The Arms Hotel, room 504- late Wednesday night

[solo_sword]

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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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah?" John thought maybe he could deal with that idea.

[solo_sword]

"Mm hm. Come here," she said, finding his hands to lead him over to the bed. Wasn't like she could do this from this height.

She was bitter about height today.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

As though he would do anything but willingly follow and take a seat. "This something new you've learned while I was away?"

[solo_sword]

"I think I've tried this at least once before," she said, thinking back as she climbed up onto the bed behind him. "If you haven't run screaming, at least then I know it wasn't horrible."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John glanced over his shoulder. "Is it bad I don't remember?"

[solo_sword]

"No, I don't remember for sure either," she said with a little smile, placing her hands on his shoulders to start kneading lightly at first. "And you get 'it's been a rough time' leeway."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Sorry if I freaked you out there," he said, trying to relax against her touch. He was just a bit tense there.

[solo_sword]

"I'll live," she said, bending to press a kiss to the back of his neck, in case that helped any with the relaxation thing. "You're here, you're okay..."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," he agreed a little too quickly. "And I woke you up, didn't I?" But there she was, rubbing his shoulders.

[solo_sword]

She definitely noticed how fast he said that. So, okay, she had a mission while he was here: make him actually okay.

"This may come as a shock, but having you here is so much better than sleeping." She got used to having her sleep interrupted through the years. Boy. Here. That was all she needed.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

He wasn't much of a boy these days. "Being here is better than sleeping," John agreed. "I'm kind of sick of down time."

[solo_sword]

"Same here," Jaina said, though she had no idea just how much he blew her out of the water on the amount of downtime he'd had. "Does this mean this is going to be a busy visit?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Well...I don't know that I could any time with you as down time," John realized. "But after six months of meditation, I could use some excitement."

[solo_sword]

Um. "Meditation?" She couldn't see him meditating. She'd still never seen him read without sleeping.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Meditation," he repeated sullenly. "How do you think I grew this wicked beard."

[solo_sword]

"What were you doing meditating?" she asked, working the heel of her hand down his back.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Got stuck on the wrong side of a time dilation field barrier," he shrugged, leaning a little into her hand. "One hour for the team was six months with a bunch of fools trying to ascend to a higher plane of existence."

[solo_sword]

He probably heard a sigh of relief in there as she stopped freaking out about further time messups. "So that was a one time thing of... There's no way you ascended." He'd get bored.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John turned to glare over his shoulder. "Don't think they didn't try to make me. But those people? For eternity, no way."

[solo_sword]

"Good," she said, resuming the massage much calmer. "Don't think I wouldn't have tried to find you and kick all their asses if you didn't show. Higher plane or not."

Despite the light tone when he was using words like 'eternity', she was kind of serious, this one. Was it possible for her to find him like that? Probably not. Would she try? Yuh huh.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"It's been that kind of...well, I don't even know how long it counts as, but it's been enough time that I wouldn't argue it."

[solo_sword]

"Time needs to lay off," she said simply. It hadn't been great to either of them, separate or together, but jeez, the six months in an hour thing won hands down.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John honestly would've been cooler with the time issue if not for the bug issue. His life kind of sucked.

"Or maybe we need to do something about time."

[solo_sword]

"Like what?" she asked. While curious, she didn't just jump to the conclusion that they'd get out of their current holding pattern anytime soon.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Not sure," John shrugged noncommittally. "I'm a big fan of blowing stuff up, not that that'd work."