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[untilitstops]

Characters: untilitstops and candleinastorm

Location: Their humble apartment.
Rating: Approx PG-13. Language, nudity, the usual.
Time: Oct 3, night.
Description: Post-rescue shenanigans. Recovering Aeon feels the need to reassert his superiority investigate his new abilities under changed parameters.

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[candleinastorm]

Kazu had also been having a hard time relaxing ever since Sano had been kidnapped, though he was much more obvious about it than the older man. There were dark circles under his eyes that spoke of his own nightmares, old nightmares full of fire and smoke that had resurfaced and multiplied and it was getting to the point where he'd burned something in the kitchen and almost puked at the visceral memory the smell provoked.

Far from having Sano back, Kazu had become twice as worried, hoovering around the man as unobtrusively as he could and exchanging insults by rote. Any noise woke him from dead, smoke-clogged sleep and had him padding past Sano's room back and forth until his heart stopped racing.

He was exhausted, and that was the only reason Sano's stalking aura did not someone alert Kazu. He continued padding down the hall, unsuspecting.

[untilitstops]

Inasmuch as a jaguar could smirk, Sano attempted it. His ears pinned back flat against his head, his body pressed lower to the ground--and without warning he pounced, slamming one shoulder against the back of Kazu's knees and darting away again as quickly as he could. It still hurt to move so quickly, and jumping any higher than that was almost out of the question, but he wanted, needed to see how this body moved. And after all, there was only one subject to experiment on.

[candleinastorm]

Oddly, the first words out of Kazu's mouth were not a string of inarticulate cursing, but a single panicked cry of Sano!. He caught himself before he hit the ground and recovered with impressive speed, resting on the balls of his feet as he cast around frantically for both his enemy and a weapon. he spotted an umbrella in the same instant he spotted the predator and lunged for the former.

[untilitstops]

Sano backpedaled clumsily, trying not to trip over his own paws; feline grace only compensated so much for going in a nonideal direction. Glancing rather blandly up at Kazu he gave a single growl, sounding more like a hoarse disapproving cough than anything else. He sat back on his haunches, curling his tail primly around his paws and radiating exasperation at the umbrella.