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Waking well before he thought anyone else would be up; Bryan crawled out of his lover's arms and out of the closet, heading back to the bathroom and his tub. Wincing when he spotted the door to the shower and tub wide open, he hoped no one else had noticed and got dressed. Re-emerging again, he checked on everyone else, making sure they were all still asleep. They were; Tyson draped over his two bed mates, Kai and Tala snuggling close to one another and Spencer and Ian sleeping like the soldiers they'd been trained to be. Deciding that no one must have noticed, he searched the room for the phone to call for room service, knowing that there would be fights over it all morning if someone didn't do it first. He'd spent enough time in Tyson's presence to see what kind of eating machine that kid was, and how big of a dent he could put into anyone's credit card bill.
"Get me some bacon hmmm? I'm sick of the fruit they keep trying to stuff into me." A sleepy voice purred into his ear, arms wrapping loosely around his neck.
"What are you doing up kitty? You were still dead to the world when I got up." Bryan smirked, reaching back to pet Rei's hair while he dialled the room phone with his free hand.
"Was cold. And I want to grab a shower before anyone else gets up." Neither noticed the green eyes watching them from behind heavy brown bangs as the nekojin slid into his lover's lap and listened in on what he was ordering.
"Heh. Want company?" the Russian replied as he was being transferred to the kitchen. Rei laughed and shook his head, cuddling in close to his lover while his team's techie watched in extreme interest at the two supposed enemies. 'Well even –I- didn't see that coming. Kevin was right then.' Kenny thought to himself, closing his eyes again and rolling over in his 'sleep', hoping to distract the couple. He may be willing not to say anything until they were ready but the majority of the room wouldn't feel the same way. His roll had its desired effect, Rei bouncing off Bryan's lap the moment the resident genius started his turn.
"No…it's okay. You wake everyone up." Smiling slightly, the Chinese teen dashed off for the bathroom, leaving his lover to glare daggers at Kenny's back.
After he was cleaned up, Rei re-emerged in boxers and a t-shirt, rubbing at his hair to get as much dampness out of it as possible with a hotel towel. Scanning the room, he seen that everyone but Tyson was up and eating, the world champion still buried under the blanket he'd shared with Max, snoring contently. How he'd missed the smell of food in the room was beyond him but at least it meant everyone else could eat without having to fight for their meal.
"I guess we know his true love then." He chuckled, sitting on the edge of Tala and Kai's bed, reaching for the food he'd requested and was sure Bryan had protected for him. Speaking of Bryan, the falcon slid by him, heading back to his 'bed' and the water of the shower starting up again, causing his tiger to shiver a little at the thought of his lover under the hot water.
"What's that on your neck Rei?" Kai asked nonchalantly although his eyes were calculating, measuring the reaction his team-mate would have.
"There's something on my neck?" the nekojin replied, sounding curiously innocent but his hand went up to the exact spot where a light bruise marred his skin. The phoenix caught on to that and smirked.
"Hmmm….maybe it's just a bruise or something." He shrugged, sipping his coffee and getting inquisitive looks from everyone else. Feeling suddenly nervous, Rei fussed with the edge of his t-shirt for a little while, not able to concentrate on the TV news or the breakfast before him.
"I'm going to the washroom." he announced, the sound of the shower and knowing who was in it driving him crazy not to mention the question from Kai weighing in his mind.
"You just got –out- of the bathroom." Ian replied snidely as his bed mate raised an eyebrow, thinking the same thing.
"Be careful of Bryan." Max called to him, eyes glued to the TV screen as he shovelled cereal into his mouth.
"My hair needs dried and brushed out. I'm sure I can manage Bryan, Maxie." The nekojin shook his head and headed into the powder room, locking the door once he was inside. Smirking to himself, he lightly tapped on the bath room door and tried the handle. Pleased that it was unlocked, he began to open the door only to have an angry falcon appear in front of his face.
"Can't you tell its fucking occupi—Rei" snickering to himself at the surprise on his lover's face when he recognized him, Rei reached up for the leather cord around Bryan's throat and pulled him down to his level, pressing their lips together in a heated kiss. Grabbing his lithe partner's waist, the Russian lifted him and pulled him into the shower area, pressing the slender body against the tiled wall, completely unconcerned about the clothes Rei was still in. The nekojin didn't seem to mind either, lifting his legs so they were locked around his birdie's damp waist and pulling him closer, lost in the haze of the passionate kiss. One of Bryan's hands began wandering, wiggling their way under the waistband of his lover's boxers causing his kitten to mewl softly. The heat of their kiss was shattered at the thumping of someone's fist on the first of the bathroom doors.
"Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeei! I need to piss, let me in!" Tyson declared from the other side and Rei hissed slightly under his breath, untangling himself from the Russians hold.
"I'm going to kill him…." He muttered and gave Bryan one last kiss before walking into the powder room and shutting the shower room's door behind him. Straightening his clothes, still not having noticed the dampness that now hung on them, he opened the door to his team mate hoping the look on his face wasn't nearly as homicidal as he was feeling.
"Oh my god thank you!" not even waiting until Rei was out of the room, Tyson dashed for the toilet and freed himself so he could relieve his poor bladder. Rolling his eyes, the Chinese teen just went about brushing and drying his hair like he'd supposedly been doing before being interrupted. He eyed himself in the mirror, trying to ignore his team mate's sounds of relief as he emptied himself. He was going to need some kind of concealer for his under his eyes today, not to mention the marks on his neck that were more than a little obvious against his golden skin. He was going to have to borrow some of Mariah's makeup that meant. Putting his hairbrush down on the countertop next to the sink he tied his hair back in a simple ponytail; he'd get one of the girls to braid and wrap his hair. He was too tired to concentrate on it at the moment. Being up so late the night before along with his insane jetlag not to mention thefour hours sleep he did get was beginning to catch up with him in a bad way. It was going to be a coffee day, not a tea day that was for sure. The Tiger made his way out of the bathroom with the Dragon behind him, the previous trying not to think about how the later hadn't washed his hands.
"I'm going to head down to the girls' room to get Mariah to do my hair." Rei announced, tugging on a more respectable pair of pyjama pants over his short black boxers.
"Hold on a minute, there's a couple key cards to give out." Kai instructed, crawling over to the coffee table at the foot of the beds and picked up the small packet that was given to him the night before by Mr. Dickenson. The group gathered around, Rei sitting on the edge of Ian and Spencer's bed with them as the Japanese trio hung off the edge of their bed.
"There's, unfortunately, only two cards just like with any other hotel that we'd normally stay in since we'd normally be stay two or four to a room. Tala's going to keep one of them and since I'm probably going to be with him most of the time, I don't need one. Soooo…Rei you take the other. You'll be easiest for the idiots over there to find." Kai explained the situation, tucking one of the cards into the front of Tala's shorts and handing the other over to Rei. There were protests of course from the mentioned idiots, most indignant ones from Kenny, but over all, the group was placated.