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Plus, it's gonna be great watching you totally kick Cisco's butt.

[ big smile. he's the best friend ever. ]

[That gets a laugh.] Has he been beating you at super stick figure?

No way, no one's beating me at super StickFigure, that's the boring part of making all the games - you know how to beat them all, even with the randomizing levels. Curse my great memory.

Are you saying I couldn't beat you at a dancing game? [Eyebrow up.]

[ he could be honest, admit that that's a game of coordination and she will kick his ass at it.

but where's the fun in that? ]

I'm saying you could try -

Challenge accepted. I am going to dance your butt off.

[What?

Whatever, she's rolling with it!

CONFIDENCE!

And a kiss to distract him.]

You don't scare me, I'm still for my ballet demo. I'm starting to think all this dance talk of yours is nothing but talk~

[ not even a little true. she'll see how badly he's going to lose when he gets around to doing the striptease routine for her. ]

[Yesssss strip tease!]

Oh, is that what you think? You are in for it.

Still only hearing talk.

You don't have the game done yet, right? Did you want me to just dance off against you right here?

Nooo way you'll say you won, I'll say I won, the whole fleet will be split, families torn apart - it'll just be a mess.

[She leans in for another kiss.] You're ridiculous. [It sounds so fond she could be saying "I love you" and she basically is.]

[ which is always what he hears when she says it. ]

I love you too.

[ nuzzling her nose with his own with a smile. ]

[She borrows his smitten smile at the way he responds.] Are you going to be able to get back to sleep if I manage to get you to the couch or bed?

[ it looks better on her anyway. ]

Nope, sorry, you're stuck with the babbling for now.

[She kind of loves the way he looks in it though.]

I'm kind of into the babbling. It's what I signed up for. I wanted the whole package.

That is an alarming use of past tense.

[ doesn't he just looked alarmed? his bratty smile is positively terrified! ]

Do you want to correct my grammar or kiss me, handsome?

When you put it like that --

[ definitely kissing ]

I hope all this kissing doesn't make you think I don't really like the babbling. [She's kidding but also...yeah. That would be sad if the thought that. She likes talking to him.]

Noting that you really like the babbling.

[ kissing again. he knows she likes talking to him, but sometimes the nonsense that comes out of his mouth frustrates him. he knows how everybody in his life before the fleet reacted to it, and it's hard for him to believe that no part of her reacts the same way. ]

[She definitely prefers the real talks to just the babbling although that can be very cute. Maybe the honeymoon phase of things he does being endearing will end one day, but it hasn't yet. But when she really gets to see what's going on inside his mind she feels more connected to him. And yet she doesn't mind continuing the kiss when he re-initiates. She leans in closer.]

[ if it ever ends he will be absolutely horrified, because the babbling kind of happens...a lot, and he can't control it no matter how much he wishes he could sometimes. it's part of who he is.

he tangles his fingers in her hair and smiles into the kiss. ]

[She's confident he has nothing to worry about. And when this kiss breaks she nuzzles against him, savoring the closeness more than looking for the hotness.] Tenno and Ordis are gone. [Windrose crewmates. Two of the last to come aboard and the first to leave in awhile.]

[ he wishes he could share her confidence but if only one of them gets to be sure about that, he definitely prefers it be her. ]

Kitty, I'm sorry. [ pulling her in for a hug. he doesn't know if she's especially close to them in particular, but he knows how they both feel about their crews, they're their home. ]