.godness This took way more time than I had wanted it too! D8 I got stuck! and you damn pervs didn't help much! *shakes fist* But thanks for the help with questions *WINK*

Anyway. Sorry for any spelling and/or grammar erros 8D enjoy.

Alister slowly opened his eyes only to shut them again seconds later, not really wanting to fully wake up yet. Instead cuddling into the warmth he felt next to him, feeling a strong warm arm wrap around him and a soft kiss on his forehead.

"Zip" he mumbled and dozed of resting his head on the Americans chest.

He was woken a short while later by a loud beeping sound, the alarm clock. It was followed by the sound of a violent slam as Zip planted his fist on the small machine, probably breaking it. Alister opened his eyes and slowly sat up. Soon feeling Zips arms wrap around him once again, and his hot breath on his neck. "Good morning" he said tiredly. Alister smiled. "Good morning to you too" he replied and got out of bed, grabbing his clothes and slowly started to dress.

Zip remained in bed, watching him.

"You know it's much funnier to watch ya undress"

"Yeah I'm sure" he replied and picked Zips clothes up from the floor and threw them at the hacker. "Go on now, time to go up" Zip groaned and started dressing to. "It's not like I have anything to do today anyway" he complained.

"It's your own fault…"

"Yeah yeah I know!"

Alister smiled and walked towards the bed again and sat down next to Zip, who finally had gotten his hooide on. It was still unzipped though. Alister observed him thoughtfully as he slowly leaned out of bed and grabbed his shoes, then getting his legs out from under the blanket and putting them on. As he was still wearing his pants since last night.

"What happened then?" Alister suddenly said. Zip gave him a very confused look. "What happened?"

"Your mother"

"Yeah what about her?"

"Well…does your dad still…?" he trailed of and looked away. Zip smiled and wrapped his arm around Alisters shoulders pulling him down in his lap, were he started stroking his hair and cheeks. Like a kitty.

"Well…actually he wasn't my biological dad, I haven't seen him for ages" he paused.

"But about the other one… well he comes and goes, my mom breaks up with him and says she'll never see him again…but takes him back over and over" he let out a humorless chuckle. "I don't think she's seeing him at the moment though"

It got quiet after that, Zip was softly stroking Alisters hair.

"Ah well, enough of that" Zip suddenly said "Breakfast!" he exclaimed, Alister smiled. Feeling this wasn't something Zip would go into detail on, but he didn't need any details. Not even sure there was any more to say about the matter.

"Great" he said softly and got up, heading for the door. Before he could open it Zip grabbed him (again) and spun him around, pulling his body closer to his own.

"Say Al…what are you doing today?" the historian gave him an amused smile. "Nothing much…Why do you ask?"

"Well… I don't have much to do myself…" he smiled suggestively and leaned closer. "And I can think of a few things we could do"

"What are you implying?" Alister asked amused.

"Well what do you think?" Zip chuckled and let one of his hands slip in under Alisters shirt to touch his stomach. Alister let out a small yelp, then he laughed and grabbed Zips hand, removing it.

"Ah! You want to do those kind of things?" The Englishman said playfully. "After we only been on one single date? Who do you take me for?" he twisted himself out of the hackers grip.

"So you wanna go on another one?" Alister nodded and opened the door, walking out of the room and leaving Zip alone.

"Well why didn't you just say so?" he asked out loud and smiled.

After breakfast Alister had gone into le library, as always. As soon as he had gotten comfortable in his seat with a dozen books staked around him the door opened. Alister looked up, half expecting Zip to walk through the door but was surprised to see Lara instead.

"Oh, Hello Lara" he greeted and looked down in his book again. Lara smiled.

"Since Zip can't do any work most of your work will come to a temporary stop" Lara started and Alister looked up at her. "We have no computers" she smiled as she spoke. "I figured I would give you some time off"

The historian nodded slowly and opened his mouth to say something when the woman interrupted him. "That and Zip was begging me to give you time off" she chuckled and Alister gave her a confused look. "Excuse me?" Lara shrugged, still smiling. "You know considering what he did the other day I normally wouldn't listen to him…" she let out another chuckle. "But the poor thing looked so desperate, I don't know what he's planning but you should go see him"

She looked at her research assistant and started to laugh at his confused expression. Alister just watched her as she laughed and waved her hand at him. "You two lads have fun" she gave him a smug smile and turned towards the door, on her way out she turned around again. "Just keep it down".

Alister Blushed at the English woman's comment as she slammed the door shut behind her he could hear her laugh disappear down the corridor.

"Bloody…..!!" he spat, then sat there for some minutes before he slammed his book shut and got up.

Zip was, believe it or not. Trying to clean up his room. Picking up his clothes from the floor and other random stuff that was lying around. He pushed some gadgets in under his bed, the clothes he took to the washing room. He meet Winston in the hallway on his way there.

"Ah master Zip, I see you finally decided to do something about the disaster that is your room" he laughed warmly and Zip smiled. "Ah common it only looks messy cause I keep equipment in there!" The butler chuckled and patted Zip on the shoulder, then he disappeared down the hallway.

Once Zip got back to his room and did the final adjustments it looked pretty good. Not as nice as Lara's room but that was because Winston hadn't done the cleaning. The hacker sat down on the bed just as he heard knocking on the door, and a British accent.

"Zip? Are you in here, if so open the door" It was Alister and he sounded slightly annoyed. Zip got up and opened the door only to get a disapproving look from Alister. "So I'm here now" he said and walked into the room, Zip just smiled. He found Alister's behavior amusing and closed the door behind him. "Welcome to date number two" the hacker chuckled.

The historian turned around and looked at him. "This is date number two?" he laughed humorlessly and looked around "it's your room" he stated.

Zip shook his head. "It's my room. After I cleaned it up!" he corrected him, Alister rolled his eyes.

"Oh lovely…And what are we supposed to do in here then?" he sat down on Zips bed and Zip sat down next to him. "Well I wanted to take you somewhere but…" he looked down at his ankle. "I can't because of this, so I'll have to make the best of it." Before Alister could say anything Zip continued.

"SO welcome to my house" he said cheerfully. "House? Zip we live in the same house and this is your bloody room, I've been in here before. Last night in fact" The dark man wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at him. "Have some imagination Al. I told you I'm trying to make the best of it"

Alister couldn't help but chuckle, he nodded slowly. "All right then…very nice home you have"

"Thank you, I know" Zip replied and got up from the bed. "I don't have a kitchen so I can't offer you anything but you just ate so whatever" He pointed towards the bathroom. "Guestroom" he said shortly. Then he started to walk around looking for something. Alister observed him as he was digging through his drawers.

"Yeah you came sorta early, so I didn't have time to prepare anything…"

After a while Zip found an old dusty box. Alister looked at the box and then looked at Zip skeptically.

"A tabletop game? You must be joking…"

Zip just gave him an odd stare "Hello? Did I not just tell you I have an ankle monitor? I'm trying over here so move ya self and shut up" Alister moved and made some room for Zip to place the box on the bed. "And before you ask me why on earth I have this in my room… It's my sisters"

"That just confuses me even more!"

"Well ignorance is bliss, anyway let's see what sort of game this is"

Alister just smiled and shook his head at the American as he opened the box and examine the cover to try and figure out what the game was about.

"huh…figures It's a girl game" he muttered. "Well it's your sister's game?" the historian muttered as Zip threw the lid away and turned the box upside down, spilling its contents over the bed.

"Let's see… a bunch of cards, a board…" he muttered as he searched through it all stopping as he picked up a small oval shaped object. It had rainbow colored lights on it, they were currently turned off however. And a big yellow button on one end, there was a smaller red one on the other side.

"What is that?" Alister questioned.

The hacker turned it around in his hands, then a smile spread across his face. "Oh yeah, I remember this" he chuckled. The Englishman glared at him. "Well what is it?" he asked again.

"Look" the hacker started and held out the object. "You're supposed to take a card and there's some silly question on it like… have you cheated your boyfriend and you place your finger on the yellow button and the person reading from the card places their finger on the red button" Zip started to laugh and Alister waited impatiently until he calmed himself down, trying to follow the Americans explanation.

"Then these lamps will start glowing and crap and it'll stop at a color, the color shows if you're telling truth or not!" Alister gave him a very confused look. "Uuhhh excuse me?"

"If it stops on red, you're a big fat liar, yellow is..Well sorta true and green is truth. Of course we're both adults and we know it's just randomized whatever it stops on, but It'll just add in more fun" he laughed again. Alister shook his head and rolled his eyes at the dark man. "You think we should play this childish game? What's to point?"

Zip pouted. "Yes I do, because you wanted to go on another date and I'm stuck inside for four months!" he complained. "Without any computers or TV" he added in. Alister held his hands up in surrender. "Fine, fine you bloody…geek"

"I told you! It's my sisters! I don't remember how it ended up here though…" Alister just gave him an odd look, before rolling his eyes again and picking up the playing board. "Let's just get this over with" he muttered. Placing the board on the bed and picking up the cards. Zip was looking at the board and the, then grabbed it and threw it across the bed. Alister flinched at this sudden movement and gave Zip another confused look.

"What did you do that for?! Are you completely messed up?" He hissed.

"Meh I figured we would skip the boring part" he held up the purple colored (glittery) plastic object again. "Take a card and ask me a question" he smiled warmly. Alister wrinkled his eyebrows, then he slowly picked up the cards and randomly choose one of them.

His face remained serious as he read what was written on it "Have you ever used your mothers make up?"

The hacker started to laugh like crazy and Alister watched him. "What did you expect from a teenage girls game?" He said and couldn't help but chuckle. Zip shook his head and calmed down. He took a deep breath.

"No, I have not"

As they pressed down the buttons the lights started to glow. Alister was a bit surprised this thing still had batteries. It stopped at yellow.

"Ah, so you did use some of it" The historian smiled. "I've always thought your lips looked a little glossy" He joked, Zip gave him a suggestive smile "you if anyone should know if I use lip gloss" he gave him a playful wink. Alister blushed and handed Zip the cards.

"Have you ever kissed another girl?" He read.

"Ah this is ridiculous!" Alister moaned. "Just answer the question Al" Zip Chuckled. Alister sighed. "Well First of I'm a man and… Yes I have"

Zip rose his eyebrows. "Huh? But you're so...Gay!" he exclaimed and started to laugh like crazy again "Shut up!" Alister yelled and slammed his hands down on the bed "I haven't always known…It was a long time ago…" He blushed and shook his head. "Just shut up!" he hissed. Zip held out the plastic toy and Alister placed his finger on the button. The light started glowing and stopped at green. Alister just gave Zip a superior look and said nothing more, taking the cards from the American.

"Have you ever cheated on a test?"

Zip shook his head and placed a hand on his own chest. "Me? I would never!" He said with his eyes wide open. The Englishman smirked at Zips faked surprise. "Sure you wouldn't" he replied and pressed the little red button down, Zip placed his own finger on the yellow one and the little lights shone again. It stopped at green.

"Proves what a piece of crap it is" Alister muttered but smiled. Zip reaches out and grabbed the card deck, once again randomly picking one and reading what was written on the little piece of hard paper. A smile spread over his dark lips. He read it out loud for Alister, still with that smug smile.

"Is there a boy you like?"

Alister wrinkled his eyebrows, other than that he showed no other emotion. Zip held you the purple toy machine again, more than a little curious about what Alister would answer. The smaller man pressed down the yellow button and looked at Zip blankly.

"No"

Zips heart skipped a beat. No? Why did he say no? Didn't he like him? Zip was almost sure he did. At least a little bit. It seemed like it anyway. What about all those times they had kissed? He hadn't resisted! And just last night… He bit his lower lip and focused on the small lights instead of looking at Alister. They stopped at red. Zip smiled slightly and looked up, expecting Alister to simply shrug and once again stated what a silly game it was. He was surprised to find Alister blushing.

"Stupid toy…" he mumbled and let go of it. "It's just randomly stopping at different colors doesn't mean a thing!"

"Really? It's given me satisfying answers" Zip teased. Alister gave him an disapproving look.

"Really? ? It's a lame game and I don't want to play it anymore" He was about to stand up again but Zip grabbed his arm and pulled him down, he threw the cards over his shoulder.

"Next question!"

The archeologist sighed. "First of; I told you I don't want to play anymore and second of; It's my turn to ask… besides you just threw away the cards"

"You thought the cards had stupid questions so I figured I would make up my own" He leaned closer to Alister, who got a bit nervous about him being so close. "Well…I-it's still my turn to ask"

"But you didn't want to play" he explained calmly, with a smug smile on his lips. His behavior made Alister even more nervous, and he fought to hide it. "You're just confusing me now" he mumbled to the hacker, who's smile got even wider.

"Well you can ask me something if ya want. But you can't use the cards"

Alister moved away from the dark man, trying to create some space between them but Zip moved after and ended up even closer than before. "Zip…Please" he tried but felt the Americans chest pressed against his own. He could hear him laugh as Zip laid his weight on Alister causing him to fall backwards down in the bed. Zip loomed over him, steadying himself on his arms.

"So, How you wanna do? Do you want to ask me something? Or should I ask you something?"

Alister swallowed. "You do it" he said quietly. Zip smiled and brought up the glittery plastic toy again, almost hitting the other man in the face with it. "Must you have that ridiculous toy??" he spat.

"It's part of the game stupid" Zip laughed and gently tapped the historians forehead, like he was knocking to see if anyone was home. "Now…My question" He smiled evilly.

"What do you think…I think of you?" He said softly.

Alisters hear jumped, and started to beat a bit faster than he would have preferred. He wasn't sure what to say and Zip watching him with that calm, self-confident expression. Nervously he fumbled for the little purple toy. He got a hold of it and took it away from Zip.

"I changed my mind, I want you ask you something" Zip smiled and gave him a small nod.

"Go ahead" He said.

Alister took his eyes from the dark man and looked down at the small piece of plastic. He tried to quickly think of a question before Zip decided to take his role back, or demand an answer for his previous question. His eyes darted back and forth between the man above him and the item in his hand, feeling the pressure and stress boil over he just blurred out the first thing he came to think of.

"What do you think of me?"

"What I think of you? Isn't it obvious?" He chuckled "But you just confirmed for me that for being so smart…" he leaned down, now very close to Alisters face. The tip of his nose brushing against Alisters. "You're really slow". Alister didn't have time to say anything, better yet react as Zip closed the small distance between them. He could feel Zip smiled as he kissed him and he tried to pull away, but since he was lying down it didn't go too well and he felt how the American slipped his tongue in too.

Zip brought one of his hands up to softly stroke Alisters cheek. He noticed how Alister put his hands on Zip's chest and tried to push him away. He broke the kiss and looked at the smaller man.

"Don't you like me Alister?" he asked almost impatiently. "Really? Because sometimes it seems like you hate me, other times you seem to love me… can you please tell me how you feel about me?" He craved answers and he wasn't planning on leaving Alister alone until he had them.

"Just get off me!" He hissed in response and tried to push him away once more. Without success.

"Should I take that as a "no"?" The hacker sighed a hint of disappointment and even a bit of sadness in his voice. Alister didn't answer so Zip got off him and sat down at the edge of his bed again, his back turned to the other man, who himself lay still for a moment before slowly sitting up. Alister tried to think of something to say. Zip shrugged.

"I'm sorry I made you feel uncomfortable Al, but you have to admit you gave me the wrong idea"

Alister still didn't reply. Instead he thought about the last couple of days. And blushed as he remembered everything they had done. His heart beat speeded up again and he felt his face burn red. Also realizing he had "given him the wrong idea". He shook his head. No that wasn't it… He hadn't given him "the wrong idea" because the idea was great. He had tried to deny it but no matter how much he did so he couldn't lie to himself.

He liked Zip. But even if it feel like Zip liked him too Brandon was always in the back of his mind together with all his other previous relationships, reminding him about his promise to himself not to let anyone in too close again. He smiled humorlessly at the drama going on in his head.

Zip sat still on the bed, looking around but not turning towards the historian. Alister took a deep breath, trying to think everything trough in just a matter of seconds afraid Zip would leave or ask him to leave.

"Zip…!" He blurred out- he didn't manage to catch the hacker's attention though. "Zip!" He said again, louder than before. Zip turned slightly and looked at Alister in the corner of his eye. "Yeah?"

He took another deep breath and moved closer to the bigger man, settling down next to him. Still for a moment, then he leaned his head against Zip's shoulder, One of his hands went up his chest, the other one going up his back and then linking together at his right shoulder where they rested. He looked at Zip, waiting for a reaction of some kind. The hacker looked down at Alisters hands and then slowly turned to look at Him. "hmm?" He had a blank expression on his face and it made the historian even more unsecure. But He had put himself here.

"Zip…" he started. "I'm sorry"

"Sorry?" He repeated dryly.

Gathering some courage and quickly thinking of what to say next Alister continued. "Yes. I'm sorry Zip. I do like you. I really do. But I've been trying to deny it since I'm so afraid the Brandon history will repeat itself again." He spoke quickly, not thinking of what he was saying, just wanted to let it out. To tell Zip. "And well, Even though I tried you managed to get me to puss it away to the back of my head a few times…" A few seconds pause before he continued. He didn't look at Zip because he was afraid seeing his expression would discourage him.

"I guess I'm not completely ready yet… But If you would just give me some time and help me… Get over it" he got quiet. Impatiently waiting for Zip to say something. After what seemed like hours of awkward silence Zip spoke. "I'll give you all the time you need…" Alister looked up, not sure if what he had said was good or bad. He was meet with Zip smiling at him.

"And I'll help you forget about that…." He didn't finish but kissed Alister softly on the lips, then pulled back and smiled. The Englishman looked at him, blushed slightly and smiled. "Thank you…" he closed his eyes and slowly lay down in the bed again, soon feeling How Zip did the same next to him, the hackers arm wrapping around him carefully.

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Dapling: I had one of those games when I was small, it was so....Random. I hope you understood what was going on.