-Written by Jeanne Alter-
-Five years after the disbanding of Chaldea-
-Gudako's PoV-
"mmmm…."
Gudako turned over in bed and tried to fall back asleep as she felt the distinct lack of her wife and her husband in the bed with her before she scrunched up her eyes a bit. Opening them to glare at the fully risen mid-morning sun, she sat up on her elbow and squinted at their bedside clock seeing it was almost ten in the morning. She looked around wondering where both of her partners went,
"Okita? ...Edmond?"
She called out uncertainly and then breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Okita from their shared bathroom,
"I'm here! Edmond was up before six this morning for some Enforcer crap and I got up a bit after 7am... Oh wow~..."
Okita said with a sultry lilt as she walked into the bedroom wearing one of her silk robes tied loosely around her and paused seeing Gudako. She licked her lips while a devilish smile crept across her face causing Gudako to blink a few times, wondering what her wife was looking at, when she looked down to see her bare chest and the lingering marks from the night before. She met Okitas look and frowned,
"No. Not right now."
That earned her a pout from the Saber who then walked into the bedroom proper as her pout quickly turned into a happy smile when she sat on the bed,
"Well for what its worth dear," She dropped the robes off her shoulders to show bite marks above her own breasts, "You and Edmond got me back just as much. Anyway! You need to get up! Come on! Out of bed!"
She grabbed her arm and Gudako let herself be pulled out of bed yawning as she did so before frowning and wondering what the big deal was. Letting go of her arm Okita walked over to their dresser, letting her robe fully fall to the floor as she did so, before pulling open the drawers to find underwear to put on. The Saber glanced over her shoulder at her and frowned as she slid her bra into place,
"Gudako? Everything okay? We do need to move a bit if we want to make it in time."
Shaking her head to clear the sleepy haze from her mind she briefly wondered what the other woman was talking about,
"Remind me again.... What was the plan for today?"
Okita got the rest of her underwear on and then turned to look at her arching an eyebrow,
"We... planned to go swimsuit shopping with Morgan and Jalty today remember? The summer trip we have planned in a few months? The entire reason why we had to threaten Micheal with bodily harm if he didn't plan to come with us along with his wife?"
Lightning shot down her spine as her eyes widened and she turned back to the clock in a panic seeing it was now a few minutes after ten. Whirling back around she lunged for the dresser drawers where her clothes were as Okita laughed,
"There's the panic~ Wondered how long it would take. Means Laughing Boy owes me ten quid or pounds or whatever the UK uses."
Gudako glared at her wife who just looked back smugly,
"You both could have woken me up you know! How do we know that the store-"
"The store we're all going to doesn't open until one this afternoon so calm down. Besides we need to get Alter into something skimpy to flatline Micheal and you know how she is with stuff like that."
Gudako huffed a single laugh at this as she finished putting on her underwear and ran her fingers through her hair as she made for the bathroom to wash her face and rush through the rest of her morning routine. Ten or so minutes later she came back out and saw Okita sitting on their bed typing on her phone wearing brown shorts and a blue button up shirt that she had left partially unbuttoned with a white camisole under it along with a necklace.
The Saber Servant looked up, grinned, and huffed a single laugh,
"Turns out your not the only one who slept in a bit. Our dear Lady Avenger is just now waking up herself. Check the group chat when you have a chance."
Arching an eyebrow Gudako walked over to her dresser to find something to wear eventually deciding on a red and black pleated skirt with semi-sheer grey tights along with a black strappy camisole to complement Okita's outfit. She had just adjusted the straps on the camisole so that they crossed over each over the center of her chest when she felt Okita hug her from behind and nip at her ear a bit making her yelp,
"Matching me are you? Thats adorable~"
Gudako turned around in her wifes arms with a pout before leaning forward to kiss her a bit as she felt the Sabers lips curve into a smile before she pulled away as much as Okita would let her,
"We are nowhere near as bad as Micheal and Jeanne. I swear they plan that shit since there's no way its accidental."
The Saber laughed and let Gudako go to put on her tights while she walked to the door pausing before she left,
"Bacon tamago roll sound good alongside some rice? We're running out of miso soup base so none of that sadly"
"Yeah sounds great. I'll be down in a minute or two."
Okita hummed a bit and then left their bedroom leaving Gudako alone as she finished getting dressed and looked at herself in the full length mirror situated to the side of the dresser then grinned a bit,
"Alright. Quick breakfast and then to get to the inner city to meet up with Morgan and Jeanne."
She walked out of their bedroom and down the stairs of the house that they had all bought in the countryside a bit to the north of London itself. It was a medium sized two story house that had been built sometime in the 17th century on a cliff near the English coast with white crème colored walls, a wrap around deck, and a roof that was covered in dark blue shingles. They had gotten the house itself a year or two after she and Okita had started working at the Clocktower with her teaching Conjury and a few other things while Okita taught the self defense classes alongside the normal magus instructors.
Inside the house itself was the second floor with their bedroom and Edmonds office where he worked when he wasn't out doing his job as an Enforcer alongside a couple guest rooms and the library. On the ground floor was the living room where their consoles were alongside the TV and a sofa, some chairs, as well as whatever board game that they were all playing at the time on the coffee table. Through a set of swinging doors into another room was their kitchen which, while not as impressive as the one Micheal and Jeanne had, was more than enough for the three of them to cook and make food in.
There were spiral stairs leading down from the second floor that continued down through the first floor into their basement where all their magecraft and moonlit world stuff was kept alongside a tunnel that led to a small cove hidden away from anyone who might see where they did all their rituals.
She swung her legs over the railing at the bottom of the spiral stairs and walked into their kitchen to see Okita working the stove top clearly focused. Gudako grinned evilly and decided to get her wife back for earlier sneaking up behind the blonde, wrapping her arms under her bust lifting it a bit, and quickly kissing her way up the other womans neck to behind her ear causing Okita to jump and yelp a bit before turning her head to glare at her. Gudako just smirked,
"That was for nibbling my ear."
"Uh huh. Fine, fine, you got me back."
Okita said rolling her eyes but smiling a bit as she went back to making their breakfast while Gudako got some teabags and filled their electric kettle with water. She also got some coffee grounds into the coffee machine as the kettle went off, then poured water over the teabags, and put the rest of the water over the grounds to soak them as well. They went about their respective tasks in happy content silence when they heard the front door open and then Edmonds voice tiredly came over the air,
"I'm back!"
Okita turned off the stove top and got three plates as she grinned at Gudako who just called out,
"Welcome back mon amour! We just finished making breakfast and I know for a damn fact you haven't eaten yet. Get your pale ass in here and eat something."
A second or two later Edmond came through the door looking tired only to stiffen when Gudako and Okita both ran forward to kiss him and then went back to what they were doing while Edmond was trying and failing miserably to fight a blush. He ran his hand over his face and looked at them half annoyed,
"You both really get a kick out of making me blush don't you?"
"Yup. I never really got to see it while we were still at Chaldea since you were all 'I am the vengeance in the night, I am hellfire and love' or whatever the hell you were doing back then. So needless to say I need to make up for missing it because you are seriously handsome when you blush."
Okita said smugly as she sliced off part of her egg roll and ate it while pushing Edmonds plate over to him as he glowered at her before his lips twitched up into a smile. He sighed, shook his head a bit, then walked over to his plate while grabbing some silverware. Slicing into his egg roll he ate a bit humming happily from the taste as they all ate breakfast. Once they had all finished Edmond took all their plates and got them cleaned off then loaded them into the dishwasher before turning around and looking at them with an arched eyebrow,
"So you two are off to go swimsuit shopping with Jeanne Alter and Morgan today right?"
"Yup," Gudako said as she smiled sweetly at her husband and then smirked at her wife who matched her smirk and winked back at her, "We're gonna be gone for most of the day so don't worry about us."
He rolled his eyes and gave them each a look,
"Four of the strongest women on the damn planet are going bikini shopping. You're right in that I'm not worried about the four of you. I'm worried about whatever idiot is going to try and hit on you all."
"Please," Okita said flatly, "like thats- well… hrm...."
She trailed off as Gudako cleared her throat meaningfully to look at her husband,
"So what happened?"
Edmond massaged his temple with two fingers and sighed,
"Would you believe me if I told you that you didn't have clearance to know about it."
She stared at him for a few seconds to let the ridiculousness of his statement hang in the air before he sighed and gave her a look,
"Fou was seen near the English-French Coast and, per reports, was 'sunbathing' on some of the rocks on our side. So I was called to encourage him to go 'anywhere else' which meant having to get Micheal to help a bit."
Okita frowned,
"I know he's supposed to be some big bad evil being but its hard to imagine the little guy doing anything other than sitting on Gudakos head during meetings."
"Yes well," Edmond said smirking a little at the memories he was likely also mentally going back to, "Between the two of us we managed to get him through a Shadow Portal and into Avalon. So now he's Merlins problem for a bit."
He looked at the clock behind Gudako who turned around to see it was after 11:30am. She swore, chugged back the rest of her tea, gave Edmond a good bye kiss, and ran to the front door grabbing her bag as she did so. Jogging a bit to their separate garage she opened it and paused wondering what she should take when she heard Okita saying bye to Edmond. She looked over her shoulder at the blonde and grinned,
"Bikes or one of the cars?"
The other woman thought for a few seconds,
"Car. We're likely going to be making a lot more stops than just the swimsuit store and we can't carry all of that on our bikes."
Pouting a little Gudako walked over to a sleek blue sports car and grabbed the keys off the hook on the wooden post next to it before pressing the button to unlock it. It beepedand she moved to the drivers side to slide into the car as Okita got into the passenger seat while she inserted the keys and turned the car on. With a roar the car started before quieting down to a purr as she shifted it into drive and eased it out of the garage. Pulling into the driveway proper she saw Edmond leaning against a post on their front porch and caught his eye as he raised his coffee cup in salute before she revved the engine a few times, hit the clutch, and shifted into gear as the car shot forward under them.
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"I always forget how much of a speed demon you are."
Okita said grinning at her as they pulled into a parking spot next to the tube station and Gudako put the car in park before getting out. She grinned at the other woman,
"I like em fast~ What can I say~"
Okita rolled her eyes,
"Ah yes. The 'Quick Master' in more ways than one."
She felt her face heat a bit while the blonde just smirked at her,
"You're just as fast and its not fair when you hit every weakspot I have like a damn whack-a-mole you ecchi-seiba."
Okita winked at her,
"yeah and you do the same to me so we're even. Edmond though…"
Gudako felt a pleasurable shiver go down her spine as she remembered the night before then she closed her eyes and coughed into her fist before looking at Okita meaningfully,
"Swimsuits. Remember?"
"mhm. I remember. We're just waiting on the other two at this point. Where were we all supposed to meet up again? I know Morgan is trying to learn the layout of London without using her portals to get around everywhere."
Gudako walked past Okita who quickly fell into step beside her as she pulled her phone out of her purse, her eyebrows raising as she saw that the group chat she shared with the other women had at least a dozen notifications. She tapped the chat and read the most recent messages,
Sakura-Saber: <
R0adless-Camelot: <
Sakura-Saber: <
R0adless-Camelot: <
Inferni-Sorciere: <
Sakura-Saber: <
Inferni-Sorciere: <<...….>> -10:33am
Inferni-Sorceire: <
Inferni-Sorceire: <
R0adless-Camelot: <
Inferni-Sorciere: <
Sakura-Saber: <
Sakura-Saber: <<...Jalty?>> -10:52am
Gudako looked up from her phone to arch an eyebrow at Okita who caught her glance,
"Whats up?"
She sighed and put her phone back into her purse as she sensed Morgans mana nearby,
"Please lay off teasing Jeanne for a bit on the whole kids thing. You and I are fine with the idea of having kids but the entire concept terrifies her, remember?"
Okita winced a bit but nodded,
"Right…. I forget a lot of the time since she's so… happy now. I remember what she was like when I first met her after you summoned me to Chaldea and…. Fuck, Micheal really is one of the best things to ever happen to her isn't he?"
Gudako caught sight of Morgan sitting at a table through the restaurant window and grinned a bit nudging her wife with her elbow,
"That and then some. Come on, I just caught sight of our local Faerie Witch."
She pulled ahead and jogged to the shop, opening the door, and walked over to Morgan who had already ordered a drink,
"Lady Pendragon~"
"You can stop that."
Morgan huffed looking up from her phone as Gudako sat down across from the Faerie while Okita pulled over a couple chairs and a table so Jeanne Alter could sit with them as well when she got there. The Saber looked at Morgan her brow furrowed,
"Its true then? Eleanor is-"
"What Eleanor Pendragon is doing is batshit insanity is what it is. Who in their right mind- Just- I'm not- ugh..."
Morgan groaned and reached for her drink as Gudako and Okita looked at each other right as a waiter came by. They each ordered their drinks, a gin cocktail for Gudako and an IPA for Okita, and once they got their IDs back from being checked both waited until the waiter was out of earshot,
"The thing is Morgan," Okita said as she leaned back in her chair to look at the other woman, "You've more than made up for any bad feelings or possible reservations over the past several years between what you've been doing across the Moonlit world and the normal one. Even if its just you thinking you need to atone for what your Proper Human History self did in order to not be killed or whatever you've still done some amazing stuff."
Gudako hummed an agreement,
"Yup. For example that entire plan to overhaul the botany wing of the Clocktower was frankly inspired and I know I appreciate it alongside everyone else. We don't have to worry about lunar phases anymore when it comes to growing specific plants just as one of at least thirty examples."
She paused as their drinks were delivered and sipped her drink smiling at the taste before she continued,
"Then there was the whole thing about when you went into the House of Lords and the House of Commons with irrefutable evidence that almost a third of them had been taking bribes to both craft and pass laws that benefited the people dealing out the bribes. You Ace Attorney'd all of them so badly they'd be guilty regardless of what they did in response to it. It was just a matter of how guilty they made themselves after that."
Morgan arched an eyebrow,
"I'm sorry. 'Ace Attorney'd' them?"
"Its a video game series where you play as a one of a series of lawyers defending in truly insane court cases. You put a parrot under oath in one of them."
Gudako looked up hearing Jeanne Alters voice to see her walking up to them in a cropped band t-shirt, fitted jet black jeans, and vans with her long ash white hair set in a high ponytail as she pulled out the chair next to Morgan to sit down in. Okita pointed out their waiter so she could order a drink herself and soon she was sipping a fruit-brandy cocktail as she seemed to relax a bit,
"Still not used to driving Alter?"
She asked as the Avenger shook her head causing her ponytail to sway back and forth behind her,
"I'm getting better but its hard to… keep myself centered and not lean into my Avenger instincts when I'm behind the wheel. Even more so when its somewhere like the tunnel where its all confined and shit."
I wonder if Edmond ever has to deal with stuff like that… not that he'd tell me without me asking him first.
Gudako thought to herself as she watched the Avenger get her drink in her hand again and take a sip smiling happily as she put down her glass. Feeling her own lips turn up into a smirk she caught Jeanne's eyes who immediately narrowed her own,
"I know that look, Gudako. Whatever it is don't-"
"So~! We want to get you into a swimsuit that flatlines your husband Jalty dearest~"
The Avenger immediately blushed crimson as Okita spoke and hid behind her drink that she sipped more of while Morgan leaned forward clearly interested,
"I'm sure we could come up with something then to put our dear Avenger in to spark Micheals interest. Although I feel like he'd like whatever it would be since it would be her wearing it."
The Faerie purred leaning over to bump her shoulder against Jeanne's who blushed an even deeper shade of red,
"He's already seen me in a bikini multiple times now. I don't know what else I could even wear. Also the gold and black bikini is as much fabric as I'm willing to lose."
She said clearly annoyed at their antics before the waiter came back to take their sandwich orders. They all placed their orders and then settled back into comfortable silence for a few minutes before the Avenger sighed a bit and looked at them all her blush still present,
"I… do suppose finding something that I could… wear specifically for Micheal would be…. Nice though."
Okita leaned forward with a conspiratorial grin,
"Sounds like a plan then. No worries about losing fabric. I'm sure there are some swimsuits with more fabric and yet are even sexier on you."
-Jeannes PoV-
"Okay. So," She called out from the dressing room as she stared at one of the myriad swimsuits that the three other women had handed her from outside of the room, "Clearly none of you listened when I said that I wasn't going to lose any more fabric."
She vaguely heard Okita laughing, tossed the current swimsuit into the 'no' pile, and glared a bit at her reflection before sighing and reaching for another swimsuit making note of the colors before glancing at the two piles of ones she had tried on already. Noticing that the pile of ones she liked and felt she could wear outside was much smaller than the ones she didn't like and/or wouldn't be caught dead wearing, she held up what had to be the twenty third swimsuit so far.
It was a one piece swimsuit similar to the leotards that Okita liked to wear but it had a cut out in the center of the dark red fabric to show off her cleavage while the the sides of the swimsuit were more of that sheer fabric that had been used in one of the first swimsuits she had tossed into her "no" pile earlier. She looked at it more and held it up in front of her figure to look at it in the mirror noticing that what held it up over her chest were two strips of fabric that would be tied behind her neck leaving most of her back bare.
Frowning she took it off the hanger and slipped her legs through the bottom of it, pulled it up into position, and then tied the straps behind her neck before she looked at herself and turned around a bit,
"I wish it had something around my hips but otherwise… it'll work."
She put a hand on her hip and looked at her reflection noting that the usual bags under her eyes were mostly gone and she looked less tired overall. She smiled a bit as she knew exactly why she looked more refreshed and that it was because she and Micheal had been sleeping in the past few days. They had needed the quick break due to working their asses off to each have over a months PTO for their planned vacation in a few months.
Even if it took Okita, Gudako, and myself to convince him to leave his work long enough to even do it. I never realized how much of a workaholic my dear husband is.
After turning around a few times she nodded to herself, took off the swimsuit, and tossed it into the "yes" pile before turning to something that looked more like bondage gear than a swimsuit given the amount of straps it had. She arched an eyebrow and held up the hanger it was on to look at it noting that while the various straps would cover her nipples and crotch it didn't cover much else. She tossed it into the 'no' pile and then noticed something a bit further into the pile that caught her attention. She pulled it out and held it up to her eyeline as her gaze roamed the various fabric strings then lingered on the mesh cups for the bra part for a few seconds before she looked at herself in the mirror.
"...."
Silently she held it up in front of her and imagined what Micheal would think of seeing her in it immediately feeling her face heat at what he would likely think and then what would likely happen immediately afterwards. She blew out her cheeks and eyed it in her hands then tossed it into the 'yes' pile before she could second guess herself.
The mesh is fine enough that you… probably can't make out my nipples or areolas….
She stared at it at the top of the pile as her mind went back to what her husband would likely think and then do once they, hopefully, got back to their room. Smiling inspite of her blush she thumbed through the rest of the swimsuits not finding any that caught her eye and then sighed knowing she'd have to put the ones she wasn't buying back. She got dressed again, got her arms around the 'no' pile, and walked out of the dressing room only to see a bin nearby that was meant for exactly what she was doing.
Dropping her "no" pile into the marked bin she then turned around and walked back to the dressing room, grabbed her 'yes' pile, then went to the check out to wait for the others wondering how long it would take. Eventually she grabbed her pile, walked over to the nearby seating area, and pulled out her phone to keep reading the book that Emily had recommended to her. She unlocked her phone and briefly paused as her lips twitched up into a smile seeing the photo of her and Micheal she had made her phone wallpaper. It was one of the few photos she had of her husband where she had managed to catch him off guard in it. She had snapped the photo right when he had seen what she was doing with his own eyes going wide clearly about to tell her to 'wait'.
The photo itself was from their trip to Iceland a year or so before hand that Gudako had invited them on while she went to go do research on her moms side of the family. While she hadn't found anything they all had had a lot of fun while they were there. Pulling herself out of her memories she tapped the app for her digital books and once again thanked Waver for his tips on 'sideloading' on top of a bunch else involving phones and apps in the current day as the app loaded, immediately bringing her to where she had left off.
"Oh! There you are Jalty. Thought you'd left the store."
Sometime later she heard Gudako and glanced up from the chapter she was on to see the orange haired woman walk up with her own pile of swimsuits,
"Mind if I sit down?"
She shook her head and pocketed her phone as the other woman sat down next to her and groaned a bit leaning back into her chair. Jeanne arched an eyebrow at her,
"And whats got you so tired?"
"Trying to find a swimsuit that hits both Okitas and Edmonds buttons. I know I signed up for it but I envy you sometimes because you just have one person you need to impress and/or make horny."
Gudako grumbled as she pulled out her own phone to check the time while Jeanne spluttered indignantly,
"I do not pick out my outfits with the intent of making Micheal horny. I pick them out because I like the way they look on me. Thats all."
The other woman chuckled a bit and gave her a look,
"Well lucky you that the man who loves you likes the way you look in them too. Oh there's Morgan…. What... the fuck is that."
Jeanne blinked, her fluster being replaced with confusion as she saw what Gudako was talking about as Morgan came over to them holding what looked to Jeanne like shimmering air in fabric form. She sat down next to them and arched an eyebrow at them clearly finding amusement in their confusion,
"You know? I think crafting mystic code swimsuits is cheating."
Gudako said annoyed as the faerie laughed a bit and ran her fingers over the shimmering fabric which Jeanne tilted her head at confused only for Morgan to hold it up to show them what it was making both of their mouths fall open.
It was clearly meant to mimic the kind of super thin white t-shirt you'd wear over a swimsuit with the purpose of getting it wet and having it cling to you but the fabric kept shifting in the light so that the swimsuit underneath kept changing from a bikini to a one piece to something similar to a swimsuit that Jeanne had tossed into the 'no' pile earlier .
"The swimsuits also adjust how they're displayed so that they 'fit' your curves accordingly. You can, of course, wear a swimsuit under this-which I do plan on doing mind you, but I decided to have some fun with it."
Gudako stared,
"I swear the shit you can do is so fucking cool Morgan. Can I get one? Oh and can you tweak it so that whoever views it sees me in whatever swimsuit they think is hottest on me?"
Morgan laughed again as her eyes sparkled with clear mirth,
"But of course Gudako~! You just need to come down to Avalon first."
"Oh fuck you."
Gudako flipped off the Faerie who stuck her tongue out and then laughed as Jeanne thought back to her own swimsuit she had chosen to wear for Micheal. She felt Morgan poke her cheek a bit making her snap her eyes to the Faerie who smiled slyly,
"So what are you going to wear to, as Okita put it, 'flatline' Micheal my dear Avenger?"
Gudako tuned back in and turned to them,
"Oh yeah! I'm curious as well, what did you pick anyway?"
Me and my fucking E-Rank luck…
She thought to herself as she blushed crimson and partially pulled out the swimsuit from the pile so they could see it causing Morgans eyebrows to raise while Gudako whistled appreciatively,
"That with your bust? I think you'll flatline anyone that sees you to say nothing of Micheal."
She nodded silently and pushed the swimsuit deep into the pile as Okita finally walked up and stopped to look at them all suspiciously,
"Okay I just missed something. What happened."
"We're planning Micheals funeral since we both saw the swimsuit Jalty here is going to wear for him."
"Gudako, you shut up or I swear to the gods-"
"Yeah, yeah get all huffy later Lady Avenger. Come on, we still need Ms. Pendragon to pay for all of this."
Gudako said standing up as Morgan gave her an annoyed look before glancing back at Jeanne who was still sitting there with her face feeling like it was on fire. She gently wrapped her arm around her shoulders as she looked into the ice blue eyes of Faerie Britains Winter Queen who was also one of her best frienids smiled at her encouragingly,
"If I might make a recommendation. You have other more tame swimsuits to wear otherwise correct?"
She nodded silently not trusting herself to speak causing the Faerie to hum approvingly,
"and you don't want anyone except Micheal seeing you in that one?"
She nodded again as Morgan's smile took on a sly edge,
"Then here is what I would do if I were in your shoes…."
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"I'm home…."
Jeanne said tiredly as she came through the front door and dropped all her bags onto the floor before reaching down to untie her vans and groaning a bit she did so. She glanced at her watch noting that it was a little after nine at night and figured that odds are she missed dinner entirely as she slipped her shoes off and put them in their spot by the door. She grabbed the bag with all the swimsuits and quickly made her way upstairs to her and Micheals bedroom to stuff it into the back of her side of their closet. That done she breathed out a shaky breath and came back out of the closet as she sensed something was wrong causing her to furrow her brow.
"Micheal? Honey?"
She called out into the apartment with a bit of worry as she left their bedroom and made her way back downstairs to look around more closely noticing that none of his work stuff was anywhere in the apartment. Walking back to the rest of her bags she looked at the shoe rack and frowned seeing his shoes were missing,
"He's not at the Clocktower still is he? I don't think he had to stay late…."
She muttered as she grabbed her purse and pulled out her phone to check their messages. She felt a bit of worry firm itself in her gut as she saw that their last message was her complaining about a movie that she had seen earlier with the rest of them. He had responded that she should keep it in mind for their next 'awful movie night' and she smiled seeing her response to it before she remembered why she had checked her phone to begin with.
After checking the other group chats they were in she was about to put on her shoes again when she heard the lock in their door move causing her to turn just in time to see a thoroughly exhausted Micheal Lafaire walk through their front door. Immediately the worry she felt in her gut vanished as she walked forward, grabbed his wrist, and pulled him down for a quick kiss before getting her bags and mentally praising herself for putting away the swimsuit bag already,
"Bonjour mon amou- oh wow. You got your hair done?"
She paused and looked at him before smirking a little. Before the movie they had all gone to a beauty salon since Morgan had never been to one where they had gotten their hair, nails, and a bunch else done. She walked over and held up her hand so he could see her nails,
"I got my nails done as well. How was work?"
She asked leaning forward to look up into his eyes and feeling a bit of satisfaction when she watched his eyes flick down to glance down her shirt before quickly flicking back up. He blew out his cheeks and groaned as she worried she had asked the wrong thing,
"Its… Finals season and I was caught flatfooted. I've been so busy with trying to get all my work done so that nothing and no one can bother me during our vacation that I forgot to make the finals."
"oh… Well that should be easy right? …..what else."
She said narrowing her eyes at him as he huffed a single laugh before smiling at her,
"Our vacation isn't in danger so don't worry. Do you mind if I change first though?"
She nodded, satisfied with that answer for now, and stepped aside so he could walk past her as she caught a whiff of something coming off of him when he went by. She tried to place the smell and her eyes widened as she recognized it then turned to him,
"Why the fuck do you have the scent of gunpowder on you. Blessed Hellfire doesn't use normal rounds and I would have sensed if you summoned it or were in danger through our bond. What happened."
He chuckled a bit, turned his head, winked at her, and then went upstairs without answering as she pouted after him,
"I expect an answer when you get back down here!"
She shouted upstairs before she figured she could at least warm up some food for them to eat before bed as she went into their kitchen to go into their fridge. She found some of the chicken fried rice that they had made, spritzed some water onto it, and then stuck it into the microwave as she tried to remember how to adjust the power for it. She pushed a few buttons and then got it set up to reheat at sixty percent power for five minutes before pressing the start button and feeling Micheal snake his arms around her.
She hit the start button and turned around in his arms to wrap her arms around his neck as she pulled him down for a proper kiss and then made a noise of surprise as he walked her backwards to trap her between him and the counter. She pulled away looking into his golden eyes to see them full of love and not a little lust before she flicked her gaze behind him to the microwave then snapped her eyes back to him as she felt him run his fingers through her styled hair with one hand and wrap the fingers of other hand around her outer thigh over her jeans. She felt him firmly but gently dig his fingers into her thigh and bit her lip,
"Dinner is being reheated so-"
"We have a few minutes before it goes off. Thats plenty of time to at least get a sampling, non?"
He said while she felt him adjust his grip on her thigh so he was squeezing the inner part instead while firming his other fingers in her hair,
I want him.
I want him to touch me.
To kiss me more.
I want to feel his hands on every inch of me…
She felt her breath get heavier as he pulled her close while maintaining his grip on her and she wrapped her arms around his chest to claw at the back of his shirt. They kissed each other more passionately as she felt her core begin to warm each time their lips touched while that need to have him grew ever stronger. She felt him move his hand from her thigh to the front of her jeans, unbutton them, and then start to slide his hand down to touch her making her bite back a moan.
She bit her lip and looked him in the eyes about to reach for his belt that was keeping her from what was hers and hers alone when they both went still as the Microwave went off. She growled a bit and glared at the microwave while Micheal chuckled and began to pull himself away from her but not before she grabbed his shirt collar in either hand, yanked him back down, and kissed him trying to let him know how much desire and want was coursing through her with just her lips and tongue. Eventually she let him stand upright and he blinked as though he was dazed before he grinned at her,
"So…."
She let out a heavy breath and tried to ignore her desires as best she could as she pouted at him,
"After dinner but before either of us shower. I want you ruining my hair."
He chuckled and moved to get them some bowls as she walked over to the microwave to get out their dinner.
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Jeanne arched her back against the bed as yet another moan escaped her while she dug her nails into her husbands hair and scalp as his tongue slid inside her and moved around hitting all her weakspots one after another. She knew that she was completely at his mercy and yet this teasing with his tongue and fingers was driving her insane as she angled her hips to get his tongue deeper then felt him press his hand over her pelvis to flatten her back against the bed.
She growled and managed to get her eyes on where he was between her legs right as he moved his lips up to suck on her clit while he slid in two fingers to stroke her gspot causing her vision to immediately unfocus as pleasure shot through her making her instinctively arch her hips into his touch as she came. She fell back onto the bed, blinking away the fog in her vision as she felt pleasure pulse through her only for something move in the bottom of her vision making her raise her head to see that Micheal was standing up and taking his belt off.
She crawled forward onto her hands and knees to grab his hands as she moved them away from what was hers by right. Getting his belt undone and his slacks unbuttoned, she got the zipper between her teeth and angled her head to look up at him as she dragged the zipper down so his slacks could hit the floor. Immediately she saw his shape under his boxers and leaned forward to kiss her way along it over the fabric causing him to make a noise as she hooked a finger under the elastic band and slowly pulled them down as she grinned up at him.
She paused when his shaft was mostly exposed but his head was still under the band and angled her head as she watched him look down at her with a mix of annoyance and barely concealed lust in eyes that matched her own. With one fluid motion she pulled the band down, freed his head, and as it sprung free it was already in her mouth as she closed her eyes letting her mouth get used to its shape as she ran her tongue around it.
Micheal moaned out half a word she barely heard as she slowly pulled herself off, letting it out of her mouth, and then lowered her head as she pressed her lips on it from the base to the very tip which she kissed and then let the shape of the tip naturally spread her lips as he filled her mouth again going a bit further back than before. She felt that sense of satisfaction of knowing exactly where to tease as she ran her tongue on one such spot making him twitch in her mouth a couple times before she stopped and pulled herself almost off of it so she could look up at him.
"Fu- Fuck…."
She smiled as much as she could as she watched her husband look down at her with a hazy mix of pleasure, lust, and love before she closed her eyes and slid him back into her mouth as far as she could get him for now. She felt herself gag a bit but held herself there to get used to the feeling before she pulled herself off and lowered her mouth to suckle on his testicles just letting the shaft rest on her face as she looked up at him to see that haze clouding more and more of his eyes.
She pulled away to sit up on her knees and gently grabbed his wrist to pull him onto the bed,
"Lay on your back."
He nodded silently and stripped letting her get what had to be one of her favorite views in the world as she watched his muscles move under his skin while he took off the rest of his clothes and got onto the bed like she asked him to. She positioned herself between his legs and waited until he had looked up to see what she was doing before she opened her mouth and took him to the base. She felt his hips jerk a bit as she closed her eyes to get used to the feeling then once her lungs were burning she slowly pulled herself off of him making sure he felt everything.
She looked into his eyes and licked her lips before she deepthroated him a few more times, each time his hips jerking a bit more and a bit harder than before, until eventually she couldn't put off her own needs anymore and slid him out of her mouth. She sat up onto her knees and straddled him, letting his shaft sit between her labia while looking down at him as her heart swelled with so much love and care that she knew the man under her felt back towards her just as much if not more. She began to slide her hips forward and back, grinding her vulva along his dick, as she bit her lip and closed her eyes trying to hold on through the pleasure before eventually giving in and sitting up on her knees while reaching down to wrap her fingers around him.
She maintained eye contact as she angled him upwards towards her entrance then slid him in as she sat herself down gasping and feeling him slowly spread her apart until he was filling her completely. She rose up on him again, biting her lip as that need to have something filling her screamed in her mind, before she sat back down roughly letting out a small gasp as she came a little from the first bounce.
Her entire world shrank to just her and the man she loved as she bounced on top of him and after some point he reached up to sink his fingers into her breasts causing her to hit her first big orgasm as she slammed back down while her brain shot full of pleasure. She felt him tug on her breasts to have her lay forward on top of him and she let him pull her forward as she tried to bounce more but couldn't move more than a few centimeters.
She nuzzled his chest and neck as she felt him press a kiss into her hair as they laid there for a bit just basking in all of it until she felt him grab some of her hair, ruining the styling more than it already had been, and pull on it so she was arched up off of him as he kissed his way down her chest and gently sank his teeth into one of her nipples causing her to let out louder moan than before. She was vaguely aware of him gripping her thighs and lifting her a little off of him while she wondering hazily what he was going to do when he thrust up into her and she felt lightning run from her core up her spine to her brain as she gasped and dug her nails into his chest.
Mentally she was trying to recover from cumming as hard as she did but he had already pulled out and was thrusting back in causing another lightning bolt to shoot up her spine as she felt her brain quickly go blank. She held herself up above him as best she could as he thrust up into her at a rapid steady pace, each time he bottomed out inside her she felt her brain go more and more blank. She couldn't think a single coherent thought but she knew she loved the man under her more than anything and fell forward to kiss him as he sped up his thrusts causing her to moan into the kiss.
She felt him wrap his arms around her to hold her there and she knew the best part was coming as she closed her eyes and just let the pleasure overwhelm her when he slammed his hips into hers with finality as she felt warmth flood her core. She orgasmed a second time and writhed in the arms of the man she loved until finally they both fell back onto the bed exhausted but happy. She laid there on his chest with her eyes closed for what felt like forever and yet only a second until she heard a beeping noise that made her scrunch up her eyes to try and ignore it.
She felt Micheal kiss her just behind her hairline and growled a little as she felt him shift under her,
"Bonjour mon dulce vengeur~ Seems we both fell asleep after we got done which means we both need a shower."
She growled a bit more audibly and opened her eye to glare the bedside clock briefly tempted to use her hellfire to make it explode when she felt her annoyance melt a bit as she felt Micheal run his fingers over her skin. She pouted and sat up over him, letting her hair fall down around them so it wrapped them both in an ashwhite realm, as she maintained her pout,
"I want to sleep in more on top of you."
He chuckled and smiled at her, reaching up to cup her cheek in one hand as she leaned into his palm feeling her pout falter a bit,
"Yes and as much as I am loving this morning view, We still have things to do so~"
He sat up under her making her yelp as she slid down his chest to land in his lap. She glared at him as he reached over to turn off the alarm and then came back in front of her. Not for the first time she wished she was a bit taller as even sitting in his lap she still had to look up at him when he leaned forward to kiss her. She growled a bit more to let him know she still wasn't happy with having to get up but eventually let herself melt into the kiss to enjoy her own personal heaven for a bit.
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-Micheals PoV-
"You never told me why you smelled like gunpowder last night."
Micheal looked up from his breakfast to see his wife frowning at him from behind her coffee mug having finished her own breakfast. He swallowed the food he had in his mouth and wondered how to even explain what had led to his class doing what they did,
"So, Remember how Kiritsugu used actual guns during the fourth war?"
He started and then waited for her to remember as she furrowed her brow and looked away from him before she made an 'oh' sound and then looked back more confused,
"I… do. I also remember that the EMIYA Senior, the Assassin servant, used guns as well and he said that he got a lot of grief over using them when he was alive as they "weren't magelike". So how does this involve you smelling like you did."
He grinned a bit,
"One of my students families has family members within one of the Ranger Regiments that the UK military has. A couple months ago I was lecturing about firearms and someone asked about the concept of engraving magic circles into the actual projectile itself. I then said the idea wasn't realistic as having to do that per round would be far too expensive and time consuming which is why most mystic code firearms have the circle engraved into the barrel or similar. Then a week or two later another student then asked if I knew of any mystic code firearms and what they did so I mentioned how I knew one man who's dual pistols had projectiles that were made of swords that then released those swords after penetrating the target."
Jeanne leaned back in her chair clearly thinking,
"Yeah but that was EMIYA Alter's Noble Phantasm and even then it only worked because it was him imbuing the round with his attribute which was 'Blades' or 'Swords' or whatever the fuck Shirous crap was. Speaking of," She leaned forward to give him a sly smile, "You've heard what happened between Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Kojioka right?"
He shook his head and reached for his own coffee,
"Sakura and Alison have both been on some mission involving Dead Apostles for the past few weeks so I've not been able to talk to either of them. What happened?"
"He proposed."
Micheal inhaled his coffee, spewed it, and then began coughing all in the span of two seconds as Jeanne shot up to help only for him to wave her down. He thumped his chest a bit and blinked before he looked at her and asking hoarsely,
"He what? I know we're not ones to talk given how long it took us but how long have they been dating for? At least Sakura and Alison are engaged."
He watched as the Avenger sitting opposite him went from concerned to smug as he used some witchcraft to make a portal to move the spilled coffee off the floor to fall into the sink,
"He proposed and she said yes. They're still figuring out the details of what all they want to do but apparently Kojioka made the rings a Mystic Code pair that are linked to each other. When you send mana into one the other one warms a bit. I wonder where he got that idea from~"
She trailed off smiling slyly at him as he pretended not to notice before she pinned him in place with a glare,
"Just spit out what you did and stop deflecting."
He sighed and closed his eyes knowing he was about to royally piss her off,
"We… took a field trip to a military firing range yesterday after a month and a half of paperwork and in the process of being there I fired an entire magazine from a Cheytac M200."
The silence that followed was as deafening as he worried it would be and when he glanced over at his wife he could see she was angry as she narrowed her eyes at him dangerously,
"You. Swore to me. That if you ever had a chance to fire an Intervention you would immediately let me know so I could shoot it as well."
Micheal winced, opening his mouth to try and reason his way out of this only for everything he could think of dying in his mouth as he stared at Jeanne Alter who folded her arms while openly glaring at him,
"I… could probably get you in to the firing range to fire it a couple times-"
"I want to fire three entire magazines and you are bringing me with you to your classes today."
He blinked, unsure if he heard her correctly, as he turned to look at her his brow furrowed,
"You have work don't you?"
She smirked and her eyes took on a dangerous glint as she got up from her chair, sashayed over to him, and straddled him in his own chair as she leaned forward to look directly into his eyes while cupping his cheeks. She touched her forehead to his as she stared into his eyes,
"You are taking me with you or I will break in through the front door of the Clocktower again this time not as your pretend girlfriend but as your very real and very annoyed wife."
He winced, knowing he didn't truly have a choice, and after she went back to her chair looked at her sternly,
"You know the dress code for teachers and guests. I like to get there a little after 8:45 to have time to catch up on emails and the like before classes start."
He watched as her face went from dangerous smirk to happy grin as she came back over to quickly kiss him and then walked her plate and mug to the sink. He watched her walk around the corner into the kitchen and figured he might as well ask,
"So why do you even want to come with me to work?"
She looked at him and frowned,
"Okita and Edmond both go with Gudako."
He nodded,
"and both of them work with the Clock Tower as a Sparring instructor and Enforcer respectively. I'm happy to take you with me but I don't understand why you want to now when you've had over five years to ask."
He looked past her to the clock on the wall seeing it was a little after 7:50am, chugged back the rest of his coffee, ate the rest of his meal, and then brought his own dishes to the kitchen sink as Jeanne moved out of the way to let him,
"Just so you know you can't roam freely through the place. You have to be around me the entire time you're there."
She smiled sweetly at him,
"I'm aware~ Trust me I won't go anywhere I'm not supposed to or where I don't think I should be. Promise."
He narrowed his eyes at her but glanced at the clock again seeing it tick closer to 8am causing him to groan audibly before looking at her pleadingly,
"Just please don't get me or El Melloi II or Gudako or anyone else in trouble. The last thing we need is to give Policies a reason to get mad."
She scoffed and rolled her eyes before walking past him to go to the stairs that led up to their room,
"I'll be on my best behaviour. Promise."
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In hindsight I should have known this would happen.
Micheal thought exasperatedly to himself as Jeanne Alter preened under the admiration and awe of his class while he massaged his temple and leaned back against his desk closing his eyes. They had gotten to the Clocktower easily enough to register Jeanne as a guest and then he had walked her to where he worked which meant going to Slur street and 'reintroducing' his guest to Lord El Melloi II who he swore had a stroke when he saw Jeanne Alter walk in behind him into his office.
Thankfully she already knew about his lordship and how he liked to be referred to as, in part, due to the version of him that merged with Zhuge Liang during their time at Chaldea on top of him doing everything he did for them during their first year back. No the reason why Lord El Melloi II had to cancel his morning classes was because he was worried what having a Incarnated Servant walking around the Clock Tower grounds would make Policies do. She then asked if he knew about the latest rising star of the Enforcers as well as the new Sparring Instructor to which he said he didn't but he knew that Gudako had made a name for herself over in Evocation as well as helping him on occasion.
She had then told him about Okita and Edmond at which point he had gone still as stone and then told his assistant, Grey, that all of his morning classes were now study halls before going to go lay down. Jeanne had asked the hooded girl if El Melloi II was okay to which she said he was likely going to be fine before she had led them out of his office and into the main building itself before excusing herself and leaving them alone. Micheal had then taken Jeanne on a tour of the various facilities within the Modern Magecraft theory department and then they had finally ended their tour with the teachers lounge where he sat down to answer emails until 10am which is when his first class started.
Which leads us to the current moment.
He pushed off his desk and clapped his hands once causing the entire room to immediately go silent and look at him respectfully. Smirking a bit at the look Jeanne was giving him he started the lecture,
"So. Last class after we got back from our little field trip we talked again about why engraving magic circles into the rounds of a modern firearm wouldn't work while engraving them onto the barrel for example would enchant the bullets as they left the casing and then passed through the barrel. However what is the problem with this? Yes. Isiah."
A young man with light brown hair stood up,
"As there isn't any external powersource for the circle itself the bullets wouldn't be enchanted beyond what the initial engraving had within it in terms of mana. Meaning you would need to both craft and carry multiple barrels with you anytime you used the firearm."
Isiah sat down as Micheal nodded,
"Exactly. This is why mystic code firearms are not only extremely rare but hard to produce and make as well due to the cost of powering them. This lack anything that could qualify them as even the weakest mystic code is also why firearms are considered 'unmagelike' as well."
A female student with glasses and short black hair raised her hand,
"Bella. Yes."
She stood up,
"Couldn't you attach a gem that contained mana to the firearm to power the circle like how gemcraft arrays are powered?"
He tilted his head from side to side a bit,
"Yes but you'd never actually do it. Thats the short answer. The long answer is this: You would need to run a connecting line from where you would mount the gem to the circle or just mount the gem on the circle itself. In the barrel example where would you put the gem to power the circle while also making it easy to replace?"
He waited several seconds,
"The answer that most of you likely thought of just now is to have the mount point for the gem on the side of the main body of the gun itself but then how would you protect the gem from being cracked or damaged? You would need a dedicated housing for it which would make the gun unwieldy if not outright unusable. Do you all remember the question that started this entire multi-month lecture?"
Murmuring swept through the classroom before a woman with dyed blue-green hair and punk clothes stood up,
"Yes. Roxie."
"You asked us what we could do with magecraft to stop ourselves from being shot while maintaining Secrecy. Someone, I think it was Siegfryn, then asked you why guns weren't common within the Magecraft world as a whole given their prevalence within the normal one. You then said that the best way to explain would be to have all of us fire a series of firearms so we could get a feel for how they functioned before you explained why they weren't used by magi."
Roxie sat back down as the room fell into silence and he nodded before looking over at Jeanne to see her paying rapt attention. Smiling a bit he looked back out at his class as his smile fell into a frown,
"The short answer to the my original question from two months ago is almost nothing at all. Sure you can ward against lead to stop lead bullets from hitting you but they also make copper bullets and the US military uses depleted uranium for some of their rounds. You could also ward against projectiles generally but the mana cost on a modern magus to maintain the ward would be absurd. The best thing you can to to avoid being shot is to avoid any situation where you might be shot in the first place."
Bells sounded from outside the classroom and he nodded, smiling a bit,
"Best of luck with your next class everyone. No homework beside the extra optional credit work but remember that finals are in two weeks. Dismissed."
He went back behind his desk and sat down saying bye to a few students who called out to him while he began to open the docket for the next class when,
"So… Mrs. Lafaire? How- Erm-"
"How did you land Mr. Lafaire? I didn't even know he was married until you came in with him and he introduced you to us."
He looked up to see several female students had approached Jeanne and then pretended to work on something as he listened in wondering what she would say. He had to stop himself from portaling over to intervene when he heard what she said though,
"We've yet to have the actual ceremony but he is, for all intents and purposes, mine. So I do hope no one's tried to hit on him even if I know he's smart enough to say 'No.' to any advances from students or teachers."
The other women went quiet and they all either looked at each other or somewhere else as Jeanne looked back at him eyebrows raised in a silent question. Rolling his own eyes he briefly opened the Master-Servant bond making her stiffen a bit in place,
[Just so you know it happens at least five or more times a week and without fail I decline every time. I'm engaged to the most beautiful woman in the world as I know it and no one else can even compare. So please don't go immolating anyone.]
(I thought you being as much of a heartbreaker as Arnehearte was a joke. Are you seriously being asked out five times a week!?)
[Yes. It is just as exhausting as you think it would be. Be nice to them by the way, a few of them of some of my star students and I don't need them running scared because you got understandably possessive.]
Chuckling from Jeanne's end of the bond,
(As long as they understand that you're mine and mine alone then there's no issue.)
He smiled and sent some of the feelings he had for her across the bond before he went back into his own mind but not before seeing Jeanne blush a bit and glare out of the corner of her eye at him.
"To answer your question on why you didn't know he was engaged the reasoning is simple. He and I are very private people, even for magi, and we don't really talk about ourselves or the various things we've seen or done. Even more so in the world as it is now with the amount of ways you can be seen or heard so we do our best to stay left alone."
She said putting emphasis on the last word while he smiled a bit wider. They continued talking for a bit before one of the students noticed the time and they quickly said their goodbyes before running to their next class as the Avenger Servant walked over to him, poked his cheek, and smiled at him,
"I might come to more of your classes given how you teach. Your time at Chaldea leading alongside Gudako has apparently come in handy~ I almost felt like I was back in the command room of the Storm Border with how you led that class."
Chuckling a bit he caught her hand as she pulled it away to kiss each of her knuckles and then kissed the underside of her wrist while looking directly into her eyes as she blushed a bit. He let her hand go and leaned back in his chair while she leaned back onto his desk smiling and cradling her hand a bit,
"So remind me what class that just was?"
"It was 'Modern Magecraft Self Defense Theory'. Its more theorywork than practical training so not a lot of people attend it just because they all seem to think that they can just 'magecraft' their way out of anything. Something that you and I, along with everyone else from Chaldea, know better than to assume is always possible."
She hummed a bit and looked up at the blackboard behind him as they fell into comfortable silence for a minute or two before he looked at her with a furrowed brow,
"So I answered your question when you said no deflections. I want the same treatment: Why ask to come with me to work now as opposed to any other time?"
She blushed a bit and averted her gaze for a few seconds before he heard her say quietly,
"I…. Wanted to meet up with Amelia and get… suggestions and advice for our ceremony on my own. Location, best time of year, and the like. I figured she'd have a few good ideas and it would placate her a bit since its been a few months since we last updated her. She's also here at the Clocktower right now and not someplace else which makes it a good time to ask…."
He winced as he understood why she'd kept it secret and what he had just made her do. He reached over to wrap his fingers around her hand making her look at him worriedly,
"I'm sorry for pressing you then. I can get you her schedule if you want to be able to plan a bit better."
She rotated her hand so her fingers interlaced with his and looked at him still worried,
"You're… not mad at me keeping it a secret?"
He shook his head and stood up from his chair to run his fingers through her ashwhite hair with his other hand. She leaned into his fingers and looked up at him her golden eyes less worried than they were before but he could see it still lingering in the back of them. He gently brushed his thumb across her hairline,
"I would never be mad at you for taking the initiative on something like this. I'll give it more priority as well and do my own research. Okay?"
She nodded and leaned up a bit closing her eyes to which he responded by leaning down and giving her the kiss she was silently asking for. After a few seconds he pulled away and smiled at her while touching his forehead to hers,
"You look lovely by the way. Wanted to make sure you knew I thought that."
She huffed a few laughs and quickly kissed him again before pulling away fully,
"I'm wearing a pencil skirt, tights, and a button up blouse along with pumps. You've seen me wear this plenty of times before."
He chuckled and winked at her,
"You still look lovely in that outfit like you do with everything you wear, mon cheri."
She rolled her eyes as she got off the desk and stuck her her tongue out at him before walking to the door and pausing to turn around about to ask a question,
"My mom likes to eat her lunch at the local sandwich shop a couple blocks west of the main building. You should have plenty of time to get there before she does and we both know she'd love to be have an excuse to skip her office work to talk to her future daughter in law so do give her the excuse to do so."
He smiled as she grinned at him, nodded her thanks, and then left closing the door behind her while he looked out into the empty classroom still feeling her lips on his own. Chuckling to himself he got out the materials for his next class as he smiled,
"Still just as much of a goner for her now as I was back in the 20th century…."