Matt Jamison - OC - Milliways or a reasonable facsimile thereof

[mm_merky]

You'd think, what with all the amazing people and all the amazing sex and all the amazing opportunities in Matt's life right now, that he'd be able to avoid wrecking it by picking fights with powerful sorcerers and subsequently getting his spirit friends prohibited from talking to himBut if you thought that, you clearly do not know Matt Jamison

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[nita_callahan]

"I think this is the part where I tell you to stop picking at your food and eat because you're too skinny," comments a voice from beside him. Nita is leaning on the booth divider, and though her tone is light, she's watching him closely.

[tantric_slacker]

--O sweet, sweet narrative causality. Nita.

Matt brightens, albeit in sort of a desperate way.

"Is it that part?"

[nita_callahan]

"It might also be the part where I steal some of your food," she confesses, sliding onto the bench beside him. "It smells great."

[tantric_slacker]

Matt, having come into the bar pre-TMI-prepped, leans over and slides an arm around her waist, giving her a peck on the cheek.

Then he lets her go, but nudges his curry and sticky rice her way.

"Please," he says.

"It needs a good home."

[nita_callahan]

She returns the kiss lightly to his lips, where it belongs, then steals a bite of curry and rice.

"Always happy to help. Is everything okay?"

[tantric_slacker]

"Well, I'd love to hear what's up with you in a real-life, real-person kind of way," Matt says, "but I do have some stuff to run by you."

The wince is audible.

[nita_callahan]

Her eyebrows go up.

"Uh, summer vacation is up with me in a real-life kind of way. And Kit and I got called in to consult on a long-term intervention up in Lake Ontario, but that can keep. What's your stuff?"

[tantric_slacker]

Matt is interested in the consulting, but-- right.

Ariel.

"Uhhhh," he says.

"So, you're up on your Shakespeare, I assume."

[nita_callahan]

She see-saws a hand. "Pretty up, yeah."

[tantric_slacker]

"Prospero."

[nita_callahan]

". . . The Tempest?"

She blinks at him.

"What about him?"

[tantric_slacker]

Matt sighs, rolling his eyes a little-- at the situation and the boozing Jiminy Cricketesque specter of Jordie in his head, not at Nita.

"I ... may have questioned the validity of his personal ethics and gotten him really mad at me and potentially Ariel, who now isn't supposed to talk to me?"

[nita_callahan]

". . . Oh, shit."

Okay, first thing's first, and first thing is cuddling up and putting an arm around him.

"How mad is 'really mad'?"

[tantric_slacker]

He settles into the embrace gratefully-- tough love is great and good for him and everything, but he was feeling a real lack on the cuddle-love side.

"I don't know," he says.

"He reached for his staff but didn't do anything that I could see, and he hinted that he might try to talk to me again but I haven't seen any evidence of that yet? And he called me a boy with no life experience."

[nita_callahan]

"He called you a what? Jeez. Have you guys talked before?"

[tantric_slacker]

Matt holds up a finger. "One time. It was mostly shop. He didn't get any of my dirty secrets, but even so."