"Grief is hard to fight without a ray of light."

[ifeelthelove]

Who: Cassidy Cohen, Tori Kingston, Sasha Stanford, Jesse and Jace Hartley
What: The grief process
Where: Vermont Lakehouse
When: After this

“Does someone what to tell me what happened now?” Jesse came into the sitting room and placed a bowl of warm water with antiseptic on the coffee table by his medical kit. He dropped some cotton balls into the pungent concoction so they could soak for a little bit. He and Jace had been in bed when Ainsley had come running to get him, saying Tori had gotten into a drunken fight at the neighbours’ cook-out he went to with Cassidy and Sasha.

When Justin hit the sack early, Jesse took the opportunity to take Jace to bed and do what married couples did in their downtime. There hadn’t been a lot of it with Jesse taking on Justin’s nursing care for the duration of this trip away. Normally, he would have abstained, but Justin had been so fatigued he told Jesse he just wanted to go to bed and sleep. He asked Jesse for some of the sedatives he had been prescribed which would help him sleep without nightmares for at least seven to eight hours, so Jesse could unofficially have the night off.

( Poor Ainsley interrupted him and Jace making love, Jesse heard the urgency in the pleas to come because Tori was hurt so he quickly threw on some sweatpants and a t-shirt to come through and see what had happened... )

LOG, COMPLETE

"Have I told you lately how much your husband loves you?"

[inkandleather]

Who: Jace and Jesse Hartley
What: R&R
Where: Vermont Lakehouse
When: After this

"Damnit. I'm too tired to even keep it up," Jace mumbled and flopped into Jesse's side, kissing his bare shoulder. Earlier wasn't the first time they had been interrupted in the middle of making love, but it wasn't a sacrifice of any sort. The poor guy got himself into an epic mess and needed Jesse's help. That's what they were there for, after all. Mostly for Jesse to nurse Justin, which Mark was paying him around the clock for, but also to be there if anything happened with the rest of the teen squad.

It had been a long night and even if Jace wasn't the nurse, he was there right through and pretty drained after the disaster. Now they were back in their room with all the dust settled and Tori bombed out on a mix of alcohol and painkillers. Jace and Jesse kind of thought they could pick up where they left off, but after the initial shedding of clothes and flopping into bed, Jace lost the wind in his sails and was too tired to get the job done. It was just as nice to lay there naked in his husband's arms. It was the early hours of the morning now and they were a bit overtired to sleep, with the buzz of having to hit the ground running when Tori was dragged in drunk and bleeding.

"You okay, sweetie? What a fucking night..." He softly patted Jesse's chest and wet his lips, propping his head up with his chin on Jesse's shoulder. "Want me to finish you off? I think you've earned it."