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[nobasisinfact]

If you say love conquers all I will put your shirt back on.

[He sounds entertained as he lets her pull him to the bed.]

[11calls]

[Okay, that just makes her crack up so much, she can't even remember what she was doing other than giggling.]

[nobasisinfact]

[Hey, he thought it was a pretty effective threat.

Now that she's killed the mood better than he did earlier he's going to sit on the bed, half dressed, and pull her into his arms, hiding his own smirk by keeping her back to him.]

Finished?

[His own amusement still shows through his voice in a slight laugh despite his trying not to.]

[11calls]

[Alex knows how to read him and his voice well enough to know just how amused he is too, and while she wants the expression on her face to be a smirk, she knows that it's actually a rather large grin that has a bit of smugness in it.

Still she traced her fingers up his arms slowly, her voice still holding so much amusement in it.]

You act like you didn't know I was going to crack up when you said it, Richard Strand.

[Because of course he did, so really, he was the one who killed the mood and not her.]

[nobasisinfact]

I assure you, I was being entirely honest.

[He really would have put her shirt back on and gone to read a book if she'd gone that far into fanciful sappiness on him. It would have been the principal of the matter if nothing else.

He leans in to plant a soft kiss against her spine.]

[11calls]

[That just makes her laugh again as she leans back against him, her eyes half-closing like a cat's.]

I know you were. That's why it's so funny, my love.

[nobasisinfact]

I'm not sure how that makes a deterrent 'funny'.

[He envelops her the rest of the way in his arms, crossing them in front of him.]

[11calls]

Well. I mean just look at how you phrased it.

[Leaning back into him, Alex Judy dotted a kiss to his jawline.]

[nobasisinfact]

It was perfectly adequate phrasing.

[He leans around carefully to have access to her lips.]

[11calls]

[And she kisses him back of course before she adds:]

Perfectly adequate if you wanted me to laugh that is.

[nobasisinfact]

Well,

[He pauses to think.]

It kept you from saying something stupid.

[11calls]

Oh please, Richard. There are some things that even I wouldn't say.

[A beat and a grin.]

Even before you threaten to put my shirt back on.

[nobasisinfact]

I wouldn't put it past your sap stained wheelhouse.

[11calls]

Oh come on, I'm not that bad, Richard.

[Alex is just going to lean back into him with a cheeky grin.]

[nobasisinfact]

Says the woman practically grabbing my hand when we first met.

[He'll just weaponize your touchiness against you.]

[11calls]

I did not!

[Yes, Alex you did!]

[nobasisinfact]

You did.

[It's just a fact Alex. You wanted him from day one. Or at least you wanted his hand.]

[11calls]

[To be fair she did already tell him that she'd found him sexy since she'd met him, but that wasn't this. This was Alex laughing and blushing from her ears down to her bra.]

You know it didn't mean that, Richard!

[nobasisinfact]

I think your physical reaction betrays the truth.

[It didn't mean that, he knows it didn't, and while it had been, awkward, it wasn't something he took as an advance either. It had just been Alex being Alex.]

[11calls]

[It hadn't been an advance, not in the slightest at that point. And all of the touches that Alex had given him from that moment until she asked him to run away with her hadn't. No, he was a man who was very in love with her wife, and she had journalism ethics, and Alex never would have thought to make an overt movement of hitting on him like that.

So, she's just going to laugh.]

I was just being nice, Richard Strand!

[nobasisinfact]

And yet,

[He lays a kiss on her shoulder.]

You've admitted to wanting me to ravage you on my desk when we first met.

[She really should have expected that to come back again eventually.]

[11calls]

[Well, now she was crimson practically down to her shoulder blades, and one hand covered her face before she just laugh-whined.]

Richard! I can't believe you brought that up!

[nobasisinfact]

Are you saying you were lying?

[He's just going to plant a kiss on her shoulder.]

[11calls]

No, of course not! But still! I wasn't like putting the moves on you, Richard.

[Alex is just going to smirk at him over her shoulder.]

If I was you would have definitely been aware of it.

[nobasisinfact]

[His brows raise at that, a small smirk coming to his face as he kisses her neck again.]

Would I have?