Eric had been enjoying his time with the male version of Baba, Jack. He knew he could have just as much fun with her in her female body, but there was something about her ability to change that he liked very much. It gave him ideas. Quite naughty ones, really.
They had gotten into some severe devilry. He didn't think that he'd been into so much debauchery in a good long while. Some, yes, of course, but this much? In the matter of days? No.
He had very much, very much, loved all of her suggestions.
He, himself, was not thinking much of what they'd exchanged. The idea of one or the other dying and somebody winding up unhappy about it. He had accepted shortly after that the words had been said that it was the truth of the matter, and not going away. It was what was. No reason to brood on it. If it changed, he had no doubt that they would have another discussion about it.
Eric didn't mind Jack coming and going as he pleased, Baba knew the rules and how important it was to keep the day place hidden. She knew that should she do anything to disrupt the flow or give things away, he would not care much about his feelings toward her, she would be punished. And Jack had Baba's brain, very clearly. Jack would understand just as well as Baba did.
He did not wake early, but not because he could not. With the blood of the crone in him, he could wake hours before the sun went down. But he enjoyed the sleep that came after their adventures, the warm, deep sleep that desired to last long after his daily rest. And he enjoyed indulging in it.
So it was no wonder that the shower was the thing to wake him, and not the setting of the sun. He stretched in the bed and rolled onto his back, smelling the scent of their playtime all over himself and the sheets. It took much to get him to get out of that bed, but he did love the shower, and the shower was calling.
Eric strode like a big lazy cat from the bedroom to the bathroom. He didn't knock, just went right in. He could see Jack's form through the foggy and textured glass. A form that he had come to like very much. He opened the shower door and stepped in.