MHA #6, Valentine's Day Evening
Feb. 14th, 2019 02:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It was Valentine's Day and while it wasn't their first Valentine's Day together, the last one had still been early enough on that neither of them had really known what they were doing. As a couple. This time, however, 'I love you's' had been exchanged and so had keys, he'd met her family, he hadn't run screaming from her family, and he'd even rescued her from a snake cult. Those were a lot of relationship milestones right there, even if some were Price-exclusive.
So tonight she'd sent the mice off to gorge on cake and cheese in their closet in the spare room, turned the lights to dim, turned some slow music on, and started cooking dinner. The one flaw in her holiday plans so far was that she'd naively assumed that 'an ability to cook basic food' meant that she was fully qualified to cook elaborate romantic meals.
She was vastly learning that this was in error.
"What? Emulsify? I've got a spatula and a slotted spoon, how the hell am I supposed to do that?!"
[For the boyfriend!]
So tonight she'd sent the mice off to gorge on cake and cheese in their closet in the spare room, turned the lights to dim, turned some slow music on, and started cooking dinner. The one flaw in her holiday plans so far was that she'd naively assumed that 'an ability to cook basic food' meant that she was fully qualified to cook elaborate romantic meals.
She was vastly learning that this was in error.
"What? Emulsify? I've got a spatula and a slotted spoon, how the hell am I supposed to do that?!"
[For the boyfriend!]
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Date: 2019-02-14 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-02-14 08:35 am (UTC)"Well, color me intrigued, then," Liam said with a grin. "What're you making?"
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Date: 2019-02-14 08:37 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:12 am (UTC)The bacon grease had been allowed to cool a little too much and wasn't mixing well. Rather than heating it up again, Verity decided to just mix harder.
"Oh no! Shit."
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-14 09:26 am (UTC)"Okay," Verity said, looking slightly more frazzled and less sexy than the last time she'd stuck her head out of the door. "How much of a fan of salad are you?"
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:38 am (UTC)He was guessing they were going to be leaving it.
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:43 am (UTC)"After all the fuss I went to finding shallots," Verity grumped, definitely coming over to get her glass of wine. "Ugh. Stupid emulsifying."
That wasn't--never mind.
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Date: 2019-02-14 07:06 pm (UTC)"No salad just means more room for dessert," he pointed out.
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:20 pm (UTC)Well, two.
Wait, did dessert count as a course? Dammit, she could recite four ways to take down a harpy in mid-air, but she had no idea how many courses their were.
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:36 pm (UTC)"And you're sure you can't give me a hint?" he wheedled.
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Date: 2019-02-14 09:45 pm (UTC)"It's very fancy," Verity said, smiling at him. "Does that count as a clue?"
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Date: 2019-02-14 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-14 10:21 pm (UTC)In an outfit like that, though, it wasn't really a surprise what she had planned.
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Date: 2019-02-14 10:24 pm (UTC)"Almost makes me want to say we should just skip right to that part," he admitted. "... But then we'd be putting all your hard work to waste." And that would be tragic.
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Date: 2019-02-14 10:38 pm (UTC)And maybe push him up against a wall while she was at it.
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Date: 2019-02-15 12:05 am (UTC)Oops.
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Date: 2019-02-15 12:15 am (UTC)This was going to be fine.
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Date: 2019-02-15 12:32 am (UTC)Liam ground his hips against hers, his own hands finding the strings to that frilly little apron she was wearing. Contemplating tugging them undone.
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