School grounds, Thursday afternoon

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Willow was sitting outside on the school grounds. A determined look was on her face.

Beside her? A seven-inch wood turtle with a small, lightweight basket tied to its shell with wrapping paper ribbon. In the basket was a piece of coal.

"Okay, Shelby," Willow said, trying to be encouraging. "I know this is a whole new world for you and not the sort of thing you'd normally do in the average wood turtle day, but if you'd just give it a try you may just like it. Please? For me?"

Shelby the wood turtle simply blinked at her.

Willow realized this might take a while.

At least she'd gotten her form approved.

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes," Willow said. She snuggled closer. "Especially since it's been so hot and humid. On the other hand I can't do all the nifty braids with my shorter hair."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter grinned and moved to lift her hair off the back of her neck. "You could wear it up?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I could wet it down, too," Willow said. "Natural air conditioning. Of course then I run the risk of catching my death of cold in actual air conditioning."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Then your clothes would get all wet too," Peter said. "That could quite possibly be uncomfortable even if amusing for some of us."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow responded to that by tickling him.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter squirmed and tried to trap her hands. "What?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow's hands were trapped. "You were being amused at my wet clothedness."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Did I say that?" he asked, reaching to hold both her hands in his.

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"You said 'some of us'," Willow replied. She snuggled closer as he got her hands. "You have been foiled by pronouns, sir."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but by us, I could have meant the students here, and by some, I could have meant not me," he kissed her as she snuggled into him. "You have been making assumptions, madam."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"You did seem to lack giggles that time we got caught in the rain," Willow conceeded, kissing him back.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Definitely not," Peter said, remembering what thoughts had been going through his mind at the time. "There was definitely no giggling."

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"You were all serious and worried I'd be mad at you," Willow said, remembering her own thoughts. She kissed him again, just in case he was still worried.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I was indeed," Peter said. "And you yelled at me for taking responsibility for you." He kissed her back, not nearly as worried.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Taking responsibility for my emotions or actions," Willow said, kissing him in return. "Those are mine. Good or bad. Hopefully all good."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Yes, ma'am," Peter acknowledged with a grin. "At least until next time I forget."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"At which point I will scold you again," Willow replied. It was possible the sternness of this was undercut by the way she was grinning besottedly at him.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"And I shall listen to you just as seriously as the first time, of course," Peter said, nodding oh-so-very-seriously. He leaned forward a bit to kiss her again.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I will approve of that listening," Willow said, juuuuuust a little distracted by the kissing. Which she was doing in return.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Which is all I can hope for," Peter said, the slightest bit distracted himself.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow made a non-committal "Mm-hm." and kept on with the kissing. She'd also be touching him but, well, her hands were trapped. Darn.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter had completely forgotten the trapped hands. So when he dropped them to pull her closer, he was the slightest bit startled. If he had been paying attention to anything other than kissing, of course.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

And had she been paying attention to any non-kissing related activities, she would've smiled at him being startled. But she wasn't, so instead she got to concentrate on more kissing and running her fingers up and down his chest.