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Beth's reading.

She's just sitting on the edge of the bed over there, reading, and I can't remember ever just watching someone read before like this. From a position of decadent comfort.

I like how she puts her fingertip to her lips before she turns the page. Not every page, but once in a while. It's an absent-minded sweet move and she's not paying attention to me. She's reading what I wrote, about traveling to Venus, and it's sweet.

That's a phrase she uses on me sometimes. Spike, you're sweet. I'm not, really. I don't know if I've been sweet a day in my adult life. But if she thinks I am, I can be. I like it. I like being sweet for Beth. I have something I want to do for her, for a surprise. But it will have to wait just a little while longer.

Learning how to work around being Bound here has been a good exercise. I always liked a challenge. I always manage to work things out, one way or another.

Date: 2004-11-28 04:59 am (UTC)
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Beth comes to a stopping point and looks at him rather admiringly over the notebook in her hands.

Date: 2004-11-28 05:17 am (UTC)
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"Absolutely." She nods, answering without thinking much about the people she'd face or what kind of outfit she'd wear or anything like that.

"It wouldn't be much unlike what I'm used to doing. But it'd be more exciting."

Date: 2004-11-28 05:44 am (UTC)
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"You don't think it would be more exciting?"

She shrugs a little, closes the notebook, and puts it in her lap. "The views must be incredible. Not that you should build a career off of that sort of thing."

Shaking her head, she smiles at the mention of her travel guide. "No, I've got it. It's in my room."

Date: 2004-11-28 06:03 am (UTC)
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She listens thoughtfully and moves the notebook off her lap. Slowly, she shifts so her back is against the wall, legs bent, and rests her arms on her knees.

"What do you see me doing in your time?"

Date: 2004-11-28 06:25 am (UTC)
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She's staring at her hands, but his words make her grin. Explorer, archaeologist, pilot.

She's fairly confident she could fly a 747 at this point, but nothing else.

After a moment, she says, "I don't have the proper training or education for any of that. But they are nice ideas."

Date: 2004-11-28 06:51 am (UTC)
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That space between her eyebrows wrinkles, but she doesn't hesitate much at all before answering.

"I'd rather go with you." Absently, she puts one of her hands in the one Spike held out to her. "What is there for me in Cooksfield? For you? For anyone? There's not a whole lot worth going back for in my world."

Date: 2004-11-28 07:06 am (UTC)
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She turns, eyes soft, and looks at his face while he talks. When he stops, she simply leans over and wraps her arms around him, letting her head rest on his shoulder.

"You're sweet," she says quietly. It isn't something she's said yet today. "So sweet."

Date: 2004-11-28 07:22 am (UTC)
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She raises her head so she can look at him.

"Sunshine?" She blinks at him, laughs delightedly, and tightens her arms around him. "You give the best compliments."

Date: 2004-11-28 07:56 pm (UTC)
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"I think I find that almost as unusual as you find my belief that you're sweet." She doesn't move her head or arms. "But I'm not too eager to convince you otherwise."

She falls silent for a moment or two, thoughtful.

"I don't know what I'd be doing now if the men hadn't died. I might still be a flight attendant. Do you find that hard to believe?"

Date: 2004-11-29 04:14 am (UTC)
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She shrugs inwardly. It's a good enough answer for her. She tucks some hair behind her ear and kind of grins at the idea of flower petals falling from the sky.

She pulls away from him and looks around for a cigarette. "I'm going to ask you a question that I asked Todd a night ago."

Date: 2004-11-29 04:24 am (UTC)
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She smiles appreciatively at him.

She removes a cigarette, puts it between her lips. "What's your favorite--" She pauses just long enough to light it. "--deadly sin?"

Date: 2004-11-29 04:42 am (UTC)
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"Overanalysis?"

She laughs and gives him a look that's meant to be disapproving but really isn't.

"Let me rephrase the question. Which do you have the most experience with?"

Date: 2004-11-29 04:55 am (UTC)
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She narrows her eyes now, but it doesn't stop her from grinning at him.

"You're being difficult," she tells him, not exactly complaining.

"I'll make another deal with you. You tell me which of the sins you listed earlier is the one you're most familiar with. Then you can let me know all about your version of the deadly sins and I'll figure out which of them I'm most guilty of." She's curious, of course.

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