How do you even have the capacity to be a brainless flirt right now, you can't possibly be human.

[He's shaking his head, but he's also smiling and fretting and smiling, because wow that kind of made his heart climb into his throat a little bit. Jake's never been unkind by any means, and he's been supportive and encouraging, but that didn't mean that John wasn't a sucker for praise.]

[He also had one hell of a crush on this dude.]

[But he's working on the vest, and then on the shirt-- and Jake was right, he has to break out the little medical scissors to get it off of him. He hisses in empathy at the rainbow of bruises all over Jake's front.]

...God, if I didn't already I'll fucking kill every one of those goons.