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[onceaviking]

He knows there is someone in the room before he is properly awake.

Luckily for Jay, it does register that he knows the intruder before he does anything more than land on him and grab his arms.
Snarling.

From supine position to practically in Jay's lap in a blink of an eye.

He relaxes forcibly and let's go of Jay's arms.
He's cold and his eyes are more red rimmed than usual.

He closes them.
"You shouldn't do that," he says.

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[runningred]

Jay keeps supporting him, even when he stops feeding. He rubs Eric's shoulders, his voice low. "Do you want to talk about it?"

[onceaviking]

Eric sits up, letting go of Jay's wrist and snorting a laugh.

"There's nothing to talk about. I fed from a fairy. It comes with some - possible downsides. I knew that."

He runs a hand through his hair.

"They're very hard to resist. Fairies."

[runningred]

Jay takes his wrist back and wraps it up again, not asking Eric to close the wound in his state. "Fairy blood is a drug to vampires? You were pretty badly tripped out when I found you."

He looks at Eric, serious and a little bit worries. "Eric, when I found you this morning, you mentioned a girl. Do you remember anything about that?"

[onceaviking]

"In a way. Fairies normally stay clear of us, but I've met this one here before. He likes getting close."

Even the suggestive purr is sounding a little weak this evening.

He gets up and starts undressing. He needs a shower.

"Why?"
He doesn't seem inclined to answer.

[runningred]

"Bit of a tease, hey?" Jay jokes warmly, standing up as Eric does.

"Just worried, that's all. You were pretty badly out of it this morning..." he bites his lip, clearly worried for Eric's safety. "If something happened, I'd rather get on top of it before security finds out."

[onceaviking]

Eric throws his t-shirt on the floor, toes off his boots, and peels off his jeans. They're crusty with blood.

"Nothing happened."
Clearly dismissive. And judging from the set of his shoulders, not entirely truthful either.

Because it does not make sense that Sunshine helped him.
And he is now indebted to her. Beholden. He does not like that.
And he is very disinclined to talk about it.

[runningred]

"Alright. As long as it's not going to be an issue." He cocks his head. "Do you want company in the shower?"

[onceaviking]

Eric grunts an affirmative and heads into the shower without looking back.

He turns on the sorry, closes his eyes, and then he asks, "Did you just offer to cover up my tracks?"
He sounds amused. He also sounds more like himself.

It's amazing what a shower can do,

[runningred]

Jay strips off and follows Eric, admiring the shower. Yeah, it's more impressive than his.

"Not cover your tracks, just...you know, get ahead of any issues. You were pretty messed up. No-one could say you were exactly in control of yours actions."

[onceaviking]

Eric snorts and starts washing. The traces of blood turns the water pink as it runs down his legs.

After a little while, he pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs.

"Someone, a girl, who is not at all fond of me, found me outside. She helped me to the door. That worries me. I have no reason to trust her. "

The movement of his hands turn almost aggressive as he scrubs at a particularly stubborn spot.

He was weak. In her hands. That grates him as much as the debt.

[runningred]

"Slow down." Jay growls, grabbing a cloth and starts cleaning Eric's back gently. "You're still a mess. Coming down is never easy."

"She got you in, away from the dawn. That's a good thing." Jay was desperately worried Eric might have fed on her. "Well, I'm glad you got in safe. I would hate to have to tell Pam if something happened to you. She'd killed me, without hesitation."

[onceaviking]

Eric leans against the wall and lets Jay wash his back.
He closes his eyes.

"I don't trust her," he repeats. "And she would. Pam."

She'd been the one he'd been thinking of, when he realized that he might not be able to get away from the sun.

It's nice, standing here. The water is soothing. Being washed.
Relaxing. He never relaxes. He can't. Not at home. He shouldn't here either. But he can't really drag himself up to care.

His body feels odd. Distant. The sounds too.

Maybe he's not quite over the fairy blood yet.

[runningred]

"Yeah, I know. But I'd have to find some way to get word to her." As much as Jay isn't sure he even likes Pam, he'd still feel responsible for letting her know if something happened to Eric.

Jay shifts from washing to massaging and back again as he works his way over Eric's back. Just as Eric massaged his neck when he was hung-over.

[onceaviking]

Eric sighs and relaxes even more into the touch.

It's disconcertingly nice.

"I should see about getting a will drawn up," he mutters. "I keep putting it off." He likely will for some time yet. But he knows he should. He wants to make sure she is taken care of. Pam.

"Pam doesn't like anyone who breathes. You shouldn't feel singled out," he murmurs. He sounds a little hazy again. But relaxed.

[runningred]

"I should too but seeing I'm still on record as being dead it could be kinda tricky." Jay chuckles, finding the knots under Eric's shoulders, easing them loose with steady hands.

He laughs again, warmly as he leans in to press a kiss to Eric's neck. "So I shouldn't take it personally, it's just that I'm human?"

[onceaviking]

"The laws are being changed where I am to make it possible for us to do things like that," Eric murmurs. "And Pam is very equal opportunity. She despises all of you."

He draws in a breath at the kiss.

It makes that part of his skin feel very much there.

It's nice.

[runningred]

"I have some work to be, shifting assets around and into new aliases. Safest way to manage everything I guess." Not that he has anyone to leave his things too.

Jay laughs again and leans in to kiss his skin again, moving his hands lower down Eric's back to get to the knots either side of his spine. "At least she's honest about it, I guess."

[onceaviking]

He shudders a little, his body letting go of the last tension built up from last night .
"She is. She's always been."

As if he didn't have enough on his mind with Compton's sudden interest in human girls. Now he has to worry about Sunshine as well.

He sighs, moving into Jay's touch.

[runningred]

Jay moves slowly into Eric's lower back, still kissing his neck and shoulders. "I guess it helps to have constants in the world."

[onceaviking]

"Yes. I do like change though ."
The ones who don't tend to go crazy after a while.

He tips his his head back, arching his back.
"And fairies."

Even if the ones here might be a little too dangerous. Then again, why shy from danger?

Jay hits a sore spot and he groans, a deep, rumbling sound.

[runningred]

Jay purrs softly and works the spot softly, increasing the pressure as he feels the muscles relax slowly. "Terribly attracted to beautiful and dangerous things." He sucks ever so lightly on the side of Eric's neck. "You're as bad as me."

[onceaviking]

Eric looks back at him over his shoulder.
"I am?"

His eyes are looking a little less red rimmed now and his skin is no longer ice cold.
But his fangs are still down.

"You thought I'd killed someone, didn't you?"

[runningred]

"When it comes to chasing things that are bad for you, yes."

Jay looks Eric in the eye, serious but unflinching. "Eric, I trust your control. I wouldn't have been here this evening if I didn't. You were drugged and very sick when I found you this morning. I was worried something might have happened while your judgement was impaired. I know what that's like."

[onceaviking]

"The bleeds really look worse than they are, Jay," Eric insists. "It's just what happens if we stay awake after sunrise. And I didn't lay a hand on her. Despite the fact that she is someone I would very much like to kill."

Not the absolute truth perhaps, but close enough.

[runningred]

"They looked pretty damn wretched to me."

Jay nods and cups Eric's cheek gently. "I'm glad. I'd hate to say goodbye to you."

He works his way back up the massage the base of Eric's skull. "Out of curiosity, was it anyone I'd know?"