at work. ]

[temptationaccomplished]

[Alec gets A Look.]

I am aware. I'm not sure I've ever had a complete meal with him, outside of our little vacation to your aunt's.

[To Alec.] I'll order you some bread from the bakery down the street. We can dress it up with some butter--or would that be too much?

[scotch_egg]

Keep it. [he'd rather photosynthesize thank you very much]

[temptationaccomplished]

You will eat something, Alec Crowley, so help me.

[serpentinthegarden]

Better agree. He will start pouting if you don't!

[scotch_egg]

Oh no. Anything but that.