Outside Milliways

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It's a nice day outside, sunny and still but not too warm, and Kaidy has had a long and busy (though not entirely unproductive) week, so she's doing something she always finds calming: she has targets set up on the lawn outside the bar and is practising with her handgun.

She's not a bad shot but it doesn't come naturally to her, which means she has to concentrate. It used to frustrate her that not everything came easily, but these days - now that she's got the knack - she actually quite enjoys having to concentrate on something in order to get it right. It's an opportunity not to think, and the mechanical repetition - load, lift, aim, pause, fire - is oddly soothing.

So she's smiling to herself faintly, as the bullets march closer and closer to the bullseye.

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Martin instantly flushes, as he's almost certain was Kaidy's intention. He's also inclined towards stuttering even in his own head, so his thoughts scramble a little.

Even so, he's hardly going to stop her, and well, he is getting rather warm...

He presses into the kiss with no hesitation at all, and makes affirmative sounding noises. His hands gravitate to her waist again, thumbs smoothing circles across the fabric of her tank top.

After a moment or two (or it might have been much longer, he's lost all sense of timing right now) he pulls out of the kiss just slightly.

"In case you didn't, um, realise. I'm, er- I like this plan. Um. Yes." He's torn between embarrassment at his terrible ability to form words, and being pleased that he managed to get any words out at all.

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A-hah. It really is considerably harder to undo a tie when you can't see what you're doing (and are distracted by kissing someone attractive), but she's finally got the knot to slip free and now Martin's tie is hanging loose around his neck.

When he breaks the kiss to speak, his words make her laugh under her breath.

"Good," she says, pressing another light, fluttering kiss to his lips as she tugs playfully at the top button of his shirt; no intent just yet, only toying with it, testing the waters. "Then enjoy it, Red."

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Martin, working from experience, knows that it really is a much better idea to do what Kaidy tells you than not. He nods, smiles and leans in to kiss her again.

The awkwardness will certainly surface again when things like buttons and shoelaces become an issue, but for the moment Martin is mostly calm and definitely enjoying himself. (And anyway, everyone fails at shoelaces. And buttons are hard when you're not entirely paying attention.)


[OOC: And there we fade to black for the sake of my sanity. Because I am lame.]