"Yep," says the Joker.

"Oh, good." Kisses! Handholding! And, after a long, long walk, Jacksonville!

"Not my favorite city. I like Castletown. Fond of Dublin, on days when the time's been ripe for getting away with it. Jaipur is nice, there's a capital near Jaipur, I think it's next on the itinerary when they're done in Safesun."

"Never been to any of those, either," says the Joker. "I don't even know where they are, except for Dublin."

"Castletown's on the Isle of Man, where I'm from, right between Britain and Ireland. Jaipur's in India."

"We should go see those sometime," he says. "And New York. You guys don't have a Gotham, I'm pretty sure, but New York City's the next best thing."

"I've never heard of a Gotham, and I've memorized some reasonably fine-grained maps," agrees Nathan, "but New York's good. I've only been there once. I didn't use to cross the ocean that frequently; had to defend my little island territory and couldn't typically afford more than a quick hop to tweak Siobhan's nose or annoy one of the Brits who have their island so overrun with vampires. There's a couple dozen of them with the place carved up, not that territory means much of anything anymore."

"I'll tell you about Gotham sometime, too," he says comfortably. "What is up with Siobhan, anyway?"

"She's a witch, got a..." Vague gesture. "Planning power. It's subtle, she didn't know she had it until Addy copied it. She's claimed the island of Ireland for herself - wiped out all the other vampires on it, she's amazing in a fight, eventually she added a mate and a coven sister and now she allows the coven sister's wife and their kid who's turned to live there and tolerates visits from assorted friends, but I used to drop by before it was allowed. Long as I'm good about asking my timer, she can't catch me, or at least never did it. So she doesn't like me so I'm still not allowed. She's friends with Her Majesty and she's one of the people who could take over whether Her Majesty liked it or not, so Her Majesty lets her have her immigration controls on her island."

"I don't think she'll be impressed."

"Well, if that's what you want to do I think I'd go through Maggie, she's the coven sister but she and the wife live in a little house now, not with Siobhan and her mate. Maggie's a lie detector, if we swore up and down we meant no mischief she might be able to talk Siobhan into it. If she likes you. She won't be at all inclined if she doesn't like you. She's reasonably neutral about me."

"Lie detector, huh? Fun," the Joker says brightly. "We can do that sometime too."

Nathan grins at him. It's a very sappy sort of grin.

Nathan consults his memory. "I have never been paid that exact compliment," he determines finally. "Thanks."

"What if you run out, though?" asks Nathan in mock distress.

"Bet you I wooooon't," he singsongs, grinning.

"In all of forever? You might have to learn a lot of languages," laughs Nathan.

"Guess we'll see, huh?"

Well, that's just adorable, Nathan has to hug him now.

The Joker hugs him back. Mm, snuggly. Despite the fact that it's like hugging a concrete pillar.