I Want You to Want Me

Chapter Ten: Can't Buy Me Love

"At one time, Janus had suggested we fill the place with coconut lamps, which I'm fairly certain he did just to annoy me. Can you imagine how preposterous that would have been?" Logan said as he was going around the room with a notepad in hand while he sketched potential arrangements for their office furniture.

"Not as bad as you suggesting that coconuts walked across the ocean to magically transport themselves to other continents."

"That is not what I said. I said that the coconuts used ocean currents to spread themselves across separate ecosystems."

Janus looked over at Remus with a wink. "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" Janus asked.

"Yes! They do!" Logan threw his arms up.

And Remus couldn't help but let out a small laugh, hiding it behind his hands.

"Coconuts have a long history of migrating to different areas, though this is obviously not a conscious decision as plants are not provably sentient-"

Remus grabbed Logan's wrist, practically skipping his way over to the stage where he took a seat on the edge of it, leaving Logan standing in front of him.

"Are you even listening to me?" Logan asked with a small huff of exasperation, he didn't look too annoyed though, if the tiny smile at the corner of his mouth was anything to go by.

"'Course I am, Lo, the floor is yours for storytime," Remus said with a wink, pulling up his legs into a pretzel.

Logan looked around the large, empty room in almost a daze to see that the floor was indeed his and his alone, now that all of the tables and chairs were cleared out. He was the proverbial center-stage even as Remus sat on the literal stage. Even Janus grinned Logan's way, moving to sit by Remus as he helped their favorite blond have a graceful way up.

"You-I-er...," Logan started, uncharacteristically stammering as he looked between the waiting glances of his two partners. "I was...um...I was finished anyway."

Logan ducked his head down and started to take a few steps to the side, out from the middle of the floor.

"Encore!" Janus called, before Logan could slink away.

"Boo, you tease, come back and finish," Remus playfully heckled. "Or better yet, come over here and I can finish you."

"Now, there's an idea," Janus said with a wolfish grin, teasingly wiggling his eyebrows as Logan. "I like the way you think, love."

"Do you know how unsanitary that is?" Logan asked, crossing his arms in front of his chest and refusing to move any closer to the pair.

"Awwwww, Loooooo, we'll clean up after," Remus said, making grabby hands his way.

"Plus, it wouldn't be the first time," Janus snorted, not quite holding back a grin behind his hand.

"Ooooh! Sounds like Janny's got a story," Remus said, shimmying his shoulders in excitement and drumming his fingers against the wood of the stage. "Lo said he's done so I think the floor is yours!"

"You are not telling that one!"

"Oh, and are you going to try to stop me?" Janus teased, as he pulled himself into a standing position, for once taller than Logan and using the bonus height to his advantage.

"If you force my hand," Logan said evenly, but there was a twinkle in his eye and a dare in his tone that made it clear he was engaged in the game.

"I'd like to see you try," Janus said with a wide grin, taking a single step backwards.

It was all a rush from there as Janus suddenly took off and Logan practically lept after him, vaulting himself onto the stage easily with his long arms and long legs.