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Coby hadn't given much thought to Valentine's day other than knowing it was coming up – hard to miss when Caroline had exploded hearts and gold cherubs over every available surface – until he'd had to explain the holiday to Kash and his friend. It wasn't as though any of the people he was sleeping with would expect anything of him. As far as he knew, some of them weren't from worlds where Valentine's day was a thing, and even the ones who were knew he wasn't the exclusive type. He'd rather show them how he felt when he was with them anyway, because he felt it, not because some calendar told him too.

Valentine's day was just a day.

When that day came, though, being caught between happy couples happily coupling, unhappy singles who couldn't look forward to half-price chocolate, and fat foil babies with wings that felt creepier than the description, it all felt like a terrible way to spend the day. He'd gone down long enough to throw together things to eat, because he wasn't sad sack moping, but he didn't stick around. At least he'd been here long enough he'd learned to ignore the Valentine's pink of his hearts and romance room. It was as good a place as any to work on this song that was refusing to come together the way he knew it could. He sat at his keyboard, trying the melody over and over with slight tweaks, leaning over to make notes on a, yes pink, notepad he'd picked up at the gift shop, then sticking the pencil behind his ear to try another variation.

Date: 2018-02-13 11:01 pm (UTC)
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Jag had been living in Coby's room for months, now, but he still didn't feel as if it were home. To be fair, nothing in this place felt like home, but this was Coby's place. He was just crashing in it.

That explained why he knocked, first, and then only opened the door. He found Coby behind the keyboard, and brandished the bottle of Kraken victoriously. "Wanna?"

He had no idea how terrible today might or might not be for Coby, but if he'd been in love with the angel of love, he reckoned Valentine's Day might be a tough one. So here he was, just in case, ready to take 'piss off' for an answer. It wasn't as if Em and he had ever celebrated it, so he was there all for Coby. It was the least he could do, really. And it was the very least he wanted to do, when he owed Coby so much.

Date: 2018-02-19 02:56 pm (UTC)
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Jag closed the door behind himself and went to grab a couple of glasses, then dragged a chair over so he could sit beside the keyboard. "I reckoned, you and I could both probably use some good alcohol tonight," he answered, even as he poured the glasses.

Date: 2018-02-19 08:13 pm (UTC)
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"You've got all the pink, but at least you're gold-baby-butt-free," Jag remarked, and held a glass out to Coby.

Date: 2018-02-19 08:26 pm (UTC)
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Jag couldn't help but laugh at the memory of the place. "I still can't believe you were living in a church."

Date: 2018-02-19 08:35 pm (UTC)
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"It was a bit surprising," Jag confirmed, thinking back on that night and... getting lost in the memories, for a few seconds there. What it had led to. He blinked out of it and smiled at Coby. "I liked it better than here, no question."

He did not even mean in the grand scheme of things, but simply in terms of interior design.

Date: 2018-02-19 08:54 pm (UTC)
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"Don't mind me, if you want to keep working on it," Jag told him, with a wave of his hand meant to say 'go on, then'. It wouldn't be his first time hanging out as Coby worked on something; it was its own sort of soothing.

Date: 2018-02-19 10:03 pm (UTC)
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"That means it's probably both," Jag remarked with a half-smile, and took another sip of the rum.

Date: 2018-02-19 11:59 pm (UTC)
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"Well, I got some cakes from Pike," Jag offered, and nodded in a corner of the room, where he'd dropped the cakes he'd got yesterday. Getting stoned that way was different, and lacked the fire he loved so much, but he didn't mind doing without. He could still play with flames if he wanted, whenever he wanted, really, here. "If you'd like?"

Date: 2018-02-21 08:14 pm (UTC)
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"Space cakes, there's nothing sad-sack-like about this," Jag answered with a shake of his head. "Pike's a fucking genius at baking."

Date: 2018-02-21 11:50 pm (UTC)
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"She didn't know Kash could hook her up," Jag stated. But now she did, and those cakes were the best. "But yeah, it's really good stuff." He didn't have the sweetest tooth around, but enough of one that he loved stopping by the bakery now and then.

Right then, he got out of his seat to go grab the box of cakes and bring it over.

Date: 2018-02-22 12:21 am (UTC)
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"Same," Jag agreed with a nod. "I mean, before last week." He grabbed a Flame Hands himself - cinnamon and chocolate - because it was still his favourite, even now he'd tasted most of the other options.

Bonus, it would go great with rum.

Date: 2018-02-22 12:52 am (UTC)
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"Oh, wow," Jag allowed, and shook his head at the thought. "That sounds - interesting. Though I'd probably have been on their side of the classroom." He'd never been big on Valentine's Day.

Date: 2018-02-22 01:04 am (UTC)
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Jag could have picked on that 'usually', or even asked, straight out, about Coby's angel, or the guy who'd come before he'd dropped hints about a couple of times. But he wouldn't want anyone poking at his own wounds, so he wasn't the sort to do it to other people.

"Val was a total romantic," he remembered, scratching at his jaw. "Probably the most romantic person I've ever been with, in the - traditional sense." Emma was, as well, but in a different way. A way that worked so much better for Jag. A way that didn't involve V-Day, and he pushed the thoughts aside. "Now he'd have been brilliant at giving that class."

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