Jack felt his stomach turn with uneasiness. He stood in the middle of a room with a blindfold covering his eyes. Jack had been hoping that some light would peek through the fabric or underneath of it but there was nothing. The young man yelped and flinched when a loud clap suddenly happened near him.

"You're not supposed to run away. Find me." A shiver went down Jack's spine as he felt Chase's breath against the back of his neck. This was a very crazy version of Marco Pole and he was starting to regret to agreeing to this. Jack only flinched a little when the next clap happened. He turned towards where he believed the sound came from. "Wrong way."

"Wrong way? This isn't the wrong way." Jack protested.

"You're facing where the echo of the clap occurred."

"Are you serious!?"

"You need to learn the difference between the actual clap and its echo." Chase stated.

"What if I said no?"

"You're not allowed to."

"Damn it." Jack sighed and stiffened when there was yet another clap.

"How close?" Chase asked. Jack thought for a second, Chase's voice sounded soft, as if it was far away and it wasn't likely that he's moved since clapping.

"Ten, fifteen feet?" Jack guessed, assuming that Chase had gone to the edge of the room. The genius gasped when a hand or something grabbed his throat, it wasn't enough to hurt him or cut off any oxygen, but it appearing out of nowhere scared all of the air out of Jack's lungs.

"I was only three steps away." Chase whispered into Jack's ear.

"That explains why the clap was so loud, but your voice was quiet." Jack swallowed, feeling his Adam's apple rub against Chase's palm.

"That's why I spoke softly, you're not getting any more of a hint than the clap." Chase moved his hand away, leaving Jack to wonder whether Chase was still in front of him or if he's moved away. A clap behind him answered his question.

"Behind me, a couple feet, five at the most."

"Correct." Jack blushed a little when he felt Chase kiss his forehead. He quickly recovered when a clap echoed beside him.

"Left of me, not too far nor too close, ten feet?" Jack waited for either another kiss to the forehead or a hand to his neck and ended up with a kiss on the nose.

"Correct." Chase said. Jack had no idea what was happening right now, but he was not questioning it. This was all probably part of the 'be gentle with Jack so he can learn' thing Chase had attempted to explain to him a while ago. There was a clap then another one followed soon after. Was that second one an echo? But one was beside him and the other was in front. That's not how echoes worked.

"Two claps. One to the right, at the edge of the room and the other in front of me, very close, a foot or two." Jack yelped when he was suddenly grabbed and something pressed against his lips, it didn't take long for him to realize that Chase was kissing him. He blinked when the blindfold was removed and he was greeted by the sight of a grinning Chase.

"Correct." Chase said.

"Where do you come up with these ideas?" Jack asked.

"I've been around for a very long time, Spicer. You tend to learn a trick here and there along that way."

"Like what?"

"I could show you if you wish, but we'll need to relocate rooms." Chase smirked. Jack chuckled at Chase's comment and was about to speak, playing along with the game, but a look of fear filled his eyes and he stepped away, staring that the floor.

"I-I'm going to fo check on Nani. I haven't seen her all day and I want to make sure she's fine." Jack started heading for the door but didn't get far.

"Spicer, wait."

"I really need to-"

"We need to talk." Jack stopped completely, knowing that Chase would make him anyways with how serious his tone of voice was.

"Can't it wait till dinner at least?" Jack asked.

"I've been waiting long enough." Chase crossed his arms and watched Jack turn back towards him, rubbing his arm. "Over a week ago Wuya told me about the conversation you and her had while waiting for me to return from a hunting trip."

"Oh..." Jack was still struggling to look at Chase. "What all did she tell you?"

"She didn't give me much detail nor did I stand around long enough to listen to her give said details. All I was told was about her warning you to be careful with me, to be prepared to be used and then tossed aside like you mean nothing. I'll admit that it took a few days for me to fully grasp what all she was talking about and I decided to give you another week to get over what that witch told you. Allow you to distract yourself with Nani for a bit and I assumed that you would have either forgotten what was said to you or you'd realize that what Wuya said was ridiculous and move on. I guess that neither of those things happened." Chase sighed.

"Yeah..."

"It seems that Wuya's voice is still in the back of your head. Whether we are ever intimate or not, I don't want the fact that you are denying anything because Wuya's words are clouding your judgment."

"Wuya isn't the only reason I've been running away." Jack admitted softly.

"Really?"

"I mean...I...I like it when you kiss me or hold me, but anything more than that..." Jack took in a shaky breath and finally looked up at the warlord, eyes wide. "I'm scared." Chase's brows raised. Scared? What could Jack be scared of when it came to that? "I don't know much about se...being intimate, I don't really even.." Jack was about to make a crude gesture but decided against it. "I don't like knowing things and the few facts I knew before were from Health class and all of it sounds painful or scary or like I would fail at it and you'd leave me when you discovered that I was terrible at it." Jack felt his face burning and was unable to stop himself from continuing. "The Wuya thing got to me for a while and I was about to forget it when I started reading those pregnancy books for Nani." Jack was now speaking quickly with no breaths. "And I got curious and I did more research about wheat me and you would have to do in order for it to be done and there are so many different terms for parts and things and there are these toys that all look really, really weird and painful and the positions all look uncomfortable and it's very obvious what part I play in the relationship and the thought of it sounds like it would hurt a lot more than it would feel good and it's scary to imagine you putting your-" Jack was cut off by Chase covering his mouth with a hand.

"Enough. I get it." Chase removed his hand and used it to smooth back Jack's hair, his goggles were laying on top of his trenchcoat that sat in a corner of the room. "I understand." Chase added, much softer. "I told you that nothing will happen without your consent. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't Wuya making you say no." The warlord gave Jack a quick kiss on the lips, letting his hand linger on the young man's chin for a moment before taking it away.

"Th-Thanks." Jack took a couple breaths to calm himself down. "I'm still going to go check on Nani."

"I figured as much." Chase chuckled.

"Want to join?"

"Might as well."