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[littletonoidea]

"This is the audio log of Communications Officer Doug Eiffel of the-- previously of the U.S.S Hephaestus, leave a message and I'll see if I can bear to drag myself away from whatever utterly engaging task I must be doing to not notice my comms--"

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[themostfun]

Because you also love it.

[ Can't fool her! ]

[littletonoidea]

And there's a conveniently-timed knock on the door then, before Eiffel lets himself in, covering his eyes with the Clue DVD case. "If you guys didn't put a tie on the door just to screw with me, fair warning that I do think it's hot!"

He's wearing denim jeans that are so old they've rolled back around to basically being sweats, and his good old Star Wars shirt, but he lowers it to give them a wry grin as he closes the door.

"Hey, ladies."

[cactusy]

"I have my gun on me," says Shaw, without making any move to sit up. "I will kill you."

(At least the first part of this is true. Even while wearing sweatpants in her own cabin, she has an ankle holster on.)

[themostfun]

"She won't." Root grins at him. "Sorry to disappoint you, but we're not really in the mood to give anyone a show."

[littletonoidea]

"You wouldn't kill me." With the smug satisfaction of knowing, literally, she was forced to try and failed. "Who else is gonna give you those primo signature Doug Eiffel back crackers?"

He'll move as he's talking, setting the DVD up in the player before he goes and flops onto Shaw's other side, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.

[cactusy]

Shaw cranes her neck around to shoot Root a look that is very much meant to be read as Do you see this bullshit I have to deal with?, though it's colored by the fact that she's sure Root is just going to grin smugly at her. And then Eiffel has the audacity to sit down right next to her, out of prime kicking range? Extremely rude. She makes no attempt to shove them off or extricate either of their octopus arms, but she wiggles around a little, fussily, to try to get herself into a more comfortable position within them.

(This is how you can tell that she loves you so much, guys.)

[themostfun]

Shaw is correct. Root gives her a smug grin and leans in to nuzzle her cheek.

"Comfy?" she asks Shaw. And to Eiffel, "I promise not to kiss your hand by accident.

[cactusy]

Shaw groans loudly in response to that.

[littletonoidea]

Eiffel's grin could probably be seen from space.

"What, I'm not allowed to get a little kiss too?" And he's going to make exaggerated mwah mwah noises right in Shaw's ear.

[cactusy]

Without even dignifying that with a response, she presses a palm flat to his face, giving it a good shove. (Not enough to dislodge him, of course. This is purely performative.)

Root, on the other hand, is behaving, so Shaw settles against her a little more firmly, tucking her head into the hollow of her neck as the opening credits come to a close. This is called positive and negative reinforcement, everybody.

[themostfun]

Still smug, Root leans her head against Shaw's.

"What have you been up to these days, Eiffel?"

[cactusy]

(Shaw, it should be noted, may well half-doze through the following conversation. The instant her hand drops away from Eiffel's face, she's already slumping her shoulder back into his side.)

[littletonoidea]

He grins shamelessly as his head is shoved harmlessly away, and he snickers as he gets comfy again, feeling Shaw settle cozy into him again.

"Well, with Hera gone my room's been a lot quieter, so I'm mostly keeping myself out and about, you know? Maybe even doing my job once in a while to keep me on my toes."

[themostfun]

"That sounds boring." Said with that usual little smile. "I should know. I kept myself busy while Sameen was sleeping. It was torture. Please don't do that again."

The last part is said to Shaw. Root has no confidence there won't be future comas, though.

[cactusy]

"Try my best," she mumbles - though of course, if the pattern holds, she'll be down again by April. She shifts her head on Root's shoulder so that she can press a quick kiss to the underside of her chin.

[littletonoidea]

"I do have it on official government disciplinary paperwork that I'm a menace to society at large, my team in general and myself if I'm left unsupervised," he drawls. "So I like trying to at least pretend I have something to do with my time. Think I've only been in a coma once here, too."

sneaking this in real fast

[cactusy]

"Oh, hey."

Without lifting her head, Shaw holds out her palm for Eiffel to high-five if he so chooses.

"Me, too. The menace to society, my team, and myself part."

Not the only-one-coma part, obviously.

dumbass siblings

[littletonoidea]

Without hesitating he reaches around and claps her for a satisfyingly loud high-five.

[themostfun]

Root chuckles softly. They're adorable.

"I wanna dress up like the singing telegram girl next time we have a costume party," she says, giving not one single iota it's an unprompted thing to say.

[cactusy]

"Hallo--" Shaw starts, before remembering that Halloween already happened and she coma'd through it. "Uh. Mardi Gras?"

[littletonoidea]

"Sexy Valentine's Day costume?" he offers.

[themostfun]

"Why not both?" Root grind and leans in to stage whisper to Shaw, "Or private showings."

[cactusy]

"Do we care about Valentine's Day?" wonders Shaw, who absolutely does not but isn't completely sure she can confidently say the same about Root. Maybe she doesn't care because it's cheesy and commercialized, or maybe she does because she's a secret sap. Shaw figures it could go either way.

[themostfun]

"We care about chocolate," Root clarifies. "We don't need Valentine's Day to have a good time."

Would she say no to a little extra fun on Valentine's Day? No. Would she be mad if they just ignored it altogether? Also no, even if Root does like the aesthetic of red and roses and thorns and decadence and...

[littletonoidea]

"I don't think the next port is 'til, uhhh." He counts off on his fingers briefly. "...March. So you're gonna be way too late for the post-Valentine's day sales, if we get to go somewhere that even has it."