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Hannibal scowled at the still-unfinished floor in his study and brought his tablet into the salon instead. The contractors had hit some sort of snag, and there were still several rooms now with the floors torn up. Hannibal was almost as displeased as Beethoven; the cat was refusing to even come downstairs.

"How many more days?"

Date: 2015-05-08 01:09 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Orly?)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//... Actually, that wouldn't be a bad idea,// Jono mused. //Give people a chance to get to know one another. People around the island aren't as close-knit as they were back when I was in school here.//

... Oh god, he was getting old. That was the reminiscing of a man who was getting old.

Date: 2015-05-08 01:37 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Casual conversation)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//I found them useful, at least,// Jono offered. //It was oddly comforting, being a voice of traumatized experience in a room of traumatized people...//

Because Fandom.

//In a completely different way from teaching, that is...//

The sort of way where he was allowed to go for his own benefit, and all.

Date: 2015-05-08 01:57 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Told you so)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//We could have a very busy backyard,// Jono countered. //It's almost summer, after all.//

Look at him, with that glass half-full again!

Entirely because being a brat was a way of life for him, really.

Date: 2015-05-08 02:14 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Know It All)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//We'll just work out our frustrations through physical exertions that day, then.//

Seriously, if anyone were to look in and see them at it like this, they'd probably start wondering if they'd swapped bodies again.

Date: 2015-05-08 02:29 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Told you so)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//Oh, nono, we'll make the students beat on whatever's invading in the front yard.//

If Hannibal was going to be a brat, Jono was going to embrace that, dammit.

Date: 2015-05-08 02:43 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Phew!)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//They generally aaa--h.//

Are. Aaah. They sounded more or less the same when Jono said them, anyway.

//... Ooh.//

He approved of your grilled cake, Hannibal. Even if it did confuse him somewhat.

Date: 2015-05-08 02:49 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Looking Around)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//I was just telling you in great detail about my opinions of the flamingos,// Jono replied, giving Hannibal a wry side-eye. //I'm surprised you didn't catch it.//

Date: 2015-05-08 03:09 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (Default)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//Hhngh?//

That was cheating, Hannibal. That was absolutely cheating, and you bloody well knew it, didn't you?

Of course you did. Of course.

//Say... about. With. 'Xactly. S'what I said.//

Date: 2015-05-08 03:17 am (UTC)
furnaceface: (o_O)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
WERE YOU TRYING TO KILL HIM?

...

He'd die happy. Jono was nodding his agreement, now that the suggestion had been brought up. Coffee. Coffee and strawberry cake with caramel and he setting sun and the cats, and...

Joni had just eaten that bug. Well. Jono had tried. Couldn't win them all.

Date: 2015-05-08 10:38 pm (UTC)
furnaceface: (Very disappointed in you)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
Oh, good. That would give Jono a minute or two to get his bearings again, between bouts of cake and coffee. Dating a man with gourmet tastes was always an adventure.

... Sometimes more adventurous than others.

A few minutes later, and Jono had his elbows on his knees, and was watching the slow, methodical process that Joni had to attempt to sneak up on Beethoven. Jono was pretty certain that catching him unawares probably required a lot less of him eyeing her warily, but hey. She could dream that dream.

Date: 2015-05-08 10:49 pm (UTC)
furnaceface: (Casual conversation)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//I think she's thinking in averages,// Jono mused. //Beethoven plus the bug she just finished eating, divided by two. It's almost right, then.//

Jono was actually pretty good at cat logic.

Date: 2015-05-08 10:54 pm (UTC)
furnaceface: (Told you so)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
//You mean eat more of whatever it is you put in Beethoven's bowl?//

Because clearly it was far more interesting than whatever was in her own bowl. Which was generally the exact same thing, these days.

Date: 2015-05-08 11:09 pm (UTC)
furnaceface: (Mopey)
From: [personal profile] furnaceface
Jono tried very hard not to think about what went into Beethoven's bowl, honestly.

//She seems to have stalled out at 'kitten' years ago,// he noted, scooting over a little again to make room, and then slipping his arm around Hannibal's waist. //Somewhere around the same time I got her, I think.//

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