2nd Floor Common Room, Thursday afternoon

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Oh, this place was just messing with him at the moment. "Come on now, I know there was cheese in here yesterday!" he said, face buried in the fridge, sandwich-in-process on the counter.

He should have been hiding in his room after what had been happening recently, but...he was hungry.


[ETA: slowplay as of 8:15 EST for a bit, going out for a bit of Sunday fun!Back!]
[Also: GO WINGS!]

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[glacial_queen]

"Don't stop," she said breathily, moving backwards to catch up with his hand. "Right there."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Right here?" he asked, moving his hand around in that spot. Not dirty. "Something happen?"

[glacial_queen]

"It feels really nice," she said, sighing again. "I think I've been tense since I arrived."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"That's a long time to hold in tension," he said. "Do you...want a backrub?"

[glacial_queen]

"That would be" and incredibly bad idea "lovely," Karla said greatfully. Fortunately, her Widow's Weeds didn't have a whole lot of back to them, so she wouldn't have to move fabric out of the way. That might have given her time to think, and realize what a poor plan this was.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Okay," he said, moving to the rear of her, freeing up both of his hands to work on her. "Shoulders? Upper back? Lower back?"

There was a lot of back here and not a lot covering it. Jack was not complaining.

[glacial_queen]

"Start from where you were and just keep working," she said. "On the off-chance you hit somewhere that I'm not tense, I'll let you know."

The odds were slim about that. Especially after this past week.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Can do," he said, putting some elbow grease into it. He was planning on covering that whole back-al area, just to make sure she was completely relaxed.

And maybe return the favor.

[glacial_queen]

Karla gave a low moan. "Mother Night, that feels wonderful," she said, her voice low and husky.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Glad to be of service," he said with a grin. Jack just loves hands-on work.

[glacial_queen]

"Serving and protecting are what males are good at," Karla said. "I will feed you honey-pears by the bushel if you keep doing that." Her eyes fluttered closed.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I think we can come to an arrangement," he said, moving to a slightly different place. Time to put those magic fingers to work.

"You know, this might be better if you were sitting or laying down," he said. "Or leaning against the wall? Wouldn't want to knock you over."

Jack. So helpful. And completely innocent.

[laskdflajflakj. Need to get ready for work soon. More SP?]

[glacial_queen]

"Whereever and however you want me," Karla said, not paying attention to anything--certainly not how that sounded--other than his hands.


[Hey, our f-list is FILLED with folks skipping work...Oh, all right.]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Well, this counter here is a good height," he said, moving her over a bit. "If you just lay down on it? Or bend over it?"

There was a war in Jack's head, and they both wanted the same thing: a job well done. The massage, or... They just disagreed on what to do and how to phrase it.

[IF I COULD I WOULD. Stupid cutbacks and no vacations and lack of FH access on the phone. .....I'm available on e-mail if you wish to SP this and ping in on my behalf? termin8junir at yahoo.com, please to be putting the thread in the subject line so I don't mix up kitchen massage with pool? :D I've done it before.]

[glacial_queen]

Karla, being a lady at least sometimes, did not just throw herself up on the counter. Instead, she airwalked up until she was level, then stretched out with a happy sigh of happy happiness. "Have at," she murmured.



[I so know how that goes with work and all. Besides, eating and staying solvent are both pretty important. And I will.]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Can do," he said softly, starting at the neck and shoulders and intending on working his way down. How far? Depends on where the tension lead.


[Sorry this didn't go as planned]

[glacial_queen]

It was the muscles around her shoulder blades that ached the most. She made a happy little noise as he worked those muscles, totally relaxed and becoming even moreso.

Her eyes fluttered closed, and she didn't have the will to keep them open.

[Sorry about that! Trapped in RL crazy.]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was very good with his hands, and smiled when he heard the noises, focussing on her neck, her kissable neck...

[phone ping!]

[glacial_queen]

...And that would be Karla, falling completely asleep.

Hey! It's a compliment!

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Well...crap.


Jack decided to see if Karla was ticklish.


[stuck in traffic ping.]

[glacial_queen]

Karla reacted to his attempt at tickling differently than Jack might have expected. Waking up suddenly, a male's hand upon her, caused Karla to act before her brain could finish waking up. Calling in her hunting knife, she flung heself backwards, running up the air until she was wedged in a corner, back pressed against the ceiling. Her shields flashed a brilliant blue as they snapped up around her.

Only then did she pause to take stock of the situation. "...Jack?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

His jaw dropped. "Whoa. That's...really ticklish."


His face was caught somewhere between pants-crappingly scared and side-splittingly hilarious.

[glacial_queen]

"Jack! You idiot!" she yelled, vanishing the knife. "I could have killed you!" She seemed angry, but also frightened. "What were you thinking, playing games with your life like that?" She also hadn't started coming back down.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"You fell asleep on me! I was poking you make you wake up!" Not dirty poking, either. Really.

Beat.

"...where'd you get the knife?" Because duh, witch wasn't reason enough.

[glacial_queen]

"Witch! Duh!" she snapped. She called it in and vanished it a few more times for good effect. "I'm a little jumpy around males," she informed him. Also fairly obvious, but clearly she couldn't take chances. "If I am sleeping, the first thing I realize is that there's a strange male touching me. I might go either full offensive or defensive. Lucky for you, it was the latter. And that I only planing to use my knife, not my serpent's tooth." Still, Karla slowly started to descend, walking on air.