Day 37: Men's Showers

[pleading_ngri]

I wouldn't really call this a locker room. More like a bathroom with lockers. The place was uncomfortably crowded, with almost every adult male patient being hustled into the showers at once, but Phoenix wasn't as annoyed by the claustrophobic, milling throng of bodies as he might have otherwise been. Every extra person was one more person who

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[k4t4str0ph4l]

Well, Yue hadn't been much good for distracting Schuldig from Artemis. While he'd been diverting at first, Arty's moving through phases of delusion and physical illness were just making ignoring him more and more difficult - no bloody thanks to Haku. If he'd known that Haku was going to be so damnably incompetent at smacking some sense into the boy, Schuldig would have gone over immediately. As it was, he was stuck until lunch.

That meant he needed another distraction - a good one this time. Fortunately, a shower for of naked men with varying complexes was an excellent place to find one...especially for someone of his ego. All he needed was to find Yohji (or Farfarello, if pressed) or someone whose admiration he could lose himself in for a little while...

Or there was ZEX. He'd have preferred someone who'd admire him specifically as opposed to something that admired every human body in eyeshot, but he was desperate. Pretty blatantly so, to be deliberately seeking attention from one of the people he'd been pointedly not eyeballing as

[k4t4str0ph4l]

And there, conveniently laid out for him in ZEX's mind, was all the information he needed. Schuldig couldn't help chuckling. "No, it isn't," he replied, quite thoroughly entertained at having the opportunity to educate ZEX in human sexuality and the practice thereof. Whether or not he demonstrated any of it personally, the next naked encounter with ZEX and Zelnick would be all sorts of amusing. "I can see your captain hasn't properly educated you on this point, but humans don't actually have sex with their hands." He almost began to remark that surely there must be things VUX did that were sexually pleasurable that didn't actually qualify as intercourse before he recalled, at the last moment, that he had absolutely no desire for ZEX to have any thoughts regarding what those practices might be. "We can certainly enjoy ourselves with them, but that's hardly the extent of it

[wantsyourzex]

Admittedly, ZEX had had some questions after he and his Captain's encounter some nights ago, but he assumed that they had logical answers... or at least, what could pass for logical with a human body. What Schuldig described... didn't make a great deal of sense to him. He'd assumed that humans had evolved their specialized, unwieldy hands because they used them to reproduce, as his Captain had shown him before. Was that not the case? ZEX had always considered himself fairly creative in such matters, but when he tried to picture what Schuldig described... this was more different than he'd anticipated

[k4t4str0ph4l]

Schuldig couldn't help laughing. It was hard not to imagine the look on Zelnick's face if ZEX suggested reproducing with him. "Two males can't reproduce," he informed the alien with a grin. It was tempting to leave ZEX ignorant for his captain and forcing Zelnick to explain...but it was even more tempting to make ZEX all too well-informed and see Zelnick try to talk his way out of getting something a lot more involved than a handjob from him. "Only a male and a female can. Your captain mentioned semen as being part of the process, didn't he? Well, only a female who gets a male's semen in her can reproduce. When two men mate, it's purely for pleasure's sake." That'd appeal to ZEX, Schuldig imagined.

Anyway, there was no real point in describing the workings of heterosexual sex to him in any great detail, since judging by ZEX's track record, he seemed far more interested in men than women, so Schuldig didn't bother elaborating further on that point. Instead he merely grinned. "It's not what you'd call a gaping hole, but it's between

[wantsyourzex]

"I... see," ZEX said, a bit hesitantly. This was all surprisingly complicated. The thought of impregnating someone while he was here certainly hadn't occurred to him! If he did come closer to a female human, he'd have to keep that in mind... perhaps stay with less risky activities

[k4t4str0ph4l]

"Oh, undoubtedly," Schuldig replied with a smirk. "But sadly, the staff takes a dim view of that. Trust me, I've tried." He nodded in the direction of the nearest orderly, who was watching Schuldig with narrowed eyes - he'd definitely made himself a reputation. Either that, or gained an admirer; hard to tell which, really. "And you're already busy tonight, so..."

Well, at least not having the time or opportunity made it a lot easier to not confront the question of whether or not he would if he did.

[wantsyourzex]

"Ah, that's true..." He had Wally to meet with... hopefully, he wouldn't be too offended that ZEX hadn't gone to see him the night before. Things had... gotten complicated. Not that ZEX wanted to think about such things now, certainly. "Perhaps some other time then? I am very intrigued by what you describe..."

Although for now, ZEX could look over his body at least one more time...

[k4t4str0ph4l]

"Perhaps," Schuldig agreed vaguely, grateful to get off without having to give a definitive answer. It was still aggravatingly tempting. But rather than dwell on uncomfortable questions he'd have to eventually answer, he opted instead to bask in the last few moments of ZEX's admiration and stretched deliberately to give him a good view.

[wantsyourzex]

"Wonderful..." Another agreement, as far as ZEX was concerned! And giving him a long stretch like that, it was almost like an invitation... it really was a shame that they didn't allow intimacy during the day! How else could people really connect with one another, hmm...

ZEX was quite glad to take in his body, as long as he offered it for viewing. "I'll be looking forward to it..." Distractedly, as he turned off the water. This time of day never lasted long enough...