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Library [Sunday, January 6]

After a week off, Lee's back in the library and propped up lazily behind the desk. He wasn't going so far as to put his feet up on the desk but he was doing some lounging and leaning and occasionally spinning in the chair. There were books to be checked in and shelved but he had all day to do that.

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"Well, we talk about girls and fighting and flying and other secret guy stuff," he said with a raise of his eyebrow. "Sometimes we talk about nothing at all."

"You?" Adah asked, tilting her head with the ghost of a shocked expression on her face. "Talk to talk? Talking to hear the sound of your own voice? About nothing at all? I just don't believe it."

"Don't make me use the 'p' word," Lee mock threatened, shaking a finger at her. "I will, I'll do it. And you wouldn't kill me in the midst of all these books, I know it."

"Of course I wouldn't," Adah said. "You'd expect it, then. It would have to occur when you didn't expect it, as you were sitting there, feeling like you'd just gotten away with it. In fact, it might not happen for days. And, just as you realized that you hadn't gotten away with it nearly as much as you'd thought, you'd drop dead, most likely among the books again, a week later."

She really did read too much Poe.

"Would you miss me?" Lee asked, taking a few steps forward. "A little?"

Adah looked, coolly, at the Eel's face for a moment, dropped her eyes toward the general arm region when he started to move closer, and then returned her steady gaze at his eyes. "Probably more than a little," she allowed herself to say, hoping, but not expecting, that he'd realize that it took a lot for her to say something like that.

"Yeah, me too," he said quietly, reaching out to touch her cheek with his fingers. "I missed you a lot more than a little."

The flesh of Adah's cheek was pink before the Eel even touched it, and she closed her eyes, lowering her head slightly at the light touch. She was doing a poor job of hiding a smile, but that didn't stop her from stubbornly attempting. "Well, good," she stated, with a faltering strength in her voice.

"Good," Lee repeated, curling his fingers around her ear and brushing hair back. "But, let's not miss each other. I like it more when we can see each other."

"What?" Adah asked lightly, grinning with her eyes still closed so that she could mostly focus on the movement of his fingers. "Completely alter the way things work so that we'd never have to be apart enough to miss each other? Sure. I'll get right on that."

"Aren't you a smartass today," Lee remarked, voice light and teasing as his fingers kept brushing against her temple.

The lopsided grin grew, and Adah lifted her chin slightly. Her eyes were still closed; she was hoping that eventually the fingers would be replaced with lips, and she didn't want to see it coming when it happened. "Aren't I usually like this? Or do I seem even starter than usual?"

"Oh, you're always like this," he confirmed with a nod and one step closer. "I just felt like pointing it out today. So you wouldn't think I didn't notice."

"It is nice," Adah commented, having to bite her lip a little to fight off the impatience that left her wanting to open her eyes, "to know that it's appreciated for a change. I highly doubt you'd assign me the Verse for being a smartass."

"I barely know what the Verse is," he said, lowering his voice and leaning forward to kiss her lightly, lingering. "I just know it's a lot of words."

There it was. A warm smile spread across Adah's lips as teh Eel's lips met them, taking it in and enjoying it before she belatedly started to kiss back, thankful that it lingered like it did and leaning lightly into it with her good hand moving up to curl a bit by his chest.

And she wasn't particularly interested in talking anymore. About the Verse or anything, really.

And, for once, he wasn't behind the desk and he could step a little closer, slide an arm around her waist to touch a little more and kiss a little harder without the desk digging into his stomach.

But with all these books watching! The fact that Friday still seemed so fresh in her memory helped her ease particularly quickly into the support of the Eel's arm around her waist, into the stronger force of the kisses, which she tried her best to keep up with, to return; she might be lacking a little in the ability to keep them steady or to keep them from being a little lopsided and overly light, but there certainly wasn't a lack of enthusiasm in them.

Lee shifted, turned them so he could lean against the bookshelves and she could lean against him while keeping a steady hold on her and not missing a beat with his kisses.

He slowed them, kissed her lazily and languidly, smiling against her lips.

And so it appeared as though the Eel's arms were not actually quite nice to look at and be held in, but they were very practical, as they were now having to take the burden of offering Adah support as she melted against him. With everything going on inside, the emptying of her head and the tightening of her chest, her limbs were going awfully weak as well, depnding on him to deal with almost the entirety of her weight pressed up against him.

You know. All one hundred pounds and change of it.

Lee found a comfortable spot, leaned carefully against the shelf and moved his hand from her cheek to slide around her shoulders. He didn't mind the weight, welcomed it even, and sighed in reaction.

The kisses smoothly moved from slow and lazy to a little more insistent, a little more firm.

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