Not much, but Time moves Regardless

“I’m home,” Alan called out at the entrance to the apartment, the room much as he left it.

He walked over to the kitchen and saw that the leftovers had been eaten, but aside from that there was no sign that his sister had left the room at all. Alan hung up his coat and moved over to the door of his sister's room. He thought he could make out the faint sound of music being played from her laptop so she was awake but still must be ignoring him.

Well what could he do? If she didn’t want to talk Alan sure was not going to stress over it, especially not after the day he had. If she wanted to pout, let her. Alan had bigger things on his mind.

He started making a simple meal and shot a text out to Beth.

Alan

“Good evening, how was your date?”

Beth

“Nice, Ken took me to a museum and bought me ice cream :P”

Alan

“What a gentleman. Did you have fun?”

Beth

“You jealous?”

Alan wondered about that. He felt maybe he should be, or imagined he would be. If anything it was just a little thing in the back of his mind. Beth still wanted to sleep with him after all.

Alan

“Maybe a little, but more just looking out for you, checking in as a friend.”

Beth

“A friend who spent last night choking me out ;)”

Alan

“Hah, what are friends for?”

Beth

“Hmmm I wonder. Like I said it was nice. I don’t want to give you the wrong idea, Ken’s really nice. Cute too, else I wouldn't be going on the dates to begin with. He’s just not…exciting? You know?

Alan

“All too well, but I’m working on shaking things up.”

Beth

“Oooh? Is the homebody shaking things up? Whatcha up to now? Getting bootie calls from that one night stand?

Alan

“Well…”

Beth

“No! You did not! You’re such a slut Ward!”

Alan

“Haha Well it didn’t start that way, she invited me over and things…escalated”

Beth

“Holy shit, I bang you last night, and you’re hunting for puss the moment I’m gone.”

Alan

“You jealous?”

Beth

“Fuck off, more peeved that I left you with enough energy to do that. Its a competitive thing.”

Alan paused and glanced up from his plate of food over to Lena’s door.

Alan

“Lena knows about last night.”

Beth

“Yeah, I figured, neither of us were quiet. How’d you find out?”

Alan

“She kinda blew up at me this morning, told me if I was gonna sleep around to leave you out of it.”

Beth

“Bless her heart, I’ll talk with her.”

Alan

“You sure? I don’t want you to feel obligated or be caught in the middle.”

Beth

“Alan, I’m already in the middle of you two. Oops innuendo”

Alan

“You’re gross”

Beth

“Seriously though, leave it to me.”

Alan was about to put his phone away and then had a thought. He changed to his chat with Caroline and sent a text her way.

Alan

“While you’re at work tomorrow, I want you to send me lewd pictures of yourself from the bathroom. You can wait until no one else is there.”

Alan didn’t expect a reply, he was merely testing how much of an effect his words had on her. Would she just obey without question? Alan was curious. Depending on the results, his future interactions with the blonde could be quite fun.

Alan leaned back and stretched. It had been a long day, and he was tired. That and work would resume tomorrow. The never-ending grind. But maybe he could change that too. He pondered for a second before shaking his head. He planned to only use his powers to help people get what they wanted, not personal gain.

He gathered his stuff up and went to his room. It was early but he was tired and who knows what the week would bring.