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[nobasisinfact]

I think you're making things up.

[He reaches for the tea to inspect it.]

[11calls]

You can accuse me of a lot of things, my love, but not that.

[Alex drops a kiss onto his head before she heads over to grab a glass of water.]

[nobasisinfact]

[He catches her hand for a moment before letting her go.]

I can't say I agree.

[11calls]

[That makes her laugh.]

That's fine, but you still do the cheating to drive me to distraction thing, my Richard.

[Alex isn't even cheating right now.]

[nobasisinfact]

I still maintain this is my normal voice. No one's ever been driven to distraction by it.

[11calls]

[Alex just laughs as she sits next to him.]

Oh, you are so wrong. I get the fanmail, remember?

[nobasisinfact]

I'm fairly sure they're sarcastic. Like that stupid haunted chair.

[11calls]

Maybe some are. But I'm pretty sure most aren't, you know. [Alex make me smirking, and this is definitely her narration voice when she speaks again.] Dr. Richard Strand the enigmatic founder and President of the Strand Institute has an incredibly sexy asshole persona as well as eyes that are like the blue at the bottom of a candle flame, and an incredibly melty voice especially when he drops it into his lower register to drive this reporter incredibly insane and to distraction.

[nobasisinfact]

[He reaches out, running his fingers along her hand.]

Where's your evidence?

[11calls]

[Alex catches his hand and just wraps her fingers between his with a smirk.]

I'm fairly certain if I go back to our messages I can find them. Including at least one where you do it and tell me you're trying to seduce me, even though you definitely were not.

[And in turn, she'd attempted to seduce him in his office, only that had gone not at all the way she'd expected.]

[nobasisinfact]

I recall is you wearing a negligee in my office.

[He curls his fingers around her palm.]

[11calls]

[Alex just laughed at that, and there was a little bit of color in her cheeks before she gave a quick check to make sure that they were alone.

Stan was very impressionable after all.]

Well, you said it before I upped the stakes.

[nobasisinfact]

I think, it was because you wanted to have sex in my office.

[How far could he bring out that blush?]

[11calls]

[Well, that helps a fair amount, and more color flooded in, but it hasn't quite reached the ear stage.]

You're the one who was trying to convince me to come to your office, and you specifically said "It's because I'm trying to seduce you." In your growly sexy voice.

Also it wasn't a negligee! It was a corset and stockings and [Alex can do her own version of that voice, you know. And she's using it now] your suit coat, I believe.

[nobasisinfact]

[The smirk he offers back is dangerous.]

You do enjoy wearing my clothing.

[11calls]

[ Oh yes she knows just how dangerous it is. But since when has Alex done anything but laugh in the face of danger?]

I suppose I do.

[nobasisinfact]

It'es, an interesting habit.

[He might be implying something.]

[11calls]

Is it one you have a problem with, Dr. Strand?

[There may be a smirk there.]

[nobasisinfact]

On the contrary, I think you should be engaging in it right now.

[He, of course, dropped his voice for that last part. To the deeper, slightly huskier tone that he's just claimed he never does.]

[11calls]

[Alex just colored and smiled, watching him for a moment, before she shifted into a smirk.]

I win. You just did it.

[nobasisinfact]

I didn't do a thing.

[Of course he knew what he'd done, but he was also the king of denying that what was there was actually there.]

[11calls]

Oh right...

[Alex is just going to lean forward, tracing her fingers along the back of his hand, because fighting fire with fire is sometimes the way to go. Especially when dealing with him.]

I'm sure I'm just experiencing the same sort of apophenia that I do when I notice just how much you enjoy me engaging in my habit of wearing your clothing.

[nobasisinfact]

[He rose his eyebrows, smirking.]

I'm afraid so, Mis Reagan. I haven't once looked at you in an improper way.

[They both know that's a lie. Their first night together was more than enough to point to the holes in it.]

[11calls]

Such blatant lies, Richard.

[And Alex is just going to laugh at him, before she leaned over and kissed him.]

[nobasisinfact]

[He leans in, returning the kiss. After all, it's one of the few moments without Stan and Simon in the house (which leaves him to wonder how he's practically a father again in this weird place).]

I have no idea what you mean.

[He kisses her again as he lets his fingers run over her palm.]