Pandora here today, just before the home straight, with 'bath'. In this Yuri is nearly 26 and JJ is 29. (I included the Lord of the Rings stuff because of a very silly in-joke based on an autocorrect mishap of 'The Two Towels' that gave rise to a fake store called Bed, Bath and Boromir. :P)

Aluin's been bugging JJ for years to read the Lord of the Rings trilogy, always getting an 'I'll do it eventually' in response. Now, finally, having found himself with no other books to read immediately, JJ is making good on his promise. He slowly pushes through the first two books on plane and car journeys, but by the time he gets to The Return of the King he finds he can't put it down. When he comes home from Taiwan he doesn't leave the book in his suitcase as usual and he reads it whenever he finds time: during breaks in training, in bed, sprawled on the sofa on days off.

One afternoon, he runs himself a hot bath using the nice bubble bath Viktor and Yuuri got him for Christmas and settles in for a long soak, thinking he might even finish the book today. He relaxes and loses himself in the words on the page. Tears come to his eyes as Frodo and Sam say goodbye before Frodo goes to the Land of the Undying...

"Meow."

JJ starts at the sudden noise. He glances over the edge of the bath to see Mishka peering up at him. She's small, less than two years old, a tabby with little white socks and a bib.

"Er... hi?"

She makes a chirping noise and hops up into the edge of the bath, sniffing at the bubbles skimming the surface of the water.

"You won't like it."

She wanders away along the edge of the bath, and JJ's gaze follows her. Her tiny feet slip a little on the porcelain and he gets horrifying visions of her falling in and becoming a panicked ball of snarling and claws.

"Kitten?" JJ calls, putting the book down. He hears an answering grunt from Yuri and says, "There's a kitten."

He hears Yuri coming down the corridor and the ajar bathroom door is pushed open. Yuri's sights fall straight on Mishka, now at the foot of the bath, and he moves towards her. She looks at him and wanders away again to the far side of the bath. Yuri grumbles as he leans over to try and grab her.

"Why did we get such a huge bath again?"

JJ laughs. "You said it was pretty."

Before Yuri can say anything in response, he lunges for Mishka, who pads away again, and he overbalances. With a shriek he falls forward into the water on top of JJ, sending suds flying and water covering the floor. JJ sits up, grabbing Yuri's shoulders as his fiancé rights himself in the bath, and sees Mishka's tail disappear through the door.

"Are you okay?" asks JJ, the hoodie under his fingers soaked through.

Yuri nods, coughing up bathwater. "Bloody cat. Also this stuff tastes vile."

"Well you're not supposed to drink it..."

Having established that Yuri is okay, he brings one soapy hand up to cup Yuri's face and leans forward, kissing him. By the time they pull apart again Yuri looks distinctly less grumpy. He looks at JJ through heavy-lidded, dilated eyes which drift to the middle distance.

"Er... your book," he says absently.

JJ turns his face and sees The Return of the King sitting to one side where he left it, completely sodden. He groans. "Aluin's going to kill me."