paradisalogs | i like the chance you take

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i like the chance you take

Who: Cass and Steph!
What: Girl time♥
When: This weekendish
Where: Bathaus
Rating: C FOR CUTE

It was about time Steph put a little extra effort out there for Cass. She'd been all over the place lately, and it had to be hard on the girl that thought she was dead not too long ago. She'd promised a lot of fun things, but some of those fun things needed planning--like a beach day. So, for now, she'd have to improvise.

And that's why there was an assortment of fruits, candies, syrups, and sprinkles set out on the counter. Steph was trying to be quiet, taking the ice cream tubs out of the bag and sneak them into the freezer, but the paper was annoyingly loud in the quiet home.

This was supposed to be a surprise. Grr.

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That, and Steph didn't cheap out when grabbing milkshake goodies. All of it is good.

"Here," Steph laughs, reaching up to wipe beneath Cass' nose. As cute as that was, there was no need to get all sticky just yet. "And that's a good question. We'll have to investigate."

Like it's nothing at all, Cass catches Steph's hand so she can pull it over and pop Steph's finger into her mouth, sucking the milkshake off. It was her mess to start with and she doesn't want Steph getting sticky either.

"You make one, now."

Welp, that catches Steph off guard. She gives Cass a funny look, then laughs--Cass is Cass. It's all harmless.

"Mine's a surprise, though. Go sit on the couch and I'll bring it over, okay?"

Well that's interesting, but Cass just watches Stephanie for another few moments before nodding and sliding off the counter. She goes to sit in the living room and even respects the whole surprise thing, closing her eyes and not peeking into the kitchen to see what's going.

"Okay, ready."

Okay, Steph. Gotta make this good. She stares at her choices for a while, then settles on vanilla ice cream, strawberries, chocolate chips, and caramel syrup. And sprinkes. Those might look cool, blended!

Once she blends it all together, she pours two glasses and goes to join Cass on the couch, sitting right next to her.

"Alright. I haven't tried it yet, so we can both be disgusted together if it's terrible. Don't hate me."

Once she's there and sitting, Cass opens her eyes. Hey look, sprinkles do look cool blended up. She takes one of the glasses, but then frowns at Stephanie.

"Don't be dumb. You're you. Will always love you."

That gets a shoulder nudge.

"I'm just saying. I know that's true, Cass."

She'll just nudge back then, but she stays leaning with her shoulder against Steph's. Personal space is for losers.

But the drink looks good, so Cass lifts her glass up and takes a few long sips of it.

Steph takes a taste of the drink too, leaning against Cass as well. This is nice. She sort of wishes it were colder out, so they'd have more reasons to cuddle under tons of blankets.

When she sees that in Steph, Cass puts her arm around her and pulls her closer, leaning back so they can snuggle together on the couch. There doesn't have to be excuses for this, but if Steph wants to make them she'll let her.

"This is nice." She means more than just the milkshake, of course. "Kind of... making me cold. Can you reach blanket?"

There. Fixed.

"It's pretty good," Steph agrees, though maybe she means more than the milkshake, too. She smiles slyly at Cass when she asks for the blanket, but there's no argument from her as she grabs it and drapes it over their laps.

"Now it's perfect."

Glass precariously balanced on the arm of the couch for a moment, Cass tucks the blanket around the both of them, making sure they can stay warm. Maybe she'll have to look into breaking the thermostat so this is always a thing they have to do or something, but for now making up reasons is fine.

"Very perfect. We can just... stay like this, til milkshakes run out. Then get more."

She relaxes against Cass, lazily drinking her shake.

"Or we just wait here until Tim shows up and have him get us more."

Leaning her cheek against the top of Steph's head, Cass lifts her hand to absently run her fingers through the other girl's hair.

"Good plan, but might backfire. What if... finish shakes, but he takes... hours, to come home?"

"Then we have to wait here for hours, because I'm not moving." She slides her free arm behind Cass.

"How terrible." Yeah right, it only sounds like the best thing ever, especially after how much time they've been apart lately.

After a few more sips of her milkshake, Cass has a better idea.

"My turn, after this one. You stay here, keep place warm. I'll make milkshake, then... hurry back to you."

"But that still requires moving," Steph whines, snuggling against Cass some more. "Maybe I prefer you over milkshakes, huh?"

Well screw milkshakes then. Cass stretches over to put her glass down, then wraps both her arms around Steph to hold her as close as she can.

"Better?"

"Better."

She rests her head against Cass. This should happen more often. It's unfair to Cass, really. Out of everyone she has in Paradisa, she's the one that loves her with the least baggage attached. No icky history, no arguments over friends or the Borgia or morals.

She tilts her head to look at her.

"How are you doing, Cass?"

It'd been a crappy month for everyone, but she's never really just sat with Cass and done a check in with her.

The content, happy expression on Cass' face fades a little when Stephanie asks her that. If she's going to be truthful, she hadn't been good at all. She'd felt abandoned in a place where she only had a handful of friends and her reaction had been to isolate even more. She'd forced herself out of the house twice in the time that Tim and Stephanie were gone but after that, it was the house all the time.

But then Tim had come back, so it was better. With him in the house, she couldn't sulk without it being obvious, but spending time with him had made her not feel quite so much like she wanted to sulk.

And now Stephanie is back too, trying to fix things. It was bad, but it doesn't have to be anymore. Still, she doesn't want to worry Steph or make her feel guilty, any more guilty than she does already, so she just shrugs and smiles at her again.

"Fine. Milkshakes are good."

"In general. I know the milkshakes are good," she says, recognizing a dodge because she does it enough herself.

"Mm, little cold, still." And now she's flat out lying, but it's for a good cause, Cass thinks. She pulls the blanket up around them a little bit more and snuggles closer to Steph's warmth.

"How are you?" There, she'll just turn it around, deflect this back onto Steph.

Steph stretches her arm out to put down the glass, so she can properly wrap her arms around Cass. This is comfy.

She sees what Cass is doing, there, but doesn't press. She'll just be honest. "Doing better."

It was pretty crappy there, for a long while. EH left her extremely rattled, and it just went downhill from there. Even babies left her uncomfortable and eager to get back to normal.

"Good. You should... always be happy."

Happy and alive are all Cass wants for Steph, so just knowing she's back on that track is enough for Cass.

"You, too." She shifts to press another kiss to Cass' cheek. "I'm always happy when I'm hanging out with you."

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