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Decran watched as Ceri curled up in Zephyr’s lap, happily purring and content as she enjoyed her pets. Chuckling softly he turned his attention to finding the remote. He wouldn’t turn the tv on just yet, not when Zephyr wanted to talk. He just wanted to find the damn thing in case things went quiet. “Mmm, well, you caught this place on a good day,” he said as he fished the remote out of the depths of the couch. “I just straightened up a couple of days ago. I try to keep my clothes and stuff picked up. If I don’t, this one here…” Decran reached out and scratched the top of Ceri’s head gently. “...tends to make herself at home in the middle of the pile.”

Decran laid the remote to the side and shook his head. “Sometimes it’s cute. Most times it’s a pain in the butt to get rid of all the fur. But you gotta love her. I’ve had her since before I moved into the dorms.” At the sound of a soft growl, Decran leaned forward and looked past the couch, towards his bedroom door. Standing there, head lowered and ears laid back was Tepin, his spectrefox. “Oh shush you. Zephyr’s nice. He’s our friend, yeah?” At the small whine, Decran sighed and rolled his eyes. “He’s such a big baby sometimes.” Decran clicked his tongue and encouraged Tepin to move past Zephyr (the familiar taking the route farthest from the fallen) and to come over to him. Finally, after what seemed like forever, the spectrefox laid its head down in Decran’s lap, ready to receive his reward of pets for braving the stranger sitting on his owner’s couch.

Decran petted Tepin in long, slow strokes, doing his best to keep his spectrefox calm. “He’ll warm up to you eventually, if you’re around enough.” He glanced from his company over to the tv and frowned. “If you don’t watch much tv, then what do you do? Read all the time?” He glanced back to Zephyr and raised an eyebrow. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I love to read. I’ve been thinking of starting a book club, maybe. I don’t know if anyone would be interested in it though.”

Decran snorted and shook his head. “You’re not boring. Walking is a great hobby to have. And there’s nothing wrong with wanting to rest on your down time.” He raised an eyebrow, small smirk on his lips. “You like to eat too.” He grinned and took a sip of his soda. “I have to agree. There are a lot of weird things on tv. Though I do admit I take a sort of guilty pleasure in watching cooking shows. I don’t know why.” He chuckled and sipped some more of his soda. “What about movies? What’re you into? We could maybe watch one? Kill some time and give Beta some more alone time and maybe a chance to wear himself out.”

Decran raised an eyebrow, not expecting that choice in movie from the fallen at all. It just so happened, however, that he had a few of those ‘kid movies’ and he was more than glad to watch them. They weren’t something he watched often anymore but he just couldn’t seem to bring himself to toss them out. Nostalgia, he supposed. “Pfft. It’s my dorm but you’re my guest. Sooo…” He trailed off as he nudged Tepin’s head off of his lap and stood. “I think…” he moved over to his bookshelf and squatted to open one of the side doors. “Yuuup,” he said as he pulled the movie, Zephyr was referring to, out and holding it up. He grinned when he turned. “Got it. I’ll just...pop this in and then make us some popcorn.” Decran took the disc out of its case and slid it into the player atop the shelf and wandered back over to the kitchenette and started to make some popcorn. When it was finished, Decran moved back over to the couch and plopped down. Pressing play for the movie, he held the bowl of popcorn out towards Zephyr and smiled. “Want some?”

“It’s been a while since i watched this one, I admit. I don’t remember too awful much of it. I do remember liking it, for the most part, though. So it’ll be nice to rekindle the experience.” Decran took a handful of popcorn and stuffed it into his mouth. The snack was one of his favorite parts about the movie theater experience. He wished that there was someway to recreate that exact taste theater popcorn had. For now, though, he would settle for what he was able to make at home. It wasn’t long before Tepin rejoined the party by curling up next to Decran’s feet. He gave a small yawn as he leaned back and made himself comfortable for the movie.

Decran had blinked when Zephyr ended up leaning against him, surprised at the contact but only smiles when he glanced down and noticed that the fallen had fell asleep. He moved, shifting and situating himself so that he could lay his arm around Zeph’s shoulders as he took in the rest of the movie. Surprising enough, Decran had managed to stay awake for the rest of the movie and when the credits rolled, he glanced back down to Zephyr, head tilted. An urge to lean down and kiss the fallen washed over him and he flushed at the thought before tamping it back down and away. He would inspect that feeling more, later. For now, it was late and he was pretty sure Zephyr wouldn’t want to spend the rest of the night on his couch.

Though… Decran moved, using his free arm to shake Zephyr awake. “Mmm, wake up sleepy head. The movie’s over and you missed most of it.”

Decran smirked and gave a small chuckle as Zephyr pulled away from him quickly. “Mmm, long enough for you to fall asleep and for it to get dark. And I did enjoy it. I forgot how good of a movie it was. A shame you missed it.” He glanced out the window and frowned. He really hadn’t expected time to fly by so quickly. When he pushed himself up off the couch, empty popcorn bowl in hand, he glanced back towards Zephyr. “You’re welcome to stay if you’re still tired. Beta might be playing his music loudly still.”