Inevitable outtake: Cards (futurefic)

[mhalachai]

Cards
An Inevitable outtake

by Mhalachai
Disclaimer: Laurell K. Hamilton owns all things Anita Blake. J.K. Rowling owns all things Harry Potter. Only the story is my own.
Note: At 521 words, this is a quick read. It's an Inevitable future fic, so what happens in here may or may not happen in storyline. Summary? Harry and Anita UST their way through an argument. Jason wonders when they're going to get a room, and Nathaniel wonders when he got that headache.

Inevitable can be found here.

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"I'm being unreasonable?"

Anita's incredulous shout was clearly audible as far away as the kitchen. Nathaniel glanced in the direction of the living room, then shook his head.

"Your deal."

Jason gave the wereleopard a look as he gathered up the cards. "They've been at that for almost an hour," he said. "When are they going to stop it?"

"I'll give it another ten minutes before I go break it up," Nathaniel said distractedly as he looked at his cards. "Or until they start talking about Dallas again."

Jason picked up his cards and sorted them. "You know, one of these days they're just going to give in to their animal attraction and just have a go at it."

Nathaniel didn't react, just tossed down two cards.

"You have to know what I mean," Jason pressed. "Harry's what, twenty-three years old now?"

"Doesn't matter," Nathaniel said. "They can't have sex."

"Why not?" Jason tossed down two cards and waited for Nathaniel to cut the deck. "They spend so much time together, they fight like cats and dogs, and they both think the other's hotter than hot, even if they won't say it."

Nathaniel sighed. "I know all that," he said. "And it wouldn't bother me if they did. But it's still a bad idea."

"Name one reason," Jason insisted.

Nathaniel raised his violet eyes. "For starters? Richard."

Jason bit his lip. "Well--"

"Richard finds out Anita and Harry had sex, he'll get all weird around her and also him."

"Okay, but--"

"Then there's Damian," Nathaniel continued. "Damian would think it was really strange, to the point of freaky, that his master and his grandson got it on."

"Okay, that's two, but--"

"And have you thought about what would happen if Asher found out?"

Jason paled, then winced.

"And Jean-Claude might not mind too much, because he gets Anita and Harry's relationship, but I'm not sure about Micah."

"Wait, what do you mean about Micah?" Jason demanded.

Nathaniel hurriedly looked back at his cards and put one down. "Ten. I'm not sure how Harry would react... you know how he is, but that still leaves the number one reason that Anita and Harry shouldn't have sex."

"Five, for fifteen and two points. All right, fine. I give up. What's the number one reason that Harry and Anita shouldn't have sex?" Jason asked.

Nathaniel put his hand against his forehead, a move that Jason recognized as him developing a headache. "You know I love Anita, but..."

"But?"

Nathaniel was silent for a moment, long enough for Jason to hear Harry's rising voice mention the word "Dallas," and he knew things were turning bad. "But Anita can get whiny when she does stuff she thinks she's not supposed to," Nathaniel said, rising. "So if she has sex with Harry, then she'll think afterwards she did a bad thing, and she'll whine for like a month and that's a really, really long time." He hurried out of the room.

A crash, a smash, then sudden silence. Jason hoped that Nathaniel had averted bloodshed.

If not, then maybe I can have Harry's stereo, Jason thought as he snuck a peek at Nathaniel's cards.

--end outtake