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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 19:03:18 GMT -5
Their parting kiss made her heart race, but Johannes attempted no further than that, although he had melancholy words to say, entwining his fingers in her hair, on how he supposed this was the last they would ever see each other. And for most of her commute home, she was absolutely devastated by the thought.
But by he time she had arrived, she felt like a weight had lifted from her. They could, perhaps, never make anything work; he was short and cruel with her so frequently, and even he seemed to have come around to believe something very wrong had happened the day they'd slept together. But they were parting on good terms, which had seemed an impossibility not very long ago, and at last they could be trusted to remember only the ways in which they had touched each other and been in love.
She wasn't quite glad to see him go, but she knew it was for the best for both of them. And perhaps with a lifespan such as his, one day he would be able to venture back out into the world and not regret it.
Nonetheless, it was a glittering, chilly black October night when she got in, and her mood was very good.
"Loki?" she called through the house.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Oct 23, 2016 19:23:58 GMT -5
"I'm in the kitchen. Come see!"
The closer one got to the kitchen, the more orange the light grew. The culprits turned out to be a variety of carved pumpkins set in the oriel, though only a few of them quite qualified as jack-o-lanterns. The rest were filigreed with tangling symmetrical vines and angles.
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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 19:28:05 GMT -5
"Ohh!!"
Teja was immediately in love with all of them.
"Oh my god, is this glamor or...?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Oct 23, 2016 19:33:06 GMT -5
"No, actually. I'm just that good."
Loki stood up from the table where he was busy carving what would end up as Pumpkin #17 to kiss her in passing on his way to the sink to rinse pumpkin insides off of his hands.
"You didn't tell me about any of this! They're selling these just up the hill in the park-"
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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 19:36:17 GMT -5
"Oh- oh, Loki, it's magical..."
Even though he could actually do magic and this was just craftiness. She followed him to the sink to hug him around the waist with affectionately roaming hands.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Oct 23, 2016 19:40:40 GMT -5
"I havent sent Thor any pictures yet but he says they're all over the village- I've been doing a lot of reading, it's a pity we can't answer the door without everyone finding out we live here..."
He paused with his hands under the water and smiled.
"Hello there."
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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 19:42:48 GMT -5
"I saw Johannes and we saw a movie," she said, but even that she was up front about it meant something different about this time. "He says he's decided to leave. Everything's been going poorly for him and he's heading back home. It was actually very good! I'm - I'm so relieved, Loki, everything is over and nobody got hurt again-"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Oct 23, 2016 19:45:18 GMT -5
"What? He's leaving, just like that?"
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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 19:48:43 GMT -5
"He wanted to have a big vampire networking party and mostly goth kids showed up, and his son and he fought and then Herbert disappeared, and he's just very dejected. But he wasn't dreadful and nothing happened- nothing happened at all."
She came around to the side, looking at his submerged hands with a smile. "Mm. So you're good with your hands in every way, huh?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Oct 23, 2016 19:52:30 GMT -5
Loki turned off the water and reached to dry his hands.
"Well, if you're safe and he's leaving, then I suppose we can decorate the front of the house too-"
He set down the towel and swooped her up for a kiss.
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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 19:53:37 GMT -5
She wrapped her arms carefully around his shoulders and hugged him.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Oct 23, 2016 19:55:15 GMT -5
"Do you want to carve one? I think I've got two more-"
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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 19:56:04 GMT -5
"Not right now, but yes - Oh, kiss me, darling-"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Oct 23, 2016 20:00:12 GMT -5
"Mmm- all right-"
He grinned and picked her up again so she was perched on the crook of his arm, then kissed her a little more lingeringly this time.
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Post by Teja on Oct 23, 2016 20:01:33 GMT -5
She sank her hands through his hair adoringly.
"Do you know," she mused, "I'm beginning to be glad I married you?"
She flashed a just terrible smile at him.
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