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[outerfringe]

Stoooop, come on.

[His shoulders tremble with laughter as he thumps his head back against the tree trunk.]

Way more into a silver fox, anyway.

[hardlydead]

[ he has absolutely zero intention of stopping, dumb grin getting bigger by the second. ]

Yeah? Scotch on the landing with Terrence after his grandkids have left.

[outerfringe]

Is Terrence an old man name? Never thought about that.

[He's watching David with partially lidded eyes, smiling just slightly.]

But yeah, I can think of worse ways to pass the time.

[hardlydead]

[ he gives the name thing some thought and turns his head to look at jeff with a shrug. he has no idea what's an old man name honestly, most names have been getting recycled for like 200 years. ]

Where's this rank? The company's good, but we don't have scotch so could go either way.

[outerfringe]

Oh, top five, easily. The hot guy's never asked me to hang out behind the bleachers with him before.

[hardlydead]

[ that's nowhere near the kind of reply he expected, and david's laugh comes out suddenly, surprising him. ]

[ give him a sec, he'll have words again soon. ]

[outerfringe]

[He can't help the unbidden surge of social anxiety here, the worry he's read something extremely wrong, but none of that makes it to his face.]

And he thinks I'm funny, too.

[PLEASE think he's funny]

[hardlydead]

Very funny.

[ he turns his head so he can look at jeff and then leans over to kiss him after another moment's thought. ]

[outerfringe]

[There are things he wants to ask. David had only referenced ex-girlfriends, and Jeff finds himself alight with curiosity - but it's nosiness for the sake of nosiness, nothing he needs to know.

He reaches up to cradle David's cheek through the kiss. Maybe the sweetest guy with self-professed anger issues that Jeff has ever known.]

Whatever you say, man.

[hardlydead]

Never said my sense of humour was good.

[ he doesn't move away from the kiss to say it, grinning as he does. ]

[outerfringe]

[Jeff grins slightly into the kiss in turn, smoothing his hand from David's cheek down to the side of his neck.]

I don't buy it. The going back to fights when [haha] we get home.

[hardlydead]

[ that gives him a little pause and he pulls back just enough to look at jeff with a frown, even as he tilts his head a little into that touch. ]

Why not?

[outerfringe]

[An apologetic flex of the fingers, as if to indicate he's just teasing here.]

I dunno. Feel like I just haven't met the guy you're describing yet.

[hardlydead]

Not like there's much of an outlet here, is there? [ s i g h ] Who the fuck am I gonna fight? Felix?

[ not... that he's never thought about it. mostly because his football opinions are wrong. ]

[outerfringe]

[Jeff simply has never imagined that someone with anger issues might be so willing to cuddle.]

I'm not saying anything. Cheryl could take me down.

[hardlydead]

[ jeff clearly hasn't played with enough cats. ]

She probably fights dirty too.

[outerfringe]

[Sure hasn't. And the scariest looking mutts have always been angels.]

Something to work on after I get the situps under control.

[hardlydead]

Fighting dirty?

[ david smirks. ]

Kick 'em in the balls and throw dirt in their eyes, that's most of it.

[outerfringe]

Please never fight me.

[Somehow both dry and plaintive.]

[hardlydead]

[ he laughs and leans back in to give jeff a quick kiss, just a fond little peck. ]

I'll think about it.

[outerfringe]

[He's leaning in to chase that little peck with another of his own, privately giddy that this is just something he's simply allowed to do now. Look, you take what you can get here.]

Doesn't inspire confidence.

[hardlydead]

[ david brings his hand up to the side of jeff's neck, very much on the same page as jeff with being giddy over this, all the quick kisses and little touches. part of him quick to insist it's new and unexpected and that's all it is, but truthfully he's craved this kind of intimacy that he's latched on to it immediately, and while he's never disliked jeff, david certainly wouldn't have anticipated finding this kind of connection with someone as quiet and awkward as he could be. ]

[ thank god for shitty booze in the horrible nightmare dimension ]

You've got good odds.

[outerfringe]

[Speaking of awkward though.]

God, the next trial with you is gonna be extra shit, huh.

[It will literally be nothing but a new layer of torture if they actually catch feelings.]

[hardlydead]

Don't do that.

[ he aggressively doesn't want to think about that, he doesn't know how he's supposed to handle jeff's screams or seeing his blood on his hands. he'll cross that bridge when they get to it. ]

[outerfringe]

Yeah. Sorry. Guess I can only think about the one thing to talk about.

[But he shifts then, moving to tug David up snugly against him.]