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[runningred]

{ooc: set after Jay and Eric take a run in the woods. Warnings for sex, blood, and them just generally doing stupid things for fun.}

Jay comes bouncing up from the garage, hair still wet from the shower. He looks energised and far too enthusiastic for the late hour.

He's not actually on bar duty but he is behind the bar playing with various liquids.

Could be a cocktail, could be a chemistry experiment. Feel free to ask but be warned, some concoctions may be flammable.

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[jonathanparagon]

Jonathan leans over the bar, picking up the wet towel Bar provides to wipe what looks like ash off his face.

"What're you up to?"

[runningred]

"Testing a theory." Jay grins, lifting a lighter. "Want a drink? You look like you could use one."

Not this one, perhaps. Seeing it's now burning with an impressive green flame.

[jonathanparagon]

He watches the flame, impressed.

"Yeah, I really could. And a new work desk... what theory?"

[runningred]

"There are some benches spare down in the garage if you need one." He watches too, timing how long it takes to burn out. "Playing with fuel ideas."

[jonathanparagon]

"I usually go for cheap ones because something happens to them every few months, but maybe if they were sturdier, it wouldn't. Alcohol fuels?"

[runningred]

Jay shrugs. He believes in spending money on good tools but each to their own.

"I'm on holiday in Cambodia. Thought I might be able to rig up a still to help the locals run their bikes without having to pay a fortune for fuel."

[jonathanparagon]

Tools, yes. Work surfaces that get incinerated or smashed and are just work surfaces, not so much.

"So you'd want it to still work more or less like gas, and not rocket fuel?"

[runningred]

"You'd think so." Jay grins and drinks the shot. After all, the alcohol is burnt away. Mostly. "But this is more fun. What are you drinking? And do you mind if I ask what exploded?"

[jonathanparagon]

"Dealer's choice." He grins ruefully. "And - experimental magic. I've got this spell where a lighter flame turns into a tracker, and I want to get it to do more than one stream. It didn't quite go to plan and I kind of immolated my desk."

[runningred]

He shrugs and pours them both scotch and dry. More scotch than dry.

"You know I can build you a tracker that won't ignite things? No immolating magic required."

[jonathanparagon]

"Ah, but when it finds its target, the fire is half the point. Tracker isn't the best word, more like... a smart missile." He takes a sip of the scotch. "Vampires usually travel in packs in my world and if I'm on my own, anything to thin out their numbers."

[runningred]

"Ah, I see. That's... more complicated." And less legal. Not that has ever bothered Jay. "Mmm." He drums his fingers, clearly thinking.

[jonathanparagon]

In Jonathan's eyes, killing unsouled vampires isn't murder. It's putting them to rest.

"Technology could only really do that with little flamethrowers, I think, and I'm not sure how it could guide flames."

[runningred]

"Oh, I can do you incendiary grenade. I can even do timed fire charges but the issue there in the delivery system."

[jonathanparagon]

"Incendiary grenade would definitely be useful", he says with interest. "That might even get more than one if they're standing close together."

Though he'd have to hold off using it if there was a human victim too nearby.

[runningred]

"If you don't need too big a blast radius, I can make them Frisbee shaped. Make it easier to keep you distance from your target."

His forebrain seems to catch up with his engineer's itch and he frowns. "You're not from the same world as Eric and Pam, are you?"

[jonathanparagon]

"Eric Northman, from Bon Temps?" He shakes his head. "No. I'm from the Slayer world."

[runningred]

"Oh good. Conflict of interest, you see. I kinda like them."

[jonathanparagon]

Jonathan nods.

"Their world seems to run a lot different to mine in terms of vampire-human relations."

[is_the_motion]

"What is that?" Bonnie asks, nursing a black coffee.

[runningred]

"Rocket fuel." Jay grins and ignites the shot glass. It burns a lovely shade of purple.

[runningred]

"Yours are more kill or be killed than business people."

[jonathanparagon]

"Exactly. There's a few who go into business, but they still kill people whenever they feel like it."

[runningred]

"So that's what you're working on the flame tracker for?" He nods toward a mote of ash on Jonathan's cheek.

[jonathanparagon]

"For vampires in general, yeah", he says with a nod. "I can take on one at a time, but if there's more than one, I need all the advantages I can get."