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gonna_live) wrote2009-02-07 09:57 pm
gonna_live) wrote2009-02-07 09:57 pm
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Simon's idea of making up for missing a week is for the two of them to pick something they want to do the next week. Something special. And they each get to pick something.
When you think of something you want us to do, name it and we'll do it, he tells her. Absolutely anything.
Kaylee doesn't know what she wants to pick.
Simon's pick is a fancy dinner out at some restaurant that's apparently got to be serving edible gold on a plate for how hard it is to get a reservation. And they have a dress code.
One problem at a time.
At their appointment, Diana suggests a trip to the formal boutique within the Galeries Lafayette, saying that they're known for being helpful and discreet.
What if they laugh, Kaylee says, and Diana shakes her head, and tells her they won't: the store is old, really old, and one of their business tenets since their reformation after the exodus is to be all things to everyone, no exceptions, no matter the event. One of the benefits of jamming everyone from Earth-that-was together -- some of us did learn how to get along, she says, and smiles.
Thus it is that Kaylee enters a small showroom within a ten-story department store, looking nervous, and almost hellaciously awkward.
When you think of something you want us to do, name it and we'll do it, he tells her. Absolutely anything.
Kaylee doesn't know what she wants to pick.
Simon's pick is a fancy dinner out at some restaurant that's apparently got to be serving edible gold on a plate for how hard it is to get a reservation. And they have a dress code.
One problem at a time.
At their appointment, Diana suggests a trip to the formal boutique within the Galeries Lafayette, saying that they're known for being helpful and discreet.
What if they laugh, Kaylee says, and Diana shakes her head, and tells her they won't: the store is old, really old, and one of their business tenets since their reformation after the exodus is to be all things to everyone, no exceptions, no matter the event. One of the benefits of jamming everyone from Earth-that-was together -- some of us did learn how to get along, she says, and smiles.
Thus it is that Kaylee enters a small showroom within a ten-story department store, looking nervous, and almost hellaciously awkward.
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Yes I do.
The firmness with which she corrects herself almost gets a smile out of her. I do. It's okay.
She leans forward to balance her mug on the table, then slips back, working her arms around Simon and letting her head rest against his chest. It wasn't a great day. But I can be happy now.
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The cocoa will be finished. And they'll talk about dinner, and debate a few possibilities before deciding to order in (and there will be a small extra gratuity for the deliverer, for having to come out in the pouring rain). And Simon will take the hour after dinner to study, and by the time he comes to bed they'll both be half asleep.
Eventually they'll have to get up. But for right now, there's this.