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"I'm afraid to try and work our way back to the bar for a drink."

She stood up, and wrapped her arm around his elbow possessively. She looked over his shoulder, and pointed out what it was that she was afraid of. All along the dance floor there were women who had stopped what they were doing to watch what it was that Kain was doing with Flutter.

The empty hungry stares on their faces made Flutter queasy. She could hold her own, but this was an arena of competition that she wasn't comfortable or adept in. She would step away from Kain if someone was so bold as to try to steal him from Flutter for the next dance.

Given how many women looked like they wanted to jump his bones right now, Flutter was sure that she wouldn't see Kain again for the rest of the evening if she let that happen.

"Stay here with me?" she asked in a small voice.

"So, who was she?"

"....."

Jack was surprisingly strong when he wanted to be.

That was the thought floating through the dj's head at the moment as he looked down into flashing emeralds after that shock of a kiss. The second thought was not to mess with Jack right now, the third... was the observation that Raven had finally pushed Jack far enough in his game of cat and mouse to have gotten that kiss.

Amazingly the smug smirk was kept far from ever reaching his features. A rather dumb look was there instead.

".. uh...." he scratched the back of his neck. How was he supposed to explain her?

"I don't know." which was partially the truth. He couldn't be sure that she was anything to him at all. He only had a suspicion. "I hope to find out."

But now... those two sentences together... well that didn't bode well at all and Raven's cheeks reddened, he could feel them burning.

"Oh shhht-- That's not what I mean!"

Silently, he berated himself as he watched Jack pick up his chair and file papers, noting how he wouldn't look at him, Raven's gaze fell away from his boss hearing the tone in Jack's voice, not so much the words he spoke. The blond read through that easily enough.

Just another secret Raven kept hidden from Jack, another part of his life he didn't want to expose still for the uncertainty of it. Not to mention having to bring up his past. There was a sobering thought the colour from his cheeks had lessened.

"Hn..." he grumbled, "I know what you are thinking and it's not like that." he didn't look up from where his gaze was glued to the floor his hands shoved in his pockets as he leaned against the wall behind him, next to the closed door where Jack had left him.

Business huh?

Turquoise orbs slid over to Jack and the papers that littered his desk moving away from the wall he approached and took one of the seats as indicated. "No thanks." he replied to the offer of a drink, best not to further indulge if they were discussing business. He liked being sharper than he was currently when it came to these things.

"Are profits sliding?" he questioned, it was usually one of his main concerns, although give and take a bit the Den usually did fairly well.

"Oh.." the blond was glad the profits were doing well, that meant things were still generally ok, he was about to ask if there was a staffing problem when Jack came out with what he'd been working on.

"Oh? Well.. who did you have in mind?" he asked dumbly, "I don't know why'd you'd consult me on this sort of thing, I'm just a dj.... you can do what you want to do with the business, it's yours after all." he offered as helpfully as possible. "If you think it'll help the Den, then that's a great thing for all the staff right?"

The blond blinked and looked to the paperwork where Jack pointed. His eyes widened in realization.

He paused a long moment, thinking with an alcohol induced brain wasn't one of his strong points.

"Can I take a couple days to think it over?" Turquoise orbs searched for emeralds. He tapped his knuckles to the side of his head, "There's details I'm missing and now, I'm a bit drunk." he said honestly and chuckled, "reading the paperwork will probably give me a headache with swimming letters." he laughed again and settled, smiling.

"Although.. I'm surprised and happy you'd offer such a thing to me of all people. Can I look over the paperwork while I make up my mind?"

"Hm.. I can see your point. I'll think about it, the silent partner bit sounds good. The Den is really yours Jack, I'd like for it to stay that way as much as possible. But only when it comes down to looking at it that way... well ... I'll look over the papers and keep that in mind. I'm sure the staff wouldn't like being bothered by any of them either." he grumbled knowing how much a pain in the arse dealings with them had been in the past.

"Well how about another drink then?" he smirked now that he knew he wasn't being fired or anything drastic like that was happening. Hopefully the conversation would stay happily pleasant. "And this place is so... uhm... why don't we go back to my room?" he suggested at least there was more of a homey environment there to enjoy rather than files and sobering furniture, "I can put my copy somewhere safe then." he diverted.

Whew!

Raven silently breathed a huge sigh of relief. Jack laughing meant things were good. Better than good.

And the blond couldn't help but laugh and offer his own hand to help Jack up shaking his head amused. "Now I'm going to have to check you over to make sure you haven't been hurt." he chuckled slipping his arm around the little red head's waist and guided him down the hall to his room where he unlocked the door, let it swing inward, passed through the doorway with Jack, seating him down on the couch carefully - exaggerating the care even, laughing and letting the door swing shut behind them and went over to his kitchenette.

Once there he pulled a couple clean glasses from the cupboards above threw in ice in one and asked Jack, "What'll you have sir? No-no. Don't get up. I'll bring it right over." he chuckled with a wink and grin even.