[ the look in alhaitham's eyes is somehow both pointed and empty—sharp, never moving from heine for a second, but devoid of all recognition. it's like facing down an animal, he thinks, not for the first time; fighting midnight had been much the same, all hunger and claws, no mercy at all. and teeth, too, when alhaitham opens his mouth enough for heine to be able to see.
suddenly the wounds on badou's neck make a whole lot more sense, precariously close to his artery where teeth had dug in. the fangs might not have done the damage alhaitham meant them to, but the blunt edges of human teeth are even worse. they left wounds heine had tended, carefully, injured flesh that won't heal nearly as quickly as heine's does. badou will have scars from this. heine's gaze narrows. ]
Don't even fucking think about it. [ he knows alhaitham can't hear him. he also knows it's not fair to hold it against him, because he's not in his right mind, taken over by a haze of violence that's all too familiar to heine.
but still. still. alhaitham's fist comes for his face and heine brings an arm up to block, batting the punch away—brings his other hand up in a punch aimed directly at alhaitham's solar plexus, the aim being to push him away and get heine the advantage. ]
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suddenly the wounds on badou's neck make a whole lot more sense, precariously close to his artery where teeth had dug in. the fangs might not have done the damage alhaitham meant them to, but the blunt edges of human teeth are even worse. they left wounds heine had tended, carefully, injured flesh that won't heal nearly as quickly as heine's does. badou will have scars from this. heine's gaze narrows. ]
Don't even fucking think about it. [ he knows alhaitham can't hear him. he also knows it's not fair to hold it against him, because he's not in his right mind, taken over by a haze of violence that's all too familiar to heine.
but still. still. alhaitham's fist comes for his face and heine brings an arm up to block, batting the punch away—brings his other hand up in a punch aimed directly at alhaitham's solar plexus, the aim being to push him away and get heine the advantage. ]