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The joys of sailing in from 2008, Duke was not dealing with a giant winter storm as he made his way down the coast from Maine. The weather had in fact been perfectly fine until he crossed into Fandom waters and the first of the white flakes hit the boat. He'd had some warning about this, sort of, thanks to Octavia's voicemail, but it still took him a couple minutes to work out that it really was powdered sugar falling from the sky instead of snow.

He managed to get his boat docked without getting too much of a contact sugar high, and paused on the deck for a few moments to just watch it drift in the glow of his string lights. It didn't sparkle quite the same way a good snowfall would, but it was pretty enough in its own way, and with the hood of his slicker pulled to protect his hair, he could let himself relax for a minute and just enjoy it.

A porg landed on the deck, liberally dusted and practically buzzing like a hummingbird as it rolled around in a small sugar drift. He was going to be cleaning up tiny sugar porg prints for days. Duke watched it for a moment, then turned his face back up towards the sky, tasting sugar on his lips.

"Home sweet Fandom."

This couldn't possibly be good for the fish.

[can be open, sure!]

Date: 2019-12-07 09:54 am (UTC)
okteiviakom: ([neu] second dawn sinner)
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"Sure."

Octavia was very deliberate in the way she said that, this time. Tiny smirk in place, of course.

Then she dropped her gaze down to their hands again.

"Are you picking up Larceny from the hotel tonight?" No reason.

Date: 2019-12-07 04:09 pm (UTC)
okteiviakom: ([neu] nonchalant reveal)
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"Good." She gave his hand a little squeeze back, and looked up through her lashes. "Otherwise I would've stuck around until I walked you to the hotel."

But that wasn't what was going to happen, now.

Date: 2019-12-07 05:20 pm (UTC)
okteiviakom: ([pos] a breeze)
From: [personal profile] okteiviakom
Octavia looked like she was maybe trying to suppress a smile, for a second - then let it happen.

"I am kind of curious about your breakfast skills."

Date: 2019-12-07 06:58 pm (UTC)
okteiviakom: ([pos] crumbs of happiness)
From: [personal profile] okteiviakom
"I don't have much to compare them to, anyway," Octavia admitted. "But I'm inclined to believe you."

His track record with feeding her was pretty stellar.

Date: 2019-12-07 07:35 pm (UTC)
okteiviakom: ([pos] tease)
From: [personal profile] okteiviakom
"I'm open to suggestions," Octavia replied, rubbing her thumb slowly against the side of his hand. "I'm also okay with just... carrying on with what we've been doing."

Date: 2019-12-07 07:47 pm (UTC)
okteiviakom: ([neu] I am always right)
From: [personal profile] okteiviakom
Octavia pretended to think about it. Even looked off to the side with an expression that tried for thoughtful.

Then she looked back and nodded. "Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable change." It sounded much better than reasonable. "Let's go with that."

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