Ah, yes, the third chapter of Puppy Love :P I have a feeling that l!Stephen considers the Jons playing together to be basically masturbation, at least as far as "does it make me jealous?" is concerned.

I've been wondering if anyone would comment on the double-safeword thing. I'm pretty sure Stephen has never safeworded in the Needverse (oi, sarcasticsra, there's a plotbunny for you), and while there's no indication in any of those stories that he would have wanted to, it's also not clear that he would if he did. And the fact that, here, Jon doesn't trust that he will, to the point of having a safeword of his own as a backup...

On one level, it's sweet and heartwarming that Jon is so in tune with c!Stephen's desires. But on another, the fact that c!Stephen is so heavily reliant on Jon to read his mind (and also makes l!Stephen guess what he wants, rather than spelling it out) is A Bad Thing. Especially when this story really drives home how badly Jon can screw it up when unchecked.

(The l!Stephen/Jon relationship has imbalances of its own, which will hopefully become clear in the next couple of strips, for people who haven't figured them out already...)

Yeah, this is going to be a catastrof@#k, all right. These crazy kids need all the luck they can get.