➹BEEPER

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"It had better be an emergency."
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4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

[So - so, if she's to, say, find herself with her face partly hidden in the space between his shoulder and neck, standing on her toes as she is, and casually inhales deeply - no-one will ever hold her accountable for that, will they?]

I feel great, thanks for asking.

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[No one will find her accountable, but he does dip his head to nudge her forehead gently with his, questioning.]

I'm glad. [And still hugging. Someone will find him accountable, if they're seen.] So... you just came by to smell me?

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

Hug - the smelling just happened. [She does have the common sense to blush a bit after being caught red handed (red nosed?), but that's as far as it goes, apparently. After switching so her chin rests on his shoulder, instead of her sniffing him, the hugging doesn't really stop.]

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[Oh well, if that's all the reason necessary... he might just take the excuse to press his face into her hair. She'll know when his breath tickles her ear.]

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

[It does, actually - and she knows; and she could say something about him sniffing her, but she'll just laugh briefly instead, shoulders shaking.]

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[He edges her back enough to look at her, eyebrows raised.]

Apple?

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

[She shakes her head.]

I'm not looking to keep the doctor away.

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

That part I noticed. [He curls his fingers slightly into the fabric where he's holding her shoulders.] What's this in aid of?

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

I felt like it. [No, she really does - still feel like it.]

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[Well, it's not entirely out of the blue. Sometimes, as he recalls, she just misses hugs.

And sometimes he does too but he's less open about admitting it.]

And here I was hoping you were going to flatter my huggable attributes.

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

Aren't I with my actions, though? [Such as, you know, running her hands up and down his spine - still?]

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[O-oh. Well there's that - look Mae, you make a grown man shiver. And suddenly he's pulling her in closer again, one hand in the small of her back. Well, she knows enough secrets already, she might as well know the effect that has on him. And suddenly the question's just a little bit more intense.]

What is this in aid of?

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

[Oh, my - well. See, a big part of Mae still is that girl who had prefered to be amazing than to be beautiful, and in spite of knowing that she's generally considered cute, being found attractive has become less frequent here (to her knowledge). It might just have gotten her breath stuttering for a moment there, to be pulled in closer.

Might just be the cause of why she murmurs,] I want to.

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[It's just that there's a certain type of touching you don't do when a hug's only an i-miss-hugs hug. And Mae's all up in that and... Chase reasonably knows he should be getting out of it. But he makes terrible choices.

So his choice is just to get out of the corridor. His free hand hits a button behind him and the elevator doors open. So he's no longer backed up against a wall, but backing them - both of them - into an enclosed space surrounded by four of them.

It's just to get them out of the corridor while he figures things out. Which is also why he's so intent on her face.]

You've been to the gardens.

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

[Of course you do, there's nothing wrong with some backrubbing action to go with a hug, alright? It's perfectly normal, nothing at all influenced by months and months of palpable tension.

Getting them into a closed space: either a genius move, or a mistake. She takes the ding of the doors closing - and probably taking them up or down to whichever floor the lift's summoned to - as a cue to answer.]

I have - I walk there every day.

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[Up. He's not planning to let this spill out into reception. Meanwhile he tilts his head, watching her the way someone would watch a predatory big cat. Not sure if it's going to go for him - not sure whether or not he wants it to.]

Did you stop for a drink?

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

I was stopped. A drink was offered. One every day, and I kept looking and declining and thinking - I could really use one.

[Because of so many reasons, that she doubts he needs her to enumerate; he'll know quite a few of them.] I might've tried one, after noticing no-one drinking them turning into animals or whatever.

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[He nods a little.]

You could always come for one with me. As long as I didn't have to put on a skirt, first.

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

Okay. [She smiles a little at the memory, and then a little wider at the image of him in an actual skirt.]

Though I'm sure you could pull one off.

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

Trust me, pulling it off would be the first thing on my agenda.

[Ha ha, wordplay. He still has his head tipped back to look at her, though he glances up at the scrolling numbers, too.]

So, you got a drink that made you... like me.

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

Ha ha. [Her grin fades a bit at that not-quite-a-question; she frowns.]

I already like you. You think it was something in my drink?

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[Well he didn't mean to make anyone frown, but he does have some experience with the whole - it takes drugs for her to show an interest thing. It's not that he minds.

Not really.]

Not the liking. Maybe the... [Smelling.] hugging.

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

Oh, that. [Oh, this, more like; it's not like she's stopped. Maybe she should - should slowly attempt to extricate her arms from around him. Or at least stop touching his back and shoulders like she hasn't done that in ages.

Even if it's true.] I don't need a drink to make me want to hug you.

4th july; backdated; action

[intheblanks]

[Yes, maybe she should stop that. Maybe he should stop leaning into all her touches or his forehead lightly against hers. Maybe he shouldn't rest a hand on the doors closed button and hold the elevator up when it stops at the top floor. Maybe maybe maybe.]

Really. Because you don't do it a lot.

4th july; backdated; action

[brobeforehos]

[Oh - maybe. Maybe all those things. Maybe him not doing all those things wouldn't result in her hands stopping only when they reach his sides, or in her moving her head just so that their noses brush together in a mock Esquimo kiss.]

Maybe I just need a boost of courage... [Ridiculous; she's recklessly brave even in her worst moments - except in these cases when she isn't, because of only too much experience in how things can go wrong.]