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betterthanaplanDuke woke up . . . feeling perfectly fine, actually. Or as perfectly fine as he ever did. Perhaps his body had built up an immunity to the pollen after all these years. Perhaps he'd eaten some particularly quirky yogurt as a depression snack the day before. Perhaps -- and this was the unlikeliest of all if you asked him -- whatever was in charge of the island's whims and quirks was just giving him a damned break this time.
Whatever it was, he was not feeling any extra-strong urges today. He was, however, bemusedly watching a pair of porgs chase each other around the deck while he drank his first coffee of the day, and wondering if it was a sign that spring had finally sprung.
". . . Aww, c'mon, guys," he said, as one porg finally caught the other. "Get a room. I know you have access to several belowdecks."
He didn't even have a salad for them to be in front of! Come on, now.
[open! I'm trying a whole "30 minutes working, 5 minutes walking" thing after listening to NPR yesterday and it's maybe actually doing a good thing for my brain!]
Whatever it was, he was not feeling any extra-strong urges today. He was, however, bemusedly watching a pair of porgs chase each other around the deck while he drank his first coffee of the day, and wondering if it was a sign that spring had finally sprung.
". . . Aww, c'mon, guys," he said, as one porg finally caught the other. "Get a room. I know you have access to several belowdecks."
He didn't even have a salad for them to be in front of! Come on, now.
[open! I'm trying a whole "30 minutes working, 5 minutes walking" thing after listening to NPR yesterday and it's maybe actually doing a good thing for my brain!]
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Date: 2024-03-25 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-03-25 09:25 pm (UTC)That was kind of a sexy thought, actually. Her all sweaty and . . . dusty. But, like. A normal amount of sexy thought. For him at least.
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Date: 2024-03-25 09:35 pm (UTC)Just made her think about his hands even more.
"Yeah, I'm not expecting to wash that off."
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Date: 2024-03-25 09:54 pm (UTC)Possibly including sexy-times. Duke was cool with that if she was -- it wasn't him feeling pollen-pressured. And he wasn't about to pretend like Octavia didn't know her own mind about things.
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Date: 2024-03-25 10:23 pm (UTC)It was also probably not going to last.
"Chof, snogon," she said, and briefly swayed in his direction like she almost went for a kiss, then thought better of it. "Right, shower."
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Date: 2024-03-25 10:26 pm (UTC)She would also be teasing Duke. He was a little sad when she didn't actually kiss him.
"Shower," he said, and reached out to give her a little nudge in the right direction. "I'll be here when you're done."
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Date: 2024-03-25 10:31 pm (UTC)"I won't be long."
But she was going now, finally.
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Date: 2024-03-25 11:21 pm (UTC)Just because he wasn’t pollen-horny didn’t mean he wasn’t horny at all.
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Date: 2024-03-25 11:29 pm (UTC)She made her way down into the boat, and got herself a nice, cool shower. And, okay, maybe it involved a little bit of... something else, just to take the edge off. As fruitless as she knew it to be in the long run.
Soon enough, she was dressed again, drying her hair while wandering into the galley for Lucifer's leftover mangos from the night before. Needed a quick snack before she'd brave the deck again.
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Date: 2024-03-26 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-26 07:09 pm (UTC)And maybe a little more relaxed, but also a little wry.
"Well, I'm back."
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Date: 2024-03-26 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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