Fourth Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

[demonbelthazor]

Bored, Bel wandered down to the common room of his former residence, the fourth floor. He ordered a pizza, and after it arrived, sprawled on the couch and started flipping through the channels. There had to be something worth watching on. Dammit, Vanessa Saturn was a repeat due to the Olympics. Maybe CFD: Detroit would have some sort of cool gruesome murder.

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Really? How do people in the Underworld mate? How do you explain your background to other people who like only want you to date one girl at a time?" Blair looked down. "Well, I was taking notes on the tv show, but now I'm taking notes on this!"

[demonbelthazor]

Bel sat up. "The strong take the weak," he said. "If, say, you wanted Nadia, you would just take her. Either you get what you want or you get your ass kicked. Or killed, depending on who you were messing with. Then if you liked her, you'd keep her, and kill anybody who tried to touch her." He shrugged. "Doesn't really work that way here. I had to ask for advice around Valentine's Day on what to do for Phoebe."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair started scribbling notes as Bel talked. Then his mouth dropped open and his pen slipped off the paper onto his jeans. He jerked and started rubbing at the ink stain. "Yeah, uh, you're right. Doesn't work that way at all."

He blushed. "Besides, all the girls I was dating could probably kick my ass. Well, I don't know about Jaye...but she's mean enough to try."

[demonbelthazor]

Bel grinned. "Who knows, they could try to claim you instead."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair shrunk down in his chair and looked around nervously. "Do you really think they'd try? Because...whoa..."

"Did your girlfriend claim you?"

[demonbelthazor]

"No!" Bel said quickly. "No. She's not like that."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"So you claimed her?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Sorta," Bel said. "I mean, just doing that would get me in trouble. Besides, it was my human side that wanted her."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"So your human side is the side that wanted her, but your demon side claimed her? How does that work exactly?" Blair scribbled furiously in his notebook. "Does your demon side ever fight to have more of a underworld-caveman-primitive claiming type of relationship with her?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Yes -- I mean no -- I mean...." For some reason, Bel felt like flailing. "Phoebe and my demon side don't talk. It's just not a good idea."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Blair bit the end of his pencil thoughtfully. "Does that mean she doesn't accept that side of you? Isn't that half of who you are? How do you supress your demon side in the relationship? Does it cause an idenity crisis or multiple personality disorder? Do you have to compensate in other ways?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Why are you so full of questions?" Bel said, avoiding them all.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair shrugged, his pencil poised over his notebook. "I just want to understand things. Figure out the 'why' behind people and what they do. I'm just interested."

[demonbelthazor]

"Well, you'd have to ask her what she thinks of my demon side," Bel said. "But she, uh, she brings out the human in me, so she doesn't see it much."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Do you like that about her? That she makes you act human?" Blair leaned forward on the chair. "Would you supress the demon side all the time if you spent all your time with her?"

[demonbelthazor]

"I can't change what I am," Bel said. "But...she makes me forget sometimes."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"But you can change what you do. Loving her is a choice that you're making that's good. You can make other ones too." Blair tapped his pencil nervously, not sure if this was going too far.

[demonbelthazor]

"What I do is part of what I am," Bel said, growing agitated. "Can't exactly ask you to stop breathing, can I? Not a choice you can really make."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Nope. But you can ask me to stop being Jewish and while it will still be part of my background, I can choose to not observe the lifestyle." Blair put his feet on the floor, totally not preparing to make a break for it or anything.

[demonbelthazor]

"Being a demon and being Jewish aren't the same," Bel said.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Asking me to stop breathing and asking you to make good choices aren't the same either."

[demonbelthazor]

"You don't understand." He crossed his arms over his chest and looked away.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair sighed and stood, gathering his backpack. "I'm trying to. I'm not yelling at you. I'm not angry at you. I'm not even judging you. I'm just trying to understand."

"Have a good night, Belthazor."

[demonbelthazor]

"Good night," Bel murmured, then settled on to the couch in a classic brooding position.