Hayley

[thisismybar]

Ric was... happy. Being able to sleep with Hayley -and really just sleep, god knew the sex wasn't lacking- even with Damon acting as a guard dog, had been good for him. No new bodies turning up, not missing chunks of time, those were pretty good, too. They weren't quite enough for him to let his guard completely down, but he didn't think there was going to be a whole lot of sleeping going on tonight, anyway.

And if there was, well, tonight Hayley would be even more equipped to play guard dog and take care of him. Elijah's reassurance helped keep that one metaphorical and mildly amusing.

He dumped the last load of camping gear onto the ground, and looked up at the sky to check the weather. "I don't think we're going to have to worry about being rained on tonight, but we should probably set up the tent." Who knew what tomorrow would bring,and it would be easier to relax somewhere enclosed. And limit bugs.

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[thisismybar]

Ric grinned at Damon and inclined his head in acknowledgement, but did answer a bit more clearly. "I don't know what it is, exactly. She just doesn't appeal to me. I can't actually think of a celebrity that does." Which was absolutely truthful. He really, really couldn't.

[littlewolf_girl]

"Huh." Hayley processed that, then gave him a quizzical look. "Did you have any that did when you were growing up?"

[thisismybar]

He tries to think back, head tilted and a mildly thoughtful frown on his face. "Clare Danes?" he offers, somewhat hesitantly. "Go back far enough and you might hit Mary Poppins."

[littlewolf_girl]

"Well, Julie Andrews was hot-ish," Damon allowed.

Hayley considered, then just shook her head. "Okay... "

"Who were your childhood celebrity crushes?" Damon asked her.

"Uh...Johnny Depp liberally graced my walls."

"No teen dreams?"

Hayley shook her head. "Nope."

[thisismybar]

"Mary-Poppins," Ric repeated. "Not Julie Andrews. The character, not the actress. We're talking really young kid crush here. Like I want to hang around, pull your pig-tails and maybe hold your hand. Sex and hot were not on the radar."

The rest of the exchange made him tilt his head a little. "There's a type there for you. What am I doing here?" He was teasing though, but there was not a whole lot of Jonny Depp and Anglina Jolie in him. If, you know, any. Which was unlikely.

[littlewolf_girl]

Damon tried not to crack up.

Hayley, though, gave Ric a bright, if teasing, smile. "I grew up."

[thisismybar]

Ric arched his eyebrows at her a little. "Oh, you've grown up, all right...." She was hot. He was relaxing about the age thing. Hayley was a lot of things, but immature didn't figure in. "And you," he said to Damon, "can give it up already." It up being the trying. It was okay to laugh at him, at least about this.

[littlewolf_girl]

Hayley flashed him a smirk and stretched out a bit in the chair, long legs more properly on display. "I'm glad we agree on that." Because it would suck if he was hung up on the age thing.

Damon did as he was told and cracked up.

[thisismybar]

Damon laughing was always good, and made Ric smile a little, though he definitely eyed Hayley's legs when she stretched them out. "We'd have a lot less fun if we didn't...." Planning and schedules or not.

[littlewolf_girl]

Hayley grinned at him. "That's certainly true."

Damon tsked. "Could we not get in to the age difference thing?"

What with his impending date with Elijah.

[thisismybar]

Ric frowned a bit at Damon, and lifted his eyebrows. "Not used to being the young and relative inexperienced one?"

[littlewolf_girl]

"I'll go with young--but take back the inexperienced bit!" Damon protested.

[thisismybar]

"Sweetheart," Ric drawled. "This is Elijah. He's been around long enough to have invented sex acts you haven't even dreamed about."

[littlewolf_girl]

Hayley nodded. "My advice? Enjoy and learn..."

Damon gave them both an aggrieved look. "Remind me why I brought you two coffee and donuts?"

[thisismybar]

"Because we're your friends, Damon." Was there another answer to that? No. But the reminder, and even the plurality seemed like a very good thing to put out there.

[littlewolf_girl]

Hayley looked surprised, then pleased, to be included in that.

Damon felt a warm little glow at it, sure, though he rolled his eyes--not quite hiding the smile. "And that comes with constant teasing?"

[thisismybar]

"Hey. I'm just following the rules you set. If we went by the ones I set, it'd be more violence." He smiled, too. Not hiding it, not subdued, just smiling. "Bacon's ready."

[littlewolf_girl]

Damon made a face at him, not commenting. It was...weird in a good way, this back and forth with them. New, but...he liked it. "Bacon is good..."

Hayley did not at all whimper and want to take more of it. She really would wait until they got what they wanted.

[thisismybar]

Ric laughed and moved the cooler with his foot, to a place they could all reach it, and set the paper plate (of bacon) on top of it. "We should do this more often...."

[littlewolf_girl]

"We should," Hayley agreed, eagerly, though whether that was for the idea or the bacon, who knew?

"Preferably not on a full moon," Damon offered as a caveat. "Though we'll need a second tent."

[thisismybar]

"...Are you going to bring Elijah?" Ric asked, with complete confusion. He couldn't really see Elijah camping.

[littlewolf_girl]

"...No?" Damon said, equally confused. "I mean it might be nice of me to ask him or whatever, but I don't really see him embracing the wilderness..."

[thisismybar]

"...Then why would we need two tents?" They'd slept together before!

[littlewolf_girl]

Damon finally grinned. "Well, I was trying to give you at least the semblance of privacy in case you wanted to actually have sex out here one night instead of play fetch."

Hayley choked on her coffee.

[thisismybar]

"You totally missed the middle aged thing, didn't you? The only sex I'm having out here will not be happening in a tent. No matter what, my back or knees would die." He didn't even miss a beat.