And she should probably not have been kneeling on the cold ground by the side of the stream for as long as she already had, but... There was something soothing about the sight of them.
Sometimes Octavia just got caught on the smallest things, and wondering whether she should say something that seemed small and vulnerable and whether it would seem dumb, somehow.
Because once the bubbles finally materialized into a text, this was what it was:
Feels like we haven't made plans in a long time. It's nice
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He got a little bit of that when he went back to Haven. Though of course it wasn't even remotely on the same scale.
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Yeah. That was exactly it.
Theyre pretty
And she should probably not have been kneeling on the cold ground by the side of the stream for as long as she already had, but... There was something soothing about the sight of them.
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That was about as far as she was willing to go, the majority of the time.
Its quiet out here
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quiet can be good
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It is, Octavia sent back. Calmer out here than in town
The wording there was ambiguous on purpose.
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He was also pretty sure it was easier for her not to think about the recent developments in their relationship.
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There was so little to worry about out here except paying attention to the terrain under her boots.
Yeah
Been here a lot this week
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'Noisy' didn't feel like quite right word. But she trusted him to have the concept right.
We should come out here together when its warmer
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The parts that didn’t involve her bleeding and him making an impromptu pile of gravel, anyway.
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And it was a good memory.
Maybe yeah
Octavia looked at the text after she'd sent it, and -- No, actually, that was far too mild.
Id like that
Better.
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me too. I like getting cozy with you
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And somehow she even remembered that was what it was called.
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easy enough to dig out the tent again. when do you want to do it?
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Next week?
Sometimes it didn't pay off to wait.
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It was his diner, he could play hooky from it if he wanted to.
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She wasn't terribly attached to her bartending shift, but she had already skipped several shifts lately.
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He'd skipped several lately, too.
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Octavia sent that, then... wrote something else. Deleted it. Wrote another version.
Deleted that, too.
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He leaned back in his seat and tried not to read too much into how long they were sitting there for.
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Because once the bubbles finally materialized into a text, this was what it was:
Feels like we haven't made plans in a long time. It's nice
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Their date at the diner. And then nearly blew up the ones with Lucifer after that.
He was suddenly very paranoid about how this camping trip would go.
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Don't think about that one
She was trying to tell him how nice it was to have something to look forward to.
I'm not counting that one
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Duke shook his head at himself.
I promise to try not to overthink this one
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