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“Alright, so what happened?” Jonah asks.
“Did you find anything useful?” Lucien adds, still in his suit from his mayoral duties. To be honest, he’s nearly always in a suit, so I think he just likes wearing them. They suit him and his personality, and he looks as comfortable in a suit as he does in our usual job uniform of cargo pants and t-shirts.
Before I can answer, Pete walks through the door, an excited Shadow going around to greet everyone and then slowing her pace before she gets to Lyric and greets her calmly. It fascinates me how she knows that Lyric is pregnant and she needs to be more careful.
“Perfect timing. We were just telling Lyric and the guys what happened today,” Rome tells him with a smile.
“In that case, they’ll want to see the footage. It explains the more complex part of what happened, and we can fill in the blanks,” Peter suggests, already striding toward the TV with the laptop so he can put the footage up on it so that everyone can see better.
“Oooh, you didn’t tell me there was footage,” Lyric says excitedly as she bounces on the couch.
“Can we get popcorn?” Ezra chuckles.
“I wouldn’t. Not this close to dinner, you know Rafe's views of that,” Rip points out, and Ezra grimaces slightly.
“Good point, I’ll wait.” He wisely decides.
“While you guys are doing that, I’m going to go and find Jensen and check his hand,” Luc says, kissing me softly and then leaving the room.
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It doesn’t take me long to find Jensen sitting in the extension on one of the couches and thoroughly absorbed in the book he’s reading.
“Ezra and the others are here,” I tell him as I take a seat next to him.
“Awesome, I just want to finish this chapter, and then I’ll come and say hello,” he replies with a small smile.
“I just want to check your hand quickly and make sure that you haven’t done any more damage to it,” I add, and then grin as he simply nods and holds out his hand, his eyes still moving across the page of the book.
After a quick but thorough examination of his hand, it’s clear that, thankfully, he’s just knocked it, and there’s nothing to be concerned about. He hasn’t rebroken it, and it still looks like it’s healing pretty well. I put the support back on, briefly smiling because if the doctor had put a cast on it, he would’ve ended up cutting it off anyway.
“All good?” Jensen surprises me by asking, and I glance over to see that he’s put his book down and is watching me curiously.
“Yeah, man, it’s like you thought, you’ve just knocked it,” I reply with a smile, leaning back in my seat.
“Thank fuck for that.” He replies, “I’m so fed up with being in pain.”
“I know being in pain is shitty, but if I had to choose between you being in pain and you being dead, I’m going to choose pain every time, sorry man.”
He chuckles, “I know. I would too. I’m just bitching. I’m sorry for scaring you.”
His words shock me slightly, but I reply honestly, “Dude, it wasn’t your fault, but please, for the love of everything, just don’t do it again.”
“I’ll try not to,” he replies, smiling wryly, and then perks up, looking excited and making me wary in the process. “You know I’m practicing being sneaky?”
I chuckle as I relax back into the couch again, “Yeah, and you’re getting pretty damn good at it as well.”
Jensen grins, “Thanks, dude. Everyone knows that you’re the best at sneaking around though, so I was wondering if you could give me some tips. Especially about moving silently with injuries.”
“Oh yeah, of course I can. It will build up your strength as well,” I reply thoughtfully.
“And you can also make sure I don’t overdo it, and that will keep our beautiful girlfriend happy,” he adds.
I burst out laughing, “Smart move, man. There’s no way she would let you do some of the more acrobatic stuff without supervision and training.”
“My thoughts exactly,” Jensen agrees.
I start nodding as my mind begins to bring up different ways to train him while he’s still injured until something occurs to me, and I frown, “Shit, we’re going to have to be careful of your clumsiness.”