Warming up

Warming up (Part 4)

Author: Foxfeather

Pairing: Some (some? A lot of!) mixes of Ryo, Dee, Berkley, Diana and JJ *vbg*

Rating: NC-17

A/N: Thanks sooooo much to everybody who reviewed the first parts! You wanted more Ryo/Berkley, and Ryo/Diana/Berkley, and I wanted to throw JJ in (the poor guy!). Well, here is what my muses cooked up!

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“DEE-SEMPAI!”

The whole precinct looked up, grinned, shook their head or groaned, and got back to work. Just young JJ Addams glomping his beloved colleague Dee Latener again. Poor kid. When would he ever learn that Latener had not the slightest interest in him? But life went on, work went on, and it would be noticed more when JJ did not glomp his Dee one morning.

Ryo McLane watched this morning routine out of the window of Commissioner Rose’s office and sighed. He could really see what JJ found so attractive about Dee, because he felt the same way about him. With the important difference that Dee loved him back.

“Poor kid, hm?”, purred a voice near Ryo’s right ear. Some weeks ago Ryo would have jumped at this, trying to evade Commissioner Rose’s advances at him, but after _that_ incident in the cave, things had considerably changed between them. Berkley Rose slid his hand around Ryo’s waist from behind. “Things would really be easier for him when Dee finally would give in to him.” And for me, too, he added mentally, touching his cheek to Ryo’s. Sure, he and Diana had become an item (thank Ryo), but that didn’t vanquish his interest in the handsome cop.

Ryo turned away from him and walked over to the desk to pick up one of the files lying there and play with it. “He will never give in to JJ.”

Rose turned to face him and leaned against the window. “How can you be so sure about that, Ryo?”

Ryo looked up from the file he was leafing through without seeing its contents. “He loves me.”

“He sure does. But he shared you. And more than once. Why do you think he wouldn’t want you to share him, too?”

Ryo stopped fidgeting with the file, then slowly put it back on Berkley’s desk.

“And you already shared him, once”, the commissioner added, thinking back to their last sexual encounter. Amused, he watched Ryo chew on his lower lip. If he could talk him into letting Dee get together with Addams, maybe he could get another go with Ryo out of it.

“But he doesn’t like JJ!”

“You didn’t like me either.”

Ryo stayed silent.

“You don’t want to share him. Not with somebody who loves him. It was okay with me, because Dee and I can’t stand each other, but JJ… he might become a threat to you, right?”

Ryo looked down to the floor. Berkley could see him tense up, probably in denial.

“He shared you with me. He loves you, I love you. Are you going to tell me that you don’t trust Dee as much as he trusts you?” Berkley had to admit to himself that that was a very low move, but at the same time he wondered how easy it had been to finally tell Ryo that he loved him. He was a bit disappointed when Ryo didn’t react to it.

“I… I guess you’re right. I don’t want to share him.” Ryo paused, his tension falling away from him. “But I do trust him. And he never would get together with JJ.” He looked up, as if he suddenly remembered something, then spoke again sharply. “And you won’t get him and JJ together either!”

Berkley just smiled. “Just watch me.”

~~~~~*~~~~~

It took Berkley the rest of the week and a long talk with Diana to come up with a plan, but finally, he had an idea. The seduction of Dee Latener and JJ Addams would start with Diana’s birthday. It was already past, but nonetheless, Diana was okay with his idea, was ready to take an important part in it and so they gave it the go.

The whirlwind she was she stormed into the precinct and threw herself in Ryo’s arms.

“Hey guys! How are my favourite cops these days? Ready to party?”

Ryo blushed and freed himself from her arms. “We’re fine, thanks, Diana.”

“Hi, Di!”, Dee greeted her, being greeted back with a smack on his cheek. “What do you mean with party?”

“Well, I had another of those birthdays not long ago and I haven’t found the time to celebrate it. You’re cordially invited to dinner next Saturday evening. You’re coming, right?”

“Uhm, sure”, Ryo answered after exchanging a look with Dee.

They were interrupted by a knock at the open door. JJ peeked in.

“Hello Dee! Ryo. The commissioner asked me to give you this file, Ryo.” Without looking at him, JJ handed Ryo the mentioned file. “You have a new shirt, Dee, am I right?”

Dee ignored him.

“JJ! Good to meet you here, so I don’t have to search for you!”, Diana interrupted.

JJ turned as if he was seeing her for the first time. “Oh, Agent Spacey!”

“Me and Berk want to invite you to dinner next Saturday to celebrate my birthday. Ryo and Dee are coming, too.”

JJ shot a bright look at Dee. “I’ll be glad to come!”

Diana clapped her hands and rushed to the door. “See you all at eight p.m. then!”, and she was gone.

“Don’t you have work to do, JJ?”, Dee asked, avoiding JJ’s still adoring stare.

“Uhm, yeah. See you later, Dee!”

After the kid was finally gone, Dee sat down in his chair and leaned back.

Ryo walked to the door to watch JJ vanish around a corner. “There’s something fishy about this.”

“Hey, she invited JJ. What could be fishy about it? It’s just a party!”

Ryo had not forgotten his talk with Berkley. “Sure. Just a party.”

~~~~~*~~~~~

“You were right, Ryo. There _is_ something fishy about this”, Dee mumbled under his breath after they arrived at Berkley’s and Diana’s apartment. The two cops and JJ were the only guests. Even JJ was a bit puzzled about it, for he was not very close to the couple.

The evening started innocent enough. All three guests were surprised that Berkley was a rather fine chef, and Ryo found himself finally relaxing around his superior officer, trading recipes and talking about the finer points of Japanese cuisine.

Dee was fidgeting around, trying to avoid talking to JJ. Diana managed to get JJ to talk about his sharp-shooting skills and his work with the SWAT-team, and Dee sat back in his chair, enjoyed his glass of expensive-tasting wine and watched Ryo. He loved how excited his normally so shy lover could get when he got the chance to talk about something he loved.

More than two hours later they were still sitting in the kitchen, talking agitatedly around the empty pots and plates, Dee playing with his dessert spoon, when Diana stood up and exchanged a meaningful look with Berkley.

Dee noticed that Ryo tensed up.

“Well, you know that we came here to celebrate my birthday”, Diana began. “Berkley was so kind to prepare a very special, well, birthday-present for me today, with the help of Ryo.”

Dee arched his eyebrows and shot Ryo a questioning glare. Ryo looked quite pale and shook his head.

“Ah, Ryo, don’t be so shy. In a way, it was your idea, too”, Diana grinned at him.

Before Ryo could react, she tugged at his arm to make him stand up.

“For this special present we should swap rooms.”

She started to walk in the direction of the corridor, pulling Ryo along, and Berkley, with a smug smile on his face, a curious JJ and a very puzzled Dee followed her.

JJ’s curiosity turned into full puzzlement when the door Diana opened didn’t lead into the living room, as he had expected, but into the bedroom.

Dee stopped dead in his tracks and tried to turn around, but Berkley had his upper arm in an iron grip.

“ I think you know what I mean with present now?”, Diana grinned. Then she turned to Ryo and kissed him on the mouth.

“I didn’t get nearly enough of this the last time we shared partners”, she purred when she got up for air.

“Sh…shared… part…. ners?”, JJ gasped, his eyes huge in his pixie-like face. His glance wandered from the happy look on Diana’s face to Ryo’s flushed appearance, to Berkley’s self-satisfied grin and, finally, to Dee’s shocked face. There his gaze lingered, flitted back to Ryo, then again to Dee. “Shared partners?”, he repeated, his voice not quite as clear as usual.

“Ryo…, your… idea?”, Dee stammered, still not sure what to think of the situation.

“He dared me”, Berkley explained.

“Did nmmph…” Ryo’s answer was muffled by another one of Diana’s hungry kisses.

“Come on, Dee, don’t be a spoilsport. Do it for Diana. Don’t you remember how much fun we had the last times?”, Berkley pulled Dee further into the room.

“Times?”, JJ nearly squeaked. “You did this more than once?”

“Yes”, Berkley answered him, then leaned down to whisper in JJ’s ear. “And this time, we’re doing it for you.” He shot a meaningful look into Dee’s direction and JJ gulped, then nodded. “I’m in”, he whispered back. “Though I find this mightily strange.”

In front of them, Diana had started to undress Ryo. JJ didn’t need Berkley’s nudge to tug on Dee’s shirt, too. Berkley stood behind Dee and teased his nipples through the cloth of his half-unbuttoned shirt. “Dee, I know how it excites you to watch Ryo”, he purred into his ear. “Come on, let Ryo have some fun and I bet you’ll geme, me, too…” Berkley’s hand trailed lower and fluttered teasingly over Dee’s hardening erection.

“You’re a goddamn bastard, you know that, Berkley?”, Dee said, jerking his hips into Berkley’s large hand.

Berkley chuckled, motioning JJ to take his place. JJ hurried to stand behind Dee, his hands already busy to open Dee’s shirt all the way to have free access to his torso.

Berkley walked over to where Diana had Ryo pressed against the wall, kissing him deeply. Her hands were moving over his chest, while his had started careful circles over her back.

“Don’t be so shy, Ryo. She likes it a bit rough”, Berkley advised and leaned against Diana’s back, effectively trapping her between Ryo and himself. His hands tickled her sides, making her try to evade his touch and push even harder into Ryo, who softly moaned into their kiss when she moved her hips against his.

Berkley deftly opened the buttons of Diana’s blouse from behind, pushing it down and dropping it to the ground, then opened the clasp of her bra with a quick flip of his wrist. a waa was busy trying to get Ryo’s dress-shirt out of the way, pressing her naked torso against him, both of them moaning aloud at the contact of flesh on flesh. Diana never stopped kissing Ryo while she removed her hands from his body to reach behind her back to open the zipper of her skirt. Berkley, busy with Ryo’s belt and pants, moaned into her neck as she brushed his erection. Diana had finally gotten rid of her panties and grabbed Ryo’s head, tugging him with her to the bed, pushing Berkley out of the way. Ryo struggled with his boxers, then sunk down on top of her, moving his kisses finally away from her mouth and down her body.

Berkley became very uncomfortable and confined in his clothes at that sight and started undressing himself as fast as he could, his eyes never leaving the couple on the bed.

Behind Berkley, JJ had his hands down Dee’s open jeans, rubbing himself against Dee’s backside. That Dee had only eyes for Ryo dt set seem to matter for him.

Ryo was on his hands and knees, kissing his way down Diana’s stomach, his backside pointing invitingly up in the air. Dee nearly jumped out of JJ’s grasp and tried to grab Ryo’s hips, but Diana was faster. She pulled Ryo up against her and turned them around so that she was laying on top. Dee growled in frustration and grabbed the only thing of Ryo he could reach, his hand, and sucked his index and middle finger into his mouth. Ryo’s hips shot up in response and Diana quickly sat up to guide him into her.

Both Berkley and JJ had undressed by now and were moving towards the bed. Berkley knelt down behind Diana, stopping her movements against Ryo by placing his hand on the small of her back and leaning her forward. With an anticipating shudder, Diana bit her lip and tried to relax as her lover carefully and slowly entered her from behind. Ryo tore his hand out of Dee’s grasp to dig his fingers into the sheets as Diana moved again.

JJ used his chance to try to pull Dee’s jeans and shorts down, managing to turn him onto his back in the process. Before Dee could turn back to Ryo, JJ pounced on him and deep-throated his cock in one smooth movement. Dee made a strangled noise in the back of his throat and froze. JJ began to swirl his tongue around Dee’s member, paying close attention to his reactions and setting a pace that made Dee writhe under him in lust. Dee’s hands moved to JJ’s head and held him in place as he jerked his hips up and came after a few thrusts deep inside JJ’s throat. Surprised, JJ gagged and coughed, but managed to swallow it all.

His own member still rock-hard, JJ moved up to Dee and snuggled against him. Teasing Dee’s nipples ben hen his slender fingers, JJ worked his magic to arouse Dee again.

Next to them, Diana suddenly stopped her movements, earning frustrated grunts from both Ryo and Berkley and motioned to Berkley to move away. Grudgingly, Berkley slipped out of her and sat back on his heels. His eyes lit up when Diana rolled over onto her back, holding Ryo in place inside her with her legs slung around him. Eagerly, Berkley moved up to his knees again and slowly pushed into Ryo’s tight opening. Ryo hissed in pleasure/pain and carefully started to move. In seconds, his moves became frantic, the double assault at his senses too much to bear and he came hard, yelling his release into Diana’s shoulder. His yell pushed both Berkley and Diana over the edge, too.

They slumped together in one tangled heap of sweaty limbs, both men trying not to crush Diana.

Tired, Ryo glanced over to Dee. Not able to move, he watched JJ nibbling his way down Dee’s chest down to his reawakening cock. Dee groaned, his eyes closed tightly as if he did not want to know who was doing this to him. Ryo focused his attention to JJ.

The kid was lost in Dee, exploring every nook and cranny of him as if he was recording Dee’s texture, his smell and taste to his memory. Unashamed of what he was doing he bent down to lick Dee’s balls, softly, carefully taking them into his mouth. Dee’s cock twitched and Dee moaned low in his throat, trying not to move, lost in the sensation of JJ tonguing his testicles. Dee relaxed again as JJ finally let go of him and slid his body back up until he lay face to face with Dee. But when JJ leaned down to kiss him, Dee turned his head away. Ryo felt his heart skip a beat at that, now knowing for sure that Dee would never leave him for JJ.

JJ sighed, and let his head fall down on Dee’s shoulder.

“I understand, Dee“, he whispered. “And I thank you for letting me do this.”

JJ sat up, softly grabbed Dee’s erection and let himself slide down on it. Dee’s eyes grew wide, then snapped shut as JJ began to move. After some time, JJ’s pace became faster, and Dee opened his eyes again to watch the ridiriding him, his head thrown back, mouth open, skin flushed and panting with each move he made.

“JJ…” Dee reached out and wrapped his fingers around the boys slim cock, and this touch was JJ’s undoing. He froze, then exploded, his orgasm milking Dee’s cock and making him come, too. Bonelessly, JJ slumped forward, the movement forcing Dee’s flaccid member out of him, and collapsed. Dee caught him and moved him until he was lying securely in the crook of his arm.

On Dee’s other side, Ryo snuggled against him.

“I love you, Dee.”

“Love you too, Ryo.”

Sheets rustled behind them and Ryo felt somebody, presumably Diana, pass a thin bedspread over to him. Together, they managed to cover JJ with it, too, then Diana snuggled close to Ryo’s back, and he felt Berkley’s hand on his hip and snuggled together like this, they fell asleep.

~~~~~*~~~~~

Later that night, Ryo tried to untangle himself from three pairs of arms without waking somebody to follow a call of nature. He slid down the bed and climbed over the footboard, when he heard somebody stir.

“Ryo? Where are you going?”, Dee’s sleepy voice asked.

“Bathroom, if I can find it”, Ryo whispered back..

“Oh. Good idea. Wait.”

“We can’t go to the bathroom together, Dee!”

“Why not? Since we can piss standing up…”

“Dee!”

“Sit down or you’ll have to wash the dishes in the precinct for a week”, came a muffled voice from the bed.

“Berkley! Why did you tell them?”, came Diana’s reply.

“I’m going first, Dee!” Ryo whispered and opened the door.

“Second door to the right”, he heard Berkley, then Dee shut the door behind them.

Ryo blushed as he saw Dee’s naked silhouette in the light that shone in from the streetlights. He quickly turned and vanished into the bathroom, closing the door behind him.

Dee leaned next to the door and waited.

“Ryo?”

“Hmm?”

“Is it true that you planned this with Berkley?”

“No. Not like that.”

“Then how?”

“We watched JJ glomping you and he… I guess you can say he challenged me.”

“Challenged how?”

Dee heard the flow of water and then Ryo opened the door. He avoided Dee’s eyes. Dee stopped him when he wanted to walk past him and lifted his chin.

“What’s wrong, Ryo? I’m not mad at you, you know?”

Ryo still avoided Dee’s gaze. Then he flung himself into Dee’s arms.

“He said that I was afraid to share you with somebody who loves you. That I didn’t trust you… that I didn’t trust you to love me. That I was afraid that JJ could take you away from me.”

“Are you?”

“No. Not anymore.” Ryo looked up, his eyes red. “I’m not sure if what he said was true, but now I know that you’d never leave me.”

“I never would. Especially not for JJ.”

Ryo slumped. “Yeah, but in a way, I can understand the kid. I admire him somehow. He knows that he can’t have you, but he still tries, he doesn’t let this get him down. He’s ever optimistic without ever getting a reward for it.”

“Hmmm. Are you telling me that I should give him a reward?”

Ryo tensed up, then relaxed again.

“I don’t know. I watched him, as he… you know… he was so happy to be able to be with you, even if you still tried to ignore him.”

“Oh, believe me, Ryo, there was no way to ignore him!”

“Maybe, but you tried to ignore it was _him_, doing that to you.”

“Hm.”

Dee kissed Ryo on the nose, then stepped into the bathroom and closed the door behind him.

“Dee? Don’t forget to sit down.”

“Er… Too late… Don’t tell, willya?”

~~~~~*~~~~~

When Dee and Ryo entered the bedroom again, Berkley, Diana and JJ were awake and waiting for them.

“Uh, sorry for waking you”, Ryo said sheepishly.

“S’okay.” Diana said.

When Ryo climbed back into bed from the footboard, Berkley reached out and grabbed his arm.

“Since we are all awake, what about another go?” He let his hand slide up and down Ryo’s arm suggestively.

“Uhm…” Ryo blushed and threw a look at Dee, who had stopped beside the bed with a thoughtful expression on his face. Then he looked up and glanced at Ryo as if asking him for permission for something. Ryo looked at Berkley, then back to Dee and smiled. Dee smiled back and looked down at JJ.

“JJ, what about you? You did so much for me, will you allow me to do something for you in return?”

JJ opened and closed his mouth like a fish a few times, then he managed a frantic nod.

“Dee… Dee, that would be… I mean… oh Gods… yes!”

Dee couldn’t hide the grin that blossomed on his face. He’d been able to read JJ’s emotions in his face as if he was reading a book: puzzlement, shock, disbelief, hope, disbelief again and then, finally, joy and excitement.

Dee slumped down next to JJ on the bed and turned towards him. “Well, since I don’t know what you like, I have to find out, neh?”

JJ squirmed happily.

On the other side of the bed, Berkley pulled Ryo down on top of him. “Looks like I won, eh?”

“Why won? We didn’t bet. You just said to watch you, and I do”, Ryo replied with a smirk. He stared into Berkley’s eyes and actually caused the unflappable cop to blush.

“Gods, Ryo, I want you.” Berkley threw himself around, nearly crushing the young man beneath him and started to trail kissed down his body.

Ryo moaned and arched his back under Berkley’s assault. When he opened his eyes again, his gaze met Diana, who was sitting against the footboard of the bed, her hands caressing herself.

“Diana…”

“Shh, Ryo. I’ll just watch.”

Berkley had reached his goal and used all his skill to claim his prize. Ryo clenched his eyes shut and buried his hands in Berkley’s blond hair, trying to hold him in place.

“Ryo… can’t wait…” Berkley reached over to the nightstand and found a small bottle of oil, spread some of it between his hands and coated his cock with it.

“Ryo… I want to watch you… watching me….” Berkley pressed out between clenched teeth. He lifted Ryo’s hips and slowly slid his length into his body. Ryo had to fight to keep his eyes open, to watch the emotions and sensations flicker over Berkley’s face, to see how his eyes darkened even further with every thrust, to see how he began to sweat, to see the muscles ripple under his skin, the pulse at his throat, the movements of his chest as he panted.

Ryo noticed how Berkley’s attention turned away from him, inside, and he knew that Berkley was near the edge. And when he came, Ryo followed him, down into that chasm filled with stars, forgetting where he was, who he was with and just let himself fall.

Dee heard Ryo’s gasping cry as he came, and doubled his pace, thrusting harder, faster into JJ’s willing body in front of him, fisting the kid’s cock so hard it had to hurt until they both came, too, crying out their release.

Diana had watched the four men, fingering her clit, kneading her breast and wondered what she had done to deserve a sight like that. It didn’t matter that she was sitting there, at the end of the bed, alone, for what she was seeing in front of her was enough material for the wet dreams of a lifetime.

To her left, Ryo and Berkley slowly found back to their senses, smiling at each other in a final understanding. Ryo whispered something to Berkley that she couldn’t understand through the noise Dee and JJ made, then they turned to her and pulled her down between them.

“Well, well, Diana, since this was partly your idea, too, we decided you should get a reward for it”, Berkley purred into her ear. Ryo, on her other side, started caressing her with almost nonexistant touches. Berkley nipped his way along her jawline to her ear, blowing over the wet trail he left. Ryo watched them first, then joined in. Both men bathed every spot they could reach, down her neck to her collarbone, when Diana sensed somebody touching her feet. JJ and Dee sat there, grinning up at her. Exchanging a glance, they picked up her feet and started licking, nibbling and sucking at her toes, one toe at a time. JJ started to lick the sole of her foot and managed to not tickle her. She moaned at his touch and he looked up and grinned. “Guess that works with girls, too, eh?”

As Ryo and Berkley worked their way down, Dee and JJ moved up Diana’s legs. The nearer they came to the center of her desire, the more hesitant JJ became.

“JJ? What’s wrong?”, Diana asked, her voice husky with desire.

The kid blushed. “Well, you’re my first. The first woman, I mean. I’m not sure what to do.”

Dee stopped and looked at him. “You never? Oh.”

“I’m gay, not bi, Dee. Well, I’m not sure what to call me after tonight, though.”

“JJ, if you don’t want to… Gods! Ryo! Do that again… JJ, you don’t have to…”

JJ sat back on his heels, his reawakened erection dangling between his legs. He looked down at himself and grinned. “Well, you sure do something to me. Perhaps.. .I should use this chance to… explore?”

“Explore… Berkley! All you want to…”

“Huh? Explore Berkley?”, JJ grinned and placed a hand on Berkley’s backside. His grin widened as the man jumped at his touch.

“No! JJ!”, Diana panted.

“I know what you mean, princess.”

JJ sat up again and reached out to where Diana’s legs met, her sex glistening with wetness. Diana sucked in a breath as he touched her, exploring her, touching her.

One after the other, Ryo, Dee and Berkley moved away from her and watched JJ as he explored Diana’s body with curious touches, probably not meant to drive her wild, but they did.

“JJ! Please…”

Diana tried to pull the boy down to her, to make him enter her, to ease her desire, but JJ pulled back. His face grew solemn. “Diana… I… I can’t… I’m not… You are so… soft…”

“It’s okay, kid”, Berkley calmed the boy down, then lay down next to Diana and rolled her onto him. With frantic movements she impaled herself on his erection, but before she could start moving, he held her down with strong hands. Ryo and Dee exchanged a look, then Dee moved behind her and entered her. Again, Diana tried to move, and again, Berkley stopped her. Ryo understood and moved to kneel next to Berkley’s head. When Diana reached out to Ryo’s erection and started to lick it, Berkley released her hips and started to thrust into her. JJ moved to kneel down next to Ryo and offered her his cock, too. Diana moaned and let go of Ryo to taste JJ. Behind her, Dee tried to keep her frantic pace, sensing that he wouldn’t last much longer if she did not slow down. She didn’t and her sudden release became his undoing. Beneath them, Berkley gave a few more thrusts, then started to shudder and gasp in his own climax.

Ryo whimpered in frustration as Diana slumped down on top of Berkley, completely exhausted. JJ didn’t hesitate, pushed Ryo across the pillows, lifted his legs and slid into him. Ryo’s eyes widened as he felt the kid pound into him in an urgent rhythm. Between JJ hitting his prostrate with every thrust and his clever fingers knowing exactly where to touch and press his cock, Ryo lasted only seconds before he exploded. He could feel JJ’s hot seed spill inside him, then everything went black.

He woke up again, when Dee and Berkley tried to move him back under the bedcovers.

“How late is it?”, he mumbled sleepily.

“About four a.m., Ryo”, Dee answered after a glace at the alarm-clock.

“We have to go home, Dee.”

“What? Why?”

“Bikky.”

“Bikky knows we’re at a birthday party. He knows we’re here.”

“Yeah. No birthday party lasts until the next morning.”

“Bikky know’s we’re _here_, Ryo. He won’t expect us to be back until morning.”

“Still.”

“He’s so cute when he’s stubborn.”

“Diana! You’re no help!”

“Sorry, Dee.”

Ryo was more awake by now. “We should go home”, he insisted.

Berkley got up. “I’ll call you a cab.”

JJ sat up and stretched. “I should leave, then, too. Ryo’s right. It’s better this way.”

Berkley nodded and went to call two cabs, while Ryo, Dee and JJ tried to clean up with washcloths and soap and got dressed.

“It was a very special night”, JJ said as he left. “I’ll never forget it.”

“Yeah. But don’t let this lift your hope that something like this’ll ever happen again, clear?”, Dee instructed JJ sternly.

“It’s okay, Dee. I have this memory. It will help.” With that, JJ lifted himself up to his toes and gave Dee a chaste kiss on the lips. “Good night!”

Dee stood there, his hand at his lips. “That kid!”

Ryo smiled and touched his arm. “Our cab is there, too. Let’s go.”

Monday morning, back to work. Everything was back normal. Almost.

Ryo and Dee were standing at the coffee-machine, waiting for the brew to get cool enough to drink it, Berkley and Diana had just entered the room and made smalltalk. Then the door opened and JJ came in. Everybody looked up, and everybody waited for the inevitable.

“DEEEEEEEEEEEEE…” JJ came flying towards the group, throwing his case into a corner.

“EEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIANA!” And he flung himself into Diana’s arms hugging her and kissing her smack on the lips.

Dee stood there, his mouth open, his finger pointing unbelieving at himself.

Diana stood frozen, blinking owlishly at the young, openly _gay_ man in her arms.

Berkley too, stood frozen, blinking, not quite comprehending what had happened.

And Ryo stood there, his hand over his mouth, trying to hide the grin that threatened to spread over his face.

“Kodak-moment!”, JJ grinned and something flashed. The sirring noise of an instant camera could be heard, then JJ plucked the photo out of the camera he had hidden in his other hand, having used his case to divert from it and glanced at the slowly evolving picture. Then he looked back up to the still frozen group of people.

“Gotcha there, huh?”

Ryo snorted, then started to laugh out loud.

“Since it was pretty mean of Berkley and Diana to use you like that, Ryo, you are the proud winner of this hilarious picture”, JJ grinned, made a gracious bow and handed to instant photograph to Ryo. “I heard what you and Dee talked about that night, you know? And I wanted to say thank you”, he whispered. He held up his hand and Ryo gave him the high five.

Next to them, Dee, Diana and Berkley finally got what was going on and started to laugh. Joining in, JJ asked with a mischievous glint in his eyes: “Oh, and by the way, Diana, when’s your next birthday?”

Fin!