Ye Olde Secluded Corner of the Beach: Saturday Evening

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Celebrating the first week of classes by hitting the beach before it got cold totally required an entire picnic basket worth of food, two bottles of sunscreen, a blanket, towels, several sorts of castle-building tools and a small bag from Turtle and Canary containing as-yet-unrevealed ...stuff.

It did.

Francine was an expert in packing for the beach. She should know.

[OOC: For the Eaaaaars! ...Not you, Jak.]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"She is still rather young," He pointed out.

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"She is," Francine agreed kindly. "Blind Seer might be able to tell!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I'll ask!" And be so, so disappointed.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Good idea." At least Francine wouldn't have to be the one to break it to him. "So I stopped by your room today." Segues were for sissies. "Said hi to Cal."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Yes, he came back while we were gone, I think." Which meant no more privacy.

[thatsamilkshake]

Or bribing Cal with porn cookies to go sleep someplace else for a night. Or--

"Sneaking off the the cabins is starting to look like less of a joke idea."

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"...really?" Merlin asked, eyes going wide.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Or an empty dorm room?" There were a bunch of those on every floor, if you went by the address directory. "Those might be locked, though."

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"I could learn how to unlock them," Merlin offered quickly. With the magic. Actual lock picking implied skill.

[thatsamilkshake]

"That could work!" Or he could blast the door off the hinges. "...Or we could rent a hotel room."

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"Oh, I like hotel rooms. Those are fun! You can order food and they bring it to the door." High class there.

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"Oooh, room service. I've--" Francine grinned. "Seen that in movies." It was kind of high class for her, too, so at least they were even.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

It would be terribly romantic and Pretty Woman. If Merlin knew what Pretty Woman was.

Minus the hookers.

"We should do that then. It would be fun for us both!"

[thatsamilkshake]

...Yes, this would all go terribly well.

And not require a damage deposit for the hotel.

"I, um, got you a present, by the way." Francine reached for the Turtle & Canary bag -- and a pile of flowers and glitter fountained out.

"...That wasn't it."

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"It's very lovely anyway," Merlin ventured. Just in case.

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"My room was full of them this morning," Francine said. "I thought you might have done it, but I guess it's just an island thing, since yours was too." She dumped the bag out, glittering up the sand, and picked up the thing she had actually bought.

Which had a daisy-chain hanging from one of the earpieces.

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"...glasses?" Dark glasses. Was he supposed to wear them at night?

[thatsamilkshake]

"They're sunglasses." Ah, the war between tact, which she totally possessed, and awkwardness, which usually won. "They make it easier to see when it's really bright out, but they also, um. In an emergency they'd hide your eyes. If you needed it."

Because sunglasses wouldn't attract just as much attention in Camelot, yes.

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Not at all! He could say he got them from... a traveling group of merchants. From the lands of the far east.

Yes.

"Oh." Merlin took them, immediately putting them on to check it out. "Perhaps for if we go to the mainland again?"

[thatsamilkshake]

He'd look less dorky if the tag wasn't hanging over his nose, but slightly less adorable too, so she didn't point it out.

"Mmhm." Though chances were his eyes wouldn't get more than a glance and maybe a 'cool contacts, dude' on the mainland. "Or when you go home."

It hurt more to say it to Merlin, but she couldn't very well tell Arthur and not him.

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Merlin stopped fiddling with them long enough to look at her, even though it was hidden behind the shades. There was only a hint of a pause before he leaned over to kiss her.

[thatsamilkshake]

Totally worth the Ray-Ban tag in her face, even if it did tickle her nose. Francine reached up to touch his cheek below the edge of the dark lenses.

"I saw you with these, while I was sick. And I'm pretty sure I saw Camelot."

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"You did?" Merlin asked, grinning wide.

[thatsamilkshake]

"It was all... castle-y. And not Fandom-y." Go go Peters powers of description, go.

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...

"...that sounds about right."