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[draculabutbackwards]

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[draculabutbackwards]

Adrian doesn't mind the sewing, or even begrudge the little victory for Rags, but he does feel playing him like that deserves some answer. He dips to pick up a few escaped fluffs of beanbag filling and sprinkles them with stone-faced deliberateness into Rags' hair. "Alright, let's see the damage..."

[littleonewhosteals]

He reaches up to brush it out of his hair.

"Good luck," he grumbles and leans into him, deliberately trying to sabotage the work he's doing.

[draculabutbackwards]

"This is less than fair when I can't just pick you up and toss you over my shoulder," Adrian says mildly. Stupid bruised ribs. "And likely to end with those all over your room."

[littleonewhosteals]

"Oh no, you have to be fucking nice to me for a change," he tells him. "But if you get them on my carpet, you have to pick up every single one. Do you have fancy magic for that?"

[draculabutbackwards]

He reaches over and plucks one missed pellet from Rags' hair, where thanks to the power of physics, it is trying to burrow. "Looks as though I could just use you to collect them. Little bastards and static electricity seem to be a match made in heaven."

[littleonewhosteals]

"What's static electricity?" he mutters, shaking out his hair again and lowering his head. He runs his fingers through it.

[draculabutbackwards]

"On one level, the same as the forces that turn on lights around here. Differences in the way they're charged..." He trails off. "You probably don't feel like science lectures."

[littleonewhosteals]

"Actually, yeah. A science lecture is exactly what I want." They're playful and sarcastic, but he can't forget the real reason that he had Adrian over. He just wants to erase that for a while.

[draculabutbackwards]

Adrian considers a moment, nods, and pulls Rags gently to him to begin a soft, slightly meandering explanation of what static electricity is. Never let it be said he doesn't understand the assignment.