got good ears

[temporal_affairs]

The neighbors don't complain. Much. (They do occasionally ask that things be kept down, but they don't complain about there being noise at all. They understand about mates.)

The room isn't designed for long-term human occupation. There is no bathroom, no food, no bed, no climate control - though this is Florida, so climate control is not such a concern - no plumbing.

But there's lots of magic. It's such fun to make, after all.

(Nathan had been worried he'd have to ask one of the succubi, or Joham, for lessons on what might whimsically be called "safe sex". He likes not having to bother with this better.)

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[manofmyword]

The Joker hugs him back. Mm, snuggly. Despite the fact that it's like hugging a concrete pillar.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan is the snuggliest concrete pillar.

He picks up his mate and continues wandering Jacksonville at a leisurely walk punctuated with kisses. "Oh, look," he says. "A hotel."

[manofmyword]

"Ooh," says the Joker. "Let's scandalize them!"

[temporal_affairs]

"How d'you want to scandalize them, babe? It's a hotel, I think they're used to giggling couples getting rooms."

[manofmyword]

"That a challenge, sweetheart?"

[temporal_affairs]

"Mm, I bet you could do it, but mostly I'm just itching to know how," Nathan says, nuzzling his mate's neck.

[manofmyword]

"We could fuck in the elevator," is the first plan that springs to mind.

[temporal_affairs]

"We could get arrested," Nathan points out. "Fucking in elevators isn't a charge I can get out of via hidden law."

[manofmyword]

"Getting arrested's not that big a deal for me," he says cheerfully. "If you don't wanna, though, that's fine."

[temporal_affairs]

"I don't think they'd put us in the same jail cell," Nathan points out, "and I'd be in Imperial type trouble if I clawed my way out."

[manofmyword]

The Joker pats Nathan's shoulder fondly.

[temporal_affairs]

"Any non-arrest-inducing ideas, babe?"

[manofmyword]

"Where's the fun in that?" he teases.

[temporal_affairs]

"In all the subsequent time we get to spend, not being arrested, in a hotel room," purrs Nathan. "That's where."

[manofmyword]

"Oh, honey, I lllike the way you think."

[temporal_affairs]

"Good," purrs Nathan.

Here is the door to the hotel. Nathan opens it with a shove of his hip, not intending to set his mate down until he is required to do so.

The receptionist asks if he needs to borrow a wheelchair.

"Nope," says Nathan cheerfully. "As you can see, we are jointly ambulatory."

[manofmyword]

The Joker smiles beatifically.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan rents them a room, sending the Joker (whose hands are free) rooting around in his pockets for his shiny gold credit card when it's necessary for the transaction, and then he saunters to the elevator.

"I'm pretty sure we won't actually get arrested as long as we're technically dressed," he purrs in his mate's ear as the elevator pulls them up.

[manofmyword]

"Ooh," says the Joker.

His hands are free. And, as they have just demonstrated, he can reach Nathan's pants from here.

[temporal_affairs]

By the time they get to the hotel room, he has managed to reduce Nathan to a growly puddle of want. The key card gets them in and then there is pouncing.

[manofmyword]

He loves Nathan's pouncing, he really really does. He also loves the way it feels when his bones unbreak themselves.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan loves him. Loves that he can be careless, loves the way he can make him make all those noises, loves him like burning.

[manofmyword]

No one in the vicinity has requested that they tone down said noises.

So the Joker doesn't.

They can't be arrested just for having really loud sex, right? Even if there's screaming?

[temporal_affairs]

Well, there's disturbance of the peace, but they'd get a warning first, and they'd find all the participants uninjured if they insisted on having a closer look, so that's all right. How many screams does it take to get to the center of the Jacksonville Police Department? (Doesn't matter, the results will be invalid; Nathan got impatient and bit.)

[manofmyword]

Now is a good time to try out his magical flavour-tuning, right?