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"This wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I called you over here," Zeke mused as he drew back from the kiss. He wasn't entirely sure which of them had made the first move, but now Ever was sitting on the edge of the desk with Zeke standing in front of him, hands resting on the tops of his thighs. "Not that I'm complaining."

There had been a practical reason. Zeke had gotten all the pictures of the runes from the entrance way to Atlantis printed out and labeled on the back in a way that'd make it easy to reassemble them into a single, large image. It had taken a bit longer than he'd initially thought, but they were ready now, and if anyone could make sense of the runes, it was Ever Zeke would put money on. Languages were is thing, more than anybody else on the island.

Of course, even knowing that there was work to be done wasn't enough to keep Zeke from leaning in again, head tilting as he went in for another kiss.

He had to chuckle at that, because there was certainly truth to it. "Well, it wasn't the main reason. I can't say it wasn't a thought." It was always a thought whenever the two of them were together. Always there, always wanting.

"Originally, this was all about pictures, and work." Which was true, even if it didn't sound like it right that moment, not with Zeke moving in to n** at Ever's chin.

Half behind Zeke, Ever froze -- gone very still, for a moment, with one hand raised to just barely brush fingertips against the front of Zeke's shirt, and his jaw dropped just a bit. Dark eyes flicked over Zeke's shoulder onto Lex, and Ever didn't blush, but...

He dropped the hand. He leaned back a little. As if that would help the fact that Zeke was still settled comfortably between his knees.

As Zeke backed away, Ever finally started to move: slowly shifting to brush his thum against his lower lip and then, slowly, crossed his legs to close up the space. It made things a little less compromising, a little simpler. A little more appropriate, maybe, except that he was still sitting on the desk.

"Ah. Lex. Nice to meet you." He cleared his throat a little bit and then leaned out to offer Lex a hand. "Also Life, though, I'm not usually...around this area so much."

"So far. I'm confident you'll be able to turn the same level of dedication and ambition in any direction you set your sights on." Though Lex was considerably younger than any of the students he'd helped oversee as a teachers assistant in college, there was a certain sense of familiar pride at play here.

"And no, it's fine." The moment had passed, and the interruption was a reminder that it just wasn't a good idea, getting tangled up in each other in places where other hunters frequented. At least when the door had been left unlocked...

Mention of Nick had him quirking a brow though, lips twitching in a nearly imperceptible smirk.

Sinking down into his desk chair, Zeke rolled around Ever's leg to draw a manila folder from beneath the stack Lex had brought in with him. "Do you remember the annoyingly large stack of photoed runes I've been working on cataloging over the past couple of weeks?" This to Lex, though his gaze had dipped down to the pictures in the file, making sure this was indeed the one he'd meant to grab. Satisfied that it was, he offered it up to Ever. "Ever's a language specialist. Maybe he'll be able to make sense of it all."

"Oh, you mean those pictures I had to photocopy like three times because Nick kept on trying to show them to Taco by dropping them in the water?" Lex folded his arms, giving Zeke a look. Both of them knew that Nick did what she had done on purpose, to spite Lex and cause trouble. "Yeah, pretty sure they're seared into my frontal lobe by this point." Lex also gave Taco a look, squinting at the minipet, as if to say 'this is your fault, too.'

Lex looked at Ever, eyes getting a little brighter at the mention of the man being a language specialist. "Could you teach me French or Spanish? Like, I can swear in spanish and s**t, but you know, I want to be able to flirt." Typical fifteen year old. If either of the men knew Lex as an adult, they could tell he was always destined to be a lady chaser. "Or do you specialize in more archaic languages, since that's sort of what we deal with here?" That would make logical sense, of course. Lex took up his usual position, leaning on the wall by Taco.

"I mean, either way, that's pretty bad a**."

Ever blinked between the pair of them, his expression still a bit distant. If someone had handed him those runes right now, he probably would have completely forgotten about Zeke and focused on those instead. Without them, he was just starting to come back into focus, musing on what he could do for Lex, who seemed young and enthusiastic.

"I could probably teach you French or maybe Spanish. My Italian's weaker, but I could definitely flirt in that, too." He shoved hands into his pockets, looking a bit bemused. "I ran around with an Italian guy for a month or two. Of course, his idea of flirting was 'Togliti i vestiti'..."

A beat, because neither of them spoke Italian, and then he translated. "...so basically, 'take your clothes off'."