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 The Doctor Calls, [Jax and David]
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The Doctor helped people. Whatever else he did, whatever chaos he accidentally performed, whatever bits of wreckage he left in his wake, it was important to understand that he always tried to help people. With that in mind, he carefully balanced the plate of food on one hand and knocked with the other.
"Jax? Are you in?"
It was typical of David to fully expect the other man to drop everything he was doing to have dinner with him. He always flitted in and out of other people's lives, as he saw fit.
But he always came back when they were in trouble.
Jax had flat-out run away from the eggs. David never saw the man just flat-out run before. No fancy talk about 'tactical maneuvers' or 'retreat for better ground'. Not even when that very, very angry man with the rather large sword (which was not a metaphor for anything else) started yelling at him.
"Jax? I brought you some food. You know, dinner, tea, supper, that meal you eat at the end of the day?"
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Jax was drinking. This in and of itself wasn't that unusual. Jax drank a lot. He enjoyed drinking. Particularly with people. But even though there was a party arranged (by Rhaetia, bless her soul) for post-touching, Jax had...well, he hadn't felt up to it. And so he had taken to his room, holed up to think. And then when it had gotten to be too much, he had stopped thinking and started drinking.
The Pernese were backwards in a lot of ways, but he did not regret the day he had challenged S'fan to make a local brew equivalent to a fine malt whisky, and he was looking thoughtfully at the amber liquid (his fourth glass, by now) when the knock on the door hit him.
"David?"
He was up in a moment, pausing just long enough to decide how much he'd have to compensate for a lack of motor skills (not much, just yet, but enough that he had to think about it) before he touched the console pad on his side of the door and opened it. "David," he repeated, smiling at the man as soon as the metal sheet whooshed open. He probably looked like shit, he realized. David would have something to say about that, no doubt.
"Dinner?" And then his expression lit up. So this was David's way of making him feel better, finally taking him up on that date. And he had brought it right to Jax's room (ooh la la). The gesture was touching. "Come in," he said tiredly, pushing hair out of his eyes and standing aside. "I was just..." Well, nevermind that. David would be able to guess.
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As the door fwoshed open, David's personal space quickly became very intimate with the smell of whiskey. It was not what he had in mind when he came down here. He also hadn't been expecting to see Jax. Well, ok, so he expected to see the man. It was his room after all, even if he sort of suspected that the other man had gone off to traipse into some lucky woman's----or fellow's, because Jax was an equal opportunity lover---bed.
What he really wasn't expecting was how Jax looked, all bleary eyes and slightly tipsy. That was even more alarming. "I can guess what you were doing. You were moping by yourself. Sorry to interrupt your brooding. I know you need your broody sleep."
He stepped into the room, trying not to feel too worried about his friend. Whatever else they could be, they were friends here and now. And at least the walls here definitely weren't oozing ichor. That was always a plus in David's book. He wasn't much of a house person but, if he ever bought one, he would make a very serious request for a house that very definitely would not ooze any sort of bodily fluids from the walls.
"Sit down, Jax. You look about ready to fall over."
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"You underestimate my ability to hold my liquor."
Was the first thing Jax said, because trying to refute David's assertion that he was brooding would have been to lie, and David saw through his lies like normal people saw through glass. He wasn't sure why, if there was just something about the man that made it impossible for Jax to lie well around him, or that David was actually just that good. But whatever it was, it meant that when David told him to shove over and sit down, he did.
But instead of sinking into the chair he had been sitting in, he picked up the glass of whisky off the desk and took a seat on the bed. Living quarters on the Peregrine were tight, and there wasn't enough room for two chairs in a single like Jax's, and it felt...weird suggesting that David sit on the bed. "I'm a little surprised to see you," he admitted, staring darkly into the whisky until the smell of food finally overwhelmed his desire to brood in silence.
If he couldn't make David go away, he could at least figure out why David had showed up to bring him food. "I smell food. Is it for me?"
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"Very probably. But it got you to sit down, which was the main point," David said, trying to bring some semblance of cheer back to the conversation. Somehow, it felt flat, as though something dark and oppressive was pushing down on it, trying to squish everything below it. It didn't help that the Peregrine was a rather confined space and the rooms even more so. There was a reason why the naturally expansive and exuberant Doctor didn't like to spend much time in his room.
Still, he sat down in the proffered chair and tried not to twitch and fidget too much. "In all honesty, I didn't expect to see you in here either. But I figured it was worth a try..." well, that was something to handle later, he decided, after he'd gotten Jax to eat something.
"Nope. I figured I was just ready for something new, like eating in front of you. It's a step closer to actually eating dinner with you, right? Here, eat something. I've got some... some..." he stalled momentarily, trying to identify the things he'd rather randomly grabbed from the Dining Hall. "Meatroll, I think? Come on, everyone loves a good meatroll. And some sort of... roast... bird thing... It's probably got wings on it anyway. Most Pernese animals do. And mashed potatoes. Always good sensible food, that."
The only reason he didn't bring tea was because he didn't have enough hands for it. "Well, it's food," he finished a little lamely as he offered the tray to Jax. "Well, I'm pretty sure it's edible if you eat it." That was close enough, right? Right?
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"You're a good man, David. A little weird, but a good man."
Jax forced a smile that was a little more than half-genuine at his friend as he plucked a meatroll off the tray and bit into it. He chewed thoughtfully for a little bit, and then as he swallowed the bite, he looked back at David. "I'm afraid I'm just dreadful company tonight, sorry. You caught me the one time I'm not fun." And there he shrugged, returning his attention to the meatroll. There were probably other things to be said, but Jax wasn't particularly interested in saying them. There was the matter of the clutch still hanging heavy in his head. The one that had tried to take his mind, and...the other one. Images of sex and blood and killing prey and the strange feeling of pleasure associated with it...
He stopped chewing for a second before shaking his head and continuing to eat. It was almost enough to put him off his feed. And Jax had seen a lot in the galaxy before the trip to P.E.R.N. It just didn't bode well.
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"Weeelll, I did volunteer for a twelve year long mission to a relatively unknown planet that is populated by dragons. That really doesn't seem like a sane thing to do. Then again, if I recognize it as insane, what does that make me?" Presumably just a very aware madman or, possibly, just a guy trying to cheer up his friend who badly needed cheering up.
David saw Jax's shrug and raised him with another shrug. At least Jax was eating. Well, more like picking at his food, but at least he was picking it up and putting it into his mouth, which really all amounted to the same thing. Silence reigned, confused and slightly baffled about how it ever got to be king in a room with two notoriously loud and talkative men. But all kings had to fall sometime, and the Doctor spoke up again soon enough, hoping to pry some words out of his friend.
"You know what it reminded me of? It reminded me of skirting the Midnight Sector. You ever been there? Course, it was all shut down by the time I got there, but we had to move right along the edges of it. I swear that I felt something touch my mind then. Not doing anything, just keeping an eye on it. It felt like being under a microscope, like it was just deciding what to do about us." Another long pause. "Course, this was worse. Are you alright, Jax? I mean, really alright?"
The chair scraped across the floor as he scooted closer to his friend, close enough to put a hand on Jax's shoulder again. Ok, so he could just about understand a drinking Jax. He could even understand why Jax would choose to drink alone for a bit. He couldn't understand an eerily silent one.
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"...It's not much like the dragons."
Jax had been around the last clutch, and the clutches that had come before that. Not because he thought he had a chance, but because he was curious, and Sh'ard liked him, and R'ley tolerated his presence because Sh'ard liked him. He had gotten a chance to pat the eggs when they were ready, had met a few of the young lives in the shell. He had come to the hybrid Touching expecting the same thing. Instead, he had gotten horrible minds running roughshod over his consciousness and will. It might have been better if he had expected it, but even then, he got the sneaking suspicion that it wouldn't have helped much.
"I've had things hit my mind on occasion," he said. It was impossible to wander the galaxy and not find something with a high enough form of cognition that it managed to get into your brain. "These...to be honest, David, these scared me." And the words out, he sighed, picking more at the meat roll before glancing over. "I'm not great, but I'll be okay," he answered. "...how about you? Any little nasties get to you?"
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"Heterosis, I suspect," David said, sounding only a little distracted by his own thoughts. "A form of hybrid vigor. The hybrids are a lot more active a lot earlier. And stronger." He opened his mouth, prepared to give a lecture peppered with 'wells', 'brilliants' and possibly even a 'ohyes' here and there, but then something on Jax's face stopped him. Swallowing his own words, the Doctor put a sudden halt on his own thoughts and focused on his friend.
There were more important things in the universe----multiverse, technically, but that was a whole other story entirely----than knowledge and David was looking right into the face of one of them.
Fidgeting in the chair once more, the Doctor leaned back, trying to work out what to say. Wellll, I'm pretty sure the walls in here aren't bleeding, which is always a plus, but, for a second in the lab, I was absolutely convinced that the walls were oozing. I could smell it in the air. I could taste it. It was all so very real and, what if it was? I couldn't sense any of it thirty seconds later, but that means little. Senses can be fooled and who's to say that any of this was really happening at all? Incidentally, you smell amazing, Jac. Brilliant, even. but besides all that, I'm fine.
Nooooope.
"Oh, I'm always alright," he said instead with a quick-as-lightning-smile. "I'll feel better when I see you eat more. And drink something that isn't fermented enough to crinkle paint. Come on, let's talk of happier things."
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"I like the stuff that can crinkle paint." Jax spared David a wry smile as the man changed the subject, reaching out and resting a hand on his friend's shoulder. He squeezed lightly, a gentle reminder that he was there, that he cared. But other than that...well, David was off-limits. Jax had written his honor code a long time ago, written and revised it to David's liking, and over the past ten years, he had kept it. David was friends only, because Jax didn't want to ruin things with him. Even if sitting in the same room, sharing a meal, while he was more than a little drunk made things seem rather a lot different.
But he would be good. He'd had to endure worse before. He could endure this. He did, however, toss back the last of the glass of whisky. "But that'll be the last for now, I swear," he said, setting down the glass and solemnly crossing his heart with the hand that wasn't still resting on David's shoulder. "Would you like anything? I have other drinks. Some of them don't even have alcohol in them." The joke wasn't quite as cheerful as he had intended, but it was wry enough. "And anyways, if we're going to be eating dinner together, I should probably offer you a drink."
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It was the squeeze to his shoulder that did it. At least, that's what David was prepared to blame it on. It was a reminder that, in the universe----possibly multiverses as well----there was always one person who just... couldn't be lied to, no matter what. Or, for David, someone that he really didn't want to lie to. The fact that Jax knew he was lying didn't make it any easier. David dropped his gaze from Jax's to hold a staring contest with the plate of food instead.
And then he recovered, snagging a bread roll to cover up his mild embarrassment. "You know me. I get drunk, I wake up in the morning with a headache and learn that I spent most of the night panicking about 'accidentally the entire laws of physics again'," he said, all grins and smiles once more.
It drained only slightly as he reconsidered the Touching earlier. "Alright, just a little something then," he said, deciding that it would be better to at least get some good memories out of the evening.
"At least one of us should stay mostly sober to stop the other from accidentally all the things." There was probably something wrong with David being the responsible sober one in this scenario, but the world loved a change. It kept things alive.
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It wasn't like David to lie unless the problem was so grim he didn't want to talk about it at all, and so Jax let the Doctor's evasiveness fall by the wayside. Whatever had happened to the two of them in the lab wasn't something either of them wanted to think about. So when the conversation turned entirely to alcohol, Jax was more than happy to keep the thread moving, standing up and busying himself with the small collection of bottles he kept. Most of them were his own - and thus probably much too strong for a man who was more or less kept away from controlled substances like his life depended on it - but there were a few cordials he recalled being pleasant and not as strong as the rest of his stash. It was one of those that he chose for David, pouring the pale green liquid into a tumbler before turning back to his friend.
"Well, David, you know me," he said, grinning cheerfully as he passed over the glass. "The responsible one right up until I don't remember what I did the night before." Holding liquor had never been a problem of Jax's. In fact, for a long time getting really and thoroughly sloshed had been a chore. So the idea that he could somehow be too drunk to keep David in check without the aid of hypervodka, romulan ale, or gargleblasters was almost comical. "It's just whisky, after all," he added. "Don't worry, if you get too drunk I'll pin you down til you stop trying to climb the walls." The easy grin was on his face before he realized what he had just said and frantically tried to think of a way to backpedal.
...Somewhere along the line this had gotten weird. Gods above, he needed more whisky.
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David hesitated for a micro-second before accepting the drink. It wasn't that he didn't trust Jax's choice (after all, the Doctor's experience with liquors tended to be, 'well, there's whiskey, there's banana daiquiris and there's everything else'), but... As David realized that he couldn't follow up that ellipses with anything, he accepted the drink and took a sip. Fruit juice. Well, mostly fruit juice. As Jax had promised, something to give a pleasant buzz while not being completely drunk.
"So, in other words, you're completely responsible until you can no longer remember what you are responsible for doing. I like it, it's got a nice simplicity to it." Well, this was nice. If this was what that whole 'dinner' thing was supposed to be like, David could understand why Jax kept asking him.
And then Jax reminded him why he didn't accept dinner invitations. Normally, such comments would do nothing more to the Doctor besides making a slight ZOOM noise as they went right over his head, but this was entirely different. Jax made it different.
For one brief moment, the air in the room seemed so tense that doing anything at all made David feel like the moment would snap, like a rubber band under too much pressure. Judging from the silence from the other man, he noticed the slight stumble too.
Awkwaaard...
Finally, David settled on a wide grin and pretended not to notice. "You're a good man, Jax, and a good friend." Yes. There. 'Good friend'. He had to focus on those words, right then and there. Jax could do the whole 'friends with benefits' thing, but the Doctor simply couldn't. It was nice to remind himself of that simple fact. Well... nice in a 'not at all good-feeling Why-Can't-I-Have-That sort of way'.
Yep. The seething feeling in his liver would probably die down in a decade or so.
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...A good friend.
A good friend.
At those words, Jax's attention shifted immediately away from David, entire demeanour slumping slightly. Well, fuck. He wasn't sure what had just happened, but it...well, it hadn't gone in the right direction in any way, shape, or form. And now he was stuck doing damage control in a situation he hadn't even realized was loaded until the actual friendzoning occurred. And all this time he had thought that maybe, if he tried hard enough -
Well, that didn't matter much. Because friendzoning was friendzoning and just because Jax hadn't expected one didn't mean he wouldn't respect it. "Thanks, David," he said quietly, giving the man a little smile. "You've always been nothing but kind to me." Even when Jax deserved nothing even vaguely resembling kindness. Even when he had still been on the Peregrine with the intent of selling right of colonization to whatever alien species was willing to pay the highest, David had spent time with him and stuck with him and quietly asked him if he was telling the truth...and eventually it had straightened Jax out. Much to what he suspected was their mutual surprise.
"It really means a lot to me to hear you say that," he added, though he didn't make eye-contact when he spoke then. "And I wish I could think of a way to say the same to you." But he couldn't. Not in a way that would be meaningful, instead of just some ugly echo of a phrase Jax didn't want to use. David was a friend, of course - friends were friends and that was that. But David wasn't....just a friend - or at least Jax didn't want him to be - and to call him the same... "You're one of the most amazing people I know," he amended after a moment, turning his attention back to David and forcing another smile.
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... ok... David was not the sharpest bulb in the shed when it came to figuring out emotional things like this. As R'ley had once noted, the Doctor was naturally a very strange man. Even those who interacted with him daily didn't fully understand him or his motivations. Unfortunately, the problem went both ways: as other people struggled to understand David, so the Doctor remained uncertain about typical interactions.
Still, Jax was smiling soon enough, even if it was a little small for David's tastes. (A rather unfortunate word to think of, he realized, while he was busy staring at his friend's----yes, friend's lips----so he hurriedly looked back to Jax's eyes. Or he tried. The other man seemed to be avoiding eye contact for now, so David followed his example. "Everyone deserves another chance, Jax," he said, waving away the compliment. "I don't have much faith in governments, gods, or goats, but I have faith in people. All you needed was someone to listen." Weeelll, and be uncompromisingly positive and endearing. The Doctor was good at those bits too.
Murff... he supposed that included hybrids. Bloody, hell, but Jax was confusing. Combined with his earlier words, a promise to pin David down (which even the Doctor recognized as sexual, which was saying a lot), and then being called amazing. it was almost like the other man was trying to hit on him or something, but that didn't make sense. jax was never subtle about his intentions before. And...the eye contact combined with the compliment made his heart lurch uncomfortably.
Ugh. He needed another drink. David looked at the empty glass and shook it. "Got any more of that? It's been a long and confusing night. Normally I love thinking but it might be time to turn the brain-gear-box off for a little while. I'll even risk being pinned."
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