Outside Xan's Apartment Building, Manhattan, NY, Saturday

[sampippy]

Xanthippe was having a panic attack.

Okay, no she wasn't. But it felt like the brink of one? Because she was on the sidewalk outside the building she lived in now, waiting for Hyacinthe, and up - way, way up - in her apartment she had stuff ready for his visit and a couple of gifts because maybe this'd be the last time before he finally went home, and what if he didn't like anything and what if she was a huge loser and what if --

Anyway. Outwardly, she was mostly cool? Just... standing there, beanie on her head and a coat on over her dress, fidgeting with her phone for lack of a better thing to do with her hands. She looked fine.

But she was going to internally flail herself to death if he didn't get here soon.

[ooc: NFB and for the one mentioned!]

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[vrajna_kralis]

He'd missed calling her that, with her skin beneath his hands and the way her face lit up when he whispered the endearment.

"I am a fair bit stronger than you may be expecting," Hyacinthe warned, but his eyes were hot and expression intrigued. "Especially do you give me reason to want to come after you."

[sampippy]

Xanthippe snorted, and looked... vaguely smug, actually.

"Pretty sure I'd be giving you reason to come before me."

[vrajna_kralis]

Hyacinthe burst out laughing. "And yet you say that I am ridiculous," he said. He pulled her down for another loud, smacking kiss. "You are a treasure and I am the luckiest of men to get to enjoy you as this."

[sampippy]

Xanthippe tried to feign an offended look at his laughing and the insinuation that she could ever be ridiculous. She was not at all successful, not with the pleased, genuine grin forcing its way out at the same time.

And that was even before the kiss, and her eager response to that. "Well, I learned from the best," she murmured. Meaning the ridiculousness and dirtiness both.

[vrajna_kralis]

And he was just going to preen because he was the best, yes. At ridiculousness, at dirtiness, at whatever he set his mind to.

"So we shall eat first, yes?" Hyacinthe asked. "And then you'll start the tour? Are we beginning in this closet first or ending there?"

[sampippy]

"Food first, yeah," Xanthippe confirmed. "'Cause, otherwise we're gonna be right in the middle of something good when the food gets here." And no one needed that kind of a distraction. "And, I was thinking closet last? But I also meant to not, like... even bring it up before we got to the bedroom in the first place."

It'd been one of those 'oh god what if he's not into it and I am making a fool of myself?' thoughts.

In hindsight, it was pretty ridiculous.