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[ninefox]

"I'll feel him out about it," Jedao promises, completely straight-faced with the double entendre as he starts working on Quentin's lower back properly.

[magician_king]

"You feel so good."

Says Quentin, into the couch cushion, body just giving under his touch.

"Tell me your other news?"

[ninefox]

"What are your thoughts on maybe-Norton? I'd check in with Rawne first too. It's not so much an active pursuit as just - he feels like such a cute half-trained baby fox to me, and lovely with kisses. If we got carried away later, maybe."

Jedao is enjoying just knowing him, playing with him, flirtation as teasing and teaching and skirmish, all at once. But that's not a road that leads nowhere, unless he's quite careful about it.

[magician_king]

"Double triple quadruple check with Rawne, and make sure he says yes with his mouth and with his heart."

Says Quentin, muzzily, into the couch.

"Only because I think he might be in a little over his head there, and it would be such a shame to accidentally hurt his feelings and lose his company. Not that it'd impact me and him- but I know you love him too. If you feel in the end like it's worth going ahead for you, then go ahead, but be super aware of the risk of losing him, and if it happens try to make it gentle and a helpful lesson in staying friends even when it's complicated, you know?"

[ninefox]

"I will be very careful. If he's hesitant at all I'll step back entirely," Jedao promises. "Rawne is family first. And I'm so glad he has you looking out for him. What about you? Still on pause, or...?"

[magician_king]

"Still on pause."

Stretching his legs out a little, hitching his spine a touch longer with the new give of muscle.

"It's a weird feeling. I keep having computer metaphors float through my head; my heart is using all its' cpu momentarily, running red hot, maximum capacity."

[ninefox]

"Your heart is a treasure, my darling." He smoothes his hands gently over the newly tender place, soothing and stroking, before starting to work on the next knot. "I support you, however you feel."

[magician_king]

"So, who else have you kissed? Not potentials, just encounters."

He wants to know, feet crossing at the ankle, shoulders giving a little shiver of satisfaction.

[ninefox]

"Spock and Connor were unexpectedly sweet about it. Misty and Yunlan and Peter were expectedly sweet. Steve made a decent run of things. And I got a taste of both of yours," he adds, wryly.

[magician_king]

"You kissed Spock?"

Says Quentin, squirming around until he can roll on his back, looking up at him, astonished.

"He's from a tv show I watched when I was growing up. In fact, he was one of my very first crushes."

[ninefox]

"And dragged him to a couch for cuddling, and he let me. I think he's a bit lonely. You should invite him to play chess," Jedao suggests.

[magician_king]

"How? I can't make eyecontact with him."

Reaching to catch Jedao's hand, to draw it down to a place on his hip where a muscle is giving him trouble.

"There were so few role models for little people who have trouble understanding the logic of human emotions. I always feel like it's incredibly rude to tell people they're fictional in my world, but it's also hard not to want to tell him I'm grateful for him having made me feel so much less alone, when I was still all little, serious and vulnerable."

[ninefox]

"Just stare at his forehead instead, no one can tell the difference," Jedao suggests. He strokes gently over the spot to get a sense of the knots before digging in more seriously.

"I don't know what to tell you about the fiction thing. But I can tell you that he is tall, and serious, and vulnerable. Do you want me to make the first invitation?"

[magician_king]

Quentin squeaks- but just at the hip thing, arching a little and rolling subtly onto his side in a full body go-ahead.

"Give me a week to do it on my own, and then if I chicken out, nudge me gently off the diving board, please. Fuck, I love you."

This, less for the hip thing, although it's certainly included among the reasons why.

[ninefox]

"One week," he murmurs, an agreement and a promise and a warning. He leans over Quentin's body, tugging his shirt up and pressing a kiss to his side as he keeps working at Quentin's hip.

[magician_king]

Quentin lifts both elbows up over his head, and drops his knee down off the edge of the couch to pull himself into a long stretch. With his forearms covering his eyes, he doesn't quite hide his wide smile.

"Be careful not to cross the gander,
A bird composed of beak and dander,
His heart is filled with prideful hate
Of all the world except his mate.
And if the neighbors do not err
He's overfond of beating her.
Is she happy? What's the use
Of trying to psychoanalyze a goose?"

He memorized this for him a bit ago, and has been saving it for him, for a suitably silly moment alone.

[ninefox]

He laughs softly against Quentin's skin, rueful and warm. He's not at all sure what to say in response - poetry, of all things, and yet it is sweet -

In the end, Jedao presses another kiss to his stomach - nope, nope, that's a giant raspberry.

What's the use, indeed.

[magician_king]

Quentin gives into laughter- the real kind, the laugh that actually sounds subtly ridiculous and too high pitched so he tries very hard not too give into it. It's a 'once or twice a year' laugh.

He has his revenge by trying to tangle both legs around him, wrestling to thwart him. It does genuinely tickle.

"Everyone's a critic!"

[ninefox]

Jedao wriggles like an eel, twisting to give Quentin raspberries on his thighs, too, delighted to draw out that bright outrageous laugh as long as he can.

[magician_king]

He keeps going until breathlessness gets him, and he has to pat him gently with both hands, gesturing uncle, uncle.

"God. I was so tired when I got home I didn't think I'd be able to move a muscle."

Now he feels good, warm, easy, subtly energized.

[ninefox]

Jedao slides up Quentin's body - carefully where he puts his weight - and kisses him, slow and sweet and easy.

"You probably should rest. But food first?"

[magician_king]

"Are you sure?"

Wonders Quentin, with an expressive flick of his eyes in the direction of their bedroom instead. He touches a toe to the back of his calm, trailing lightly, just a thought.

[ninefox]

"I'm trying to be a gentleman, you minx," Jedao chides him, grinning. "Shall I carry you?"

[magician_king]

"You're very gentlemanly."

Agrees Quentin, slipping a knee up between his, happy to play the wicked one, if that's the case.

"But yes, please."

He could be scooped up and swept off by a gentlemen, perfectly happily.

[ninefox]

Jedao kisses him again, then slither-rolls off the couch to better scoop him up into a careful bridal carry. He nuzzles Quentin's neck before heading into the bedroom.

"As you wish."