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Roof; Saturday Evening

Good deed done for the day (and boy did he hope Merlin loved his new name), Chuck decided to do something he hadn't done for a while and go up to the roof. He shouldn't have been slacking. It was his roof, after all. If he didn't make constant appearances then people would get the idea that it was their roof. And that just wasn't true.

Chuck was lounged back against the edge of the roof and was watching the sun go down. It's be all poetic and stuff if he wasn't lighting up a joint at the same time.

[The roof is open, of course]

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Raven had come up to the roof to meditate and enjoy the sunset and was only mildly surprised to find someone already there. "Hello, Chuck," she said. "Am I disturbing you?"

"Not at all," Chuck said. "If I wanted to be undisturbed I'd be somewhere else."

He had given up on the roof being private long ago. Not that he minded that.

"I often come up here to meditate," Raven said, moving closer to where Chuck was sitting. She sniffed the air and a puzzled look crossed her face. "What is that you are burning?"

"That would be marijuana. It's an herb," he said, as always leaving out the illegal part of it. "Helps you relax."

"I often burn incense and candles to help me meditate," Raven said. "I am not familiar with that herb, however. I am fond of frangipani."

"What's--" No, Chuck, don't even try to pronounce that word. "--that?"

"It is merely a tropical flower," Raven said. "I find the scent pleasing and relaxing."

"Oh." Well you couldn't smoke that, now could you? Chuck offered the joint to Rachel. "You can try some of this, if you want."

It was like the beginning of one of those anti-drug commercials.

Raven shook her head. "Thank you, but I do not smoke," she said. That was one vice she knew to avoid at least.

"Fair enough," Chuck said with an easy shrug. He took a hit of the joint before speaking again. "For the record I don't smoke cigarettes. That's just gross. This is much more natural."

"I am not sure I understand what the difference is," Raven said. Oh, the naïveté.

"Have you been well?" she asked.

Chuck wasn't even going to go into the differences because they were sort of flimsy but OH there were differences.

"I can't complain," he said, taking another hit of the joint. "Glad it's been quieter around here. Last week sucked."

"Yes, it did," Raven agreed quietly. "Were you in the other Fandom? I did not see you there."

"Well I didn't actually go over there personally but there was a me over there, yeah," he said with a nod. "Apparently things did not go well for me over there. At least I didn't have to experience it first hand."

"Sorry you had to go through it."

Raven nodded. "It was...unpleasant." Talking to Karla and Anakin -- and even Max -- had helped her, but it would take some time for the scars to fade. "I am glad to hear that you were not transported there and harmed, though I do understand hearing about it is not easy, either."

Chuck shrugged. "I'm not letting it affect me too much."

Liar.

"If there's anything I can do to help you feel better, let me know," he said. And because Chuck knew she was an empath, he did his best to give himself the warm fuzzies, hoping she'd feel it too. That's how that worked, right?

Something like that.

Raven almost smiled. "Thank you," she said. "I am trying not to dwell on it. It is better to think of more pleasant things than linger in memories."

"And, you know, you could always create new, better memories," Chuck said. Smoooooth.

"That is what I truly hope to do here," Raven said. "It is a wondrous place at times."

"It is, isn't it?" Chuck said, putting the joint out. He stood up and moved closer to Rachel. "The good definitely outweighs the bad."

"Then we are assuredly due for something very very good," Raven said, managing a small smile this time. "And I cannot wait to see it."

"That we are," Chuck agreed with a smirk. "You know, it's possible to make your own good time. You don't have to sit around and wait for it."

"What do you mean?" Raven said, not quite understanding, because recognizing moves was so not in her repertoire. "Like going to Caritas, something like that?"

"Well, sure, Cartias counts," Chuck said, moving so that he was almost in her personal space. "But I was referring to other activities."

Hey, Chuck figured he was heading towards making Rachel feel better the best way he knew how.

"...such as?" Raven asked, taking half a step back. It was somewhat unnerving to have Chuck so close, but not unpleasant. He was her friend, not a stranger or a vampire as Max had been. And the feelings she was picking up from him were nice as well.

Well he was feeling pretty nice. And nice was quickly turning into something dirtier the more he thought about what he wanted to do.

"When I've been having a rough time I've always found being, ah, intimate with another person made things a lot better," Chuck told her, reaching out to brush his fingers against her wrist. "I don't think anything can beat it, really."

The touch of his fingers sent a small shudder through her, but her eyes widened. "I-I am not allowed to do things like that," she said. "I was starting to learn to express my emotions but Professor Skywalker thinks it is better if I do not do that at this time because of the other Fandom and what happened there." Babbling empath was babbling.

"What happened in the other Fandom isn't going to happen here," Chuck said for what felt like the hundredth time. "Besides, this is an excellent way to express emotions. It's only good feelings. And, trust me, you need that right now."

Once again, neither training from Azar or Anakin had prepared her for what to do when a cute boy was putting the moves on her. On the other hand, other-Max's manipulations of her powers had ignited certain wants inside her -- not that she knew what to do about them.

"I do wish to experience good feelings," she said, "but I cannot risk losing control. And I have never...." She trailed off on that thought and just blushed instead.

Chuck smiled at her. That was nothing he couldn't already guess. He could spot a virgin from miles away. "Ah. That is why you have to make sure you're with someone you trust and knows what they're doing."

He want to circle his fingers around Rachel's wrist lightly. "Someone who would take care of you."

It had been a while since he's talked to someone like this and it was almost scary how quickly he fell back into it.

"I trust you," Raven said softly, because so far Chuck had been nothing but nice to her and she didn't listen to the radio enough to know of any of his questionable activities. "But I do not wish to hurt you. My gifts are unstable."

She wasn't exactly pulling away, though, because she liked what she was feeling from Chuck.

"While it's very sweet of you to care about my well being, I don't think that's going to happen," Chuck said. "Besides, I'd be willing to risk it in order to make you feel better."

He really did want to make her feel better. Or, at least, he did when he started this. Now it was more about beating a challenge.

Somewhere a few floors down Sam Winchester was bitchfacing disapprovingly and he didn't know why.

There might also be a handful of people having a very bad feeling about something and not knowing why, either.

The air was cool on the roof but Raven was feeling very very warm now. "I know I should not," she said, "but I cannot deny that part of me wants to know what those feelings are truly like, and not just sense them from others."

Chuck's smile got a little wider when he could tell she was giving in to him. Seeing the finish line always felt good. "There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. You should feel them for yourself. It's not fair for you to only experience it secondhand."

The craving for sensation was winning out. "Nothing wrong with it," she murmured. "But I do not know what to do. You can...show me?"

"I can show you what to do and then some," Chuck promised. He went to lift up Raven's hand and place a soft kiss against her palm.

Raven let out a soft cry as the effects of that kiss shot up her arm and through her body. No one had ever touched her like that before. "Yes," she sighed.

Chuck didn't realize he was going to get such an enthusiastic reaction. If she thought that was good then she had no idea what she was in for. "Why don't we take this somewhere a little more private?"

He hadn't seen anything yet. But then again, neither had she. Quite literally.

Raven nodded. "Where?" she said.

"Wherever you'll be most comfortable. Your room, maybe?" It was true that Chuck did not have a roommate but that whole sneaking away thing after was so much easier when, you know, it wasn't your own room.

"Diana may be there," Raven said. "And her cat." It made perfect sense to her, because a talking cat watching would be weird. Worse, it could provide commentary.

She lifted one hand and hesitantly reached out to touch Chuck's shoulder, then drew it down his arm. "You do not have a roommate, do you?" she said shyly.

Right. Cats were weird. Chuck didn't even like Dean's cat and it didn't talk. That plus the touching was enough to make Chuck change his mind quickly. "You know, I don't. Isn't that lucky for us?"

And surely a cat would never jump on on the bed while two people were engaged in acts of desperate passion.

"Yes," she said breathlessly. "Very lucky."

"Let's go then," Chuck said, tugging her wrist lightly in order to lead her off the roof.

If he was a better person he would have already called this a win for himself and would have stopped this in order to avoid causing this girl some emotional damage. But he wasn't a good person, no matter how hard he was trying to turn over a new leaf.

Looks like he'd have something to confess in church after all.

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