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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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[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?"

[onceaviking]

"They're painful and unpleasant, that is true," Eric agrees. "And they can get worse if we stay awake.."

He closes his eyes again and holds still, enjoying the touch. More than he ought to.

Fucking fairy.

"I don't know who you know, Jay," he replies. "A little bitch who tends to enjoy telling me how much she'd like to see me dead. Because I am disgusting and wrong and what have you."

He cranes his neck.

"Calls herself Sunshine." Sounding distinctly sarcastic.

[runningred]

"Good thing I found you and got you to bed then." Jay teases, kissing some more as his hands still move. Tactile creature that he is.

Jay can't help but chuckle, resting his cheek against Eric's shoulder. "Rae. Why am I not shocked you two can't stand each other. At least I don't have to worry about you having hurt her. If it came down to it between the two of you, I honestly wouldn't know who to put money on. Lets make sure it doesn't come to that."

[onceaviking]

Eric stiffens.

His immediate thought is to remove Jay from his room by force and make sure he never enters again.

It takes a conscious effort to keep himself from following through. Paranoid vampires live the longest. And he generally doesn't make a habit of trusting friends of his enemies.
But it's Jay. He hasn't had reason to distrust him yet.

He forces himself to relax. And when he speaks, his voice is almost casual, " I am guessing you haven't told her that you associate with vampires?"

[runningred]

Jay drops his hands, stepping back as he feels Eric tense up. "No, I haven't. And have no reason to. It's none of her business who I associate with. She's a friend and I like her but the issues of her world are hers. Just as my choices are mine." He's very firm on that.

[onceaviking]

Eric turns and looks at him.

Then he turns the water off. "Wise choice," he says."You'd never hear the end of it."

He looks at Jay, head tilted a little.
"Do you ...?" One eyebrow lifted.