OFA: In the library

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Nikola is getting rusty.

But he has a good enough memory that despite the fact that it's been a good twenty years since he sat down at a piano, he's doing a fairly decent job of making his way through Au Claire de la Lune.

He doesn't play well, but he plays with great expression.

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"Neither much nor particularly deeply," Will elaborates and runs his fingers along Nikola's arm. "I've been wondering if it's a 'source-blood' abnormal thing."

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"I think that's mostly a case of Helen worrying too much."

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"Weight of the world," Will shrugs a little. "How do you avoid it? Feeling like you're responsible for everything."

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"It's quite simple really," Nikola says. "I know that I'm not."

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Will smiles a little. "That must be nice. Certainly easier to live with."

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"Easier to sleep too," Nikola points out, smirking.

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"Sorry," Will turns his head towards Nikola. "Just tell me to shut up. I don't get to ask a lot of questions of the immortal."

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"Curiosity is healthy," Nikola says. "You can ask as many questions as you like."

He just may not answer all of them.

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"Do you outgrow your lovers as they age or do you never stay with anyone long enough to find out?"

Not that Will's looking for an invitation, he's really just wondering.

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Nikola chuckles. "Worried already, William?"

Not that he thinks Will's really looking for an invitation, but he can't resist.

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"No, no, I get it," he thinks so. "I just. You're always going to be as attractive as you are now and other people...we're moving away from you."

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"Very true," Nikola says. "But I can't say I've ever been with someone long enough for it to become an issue."

Either he or the other person has always become fed up with the relationship long before that.

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"Have any famous lovers to name drop or is that only something that happens to Magnus?"

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Nikola smirks. "Well, I've already told you about Bosie. And there was one particularly memorable evening with Sarah Bernhardt..."

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Will rolls over, definitely intrigued. He can't really tell Nikola that this evening tops his famous lovers list by a long shot, but he has a feeling Nikola knows.

"But you would never kiss and tell."

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"All of my famous lovers are long since dead," Nikola points out. "It's hardly going to damage their reputations."

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"I'd think that having been your lover would add to it," Will taunts, grinning.

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Nikola grins right back. "Well, of course. It's not their choice in lovers that had the potential of ruining reputations, it's their sexual proclivities."

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"Do you think we're more sexually obsessed now and just more liberal with discussing it? Or are you referring to their pet fantasies?"

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"I think society has moved to a much healthier place when it comes to discussing particular kinks or fantasies. There are still those who would say that liking such things makes you perverted in some way, but at least there's a general acceptance that such things exist."

He smiles. "Besides which, admitting to having taken lovers would have ruined the whole celibacy farce."

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"Was that more frustrating or amusing?" Nikola's not one for lying, so Will can't help wondering.

"Even ruin someone's reputation? Or stand idly by while they did it to themselves?"

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"Amusing for the most part." He's also not one for needing to shout from the rooftops that he's sleeping with someone.

"I watched many lovers ruin their lives, very few their reputations."

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"Subtly is also a skill we've lost to the ages?"

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"It's a skill most people have to grow into. It just seems to take longer and longer for that to happen."

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"Do you miss it? The Victorian age? I know you love the idea of the vampire nation, but wouldn't you miss the technology?"