WHO: Jade & Prometheus WHEN: Sunday morning WHERE: Monday morning WHAT: Prometheus gets to take care of his little mortals! WARNINGS: language, alcohol abuse
"You've got to stop showing up like this, Jade."
Jade sat at the kitchen table of a 'friend' and nursed her hangover. She'd been awake for all of ten minutes and already she was dealing with a lecture she didn't want as the well-dressed and ready to go to work Viviane glared at her from beneath pale bangs.
"You know, it used to be fine, it used to be just a joke, but I'm so sick of you showing up here to come pass out on my couch at 3am and bitch about my friends or puke in my sink or break my-"
"I told you, I don't even remember-"
"I know you don't! You never remember any of it, which is really convenient for you and really effing annoying for me. You're a adult, Jade! My teenage brother is less of a strain on me!"
Jade stood up even though it made her head swim. She squinted at that, but that only made the fresh bruise and cut on her cheek sting more. (She hadn't seen them in the mirror yet, but from Vivane's reaction it probably wasn't pretty.) "I don't have to listen to this," Jade told her, mostly not raising her voice because that would hurt. She collected her bag from under the couch and left, bitching silently about how people didn't look out for their friends anymore. But that was fine, because Jade had better friends than Viviane. She had gods who loved and adored her, so fuck everyone else.
She caught the train to the studio and only then realised she didn't have the key. Going home seemed like such a distance and so she went to Prometheus' door and then, because it was still so early, she sat down on his doorstep and smoked a cigarette, her makeup from the night before a mess and her mini-dress riding up her thighs.
Then she leaned back against the brick wall there, sheltered from the street by the building, and dozed.
Jade was lucky he smoked outside now, and had trash he had to put outside or he'd never have known she was outside. He tended to get lost in his work.
He frowned when he found her, at her dress and the bruise but bit back the sigh wanting to escape. Jade was her own person, and in his long experience making people face their problems never ended well. Gentle nudges until she was ready to face whatever she was running from.
He set the trash bag aside before walking to her and crouching down beside her, brushing his hand down her cheek. "Jade, it's me." He didn't want her to freak out. "I'm going to be picking you up now and take you upstairs." Gently he went to do as told. For as skinny as he looked, he had the advantage of having immortal strength behind him. "Gods love, why do you wear heels like that?"
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 04:07 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Jade smiled at him, yawning as he lifted her up and snuggling up against him a bit because he was nice and warm, unlike her dress. "Carryin' me over the threshold," she said in her best old-timey Southern Belle voice. "Why Mr Titan, we're not even wed yet. The shoes," she then added in her own voice, "are because they make me look like a goddess."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 04:10 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He laughed as he carried her inside, easily moving up the stairs into his loft. "I'm a scoundrel like that." Smirking he set her on his bed and went to take the shoes off. "That they do, but they must be uncomfortable." Smiling he set the heels on the side of the bed. "Shower or sleep?"
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 04:14 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Such a scoundrel," Jade said as she fell back to lie on the bed, stretching her arms above her head and through her hair as she arched her tired body. "Uncomfortable shoes are how the fashion industry keeps women from running away from it."
She looked up at him with another yawn. "Both," she said with a small smile and then, "neither," and then, with a cheesy smile and a lean towards him, "stroke my head."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 04:22 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He shook his head with a laugh, but did as she asked. "Yes dear." He stroked her hair with one hand and went to undo her dress with the other. "No funny ideas now. You should get out of this. Do you want anything to wear?" He was sure he had something laying around that may be a bit comfortable then the dress. "I'll wait for you to be a bit more conscious before I draw you a bath then."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 04:27 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "The number of times a man has told me it was all innocent at the same time as unzipping my dress," Jade laughed, shifting herself slightly to help herself out of it. "Fuck clothes. Gimme your bed," she kicked the bedding out of the way so that she could snuggle down into it. "Wake me later," Jade told him, reaching out a hand to tap his arm. "When I feel less like death."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 04:30 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He smiled to her, "I'd prefer you not fall asleep on me. Kind of kills the mood." He shook his head but arranged the covers around her so she was comfortable. "I will," even though he'd let her wake on her own.
Rising he let her fall asleep, setting a mug of coffee beside her (With a note that said he was in his studio) and one of his clean shirts for her to wear when she woke.
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 04:37 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Jade was soon asleep and when she woke again it was midday and she felt a little more like a human being again. After reading the note she showered - frowning at the purpling bruise and thin cut staring back at her - and then pulled her wet hair up into a ponytail and put on Prometheus' shirt.
She padded barefoot downstairs and announced, "The sleeper awakes!" She wandered over. "The sleeper can't really see anything unless she's thiiiis close," she said as she leaned in a few inches from him, "but she's awake. I might have to break into my own studio to find my spare glasses."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 04:44 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He smiled at her when she awoke, "as long as the sleeper is not the Kwisatz Haderach, I'm surprisingly alright with this." He leaned back from his word and kissed her cheek, "unfortunately I am not the Titan of Breaking And Entering, but I'll help where I can. Rest well enough?"
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 04:48 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Jade nodded with an "mmm" and pulled a sit to sit down across from him. "Feeling much better now. Thanks for lending your bed."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 04:53 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "It's what it's there for," he had questions, but he had, more importantly, time. She'd let him in one of these days. "You're going to have to find something to wear though. You have anything spare in your studio?"
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 04:58 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Jade shook her head and fought down a yawn. "Only overalls. I can put my dress back on to go home. I'll look a little overdressed," she smiled, "but it's a nice enough day out for it. Besides," Jade told him, pulling on the shirt pointedly. "I've been rocking the 'stolen boyfriend's t-shirt' look since I was a teenager. I look great." She grinned at him.
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 05:16 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Alright," he laughed and went back to the piece he'd started when she'd been sleeping. "You do look great, but I'm upgraded to boyfriend now? I feel special." He knew she as hardly going to stop seeing others, again he had patience, but he rather liked her referring to him like that.
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 05:22 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "A boyfriend," Jade suggested with a smirk, "would probably have to stop fucking my friends." Maybe from someone else that might have sounded displeased, but all Jade sounded was amused. Watching Aidan dance around Prometheus was adorable and Jade would encourage that forever. Besides, sometimes it meant getting to have sex with two of her favourite people at the same time.
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 05:30 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He shrugged, "your friend shouldn't be so damned sexy then. So no." He was a little disappointed, but he was Greek. He rolled with a lot of things. "Besides he likes it," he smirked at her, "still owe you for that one."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 05:34 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Oh, does he ever like it!" Jade laughed. "You should see the boy blush when I mention your name. It's great fun."
Jade leaned in closer to him - within the distance where she could even see him clearly. "I'm sure you'll think of some way to repay me," she purred, mostly forgetting that she wasn't currently looking her sexiest.
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 05:36 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He grinned and set his hand on her leg, "I'm sure I will as well." Smiling he kissed her, "plenty and often. And does he really now?" He was curious. He didn't know Aidan as well as he knew Jade. Then he frowned, "he's taken all this well then? He seems comfortable around me, but he could be hiding it."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 05:42 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "He's taking it all really well," Jade nodded, not even trying to hide how impressed she was with her friend. "I knew this guy once who found out about the whole deal and tried to throw himself off a bridge. As far as I know he's still locked up in the nuthouse somewhere. Aidan's pretty amazing," She smiled then and circled her finger on Prometheus' thigh. "You liiiiiike hiiim," she sing-songed in his ear.
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 05:47 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He was glad Aidan was taking it better then this friend she'd had, not that he could blame the poor mortal. It was all a bit insane. "Good, I'm glad. I just want him to be alright." He chuckled and kissed her shoulder, "I thought that was obvious with how I keep trying to get his pants off. Yes dear, I like him. Quite a lot. I admire his want to do good for people."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 06:56 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Aidan already thought you were amazing and godly before he found out you could make fire out of thin air," Jade smiled at him, tilting her head as he kissed her. "Which I'm still thinking needs to become part of our bedroom repertoire somehow because it's hot. Pun," she smirked at him, "not intended."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 06:59 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He chuckled to the comment and drew back, "I don't see how fire is appealing at all. You are strange." But he liked strange so that was alright. "Yes well, occasionally I do like to get idolized. They build ego into us old Greeks you know."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 07:09 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "I like your ego," she said. "And the fire-thing is all the whole superhero roleplay," Jade just told him easily, unembarrassed about her likes. "I find the displays of godly power incredibly sexy." She grinned. "As long as I don't get burned up I'm happy. I'm not a fan of pain."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 07:13 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He gave her a long look, then a smile. "I'm not wearing a cape. Not for any amount of sex. And it's the only thing I can do anymore, besides come up with the beginnings of plans. And tell you exactly what you should be offering to what God. Not very useful skills to have. And I'll see if I can get it to not burn. Although it is fire."
"And I'll let you know that for a Greek, I have a surprisingly little ego."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 07:22 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "I've slept with more than my fair share of Greek immortals," Jade smiled. "I know about the ego on you people." It wasn't as though the other pantheons were all that low on ego either. That was the price to be paid for seducing gods.
"And anyway, you've seen my arms," she reminded him, holding them both up to show him the burn scars of a decade. Working with molten glass and kilns had their risks, especially when one tended towards being incautious. "It's not as though I don't spend a lot of time already getting burned. I think, secretly, that's why you like me. Because I'm all firey and marked."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 07:25 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He shook his head with a smile, "still not as bad as some. I'm the picture of being humble." Even after all those years on that rock, it hadn't been robbed from him. A lot of other things had, but not that.
"You do have that bit of fire in you. So does Aidan. I will admit it is why I like you. There's more reasons." He shrugged, "And I may have seen them, doesn't mean I want to add to them. I have this habit of not wanting to hurt humans. It's very bad for me. Gets me in all sorts of trouble."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 07:32 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "You're like a saint," she purred, leaning in with a slow teasing smile. "I am glad you don't like the human hurting. I've never had a fun time with those types. I got stalked for a few months by some African monster guy and it was lame. I appreciate getting to fuck the creator of mankind instead." Again her fingers circled on his thigh.
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 07:41 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He laughed, "hardly. I don't think I qualify for that club." He raised an eyebrow to her comment but let her go, focusing on her last words and actions. "Jade, are you seducing me?" He smirked at her, setting one arm around her waist. "Again?"
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 07:56 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Maybe," Jade said with a smile. "But maybe some time when I'm not quite so hungover." She was pretty sure sex was only going to make her throw up right now. But she kissed him, slow and tender, before pulling back to sit properly again.
She scratched her cheek beneath the cut and was reminded of it. "You're being very gentlemanly in not asking what I was doing last night," she told him.
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 08:00 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He chuckled and drew back from her after the kiss. "I'll keep you to that." He glanced to her before giving a shrug. "I am worried, but it's not my business. You'll tell me if you want me to know." He wasn't the type to poke into her private life. Not unless he was invited.
"And I like being a gentleman. It's a lost art."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 08:04 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Jade respected him for that, for showing that sort of respect to her. So she smiled at him warmly. "A pornographic gentleman," Jade said with admiration. Then she shrugged, looking at his art. "It wasn't someone I slept with, I don't think. I'd never let a lover hit me again, immortal or not. But honestly... I don't actually remember what happened last night. That sounds kind of bad, doesn't it?"
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 08:07 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Maybe. Possibly." He lowered his hand from the piece. "I'm not you, Jade. I can't judge you. I live my life by my standards, you by yours. Holding you to my standards is illogical, and no Vulcan jokes, and having you aim for a bar you will never reach. Because you aren't me. Your life is your own." Then he grinned, "and excuse you, I'm a gentleman who likes fucking art. There's a difference."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 08:18 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Jade matched his grin, happy to be around someone who didn't care what she did with her life. It was a nice sense of freedom knowing that he'd never judge the things she chose to do. "Fucking art, huh?" she teased. "Does that mean I should wash my hands after touching anything in here?"
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 08:21 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He rolled his eyes, "you're very funny. No. Mortals are art. I'm very good with appreciating whatever masterpiece comes to me." He shrugged, "it is a fascination of mine."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-05 08:24 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Call a girl a masterpiece enough times," Jade warned playfully as she poked him with her toe, "and she might fall madly in love with you." Who couldn't be flattered by 'masterpiece'?
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-05 11:15 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "You have uncovered my nefarious plan," he smirked at her, "I am caught. Be gentle." He winked to her and shrugged. "And you are, though."
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-06 12:06 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "See, but now I know you say that to all the ladies," Jade told him with a all-knowing and devious smile. "You'll have to think of a new line to use on me, or I might start withholding sex."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-06 12:14 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "You like having sex with me, so don't threaten what you'd miss." He grinned to her, "and fine, fine. New line. How about you're my new rule? How I measure others?" He laughed, "or 'I made you a statue woman, be happy'?"
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[info]heliolatrous 2011-09-06 05:57 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "You make statues because you can't stop!" Jade laughed, shaking her head. "If it hadn't been for me it would have been for someone else! But," she added, "the other ones good. I will accept (humbly, of course) being your measure of womanhood."
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[info]firestealer 2011-09-06 06:06 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Maybe," he smirked to her and shook his head, "never happy." The teasing was nice though. It was nice to know she was alright and not too frazzled.