"What?"
Jack shook his head. "Nothing."
Boone smirked. "Yeah, you want me," he said, turning his attention back to his food.
"Well I always want you," Jack agreed.
"Nympho," Boone muttered, picking up another scrap from his plate.
"Are you done with that yet?" Jack asked.
"Hey, it's my birthday, we get to do what I want," Boone said.
"Yeah, absolutely," Jack said. "I just thought you might want to do something a little more fun that sit here."
"Yeah?" Boone asked. "What did you have in mind?"
Jack gave him a look. "I'm not going down that road so you can make fun of me again."
"But it's my birthday," Boone said, putting on his best pout.
"Yeah, and I'll do anything you want, so just pick something," Jack said.
"I want you to tell me what you want to do," Boone replied.
"I want to do what you want to do," Jack countered.
Boone rolled his eyes and put his plate down on the coffee table, turning to face Jack. "Come here, then."
They leaned into each other and kissed. Boone didn't seem in any particular hurry which Jack was okay with, they had all night to themselves. But then Boone pulled away and looked at him.
"What?" Jack asked.
"I really love you," Boone said.
"Yeah, I know that," Jack said, wondering where he was going with this. "And I love you too."
"Yeah," Boone said, sounding a little distracted. "But sometimes you're like this big loser."
Jack looked at him. "Are we in a fight?" he asked. "I thought we were okay."
"No, yeah, we are," Boone told him. "But sometimes you're a big loser."
"Okay," Jack said, really hoping Boone was going somewhere with this.
"And I know you're all big and important at work," Boone continued. "Do you have, like, a name badge by the way?"
Jack looked at him. "What?"
"A name badge," Boone repeated. "That says 'chief of surgery' on it."
"Erm, no," Jack replied. "Well, I have my hospital ID. But I have it stitched onto my lab coat."
"Right, yeah, of course," Boone said. "You know, if you wore that home you'd get all kinds of lucky."
Jack smiled at him. "That right?" Boone shrugged. "In that case I just might do that. I'll bring my desk plaque too."
"You gonna put it next to the bed?" Boone asked.
"You know anytime you wanna come visit me at work you can," Jack said. "Have you seen my office? I have a sofa."
Boone laughed. "You'd never have sex with me in your office."
"No?" Jack asked. "Come by sometime and call my bluff."
Boone shook his head. "I know you, you wouldn't."
"Were you going somewhere with all of this?" Jack asked.
"Oh, right, yeah," Boone said. "I was just gonna say that you're very impressive at work and all that but you have to be impressive when you come home too."
Jack looked at him. "I'm not impressive?"
"Okay, maybe I don't mean that the way it came out," Boone said. "It's just that your work's always come first to you and you know that. But sometimes we have to come first. And I honestly don't care about the whole birthday thing, I'm so not into birthdays, and I don't want a present, there's nothing I really need or anything, but the fact that you got me chocolate, it kind of highlights what an idiot you are. Just after you highlighted what an idiot you are the other day. And it's not like a huge deal or anything, not at the moment, but you have to bear in mind that we kind of like to see you too and sometimes it would be nice if you could step out of that doctor frame of mind and think 'I'd actually quite like to see my family'."
"I think that all the time," Jack said.
"But you don't do it," Boone pointed out. Jack was about to say something but Boone cut him off. "Look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that to come out like a lecture but I just wanted to say it. And I know it's not the kind of job where you can just go as soon as your shift finishes, I know it's not like you can just clock out and come home. I'm just saying, it'd be nice every once in a while."
"I'm just a big huge disappointment, aren't I?" Jack said.
Boone rolled his eyes. "Oh, come on, it's not like I didn't see it coming," he stated. "It's always been like this, even on the island. You're all about duty, Jack, which I totally respect. It's just an observation, okay? If I was any less patient you'd probably be out by now."
Jack nodded, he didn't doubt that, it's not like it hadn't happened before. In fact, if Jack was honest, he could put the break-up of every one of his relationships down to his 'sense of duty'.
"No, stop it," Boone said.
Jack looked at him. "What?"
"No brooding," Boone told him. "It's my birthday, you're not allowed to brood. Even if you do look kinda sexy when you brood."
Jack smiled at him. "Okay, no brooding." He leant in towards Boone again.
"Do you think we should get Noah a pet?" Boone asked.
Jack leaned back against the sofa and gave him a look. "Do you want to have sex with me?"
"It's a legitimate question," Boone said.
Jack sighed. "You know, if it was my birthday you'd be all kinds of naked by now."
Boone smiled at him. "The naked's coming up real soon, I promise," he said. "I just, I worry we're being mean to him for no good reason."
"Do you want to walk a dog however many times a day?" Jack asked.
"Okay, not a dog," Boone said. "But we could get him something small."
"Like a hamster?" Jack suggested.
"Yeah, hamster, they're small and cuddly, right?"
"I guess," Jack replied. "So you wanna buy him a hamster?"
"I was never allowed pets when I was a kid," Boone said. "And I never cared either cos I didn't really want one but I know that rule upset Shannon."
Jack nodded. "We can get him a hamster."
"Yeah, we should do that," Boone said.
"You realise you're gonna have to clean it out," Jack said.
"Nah, I'm just gonna sweet talk you into doing it," Boone replied with a smile.
"That right?" Jack asked.
"Uh-huh," Boone said.
"Okay, you know what, I don't care if it's your birthday, I'm totally gonna take advantage of you now," Jack told him.
Boone smiled again. "You say that like I'd object."
"Well you're not making it easy for me tonight," Jack pointed out.
"I don't get to spend time alone with you all that much," Boone said. "Not just the two of us with you actually being in a good mood. We don't talk as much as we used to."
"We can talk," Jack said.
Boone shook his head. "No, I'm done, I want you to take your pants off now."
Jack smiled at him. "You're not gonna give me a hand with that?"
Boone leaned in and pulled Jack into a kiss, one of his hands going to the back of Jack's neck and the other going to his hip, pulling him closer whilst laying them both down on the sofa at the same time, moving their bodies together.