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[prince_of_nymphs]

He wasn't terribly musical, if he was honest. He could sing, and he'd written lyrics for Will in the past, but when it came to instruments, he knew little. His piano was poor, his attempts at drumming when he was younger had been a failure, but he could play a bit on the guitar. It was a skill he was attempting to improve as he sat beneath a tree in the park, a cigarette dangling from his lips as he strummed to himself.

Dark sunglasses hid his eyes, and Keats lay nearby, keeping watch as much as he was keeping Fin company. A few stray chords settled into a familiar song, and Fin hummed a bit before removing the cigarette from his lips and starting to sing.

"The door slammed loud and rose up a cloud of dust on us. Footsteps follow, down through the hollow sound, torn up... And you will go to Mykonos, with a vision of a gentle coast, and a sun to maybe dissipate. Shadows of the mess you made..."

He fumbled a bit, swearing under his breath as he strummed a bit more, jumping ahead in the song.

"I remember how they took you down, as the winter turned the meadow brown. You go, wherever you go today..."

He made it through the rest of the verse before fumbling again and starting over, pausing to stub out his cigarette and give it a proper try this time.

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[prince_of_nymphs]

Fin chuckled at that, then smiled.

"You must miss him," he said softly.

[akatawitch]

Sunny did not say yes or no to that. Instead she said, "He's the one who taught me how to punch someone without breaking my hand."

[prince_of_nymphs]

"You miss him terribly then," Fin teased softly, putting his guitar down and putting his arm around her instead. "You know if you ever want to go home for a week or so, I'll gladly buy the tickets. So long as you promise you'll come back. London would be very empty without you, Sunny."

[akatawitch]

Sunny started at the mere thought of it. "Oh, no, Fin, I couldn't ask you to do that for me."

[prince_of_nymphs]

"You're not asking, I'm offering," Fin countered. "You don't even have to go alone. You could take Phouka with you, perhaps- Or Faizel... With school starting again, he's bound to have more free time..."

[akatawitch]

Sunny gave him her worst side-eye, never mind that she was glaring at a blind man. "You are definitely the worst."

[prince_of_nymphs]

"The best," Fin assured her, "And I'm serious."

[akatawitch]

"Who keeps telling you about my guy fail? Is it Winter? It's Winter, isn't it. I'm gonna slap him upside the head, he's grown now, I can do that." She was not entirely serious in this, it was mostly pouting. And blushing.

[prince_of_nymphs]

"I'm blind, but I'm not blind. I saw you at the housewarming- kinda. I saw the shape of you both," Fin admitted. "Though you're not wrong about Winter. He was having a slight sulk about it recently. I can't tell if he jealous or just worried things will change."

[akatawitch]

Oh God, had he seen her get all hot and bothered over Phouka? Sunny felt her face flame with embarrassment. "Phouka doesn't even notice I'm there when Winter's around, he has nothing to worry about."

[prince_of_nymphs]

"...I was talking about Faizel," Fin replied, both brows raising slightly.

[akatawitch]

Which got her eyebrow up in turn. "Winter was sulking over Faizel paying attention to me?"

[prince_of_nymphs]

"Or you paying attention to him, I honestly couldn't work out which it was," Fin shrugged. "I tried talking to him about it, but he talked me around in circles for a bit before changing the topic completely."

[akatawitch]

Sunny wasn't sure if she found that kind of sweet or deeply irritating. "Okaaaay..."

[prince_of_nymphs]

"I wouldn't worry about it, you know what he's like. It's perfectly possible he's just miserable that the world isn't currently revolving around him and bowing to his every need and want," Fin smiled.

[akatawitch]

Sunny tucked up her legs so she could hug her knees. "I don't know if he's even got anything to be jealous about, it's not like we have the first clue what we're doing."

[prince_of_nymphs]

"He could be jealous of just that," Fin pointed out. "He doesn't really have that innocence. He knows more than most with his level of romantic experience tend to know. That's something else I've never managed to get him to talk about. ...Sex. I'm starting to think I should try again though."

He frowned a little, then turned his head slightly towards Sunny. "For what it's worth, no one knows what they're doing when it comes to matters of the heart. I certainly never have when it comes to love or lust."

[akatawitch]

"I'm teaching him to dance," she mumbled into her knees. "Someone who wears coats that flashy should know the basics of ballroom."

[prince_of_nymphs]

"I think that sounds terribly romantic," Fin said, and he wasn't teasing now, it was genuine. "Or, if not romantic, very fun."

[akatawitch]

Sunny shrugged awkwardly and the mumble grew mushed to the point of being incoherent as she hid her face in her knees.

[prince_of_nymphs]

Fin could only see the shape of her, but it was sort of adorable, and he rubbed her back lightly.

[akatawitch]

"I'm not used to..." Sunny murmured, still mostly into her knees, but at least intelligible now, "being pretty. Not in an objective when-you-think-about-it sort of way, or a fetishized kind of way, or a 'of course you're pretty, baby' because they're my family and they have to way, just..." She wasn't explaining this well, and she knew it. "Nobody's ever looked at me like they were interested, but not like I was some kind of exotic animal."

Well, not nobody, Phouka hadn't either. And that was part of what made her attraction to him so deep and so dangerous.

[prince_of_nymphs]

Fin stroked her hair, unsure of what to say for a moment.

"You are though," Fin said. "You're stunning. I've said it before, you're beautiful, Sunny. The only thing that shocks me is that no one noticed you sooner. The world must be far more blind than I am."

[akatawitch]

Sunny accepted that he didn't understand, and very likely he never would. There just weren't that many people who could. "It feels really nice," she said instead.

[prince_of_nymphs]

"Then I'm very happy for you," Fin said softly. "I doubt they'll be the last boys to fall for you. I think you'll be beating them back with sticks."