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needsaparrot ([personal profile] needsaparrot) wrote2008-04-13 09:44 pm

MCA0, Sunday Evening

Okay, Xander, not usually a candlelight kind of guy, but then today's not exactly a usual kind of day. When you've been dating somebody for eighty-five years, give or take one, or possibly that's the other way around, your anniversary ought to be a little out of the ordinary, right?

Right, a little. Right. So Xander's taken the time to set up various things picked up on the mainland yesterday, as well as one retrieved from the Post Office, express mail from Brazil. The apartment's flickering with soft gold light, and Xander's waiting more than a little nervously for Bridge to let himself in.

This is a good idea, right? Right. Really. Right. Right.

[OOC: For the soon to be bewildered b-word-person. That Bridge showed up is fine for broadcast, what he finds... not so much. Eventually NWS.]

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
"What?" Bridge gives Xander a puzzled frown. "Oh. Oh! No! Definitely not too weird, it's just..." he reaches underneath his own shirt for a moment, metal clinking against metal (http://pics.livejournal.com/needsaparrot/pic/000fdp6r) as he pulls off the small copper ball on a chain that Liir had given him on Friday. He reaches over and places it carefully out of the way on the coffee table. "There."

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Liir's project for Inventiontronics class. It records a person's memories as long as they're wearing it," Bridge explains. "And this, tonight, this belongs to you and me. No one else." Well, aside from what had already been recorded, of course... Oops.

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
And Bridge is grinning back at him, because Xander's laugh is just one of those things that always brings him joy (even when it's the teasing kind of laughter that means he's being made fun of). "So, you know, now that that's out of the way, we should, um..."

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, you're- oh." Bridge looks sheepish. Like he can tell when it's that kind of laughter, honestly.

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, well, it's... it's totally mutual, you know?" Bridge babbles in between kissage. "You're amazing and wonderful and I love you so, so, much, and I know how much you *weren't* in love with the idea of this happening to you randomly so going and actually *doing* it is just... you keep surprising me and I love *that* about you."

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah?" Bridge beams at him. And it's not like he didn't know this, really, after meeting Bronwyn and those few precious days when they'd kind of almost been a family, and then everything that'd happened in the year since, but hearing it out loud...

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I am in complete and total agreement. There is absolutely nothing else I'd want more than that," Bridge says.

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Not even that," Bridge says. "Though the idea of sharing some with you, I'd be up for that."

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, you know, if I'm spending the rest of my life with you, there's just one thing I need to know..." Bridge says.

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Is this meals at all hours of the night thing going to be a regular occurrence? Because, I mean, that'd make twice in three days already... which is not to say I'm objecting to the idea, I'm just curious."

[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2008-04-14 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Doesn't actually negate my question, though, 'cause, yeah..." Bridge mumbles, bumping Xander's shoulder with his own. "You know."