Monday night at Nell's and Gladio's

[mylandmyrules]

Nell had had so much work to do after a week away that she'd been out straight all weekend. Tonight was a good time to kick back and have a quiet evening - with or without company. By late afternoon she was sitting up on the roof with a cup of tea and two kittens curled up on her lap as she gazed off across the distance.

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[sword_chocobro]

And Gladio didn't have nearly as much to catch up on in the aftermath of their vacation (although things weren't entirely smooth sailing at the gym while he was gone, but more on that tomorrow!), nor did he even have to make the usual swing toward T&C, since he'd picked up some maple-flavored Coca-Cola for tonight while they were in Quebec.

Which meant that he was home plenty early to come on up and join Nell, smirking a little when he saw her so cozily trapped under kittens.

"Maybe I should've brought a book up with me," he said, leaning in to give Nell a kiss and each of the kittens a knuckle-rub on their protesting heads.

[mylandmyrules]

"Still time to go get one," Nell said with a smile after she'd returned his kiss. "We can sit and read together for a bit."

[sword_chocobro]

"Yeah, but," Gladio protested, though his grin probably took a lot of the actual complaint out of it, "they're downstairs, and you're right here, and if I had to choose one over the other..."

He kissed Nell again and then pulled away to go and plop into his own chair next to hers with a little bit of a requisite grunt, and then settled back.

"I think I'm good right here."

[mylandmyrules]

Nell set her own book aside and took a sip of her tea. "It was nice being on vacation, but I'm glad we're home again."

She looked around the roof at her plants and the beehives, letting her gaze linger fondly on Gladio. "And that you're here, of course."