Room 507, Wednesday night

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Nadia was feeling rather better, after spending some time shooting things up on the gun range. She now had a full clip and her safetied gun tucked within easy reach under her pillow and was keeping an eye on her locked door while she attempted to work on her adventure story.

The fact that Walter was there with her and that Jamie was gone, hopefully staying somewhere else entirely until this whole thing was cleared up, was both really good, in that she knew he was there to help her, and really, really distracting.

Especially with the adventure story open.

Stupid Sloane. Or person pretending to be Sloane.

[ooc: door be closed and locked, but knockable. Be prepared to be interrogated for knocking. Things may potentially progress into being NWS.]

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Walter had pulled her desk chair over to sit with his feet up on the end of the bed while he stared at his book. Guns. Big guns, small guns, guns that come apart.

Quite a variety, even if he wasn't really interested in using them.

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Nadia totally wasn't staring at Walter's legs stretched out onto her bed.

Except when she was.

She wondered if they could get Al to do the door sealing thing from the outside.

"What's another word for 'relax'?"

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Walter glanced up from his book. "Unwind?" They certainly both needed to do it.

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"Hmmm." Nadia considered the sentence she had written.

"No, I need an adjective."

Mario was silent as usual and looking especially unwinded where he leaned against Elena's bed.

That just didn't quite work.

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"What are you working on? That thing you won't show me?"

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". . . yes. It helps me relax."

Mario was silent as usual and looking especially unwindly where he leaned against Elena's bed.

Still no good.

Mario was silent as usual and looking especially unwindish unwindy unwounded unwond

Damndamndamn.

". . . usually."

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"What's the problem with it now?" Walter knew nothing of writing for fun or relaxation. It was a way to record information.

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"Stupid words."

Mario was silent as usual and looking especially . . . tasty as he leaned against Elena's bed. She wanted nothing more than to slowly tear that clean nice straight

"Okay, I need a word that describes a very good suit."

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Walter blinked at that. "Bespoke? Tailored?"

Relaxed and a good suit....

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"Not a talking suit, a nice suit."

She wanted nothing more than to slowly tear that tailored suit off of him piece by piece while he sat lied

"Dammit. My English sucks today. What's the word for when you're sitting and lying down at the same time?"

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"Reclined or lounged?" He leaned forward to try to get a look at her work. "What are you writing?"

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. . . while he lounged on her bed like a spoiled cat. She was sure she still had those manacles from the battle with the shiek's army of ninjas somewhere--

Nadia broke off in the typing to try and block the screen with her hands. "Nothing. Just a story."

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Walter smirked and leaned back again. If this was relaxing to her, he wasn't going to use it to stress her tonight. He'd have other opportunities to tease her.

"Will you be selling it?"

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"That would require someone other than me reading it. And it's bad enough that Cally is insisting."

Nadia tried to surreptitiously examine Walter's sleeve, wondering how easily it would rip.

Considering what he tended to do in those suits, probably not easily.

Elena slid her tongue along her teeth as she thought about pulling the fibers apart with her teeth

Was that too repetitive?

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Probably.

"If Cally gets to read it...." It was terribly tempting to keep hassling her about it.

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"Cally will read it when sheep fly and the ocean turns to yoghurt."

Which, considering this is Fandom, might be tomorrow.

Elena slid her tongue along her teeth as she thought about pulling the fibers apart with them.

Did that make it look like she was pulling fibers apart with fibers? Stupid grammar. This sentence wasn't working.

". . . Do you promise not to tease me about it forever?"

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Walter tried to look serious, despite the fact that it sounded as though he might regret promising not to tease her.

"I promise not to tease you about it forever."

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". . . or even just a little while."

Nadia stared at the unhappy sentence again.

". . . or at all."

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"I promise not to tease you about it at all." She was lucky that the circumstances made him more willing to give in on that.

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Nadia hesitated, then turned the screen towards him so he could mod at will what else might be in the story read it.

"Just remember, my written English isn't that good and I'm just writing it for fun and for me and not trying to make it a novel or anything."

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Walter paged up to the beginning of the story and started to skim through it. There was so much of it.

And the pirates? The mermaid? The sheik? The evil spies?

Walter was sorely regretting his promise.

After a bit he ended up scooting over to sit on the bed next to Nadia while he read some of the juicier parts.

Not snickering. Really.

He promised.

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Nadia was watching his reaction carefully. Any sign of teasing and she'd hit him.

"I started writing it in Argentina. When I couldn't sleep after training all day, before . . . Cesar and Roberto. Then when I got back here. . . . It's stupid. I know. But I like it."

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"You must. You've written quite a lot of it." And they were quite... acrobatic in places.

"If it helps you relax, it's good."

He stopped on one page and pointed. "We've never done that...."

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Nadia looked at it. "We've also never been in a Roman bath together."

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Walter grinned and bumped his shoulder against hers. "We should try that sometime. A trip on a long weekend."

He scanned a page about Mario's undead lover and paged onward rather than open that particular can of worms.

"I see you have a pirate princess. Does she get her man?"

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"Repeatedly. The dashing mercenary is quite the machine at times."

He wasn't laughing. Good.

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Not on the outside.

Really, if she was going to show him the story, now, when she was stressed nigh unto snapping, was the time to do it if she didn't want him to laugh.

He paged down a little more until he found a scene with the mercenary machine and whistled appreciatively. Then he realized that he was picturing Pip and Pippi a little more intimately than he really wished to and moved on to something safer with Mario, Elena, and Calliope (?!)

Oh my. They hadn't done that either.

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Nadia leaned against his shoulder so she could see what he was reading.

Mario, Elena, and Calliope were more . . . experienced with each other than their real counterparts. What did Walter expect, really?

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Walter had no expectations. Reading what she'd written, though, certainly gave him some intriguing ideas. And some interesting insight into Nadia's fantasy landscape.

He might have been making a few mental notes.

"How long do I have to read this? You have a novel here."

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"You don't have to read it at all. You're the one who wanted to."

And it wasn't a novel. It wasn't finished yet.

"I couldn't contact you guys and I missed you. So I had to do something. That's why it's so long."

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"No, I mean how long are you going to allow me to read it." He curled up more comfortably and leaned against her. "I'm learning quite a lot from this."

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"Well, we've got a long night ahead of us. And a long day tomorrow. Learning what?"

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Walter shrugged and kissed her cheek. "I'm going to guess that you wouldn't write about things you find unpleasant."

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"Well, I'm not particularly fond of evil ninjas. . . ."

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Walter elbowed her gently. "That's not what I meant."

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Nadia smiled. "Why, you want to try some of it sometime?"

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"I'm adventurous." Which was a good thing, given some of Nadia's imaginings.

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"Think we can keep up with Mario and Elena? They're pretty . . . active."

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"If one of us had a single, I'm certain we could."

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"Hmm. Maybe we can rearrange things when the new semester starts."

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"Maybe." Walter nodded and leaned over to kiss her again. "You'd think they were trying to interfere in their students' love lives with these roommate issues," he said jokingly.

[nadiathesaint]

"I know. They're sneaky."