#i had no freaking IDEA HOW MMUCH I MISSED WRITING FOR THEM? WHAT THE HECK

[mythvoiced]

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The grin that spreads across his features is wide and maniacal enough to split his face in half, the upper containing his twinkling eyes gazing at her from behind those characteristic golden-rimmed glasses of his, and the lower starting on a lower lip more than willing to ‘dare’, how’d she’d put it.

If one were to look at him now, they might see all the evil he genuinely believes himself capable of. Or, much more likely, they’d see a young man with just the kind of malicious intent woven into his words that is typical of a five-year-old about to sneak a slug into a fellow kindergarteners back-bag.

But even that expression seems to fade suddenly before he can lower himself further and actually present that wicked grin of that wicked man to her. It’s the gulp that precedes her voice, the rosy taint of her cheeks, that wipe away that mischief off his lips, to leave behind only the parted surprise of someone who’s plan backfired on them. Because sure, he might have been out to tease her, but sadly, he forgot to consider one really important, really thwarting factor into his half-assed planning.

The way she can so easily, with a smile, with a flick of her hair, with a word dropped into his lap, command his every mood and turn any teasing against him. Talk about that beast Zen is always mentioning, huh. Maybe he is right after all.

Without warning, he climbs down from the couch and crouches down next to it instead, searching her features but not quite meeting her eyes. There’s a pout on his lips and just the faintest of colour on his cheeks as if his skin there was attempting to match the crown of redness overshadowing the rest of his features as he lowers his head and scratches at the red spot there, in seeming embarrassment.

“Obviously not,” he mumbles, hands resting on his knees now, as he sighs dramatically and looks up to look at her face where it still lied on the couch. “I actually want to know what you got there. Any further with that other business and I wouldn’t have been able to think about anything else. Can’t afford that distraction.”

He snorts, a regretful smile appearing on his lips as if he was willingly letting go off a wonderful opportunity. “You’re too powerful of a woman, Mariah.”