The Arms Hotel, room 504- late Wednesday night

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Jaina had mostly been asleep when she got the voicemail, which meant she was asleep through the actual message but heard the beeping that said she had a new message, please check it.

And once she heard it, forget calling, she was packing up some basics because she knew once she left she wouldn't be seeing much of her room for as long as he was in town, and headed down to the hotel. After checking which room he was in, she headed upstairs, knocking on the door. And if he didn't answer, she could pick the lock.


[For he who is in the room!]

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The knock at the door had John hopping to pull it open before it annoyed any potential neighbors. "Hey," he said, looking a little tired and extra hairy...and maybe worried.

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She was smiling as soon as she saw him, hairy or not. She couldn't help it, it was part of that twitterpation thing, even if she was wondering what had happened that he'd let it grow past scruff. "New look?" she asked, already reaching a hand up toward his cheek.

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"Gave up on shaving for an hour there," John admitted, going for her other hand to pull her inside.

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She let herself be pulled, raising an eyebrow. "For an hour? You're sure you're not part Wookiee?"

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"Maybe it's a recessive gene," John suggested, shutting the door behind her. "How long's it been?"

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Second time she'd been asked that today, even. "About a month. How long's it been for you?" Because if their time wasn't working out again, so help her...

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John shrugged a little, "Twelve weeks? Plus six months in an hour." Joyful.

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Oh, look, the smile totally went away at that. "Six months in an hour? How...?"

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"Like time dilation fields are all that new and different," John replied. "It's no big deal."

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"Six months in an hour," Jaina repeated. "That's new." And honestly a little scary, even if he was calling it no big deal.

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"It wasn't what I would call fun," John admitted, "but it got me here, so let's not be too upset over it?"

[solo_sword]

To be honest, she was having a very quiet internal freakout over more fun with timelines, but if he wasn't worried about it... well, she didn't know what that meant. "So does that mean you're not here long?"

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It wasn't fair that he was already frowning and she'd just arrived. "Can we focus on the part where I'm here?" John asked. "I kind of...had a really bad bunch of months there."

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This did not help with the worry at all, but she shoved it aside to wrap her arms around him. "I'm glad you came here," she said, even if she had about a thousand questions and wasn't sure now was the time to be asking any of them. She'd see how things went.

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That was what he needed, actual comfort and contact. "You were the first person I wanted to see."

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He'd definitely be getting comfort and contact here. She was kind of considering not letting him go. "Well, you see me," she said, looking up at him with a little smile.

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"You're good to see," he admitted, giving her a squeeze. "Did I miss anything major? New relatives? Time as an animal?"

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"You've missed nothing if you've been checking your Email at all," she said. "Oh, more vampire babysitting, but that's done now. Don't jinx me with the animal thing, by the way."

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He barely remembered after all that time off world. "I wouldn't jinx you," John promised, burying his face against her neck. "I always liked the kitten thing."

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"Sure, you liked it," she said, deciding not to mention the Girl Scout cookies in her bag for the moment. He'd had a bad few months, she'd lay off that sort of teasing. "Me being fuzzy and falling into things and unable to talk..."

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"I knew what you needed," he told her, feeling like she should understand without him saying that he had been all hers even when he'd spent six months living with some old-ass virgin who claimed she'd been saving herself for him. Not that he was going to give this voice.

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Yeah, she got that, voice or not. And weirdly, even that one sentence somehow made her feel better. "You tend to do that," she said, rubbing a hand over his back. "It's a good talent to have."

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He pulled back to look at her better. "It throws me every time how you haven't changed." He felt like he'd changed too much.

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Meanwhile the beard was sort of distracting her away from seeing other changes, and she knew better than to be like Let's check you for scars now even though she was dying to. "Consider me a constant," she told him, bringing a hand back up to lightly scratch his chin with one finger. "Besides, there was a pedicure while you were gone. I think that might count as a change."

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"Just a pedicure?" John replied, leaning his head to the side when she scratched at him. There were a lot of new scars for her to find, but he wasn't going to be offering up a show and tell quite yet.