fandomtownies | The Magpie Emporium, Thursday (5/8)

Given the inspiration of said game, Vi had taken advantage of just how close Lobster Hut was to the store to show up with a still steaming lunch, the butcher-paper wrapped package hot enough she was juggling it from hand to hand.

"Hey, I got a very important delivery here."

Steph took one look at what Vi was juggling and burst out laughing so hard she dropped the scissors and had to dance out of the way so they didn't hit her toes.

"Oh my god, you are such a dork," she said affectionately.

"Your dork though," Vi said with a grin, bringing the food over and looking for somewhere to deposit it where it would be on top of any fish. "Fish and chips. Only the freshest for my girl."

Little Bot had already zipped over to retrieve the scissors, and Steph put one hand over her heart as she took them from his outstretched servo arm.

"You spoil me so much," she said, leaning against the counter next to a cartoonish looking flounder with eyes that bulged out in an honestly upsetting way, one hand reaching out to Vi in invitation. "How shall I ever repay you?"

Vi happily took that invitation, leaning in against Steph's side. "I'm sure I can think of a thing or two," she said, easing open the paper to sneak a chip. "After we eat, because you'll stay hot but these won't."

"That was terrible," Steph informed her as she gingerly took a chip for herself, though from the way she said it she might as well have just said "You're not smooth at all and I'm madly in love with you for it."

Because that was true.

"And I think that's a completely reasonable and doable plan."

As far as Vi was concerned, madly in love beat smooth any time, and responded with a completely besotted grin.

"I thought you'd agree," she said archly, her cool demeanor ruined by how she was blowing on the chip to cool it.

"What can I say?" asked Steph, who was totally not smirking at the demise of Vi's cool demeanor, really. She snuggled in against Vi's side and leaned over to help blow on the chip, ignoring her own. "We just know each other really well."

At which Saffron raised her head and gave them a beleaguered look. They didn't have to keep trying to know each other better any more!

Especially not in front of Saffron's kibble!

"Intimately, you might say." If Steph wanted to blow on Vi's chip, Vi certainly wasn't going to stop her, especially when that meant she was close enough for Vi to kiss her cheek before taking a bite of the chip. "Oh, they used the good salt."

See, this was why Saffron was wasting away. They were determined to ruin her appetite at every opportunity

"You mean you didn't specifically tell them they had to do that for me?" teased Steph, just before going for a bite of Vi's chip. Not her own; they hadn't been cooling that one down.

Her glossy coat and general sleekness just disguised the issue.

Vi made a token noise of protest and absolutely no effort to move the chip away from Steph. "Sometimes I think you have to tell them not to."

Never mind how she looked like the picture of health. She just didn't want anyone to know and was a matter of disguise.

"I'm just impressed at how it seems like you know how to wrangle every restaurant on the island," Steph told her, nibbling shamelessly at the chip.

She would just suffer in silence like a true martyr.

"It's nothing," Vi said modestly, slinging her arm around Steph's waist. "Besides, looking out for my girl is a pretty strong motivation."

But without the recognition that her feline ego craved. Woe.

"Stop, stop, I'm already hopelessly smitten with you," Steph said with a laugh, resting her head against Vi's shoulder.

It was suffering piled upon suffering.

Vi kissed the top of her head before reaching for another chip. "Just wait until I take you to the classiest places in the undercity, that'll be something."

There should be scores of artists clamoring to paint her portrait right now!

"I genuinely can't wait." Steph took a careful bite of her own chip, then finished it off now that she was satisfied it was cool enough. "You know I love any and all adventures we go on together."

She suffered so beautifully, after all.

"Eating out in the Lanes is definitely an adventure," Vi said, for once with a minimum of innuendo. "Might be more boring when you can actually pay for your food."

The most beautifully. Not that anyone cared.

"Oh, really?" Steph asked, swiping a piece of fish and offering a bite to Vi. "Five-finger discount adds some extra spice to the experience?"

Especially not her terrible humans.

Vi bent her head to bite into the fish. "Running aids the digestion," she said, oh so innocently.

Was there an opposite of caring? Because that was what her humans did.

"Oh, yeah?" Steph asked, unable to keep the amusement out of her voice. "You going to carry me, then?"

Since they'd promised each other they'd try and stay out of jail and all.

It was all Food Human's fault. The way she led Snuggle Human astray.

"Depends on how much you've eaten," Vi teased.

Jericho wouldn't call the Enforcers on them, not matter how loud he got.

As all things were Food Human's fault, really.

"Never as much as you, that's for damn sure," Steph retorted cheerfully, then took a big bite of her piece of fish.

...she'd probably try to slip money onto the counter as they took off, let's be real.

The cause of all Saffron's suffering, but if she got rid of her who would give her salmon?

Vi picked out one of the battered potato sliced that were totally different from chips, because they just were. "Can't help it if I'm a hungry girl."

She had a suspicion that Vander had had a tab at the stall, given he'd never actually not served them no matter how often they ran off without paying.

The sacrifices Saffron made to be fed as decadently as she deserved, if not as frequently as she ought.

"I love my bottomless pit," Steph said with an affectionate pat to Vi's stomach. She couldn't help waggling her eyebrows as she added, "Especially since she always makes sure I'm well fed too."

Look if bears could eat their own bodyweight in salmon, why couldn't Saffron?

If Vi deliberately tensed her abs under Steph's hand, well that was their business, wasn't it. "It's very important I keep you satisfied."

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