He picks up his mate and continues wandering Jacksonville at a leisurely walk punctuated with kisses. "Oh, look," he says. "A hotel."
"How d'you want to scandalize them, babe? It's a hotel, I think they're used to giggling couples getting rooms."
"Mm, I bet you could do it, but mostly I'm just itching to know how," Nathan says, nuzzling his mate's neck.
"We could get arrested," Nathan points out. "Fucking in elevators isn't a charge I can get out of via hidden law."
"Getting arrested's not that big a deal for me," he says cheerfully. "If you don't wanna, though, that's fine."
"I don't think they'd put us in the same jail cell," Nathan points out, "and I'd be in Imperial type trouble if I clawed my way out."
"Any non-arrest-inducing ideas, babe?"
"In all the subsequent time we get to spend, not being arrested, in a hotel room," purrs Nathan. "That's where."
Here is the door to the hotel. Nathan opens it with a shove of his hip, not intending to set his mate down until he is required to do so.
The receptionist asks if he needs to borrow a wheelchair.
"Nope," says Nathan cheerfully. "As you can see, we are jointly ambulatory."
"I'm pretty sure we won't actually get arrested as long as we're technically dressed," he purrs in his mate's ear as the elevator pulls them up.
His hands are free. And, as they have just demonstrated, he can reach Nathan's pants from here.
By the time they get to the hotel room, he has managed to reduce Nathan to a growly puddle of want. The key card gets them in and then there is pouncing.
He loves Nathan's pouncing, he really really does. He also loves the way it feels when his bones unbreak themselves.
Nathan loves him. Loves that he can be careless, loves the way he can make him make all those noises, loves him like burning.
So the Joker doesn't.
They can't be arrested just for having really loud sex, right? Even if there's screaming?
Well, there's disturbance of the peace, but they'd get a warning first, and they'd find all the participants uninjured if they insisted on having a closer look, so that's all right. How many screams does it take to get to the center of the Jacksonville Police Department? (Doesn't matter, the results will be invalid; Nathan got impatient and bit.)
And then the taste changes.
And his purr becomes a snarl and without thought he bites and tears and thirsts and it's so delicious, there is no flavor but this in the world, the ever-present pain of thirst has gone and he's drinking and drinking and drinking and there's nothing in the universe but the flow of singing blood.