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"I know, I know." The little redhead pouted. He took a deep breath. Clearly arguing with Raven was a lost cause. It almost always was. That didn't mean he wasn't going to worry about his companion. He let his fingers linger on the silk-covered muscles.

Raven moved over to the closet and came back with another shell. Jack regarded it with a certain amount of wary suspicion. He didn't really trust anything that was designed to explode, even if all it was was a smoke bomb. At least Raven would warn him next time.
"Red would probably look good under the lights." He remarked after a moment. He trusted Raven with it though. He knew the DJ wouldn't really do anything foolish without thinking about first carefully.

And he really couldn't stay angry when Raven smiled at him like that. Making the littler man smile back in kind softly. His mood was addictive. And Jack just loved seeing him smile. He moved over in front of the blond and hummed as if deep in thought. He raised his hands and trailed his fingers down over the exposed skin of his abs.
"Seems a shame to cover up actually. But if I had to choose I would say white." He purred.

Jack watched coyly as Raven changed his clothing, loving the brief view he got of that powerful torso, imagining for a moment the things such muscles could do. And knowing find well the muscles continued lower. He had to take a deep breath, or he wouldn't be going anywhere for a while.

"Don't think that buying me a drink gets you out of trouble, mister!" Jack chided Raven as fiercely as he could. Though given that he was giggling a little it wasn't terribly fierce at all. As Raven moved to the door Jack followed, going to step out.

He extended a hand to swat at Raven's leather-clad rump on the way out.

Oh yes. Raven was in trouble. Wonderful trouble. Jack would make good on that threat later if he got a chance.

They ended up downstairs, Jack giving a playful nod and smirk to Kaiden as they approached the bar again. He found a hurricane pressed into his hand and he looked up at Raven with a look of amusement.

"You're trying to get me drunk." he laughed, drinking from the tall glass happily. That sounded fun to the little redhead. Maybe that could lead to Raven loosening up a little more. He liked it when that happened.

Most likely it would end up with Jack being at his worst, but all the same it should be fun. What he could remember of it anyway.

He was distracted by the arrival of a groupie. As she threw her arms around his DJ he scowled for a moment, quickly hiding that expression with a turn of his head. Some things they both just had to deal with.
"Yeah Raven. How did you escape the stage?" The redhead challenged with a smirk. Oh, this should be entertaining.

Jack clung to the glass and stuck his tongue out at Raven. This was his drink and he was damn well going to get drunk tonight if he could. Because when he got drunk, he lost what little inhibitions he had left. And when that happened... He smirked to himself. One of them would end up sore tonight. Toss of the coin who and how. Maybe he'd give Raven a proper spanking after all to punish him for his misbehaviour tonight.

Maybe Raven might... hnngh... nope. Focus yourself Jack, before you turn yourself into an embarrassment.

He giggled as Raven finally came up with the old standby of magicians never spoiling theirs tricks. It was sort of fun knowing the truth behind the apparent illusion when the only other people in the building who knew the secret were dancing. He turned to look at Guyy and Kaori and laughed. Sort of dancing. Looked more like they were thinking of working on making another child to Jack.
"Hey you two, cut that out!" he jeered. "Don't make me turn a hose on you!"

Guyy gave him the finger and smirked.

He turned back to regard the girl giggling at his DJ. His DJ. He was tempted to push her off the stool, but she was too damned cute. Curse his soft side! Instead he eavesdropped and drank. He was perhaps the only person in the room who would catch such a change in mood in the large blond, as the smile that had been lighting up his gorgeous eyes a moment ago faltered and he fell back on his all too familiar mask. Having spent so much time with the man behind that mask, he was keen to spot when it went up again. Something was wrong.

The little redhead set his glass down quietly and straightened himself up. His emeralds darted to the girl, then to her friend as she was pointed out. Not exactly regulars, he realised. Maybe occasional visitors to the Den and altogether normal enough to be easily overlooked. He guessed birthday celebrations had loosened the girl's mood enough to congratulate the DJ personally.

So, her name was Audrey and she was just a little younger than Jack. Vaguely interesting. And she was a cute little thing. Not helpful information, but always pleasant. When Raven picked out her surname apparently from thin air, Jack realised there was something more going on here than he had banked on. He sidled up to Raven subtly, gently catching one of his back pockets with his fingers out of sight.

Whatever had surprised the DJ, Jack was right there, quietly observing.

"How did you..?" she paused her hands gripping her glass tightly and she looked away. All of a sudden she didn't want to be here, and got up gathering her purse, "I have to go.."

"Wait."

"Give me one good reas--.. what's this.." her eyes flickered to an old i.d. card he held out to her, fished from his wallet, the last name... matched. Her eyes were filled with confusion as she looked at the dj. "Who are you? Why...?"

"Take it, you know where to find me. You want to go, go. I won't stop you." He pressed the card in her hand and watched as she gave him an uncertain look and not knowing what to think, escaped. He watched her go into the crowd and took a couple of gulps from his drink.

Whatever happened next would give him a clue as to what had happened to her all those years ago. It was the only hope he had now, that she would come back again.

And that was it. The blond returned to his normal self not making a big deal of the whole thing. He eyed Jack and Kaiden just then for a moment.

And blinked.

......

"What?"

The taller blond tilted his head just so, and smirked, "Another drink? oh alright." he waived to the tender for another round and turned back to his distressed friend. With Kaiden keeping a close eye there was not a chance the blond would be giving anything away.

He lay a hand on Jack's head and ruffled his hair a smile on his lips. Being playful about the non-information he was giving away. Staff eyed him wondering what it was about Jack that he let Raven get away with that, the fact only made Raven laugh to himself. It was a message of it's own, not to worry, it'll be explained in due time, for now forget it. Have some fun.

He leaned to look over to Kaiden, "Pleased to meet you sir, name's Raven, I take it you're not one to dance?" the spiky haired man questioned easily nodding at the floor with the hopping bodies swaying about. Maybe he'd even get the lad's name, since he was sidled next to Jack, Raven figured he must be new to the clan.

"I hope at least the drinks are suitable and you are enjoying yourself nevertheless." he smirked as his order was placed down and exchanged for his empty. Taking another gulp of a hurricane. Delicious stuff! "Hm.. If you don't mind my asking, what do you do for fun?"

The weaving through the crowd had Flutter feeling giddy with excitement. He'd actually accepted her offer. He had expected him to decline, the men that she had been meeting slanted towards the dark, dangerous, and unavailable.

Until Flutter was interested in them, then suddenly it was like a light went off in the heads of the women that up until that moment hadn't found anything attractive about them.

Natural tendency towards competition.

The way Kain moved her through the crowd, it was poetry in motion. She half felt like they were fighting a battle back to back, but he was her eyes and ears, and she? Well, she would have been the cannon fodder. Probably.

Of a sudden he had pulled her up close to himself, and her breath caught in her throat. She heard:

So, what do you dance, miss Flutter?

He was already starting to move her through a form of dance, tightly tucking against her body. One good pelvic thrust, and she was sure that she would get slapped with his manhood.

Which didn't entirely sound like a bad idea.

She swallowed hard, and shook her head. Behave Flutter!!

"Ah, I guess the old shuffle your feed dance." she said against his ear because she was close enough to do it, and because it meant that she wouldn't have to scream at him to be heard.