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]

"Such a versatile piece of furniture," Liam grinned back at her.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Why else would we have put such importance on it?" Verity teased, though her teeth found her lower lip. Look, she had some fond memories of that table, dammit. "That might make for a good foundation for the center of our fort."

[firstofitskind]

Mmm, yes, Liam was right there with you on the fond memories, Verity. Although right now? He eyed said table critically. “So long as I can sit under it without having to hunch over,” he mused. Look, that was one of the many tests they hadn’t put it through.

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity's smirk was that. "Sounds like a tall person problem to me."

[firstofitskind]

“You married this tall person,” Liam reminded her. “That means you’re legally obligated to make sure all blanket forts are tall-person friendly.”

[arboreal_priestess]

"I don't remember anything about that in my vows," Verity argued, grabbing Liam's hand to head into the kitchen. "Pretty sure they were all blanket fort-free."

[firstofitskind]

“It was implied,” Liam said loftily as he let himself be tugged along. “All that sticking by each other’s side stuff.”

[arboreal_priestess]

"Oh ho, hasn't even built his very first blanket fort and already he's got opinions." Verity pulled one of the chairs out from the table and crawled beneath it, her head a depressing number of inches from the bottom of it. Glancing up, though, she could see all of the various weapons that had been fastened to the underside.

Not all of them were hers. <3

[firstofitskind]

"What's that look- Oh," Liam broke off as he followed her under, his own head not-quite grazing some of those weapons. "Hey." He grinned, kinda goofily at her.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Someone's been busy," she noted, brushing her fingers over the hilt of one of Liam's knives. The sheath had been strapped to the table, not the blade, leaving him able to pull it out instantly without the warning sound of ripping tape or tearing velcro.

[firstofitskind]

"Well, you know. Can never be too careful."

Not that anything had actually attacked them in their home just yet; although Liam figured it was really only a matter of time.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Stop trying to seduce me when we're building a blanket fort," Verity told him, leaning in for another kiss.

Shut up, she found violent preparedness sexy.

[firstofitskind]

"But it's so fun," Liam pointed out, just before his lips met hers in that kiss.

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity kissed him, good and long, nearly forgetting what they were doing in the magic of Liam's mouth.

But, no. She had a plan and they were sticking to it, at least until the fort went up. Building memories together, one at a time. It was its own kind of disaster preparedness.

"C'mon," she said, pulling away with a sloe-eyed, happy smile, and crawling back out. "Let's move this table."

[firstofitskind]

Liam loved that smile; loved being the one responsible for said smile.

He scooted out from underneath the table and stood, fingers gripping one edge. "Can I seduce you after we've built the blanket fort?" he couldn't help but ask.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Depends on how sturdy the blanket fort is," Verity decided, lifting up the other side to maneuver to the living room. "I have too much self-respect to be seduced in a substandard fort that could fall down around our ears."

Sometimes their exploits got a little...athletic.

[firstofitskind]

"I'm a little offended that you think I'd be party to the construction of a substandard blanket fort," Liam scoffed.

Sure, this was his first blanket fort, but Verity knew how invested he was in Doing It Right.

[arboreal_priestess]

Sure, but Doing It Right didn't necessarily mean 'making sure it was zoned for acrobatic sex.'

Technically.

Well, okay, at six and seven it hadn't, at least for Verity.

"Consider it an incentive from the construction foreman," she suggested brightly.

[firstofitskind]

At seven it absolutely did for Liam.

"Well, we've got a good wall," he nodded to the back of the couch as they shimmied the table up next to it, "and a solid ceiling so far. I think we're on the right track?"

[arboreal_priestess]

"Absolutely," Verity assured him. "How big do you want this fort to be? Just a few blankets or cover the whole living room?"

[firstofitskind]

Liam bit his lip, thinking about that. "Cozy," he decided finally. "But not crowded. Like, I want..." his expression turned suddenly shy. "I want it like the whole world is just us, for a little while."

[arboreal_priestess]

"I like it," Verity said, shifting the table over a little bit, moving it over to arm instead. "In that case, I think this will make a great entryway," Verity decided. "Since we already attached the other sheet to the ceiling. We can grab another one, put it over the table and the couch..."

She had Liam lay a second sheet over the table, so it brushed the floor in front of it and lifted the side up and over the arm of the couch. "Now there's a definite entrance, see?" she said. "Gotta go under the table if you wanna come into the living room."

[firstofitskind]

"And a much smaller chance of me ending up with an unintentional haircut," Liam snickered. Because yes, he'd fit under the table, but just barely, and there were a lot of sharp objects secured to its underside.

[arboreal_priestess]

"We can add things here to mostly have this side be another wall," Verity said, walking in a straight line down the rest of their living room. "With another opening here so we can get to the doorway."

[firstofitskind]

Liam nodded. "If we used the chairs, maybe some books to keep the blankets from sliding off?" he mused.