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The Park, Saturday Morning

Jonothon was dismayed to find that he was having a hell of a time sleeping in, this morning. That probably had something to do with the tiny kitten, who had made it her personal mission to curl up on his face.

And it wasn't as though she was actually smothering him, really. After all, he didn't breathe. But when tiny kittens got comfortable, there was this kneading thing that they did with their tiny claws...

Jonothon was taking Joni for a walk. He might as well, anyhow. She needed the fresh air, and he needed to work off some more of that anxiousness that he'd been picking up on before taking the kitten over to meet Raven. With any luck, Joni wouldn't harass the ducks too much while they were passing through the park.

Bloody ducks.

[Open park is open!]

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Sleep hadn't actually been on Jake's schedule that night. Honestly, he didn't need as much as most people did (he just liked it). Still, he was in a better mood that morning than he'd been the entire week. Spending a whole day running around the preserve as fast as he could? Helped heaps.

So at least the urge to smash down a few brick walls had dissipated. The whole urge to make out with someone? Still there.

Not that this was why he detoured when he caught the scent of sulphur going through the park. No, he hadn't seen Jono in quite a while and maybe that was because he didn't know how to broach a certain object.

"Hey," Jake greeted. Please, ignore the whole only wearing jeans thing. "Who's your friend?"

Hey, Jono could ignore Jacob's ridiculously attractive bare chest just so long as he didn't go poking at the subject first! It was only fair.

//Morning, Jacob,// he greeted, nodding a little. //This would be Joni.// A beat. //George found her one day and got it in her head that she'll find some way to accidentally turn her into hamburger meat or worse, and so I inherited a kitten.//

'Had her dropped onto his desk while at work' would have been more accurate, really.

//How've you been, mate?//

It had been a while.

As long as Jono didn't start staring, they could probably ignore the subject all together.

"She eats a lot of cats?" Jake asked. "Even I don't do that."

He knelt down to inspect the cat and hopefully she wouldn't run a mile because of the whole wolf scent. "I think I've had better weeks. You?"

//Not eat, per se. From what I can understand, she doesn't have th'best of luck with pets.//

Joni didn't seem to mind the wolf-scent. Either she was a seriously brave kitty, or else sleeping curled up on Jono's chest had left her with no sense of smell (or self-preservation). She made her way over to him and sniffed about his feet for a moment, and then she was purring and winding around his ankles.

Joni was a special kitty.

//I haven't been given much to complain about this week,// Jono admitted a moment later. //Aside from everyone on the island being bloody absurd since Monday, anyhow.// And no, he wasn't any exception to that. //Rough week, then?//

Jake grinned at the purring and reached out to scratch the kitty behind the ear. Sure, it was a canine thing, but he figured cats couldn't dislike it.

"I've been avoiding people for the most part," he admitted, "but being cooped up doesn't really do me much good."

Apparently, it was a canine thing and a Joni thing. She was getting attention! The wolfy-smelling guy was now her best friend in the universe until she got bored.

//Being cooped up doesn't tend to do anybody any measure of good, really,// Jono acknowledged, watching the kitten for a moment before looking at Jake and giving his shoulders a shrug. //At least out here, there's th'fresh air. And not many people about this time of day, I should hope.//

He could also appreciate not wanting to be cooped up while still having some space to oneself without people nosing in edgewise.

"Yeah, you really don't want to know how the dorms smell right now," Jake wrinkled his nose, but apparently he was a sucker for cats as he was grinning and trying to give Joni a mohawk.

//I don't need to smell them, mate,// Jono noted. //I've been picking up on how everyone feels, like it or not, since the beginning of th'bloody week.//

Apparently, they felt just as horny as they smelled. Fun times, that.

//Anyhow, my sense of smell isn't quite what it used t'be. I think that's probably for th'best, right about now.//

And issues he might have that would be caused directly by the pollen were conveniently dealt with by the fire. But there was still plenty of psionic feedback from everyone who was being affected by it, and so even he wasn't completely off the hook. Damn teenagers.

"Yeah, probably," Jake agreed because he could smell Jono and yes.

He frowned. "You mean like pick up from their behaviour? Cause you're kind of sounding like you mean something else."

He stroked down the mohawk again and scratched under Joni's chin instead.

Give Joni much more love, and she'd just flop over and purr for the rest of the day, Jake. Not that she'd mind all that much, granted.

//Pick up as in...// He shrugged a little, awkwardly. //It's kind of contagious, is all.//

Which seemed far less uncomfortable to share than, 'try though I might not to, I can feel things like this when it's everyone all at once, and they're projecting it loudly enough.'

Yeah, Jake had no clue what that meant.

"That's one word for it," he frowned, idly keeping up those scritches. "I dunno. I wasn't able to change for a while so that kind of messed things up."

//That would, wouldn't it?// Jono was doing something kind of like a frown, at that. //Sounds like yer week was rougher than you'd let on, then?//

And that would be Jake mostly paying attention to Joni now. It was a cool kitty!

"I went home for a bit this weekend. Got to kill some leeches, but not everything went as I would have liked."

Jono needed to take a moment, to translate 'leeches' to what he figured it would mean, when coming from a werewolf.

Vampires. Right.

//I imagine they wouldn't be terribly fond of letting themselves be killed,// he noted.

Joni, meanwhile, was purring more! And trying to get her paws up around Jake's hand. They could wrestle! He knew how to wrestle, right?

Jake knew how to wrestle, whether it was a fair match was something else entirely.

"No, they didn't," Jake gave him a toothy, wolfish grin. "They didn't get a lot of say in the matter. It would have been fine if Leah hadn't been an idiot and tried to take on one that had gotten away on her own."

//Aah,// Jono replied, his tone something approaching thoughtful. //Got into a bit of trouble, did she?//

Obviously, Jono.

"I got there in time," he said. "I took the brunt of it, the others dealt with the bloodsucker. I heal fast, but broken bones take even me a couple of days. That's why I couldn't change."

Jonothon nodded a little at that. Yeah, he couldn't imagine what it would be like, having your entire body shift into something else, with an injury.

//Not an altogether pleasant experience, then.//

"Not really, no," Jake agreed, tapping Joni's paw. "I'm fine now. I healed up for the most part and Raven healed what was left yesterday. Which meant I could change and stop sitting around feeling like I was going to crawl out of my skin."

That moment there, that completely dopey look that passed over Jono's features as Jake mentioned Raven's name? Ignore that. It was gone quickly enough, and Jono was right back to paying attention to the antics of Jake and the kitten, who gave her paw a little flick, and then set to work trying to tackle Jacob's finger to the ground. She could do it! She could!

//I can only imagine it would be a bit like being trapped in a box, or sommat,// he mused. //Being... restricted that way, I mean.//

He had some experience as well, with being stuck as only half of himself.

But the dopey looked suited him so well!

Jake's attention was on the kitten however, and his finger was putting up a valiant fight, tapping her nose on occasion to challenge her.

"We can stop changing if we want to," Jake said. "It just requires a whole lot more control than I have right now. It's weird, needing something that you didn't want in the first place but it's not all bad, you know?"

//I think I can make a guess as to what that's like,// Jono offered, crouching down so that he could better watch the kitten Vs. werewolf battle royale. //Some things... sneak up on you, I suppose. And they're terrible until they're taken away again.//

When he pushed his powers too far, using his telepathy was a bit more than a challenge, sometimes for hours on end. Try communicating without that.

If anyone asked Joni what she thought of the situation, she'd probably just do as she was doing now, hunkering down and then trying to pounce Jake's hand. Tap her on the nose, would he? That was fighting talk! Kinda!

Tap her on the nose and try to scritch her under her chin afterwards. Or even knock her over and rub her belly. Now that was fighting talk.

"I think it'd be almost easier just being a wolf," he admitted. "It's so much simpler. You don't need to feel or think as much. There's just instinct and you can keep running as far as you want."

//It sounds tempting,// Jono admitted. //Most people only ever have th'world they're handed, as it's been handed to them. Not many really ever get th'chance to just... be something else, for a while.//

Joni was having herself a grand old time, now! Belly rubs! That was an invitation to wrestle, pure and simple! And so there were wee teeny kitten teeth, trying to get the upper hand over Jacob's thumb. Take that!

Oh yes, Jacob's thumb was taking it and he grinned at little as it actually tickled.

"You're making it sound as a good thing," he said, but it did sound tempting. He wouldn't have to figure out what happened next or what he felt for who. "I thought it'd be easier getting back here."

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