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[hottest_shot]

Heyyyyyyyyy, you know who you've got, babe. Say what you've gotta say.

[A long pause.

Shuffling.

Cloth.

Clatter.


Another long pause.


The actual cacophony of Finch's dorm.

And if you haven't hung up YET:]

Saints! Is this still o-?

[BEEEEEEEEEP.]

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Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

[Oh!

He just melts right into that, hugging right back.]

Good.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[It is a very tight hug]

Thanks, bo.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

[He's just going to enjoy the hell out of it, please and thank you. He pulls back if only to press a light kiss on Eddie's cheek and grin.]

Got anywhere to be?

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Not if you want company.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

I mean, I am in between ... an odd rash of kidnappings? Affectionate kinds but still- it's been interesting.

[His hands rest on the handles of his guns, idly.]

Either way, company keeps me out of trouble.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Sounds like a plenty good reason to me.

Not that I especially need a reason.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

... Have you ever experienced a kotatsu?

I feel like I should bring this into your life.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Sorry, chief, Miss Beato beat you to it.

But I would love to have a second experience.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

I can't blame her. She does know what's good in life.

[He offers an arm, a jaunty sort of gallant.]

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[Takes, it, casual and amiable and just as showy]

Sounds an awful lot like somebody else I know.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

The best part is you could be talking about any number of us.

But you ARE correct.

[It is a warm paradise of comfort welcome to the nap zone.]

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

You, bo. I was talking about you.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[He immediately makes to slip into the nap zone -- pauses]

Say -- maybe I better wash up, first. I been digging around out in the dirt all morning.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

Not like you don't have a change in clothes. The shower's upstairs. Unless you'd like company...

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

You offering?

[Waggles his eyebrows]

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

....


I'm direly tempted, but we'll never make it back to the kotatsu before the witches take all the good spots.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Oh, it's a competition, huh?

Well -- guess I better do this one solo. Save us a good spot, yeah?

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

Even enough room to stretch out. I'm THAT generous.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Oh,you are looking out for us.

[And he leans in to press a kiss to Jesper's cheek before he turns toward the shower]

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

Always.

[He grins WIDELY at that kiss.

And the boyishly cute expression is ruined by him pinching Eddie's arse as he turns.]

Don't be too long.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[He gives a startled sort of laugh -- peers back over his shoulder with a grin and a lazy wink -- and saunters off upstairs]

[He isn't too long; it's maybe five minutes later that he reappears again, hair still damp, in one of the new sets of clothes]

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

[There's always a moment of anxiety in work like this. Creating something.

Even simple things.

The hang is good though, and the colors and.]

Oh, that is not bad on you at ALL.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

It feels goddamn fantastic.

[His hand has crept to the vest; he rubs the fabric between his fingers, as though to reassure himself that it's still there (that it is, in fact, his)]

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

Nothing better than a bit of flash to make a man feel like a swagger, no matter what the streets look like.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Or even if the streets're a pile of blankets.