[For Jason] Post-TR Day

[illuxinated]

Lux doesn't have a watch. She'd not been wearing one the day she turned up, fresh from a midnight swim, and she doesn't know what time it is aside from that it's late.

Really late. Late enough that Baze might start to worry if he wasn't so busy trying to hump that Kate chick so that he can go make a new family with her and her baby and her stupid hut with its stupid palm fronds.

Distantly, Lux understands that having these thoughts means two things: She's a cliche, and she's drunk.

Neither of those things seem to matter much, though, when held against the fact that it's so damned hot here, humidity creeping up under the thin fabric of her sundress and making her skin sticky. Tromping through the jungle, she pauses to lift the weight of her hair from the nape of her neck and then realizes as she stares into the inky darkness that she's got absolutely no idea where she is.

"Oh, just great," she spits out, dropping her hair to fling both arms out in an emphatic gesture that there is no one to see.

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[illuxinated]

When they fall forward, Lux lets out a squeak, her arms instinctively tightening around Jason's neck. A pause stretches out long and awkward between them, Lux stock still against Jason's back, his pulse fluttering against her wrist.

"Smooth," she says, mostly to break the silence, but immediately finds herself hilarious and dissolves into a fit of barely contained giggles.

[prodigaljaybird]

This is...far and away the last place he expected to be tonight, on his knees in the forest with a giggling girl on his back, and Jason's eyes are wide as they stare into the darkness all around them.

"Would you - " he starts, but it feels funny in his mouth, breaths bubbling past his lips too quick to stop, and all at once Jason realizes that he's laughing. "Don't laugh at me."

[illuxinated]

"I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing on you," Lux counters, which makes the situation seem all the more amusing. Trying to contain herself, she ducks her face into the little space between her elbow and Jason's neck, but it does little good, her shoulders still shaking. How is she still this drunk? It seems like they've been out here for hours, and yet she must still be hammered because she can't keep her giggles from evolving into full-fledged laughter. It feels good to let go and simply be happy for a moment, even if it's over something as silly as all this.

[prodigaljaybird]

Jason gives up all at once, sinking loose limbed onto the ground and racked by the same helpless, ridiculous laughter as the girl on his back. "What the fuck?" he wheezes, trying to twist to face her and failing. "Do I at least get points for being on solid ground this time?"

[illuxinated]

"I'm only giving you a two for style, that was just sad," Lux replies through her laughter, lifting her head to find herself faced with the side of Jason's head. She sighs happily as her giggles taper off, and then peers contentedly down into the one blue eye she can actually see.

"That was nice," she says a little dreamily, then sobers enough to clarify, "the laughing, not humping your back."

[prodigaljaybird]

"Yeah." He realizes he means it the same moment it leaves his mouth, and Jason doesn't try taking it back, rubbing fingers over cheeks sore with laughter, pushing traces of tears from the corners of his eyes.

"Gotta say though. Back humping's a new one."

[illuxinated]

"First time for everything," Lux pragmatically asserts, and then lays her cheek against Jason's shoulder, her whole body settling against his. "Let's just stay here, this is good," she murmurs as her eyes fall closed.

[prodigaljaybird]

Jason feels her weight settle against his back, warm and slight, and he figures, maybe there's time for another first. Shifting her carefully, he angles her until she's in his arms and stands, hoping to god she's not about to shout at him.

There's a bit of hair in her eyes when he looks down at her, and Jason blows again, this time to move it, spoils it all a moment later when he says, "Just tell me if you're gonna puke, okay?"

[illuxinated]

The puff of air makes Lux pull a face, but instinct has her almost immediately curling in against Jason, arms around his neck and cheek laid against his shoulder.

"'M fine," she quietly asserts as she nuzzles in. "This is so much better."

[prodigaljaybird]

"Be better if you'd let me use the trees," Jason murmurs, but without any real hope of convincing her this time. It's late, and the weight of her is nice against his arms, comforting in a way he's neither looked for nor expected, and he picks his way carefully over the roots until he remembers that he's been trained by the goddamned Batman - he could find them with his eyes closed.

"Won't be long," he says, even more quietly. "Sleep if you want."