Eric's Apartment [evening. Of course it's evening. It's *always* evening with Eric]

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After time drinking, watching Tiny mutter to himself, and making light chitchat with Jaina, it was time to get the entire story out of her--or at least as much as she was willing to tell him.

"After you," he said, opening his door (he didn't lock because really. If you tried to rob Eric, you deserved what you got) and ushering her in.

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"I passed brat 700 years ago," Eric declared.

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"And I've had reason to call you that enough to say that's a fib," Jaina said. "Be glad I didn't break out the Swedish."

The whole one word she knew.

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Eric snorted. "All one word of it?"

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"That one word has really been all I've needed so far," she pointed out.

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"I could teach you all of the really filthy words, too," Eric offered.

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"I'm amazed you haven't already," she said honestly.

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"Maybe you just weren't paying attention when I was saying them," Eric offered.

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"When were you saying them?" she asked.

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"After we broke the bed, definitely," Eric said.

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Well, bringing up that night was going to get her to smile... "I think I was focused on other things than the filthy Swedish."

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"Like how far some of those parts flew?" Eric replied, waggling his eyebrows.

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"You didn't even get dressed. I was not paying attention to where parts flew," she told him. Was this the same couch they'd tried to dent?

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Yes, yes it was.

"Well, we'd been doing something much more interesting," Eric said. "The furniture was not my priority."

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"This really isn't helping when it comes to not sleeping with you," she told him. And yet here she was, weighing her options.

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"Oh, was I supposed to be helping with that?" Eric asked.

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"It was probably too much to assume that was implied, huh?" she asked.

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He linked his fingers together and placed them behind his head, then smirked. "I wasn't the one who wanted to stop sleeping together."

And Eric was not overly familiar with the concept of playing fair.

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Jaina had to sit up straighter and turn more to look at him. "Just because I stopped it doesn't mean I wanted to," she pointed out.

And the reasons she could say no were... different now. Thanks for that, Jag. But she was completely single, and wasn't under any obligation to anyone.

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"You can always change your mind again," Eric replied.

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"I could." It was going to be a huge mess for her to sort through all this stuff once this whole thing was over. "What if I changed my mind for a night?"

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Eric's lips quirked up. "You should probably make sure it's a night you're in town, then."

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She was really relieved he went with that rather than her having to explain what all was going on in her head. "You know, I am in town now..."

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Eric grinned. "Then why are you still talking?"

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"Because," she said, just to be a brat, then smiled and leaned up to kiss him in a not-so-friendly way.

Or maybe really friendly, depending on your point of view.

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This was, it must be admitted, how Eric greeted many of his friends, but, well, Eric.

He pulled her into his lap so he could be more thorough in his kissing.