Gian broke the kiss and he smiled. His cheeks were a little flushed from the lack of oxygen and his eyes fluttered open to look at Alfie. "The tea tastes better, doesn't it?" he asked as he slid his hand down to the other's shoulder. Taking his hand back, he pulled away and picked up his cup again to take another sip of the already cooling tea. "And, what kind of meat did Hebs let you eat? Beef?"

Hebs nodded at that and he watched closely, too, when he was demonstrated on what kind of stirring he should be doing. "I didn't think there was this kind of stirring," he said thoughtfully, mostly to himself as he occasionally shook the bowl while he mimicked the way Shadow had stirred it a while ago. "Cool."

Alfie sighed when Gian broke the kiss, almost wistfully, and then he stretched his arms out and yawned. "Kinda. It still isn't my favorite and probably never will be my favorite, just because it reminds me of toothpaste, though," he added, pleased. "It was beef this time. I like my meat pretty much almost bleeding when I get it...guess that must be the reptile in me."

Shadow chuckled while he continued to monitor what Hebs was doing. "I've learned quite a few tricks in the kitchen in my lifetime...please put them to good use."

"So that was the other one I was tasting," he said as he licked his lips again and blinked. Iron. Turning to look at the mutated naga again, he grinned. "I'm guessing you liked that kiss, too, from the kind of sigh you gave off a while ago." Gian nudged Alfie lightly at the side and smiled. "I must remind you, though, I've only touched women. Haven't touched any reptiles or men in my lifetime."

Drinking down the rest of his tea, Gian leaned back in his seat and went silent for a few minutes. "How... exactly do you make out, Alfie?" he asked, raising his eyebrows out of curiosity, "Have you really never made out with anyone?"

"You sound like you're centuries old," he told Shadow with a grin before he'd waved his free hand a bit, "Though, I'm guessing you are." He finished the batter, made tray of the mixture and frowned. "How're you supposed to make it have a filling? Inject it later halfway when it's cooked?"

"I'm pretty much...fine--yeah, I'm a virgin. I've never really touched anyone. I've made out with Shadow, though, for kicks. He makes out with everyone he gets kind of close with, though. He's fearless..." Alfie snickered, brushing some of his hair out from behind his ear. "I'm totally inexperienced, hmm? Forgive me if I don't have a wealth of knowledge on the subject. I'm kind of half-snake and the competent world isn't into scaly things."

"You take them out when they're half-done and then inject the filling. Then you put them back in and finish them up," Shadow revealed, contently. "That way the filling is warm and gooey." He smiled slightly. "If you don't have something to inject it with right now, I brought it with in case we needed it...it's up in the top cabinet on the far right."

"With a pretty face like his, I'm not surprised. He can go a long way." The male idly played with his thumb as he listened to him speak. Inexperienced? And, the world isn't into scaly things? "You put yourself down too much. The world isn't all that bad," he assured the other as he smiled, "And, as I said last night, you're fine the way you are. At least, I'm fine with the way you are right now."

Rubbing his hands on his shorts, he raised his eyebrows again. "So, you'll be heading back to bed?"

Hebs looked at Shadow in surprise. "You definitely come prepared," he commended him again and grinned. Luckily for him, though, he didn't look into Shadow's eyes this time and went to get the thing he could use to inject the brownies. He wasn't sure if he'd gotten the right one. "This?"

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"He surpasses pretty. It's not fair," Alfie huffed, folding his arms across his chest. He raised his head, though, to fix Gian with an uncertain look. "If you haven't noticed, human beings aren't the most wonderful of creatures. If you sit down and have a serious talk with our dear merman about it and he'd actually be willing to talk for once, he can tell you stories that'd make your ears bleed and point out things you'd never noticed before about people..."

He cleared his throat. "I was going to...but if you want to do something together, we can. I mean--that...came out wrong. I have video games."

"Always," Shadow purred, leaning against the counter. "And yes, that..." His purring was a magical sort of sound. Relaxing but nerve-wracking at the same time.

Gian laughed a little at that remark. It isn't fair, indeed. But, when have things become fair? His smile, though, instantly disappeared the moment he'd heard his next words. That was true. Humans aren't exactly the most wonder of creatures. "But to group them together... it's unfair. Unfair for me, at least. I'm not one of them." He took his hands from his pockets and turned to look at Alfie with a rather surprised and amused look on his face.

"We can do something together." He, of course, was teasing the mutant naga. It was by far too early to be making out with any of the members. Not that he'd mind really. He was, well, rather curious about Alfie. He wanted to know more about him, about what turns him on, his pleasure points-

Gian wasn't sure why but it probably has something to do with his fascination on the oddities of the world.

The purr from Shadow was relaxing and unnerving. Well, it was more of the latter with Hebs. "By prepared, I'm guessing that comes with the sex, too?" he asked as he put the batter he'd put in a rectangular pan in the pre-heated oven. Turning to look at Shadow with the injection liket his, he grinned at him, "Must be uesful to be able to mind read while having sex." Knowing all the pleasure points of another and even knowing, too, whether they'd be enjoying it or not. If he weren't snake-skinned, he wouldn't have to be feared. Hell, he might've just been able to have gone and do what normal people would've done: have sex, be happy and live a life.

"What are you, then? Some kind of alien?" Alfie teased, right back. His tail was, out of nervous habit, coiling up around his body. When he was feeling nervous or even extremely happy, his tail would coil and uncoil rapidly. It was always moving. Why this was, well...that was a mystery. But it was certainly strange to see...

"Sure we can." Alfie rested his elbows on the table, peering up at Gian curiously. He was rather small-bodied for his age. It probably had something to do with his being half-reptile. "You like video games? I'll warn you now that I have rather...eclectic...tastes in games and movies. I'm not normal in any sense of the word, haha...even Shadow finds my favorite video game to be fascinating because it's so strange..."

"Well, of course."

Shadow seemed almost offended by the mere notion that he wouldn't be prepared for sex to happen at almost any time. "Mind-reading is a wonderful thing to have during lovemaking. I can tell what my partner desires of me immediately...I can pick out their sweet spots and find out what's sensitive or not. It's also quite easy for me to rate my own performance based on their thoughts." The man ran a hand through his long azure hair. "...You seem curious. Is this a sign that you want to see this preparedness for yourself?" he added, bluntly.

"A human that doesn't want to be put together by those stores." Gian watched with fascination when he'd seen the reptile's tail coil and uncoil. He was very much tempted to reach out and stroke them, see how they'd react. Has anyone even stroked Alfie's lower half of the body?

Putting his elbows on the table, too and crossing his arms over it, he raised his eyebrows curiously. "That makes me curious. How about you... show me?" He had purposely added a little, well, tone at the latter words just to tease whoever could hear them into thinking they were talking about something else other than video games.

Hebs listened to him speak and grunted. That really is useful. Lucky Shadow who's got everything. It's almost... unfair. The question Shadow asked him, though, made him frown as he rolled his eyes. "Please. Keep your hands to yourself. You're better off touching human skin than snake skin after all." At least, with that perfection of Shadow's, he can't see himself making out with the human. It just gave him a strange thought as he imagined it. Glancing at the timer, he crossed his arms over his chest and silently watched the oven.

"Mm, I see." Alfie slid down onto the floor, out of his chair. "Come on, then, I'll show you..." Alfie's voice was much more casual. After all, with Shadow in the house there was really no way to trick people. He had only tried to lie to Shadow once in his lifetime, and he'd never done it again. Shadow hated to be lied to. His powers were the reason he did not have many close friends--he could not help hearing what people really had to say about him...the things they didn't speak out loud.

"Nonsense. You know from first-hand experience that I have no problem touching Alfie...I simply have not done so inappropriately." Shadow and Alfie had kissed plenty of times before. Usually they did this to irritate and gross out other people on stage...and fascinate them. But the two had never gone farther than that. Shadow had once almost allowed himself to reach that point, but he backed out.

He and Alfie were not very compatible. As Alfie had said, Shadow wanted someone he could thrill and make blush...Alfie never got embarrassed.

Gian wondered if he should bring the cup to the kitchen but remembering that Hebs was going to be taught by Shadow to cook, he thought otherwise. Plus, his curiosity on Alfie's taste on video games was overpowering. He got up to his feet and jogged to catch up with Alfie before he'd walked once he was a few steps away from him.

Hebs made a face. His cheeks had colored there, though. "I didn't need to know that," he grumbled, remembering those times when Alfie and Shadow had put on a show for everyone by doing that. Kissing. Hebs didn't mind it, though, since it was from the two of the most perverted in their family but to have to do it in front of a crowd. Preposterous.

These two have no morals at all. "And I'd still like it if you could keep your hands to yourself." He's never jerked himself off either so he really didn't know what turned him on or what turned him off. He didn't even know his sensitive spots at all. Not that he wanted to look for them, anyway. "There are better things to do than the act of sex itself."

Alfie's room was the smallest, of course. He had a small television in there. Most of the luggage he'd brought was for entertainment purposes--he didn't wear clothes, after all. Gaming systems made up quite a lot of that luggage. He had quite a few, new and old. "All right...you want me to play a normal sort of game or show you my really odd games?" he asked, excitedly. He had so many odd games...

Shadow immediately smiled again when Hebs blushed. He loved it when he could make people blush. "...Would you prefer it if I took you out on a fancy dinner date first?" he asked amusedly, only half serious. Shadow loved fancy dining halls and the like--it was the old soul still prevalent in him. If there was one thing he knew how to do, it was charm people and act like a gentleman. He was actually very perverted, but he hid it well when he was trying to act gentlemanly.

Gian noticed Alfie's room, of course. It wasn't as big as his room but he knew from Hebs that his own room was the second to the smallest after Alfie's. Blinking at the other's excited tone, he grinned and replied, "The oddest you have." He nodded at this and raised his eyebrows, "Do you need help setting up?"

Hebs covered the lower half of his face to hopefully hide his reddening cheeks. The very thought of going out with Shadow on a date was disturbing and at the same time dangerous considering he isn't fond of attention outside the shows and that wherever Shadow goes, stalkers follow. "And have you looked at weirdly? I'd rather not." He cared much about Shadow's reputation after all and he wouldn't want to ruin that. Massaging his cheeks and mentally berating himself for blushing so much like that, he relaxed and raised his eyebrows a bit when the timer was almost off. "Half-time right?"

"All righty, then...that'll require my PlayStation Two..." Alfie dug around in the bags of games he had and fished one out, holding it out to Gian. Apparently, this game was all about capturing super-intelligent monkeys with nets. These monkeys, led by a single super-genius monkey, were trying to take over the world. "That's one of my oddest ones. It's easy to set up the system, but can you plug...these wires--" He pulled the typical red, white, and yellow wires, along with the entire gaming system, out of the bag, "--into the back of the TV for me?"

Hebs trying to hide his bright red cheeks did not help. Shadow, after all, could tell mentally that he was blushing. It was fruitless to try and hide things from him. "I like being looked at," Shadow reminded him, grinning widely. "Yes, half-time. ...Totally off-topic, but I think we should get everyone together sometime during this trip and go fishing out at sea...rent a private boat and all. Our dear merman can help with fishing, after all...and he doesn't get to participate in much."

They were going to be there, starting today, for six more days.

Gian took the case and he looked at it. When he read the back for the summary of the game, he found himself in a series of emotions running through his features. A frown first and then his eyebrows raising just a tad before his lips curled up into an amused smile. "Yeah," he said with a nod as he took the wires and looked at them for a moment, "The holes at the back of the TV's colored, is it?" He really hasn't played with any game consoles. Computers yes, but not game consoles.

Hebs knew that but there was no harm in trying, right? The grin he saw when he'd glanced at Shadow and those words made him massage the side of his head and he took the mittens to slip them on. Opening the oven, he pulled out the tray to put it on the steel counter. Taking off the mittens, he put them aside, took the injection to put the filling in and pursed his lips a little. "Do I inject halfway and pour it in?"

"And that sounds good. We might even be able to catch different kinds of fish." Hebs smiled and he held out the injection of the sorts to Shadow to silently ask him to demonstrate it for him.

"Yep. Should be color-coded back there. ...Like some other things in life." Alfie let that statement hang in the air while he set up the rest of the console's wires. He could move pretty nimbly for not having legs, but he couldn't do much heavy lifting. Trying to move the TV was a bad idea--he would push at the TV and slide backwards on the floor because of his slippery scales that had no traction...

"Yes, halfway..." Shadow took the injecting device from Hebs and demonstrated on the first halfway-cooked brownie, slowly so that the snake boy could see exactly what he was doing. "...We need to rent the boat and swing back by here first, so we can load up Alfie and Léan up without anyone seeing them."

Gian blinked again when he'd heard that statement from Alfie. He didn't mind it, of course. He was just curious. "Like some other things in life?" he repeated as he moved to the back of the TV to pull it slightly to the side, enough for him to plug it in. "Life's color coded?" Once he finished plugging the wires in, he moved the TV again to set it right and looked at the console. He'd seen it in the stores. He's just never seen it up-close.

Hebs watched Shadow put the filling in carefully and he took it from him to do the others. He was rather careful not to make a mess or make a mistake. He was, after all, a perfectionist, too. "Gian or you can be the distraction. Just be sure to look at them with your eyes." The snake teen grinned at that and he'd finally finished it. Putting it quickly aside, he took the mittens to use it to put the tray back into the oven.

"It's a weird statement. It'd take too long to explain what I mean," Alfie informed him, sheepishly. He popped the game out of its case and shoved it into the console. As it loaded up, the video preview in the beginning proved how truly weird it was. For one, the monkeys wore pants of different colors...

"I know how to dazzle people...I can certainly do so. My looks can get me what I want most of the time," Shadow agreed, quietly. He sighed, resting his head back on one of the cabinets while he leaned against the counter. "...I don't know what I'm going to do with myself after this. I'm probably going to end up relaxing on the beach and swimming..."

Gian tilted his head a bit. "If you say so then." Blinking at the screen when he'd seen the preview, he found himself mesmerized, much like when he'd seen Shadow's good looks for the first time. "It really looks odd but the monkeys are pretty... cute." He looked over at Alfie. "How do you play this?"

"I thought your good looks can get what you want all of the time. Why'd you use most?" Turning to look at the other proved to be a mistake, he was enraptured, yet again, by the man's beauty. He really hated that but he had to say, he was glad he had a good-looking guy that was handling them all. One, too, who seemed to go along very well with the merman. "Or you could go spy on Kratos and Léan while you're doing that, make sure they're both all right. They're going out today, right?"

It wasn't hard to put two and two together. Gian had told him about the things Shadow was carrying a while ago and that was either for Alfie or the merman. He doubted it was the first. Alfie seemed to be enjoying his time with Gian right here in the condominium.

"You have to catch the monkeys with your net. They get transported back to a laboratory where they're kept safe," Alfie informed him, holding out the controller to him. "Give it a shot. It's only for one player, so we can alternate between levels if you'd like. I've played this game through and through so many times..."

"There are some people whose resolves are so strong that my looks cannot even get through to them...it seems impossible, but it's quite true." Shadow let that hang in the air for a moment. He noticed that Hebs seemed engrossed by his beauty once again, and he flashed him a small smile. "I think Kratos can handle himself with Léan. Besides, If I'm watching them all the time nothing will progress between them..." he reminded him, quietly.

Shadow shifted slightly where he stood, glancing up at the ceiling. He didn't say anything...he just let the silence start coming on.

"That's odd," he started before he'd taken the controller and gave it his all, nonetheles. It was rather hard to have his fingers work simultaneously on the controller but he'd managed and after the second try, he'd had himself already adjusting to the controls and the controller. Grinning when he'd gotten past the first level, he handed it to Alfie, "Have you finished it? Does it get harder each level?"

"Sounds impossible," was all he'd said before he'd gotten his eyes back when the other had glanced up at the ceiling. He darted his gaze back at the oven and thought only for a second or two. "Have you ever had sex with the one you really like? I hear it's the best kind of sex. Between humans, at least."

Alfie took the controller back, starting on the second level with an eagerness that nearly matched that of a small child. "I've finished it. There are three games--this is the second one. My first disk is too damaged to work anymore...it's a fossil from 1993, though, so that's probably why." Alfie frowned, looking sad. Obviously, that first disk was rather important to him...

"I will have to show you sometime." Shadow ran one of his hands down his arm, closing his eyes. He opened them again, however, when Hebs spoke. "...Are you meaning to ask me if I've ever had sex with someone I honestly loved?" he rephrased, tonelessly. "I have. Just once."

Gian was surprised to see Alfie playing it real good until, of course, he was told that the naga has finished it. It wouldn't be surprising especially since this was Alfie's favorite game. When he saw the sadness on Alfie's face, he felt disheartened by the fact that he's lost something important. He reached out to run his fingers through the other's hair and he smiled a little. "Well, at least, you've got the second one. Do you have the third, too?"

Hebs nodded at that. "That'd be good," he said. He only believed everything he saw with his own eyes after all. When he'd heard him rephrase the question and answered it, his eyes widened a little in surprise and he'd turned to look at Shadow like he'd grown another head. "Seriously...?" he asked, almost meekly. He wasn't supposed to ask something so personal, after all. It was a little uncharacteristic of him.

Alfie leaned his head into Gian's touch at once, a look of bliss on his face. He loved to be petted after all, for some odd reason. "Yep, there are three for this system. There's a fourth also, but it's in Japanese and has never been translated into English...a shame, since it's my favorite series ever..." Alfie pouted slightly but continued to play the game. He was done with it in mere minutes and he held the controller out to Gian. "Here!"

"...Do I look like I'm kidding?" Shadow was regarding him with a calm look...there were no hints of a smile. "In case you haven't already suspected it, I have been roaming this world for a very long time. This person in question was also a 'freak,' as you all are. For many years I've run my own freak show, taking in people that no one else wants to deal with. He was one of them. Of course, he was only human...and he was terminally ill with brain cancer. So he did not last long."

The look of bliss he saw on Alfie's face made him smile. Honestly, Alfie really was cute when he was like that. He reminded him of a dog. Do snakes really like to be receiving a pet like this? He wasn't sure and he wasn't going to find out. The teen retrieved his hand though when he saw the controller held out to him and he took it. "It should be translated into English soon enough. Guess you just have to wait?"

It took a while for Gian to pass the third but when he did, he did it cautiously. Holding the controller out to Alfie, he grinned. "And I think I'm getting the hang of this."

Hebs flushed in embarrassment. He brought up his hand to rub the side of his neck as he looked off to the side. At least, he tried to. "I'm sorry to hear that," he started as he felt his blush reach up to his cheeks. His embarrassment doubled over when his brain had registered that Shadow had loved another freak. "I was... assuming you weren't capable of it."