Devil's Nest, Monday, 10/29

[bitten_notshy]

The DJ was having another clever day today; "Have You Ever Seen the Rain," "Waterfalls," "Stormy Weather," and about four different songs that seemed to all be called "Hurricane."

Jack did his best to ignore it as he made plans for the night ahead. Between the storm and the full moon, he wondered if drinking a bottle of Nyquil and barring himself in Derek's basement until the weather passed was any kind of an option. It certainly didn't look to be fit weather for a wolf to be out in.

He also quickly checked the bar to make sure it was fully stocked. If anyone made the journey out just to drink and dance tonight, they deserved the best of what the club had to offer.

[OOC: Open club, no OCD.]

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[justlurkinghere]

Derek did not shake like a dog to get the rain off when he rushed into the club. No, he just shook his head. In a completely normal fashion for a human.

Yes.

"California is sounding better and better," he grumbled.

[bitten_notshy]

"Your basement doesn't flood, does it?" Jack asked, and passed a bar towel over to Derek. "Here."

[justlurkinghere]

"I hope not," Derek replied, taking the towel gratefully. This was the time when wearing a leather jacket was not the most practical.

[bitten_notshy]

"I guess I'll find out soon enough," Jack said, not sounding especially optimistic. "... or we could see how much a last-minute portal to California costs in weather like this."

[justlurkinghere]

"Works for me." DAMN YOU, HURRICANES.

Derek shucked the jacket and then, upon remembering he was from an MTV show about teenage werewolves, took off the shirt as well to begin drying off.

You're welcome.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack managed not to stare. Much. Derek was like a brother.

A brother with a truly astounding body.

He swallowed, bent over his keyboard so Derek could finish ... whatever he was doing. A moment later, he cleared his throat. "Portalocity's website says they've suspended new bookings on the East coast for the day. Unless you want to make the case a full moon is an emergency, you're stuck with me."

[justlurkinghere]

Derek grunted as though it was such a hardship, wringing the shirt out. "We'll survive."

[bitten_notshy]

"Never doubted it. Just keep Mike up in his part of the house and we'll be fine," Jack said, and hoped he was right.

[justlurkinghere]

"You've mostly come across as... playful," Derek said, tugging the shirt back on. "Was it different before?"

Before Derek was there, at least.

[bitten_notshy]

"Playful to you," Jack stressed. "You don't smell like prey. Other people do."

[justlurkinghere]

Derek hummed thoughtfully at that. "Hunter's Moon tonight. Hopefully the storm will dull those instincts."

[bitten_notshy]

"It may. Besides, even the wolf isn't dumb enough to want to run out in this and get killed by a falling tree," Jack said, brow furrowing. "Why is it hunter's moon?"

[justlurkinghere]

Derek shot him a look for that. "They have names, the full moons. Old names. It's--the moon for the last month of hunting before winter begins."

[bitten_notshy]

"I never knew that," Jack said, finding himself rather taken by the concept and shooting a look back. "Good name for it. What's January's?"

[justlurkinghere]

"Usually? The Wolf Moon."

JUST ASK SCOTT ABOUT THAT.

[bitten_notshy]

"Fateful," Jack said philosophically. "That's when I was bitten."

[justlurkinghere]

Derek had to snort at that. "Pretty auspicious, yeah."

[bitten_notshy]

"If I'd known, I might have stayed inside that night." He would not have.

He wandered over to the door, peeked outside. "Good thing we can feel moonrise. I don't think we'll see it."

[justlurkinghere]

"I feel it all day," Derek replied, reaching behind the bar for a bottle of water.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack shook his head. "I do too, but it's stronger when it gets dark."

[justlurkinghere]

"Any aggression issues leading up to it?"

[bitten_notshy]

Jack looked rueful. "Only when other people are unusually stupid. Which seems to happen often."

[justlurkinghere]

"It'll get better," he replied dryly. "Be glad you're not a kid going through this. Hormones only make it worse."

[bitten_notshy]

"I wouldn't want to be 14 and a wolf for anything," Jack nodded. "It was bad enough the first time through, with no powers."

Even if he'd been convinced he was Entirely Grown.

[justlurkinghere]

"Were you here for that?" Whoa, Derek! That sounds like actual discussion of a friend variety.

[bitten_notshy]

"Spain, mostly," Jack said. He was surprised by the question, but the answer was hardly a secret. "My guardian was from there originally. I was a few months shy of 18 before I came to Fandom."

He retrieved a bottle of water of his own. "And you were always in Beacon Hills?"

[justlurkinghere]

Derek nodded, looking away as he drank his water. "It was a quiet town, no one knew what we were. Safe."

[bitten_notshy]

"So small town life is familiar to you," Jack surmised. "At least it is for one of us. I was always in cities, before."

[justlurkinghere]

"Cities are easier to hide in."

[bitten_notshy]

"Easier to accidentally kill someone in, too," Jack said. "Part of the reason I came here was that I'd started hunting pets and figured it was a matter of time before I went for bigger game."