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ɑɳɠeɭiɕɑ ʝoɲɛʂ ✮ fiɾɛʂʈɑɾ ([personal profile] radiantly) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2011-02-17 01:15 am

Laugh until we think we'll die, barefoot on a summer night

WHO: Angelica Jones and Pietro Maximoff
WHERE: Their home in Brooklyn.
WHEN: Thursday morning, past 2am
WARNINGS: Hideousness?
SUMMARY: They're gonna talk and cuddle.  So pretty much what they always do.
FORMAT: Paragraphasaurus


Angelica wasn't exactly the clingy type.  She preferred to lick her wounds in private and put on the public face of serenity and strength, or cry alone in her shower when she was sure Pietro couldn't hear her, after Calvin had gone to bed.  She didn't really want to talk about all the things that were bothering her, and she didn't want to ruin Pietro's expectations of a happy future with her just because she was suddenly ten months older, cancer-free, and unable to cope with the changes in her life between the start of the month and now.

Mostly she kept quiet about what had happened back home, spending the afternoons playing make believe with Calvin as a distraction.  Her evenings were spent lying in bed with Pietro, in a tangled mess of limbs and sheets.  She wanted to be near him, she wanted to be held and comforted, but she didn't want to talk about all the things that were troubling her.  And she didn't want sex either.  And while he was either too polite to speak up (hah!) or still too elated to have her back that he didn't care yet, Angelica knew that sooner or later her refusals would become a problem.  Especially after all of the flowers and candies and presents he'd been spoiling her with.

The clock on their bedside table said 2:13.  Angelica sat up in bed, turning to look at her sleeping fiance, drooling and sprawled out on the bed like he owned the thing.  She smiled softly as she slipped away from him and into the private master bathroom, Leopold right on her heels.  She quietly shut the door behind them, and after rifling through the cabinets for her bubble bath she started to fill up the bathtub.  She loved Pietro, and she loved falling asleep in his arms and letting him dote on her, but she needed a chance to sort through her head without being cuddled to death.  Silently she sank into the tub, orange and white kitten perched delicately on the edge beside her, watching his mistress soak.
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[personal profile] superspeeds 2011-03-03 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
"A bedtime story," He repeated again with a yawn. Apparently a tired Pietro was a somewhat echolalic Pietro, at least when he was trying to be polite. He considered for a moment, finishing toweling off his hair, and draping the now damp and crumpled thing over the back of an armchair. Pietro then dug a fresh pair of underwear out from their dresser and slipped them on, rummaging around for more pajama bottoms, but to his chagrin, the now half soaked set currently laying in a puddle on the bathroom floor seemed to be the last. Oh well. It wasn't as though it was freezing out anymore. Once they climbed under the covers, he wouldn't really notice, and he didn't miss at all Angelica's lack of changing into, well, anything.

"There was once a boy who liked dinosaurs and spaceships. He built them out of cardboard and, when his parents would let him, clay..." It really would've been better to go back and hang his wet clothes so that they could dry out properly. But Angelica was right. He'd be up in a few hours anyway, and inching up next to her on the bed seemed better immediately with every passing second. "Building all of these things required lots of energy, so when the boy got home from school, he ate his dinner, and usually went to sleep within a few hours... -- Are you really going to sleep like that?"