Semi-Open

[john_ofdarkness]

*John's life has been very quietly spectacular for the last few weeks. he's had a sense of purpose, between cooking and writing music and the odd sojourn to Australia for entertainment and meds; on top of that, he has a serious boyfriend (and so what if he's a fictional 19th-century Russian? John doesn't judge).

therefore, he is lying out on a lawn chair, his reading glasses on the ground beside him, a book propped open on his stomach, his eyes closed against the sunlight. the lines of his face are gentler, for how truly content he is; indeed, he looks startlingly like James at the moment. he's not quite asleep, but only resting his eyes, and he might crack one open if he hears anyone moving about nearby. old friends and unfinished business are both welcome to bother him*

Mainly for L!V!C! folk, but Melou can pop by if he wants to be traumatized again apologized at, and Zjendjan can come pester him, too.

Comments

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Not at the moment.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Usually.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. And vice versa, I assume?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Well done, you.

Typist: Off to bed now! Goodnight!

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

*bows* Thank you, thank you.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*a long breath out--not quite a sigh* And yet we still try to tolerate each other.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* That's what grown-ups do.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*half-smile* Some of us grew up later than others.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when you spend too much time with fairies. Just ask Mary Martin.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Truth. You're a poor influence.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't give me all the credit.

Typist: So, I just started reading a book about the history of Peter Pan, and it quotes from a letter J. M. Barrie wrote to Maude Adams, Peter in the first American production. Ahem: "I hear of things you do in the part which are so absolutely what Peter did that it makes me gay." Buzz was amused.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

You and the Broadway and especially the off-Broadway crowd--

Typist: Heee.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

All your chorus boys-

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

I didn't sleep with all of them. Not even most of them.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Just more than most of us ever get, hm?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*amused* I was handsome, once.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I remember.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

*a quiet smile* He loves my face. I haven't heard that for decades, and yet he says it without the slightest hint of deception--

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Your little saint?

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

Yes--you don't have to say it like that.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

Sorry, sorry.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

He's different from the others.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he is.

[john-ofdarkness.livejournal.com]

You say it as though you're not particularly sure.

[notsincecarrie.livejournal.com]

I say it as though I'm humoring you. I know what it's like to get sentimental about someone - although, granted, you usually don't.