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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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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Too late, she sent back.
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Thursday, he sent back, trying to get back to the nice feeling. you, me, a tent, and the woods
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Like he was already trying to. Octavia could see that much.
And warm things
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And cooking over a fire just in general, let's be honest.
And hot drinks
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oh totally. got a matcha hot cocoa I'm dying to try out
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anything you want to bring along, too? maybe we can tell stories by the fire
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Dont know yet but ill think of something. Maybe ill bring a book
Maybe she'd read myths to him.
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looking forward to it
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