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[distractly]

isabelle lightwood: inbox.
texts, voice, prompts. +overflow

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[perro]

mm
my bad
i mustve left it at home w the rest of my lingerie

( cue a lopsided grin to himself as he gets that notification that "isabelle replayed your snap!" )

if u ask me it doesnt seem like u minded all 2 much

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The first time I was a little distracted by the fact you're really taking that picture in sucker punch.

( okay, yeah, she can appreciate a pert bottom on a male—though it's more amusement than anything, cute rather than as entirely as enticing. )

Just how many women in Cadelle did you flatter at nearly 1 in the morning?

[perro]

solo una persona, mamí


( she certainly shouldn't be very surprised; the cojones on this one are typically unmatched. )

i figured u could use a lil late nite entertainment

[distractly]

Yeah? Consider her very flattered, then.

Dunno, though, my night's been pretty eventful thus far. ( i.e. having to keep herself from slipping into the comforting streets of cadelle, limbs carrying her by habit now to the petite gym he was tucked within. )

You sure you just don't want a little attention?

[perro]

would that b the worst thing in the world if i did?

( he thinks she knows him better than he knows himself sometimes. )

feel free 2 make mine a little more eventful

[distractly]

( she might, but she has a feeling she's just as transparent, around him. with him. like they can see clear through one another. )

You might have to pick an option that's a little more behaved, amado.
If you think you can handle that.

What exactly is it you're running from? I'm sure that gym is awfully quiet right now.

[perro]

u kno me
behaving aint exactly my strong suit
but ill try 4 u

( she clearly knows, but that's okay. sending her a snapchat of himself naked as fuck at the gym is fairly minor compared to some of the rules she's encouraged him to break in the past. )

why do i gotta b runnin from something 2 go 2 the gym?

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There's that flattery.

( she wants to do this right, wants to think she can still get close to the man on the opposite end of that device once more. isabelle isn't sure where their limits exist and which edges they teeter against, but right now she's not looking to push him away. finds no reason to. )

You don't. Late night secret? Most of the time that's why I go, I almost went there myself tonight. It feels better than sitting still, acting like I'm trying to sleep like everyone else does.

[perro]

( the line of what's appropriate and what's not is thin, and rene's very much aware of it. still doesn't mean that he's going to fight his natural instincts to toe every line he can, occasionally teeter into uncharted territory and then yank himself right back to safety. )

2 bad
u coulda got a look up close n personal
paid me back like u said u would

( ... speaking of that ever-tempting line. )

im kidding

( right. )

i couldnt sleep either

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I don't think you'd have nearly as much bark if I was there, Ramirez.
Or was it me you said ran their mouth? ( tit for tat, she can still play back.

ultimately, she knows it's on her to keep the two of them in line. she doesn't expect another to change merely because of the fact that loyalty thrummed within the lightwood name. bullshit, really, if you look at her parents. a cheating father, an unhappy mother, staying together for the sake of said 'name'. )

Maybe it's silly, but I thought I might somehow find sleep a little easier here. Like being away from everything might be some kind of relief.
It's not the point, I know.
For some reason it's more difficult. ( why is she telling him all of this? it's the same sort of rush that'd overcome her in a night all too similar, beginning at a late hour, something that happens before it can be questioned—even if it unfolds entirely different. )

[perro]

( there's a line about his bite and his bark lingering at the tip of his tongue — alright, the tips of his fingers, more like, but whatever — but rene swallows it down. behave, she'd said, a request for both of their sakes. he can handle that, can't he?

sure. but with anyone else, there's no way in hell he'd ever pick the serious topic over mindless flirting. )

makes perfect sense 2 me
abandoning those in ur life 4 a different dimension even if u mite b here 2 potentially change things 4 the better aint easy
theres guilt
u miss them
u question every move u make in this damn place

would b enough 2 keep fuckin sleeping beauty awake at nite, mama.

( but like he's not speaking from experience or anything like it's whatever. )

[distractly]

( she appreciates it, for what it's worth. to think he might enjoy her company past the sex appeal, that he indulges a conversation at all, really. she hadn't thought him low enough not to, but it wouldn't be par from the course to most men out there.

it's nice, anyway. having someone to keep what followed her here to this city hushed, even if only for the moment. )

Sometimes I'm not sure if I even made the right choice in coming here. You know? ( it's difficult to regret those she's met, but where does it stand in what she's left behind, chasing after the idea of a wish? )

If I'm just wasting time trying to change the past.

[perro]

course i kno
u gotta trust ur gut tho

u wouldnt b here if u didnt have good intentions would u?

( the idea of changing the past is a slippery slope for rene, considering his own. he thinks about it a lot, but constantly tells himself that by changing his present, he can change his future and heal the wounds left by his past. )

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( in some way or another, weren't they all here in terms of the past? she likes to think she's a bit more attentive to what she can do now, but all of those lives lost is something that plagues her without end. no matter what preventative actions she puts in place, no matter how thoughtfully she treads forward, there was no way to take that back. to bring them back, nothing other than here. cadelle. )

No, of course not. I like to think I had those intentions at heart back home, too. Things still happened. ( she doesn't mean to bring the conversation down, but it's the reality of the world she lives in. a war is being raged based purely off of hatred, bias, a useless shed of blood. )

I know for a lot of people here it's personal, so if you're not comfortable sharing, it wouldn't hurt my feelings. Why did you give this place a chance? It had to be something you believe in enough. Want badly enough.

[perro]

it was kinda a matter of life n death
n im not just bein dramatic or overexaggerating

i was trapped w just about every1 i kno from back home on an island that was rigged w bombs to destroy the island and all of us
was ready 2 become confetti when i found myself here instead
im working towards a way off the island

i got way 2 much important stuff goin on at home 2 b dead

( granted, there's still the option of changing his wish; the initial wish that draws people here isn't locked in and they can use their piece of the wish stone however they want if and when they get it. the very real possibility of wishing for zoe back, for laura back ...

still a possibility. but that doesn't mean that he's lying to izzy; he's telling the truth about how he ended up in this weird ass place. she doesn't need to be burdened by the gory details of his life. what he's presented is probably already weird enough considering they've never really ... talked about his life as a vigilante back in star city, even if something similar might've been assumed. )