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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"I suppose you could say that," Nikola agrees. "He was very subtle about it."

At the time, still getting used to new feelings and urges, Nikola had very much thought he was betraying the friendship by wanting more.

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"Not something you employ," Will jokes. If Nikola was subtle, it probably would have taken him quite some time to realize his rather confusing attraction.

"What was it like? Something innocent and gentle?"

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Nikola laughs a little at that. "Certainly not innocent, and rarely gentle."

At least not once he'd figured out what was happening.

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Will raises his eyebrows. "I see." Those thoughts should give him some interesting dreams.

"And now you're on a case by case basis or do you consider yourself bisexual?"

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"I think that categorizing sexuality that definitively is never going to be accurate."

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"Do you think people will ever be comfortable enough to live without it?"

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"Possibly," Nikola says. "Not so long as the human race continues to revere the church as it does."

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"More likely to burn crosses than to be burned by them?" Will doesn't have a lot of love for the church. It's never been a part of his life and the psychosis it induces are messy.

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"Something like that," Nikola says with a chuckle.

Nikola would possibly have less hatred for the church if it hadn't been such a big part of his life growing up.

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Will reaches for Nikola's hand and studies his long fingers with a slight smile. "I do like the music that comes out of it, though I usually ignore the words."

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Nikola's fingers weave between Will's. "I have a feeling composers would have produced music just as beautiful without the church's influence."

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Maybe better, Will contemplates for a moment. Most of his favourite art is secular, but he has a fondness for the abstract.

"Is there any record of music from the age of the vampires?" Will knows that fingers have an abundance of nerve endings. He's definitely grateful for that at the moment.

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"There is," Nikola says. "But it's not a notation system I'm familiar with, and I'm not enough of a musician to figure it out."

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Will nods, slightly pleased that it's survived, even if it hasn't been played yet.

"Think anything from our time will survive nearly that long?"

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Will nods, slightly pleased that it's survived, even if it hasn't been played yet.

"Think anything from our time will survive nearly that long?"

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"If you can believe Star Trek, certainly."

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Will chuckles. "I believe in Spock," he says jovially. "I don't think you're talking about live long and prosper."

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"I was thinking more of Next Generation. They had rather a love affair with the 20th century."

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"Patrick Stewart and the robot who wanted to be real?" he didn't watch that one as much. He did get into Deep Space Nine.

"It does seem like we'll be remembered as the era that only cared about themselves."

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"I think that could be said about a lot of eras," Nikola points out. "If the Victorians had developed space operas, they'd have been full of grandfather clocks and obsessed with Dickens."


[ooc: I've just realized that this thread has been going for over a month now. *boggles at us*]

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"Dickens is just depressing. I mean, I try to be understanding about the time period but it just seems so much more depressing than it needs to be." Will culls that rant by kissing Nikola's collarbone. It's a spot he likes.

"I do like grandfather clocks."

[it is rather enjoyable though! *looks around sneakily* definitely one of my favourite threads]

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Nikola smirks at that and cards his fingers through Will's hair. "I'm beginning to think you have a thing for older men in general."


[ooc: It really is. :D]

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"I do need to be intellectually stimulated," Will realises how that sounds and bites his own lip. "I like the history. The idea that there's more than I can understand."

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Nikola arches an eyebrow. "You like not being able to understand?"

Congratulations, Will. You've just said something Nikola Tesla can't comprehend.

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"I like the mystery. Sometimes, there are some people," Will doesn't know how to say it politely. "I'm sure you meet some people who are open books to you. I like having a challenge."