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"No, you only missed a story on the newscast"

"Good Norest we eat at the table, but we do have a TV-watchingrooreat"

"I’ll get us sorab us soerator Take whatever you want and grab so in there that I don’t like"

When I returned with a couple of canned drinks, he had a red-and-white-checked blanket spread picnic style on the living room floor in front of the fireplace and television I hadn’t felt anything in my necklace, so thatHe flattened the paper bags the food had coers and fries out on them I handed him his drink before I sat down

"This is er "Much better than the other night" He suddenly looked concerned "Isn’t it? Or a? You said you had fun"

"I had fun because I ith you I’uy who’d have deliberately takenroom floor are much more my style" And, I realized, this indoor picnic in front of the fireplace was a lot more romantic than the limo ride and the fancy restaurant, with or without the weird disruption we’d had

"Good And I guess I didn’t realize how little I know about you I feel like I know the kind of person you are because we have been through soether, but I honestly don’t knohat you like or what you do enjoy"

"It’s hard to carry on a good conversation when every ti through ice, fighting off dragons, working, fending off a ether"

"I had to enchant that necklace to knohat to give you for Christht you a scarf I think that’s laift for ave me The necklace really has been useful"

"Okay, then, let’s try this another way You already know my favorite childhood movie was Robin Hood What was yours?"

"H Beauty They re-released it in theaters when I was about five or six, and we ht that going to live in the forest with a group of wacky fairies seeood life As an adult, I hts a dragon"

"Noould have got that one wrong I saw you asfor other people to take care of the situation You pull yourself together and head out to the ball to get what you want"

"Yeah, I guess that doesBeauty’s prince better, and let’s face it, the prince is the part we really like in those movies It’s your turn now Let’s see, what can I ask you? Favorite movie now?"

"I haven’t been to the in to say"

"Okay, then, how about favorite grown-up movie?"

He worried his lower lip in his teeth while he thought, then said, "A lot of it depends on the mood I’m in But Casablanca is a consistent favorite"

"Oh, so you’re a ro," he said, even as he turned slightly pink "I like the idea of knowing you’re part of soer than you are, and at the same time, no matter how epic the scope of a situation is, it’s still about people Plus, Huart was incredibly cool, and he always knew just what to say in a situation I’d love to be able to toss out s of the the nerve to say theht time"

"Yeah, you’re a romantic And worse, you’re an idealistic roesture for the greater good and then stride off into the fog"

He slipped his arainst hih so that I deliberately ordered our burgers without onions"

"And you think you’re not smooth," I said just before he kissed me It was even better than our very first kiss, which had been ically influenced We’d kissed a few times since then, but not with the sa he did, he was thorough, meticulous, and quite skilled Fortunately, this time he didn’t withdraw in horror, like he had once before after realizing he was underh to really kiss hiot over the initial aardness, it felt so very right between us