llenley

[llenley]

The door opens to Lennox in reading glasses, with tousled hair and with his tie still in. Julian surely understands it like no other -- work is never over, until it really, really is. "The president of the United States of America.", is his version of a greeting, "A true, bad influence." The door opens further as Lennox steps aside, and gestures for the other man to come in. His eyebrows are furrowed, like they always are. His late wife used to comment on them and how they seemed stuck in that position forever.

"It's been a minute, correct." The apartment is drained in dark colors, with gentle accents of lighter reds sprinkled on curtains, decorations and the velvet couch. His slender fingers draw glasses out of the cupboard and place them on the glass table he keeps in the living room. The door to his office is open, and the light from his desk lamp shines into the area, "How's the wife?"

@llenley setting: lex's sad apartment, nyc

The state car drives through the New York streets with its mysterious sleekness, stitching its through traffic in ease. Julian sits at the back, scrolling his phone with one hand — the other, wrapped around the neck of a 1942 Don Julio bottle.

And it's that same bottle that he brings with him up the elevator and to Lex's doorstep — waiting patiently after three knocks.

"I heard you needed medicine," Julian says, flashing the bottle. "...No excuses. We haven't drained one of these together in far too long."

[llenley]

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ 𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐗 𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐋𝐄𝐘 | 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐒 𝐈 𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐌𝐁

"mister lenley, mister lenley! how do you respond to the claims that your candidacy was bought and corrupted?"

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 | 𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐒

addicted to malboro reds, but quit in favor of his candidacy, during which he advocated for a campaign that helped smokers quit. married his late wife out of pure love, and not because it was the most practical decision to make. loves being the mayor, and would do everything to win his next candidacy as well. absolutely distastes the criminal nightlife of new york, has had zero contact with his brother for multiple years.

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘

brought up as the youngest son in a family that would have bathed in their suits if offered the chance, lennox often found himself feeling like a misfit. he could not have been less excited about crypto, stocks and politics. his heart often longed for his greatest love: the theater.

when he turned fifteen and tried out for the theater club in school, his parents paid the casting director fifteen grand to decline his application, and to blacklist him from all artsy school clubs available. with only the debate club and football team being available after, lennox opted for the debate club, convincing himself that pretending to like debate could count as a form of acting.

developed a sudden interest in politics after around a year of being in the debate club, much to the delight of his parents -- and to the dismay of his older brother, who was crowned the valedictorian of his year. after his mother's constant comments, aiming for him to become more like his brother, lennox figured he could keep up his act longer now that he had actually found interest in politics. he applied for all ivy league colleges, and studied so hard that he got into all of them (while his brother was denied his dream school: harvard). naturally chose harvard and got three degrees: one in political science, one in economics and one in public administration.

(tw; death) grew farther and farther apart with brother throughout the years, who felt betrayed by the law enforcement and government and soon engaged in gang life. while lennox started running to become nyc's mayor, he spiraled, and took him down with him. lennox' campaign, evolving around the dream of reducing the crime rates in new york and support culture and arts, was crushed when he witnessed a crime he never should have seen, and he found his wife of one month dead in their shared house a few mere hours later. the traces were clear, and so was the threat. at his mercy, or not alive at all.

elected into a job he had never dreamt of, under control of a brother he never felt closure to, and lacking the family he had so carefully established, lennox has become new york's most glowing, and bloody, puppet.

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒

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