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"I'm not a pussy, JJ!" Sarah giggles as she jokingly stomps her foot, "I don't need to be numbed."
"Well if you start cryin' you can't say I didn't offer!" JJ puts his hands up in defeat with a smile, soon clapping his hands together, spinning around and wandering into the kitchen, John B’s kitchen to be specific, grabbing a small shot glass out of one of the cabinets and bringing it back to the tiny living room, placing it down on the coffee table and grabbing the bag he brought with him, "Where you want it?" He smiles over to her for a second before going back to rummaging through his bag.
"I’m gonna be honest, JJ, I didn’t think that far ahead." She bites her bottom lip as she lets herself fall back onto the couch, next to JJ, "Where’d you get yours? Ya know, when you thought we were dead." She smiles up at him as she waits.
"Ankle, got P4L," He carefully pulls out his makeshift tattoo needle, which, in reality, is two pencils taped together with electrical tape and grip-tape with a lightly charred and burnt sewing needle stuck between, with some extra layers of tape to keep it all together, a big improvement on the version he used on himself, "it was kinda shitty though, I need to go back over it again at some point," he places the device down on the table before searching for a small plastic box.
"I feel like a girl like me getting an ankle tat is too cheesy," Sarah hums as she takes a moment to think, before eventually coming up with her location, "what about like- the side of my wrist? Cute, visible, and you can’t accidentally stab me in a vein," she smiles and turns her body completely to face JJ, "maybe like some flowers or butterflies, or both?"
"Of course you want some cute shit, now I gotta worry about drawing cute shit and making it actually look good," JJ lets out a halfhearted laugh as he pulls out the final part of his kit, putting the small plastic tupperware box with loose pen ink sitting at the bottom onto the table, alongside a lighter from his pocket, "want me to try sketchin’ it out so I have less of a chance to fuck it up?"
"I don’t mind!" She rests her chin on one of her palms as she reaches her right arm out, "Even a little fucked up it’ll probably be cute."
"Sounds familiar." JJ smiles over at her as he starts to sort everything out, ‘sterilising’ his needle with his lighter, tipping the loose ink into the shot glass, and carefully dipping the tip of the needle into the ink, "You ready, Pogue princess?" He smiles down at Sarah as he holds her wrist delicately, hovering the needle just above her skin.
"Go for it, J." Sarah shifts herself closer to him, their knees touching as they both lean in over his small canvas.
With the first prick of the needle, the air goes still as JJ for once shuts up and focuses, his foot tapping against the floor furiously as he keeps his hand steady, starting with just a small line. Sarah lets out quiet hisses of pain as she cautiously turns her hand into a fist, biting down on her lip as she tries her best not to flinch, looking for an avenue to distract herself from the sharp stings. Eventually, she finds her distraction, smiling as she watches JJ's eyebrows furrow as he focuses, watches him chew on his bottom lip, his bright eyes staring intensely at his work, even the way he hunches over and contorts himself slightly to get a good angle.
"Cute." Her voice is soft and silky as she watches him try to steady his breaths, resting her head against the back of the couch as her smile grows. With a quiet hum, she watches short lines materialise along her wrist with just a sequence of careful pokes, holding back a laugh as JJ shifts in his seat, crouching like a gremlin on the couch as he pulls her arm a little closer, biting his lip as he moves his face closer to his canvas as he starts to poke out the general shape of the petals, whispering quiet 'fuck's as he starts to fill out the lines and begins to get shaky. Slowing his breaths, he eventually steadies himself as he finishes up the flower petals.
"It's cute!" Sarah breaks the silence when JJ starts to shift around again, not paying attention to her words while he settles back down, "J, you know you get this look when you're focused?" Finally, when he actually hears his name he perks up to look at Sarah, squinting his eyes like he's waking up from the best sleep of his life, making the good Cameron giggle.
"Hm?" He shakes his head and rubs one of his eyes with a smile as he gets out of the zone he was in, "Hey."
"Hi," She laughs again at him, smiling up at JJ as he starts to sit up straighter, "I said you get this cute look when you're focused," she uses her free hand to push some loose strands of sun-bleached hair behind her ear, "you scrunch up your face and like-," she tries her best to imitate it before giggling and covering her mouth with a grin, "its adorable!"
"Aye- hey, nah, don't call my shit cute, thats immasculating, man," He scoffs and glances away for a moment, a smile on his lips before looking back and leaning forward, "what kinda cute though? Like- like baby-cute, like dog-cute-."
"Cute-cute, JJ. Like makes my heart melt cute." Sarah playfully rolls her eyes with a small laugh, taking the moment just as he starts to argue back to lean in as close as she can, centimetres away from his face as she mumbles, "Just take the compliment, J." Soon closing the minute gap between them with a gentle kiss, holding his cheek with her free hand before slowly pulling back.
It takes a moment for his brain to catch up with everything before he stammers out, "O-okay, I mean- I mean yeah, sure. I'll, uh... I'll take it, sure." He nods slightly, biting his lip as he glances down to his half-finished tattoo work.
"You're so damn easy, JJ."
"Easy? Psh, I ain't easy, don't know what you're talkin' about, bubblegum princess."
"Sure, JJ, sure. And that exact thing hasn't worked thousands of times."
"I wish." He glances back up at her as a smirk growns on his lips for a moment, "Whatever, let me finish your tat, 'kay?"
"If it means I get to see you focus up again."
JJ smiles and once again re-adjusts his position, humming as he squints at his work, thinking for a moment before finally getting an idea, sketching out the shapes of two small butterflies with spaced out dots, eventually taking his time to fill in the gaps. Eventually, his brows furrow once again and his breaths slow as JJ focuses in on making his lines as clean as possible, taking it slow as he pokes the ink into her skin, cracking a smile as he draws out the tiny eye-stalks, eventually moving on to a tiny sun. Just a thick dot with a couple dotted lines as sunrays as his final touch before finally pulling back and dropping his makeshift tattoo needle on the table and giving the base of her thumb a quick kiss. "Done!"
"Yay!" Sarah giggles and pressing a kiss to his lips for a moment, "What do I do to like... take care of it and stuff?"
"Don't fuckin' ask me, my shit got infected."
"I'll look it up," Sarah smiles as she gently pushes JJ down into a regular sitting position, shuffling backwards to lay back against him, with his knees on either side of her, "you wanna do anything else? Or d'you just wanna hang until JB gets back?"
"I mean... I'm not gonna argue with that idea, I was thinkin' of smokin' a J while I'm here, wanna share one?" JJ wraps his arms loosely around Sarah, tilting his head to look at her as she thinks.
"Sure! According to Kie I'm a lightweight though."
"Yeah that tracks," JJ leans over to his bag, rummaging through with one hand before pulling out a small, skinny box with a couple pre-rolled joints, only rolled a few hours before picking one out, picking up his lighter, and lighting it up, "want me to go first? Test if its poisoned?" He jokes as he holds it in front of her.
"Yeah, you gotta test it! How do I know you're not trying to secretly take me out so you get John B all to yourself, huh?"
"I'll take that," JJ smiles and leans back against the arm of the couch, taking a short drag, filling his lungs with smoke before holding it back out for Sarah, slowly emptying his lungs as he places it to her lips, smiling down at her when she holds his hand and takes a short breath of it in before quickly pulling away and coughing as she breathes out, "don't choke, cupcake, c'mon, take it slow."
"I told you," She coughs into the back of her hand, smacking her own chest before inhaling deeply and catching her breath, "I'm not good at this, the giggles are fun though."
"God you're adorable." JJ hugs around her tight and takes another hit, blowing smoke against the side of her face, pulling her hair to one side as he fiddles with it.
"Could say the same, J."
"Love you, angelcake." He smiles and kisses her cheek.
"Love you too, JJ, you know that."