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 Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:02 pm
He tried not to show how pleased it made him that she was refusing to let go, Stormy's arms still around his waist. His face flushed slightly pink, Gale set down his empty cup and stepped back towards her, wrapping his own arms back around his girlfriend.
"You're cute," he said, and smiled, nuzzling the top of her head affectionately. "Even if I can tell you're trying to stall going up to sleep."
He tilted his head a little, rolling his eyes, but there was amusement in his voice as he said, "Tell Candace what? That we're dating now? She'll have a field day."
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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:11 pm
"No I'm noooooot. I like holding you, that's all," she sniffled innocently. "But she would, wouldn't she. That's why I feel like she should be first to know, though, 'cause she's your sister and my mentor and stuff!" Nevada deserved something more personal, being her roomie and all . . . She'd tackle that later.
"We can take a photo and everything. And I'll do the texts so you don't have to lift a finger except to hold meeeee~"
More stalling.
"Oh! Wow, I can't believe I didn't tell you this bit before, but, um . . . I have two brothers here, right? Two adopted ones. They're very tall and big, their names are Tuck and Evan, and they're in Moon and Sun respectively," Stormy warned him. "Ex-Army and Ex-Marine too. So you'll probably have to encounter them at some point. It'll be like a sort of piece by piece family meeting, I guess . . . But at least I met Bix! He's pretty cool~"
Still not letting go.
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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:25 pm
"Uh huh," said Gale, with a dubious expression on his face. He arched his brows, nodding along with whatever Stormy was saying. "Oh yes, of course," he added, like this made total sense. "So you'll text Candace, then, right, right."
There was a slight pause.
"Stormy, you're stalling."
The "two brothers" thing threw him off, however, Gale leaning back a little, blinking in bemusement. "Oh, so you mean like...adopted, like how Candace and I are? I think I know who Tuck is...maybe...or maybe I don't." He tried to visualize them in his head, but came up with nothing.
Then he turned back to give Stormy a suspicious look.
"Still stalling."
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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:45 pm
"Just so, yes~ I formally adopted them after the Sahara, like lost puppies!"
Stormy made a face at him. "There are still plenty of hours in the day," she argued mildly, leaning her head more against his shoulder in an attempt to win him over with her apparent endearingness. "I'm not tired, not really. I just want to cuddle and talk with you more, and watch movies, and snug with a blanket, and do that mind melding thing with our foreheads, and eventually when I'm not sick I want to kiss you morethanyouknow, and I don't want to sleep . . ."
She sighed dramatically and increased her clinging just a bit.
"Is it okay to want to do all the things like right now? I don't want to have nightmares just yet, I want to make more good memories . . ."
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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:55 pm
"Yes, plenty of hours for you to sleep and get well," he said, trying to ignore the way she was cuddling even closer to him, her head on his shoulder. Gale linked his fingers together against the small of her back, resting his chin on the top of Stormy's head.
"Mind meld thing," he repeated softly, and laughed, hugging her tightly. "I think it's bloody impossible for anyone to be this cute, and if you keep this up the entire time we're dating, you're going to drive me crazy."
He pulled back a little, his lips quirking upwards in a small smile, though his cheeks were flushed. Gale took a step forward, ducking his head to press his forehead against hers.
"I want to kiss you too," he said. "A lot. More than is probably considered proper etiquette in this particular situation, but considering you said to wait until you're better, I'll just learn to be patient."
He shifted a little, kissing her nose and drawing his head back, tightening his grip around her. "Even if you have nightmares, I'll be here," said Gale quietly, and sighed. "I really think you should sleep, if only for a few hours. But...but if you really don't want to right now, I won't force you."
Gale's own clinging might also have increased. He smiled.
"We can watch a movie if you want, maybe it'll help clear your head."
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:39 am
"You drive me craaaaazy~" Stormy softly sang under her breath, recalling a certain Britney Spears song. "I just can't sleep~ I'm so excited, I'm in too deep~"
Head stacking was also a good choice she found out once Gale had rested his chin on her. "Iiiiii am always like this~" Stormy went on to half sing and then coughed. "So I hope you're ready to go mad, Hatter, because it's either that or off with your head~" And she even went so far as to detach one of her hands to draw a soft line across his neck before quickly scurry back to establishing a hold.
Not getting rid of her okay.
At least kissing her nose didn't make her sneeze this time (only wrinkle it with pleasure), though after mentioning "more than is probably considered proper etiquette" Stormy found herself ducking her face more into his shirt sheepishly at the notion. "Yes, thank you . . . Just means when we do it'll be spectacular, mhmm." She'd cross that bridge once they got there. After some more delaying. And stalling. And distracting with her inherent cuteness.
Stormy had issues. Disney perfect kiss issues.
"The problem is, if I sleep it'll be for way more than a few hours, and if I do it now you just watch, I'll wake up at 1am tonight and whine that you're fast asleep and make you stay up with me until I'm tired again, and we can't have that, because people are normally grumpy if you wake them up, I noticed . . ." This came, of course, from days of observation. Or nights, rather. "Maybe that'll happen again. Sometimes I have manic episodes that make me stay up way late, like all nighter late even sometimes, and other times I'll be a sloth and do nothing all day except eat and sleep. My body senses when I'm anxious--well of course it does, but it's like it has a mind of its own, y'know? Like a mind separate from my mind, a body-mind that has its own alarm clock and schedule different from my mind-mind. Anyway, my body senses when I'm anxious and, like, makes me stay up while my brain whirs the night away and I'm just at a loss for what to do except ramble to the open air or something."
Beat.
"I think a movie will help," Stormy added simply, hoping the rant had sapped the redness from her cheeks from earlier. She turned her face once more to properly look at Gale. "So you have a runic dvd player or tv or something? How do we watch movies here?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 6:43 am
Gale made an exasperated sound in the back of his throat, running his hands up and down Stormy's arms, her face pressed against his chest. "You're so not playing fair," he said, and poked her side, trying to tickle her. "You are such a goofy thing, I hope you realize that."
It was said with obvious affection, Gale wrapping his arms around her once more and swaying slightly from side to side. She was talking again, her voice somewhat muffled by his shirt, and Gale leaned back a little, one of his hands idly twirling a few strands of hair around his finger. Her comments made his heart flutter a little, his face slightly pink as he said, "Yes, well, I assume any kiss with you would be spectacular, so I don't think I'll be too worried about that."
He pressed his nose into her hair. "All right, fine," he said. "You don't have to sleep now, but you at least have to lay down. And yes, I have a runic laptop that's only used for movies. It's pretty pathetic as far as laptops go, and it cost me an arm and a leg, and really you can't do a single thing on it other than watch movies and maybe play solitaire, but yes."
Gale leaned back, sliding his hands from around her waist to pick up both of hers, threading their fingers together. "But you have to promise me," he said, and leaned a little closer deliberately. "that you'll at least lay down and try to get some rest, even while we're watching."
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:53 am
"Iiiiii knoooooow~" she hummed against him, enjoying the slide of his hands. "I never said I did play fair! I even told you I'll happily tell lies if it makes things better. You are the straight man, Gale, whom I count on playing fair, while I'm the loose woman~"
Pause.
"Wellyouknowwhatimean."
God, just...She scrunched her face into his shirt for a moment, sighed as he pressed his face a little into it, and then pulled away a little once more.
Which didn't do much since Gale chose to lean in closer. Stormy was managing her blush, really! Really!! It was just hard to look him in the eyes like this, that's all...His very pretty eyes..."Promise," she mumbled as she wiggled her fingers in between his, "that I'll lay down and, if the movie is boring, to fall asleep. But if I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep, you'll know I warned you when I bother you, okay?" Then she glanced up and began to lean a little closer herself--
--to whisper in his ear. "Freebie: I'm not ticklish~ That's why I can cuddle so openly."
And then she was sliding away from him with a lazy smile, her fingers the last bit of contact to go as she went to investigate the living room for his laptop. "So what kind of movies do you have anyway?" she asked, pushing some hair behind her ear.
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:00 pm
Her face was so red he could practically feel the heat radiating off of her cheeks, and Gale bit his lip attempting to hold back the laugh that threatened to escape.
Except then it was his turn to blush, Stormy's face mere inches from his own, and Gale could feel his heart clattering noisily inside of his chest, her hands squeezing his and then -
What a brat.
Gale made a face at her as she pulled away, trying to push down the redness of his cheeks. He lifted a hand and pressed his fingers against his warm skin, taking a slow, deep breath, and then made his way out of the kitchen and into the living room to find Stormy.
"Er...not much," he answered, leaning against the door frame with his hands in his pockets. "Like...two. I have Toy Story and The Count of Monte Cristo and that's it. There's not much selection here."
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:35 pm
She stopped. Turned slowly. Looked at him.
"Did you say Toy Story?"
Stormy's face lit up like a tree at Christmas. "I wasn't sure if they converted movies like those here!" she admitted excitedly, bouncing right back over to Gale. "Since this place is all militaristic and serious faces and here is your quota of suffering." She took his hand and tried to lightly tug him from his leaning position, as much as she wanted to just take a photo of him in such a . . . picturey pose. "I don't know where anything is, Gale, come onnnnnn~"
Pause.
"Unless you're not in the mood for it," she added mildly. "If you put Monte Cristo on, I'll be sure to fall asleep pretty fast."
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:41 pm
"Yes, well," said Gale, as she tugged him away from the door. "It's a really terrible version, I have to say. It's kinda fuzzy and sometimes it's slow at parts, and I think it must have been Mark who shifted it to runic technology because any time there is even a hint of a swear word ever it says I am awesome instead."
He flopped onto the couch and patted the seat beside him, smiling up at her.
"Come on, Teddy Bear," he said. "Relax, take a seat, cuddle up with me, and let's watch a movie."
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 5:04 pm
Teddy Bear.
Teddy Bear.
For a moment Stormy looked as though she remembered something, like a ghostly hand was reaching out from behind the veil of memories in her head. And then just as quickly it left, and she smiled a little brighter just for Gale as she trotted over. "Mark really is a character," she stated as a matter of factly as she checked her hair (it wasn't damp anymore, but she knew some people could be picky with furniture), then let herself fall on the couch. "I think I could stay awake for his version then! And just, like, talk through the slow parts."
No, she still wasn't giving up on that part, promise or not.
Stormy scooched until their arms touched, unsure of how to position herself. Movies, she remembered from all her teen novels and flicks, were often an excuse for people to make out. But they could be careful! She was feeling more sniffly anyway..."Remind me to upgrade your collection when I have more money," she told him. "I need to find out what's available...Maybe Cap'n can teach me runic coding..."
kurotomato bbl real quick dinnerrrrr
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:52 pm
The laptop rested on the coffee table, buzzing slightly, and Gale tapped a few keys on it, leaning back when the opening credits started, slightly fuzzily. He waited until she sat down beside him, Stormy shifting a little closer to him. And at first Gale didn't move, but then he looked sideways at her, giving her a little smile before he lifted his arm and settled it lightly across her legs sliding down on the couch to prop his feet up on the table at a slight angle to not block it.
"Who's Cap'n?" Gale asked, as he reached for the blanket, tossing it across Stormy's lap as well as his own. "And ask anyone other than Dwight or Mark to help you, since, well, they're both useless."
Plus he didn't want either one of them harassing Stormy the way he knew they would.
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:18 pm
Once his arm lifted, she scooted in and settled snugly against Gale's shoulder, crossing her legs to better cover her chilly bare toes. "La Capitana is Miss Ami," Stormy replied happily. "Do you know her? I call her Cap'n because it's short for Captain which is short for Captain Amelia who was the stern, very businesslike leader of the ship in the Disney movie Treasure Planet. She got mad at me for calling her Amelia since she thought I was getting her name wrong, so--Cap'n!"
What to do with her hands now? Hands in lap until further notice. Feet? Legs crossed, check. Don't get nervous now over positioning.
"Are they? Mark made our Twitter system," Stormy pointed out. "And if he messed this movie up, it's only because he's a silly guy, I bet. He's also . . . very good at running away . . ." But that didn't make him bad in her book--just athletic! sort of! "You'll have to remind me of what this movie's about again, while we're at it. Or it could be background noise while I talk! Have you ever done that before, Gale? Just put on music or a show and just like . . . not even pay attention to it?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:50 pm
He curled his hand around her knee affectionately, and tilted his head back to slant her a gaze. "Ah, I know Ami," said Gale, tapping a finger against his chin thoughtfully. "She's a good sort, very dedicated. I haven't seen her in a while, though, but she'd be a good person to ask about runic technology, I think."
He gave a small, mildly exasperated snort. "Mark can be, er, interesting, to say the least. He's quite the character, and he, er...well, yes, let's just leave it at that."
The opening credits had passed already, and now it started in to the first few plinking notes of the movie, Gale shifting a little to make himself more comfortable. "And yes, I have, many times. It's been a while since I've actually just...relaxed and watched a movie, however."
He turned his head to look at her, his expression softening. "And it's been a while since I've had the company of one such as yourself, so I'm going to be extending it as long as I can. I like having you over."
I like having you with me.
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