[ considering certain dreams taking a sharp left turn into a different kind of good and katherine's few dropped hints about why exactly people like being bitten so much, neal's decided a 'what the fuck, though' is in order. using a bit of his actual precious real tape he's stuck a sealed envelope on eric's door.
inside is nude sketch done in charcoal of eric laying on his stomach, book in his hands; it's more suggestive than actually sexual because that would be tacky, but the note scrawled in elegant cursive below is slightly more to the point: ]
[When Eric finds the sketch, he's both amused and also a little impressed. He appreciates art and he appreciates his own body, and Neal's sketch is actually pretty anatomically correct, and not just because the other man is a good artist. He knows what this sketch is supposed to mean from the man. Bringing it into his room, he tapes it up on his wall, before he sends a video message to Neal in response, the drawing conveniently visible in the background.]
You certainly have a remarkable attention to detail.
[SMIRK. Yes, as a matter of fact, he did. He usually does forget to mention these things - the reactions are better that way, and Neal's certainly does not fail to impress.]
[ sometimes neal's only saving grace is he backs up his arrogance with being freakishly good at whatever he's bragging about, so the satisfaction is genuine instead of mocking. ]
I'm an artist, it comes with the trade. I'll assume the dreams are part of it?
I can appreciate a good work of art. [It's clear that he means both himself and the drawing when he says that. Someone's a bit narcissistic. Then again he looks good, and he knows it, and the drawing definitely shows that off as well. When you've spent over a thousand years looking devilishly handsome, these personality flaws happen.]
And to answer your question, yes. The dreams are...an added bonus. [S M I R K]
So can I. [ neal just shrugs a little in acknowledgement-- physical beauty is physical beauty, he's not going to pretend it's a hardship looking at eric. ]
An added bonus you neglected to mention. [ a beat. ] I'll save you a visit from an angry federal agent and skip mentioning this to Peter, but somewhere he's laughing at me.
...open sharing of information isn't a talent of mine. 'Hoisted by my own petard' is the phrase, I think.
He'd probably say babysitter-- I'd go with occasionally reluctant partner.
[ and neal's visibly not bureau-issue; peter will out his 'convict on work release' at the drop of a hat-- not that it would matter to eric either way, he's fairly sure-- so there's no point in pretending not to be a criminal. ]
And I never complained, as such. Like I said-- I can appreciate good art.
Good. As long as we have this arrangement, you can expect to have those then. [Whenever your brain feels like it, there is apparently no rhyme or reason to the dreams.]
How does he feel about this...arrangement you have? [He smirks slightly.] Or haven't you told him? [It would be typical, after all, not to tell the 'babysitter' about the big bad vampire you've agreed to feed every now and again.]
I may have side-stepped sharing the details with him. [ peter gets overprotective. ] I didn't mention Katherine, either, and I generally go with 'what Peter doesn't know won't hurt him'.
[A quirk of a smile.] You're either very naive, or you trust me to be true to my word. [Which he will. But Neal doesn't exactly know Eric's character from their brief meeting, now does he? Unless he's been talking to Godric about him behind his back.]
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Date: 2013-08-28 01:56 am (UTC)inside is nude sketch done in charcoal of eric laying on his stomach, book in his hands; it's more suggestive than actually sexual because that would be tacky, but the note scrawled in elegant cursive below is slightly more to the point: ]
Forget to mention something?
-NC
[ this is the dude you helped out, eric. why. ]
video;
Date: 2013-08-28 03:02 am (UTC)You certainly have a remarkable attention to detail.
[SMIRK. Yes, as a matter of fact, he did. He usually does forget to mention these things - the reactions are better that way, and Neal's certainly does not fail to impress.]
video;
Date: 2013-08-28 04:06 am (UTC)[ sometimes neal's only saving grace is he backs up his arrogance with being freakishly good at whatever he's bragging about, so the satisfaction is genuine instead of mocking. ]
I'm an artist, it comes with the trade. I'll assume the dreams are part of it?
video;
Date: 2013-09-02 03:34 pm (UTC)And to answer your question, yes. The dreams are...an added bonus. [S M I R K]
video;
Date: 2013-09-05 02:39 pm (UTC)An added bonus you neglected to mention. [ a beat. ] I'll save you a visit from an angry federal agent and skip mentioning this to Peter, but somewhere he's laughing at me.
...open sharing of information isn't a talent of mine. 'Hoisted by my own petard' is the phrase, I think.
[ at least he can laugh at himself. ]
video;
Date: 2013-09-10 07:03 pm (UTC)So you have an federal agent protector on the ship? Good to know. I can't see why you would want to complain about the dreams, though. [So very smug.]
video;
Date: 2013-09-10 07:30 pm (UTC)[ and neal's visibly not bureau-issue; peter will out his 'convict on work release' at the drop of a hat-- not that it would matter to eric either way, he's fairly sure-- so there's no point in pretending not to be a criminal. ]
And I never complained, as such. Like I said-- I can appreciate good art.
video;
Date: 2013-09-14 11:26 pm (UTC)How does he feel about this...arrangement you have? [He smirks slightly.] Or haven't you told him? [It would be typical, after all, not to tell the 'babysitter' about the big bad vampire you've agreed to feed every now and again.]
video;
Date: 2013-09-15 03:23 am (UTC)video;
Date: 2013-09-21 06:48 pm (UTC)video;
Date: 2013-09-21 07:01 pm (UTC)[ neal's not banking on smiley, but cas is doable. ]
video;
Date: 2013-09-28 06:38 pm (UTC)[Eric is actually genuinely curious as to what his answer is here.]
video;
Date: 2013-09-29 10:14 pm (UTC)[ just matter of fact, there. ]
I'm good at being useful enough to someone to keep around; occupational hazard.
video;
Date: 2013-10-08 12:36 am (UTC)[He sits back in his seat, with a quirk of a smirk.] Well, you've been useful enough to me so far, so I suppose that I'll take you at your word.
video;
Date: 2013-10-08 06:55 pm (UTC)[ he's nearly suicidal in how sure he is of his abilities roofs have been jumped off, more than once. ]
I wouldn't do that, either— I'm a horrible liar. [ as in: great liar, does it horribly often.
this is his version of vague, friendly flirting
he's awful ]