Luxor was not a hook up, though. Luxor was quiet and stone faced and after four months of cautious familiarity he finally held her hand and Zia, who had gained her last two boyfriends by escalating friends with benefits relationships, was so unsure of what she was doing with this taking it snails' pace slow thing that the self doubt and panic came on in waves.
It didn't help that the kiss in question was some childishly chaste closed mouth thing, but she still nodded with, "Yes. Thank you." Like that was going to make it suddenly go away.
She went back to fiddling with the light. "Is there anything I can like..." She shook her head and shrugged a little. "I dunno. Do for you?"
Finn's troubles still hung over her head like they were her own.
"Can we go back to Babylon sometime again?" She asked in a more hushed tone than before.
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