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]

"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."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, trying to blow up time, or time-related things, might cause more problems than it solves," she said, still very focused on trying to relax him.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"We'll figure something out," he said, believing this fully as he leaned back a bit against her.

[solo_sword]

"Yeah," she said, taking the opportunity to slide her arms around his shoulders from behind and rest her chin on his shoulder. "We're awesome like that."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

All she was getting from that was a nod and his hands coming up to rest on hers for a moment.

Okay, not all. "We are. No need for that worried voice of yours. Promise."

[solo_sword]

After all this time, there was no way not to trust him completely when he said that. "Then you won't hear it," she said, turning her head to kiss his cheek, beard or not. "Have I mentioned enough that I'm glad you're here?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I'm startin' to get the idea you don't mind," he smiled. It was nearly real.

[solo_sword]

"I might have even missed you a little. Tiny bit," she shared, totally underexaggerating this. Her tendency to email everything might have been a little hint there.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed," he teased, turning a little to see her better.

[solo_sword]

"You wouldn't say that if you saw the presents I brought," she teased back.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"You had time for presents?" John asked, confused.

[solo_sword]

"I had a good amount of downtime myself, and it wasn't that labor-intensive," she said, letting go of him with one hand to call her bag over to her. She was definitely not totally letting go, thanks.

She reached into the bag, pulling out the comlink, and said, "Well, there's this."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"A comlink?" John said, tilting his head at the device as he figured out why she would gift that to him. "You think it'll work?"