Monday night at Nell and Gladio's

[mylandmyrules]

Dinner tonight was fancied up Cup Noodle. And fresh baked bread.

Nell was a little disheartened after having the flowers snickering behind her back all day, so she was making something easy that she knew Gladio would enjoy and that let her spend her usual cooking time sitting with the kittens by the fire and reading a book.

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[sword_chocobro]

And cheese. There was about to be a ton more cheese in their lives that day, too, as Gladio had definitely been talked into buying a ton of it on sale from a cheese peddling panda having a birthday. Maybe not enough to necessitate its own fridge, but he figured Nell would appreciate trying and giving her opinions on a lot of the fancier ones that he wasn't even sure he wanted to try to pronounce....unless Iggy was around, just to annoy him.

He had to grin, coming in, thinking how nice it was to come home and being greeted with the smell of fresh baked bread, and after poking around the kitchen a little under the guise of putting away the cheese but really was just being nosey about what Nell's dinner plans were, he went to go find her.

"Hey," he said, leaning over to give her a kiss and give the kittens each a little scratch behind their ears, too.

[mylandmyrules]

"Hey," Nell said back fondly as she returned his kiss and gave a little tug on his arm to pull him down next to her. She didn't think he'd object much. "Good day today?"

She knew he wouldn't mind the dinner plans either.

[sword_chocobro]

Even if it didn't involve the greatest food known to mankind, Gladio rarely would find anything to object to in any of Nell's cooking.

And he wasn't going to argue with being pulled down to join her, either, leaning into it with another long kiss before really getting settled in beside her.

"Good day," he confirmed. "Even better now. And I hope you don't need the fridge for too much too soon, because I've filled it with cheese."

His grin was an incredibly, absurdly proud one.

[mylandmyrules]

"Cheese?" Nell said. "Cheese? What kind of cheese? And how - you filled the fridge with it? How much cheese did you get?"

She was confused and amused and bemused and undoubtedly other words as well. Oh, her Gladio. Never a dull moment.

[sword_chocobro]

As if he still wasn't finding the occasional rubber duck in random spots around the house.

"I got a lot of cheese," Gladio said. Helpfully. "And all kinds of really fancy stuff. Most of 'em I don't know how to pronounce, I figured we could have fun trying them all together. Apparently, it's the cheese panda's birthday, so they were having a big sale at the store."

[mylandmyrules]

Yes, but they weren't in her fridge, Gladio. And besides, they were adorable. And his expression whenever he came across one even more so.

"Hmmm..." Nell said thoughtfully. "Well, we have fresh bread and I know we have a variety of crackers, and since I was only planning to have Cup Noodle for dinner... Cheese and bread and crackers sound like a marvelous starter."

[sword_chocobro]

Gladio's attention piqued like the biggest puppy ever and literally nothing else Nell said seemed to have been heard after two very specific words left her mouth.

"We're having Cup Noodle^TM for dinner?"

Yup, repeating it just confirmed it. There were very few words in their language that sounded quite so good as those!

[mylandmyrules]

Nell laughed and kissed him. "We are. I have some good stuff to add in, but tonight just seemed like a good Cup Noodle night."

[sword_chocobro]

"I mean," said Gladio, looking at Nell with that mischievous glint in his eyes as he laughed as well, "any night is a good Cup Noodle^TM night in my book. Quick and convenient, versatile and satisfying....really, what's not to love? Especially when your perfect cup is shared with your perfect person."

Which, of course, called for another kiss. Who knew product placement could actually be so romantic, huh?

[mylandmyrules]

Sooo romantic.

Nell kissed him back easily. "And means there's no concern about timing for when it's ready," Nell pointed out. "So, were we to get a bit... distracted.... it wouldn't affect anything. before we have dinner with that perfect partner."

[sword_chocobro]

Hey, now, he remembered how things went after that alleged stint as a Cup Noodle^TM spokesmodel in a potential future!

"I don't know," Gladio hedge, his voice a doubtful rumble punctuated with a wink, "it's have to be something pretty incredible if it's going to distract me from the ultimate flavor experience of Cup Noodle^TM."

[mylandmyrules]

Mmmm... good memories.

"No, you're right," Nell said with the same doubt in her voice. "We should just go have us some Cup Noodle and cheese. What good would any distraction be?"

And there was a wink and a little slide of her hand up his arm and around his neck as she stretched up for another kiss. A hotter kiss.

[sword_chocobro]

"Mmm." Gladio's hum was a deep, rumbling agreement. His hand slid down Nell's arm in kind, slipping around to her back. He shifted to make it easier to draw her in closer as the other hand joined the first.

There might have been some cocky little revenue-producing quip right there, but, nah. He was just going to stick with this right now. He could dazzle her with his clever wit when he wasn't working a very different kind of charm.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell slid in closer, shifting her skirts to straddle him. She smiled into his lips. "I'm not distracting you too much, am I?"