EP, from Asher's Room at the Circus to the Bar

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[OOM: The reason Nathaniel and Asher need a bath in the first place... warning for adult content.]

“If I say I can’t walk to the bath by myself, will you actually believe me?” Nathaniel asks with a grin.

“Not at all,” Asher wraps his arms around Nathaniel’s waist, dragging him towards the edge of the bed. “But just think of the delicious hot water that waits if you walk through that door,” he points out.

Nathaniel moans softly. The idea of a shower does sound amazing. “All right.” He rises from the bed and pulls Asher toward the bathroom door. “It has to be very hot water, though.”

“It will be.” Asher grins, sliding his arms around Nathaniel, pulling him close and kissing him deeply. He backs them slowly towards the door, fumbling for the handle, reluctant to tear his lips away from Nathaniel’s. He nudges Nathaniel’s hip with his, walking them through the door. It’s only when he feels rough wood under his feet rather than cold tile that he opens his eyes, breaks the kiss.

“Ah,” he murmurs, looking around at a rather crowded bar, wondering just how they’re going to get out of this one. The way he and Nathaniel are hugging ensures that nothing too incriminating is showing...but they're rather trapped, now.

[one nekkid wereleopard and vampire couple, up for grabs. Or um...not, as the case may be. ;) Also, all threads millitimed to after Nathaniel's.]

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[nathaniel_kitten]

Nathaniel eyes the bar.

The bar they haven't seen in... how long?

He lets his hair fall around their bodies as his eyes dart around. "I hate your bathroom."

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"You love my bathroom, cher," Asher murmurs. "It is merely the door that we have a problem with. It more often leads to here, than not." Thought not for months, and Asher...well, he had begun to think they would never return to Milliways. He's pleased, of course, just perhaps not under the present circumstances.

They're both lucky in that Asher's hair falls almost to his waist, Nathaniel's far further, and that gives them a little bit of protection. Edging backwards, keeping Nathaniel's front glued to his, Asher grabs two silk robes off the back of his bathroom door; one deep blue, the other a pale grey.

Slightly more decently attired, he looks down at Nathaniel.

"So, mon chat - stay here for a while, or return to my bedroom?"

[nathaniel_kitten]

Eyes sweep over Asher's barely clothed form, and he snorts. The robe barely went beyond Asher's groin.

"I don't mind staying here. It's been a while, hasn't it?"

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Asher wraps the other robe around Nathaniel's body, carefully lifting his hair free, leaning down to kiss him sweetly.

"I wonder who else is still here," he muses, glancing around.

[nathaniel_kitten]

Nathaniel rather likes that sweet kiss. He purrs softly, leaning against Asher.

"I'm sure someone we know is here... Jason... Liz... maybe Teja?"

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"Perhaps all of them," Asher remarks, smiling. "Let us sit by the fire, hmm, and see who appears?"

[nathaniel_kitten]

Nathaniel grins, but hops over to the bar for a moment, whispering to the top, and then returns after a moment with a dark blue quilt and a book.

"If I can't have my bath and blowjob, then you can cuddle me while you read."

It's a fair trade to him.

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Asher is more than happy to indulge. Taking both blanket and book from Nathaniel, he takes his leopard's hand and leads him to the couch nearest the fire, sitting down and draping the blanket over both of them. There, now they're nearly decent.

"Do you wish me to start at the beginning?" He asks, glancing at the cover and realising it's one they've read before.

[chartreuse_eyed]

Micah, sprawled in a chair with a view of the bar, spots Nat and Asher and only smiles a little, a quirk at the side of his mouth.

He puts down the book he had been reading, watching the couple. "Need a little help, gentlemen?" he asks teasingly.

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Having quickly grabbed robes off the back of his bathroom door, Asher and Nathaniel are at least not quite so indecent.

"We are fine, thank you, Micah," Asher replies solemnly, though there's a quirk at the corner of his mouth that suggests he's not quite as solemn as all that.

[nathaniel_kitten]

Nathaniel smiles up at Micha.

"The bathroom wasn't actually the bathroom, it seems."

[ostro_goth]

Teja comes by a while later, takes off his cloak, and wordlessly offers it to Asher.

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Asher looks up from his book, smiling.

"We acquired a blanket from Bar," he replies, gesturing to the blue fuzzy blanket that Nathaniel is nearly buried under, "but thank you." He gestures to the seat opposite him.

"Please, sit, dear Teja. It has been too long."

[ostro_goth]

Teja is amused, and pushes the cloak into Asher's hand.

"I would not have my friends go naked," he says. "It is unfriendly, and would shed a bad light on both you and me."

He sits.

"Indeed, it has been far too long. How are you faring?"

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"I am used to nudity, cher," Asher drawls, though he takes the cloak and drapes it around his shoulder, burrowing into its warmth.

"And very well, thank you." He smiles easier now, and even the way he sits is more relaxed, less falsely calm. The biggest reason for that is snoring gently on the couch beside him. He pets Nathaniel distractedly, running his fingers through his leopard's hair.

"Though I had missed coming here, and all whom I have come to know." He smiles at Teja. "And you? How are you?"

[ostro_goth]

Teja leans back in the chair, stretching out long legs. "I have been murdered in the interim, but am alive again," he says, "but I have seen my Charlie but rarely since then. I think it might have been too much, for a man of his time. It would be well nigh too much for a man of any time, to have his lover murdered in his arms and then see him return with no memory of their love, at first, and later, hell-bent on revenge."

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Asher's hand stills, and he becomes more attentive to the conversation.

"Murdered? By whom? And how is it that you come to be here again?" They certainly have missed excitement while they were away.

[ostro_goth]

"Ramon Salazar," Teja says. "The man who sold those intoxicating poisons to Jason. It has been proven that he paid a trained murderer to kill me. But as I was dead already, I did not stay dead, but returned to this place as if fresh from my last battle on Mount Vesuvius, miserably unhelpful under the circumstances. But Demeter knew how to give me back my memory."

[makesthings]

Sameth's sketching in a chair near the couch where they end up and looks up before blushing as they arrange themselves.

Usually people in Milliways have more clothing on and then he senses Asher, who feels like he might be Dead.

His clothing is of a medieval style and he smells of the forge, Charter magic and sweat as he tries to not look as they adjust against each other.

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Asher is aware of a few gazes on them, and so he doesn't notice at first.

But after a while, when Nathaniel is snoozing in his lap and he has tired of his book, he gazes around the bar, and catches sight of someone very intently not looking at either of them.

"Does our nakedness offend you?" He teases.

[makesthings]

Now Sameth turns even redder, "Um, no, course not."

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That flush makes Asher chuckle softly.

"Just embarrassed, then?"

[makesthings]

"Yes, sort of,"

Also he feels Dead, which makes Sameth more nervous. He doesn't care too much what they're doing, he just feels like he somehow should move.

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Asher kisses the top of Nathaniel's head, keeping his eyes on the man as he curls his arm tighter around his leopard.

"Sort of?" He queries.

[makesthings]

"Um, are you dead?"

There, better question to ask than worry about just how odd he feels.