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[brushoff]

I told you, I'm working on it!

[compellingstatement]

Work faster.
You must have a dozen Doms at a minimum fawning over you.
Why is this so difficult?
Are you ashamed to ask?
That they'll wonder why I didn't renew?
Tell them I'm a bastard.
It's not a lie.

[brushoff]

Do you want to know the most annoying thing about this?
It's just four!
I've got four or five Doms fawning over me and around ten fucking Submissives!
This city is just bleeding with attractive Submissives which would be useful IF I WEREN'T A SUBMISSIVE MYSELF.

[compellingstatement]

[Well, that's... actually not a completely unrelatable problem. There's a pause as Jon considers that the majority of people he's friendly with are Submissives. Who would he feel comfortable asking to contract with him if he were still a Sub, himself? Anya, when she'd been here? Maybe Wolf or Hawke? And they both already have contracts. Beyond that, he'd just be staring down Elias and probably trying to fend him off.]

Four or five is more options than I'd have in your position.
If it's any consolation.

[brushoff]

Don't sell yourself short.
You're not exactly a conventional catch, but you're interesting enough that I'm sure you'd find someone.

[ says the man who doesn't know that Jon literally has like two Dom friends. ]

[compellingstatement]

A delightful little oddity for someone's collection, then.

[You're not selling him on this, Dorian.]

If I could switch designations with you, I would.
Unfortunately, that's not possible, as far as I'm aware.
I don't even know why they switched my original designation from a Sub.

[brushoff]

Easy. They wanted to fuck with you.

[compellingstatement]

By giving me more privileges and power?
That seems unlikely.

[brushoff]

By making you unhappy.
You seem out of your depth every time I suggest you use your Dominant status to boss me around or fuck with me.
You rarely do half the things this city wants Dominants to do.
Even though you'd lose the power, it would probably be easier for you to be a Submissive.

[compellingstatement]

[It's not an incorrect assessment, even if Jon doesn't especially like it coming from Dorian.]

Maybe I don't act like a Dom with you because I know you'll like it too much.

[brushoff]

Who do you act like a Dom with then?
I doubt it's Lyall.
It CERTAINLY isn't Tarabotti.

[compellingstatement]

[You don't know him, Dorian. So... he's going to lie. Lyall is probably more believable.]

It is Lyall, actually.
All the time.

[brushoff]

[ Dorian. doesn't entirely believe this, mostly because Jon's JON. ]

That actually does make a bit of sense.
He seems a little repressed.

[ Dorian has had....literally all of one conversation with Lyall BUT HEY, THAT'S NEVER STOPPED SNAP JUDGMENTS BEFORE ]

[compellingstatement]

[Is this insulting to Lyall?]

He's not repressed.
It's all very open.
And respectful.

[brushoff]

That sounds dull.
Easily attainable, yet still dull.

[compellingstatement]

[Good. That means it's a reasonable lie where he and Lyall are concerned.]

That as it may be, it proves I can Dom someone if I want to.

[brushoff]

I still wish I could actually SEE this proof.

[compellingstatement]

How terrible.
You'll have to live forever in torment.
Not all of us are keen to flaunt that sort of thing.
And leave Lyall alone about it.

[brushoff]

It wouldn't kill you to show a little iniative.

[compellingstatement]

I'm ordering you to do something right now.
Isn't that dominating you enough?

[brushoff]

It isn't and we both know it.

[compellingstatement]

Well, what would you do if you were the Dom in this situation?

[Not that Jon would be likely to... do anything Dorian suggested, but a part of him was curious about what the man might do to him if he were being so unruly.]

[brushoff]

I'd have a little bit of fun.
It all depends on my Sub's comfort, of course. I wouldn't want to break him outright. But I'm sure I can find a way where I can satisfy both our needs but give him a little push to actually get shit done.

[compellingstatement]

And what if your Sub is extremely uncomfortable and doesn't want another contract with you?

[brushoff]

Why would you be uncomfortable with me in the first place?

[ that's not an answer. ]