tearmeanewone | rendez-vous + APPOINTMENT POST

Oh, but they're all silly. [She laughs, a little more openly, but she's blushing and looking away. Maybe she's not entirely comfortable admitting all of them, but she did open the door.]

They're just things like... imagining what it would be like for you to recite love poems or Shakespeare to me. Making love in Paris, in a gigantic bed with the doors wide open so we could see the Eiffel Tower lit up afterwards. Falling in love with you again and again in different places and times.

Silly, romantic, fairy-tale type things.

They aren't silly at all.

[To Gai, they're heartfelt and sweet and romantic... more romantic than he would usually consider himself to be, but for Elizabeth, he likes the idea of doing any one of those things.

Paris might be out due to the windows into the Battle Dome simulator rooms, but love poems and Shakespeare he can do.]

If that's what you want, then I'd be happy to do some of those things for you. We can write our own fairy-tale together, even if we can't go to Paris or any other places just yet.

[That's probably the sappiest thing he's ever said, and he honestly doesn't care.]

[The reassurance that her little fantasies aren't so outlandish and laughable makes Elizabeth feel an excited flutter rise in her chest. She wraps her arms around Gai's back and buries her face in his shoulder with an almost shy, excited giggle.]

Yes, that's what I want. [Her smile and tone sobers a little.] I know it isn't going to be perfect all the time, but I want something idyllic sometimes. Something that I've only read about.

[Gai returns that embrace as best he can from his current position without resting his weight on her, just holding her close with a quiet smile. He's still getting used to the idea of even being able to have a future at all; it's as strange and new and exciting as it is frightening to him.]

I think it's much better if it isn't perfect all the time.

[Elizabeth considers this for a moment, then nods. It would be strange if everything was perfect all the time.]

We've both lived with a lot of imperfection... that's all. [She nuzzles at his neck for a moment before laying herself back down on the bed.]

And it reminds me that all of this is real, not just some dream or illusion.

[And he loves it, every perfect and imperfect moment of it, as long as they're together. As long as they can be like this, he's happier than anything he could ever have wished for.]

Please. I'm too strange to be anything you could dream up. [She reaches for his hand so she can hold it, reassuringly.]

I know. That's what makes you perfect.

[He just gives her hand a squeeze in return.]

[That's a compliment that has her giggling again, and squeezing his hand back.] You're perfect too.

...I got a nice view myself, you know. It takes a lot of muscle to hold me up like that. [And she bites her lip again to try to stifle her giggling.]

[Oh, now he's beaming, because he is rather proud of his body... not that he'd say so unless it was brought up, as his physical fitness is ultimately born from practical purposes.

Her giggling is cute, though, as is the way her eyes are wandering towards his abs.]

You should come watch me work out sometime if you liked it that much. I'll even leave my shirt off just for you.

Gai! [Elizabeth smacks his elbow playfully.] I can't be that shameless, not in public! [Though really, from the way she's laughing she doesn't seem that adverse to it at all...]

[That draws a laugh from him too. 'Shameless' is not a word in Gai's vocabulary, really.]

I never said the shameless part would be happening in public.

You and I have a different idea of what constitutes 'shameless', I know that much from experience.

I can't be salivating all over you in public, it would ruin that aloof image you give off.

Just salivate quietly and save the rest for when we get to a private place.

[Then, his mind supplies him with something absolutely horrible, and since Gai is in fact quite shameless, he's going to say it out loud.]

Now that I think about it, didn't one of those terrible romance novels talk about the sweat making them slide together like seals?

[He's probably going to get smacked for that, he knows it. He also couldn't help himself.]

Oh God. [Elizabeth sounds absolutely mortified by that. She can't even suppress a full-body shudder, and she has to take every bit of skin she can get off of Gai off of him. Because now she just feels it without thinking about it.]

Oh God Gai, why on Earth would you bring that up NOW of all times? [She makes a whiny, disgusted noise and covers her face.]

[Okay, definitely not as intended. He would've taken a smack over that reaction, and he certainly feels like he deserves one now. One of the drawbacks of him having far more sexual experience than her, he's learning-- he's far more comfortable making jokes about things like that than she is.

When she pulls away, he won't try to stop her.]

Sorry, I shouldn't have joked about that. It just popped into my mind at the mention of exercising, and apparently I'm not as funny as I thought I was.

[Elizabeth opens the hands over her face like window shutters, frowning deeply up at Gai. Then she's pushing up on his shoulder, trying to roll them over so she's on top.]

Shush, you make me laugh all the time.

~~[Seriously Gai, don't turn into Shu, whatever you do.]~~

[Okay, that was cute, and Gai smiles and allows her to roll them, shifting carefully so that they can remain joined even through the movement. Hey, it was a bad joke and he'll happily admit that.]

And sometimes it isn't even on purpose.

I'm going to give you such a sock! [Elizabeth laughs and raises her fist.] You're perfect, alright? Don't tell me otherwise, especially when you're inside of me. I have the upper hand, technically. [She grins and squeezes a little.]

[Gai is opening his mouth to say something that might be another joke or a protest... and then she squeezes and whatever he was going to say gets lost in a soft moan. He's still feeling incredibly sensitive from their activities, and even such a slight squeeze feels like pure delicious torment to him right now.]

I thought so. [Elizabeth props her head up on Gai's chest, grinning away like a devious cherub done by Raphael.]

Keep that up and I'm going to want to go for round two sooner rather than later.

[There will be absolutely no complaints on his end, in other words. But he will take the opportunity to lean in for a kiss once he gets that out.]

[She pretends to consider this for a moment.]

I can't see a downside.

That's what I thought.

[And he rocks his hips ever-so-slightly, grinning the entire time.]

[Apparently absence makes the man last longer, in this situation. Elizabeth reasons that she could probably start to build up speed again, too, and Gai's little rocks signal to Elizabeth that he's of the same mind.]

[She straightens up, hands resting on Gai's chest, and starts rocking with him. This time around, she's apparently going to ride him.]

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