Monday Night at 43 Unicorn

[mylandmyrules]

Nell had decided recently that living on Unicorn Street must have been a sign because the odds of her having such amazing things in her life had been as unlikely as finding a unicorn outside of Fandom.

She had decided to make a large batch of spgahetti for the gathering, one pot of sauce with meat and the other vegan. Surprisingly enough the pasta itself - most of them anyway - were actually vegan.

In any case, the rich smells of the sauce filled the house, welcoming whoever made it over tonight.

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[sword_chocobro]

And for something he'd mostly just done because it seemed like a funny thing to do, that he didn't he even think anything of it, because they were just sweatpants, to get a reaction like that caught Gladio off-guard. It took him a moment to really process what was happening, and once he did...his arms wrapped around her, too, curling in slightly for a tight (not too tight) embrace.

"You're welcome," he said softly, and just let that sit for a moment before adding, "it's really no big deal, you know. It just seemed like the thing to do."

[mylandmyrules]

"It is," Nell said. "I mean, Liliana gave me that beautiful book for my plants, but a man - I know you're not like the men from back home, but I never could have imagined... it's different."

SHe couldn't begin to put into words why an unexpected gift from another woman was so different from a man buying her something, just because. And as if it was no big deal. "Anyway just... thank you. For always being you."

[sword_chocobro]

"Don't know anyone else I'd rather be," Gladio said, snorting faintly into Nell's hair, before pressing a kiss on the top of her head. "With anyone else, either. But if I'd have known this would be this big a hit, I'd've at least picked you up some fancier ones. Like the ones with the rhinestone words across the butts."

[mylandmyrules]

Nell pulled away enough to look up at him in mild horror. "No... there isn't such a thing. Is there?"

She shook her head. "Oh no, I'm not wearing any words across my bottom!"

[sword_chocobro]

And Gladio just had to grin fondly at Nell, her reaction to that perfectly unsurprising and all the better for it.

"Don't worry," he assured her, "the ones I got for you are totally plain and without embellishment. Just some nice, un-elaborate green, brown, and gray."

[mylandmyrules]

"Much better," she said. "Those I will wear very happily." Now that she'd started wearing sweatpants at least some of the time.

[sword_chocobro]

"And totally fine," Gladio said, since he was feeling the need to be particularly clear on a point like this for some reason, "if you wouldn't be, either. Completely up to you, and no business of mine."

[mylandmyrules]

"Thank you," she said, stretching up again to kiss him."You are very kind and thoughtful and I love you for it."