betterthanaplan | The Cape Rouge "day spa", Sunday

It had taken some doing, but Duke had managed to get his hands on some outrageously expensive skincare products to lavish on Lucifer during his "spa" pampering, and he'd done his best to prep both the pillow room and the sauna on board the Rouge to match. He'd picked up some lotus silk pillow cases, and 700 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets for the massage table (so he wouldn't slide off when things got hot and sweaty).

All of it in silver, champagne, white with occasional pops of jewel tones, to match the color scheme of the white caviar pearl infused cremes and lotions.

Duke really hoped Lucifer liked it. He was only just realizing as he looked at it checking for any final touches needed that it might be a little too 'Silver City' for full relaxation.

He decided to go get Octavia and Lucifer before he could go full neurotic on that question.

[For the partners! And likely slow play somehow even with all three of us in the same timezone for once!]

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betterthanaplan

Duke picked up the lotion and started spreading it slowly on his hands, giving Octavia a wink and a smile.

“Now, any areas in particular you’d like us to focus on?”

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okteiviakom

He just caught Octavia's gaze before she turned to put Lucifer's clothes away. Her answering smirk was small and a little lopsided.

The way she folded Lucifer's clothes and set them aside was careful, gentle. Almost reverent, really.

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my_own_advocate

"Perhaps you should just surprise me," Lucifer said, grinning a grin they couldn't see. "You seem to be doing well thusfar."

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betterthanaplan

“As you wish,” Duke agreed. He fell silent, the better to surprise Lucifer, and spent a moment considering, before moving to start.

On Lucifer’s feet.

“Let me know if you’re I’d like me to adjust the pressure at all.”

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okteiviakom

Octavia straightened up, and just watched, for now.

"I guess this is where we find out if he's ticklish."

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my_own_advocate

"Only in a fun way," Lucifer said, preening a touch, because he couldn't not.

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betterthanaplan

“We can explore that later if you want.” Duke dug his thumbs into Lucifer’s arches, working out any tension he found. “I won’t speak for Octavia, but I for one am entirely at your service today.”

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okteiviakom

"More or less," Octavia said, for her own part, her voice a little lower. It just did that on its own. ('Service' was a loaded word, but in many good ways.) "Speaking of, anything I can provide right now?"

She wasn't much of a masseuse, as much as she'd meant to learn.

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my_own_advocate

"Eat something, enjoy yourself," Lucifer said, a soft teasing note in his voice - and then a sigh, as Duke found very nice muscles. "Talk to us."

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betterthanaplan

Duke turned his attention to Lucifer’s toes.

“What would you like her to talk about?”

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okteiviakom

"Excellent question, jaka," Octavia said as she turned to get herself a glass for the juice.

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my_own_advocate

"Tell me about-- the food." He wasn't. Quite. In the mood for anything sexy just yet. "Why did you pick what you did?"

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okteiviakom

Octavia looked over at the almost-but-not-quite overflowing tray. "Well, first of all, ease of eating," she said, as she reached for the jug. "Stuff that you can just grab, and there won't be a mess. That's why I took the pits out of the cherries."

She poured juice into her glass.

"I also wanted there to be variety. Sweet things, salty things, dry things -- whatever the opposite of 'dry' is for a fruit? Juicy things?"

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my_own_advocate

"Juicy things," Lucifer agreed.

He was very glad his intensely stupid smile was hidden against the massage table, yes.

"Good thinking."

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betterthanaplan

“She’s wise, our Tavi,” Duke agreed, working gently on the much ignored tendons on the tops Lucifer’s feet. “Osir briyon gona.”

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okteiviakom

"I don't think it's wise, just smart."

Just take the compliment, Octavia.

"Anyway, so, I picked the fruit because they were easy, and they looked good." Not necessarily aesthetically (though that, too) but rather qualitywise. "I picked the chocolates because they seemed like... your style. Handmade, not factory stuff."

A pause. She worried her lip between her teeth for a second before landing on a word.

"Tailored, if chocolate was tailored."

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my_own_advocate

Lucifer let out a soft grunt as Duke's talented fingers found something-- quite in need of his attention. "I," he said, and then, "Yes. They are... my style."

And she'd known to pick them, even though he knew it wasn't hers.

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betterthanaplan

Duke smiled and pressed a kiss to Lucifer's ankle. Then started on his calf.

"We pay attention, babe."

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okteiviakom

"We do," Octavia agreed, picking up one of the chocolates. "And you like nice things."

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my_own_advocate

This bloody smile was going to become embarrassing. "I do."

He felt his focus shifting to Duke's hands more closely. "Though I hope you enjoy it, too. Today."

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betterthanaplan

“My hands have never been so soft,” Duke assured him. “This stuff is nice. And sea-based, which you know I’m into.”

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okteiviakom

"And I don't think we'd pick anything we were actively not into," Octavia added.

She bit into the bonbon.

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my_own_advocate

"I had hoped," Lucifer said. "But you know I enjoy it when you indulge."

He should probably stop talking and let Duke do his absolutely lovely thing, he reflected.

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betterthanaplan

Duke didn’t mind if he did both.

“We do,” he said. “And we like to see you do it, too. You don’t ask a lot of us, when it comes right down to it.”

Not seriously. He commented on them, but never asked them to change.