Mercy smiled hesitantly up at him while she waited for a response, speaking tentatively after he stuttered. "Is that good or bad?" She said, only slightly teasing. She gently adjusted herself to wrap both wings around him. She shuffled slightly nervously, her mind and heart racing.

I don't think he even knows if it's good or bad...//

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Ajax's eyebrows raised a little, then furrowed together, then raised again as he opened and closed his mouth like a fish out of water. "I- um- er- good?" He blinked, then made a face, trying hard to get control over his facial expressions again. And his brain would be nice too, but that hadn't happened since he met Mercy. "Yeah- good. It is good. I agree with myself haha now I know I've gone insane..." Ajax shook his head slightly, his eyebrows raising again.

Pffft))

Mercy smiled. "Good. Good, yeah. That was your first kiss, wasn't it?" She asked gently, wrapping both arms around him gently and shuffling closer a little apprehensively. She didn't how she felt about being his first kiss; guilty, overjoyed, excited. She found herself worrying about if he liked it or not; was he lying to make her feel better? No, no. Ajax didn't work like that.

He would more quickly scream at her than lie to her to make her feel better XD//

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Ajax nodded slowly. "Couldn't tell?" He uttered the two words, but was focusing on, yet again, controlling his facial expressions. Soon he looked at little less confused and shocked, and a little more normal. "I only find it funny... first kiss after I died, got beaten up more than five times (not good), almost killed more than once, and have gotten healed by an Angel more than three times. Most people wouldn't be so stubborn to not... get kissed? I guess I finally just broke." He snorted slightly, looking at the piano again. "No, wait, I blame the piano. It got into my head, should not have played that song it was my fault. Anyway, one thing, NEVER TELL GOOSE OR ROOSTER ABOUT THIS." Ajax commented, looking at Mercy as he threw out his last sentence. "They might actually have heart attacks, and if they don't miraculously don't die AGAIN... they will tease me for the rest of my miserable second life," Ajax explained with a huff of air, looking at the piano again. "Ok, really, after that, I need to play one more song. Don't worry, not sad, and not about you." He smiled slightly. Actually seeing the piano again made Ajax feel better, but playing it made him feel like he was floating. He took in a breath, tilted his head and concentrated, then started playing what was obviously a rock song... on the piano. It actually sounded quite good. "Flatline, a breath away I was born with one foot in the grave. Been to, hell and back dealt a real bad hand but I live with that. I've learned to face my darkness, now I embrace my doubt. Don't go and plan my funeral, don't go and count me out." The upbeat tune changed as he slipped into the chorus with a grin. "Living on the razors edge, danced with demons tasted death, I've lost ears inside my head... but Hallelujah, I'm not dead. Won't be waiting on my hearse, pains a gift it ain't a curse, my heart still beats my bloods still red, hallelujah I'm not dead " Ajax grinned mischievously as he sang the chorus, diving into the next verse. "Wake up, another fight, am I the victim or the homocide? What's in my head left scars behind, every step is an uphill climb. I've learned to live in shadows, even without the light, I've learned to love the battles, only the strong survive. Living on the razors edge, danced with demons tasted death, I've lost wars inside my head... but Halleujah, I'm not dead. Won't be waiting on a hearse, pains a gift it ain't a curse, my heart still beats my bloods still red, hallelujah I'm not dead. So if you're black and blue, and feeling so abused, no it don't make you damaged, it makes you living proof. That you are so much more, than all this hell you've known, remember this... what doesn't kill you is what makes your throne. Living on the razors edge, danced with demons tasted death, I've lost wars inside my head, but hallelujah, I'm not dead. Won't be waiting on my hearse, pains a gift it ain't a curse, my heart still beats my bloods still red, Hallelujah I'm not dead. Hallelujah I'm not dead." Ajax finished with a crack of his fingers. "Theme song, played! Isn't it terribly funny?" He joked.

Mercy shrugged with a small smile. "I figured you were a little too astonished. I'm not that great of a kisser." She joked. She nodded, moving so he could play the piano quietly. She watched him eagerly, leaning against him with a small smile as she did so. "Oh, don't worry. I'll tell them all about it." She teased. After, she listened to him sing until he was through, grinning at the humor of the song. "Terribly, yes." She said sarcastically.

"Well I beg your pardon, but I believe you are a good kisser!" Ajax scoffed. Not being able to help himself, while they were speaking, his fingers danced across the higher pitched keys, playing a tinkling tune just ... because. "Oh please don't, you'll be ridiculed too." He begged with a pleading gaze. "It is! It's hilarious, and that's why it is my special theme song. I mean, yes I've died once, but I'm alive right now! Plus most of it is so true about me. I definitely live on the razors edge, trying to accidentally kill myself all the time by doing frightening things. I've danced with demons, or, okay, fought with them. I've most amazingly lost wars inside my head, as I do so many times because my brain don't really work. I'm never going to be waiting on a hearse because when I actually did die, they just buried me out in the horse's pasture, about 100 feet from where I died. No hearse needed. Pain is a gift sometimes! If whatever idiot that clubbed me with a mace in my back then shot me DIDNT do that, you would have never found my smoldering self! And last but not least, I am here now, my heart beats... if I told that to some people they would ask *oh wait, you have a heart?* anyway, and my blood is still red. I think. I mean, when I bled last it was red." Ajax commented with a grin. "So the song applies to me in all ways." He finished gallantly.

"Aw, thanks. You are too." Mercy smiled, gently reaching up to toy with his hair as he began playing again. "Hey, I'm fine with being ridiculed." She joked, giggling at his explanation. "It does, when you say it like that." She smiled, pressing gently into his side in Hope's he might hug her, wrap an arm around her, something.

Something* getting pretty desperate now, are we lol))

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"well that's a surprise." Ajax snorted, starting to play a slow song as he listened. Knockin on heavens door. "Well I'm not!" He sighed, hitting a low note with a plaintive expression. "I know! It does." Ajax agreed with a curt nod, closing his eyes a moment and enjoying the sound of music floating across the cave walls. He finally did figure out, with his slow brain, that Mercy was practically doing everything she could to get closer to him without actually saying something about it. He snorted slightly and put an arm around her, reducing his notes slightly since he was only using one hand now.

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Goose flew to Ajax's cave for the fourth time that day, praying he was there. He wasn't. "I haven't seen him for MONTHS" He growled angrily, looking at Rooster with raised eyebrows as he heard the sound of a piano. "No way." Goose looked astonished. "He hasn't played that thing since... since.... since something very bad happened to him. Do remember what it was? I didn't think Ajax told us." Goose sighed, then went into annoyed mode and flew up to the cliff. "AJAXXXX" He roared, barreling in there and knocking both Ajax and Mercy over. "WHY DID YOU LEAVE US. FOR LIKE, MONTHS. I WAS SO WORRIED. EVEN ROOSTER SPOKE TO PEOPLE AND TRIED TO FIND YOU. ARGH." Goose exclaimed with a dramatic flail of his hands.

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Rooster listened and nodded to what Goose said, flying up with the man and sitting in the entrance as Goose performed a spectacular feat by knocking Ajax over.

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Ajax let out a yelp of surprise as he got rammed into from the back, his wings flailing out and immediately curling around Mercy to muffle their landing on the hard floor. When he saw who had attacked them... "GOOSE" Ajax roared right back. "COULDN'T YOU TELL SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING YOU BRAINDEAD SEA SLUG."

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"NO I COULD NOT AND I DO NOT CARE I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU FOR MONTTTHHHS YOU EVADING RHINO" Goose yelled right back

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"Guys, shut up, you are hurting my ears." Rooster voiced himself with s grumbly huff, grabbing the back of Ajax's shirt and the back of Goose's. He tossed Goose out the window and let go of Ajax. "I haven't seen you in... a ... long time. Er, how are you." Rooster formed the words carefully

She's been giving him hints for a while lol))

Mercy looked so, so happy as he put his arm around her. She leaned into his side and flopped her head on his shoulder gently as she watched his fingers move across the keys. She blinked and picked her head up when she heard someone screaming Ajax's name. After, she found herself flying off the bench like a toothpick. She was pressed against Ajax's chest as he wrapped his wings around her. She winced as she heard Goose yelling. ....Yeah, that was her fault. She stayed hidden by the dark wings enveloping her until Rooster's voice rang out. "I agree." She chimed softly, peeking out from between the feathers in his wings. She gently pulled his wing down to look up at Rooster, then back up at Ajax.

Ajax glanced out the cave entrance. "Eh, he'll be fine." He mumbled, then chuckled slightly. "Whoops" Ajax commented, unwrapping his wings and curling them against his back again. It was uncommon for him to even have his wings... out. Ajax always had his wings completely hidden. "I also agree, sorry Rooster." He voiced his opinion helpfully, brushing off his precious piano.

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Goose flew back up to the window, spluttering unhappily. "Rooster! You chucked me off a 100 foot ledge!" Goose complained, his lighter wings looking frazzled with the feathers sticking out in different ways.

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Rooster arched one, busy red eyebrow at Goose as he came flapping back up. "You were being annoying." She said simply, leaning against the cave wall.

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"well I apologize to both of you about the disappearance, I got kidnapped." Ajax explained with a slow nod.

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"KIDNAPPED!? BY WHOM" Goose looked around wildly with an angry gaze. "ILL BASH THEIR HEAD IN FOR YOU"

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Rooster tossed Goose off the cliff again as the man started yelling, then looked at Ajax with an innocent expression. "As he said but quieter, Kidnapped? By whom?"

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Ajax grinned slightly. "Goose, don't bash anyone's head in." He called down first, then answered. "Mercy! I think she smacked me atop the head and dropped me somewhere, then tried to care for me for like, months! It was pure torture," He sighed dramatically, flapping a hand