MHA #6 Saturday Afternoon

[arboreal_priestess]

So, with the past week, Liam had had plenty of time to experience being around blanket forts, but Verity was pretty sure he'd still never had the fun of building one. So she'd sent him out to the store for some snacks, citing a long-overdue call with Sarah for why she couldn't accompany him and after said call (in which she harangued her cousin to at least talk to Artie, for god's sake, and also to come back to Baltimore), she stripped all the linens off their bed and grabbed everything from the closet and left it all in a giant pile on the floor for Liam to spot when he came home.

Shut up, this was totally for Liam's benefit and not at all because the past week had Verity feeling nostalgic or anything.

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[firstofitskind]

Silly considering the person he was talking to, yes, but also not entirely without precedent in the larger scheme of things.

"And here I thought our afternoon was going to be a lazy one," he said, lips quirking up in a hint of a smile.

[arboreal_priestess]

That person being his wife.

"We've still got time to rescue the evening," Verity said. "The building is all done, all that's left is to eat snacks, watch TV, and eventually order takeout."

[firstofitskind]

Who had never once not been on his side; not about anything that mattered, anyway.

"What did you wanna watch?" he asked.

[arboreal_priestess]

"We can finish watching November Cabal," Verity suggested. "We only have a few more episodes left."

Which would not lead to chill. Anything but.

[firstofitskind]

“Do you think our fort is sturdy enough to withstand that?” Liam asked, arching an eyebrow.

It had been built with potential sexcapades in mind so... probably?

[arboreal_priestess]

"I'm sure I don't know what you mean," Verity lied declared. "We're just watching TV, how crazy could that get?"

[firstofitskind]

"Yeah, the bruise on my arm says otherwise," Liam scoffed, making to roll up one sleeve.

As if she wouldn't have already seen it, given how they lived together and all.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Don't be such a big baby," Verity said, something she would never say for a real injury. 'Real' as in 'not caused by her getting mad at a TV show.' "You could have gotten that anywhere."

[firstofitskind]

"Yeah, no, I definitely got it when my wife, whom I love and adore more than anyone else in this world or any other," why yes he was purposefully laying it on a bit thick, true as that was, "got offended by the way a fictional character talked about cryptids."

[arboreal_priestess]

"Because he was wrong!" Verity huffed.

Welp. There went her attempts at playing innocent.

[firstofitskind]

"Notice how I'm not disagreeing with that," Liam pointed out. "Just with the part where I, somehow, end up the target of your ire."

[arboreal_priestess]

"I was flailing with righteous anger and your arm was in the way," Verity declared. "You weren't a target, you were a bystander."

Which was...better? Ish?

[firstofitskind]

"I'm not actually sure that's better," Liam said, disagreeing with the narrative."

[arboreal_priestess]

Rude.

"Of course it is!" Verity argued. "For...reasons!"

Reasons she wasn't actually supplying.

[firstofitskind]

"Like...?"

[arboreal_priestess]

"Reasons!"

Well-played Verity.

[firstofitskind]

“Name one.”

Liam was clearly not buying what she was selling.

[arboreal_priestess]

"I would do more damage if I was trying to hurt," Verity sniffed.

[firstofitskind]

“True,” Liam conceded. “But I still don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to avoid ‘damage’ while doing something like snuggling together in this very cozy fort we’ve made,” he pointed out.

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity grumbled a bit, sulking next to him. Still, she had to concede that he had a point. "Okay, so what do you think we should watch?"

[firstofitskind]

“Well, there’s that other new show, about the guy who wanders around saving people from monsters?”

Which was a) different from actively seeking out non-humans to kill and b) a departure from his usual, considering Liam was the kind of nerd who gravitated towards documentaries when it was his turn to pick.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Aww, you don't wanna watch the documentary on the tiger guy?" Verity teased. "I thought for sure that would be your pick."

Documentary was being generous.

[firstofitskind]

Yeah, Liam liked a little more information and a little less sensationalism in his documentaries, oh my god.

“What about me makes you think I would want to watch anything about a guy who is essentially a hoarder?”

Of living creatures, Verity!

[arboreal_priestess]

"I hear there's a whole episode about an unexplained disappearance where the victim was probably fed to a tiger," Verity offered.

[firstofitskind]

Yeah, that was just going to get her an extremely affronted look, because oh my god.