REMZI DURMAZ
Vampire
Posts: 96
Age:
33
Status:
It's Complicated
Partner:
Leah Sivan
Played by:
Julia
Last seen Jul 24, 2024 21:56:53 GMT
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Post by REMZI DURMAZ on Oct 15, 2021 15:28:07 GMT
 ━ like sisyphus pushing that rock uphill, or echo falling for a daffodil ━
It was as if Remzi was surprised all the shit he did could spill into the lives of those he kept close. Even after his time in the hospital and how his mom stayed up crying for hours, worrying about him every time he was out of bed, nearly having a heart attack whenever he left the house. He didn’t think of anybody but himself, how this would affect him, and if he thought of Leah, it was how elated he was to piss her off━wondering how her face would look when she realized he sold her out. Remzi pulled the Nazar duası from under his shirt and kissed it, praying he got to see her face, as if God had the time or the want to help Remzi in such affairs.
It was hidden again by the time he reached the lobby, the hotel his and Raik’s temporary home in Mystic Falls. Who knew it belonged to Leah’s brother, huh? But that was just another one of life’s little jokes. Made it easier to execute his plan if he didn’t have to go far, though there was something about not shitting where you sleep.
Moving from the elevator to the front desk, his blue eyes jumped to the doors, knowing it was after sundown but already in the habit of double-checking. It was kinda important when you burnt up in the sun faster than a redhead, but still fucking irritating.
In any case, the sun was down, and the worries were pushed away once Remzi was leaning one arm on the desk, grinning slyly at the receptionist. He’d be happy to tear into her throat right about then, but it was nothing personal; Remzi kinda felt that way about everybody. And, for once, his brain stopped one of those stupid decisions from happening. There was only so much room for idiocy in a single day. “Hey, gorgeous. Is your boss man around? I gotta chat with him about something important.”
As expected, she wasn’t going to fold. He didn’t understand how an asshole like Grey could soak up so many loyal people, though Remzi figured he probably had that Charles Manson-esque charm about him. “Nah, I mean seriously important. It’s about his sister, Leah? You know her? And the chick keeping his bed warm.”
That got her attention.
It wasn’t long until Grey was there, and Remzi stared for a minute, frowning, trying to fit his mental image into this guy. His hair was too dark, aura too… shadowy compared to what Remzi had pictured━which was really just a guy version of Leah. Same blue eyes, though. Christ, the fucking guy he’d bumped into on his way to Leah at the party.
Another one of God━or the universe’s━wisecracks. “You Grey?” Nodding upwards, Remzi didn’t wait for an answer, stepping away from the front desk. “Gotta warn you about Leah. She said she’s after your bitch━uh, I mean your girl. Gonna ambush her again, this time outside of work━next Monday when she said it, so… this Monday.” Rolling his shoulders back, Remzi tipped his chin up a few inches, assessing Leah’s poor excuse for a brother. He didn’t want to help Grey; that wasn’t the point of this━it was about fucking over Leah. Though, after the words left his mouth, Remzi realized there were ways to do it that didn’t involve possibly getting her killed again.
She’ll be fine, he told himself. Leah never gave two shits about him, so why should he worry about her?
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GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
Age:
29
Occupation:
Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Destiny Baccari
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Nov 19, 2024 20:19:32 GMT
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Nov 29, 2021 17:39:13 GMT
Damp fingerprints on the cover of the grimoire. Almost scarlet on that faded tan leather, too close to the ones that had been branded into Destiny’s throat by his sister’s touch. Not skin on skin the way his own were now as he slammed the book shut - none the wiser even after an hour poring over every page of the thing – but through the air. Not quite telekinesis, there’d been nothing but the air to grip onto even if Leah had found her way away from the teeth and claws she’d swiped with before that branch had ripped right through the middle of her.
Something.
It didn’t matter, he told himself as he shoved the grimoire away from himself and stood to pace the work room he’d built into his little eerie here. Everything had a weakness and in his half broken state his dad had made sure to babble about as much as he knew. Scraps of phrases, tattered around the edge, strung together in patterns that didn’t make sense then. So many attempts to put them together since but there were frustrating holes still through his knowledge. Grey scrubbed his hands over his face, growling into his palms.
Leah had tried to tear those holes between him and Destiny, playing on that last scrap of compassion. She’d known, had obviously studied Destiny like a bug under a microscope until she was sure what would happen when that bug was sent out – sobbing and hurting – to the one thing – one person – who could shield it.
He sucked in a breath, stalked over to the doors that led out onto roof terrace. His spot above this town, high enough to watch them scurrying like ants below. Hours spent out there watching for the one that could unlock all of this, the brand that marked them as it burning on the their skin, just waiting for the right glimpse of it. Hours spent looking for her now. Grey stood an inch behind the glass, jaw tight, eyes ticking back and forth, looking out for the things that he used in this town, creatures he could possess, who showed him this world as they saw it.
Gone for now, leaving him half blind and antsy. The itch would be there as he made his way to Destiny’s apartment afterwards, the world shut out for a few hours as they tried to continue to weave the web around her that would let Destiny keep herself safe. The tension in his jaw eased. Grey turned, picking up one of the wax paper sweets from the bowl on the counter. He unwrapped it, almost fumbled it as the phone on the wall buzzed. The single sharp tone that meant it was the desk, Cat buzzing through.
Approaching the phone slowly, that tension back, Grey plucked it up. He didn’t need to say a word before she was mentioning her name. A man dropping Leah’s name. The phone was set down without another word, the monitors to one side of the room punched on to reveal a tall, broad, bearded asshole standing there, arrogance rolling off of every soon to be dead inch of him.
Not in the hotel.
The words bounced around in his skull as he took the elevator down. His hands dragging over his mouth, through his hair as he tried to keep that wash of tension at bay. That cold shell back up as he stepped out of the elevator and the man was turning towards him. Grey slid his hands into his pockets, sauntered closer. ”Uh huh,” he muttered. The shell cracked though, the useless warning dropping from the scruff surrounded lips drawing a laugh out of him that was biting in tone. ”And she happened to tell you this was gonna happen? I guess she hasn’t learned her lesson about rushing into things.”
Cat slipped away from the desk as he spoke, making herself scarce. A sphere of silence in the hotel closing down around them as he eased in til he was just a couple of inches away from the bruiser it seemed his sister had grown close to – close enough for him to get all that from what he was assuming was pillow talk. ”You want some sort of gratitude for warning me right?” Grey tilted his head side to side, blue eyes narrowing faintly – nowhere near enough to reflect the flare of rage and fear that was boiling supernova bright in the pit of his stomach. ”Suppose I can give it, but … who might you be canary?” Yellow bellied, soon to be snuffed out – the comparison was fitting. Just a couple of days to put his sister down again, all to be spent with Destiny closed up here, shielded. Him between her and the thing his dad had helped produced. The last line of defence.
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REMZI DURMAZ
Vampire
Posts: 96
Age:
33
Status:
It's Complicated
Partner:
Leah Sivan
Played by:
Julia
Last seen Jul 24, 2024 21:56:53 GMT
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Post by REMZI DURMAZ on Dec 1, 2021 1:20:47 GMT
━ like sisyphus pushing that rock uphill, or echo falling for a daffodil ━
Leah? Rushing into things? Remzi considered his own actions━this, specifically━and realized that maybe Grey had a point. Between the two of them, though, Leah had always been the one in charge. She called the shots, pointed where Remzi should bite, and he was okay with it. He still was. She might leave him in the dust, though.
Blue eyes slid up with the receptionist, watched her saunter away with only a glance at her backside. He was here for business, Remzi reminded himself, but it didn’t mean he couldn’t look. The frown was back in place when Grey stepped forward, making Remzi square his shoulders, purposefully looking down his nose at the guy. The hotel owner. Leah’s brother.
“I don’t want shit from you, man.” Rolling his eyes, Remzi scoffed, glancing sideways. He didn’t do this for gratitude, to get something in return other than the chance to see Leah irritated and flustered. He realized now, however, that he would get more than that. More than he ever wanted━and in the worst way possible.
“Raik.” It came out before he could think it over. Remzi didn’t do that often━think━but it seemed like the best course of action rather than spouting off that he was the dude sleeping with Grey’s sister. Not that he was worried about protectiveness, obviously, but instead of the rivalry that seemed embedded into their DNA. He could never imagine hating Raik that much, no matter what.
He wondered if Raik would ever hate him; what Remzi might have to do to push him this far.
“My name’s Raik. My brother, Remzi, he’s Leah’s little… pet. She brings out the worst in him, always gets him into things he can’t get himself out of and then I have to clean up both their messes.” Perhaps he was getting a little too into character, or all that inner grief was pouring out. “Remzi’s not any better, really. Kind of a piece of shit. Causes my family a ton of grief, then just walks around like nothing happened.” Pausing, Remzi cleared his throat, “But he’s still my brother, and I don’t like the sort of influence she has over him.” The smile was awkward and uncomfortable to make, and Remzi raised his hands, palms out, hoping to be done with this now. “Like I said, I don’t want anything from you. Just keep your broad indoors, yeah?”
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GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
Age:
29
Occupation:
Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Destiny Baccari
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Nov 19, 2024 20:19:32 GMT
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Jan 3, 2022 18:58:21 GMT
He could’ve had the asshole on his knees out in seconds flat. Invite him up to his apartment, ’just a friendly little talk somewhere quieter.’ Knocked out immediately, those brows rising as he came to with the garrote around his throat, cutting off his air. That’d be a message, huh Leah? Kill the messenger, drink in whatever power was radiating along with that smug, no remorse about it after either. It was protection, plain and simple. Foolish little Grey Maddox shrugging off the family’s curse one threat at a time. With his final breath this guy would tell him just which rock Leah was hiding over. He’d kick it over, stomp her back into nothing when she scurried out.
Grey felt the muscles in his throat stretch taught as he smiled at this guy, standing out under his skin like the wire he’d have cutting pale lines into his hands then. All that tension would be gone in an instant, relief rushing back in. Words pouring out when he got to Destiny and told her the threat was over. Hands soft, not dangerous, trailing her skin in reassurance.
Leah wasn’t leaving this town … and neither was her boy toy here.
Humour twitched higher as his comment about Leah’s rushing her plans seemed to fall on deaf ears. Grey glanced aside as the guy did, catching Cat’s eyes. A gesture was all it would’ve taken to have her calling the cops in here to take out the trash but he wanted to do that himself, keeping his family’s shame firmly under wraps. His brows were rising as he looked back, small footsteps, a slow swagger carrying him into the bigger man’s space.
He hadn’t come here out of the goodness of his heart. People around Leah simply didn’t possess it, couldn’t. You let the beast into your life, you had to something like her or she’d just try to chew you up and spit you out. ”Really?” Grey asked, a chuckle falling bitter out of him. ”Not a few bucks for a ride home? A pat on the head?” He tugged a hand from his pocket, gesturing up like he’d do just that to a guy who had inches and pounds on him. A parental little tap on top of that tumble of hair. It’d likely earn him more than that sideways look. Maybe that was what he wanted, a chance to let the poison that had welled up when Leah had laid hands on Destiny finally spill out at someone who deserved it. Good deed or not.
Raik. Huh. Grey’s mouth twitched into something approaching a smile for the guy. The predator reassuring the prey that he was no threat here. He didn’t need to offer his own name back, Raik here had come dropping it to pass on his warning after all. Grey extended a hand though, making all this so civil. ”Such a pleasure, Raik, especially to meet one of Leah’s … acquaintances.” Or the acquaintances brother. The truth emerging had Grey sucking in a breath. Some siblings got along and cared for one another, just not his. It had been wolf-eat-darach since Leah had stretched her leash far enough to try and rid her life of its mistakes, the one that had produced her first.
Sympathy didn’t rise, Grey just hummed lightly. He rocked back on his heels, hands slipping back into his pockets as he clucked his tongue chidingly. Remzi, slipping into Leah’s web, assholes attracting one another it seemed. Grey raised his brows, making a low sound of understanding. ”So, you’re being a good brother, despite the fact that yours is a fuck up. Protect him from Leah, maybe get me to scare her off so you can get him out from under her. Your brother’s a big boy, Raik, I’d say he should do that himself but I can understand getting protective.” His own, fresh and still confusing, streak of it welled up now.
Pulling a hand from his pocket, Grey clapped one of those meaty biceps, giving a brief whistle like the brawn impressed him. His blue eyes flicked up to Raik’s as he took a step back. ”Consider me warned, pal.” Taking a step back, Grey poised, dragging his thumb and forefinger over his mouth while he pretended to think. ”A warning back that you should probably take … don’t get yourself involved with anything to do with my sister … or me. Leah doesn’t just cause grief, she likes things getting bloody and I’d hate to see you or Remzi getting caught in that meat grinder. Give her my best if you see her though.” Grey winked at him, wheeling away to head for his elevator. He knew Cat would make sure the trash was taken out for now … he’d deal with it permanently later. Poor Remzi, probably just looking for a little bit of fun with a wild blonde, about to die for it.
The elevator pinged and Grey strolled in, raising one hand absently to wave goodbye to the messenger before the doors slid silently shut behind him. At least Raik wouldn’t have to worry about his brother getting into any more trouble now.
Rest in peace, Remzi.
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