The beach, around 3:00 a.m.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

After getting back from the Teal Deer, Isabel had left Jack waiting outside the dorms while she ran up to her room and gathered up a bunch of blankets. Heading back down, Isabel led the way to the beach.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"She was," Isabel said quietly. "Cute and funny, and smart. She was everything I'd ever want."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"She also snored, had very sharp knees, and inherited my tendency to sprawl," he added, laughing softly.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

She laughed as well, turning to press a kiss to his shoulder. "The snoring came from you as well."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" Jack turned to mock-glare at her. "I don't snore!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"You do," Isabel said. "We're all just too nice to tell you."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack opened and closed his mouth a couple of times, then narrowed his eyes. "You're just messing with me, right?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Not telling," she laughed, wrapping her arms around him.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"You are so mean," he said, hugging her tight. "Oh wow. Look at that!" He moved so she could see the sky, and the intensely bright meteor that swooped through the night, leaving a smoking trail behind it.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's beautiful," Isabel said, smiling at the sky. "And I'm not mean."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"You are, picking on me." His fingers might just have skittered across her ribs. "So very very mean to poor innocent me."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's only because you're so pickable," she said, fliching away from tickling fingers. "I can't help myself."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack wrinkled his nose at her. "Pickable. That sounds vaguely disgusting. You couldn't have gone with handsome? Sexy? Wonderful?" Little more tickling and he smiled innocently. "Cedric called me adorable last night, you could go with that."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh you're all that, don't worry," Isabel said, doing a little tickling of her own. "Of course if we all keep telling you that, your ego is really going to swell."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Ack! Hey! No tickling!" He snagged her hands and drew her back against him. "My ego is in direct proportion with how awesome I am," he deadpanned. "Now, lay here quietly and watch the meteors with me."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Which means it's enormous and I'm going to be crushed by it at any minute." But that didn't stop her from curling back into his side.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Now you're just being silly." Jack kissed her forehead and turned his attention back to the sky and the pinpoints of light flashing across it.

The meteors eventually faded from sight as the sun rose, and Jack yawned, stretching a little, then nudged Isabel until she moved enough for him to get up.

Making their sleepy way back to the dorms, blankets slung over Jack's shoulder, they crashed in his room and didn't move for many long hours.