The Magpie Emporium, Monday [28/11]

[giveittoyoursister]

For whatever reason, the shop was looking very...neon today, at least where it wasn't black or chrome, and for some reason all the minis Vi had set up last week were now wearing black leather and tiny little sunglasses.

It was kind of weird, how it almost felt like back home, while also being completely different.

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[drumsticksandd20s]

"Huh," said Steph, who had been too caught up in a possible new song idea to notice until just now, when she came back in with lunch (a bunch of different meat and vegetable skewers today). "Wonder what prompted the spontaneous retro aesthetic today?"

She'd sort of resigned herself to the store's occasional makeovers by now.

[giveittoyoursister]

"Not sure," Vi said, looking at Steph and the food with almost equal levels of adoration. "But all the screens had weird green writing on them earlier."

[drumsticksandd20s]

"It makes me want to run some kind of cyberpunk game for some reason," Steph decided, grinning at her. "Okay, are you happy to see me or just really hungry?"

[giveittoyoursister]

"Can't it be both," Vi asked, grinning at Steph. "Cyberpunk? Is that a kind of music?"

Some would argue Steph was perfectly justified in breaking up with her over that.

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph would even argue that... if she knew for sure that Vi knew what cyberpunk was.

"I mean..." She shrugged. "It's a whole genre of stuff, science fiction mostly. All about futuristic technology, except instead of being used to make people's lives better it's just one more thing the assholes in power are using to fuck them over. So you get a lot of stories about the people at the bottom. How they fight back sometimes."

She offered Vi her pick of the skewers, looking at her thoughtfully.

"I'm actually not sure if it's the kind of thing you'd be interested in, or... you know. Totally the opposite."

It seemed maybe a little too close to home, was the thing.

[giveittoyoursister]

In Vi's defence, she only knew what pun was because of Steph, so honest mistake.

It sounded extremely close to home. She took a skewer and chewed before replying. "Yeah, I get what you mean."

[drumsticksandd20s]

Yeah, see, that was why Steph wouldn't consider this a breakup-worthy mistake. Luckily for Vi.

"If you were interested in giving it a try," she said slowly, "there'd be no questions asked if you suddenly changed your mind. Like, at any point."

[giveittoyoursister]

Very luckily.

"I mean, I trust you not to mess with me on purpose."

[drumsticksandd20s]

"I mean." Steph snagged a skewer of various bacon-wrapped veggies and took a bite. "I wouldn't fuck with you about anything super serious like that, no. I would absolutely fuck with you as long as I know you'd be cool with it, though."

[giveittoyoursister]

"I'm very cool with you fucking around with me," Vi said like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph snorted. "You know the innocent act will never work on me, right?"

Not the point, Steph.

[giveittoyoursister]

But it could be!

"Does that mean you're not going to seduce me?"

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Oh, so you're asking then," Steph decided cheerfully. "I'll make a note of it."

Did she manage to do a convincing job of implying that 'making a note of it' was as far as she was going to go? She hoped so.

[giveittoyoursister]

Regardless of how convincing she actually was, Steph got an expression dangerously close to a pout in return.

[drumsticksandd20s]

Look, just because Steph crossed her arms and gave Vi an oh, really? look, it didn't mean that she didn't actually want to kiss that not-quite-a-pout right off her face instead.

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi had puppy eyes and in this case was not afraid to use them to full effect.

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph managed to maintain her composure for about half a second before her shoulders slumped and she dropped her head, laughing ruefully.

"Argh! Curse you and the power of your adorable puppy face!"

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi laughed, and reached out to curl her fingers through Steph's. "I love you too."

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph interlaced their fingers and squeezed Vi's hand.

"Watch where you point this thing," she said, reaching over to cup Vi's face with her other hand. "It's dangerous...ly cute."

[giveittoyoursister]

Still grinning, Vi leant into Steph's hand. "How long'd take you to think of that one?"

[drumsticksandd20s]

"About half a second," Steph replied. "It's obvious, huh?"

[giveittoyoursister]

"Maybe a little." Not that Vi sounded all that upset about it.

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph grinned at her and brushed a thumb over her cheekbone. "I mean, I'm still right."

[giveittoyoursister]

"I'll take your word for it."

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Hey, I feel like I'm definitely an expert on the subject of how cute your face is," Steph said mildly, and tried to tug her in for a kiss.