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That had Cami wobbling up to her feet immediately. "Hang on. Don' move." It was a miracle that Otto could understand her between the accent and the drunken slur. At one point she'd been rambling in Spanish before he'd gotten a hand over her mouth to stop her and tell her English, please. Struggling through the bedroom she found her precious notebooks, swore until a pen was located, and wobbled back out.

Halfway there she had to lean against the doorframe and giggled. "I drank too much. s**t. You might have to tuck me in and tell me to keep my hands to myself eventually. Especially the hands thing. Drunken brain thinks its a good idea." Putting the paper and pen in Otto's hands she grinned before flopping down on the floor.

"Please?"

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By the time Otto had managed to finish writing his feelings down to be immortalized there was no one to show. Cami had grabbed a pillow from the floor and tucked it up beneath her head, comfortably dozing in a heap where she'd rolled on the floor initially. She didn't remember getting up, getting into bed, but when the nightmares struck that was where she found herself. Otto must've helped her stagger in because she was still wearing her lounge shirt but no pants anywhere.

For a single, horrified moment she had to think about her underwear which was also still intact, blessedly. Maebe would never forgive Cami if she had a drunken sex party with Otto without inviting her. Cami would never forgive herself for drunkenly seducing Otto period.

It wasn't until she staggered blearily out of bed the next morning to clean up that she found the notebook lying on the coffee table, page open to where feelings were scrawled. For a moment she didn't want to pick it up, didn't want to know, because once you knew something you could never really forget it. Her own feelings won out against the fear as she lifted the page and began to read.

A minute later the book was hugged against her chest for safety as she blinked rapidly. She was a gift? Hah! Perhaps if she was they were then gifts to each other for Otto had been something she'd never thought to look for or expect. The very definition of a gift, or perhaps a blessing.

Closing it to keep the precious words safe the redhead turned back towards the bedroom, crawling back into bed so that she could wake Otto with a soft, slow kiss that was far more serious than any kiss they'd shared previous. "I love you, Otto."

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He said it!! Color suffused Cami's face even as she glowed about as bright as the mid-morning sun filtering through the new windows. For a moment she wanted to shake Otto, wanted to wake him up, wanted to ask him all about why he'd never said any of this to her out loud. Except she knew why.

So instead of shaking him awake the Sun trainee decided that maybe it was alright to be lazy. Alright to lift Otto's arm so that she could snuggle in against him with her ear against his heart -- her favorite sound to fall asleep to. Drowsing away with one arm thrown over his waist, legs tangled together, floating like nothing else in the world mattered. It was very nearly perfect!

Over and over the words of the note played in her head and Cami fell asleep until Otto stirred awake as well, dreaming of what it might sound like to hear him say all that aloud.