Monday night at Nell's and Gladio's

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Nell was still feeling particularly cheerful tonight. She'd decided to make her own pizza dough so that people could decide what they wanted on their own individual pizzas. With her homemade sauce and fresh herbs, obviously.

She'd also picked up some ice cream because she'd thought it would be nice to cool off with something sweet at the end of the evening.

Once that was all set to go she'd headed up to the roof to check on her bees and maybe read a bit of her book.

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[sword_chocobro]

Gladio was finding himself a little disappointed now, if there was a week where he didn't find a new-to-Fandom but familiar-to-him product from back home randomly on the shelves at Turtle & Canary. He was sort of liking the idea of getting to share these random little pieces of his past with Nell, and to reminisce over them with the guys.

But alas. No such familiar drinks this week, though he did find one unique enough to stand out and seemed like a flavor pairing for a pizza night that even Iggy would have to approve of.

"So there you are," Gladio said, once he made his way up to the roof after a search through the house proved futile in locating Nell. He went over to her, hand slipping to the small of her back to guide his lean-in for a greeting kiss. "Checking up on the bees?"

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"Yep." Nell kissed him back happily, stretching up to wrap her arms around his neck. "And they're doing marvelously. We're going to have so much honey this year!"

She took his hand to lead him to a place where he could see the hives without having to get too close. "Look how happy they are!"

[sword_chocobro]

"Kind of hard for them not to be," Gladio said, chuckling faintly, because, truth be told, he was paying way more attention to how happy Nell seemed than the bees, "with you taking care of 'em. And I should know. That's coming from personal experience."

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"Aww, do I make you happy?" Nell said with a fond smile. "I'm glad. 'Cause you make me awful happy myself."

She tucked a loose piecese of hair behind his ear, then just let her fingers play with it a little. "What cool thing did you find this week for us?" she asked. "Oh, and I thought we could experiment with ways to put Cup Noodle on a pizza!"

[sword_chocobro]

"Don't act all surprised," Gladio said with a huff of a laugh and a nudge. "You know how happy you make me. And then," he fixed her with quite the look, brow lifted and those golden amber eyes clearly alight with intrigue, "you go and say the words 'Cup Noodle^TM on a pizza.' That's enough to make a man almost want to go and drop to one knee, you know."

It was teasing as much as it was a warning, though whether he was warning her that he just might have to do it or that she'd better not be saying something like that and not delivering, he wasn't sure.

"And it's this basil honey soda," he said. "Sounds really weird, but it could be pretty good. I figured, you can never go wrong with honey with this crowd, and basil's good with pizza, right?"

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Nell laughed delightedly. "Well, if it can be done we'll find a way!" The other she wasn't quite sure of his meaning, about going down on one knee except sort of as in prayer or to a king or queen. If she'd fully understood it might have given her a bit of pause because that sort of thing was so far from anything she'd ever expected that she'd have had to do a good deal of considering.

But as it was, she could understand enough to make her happy.

"Ooh, basil and honey! Basil definitely goes well with pizza. And honey is alwasys good." She considered for a moment. "I've actually heard of people putting hot honey on pizza too. Like spicy honey, I mean."