Monday Night with Nell and Gladio

[mylandmyrules]

Nell had decided on lasagna for dinner - one extra large one with meat and a smaller one without. She made up a garlic spread for the bread, that Gladio could slather on her bread before they heated it up for serving, and a large salad. That plus the usual snacks and desserts should be more than enough for anyolne who might stop by.

Once everything was set and the lasagna ready to pop in the over she had some time to put her feet up by the fireplace and snuggle with the cats and/or Gladio if he was there. Though if he growled against her neck she might just have to drag him off to the bedroom.

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell would end up nicely pink and a bit flustered when their guests arrived and would be eager to have some growling once they'd gone home. For now though, she'd barely managed to get the lasagna into the oven on time and now needed Gladio to work on the garlic bread for her.

Though, if they got a bit distracted here and there, well... what could they do?

"Just slather the garlic sauce on each slice and then we'll heat them up."

[sword_chocobro]

"Slather, huh?" asked Gladio, with a lift of his eyebrow and a knife prepped in one hand with the sauce in the other. "Is that a technical term?"

But if she wanted slathered, Nell was going to get slathered. He was going to slather that bread with all the slather in him.

Once again, though, he just couldn't help feeling like what he needed was just a bigger knife.

[mylandmyrules]

"Absolutely," Nell said with a grin. "Technnical as they come."

And if he wanted to bring in a bigger knife he was welcome to do so!

"No sense in skimping on the garlic for garlic bread." And since they'd both be eating it there wouldn't be a garlic issue later.

[sword_chocobro]

Thankfully, Gladio treasured his greatsword and his Genji blade (and respected the Marshall) far too much to start busting those out for kitchen prep, but maybe he should consider getting a smaller, kitchen-specific broad sword one of these days....

"I'm pretty sure there's someone out there," he trusted that she'd know who, "who might say something about how there actually can be some sense to it, but I think I'm with you on this one."

[mylandmyrules]

A larger knife, please, not a huge broadsword!

"Yes, well, then they're welcome to skip any garlic bread that's offered," she said with a smile. "And in the meantime we can enjoy the garlicy goodness!"

[sword_chocobro]

Mmmm, maybe they could compromise with a short sword.

"Which just means more for us," Gladio said, "and you won't hear me complaining about that."

But, even with the tiny, barely existent knife he was using, it didn't take him long to slather that bread and he looked over at Nell with a faint grin on his face. He was bringing his hand up to his mouth to lick some of the sauce that had gotten on his thumb off, but at the last second, seemed to change his mind and redirected his hand so that he brushed a little bit against her cheek.

"Looks like you got a little something on your face, though," he said, then licked the rest of the sauce off his thumb and looked way too proud of himself, and this is what you agreed to, Nell, by letting this man help you in the kitchen.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell's eyes widened. "Why you...!"

And then she got a bit of a wicked sparkle in her eyes and reached up to smear some on his cheek. "Oh dear! Look what I did! Let me help you there.'

And she stretched up to lick the smear off of his cheek.

[sword_chocobro]

As Nell stretched up and Gladio realized what she was doing, he grinned, leaning down to make it easier to get that last little inch. And if it just so happened he could also use that to wrap an arm around her to keep her close, then so be it.

"You know what?" he said. "Call me crazy, but I don't really think you did that on accident."

[mylandmyrules]

"Why, Mr. Amicitia?" Nell said in mock surprise. "Why, whatever are you accusing me of?"

She was happy to stay right there tucked against him.

[sword_chocobro]

"If you wanted a taste," Gladio informed her, "all you gotta do is ask."

[mylandmyrules]

"Maybe I like to just take what I want sometimes, " Nell said with a little grin. "I can't always be a patient person."

[sword_chocobro]

"Yeah," Gladio agreed with a fond chuckle, "but you didn't have to go and butter me up first."

[mylandmyrules]

"Maybe I like you a little buttered up and extra tasty," Nell said and licked his cheek again, then ran her finger down his neck starting just below his ear.

"Oh dear. See?" And she nibbled and licked the path her finger had drawn.

Then she pulled away a little and gave him her best innocent look. "I should behave better, especially since we have company coming in a while."

[sword_chocobro]

Someone should tell Nell that she really needed to work on making that innocent look actually look innocent. Gladio wan't going to, but someone should. Gladio was a little busy at the moment, with an appreciative groan in response to her tongue on his neck, and with giving her a look filled with warning that if she kept that up, he'd have no choice but to reciprocate. And then where would she be?

"We got time," he said. "They can wait. Whatever happened to 'I like to just take what I want sometimes'?"

[mylandmyrules]

"Oh. Well then..." She stretched back up and licked and nibbled at his neck again. "I don't think I got it all," she murmured.

[sword_chocobro]

"Mmmm." That next bout of licks and nibbles pulled a growling hum out of Gladio, tilting his head back to give her more space. "Might as well be thorough, right?"

[mylandmyrules]

"I'm nothing if not thorough," Nell murmured against his neck, dropping small kisses on the area he'd exposed for her. "I wouldn't want to miss anything."

Her hands slid into his hair to hold him right where she wanted him. "Perfect."

[sword_chocobro]

With another soft groan within that throat getting so much attention just then, Gladio closed his eyes and just enjoyed the moment a little longer before he had to disagree with that statement.

"Not quite yet," he said, ducking his head to catch Nell's lips with his own for a kiss.

There.

Now you could call it perfect.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell was more than happy to arch into him and give herself over to his kiss. He was right. This was perfect.

They were perfect.

Company coming? Who cared.