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Jae Troy (sunspots) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-03-12 10:56:00

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!1998: 03, !complete, jae troy, teagan moran

Who: Teagan Moran & Jae Troy
Where: 11th March, 1998
Where: Their Flat!
What: Troy offered Teagan a backrub and he's going to keep his word, even if it makes him uncomfortable.
Rating: PG-13

Ten hour workdays were not uncommon in Troy's life. They were the norm rather than the exception because of the recent turnover at Gringotts. So by the time he got home that night, it was late and he had almost forgotten about the promise he had made Teagan earlier that day.

That is, until he looked over and saw his part of dinner on the dinner table. Which was nice, because he really was sick of eating takeout all the time, until he was reminded that he offered Teagan a backrub. And then his nervousness set in.

Look, he was almost certain he was gay. Despite all the protesting he did with Maggie whenever she brought up David, he hadn't been going to Kinko's just to fulfill his paper needs. David had been charming and easy on the eyes and Troy had liked that. He claimed to have never acted on it, but he had appreciated everything that David had to offer once before he had left Dublin. One incident might have not made him gay except he had never shown any interest in women. Otherwise, he was a monk when it came to his romantic life.

Except now he was sure there was an undercurrent of flirtation going on between him and Teagan. He had tried not to think of it as he sat there in his work clothes eating the meal she had prepared, but he was almost certain of it.

So that there was the reason for his confusion.

In all the time he had known Teagan, which was quite a few years, he had never felt any inkling of desire toward her. Objectively, he knew Maggie and Teagan were beautiful girls that had plenty of male admirers. But there had been no desire on his part.

So what was going on now?

He wondered if she was asleep by now, as he stood to wash the dishes the Muggle way. Maybe he wouldn't have to explore these thoughts any further if she was. Except he knew that she would bring it up until she got her backrub because Teagan was persistent like that.

What to do, was the question, and he found himself wishing he had stayed overtime at the bank to work on that Weasley file instead. Troy knew he was overthinking this, but what if he wasn't?

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moranduh
2010-03-15 12:51 pm UTC (link)

After her short correspondence with Jae through the journals, Teagan had made up her mind to stay up and wait for him to come back to the flat. She hadn't been very tired at the time- she had a bit of laundry to do and a couple of fan letters to respond to. Waiting up would be a cinch. It was a cinch, really- until she fell asleep, of course.

Parchment stuck to her forehead, and her mouth parted slightly, Teagan lay nearly comatose on the edge of her bed. She had been in the middle of a particularly thrilling dream starring Aiden Lynch when she'd heard the front door open.

She stirred in the fetal position she was curled up in. A yawn escaped from her lips as her eyes fluttered open. She had half a mind to roll over and fall back asleep when she realized that there was someone in the kitchen willing to give her a massage - and suddenly she sprang to her feet.

"So, how was the rest of your day?" she asked by way of greeting as she slowly made her way into the kitchen. So her hair might have been a little mussed and her tee shirt hanging from her one shoulder, but she made no bother to fix it. Jae had seen worse enough.

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sunspots
2010-03-24 09:01 pm UTC (link)

Unfortunately, Jae had seen worse and he had made fun of her for seeing her at her worse, but there was entirely too much skin showing for Jae's conservative and confused mind at that moment. He made a point to not really look at her as he sat there in his stuffy uniform, eating his reheated dinner.

It wasn't really out of character for him to be sporting a perpetual frown, but he normally looked at her whenever he was talking to her.

"Busy. But it's finally starting to stabilize now that more people have been hired." Jae might have not wanted to talk about work, but it was familiar territory and hopefully it would bore her enough to send her back to bed without the backrub. She certainly looked like she wouldn't mind going back to bed. So he kept on babbling. "It's still a mess though. No one knows how to use a coffee machine and I've already had to rescue the one in the break room twice from irritated wizards." Muggle technology and a wizarding workplace that was highly stressful? Not a good combination. "I moved it to my cubicle. Serves me right for wanting to be nice and sharing."

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