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Sliding her fingers through Kaine's, Cass smiled at the rougher touch of his fingertips and squeezed his hand. She liked this, not just the sex or fighting without holding back but the quieter moments when Kaine wasn't tense, when they could just be themselves. Together. It was strange how happy something so simple as holding his hand could make her.

Leaning against him, she pressed her bare shoulder against his arm playfully as she tugged him through the doors of the supermarket into the cooler air of the store. Grabbing a trolley, Cass ducked under his arms and lifted herself up onto the trolley so she could face him.

"I never thought we would run out of packet noodles, I think Steph will think this is the end of the world." Cass spoke softly, spreading her legs a little to tug him close as he pushed the trolley. That was his job, her job was to keep her eyes on his back and well, occasionally sneak kisses and see if she could make him either grumpy or happy. Reaching out she scratched his stomach and smiled happily. "Mmm, I think I want to start with fruit. What do you want?"

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badtotheclone

"Only children are supposed to ride in the cart," I point out as Cass hops up onto the cart. I don't expect her to move but I want her to know that I know she's going against the rules. She's small, light, and agile enough that she looks perfectly comfortable and stable there though.

"You need to eat more than just packet of noodles," I grunt at her, trying once again to get her to eat something decent. I'm big on health food. For her. Doesn't matter to me because I'm not human. "You need protein, fats, and vegetables that are not processed. We are getting a dozen noodle things at most."

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onewhoisall

"Mmm, well I am not in the cart. I am on the cart," Cass replied a little smugly. She was proud that she understood the words he said, that she could understand the subtle nuance between being in and on something but she had been getting more adept at reading. Well, for her at least. "There is a small difference."

Cass grinned, all teeth and wickedness before she leaned up to brush a kiss to his lips. She steadied her hands against his stomach, perfectly content as she scratched his middle subtly.

"You worry too much, I eat all of those things. But I also like the noodles," Cass replied. They were simple, quick, and cheap. And her father would have been horrified with what she was putting in her body. In perhaps more ways than one. "They taste good and they're better than waffles. We need more waffles, we've only got eight packs."

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badtotheclone

"Definitely shouldn't be on the cart," I say, kissing her back before giving her a shove. I know she isn't going to fall so it's hard enough to make her react. If she's going to sit on the cart then I'm going to push her off and try to make her fall off.

"You eat way more noodles than you should," I grumble, refusing to let the argument go. I rarely win the big ones so I might as well try and get her to agree on me with the little ones. It wasn't worked yet but one day it will. "And we need more beer too."

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onewhoisall

She watches the microfraction where his shoulders tense and he reaches suddenly towards her, instantly her legs wrap around his waist tightly anchoring her to him even as she leans back with the force of his push. Back arched, she grins at him from her seemingly precarious balance before she sat back up and kissed his mouth.

"If I sat down all day then yes perhaps, I do not however and they are quick and easy to eat before... work." Cass replied, a small smile lingering on her lips that he needed to buy beer. "Do you even need to buy any more? Doesn't one sip get you drunk?"

Cass looked innocently at him before laughing.

Edited Date: 2015-08-04 07:42 pm (UTC)

From:

badtotheclone

"You're hilarious," I say, glaring at her as she clings to me. It's still kind of strange to hear her laugh like that, even if it is at my expense. It's very normal though and I like that. I like that she's not normal but I know she struggles to fit in.

"And you should eat healthier. Do you even eat vegetables? We're going to get more vegetables."

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onewhoisall

"I know I am," Cass replied, smiling at the glare he gives her. Looking at him fondly, she reaches out to the side and grabs a pack of eggs as he pushes the trolley past them. Placing them behind her in the cart, she nods her head at his question before directing him to the vegetable aisle. He worried about her, she found it... endearing. She knew what that word meant. "You're worried about me. You love me and are worried about me. You're very cute Kaine."

From:

badtotheclone

"I'm annoyed by you is what I am," I tell her, poking her in the chest. It gets me some annoyed looks by some other people in the store but I couldn't care less. Out of the two of us it's far more likely that Cass will hurt me more than I'll hurt her. I don't try and surprise her with attacks.

"But I am pretty cute, so good for acknowledging that."

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onewhoisall

"Annoyed because you're worried, I can tell." Cass replied, leaning up to brush a kiss against his lips again and again. She smiled at the poke to her chest, like that hurt her. "I'm good at acknowledging when I'm right, which is always? Isn't it?"

From:

badtotheclone

"No, annoyed because you're annoying," I say, even as I kiss her back. Even after all this time that sort of affection is kind of weird to me. It's not bad, but it's weird. Having someone want to do this with me is just something I don't think I'll ever get used to.

"And you're good at deluding yourself into thinking you're right, that's true."

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onewhoisall

She nudged his side with her knee, indicating with a twist of her head that he needed to reach up and grab the milk for her. Smiling against his lips, she pressed her fingertips against the place his heart was and smiled even more at the warmth and feel of it beneath her fingertips. He was alive and hers and she loved that, she loved kissing him and being with him.

"I am right though, I'm right about you." Cass replied, scrunching her nose up cutely at him.

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badtotheclone

"Pretty sure you're wrong about me," I say as I reach for the milk. I don't even remember what we were talking about exactly but I'm not going to just agree with her. She's practically impossible to live with as it is. If I admit that she's right it will just be impossible.

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onewhoisall

"No, I'm not." Cass argued back. She knew she was right because he made her talk, speak and engage with the world around her. Not just speak the language she knew but made her use the one that she had been denied for her. He encouraged her, he backed her up but stood his ground. He was hers and she loved him. "You don't believe me but that's okay. I can believe in you for both of us."

Scratching his side, she looked up at him and looked at him without words. She loved him. "I love you."

From:

badtotheclone

"I love you too," I tell her, leaning forward to kiss her forehead. She does love me, as much as I think she shouldn't I know she does and I'm getting better about being grateful for that. And I do love her. I'm sure it's a broken, messed up kind of love but it's all hers. Hopefully she knows that.

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onewhoisall

Feeling his lips brush against her forehead, she turned her mouth up and stretched up to turn the chaste kiss a little more insistent as she kissed his mouth. He loves her, he loves her more than he's loved before and it was good and all hers.

"That makes me so happy, Bruce was wrong about... so much. This especially," Cass said with a smile. He hadn't wanted her to date, that it would distract her from the mission but it didn't, if anything it made her more focused. She had to keep the city safe for Kaine, for them, for their future.

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badtotheclone

I should have seen the kiss coming, she's sneaky like that. But since she tricked me I figure I owe her a kiss back and let my lips linger a bit.

Right, Bruce, her father figure who honestly sounded pretty emotionally stunted and borderline abusive. Unlike her biological father he was absolutely abusive, no borderline about it. I can't say that I care for either of them.

"What was he wrong about?"

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onewhoisall

"That I can't do my job and have a relationship. He didn't like the idea of me... dating anyone. Or having anyone in my life like this, he says it's distracting." Cass replied. She knows Kaine doesn't like Bruce or her father, she understands Bruce more and to Cass, Bruce was kind. She was just used to a different kind of kindness than most. "But it isn't. It just feels... right."

From:

badtotheclone

"It's a huge mistake," I say, even as I lean in to kiss her again. It's an old argument that I've given up trying to win but I still pay lip service to. Part of me believes it, most of me does, but it's not worth fighting about. We just have to agree to disagree. I do think that it's her choice though and not Bruce or anyone else's. Even if dating was distracting, it was her distraction to choose.

From:

onewhoisall

"Perhaps but you're my mistake to make, I'm yours too." Cass replied, letting out a softer noise than it was perhaps thought capable that she could make. She wanted him, she always did but first they had things to do. "I don't want anyone else Kaine. I don't think I ever will."

From:

badtotheclone

"No one ever cared if I dated or not," I point out. No one really gave a shit about me until I started killing people, then suddenly people cared. That that I really deserved to have people care about me before then but I had thought it a profound realization at the time.

"Yeah, well, that's good because of the two of us I'm pretty sure you could do better if you wanted. There's no one out there better than you."

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onewhoisall

Cass looked up, smiling in the realisation that he believed that about her. He believed that she was better than everyone. She had been taught to be the best but it was the flaws she held that her father critiqued her on. She was rarely praised but Kaine, Kaine thought she was good. He believed in her, even when she wasn't sure she believed in herself sometimes.

"Even if that was true, I don't want anyone else Kaine. I want-" Cass poked her finger over where his heart was. She wanted him, his heart, and everything. Nothing else. "Forever."

From:

badtotheclone

"Well that's good for you I guess because no matter what I do I can't get rid of you," I say, wrapping my hand around her finger to keep her close for a moment before threading my fingers in hers. I don't even know if I would get rid of her if I could. It would be like getting rid of all the best parts of myself. Keeping her is just plain selfish of me. Good thing I'm not a good guy.

From:

onewhoisall

"No, you can't. You're mine now, I'm yours." Cass replied, smiling as he caught her finger then threaded their fingers together. She knew what this meant even if he would never say or ask. They were together forever. Nothing could tear them apart.

From:

badtotheclone

"Lucky me," I say, and to my own ears it doesn't sound quite as sarcastic as I mean it to. I guess I am lucky though. Regardless of whether or not I deserve it all I am lucky that I found someone like Cass to be with. I'm pretty sure no one else would put up with me.