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Erin's voice mail message is in a weary voice: "Erin Peters. If you called in the middle of the night and I didn't answer, I'm dying. If I pick up and someone on your end isn't dying, they will be shortly. Text otherwise."

Date: 2023-10-20 01:36 am (UTC)
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"Of course." She says it without thinking, and then flushes a little. "I'll do my best."

Date: 2023-10-20 06:23 pm (UTC)
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"You haven't been oblivious," says Cassandra -- that's the easiest part to answer, promptly and firmly. "Or insistent, if by that you mean ... pressuring me to do anything I didn't want to. You've always been careful."

A pause, and her voice goes a little smaller. "Were you waiting for me to ask?"

Date: 2023-10-22 12:57 am (UTC)
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She shakes her head.

Still smaller than usual: "It doesn't sound silly."

Date: 2023-10-22 04:43 am (UTC)
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"It's ..." She takes a long breath.

"I enjoy it," she starts, slowly. "It feels good, and it's something I know you enjoy and that feels good too. Being close to you and making you happy. If ... if we never played that way again, but we were still close in other ways, and you were still happy? I think ... I might miss it but I don't know."

Date: 2023-10-22 05:13 am (UTC)
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She looks away again, biting her lip, a tinge of red sliding across her cheeks.

And doesn't answer for a moment.

Date: 2023-10-23 09:51 pm (UTC)
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Low: "I still ought to have realized. I thought it was only ... circumstances."

Date: 2023-10-25 06:08 pm (UTC)
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"I ... don't know if there is a why." She tries to move to sit up, without breaking out of Erin's embrace; the topological difficulty this presents is a welcome distraction.

"It's ... I like it. I enjoy it. I think one would miss anything good, that way."

Date: 2023-10-27 07:50 pm (UTC)
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"And -- I am trying to think about this selfishly, for the moment, but -- it isn't just because you like it, but that's part of what I like about it? And I think I would ... I think I might miss being that for you. Even if ..."

She isn't expecting the little stabbing pain, like stepping on a piece of broken glass, that comes with forming the words in her mind before speaking them.

She makes herself say them anyway: "Even if you didn't. Miss it."

Date: 2023-10-29 03:24 am (UTC)
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She leans in a little, to rest her forehead against Erin's.

"Has it been worrying you? That I didn't ask?"

Date: 2023-10-31 03:02 am (UTC)
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"I'm sorry."

And she tilts her head up and aside a little, to brush a kiss to Erin's temple.

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