nextgenerationmarvel | Life Goes On And Hides Under The Couch ((Open to Avengers))

After Christmas but before New Years, Jay and May had mutually decided to stop dating. They had drifted slightly apart. It was an amicable split and also half his choice, but Jay was still a bit sad. Though rather than brood in his room as he had done before, he went out and about all over New York City. Distractive outings. Though he made sure if he was with Stooges that the girlfriends were not along. He didn't want to dwell on being suddenly single nor did he want to feel like a fifth wheel.

Jay had gotten up late today and slogged out to the kitchen. When got back to his room, he noticed his door still open. He slapped a palm to his forehead and grunted.

"Crap. Crapcrap. Crapcrapcrap." The miniature giant space hamster, otherwise known as the pet he had that no one particularly knew about, was loose in the mansion. Jay turned on his heel and started down the hallway. He needed to find his pet before Jarvis found him and called the intergalactic exterminator.

"Boo," he whispered through clenched teeth as he stalked through the mansion. "Here, Boo. Heeeeeeeeere, Boo."

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Nicky grinned at that. "Jay, he's cute." Nicky walked over to Jay and knelt by them both. He hesitated before reaching out to pet the thing between the ears. "If energetic."

"Of course he's cute. He wouldn't be Boo otherwise." Berzerker rangers knew that, right? Jay looked at the creature standing on his stomach.

Boo blinked up at Nicky and waved the fronds. Possibly in celebration of taking down someone. The creature cooed at the petting between the large, flappy ears.

"Or he'd just be Boo for a different reason," Nicky surmised. "You know you're going to need to inform everyone about him at some point, right? Before Jarvis calls in SWORD to exterminate the poor guy."

Jay sat up and moved Boo down to his lap. He sighed. "Yeah. I know. There hadn't been time between recovering from the Kree and stuff."

He skritched a spot on Boo's neck that made the little creature coo in a melodic way. "Least I can do the little guy after he kept me distracted on New Years."

New Years sucked to be alone on.

Nicky frowned. He watched Boo coo and hum, seemingly content with his lot in life. He wondered why neither humans nor Asgardians were ever quite so simple. "Yeah. The Kree fallout has been...something." He sat down on the ground next to Jay, tired of kneeling the way he had been. He leaned against the wall and looked Jay straight in the eye. "If you want to talk about it, I'm all ears, Jay."

"Kree stuff effects Bruce and Roxstar. And Marcus not wanting to be on Vincent's team." He stopped skritching Boo and wrinkled his nose as the waving fronds made it itch. He made various faces until the urge to sneeze passed.

"And you're not all ears. They probably have a Greek monster for that."

Nicky half-smiled. "I'm more on the up-and-up about the Asgardian stuff, but I know they have one that's mostly eyes," he replied. "But you know what I mean. I'm good at listening. You have to be when my parents start waxing poetic about some of their greatest battles."

"You don't want to know about my parents and wax. Believe me." He shuddered a bit, which got the attention of the creature in his lap. Boo dropped the fronds and grabbed Jay's shirt to start to climb up.

"Anyway," he said quickly to dispell the image of his parents in his mind, "I'll probably feel like a fifth wheel with the other Stooges and their ladies. They'll beat me over the head with their strange white man logic, and I'll continue to wonder if there is anyone out there that can handle both big, green Jay and human, squishy me."

"..." Nicky raised an eyebrow. "What about your parents and...you know. You're right. I probably don't want to know." Midgardians sometimes were a bit odd. "I'm not going to lie to you, Jay. Breaking up and all that - yeah, you are going to feel alone for awhile. Especially when your friends have someone special in their lives." Nicky, for all of his fun sexing up on Asgard, always felt like a bit of one. Thor's son was wanted, yes, but getting into a relationship with him while he was up there was another matter entirely.

Especially when you threw Amora and Lorelei into the mix.

He understood the feeling. "But you have to look at it this way. Bruce Banner found someone to love. Your mom did as well. And they turn big and green, too. If they can, I'm sure there's someone out there for you, too."

"Yeah, but Uncle Bruce disappeared on his family," Jay mumbled. Then he blinked wide as Boo made it up to his shoulder and began hugging his head.

"Uh..."

"..." Nicky pursed his lips and squinted. He hadn't exactly remembered that Bruce had disappeared... He stared at Boo, who was hugging Jay's head, hoping to find some answer there.

There was none.

"Sure, but...your mom didn't?" Not really his best argument there.

Jay reached up and tried to remove the hugging creature from his head. It took a couple hugs, but Boo came away to blink innocently.

"Mom wanted a family. A stable one. I guess somewhere there might be someone out there." He was not going to go looking, though. He was still trying to sort out where he and May went wrong. Just so he could understand the other side.

"Your day will come," Nicky said. "Just be patient."

Life Goes On And Hides Under The Couch ((Open to Avengers))

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