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[runningred]

{from here}

Jay's room is large but simple. A big bed in one corner, a couch and TV in another. The rest of the room is workbenches and lockers except for a small kitchenette. The benches are covered in blueprints, sketches and tools. Small projects are set up on one side - a production line of small electrical components. There are a couple of closed doors off it, leading to other rooms.

Not that Jonathan will get much of a chance to look. Jay pushes him gently against the door and kisses him almost as soon as they're through it.

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[runningred]

"Mostly here." He shrugs, not really wanting to talk about it.

[jonathanparagon]

Jonathan isn't going to force the issue.

"Yeah, here's a good place for that. Between the magic healers and the tech the infirmary's got..."

[runningred]

"And a garage full of toys." Jay grins. "Hell, I don't leave the whole first year." Granted he was working through some shit but that's besides the point.

[jonathanparagon]

"Can't say I blame you", he says lightly. "Whatever you're into, there's enough to occupy anybody here if they let it."

[runningred]

"What are you into? Other than this?" He runs the tips of his fingers down the centre of Jonathan's chest, stopping short of the scar.

[jonathanparagon]

He follows Jay's trailing fingers with his eyes.

"Mostly magic. Some demonology just for the learning."

[runningred]

"Sounds heavy." He leaves his hand resting on Jonathan's chest, thumb tracing small arches.

[jonathanparagon]

"It can be. But in my world, demon's just a word for sentient not-human. It doesn't always mean they're evil."

The touches are pleasant, and he wouldn't dream of making Jay stop.

[runningred]

"You have good demons? What are they like?" His thumb still strokes, his own hard-on gone quietly soft.

[jonathanparagon]

That can be taken care of later. This doesn't seem the time for it.

"Most of the time, the peaceful ones, they just want to be left alone and they do the same things regular folks do. Go shopping, make a living... I know one runs a nightclub."

[runningred]

"Well, I guess I know a vampire who runs a nightclub. And a couple of Martians who manage one." He shrugs. The world is weird when you think about it.

[jonathanparagon]

"Martians?" He blinks. "They got stranded, or what?"

[runningred]

"More refugees than anything else. The sect they were born into practice pretty brutal eugenics and the twins were born with what their race saw as birth defects. A friend helped smuggle them to Earth. Now they manage a nightclub in Berlin."

[jonathanparagon]

Jonathan nods.

"Somebody protected them when they were babies?"

[runningred]

"Long enough to get them to help anyway." She died for it but Jay doesn't mention that. "They grew up as humans with a good family. Teenage rebellion like most adopted kids. That's how I got to know them."

[jonathanparagon]

"You wouldn't know they were different to look at them, then?" he asks. "Angel used to work with a guy like that. Half-Brachen demon, but his mother didn't tell him until he hit puberty and more things changed than he was expecting."

[runningred]

"That's one of the 'birth defects' they were rejected for. Martians are shape shifters but the twins can't shift. When J'onn brought them to earth, he helped push them into human forms. They've known all their lives but their adopted family encouraged them to act and live as humans. All that hiding kinda got to them after a while."

[jonathanparagon]

"I guess it would", he agrees with sympathy. "Even if their adoptive family were only trying to protect them."

[runningred]

"I ended up helping the guy who brought them here find them when they ran away from home. J'onn figured I'd get that sort of rebellion."

Jay shrugs it off and rolls over, scratching a scar. "I should hit the shower." He figures this is kinda done.

[jonathanparagon]

It was Jay who moved it into massage and conversation, being undemanding, and Jonathan sits up and looks at him uncertainly.

"I can come with. If you want."

[runningred]

Jay smiles. "Yeah, I'd like that." He gets of the bed with a bounce and nods towards the bathroom.

It's an impressive bathroom, that's for sure. With a double size shower and rather large hot tub.

[jonathanparagon]

Jonathan's eyebrows go up as he steps into the room.

"Been a while since I saw a bathroom like this."

[runningred]

"Yeah," Jay laughs. "The Bar got indulgent with me."

[jonathanparagon]

"She does that", he agrees with affection, his gaze and attention settling back on Jay. "At least if she likes you, and she likes most people."

[runningred]

"Seems to." He nods, a little humbled by how kind the Bar has been to him.

He grabs a couple of towels from the linen press and turns on the shower. "Join me?"