"What." Lex balked, one hand coming defensively to the towel wrapped about his waist. Blue was stressing him out enough to give him a heart attack. He wasn't even sure if she was that aware of the way she said things, but she was starting to make him feel like one of those dirty old men that shouldn't be trusted around young women. Or, more likely, he<span style="font-style: italic">was</span>a dirty old man and he was just constantly misconstruing everything that she said. The cold, damp clothes<span style="font-style: italic">were</span>ridiculously uncomfortable, but Blue was<span style="font-style: italic">right there.</span>He could feel the shift of the mattress as Blue reclined, and he couldn't help but imagine what it looked like.<br/><br/>And it was about that point that he decided he really needed to stop.<br/><br/>He'd decided to turn the situation around into a joke, like he normally did when he didn't know what else to say, but he quickly decided that she might take something like 'Well, if you want to...' too literally. How bad would that be, though, really? He wondered about it, wondered some more, and then decided that it was entirely off-limits. "These probably do need to come off," he admitted, slipping a thumb beneath the waistband of his boxers and resting it at the hollow of his hip. "But I think that I can manage."<span style="font-style: italic">Unless you really really want to,</span>Lex added in his mind's afterthought. "But you'd better not be sitting over there with that goddamn camera." He laughed, but he was at least slightly serious. To spare Blue, and to avoid having to get up and shuffle to another room, he laid back on the bed, wet hair be damned. He raised his hips an inch or so off the mattress and pulled the towel up further on his waist, reaching beneath it to<span style="font-style: italic">very carefully</span>slip his boxers off. They came off with little resistance and Lex sat back up, considering the fabric in his hand for a moment before leaning over Blue to deposit them where he knew the crate was at.