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[jdick]

It was weird that the day he turned thirty-six was also the day he'd been on the island for exactly ten months, so Joe decided that he'd do something to commemorate it before holding some office hours. Nothing big, just something he'd been thinking about doing for a couple weeks already and so he stood in front of the bathroom mirror, a razor in

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[the_cop]

Ray was lurking around the Compound and his eyes widened when he saw who was coming down the hall. At first he thought maybe Joe had another clone, but no, that was Joe.

"Hey, Bruce Willis is back on the island," Ray teased with a crooked smile.

[jdick]

"No, shit, Bruce Willis?" Joe asked with a snort, raising his hand to his head and patting it. "Better than being called Mr. Fucking Clean." Logan was gonna pay for that. Somehow Joe would find a way.

[the_cop]

"C'mon, say a line. Yippie-kai-yay motherfucker?" Ray said, eyeing Joe's head. Very egg-shaped.

[jdick]

Joe snorted and dryly said, "Yippie-kai-yay, motherfucker." But he looked pretty amused by the whole thing and dropped his hand a second later. "I needed to come off. I spent too fucking long with that thing."

[the_cop]

"But all of it? Pretty bold move," Ray said. "You got a good head though, not lumpy or anything."

[jdick]

Joe snorted again, but with laughter this time and he shook his head, looking amused. "Yeah, all of it. Only one way to grow out a mohawk, eh?" He reached up to rub his head and added, "Only you could make that sound like a compliment." Not lumpy or anything.

[the_cop]

"Hey, you could be one of those guys with road bumps all over your skull," Ray pointed out. He casually leaned against the doorframe. "We should have a race, you and me, who can grow a mohawk fasted."

[jdick]

"Yeah, like you're gonna shave your fucking head," Joe said with a grin, his eyebrows at Ray's hair. "Horatio would probably kick your ass. Okay, probably not, but he'd get all polite and weird if you did. All, 'Well, it's your hair, Ray' but you'd know that he'd disapprove. Deep down."

[the_cop]

"Nah, I wouldn't bother shaving my hair. I'd have a head start. Get it?" Ray joked.

"I would look like a fucking dork with no hair, my ears kind of stick out," he mused. "Horatio might like it, though. Maybe he's got a thing for bald guys, maybe I better watch out for you, eh?"

[jdick]

"Hardee fucking hah," Joe said, looking amused as he shook his head. "And my ears stick out, too." He has ears that looked like his father was an elf or something, but they'd always stuck out.

"And, y'know, I think Horatio will be able to control himself around me," he continued dryly.

[the_cop]

"I don't know, that is one attractive skull," Ray said, looking amused as anything.

"So I hear you and me are the same age today, old man."

[jdick]

"Yeah?" Joe asked, his eyebrows raised in amusement. "Where'd you hear that? I'm gonna have to punch some fucker for lying, apparently." Although it was obvious he was lying now.

[the_cop]

"Guess I can't say who, then," Ray said cheerfully. "If I would've known you were gonna shave your head I would've got you some turtle wax for a present."

[jdick]

"Too fucking kind," Joe said with a laugh, touching his head briefly, still a little weirded out by the lack of hair. "So what'd you get me instead? I mean, if you knew about it, there's no excuse."

[the_cop]

"What do you mean, what did I get you? You see a Bed Bath & Beyond up the beach?" Ray asked, clearly amused.

[jdick]

"Here I was just hoping you'd finally get your ass up into a cage and do a little dance for me," Joe shot back with a leer, his mouth twisting up into a grin.