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Covent Garden Flowers, Saturday

Seivarden was going to assume that the birds in the shop were the ones Keyleth had received by mistake yesterday. That was why she spent the morning yelling at people on the phone and sending angry emails, because apparently she would have to wait until Monday.

"Aatr's tits, what am I going to do with them until then?"

The birds themselves didn't seem bothered, and they were quite decorative perched on a branch in a small citrus tree.

Added to this, she received a few pictures to her phone that were more enjoyable but also more distracting, involving naked hands. At least she had a shop full of suitable motifs to send som in return.

And she had tea, obviously. That tea set really was an improvement.

[Open. ETA: CW for drug use.]

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They were minutes from what Lucifer guessed was probably the end of Seivarden's shift - he didn't know, but he figured these things usually ended around now, didn't they?

Whatever. Lucifer was bored.

He opened up the door and slunk inside, grinning broadly. "You were not joking about the birds," he mused. "Inconvenient."

"Why would I have been joking?"

Seivarden grinned at Lucifer as she got to her feet.

"And what are you doing here?"

"Well, you kept going on about not being able to leave work," Lucifer sighed, "So I decided to do the nice thing and wait until closing time, obviously."

He approached her with a grin.

"Oh, did you?"

Seivarden leaned in to kiss Lucifer.

"I still have to finish my tea."

Lucifer groaned theatrically.

"Well, I suppose it's important that you hydrate," he said.

"And I think you should try my new tea set."

She nodded towards the table.

"It would be terribly rude not to."

Another sigh. And a kiss, while he was at it.

"I suppose being rude might ruin my evening plans," he said, pulling away so he could head towards that table. "Why this one?"

"The tea set? This one suits the shop. I just had the place redecorated, after taking over. Running a flower shop might not be what I expected to do, but I want it to at least be reasonably proper."

She gestured for Lucifer to take a seat and reached for the tea pot, when one of the birds suddenly landed on her shoulder.

"No, go away!"

Seivarden tried to push it off.

Lucifer sighed, striding towards her. "You take care of the tea," he said, and waved at the bird on her shoulder. "Shoo, unless you like getting soaked in steaming hot liquid."

The bird flapped away and found a new seat on top on one of the shelves. Seivarden shook her head.

"They're surprisingly social."

She pulled her chair close to the one she had offered to Lucifer and reached for the tea pot again.

"Aren't they supposed to be in a cage or an aviary or something?" Lucifer said, sinking into the chair.

"They were delivered yesterday," Seivarden said. "Unexpectedly. Although maybe I should get a cage and keep them here."

Another bird was now drinking from the fountain, and she frowned at it.

"Enough about the birds though."

She poured tea for them both, put down the pot and leaned in to give Lucifer an intense kiss, now that they had tea.

Lucifer's fingers wound up on the back of her neck, and he kissed back gladly.

"Well," he said. "Someone's certainly tempted."

"Tempted enough to potentially scare away customers," Seivarden observed before another kiss, slipping her arms around Lucifer's neck.

She assumed people making out in a shop didn't encourage customers to enter.

"I really am moving up in the world," Lucifer mused into the kiss, hands sliding idly along Seivarden's sides.

"Making me almost abandon propriety."

The word might not have quite the same connotation to a Radchaai, but still.

"Ruining the reputation of my shop."

That didn't stop her from keeping kissing.

"Ah, but I'm not making you do anything," Lucifer sighed, biting on her bottom lip. "You want this."

"I never said I didn't. You're just..." Another kiss, "...inspiring."

She laughed. "Not having to bribe the squirrels makes it easier to improvise."

"What is it with you and bribing squirrels?" Lucifer sighed. "I know the gossip is annoying, but that feels like a bit much."

"It's popular around here. Some people like privacy."

She ran a gloved hand through his hair.

"I don't really care. I've had worse things said about me."

Seivarden kissed him again, a distraction for how it felt to be appreciated without reservation even if she wouldn't admit that.

"Seems a bit rude," Lucifer mused, "Actively hiding your liaisons..."

His fingers slid under her shirt for a moment, but no more than that.

That made Seivarden shiver, letting out a breath against Lucifer's lips.

"Tease."

She carefully moved his hand away. There were some limits, they were adults after all, even if she felt she was increasingly behaving like some silly baby Lieutenant.

Lucifer chuckled; he would've removed that hand himself if Seivarden hadn't moved it. "Might as well get to the tea," he said, and leaned back, reaching into his pocket.

"Coming from you. I'm impressed."

Seivarden grinned, reaching for her cup.

Lucifer smirked, taking a package wrapped in tin foil from his pocket and put it down. "Can't have tea without cake."

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