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"It's not strange at all, Jody." Quile reassured her date, closing the distance between them and cupping her face, kissing the other woman's forehead. "I think it's lovely that you're so passionate about this. I'll do my best to learn their names." As a journalist, Qui was confident that she would actually be good at it. Moreover, she was exactly the kind of person to invest in the passions of the people she cared about— odd as this particular passion may be to most people. Then, just as she'd shown interest in Jody's taxidermy, Jody showed an interest in her career. "Well, if you're sure. Some of my work can be very dark. I'm an embedded journalist. I've seen the best and the worst in all sorts of people."

When the conversation took a turn, Quile was drinking in all the little Jody-isms. She adored how the innocent young woman squirmed at Qui's teasing and how Jody bit into her lip. Those little actions only fueled the woman's urge to touch, tease, and taste her date. "Oh trust me, Babydoll, you can still be a very good girl when you're being a little indecent." Tittering, closing the distance between them again, her hand sliding down Jody's arm to her leg as she spoke, curious if it would cause her to stammer through their chit chat. "Trust me, you're the only thing I'm going to squash." Qui beamed and used the strength of her legs to pull Jody's chair close to her so that the young woman was seated between her legs. "See, I think you'd only think I'm the most gorgeous because you don't see yourself blushing every time I touch you and, Jody, I mean it when I say this. I've never wanted to keep doing that to someone so much in my life. You're making it very hard for me to have any semblance of control or propriety here." Quile squeezed her thighs. "You have about ten seconds to tell me to behave, Jody."

Jody's eyes went all cloudy with an overwhelming cocktail of feelings when Quile touched her lip like that, kissed her like that. A small, little breathy sound escaped her parted mouth. "No, just... can hardly contain my excitement." She responded with dreamy honesty, unable to take her eyes away from Quile.

Jody had to blink hard a few times to get back on track. There was something wonderfully magnificent about Quile, and Jody wanted to hold onto her with both hand sand never let go. It would've felt too soon for forevers on any other occasion, but Qui was... well, probably the one. At least from where Jody's frame of mind currently sat. She grinned widely, "I've dabbled int he preservation of plants. Especially for pieces. It's different in a lot of ways but you can find similarities. I'll experiemtn with the best flower preservation techiniques to ensure our wedding flowers outlast us." She said, cheeks pleasantly pink as her drink began to permeate her bloodstream. Jody took another long pull from the cup, humming behind it as the question aas asked. "Sadly, yes. I name all of the critters in my pieces, even th eones I sell. Is that too strange for you?" She inquried with the adorable crinkling of her nose.

Jody brightened. She absolutely adored this woman's outlook on things, they aligned with er own. To her, a partner was someone you shared everything with — your best friend. She could see that unfolding beautifully with Quile. "That means you've got to give me something to read." Jody insisted, leaning on the island and dragging her teeth across her bottom lip. "Bonus points if it's something you've written. You know, I'm quite the curious kitten myself." With that, she bat her lashes and barely stifled a giggle. "Who says I'm not serious about you already?"

Jody grinned wickedly when she realized what she was doing to the other woman. The attraction was mutual, palpable int he air like the humidity on a summer day. She flipped some hair over her shoulder out of habit and wet her lips. "I'm not in the right outfit." She said, her skirt and top combo cute but inefficient for gymnastics moves. "It'd be indecent." She winked and popped a little air kiss in Quile's direction, crossing her legs at the ankle where she stood because the thought of being eaten by Quile was enough to make her melt like the aforementioned ice cream cone. "Normally, I'm such a good girl, But... I'm not opposed." She dragged her teeth over her lip again, inhibitions blipping in and out. Her cheek color deepened in redness, and she took another sip from her cup.

Before she knew it, Jody was wrapped up in Quile's arms and could feel those gorgeous lips on her skin. She shivered in delight, free hand laying itself over one of the other woman's forearms. "Mmm... lots of people hate and pre-judge. I promise to compromise! will rehome the spiders in the house... I don't particularly want to live with webs, either. Just, no squashing! Okay?" She asked, tilting her head so she could blink up at Quile sweetly. She grinned and pressed their mouths together. "Oh, you wonderfully wild woman! It'd take a lot more than that for me to ghost you. Don't you know you're the most gorgeous creature I've ever seen, too?"

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Jody leaning into her and snuggling up simply felt right and Qui only wrapped her arms more tightly around her date. Looking at her angelic features. When Jody bit her bottom lip, Quile simply drew her thumb across her lips and kissed her, "What was that for? You have a little thought you were scared to share with me, Babydoll?" Her warm gaze drank in the blush on Jody's cheeks, hoping to see a little more color as she kept using the pet name.

She's only pulled away to accept the drink, laughing and shaking her head when Jody denied she was an angel. Quile would disagree, but she also was thinking of ways to show Jody she really appreciated the goodness and joy this woman was bringing into her life. "Well, I'm going to count on you to preserve our wedding's flowers. Is that a whole bunch different than preserving these lovely animals?" Her eyes roamed the room, studying all the furry and feathered friends, assuming Jody's time and care for the detail and preservation meant she'd loved them like anyone else would love a living pet. "Did you name them all?"

"I'd love to borrow it. As a journalist, I promise you that I'm forever curious and it's definitely gotten me into quite a bit of trouble" She tittered and shook her head. "Besides, half of getting to know someone is to at minimum appreciate what they love, even if we don't end up loving it ourselves, right? I mean, I don't know if you'd be interested in reading half of what I write about, but I'd hope that maybe you'd at least skim them or something as we became more serious."

Quile was loving getting to know the inner workings of Jody's mind and her past, but it also blew her mind just how attracted she was to this woman. As an embedded journalist, she was so rarely around women and she often forgot just how into them she could be because she was picky when it came to partners. Jody was like an onion, so layered that she couldn't ever find the center. The thought of her in a leotard had Qui clenching her legs together. "Jody, Babydoll, if you show me your gymnastics moves I'm going to pin you down and eat you up like you're my favorite ice cream cone. Is that how you want this first date to go? I mean, I'm not going to object to it. You're the most beautiful thing my eyes have ever seen."

It was Jody's pouting about Qui not liking spiders that just about broke her heart. Setting her now-empty cup down, she wrapped her arms around her. "Aww, I don't think it's a dislike. I don't even hate rats or crawlers, okay?" Qui kissed Jody's temple. "I was only teasing about the red flag. I'd just rather not wake up and see spider webs all over the place. I know I'm the big scary to them. It's just an eyeball thing, I think. If you really love them, then I'll learn to appreciate them for you. Maybe even rats too. They're just... big mousey mouses, right? See? Baby steps with me, okay?" Quile rubbed Jody's back and kissed her forehead. "Please don't ghost me over this. You're too precious."

Jody practically melted when Quile got closer, slipping into the natural action of putting her arms around Jody and resting against her, calling her babydoll. Jody had to bite down on her bottom lip to stop from making some embarrassing, gleeful noise. She was practically trembling in the other woman’s embrace. “I would spoil you every day. What a good trad-wife I’d be.” She laughed, cheeks glowing red. There was, and would be, hardly anything traditional about the relationship between these two women.

“A job and a hobby, and isn’t that just fan-freaking-tastic?” Jody asked, eyes sparkling and face split in two with a joyful grin, she was breathless with her happiness. Clearly, both young women were on the same page, and Jody couldn’t help but giggle again, shaking her head as the cliches about lesbians popped into her head like text notifications. “I think our flowers will look beautiful together! We’ll have to get some preserved.” She bounced a brow and bit down on her bottom lip. “An angel? Pft.” She scoffed, shaking her head. “Hardly.”

Jody sipped her drink and twirled her hair, her head tilted curiously as she listened very intently to every word that spilled out of Quile’s mouth so passionately about ice cream. It made her smile, and she swayed a little on her feet before responding with, “There’s an ice cream museum?” Her brows furrowed in the middle, like asking the question for her. “At least now I know the way to your heart.” Jody offered the other woman another playful little smile before indulging herself in another sip from her cup. “Um... hard to explain. The best I can do is futuristic necromancing lesbians. Does that pique your interest at all?” She blinked quickly with the question before responding with a quick nod. “Yes! I have all of them, actually, and you’re more than welcome to borrow the first one. I understand if it’s not your vibe.”

Jody gasped then dissolved into a fit of laughter, trying her absolute best to not spill her drink on herself or snort from the force of it. “Oh, my God.” She shook her head, her green eyes positively glittering with delight. “I did, indeed, do gymnastics as a young girl, and a teenager. I stopped toward the end of high school, but I probably still have some tricks if you want to see?” Jody crinkled her nose with her smile. “Hockey? I’ve never even seen one single hockey game in my life.” She confessed, and it felt like she was confessing it to herself, too, a realization she’d never made because she never thought about hockey before. “What do you prefer to write about?” She inquired. It felt like there was so much being said about herself, she wanted to take the chance to learn more about Quile, too. “Um... no, they’re so cute? And, like, super intelligent.” Jody drew out the ‘u’ in super for about five syllables. “What do you have against rats?” She was trying, and failing, not to pout about it, though she understood that many people didn’t like rats for one reason or another, mostly not giving them a chance at all. “To answer your question, yes, I did know you can get their oil glands removed, but that’s not very nice! I mean, it’s okay if you keep them as a pet, but what if it gets out and now it can’t defend itself?” She was clearly conflicted on the matter. “You don’t like spiders either?” Go ahead and break her heart.

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Quile couldn't help herself, slipping her arms around Jody's waist and resting her chin on her shoulder. "You are a good girl, aren't you, Babydoll?" She kissed her date's temple and watched her make the mocktail. "You're so good at this. I might need you to spoil me after every date." Her hands playfully squeezed her waist before she pulled away, another kiss to Jody's cheek before she pulled away.

As she'd been holding her, she noticed all of the taxidermic creatures watching them. "Are these little friends a job, hobby, or kink?" Qui looked up at them with a smile, as she processed what Jody was saying. "Do you think our flowers will look cute together, y'know for our wedding that I'm clearly planning on date one?" She winked, easing the tension as she reached for the drink and hummed with delight, "Oh my god, you're an angel."

"I don't have a favorite flavor of ice cream. I've never met a flavor or even a type of ice cream that I didn't like. Scooped in a bowl, sundaes, klondike bars, sandwiches, heck even cake! If you weren't opposed to it then I'd take my favorite museum just to appreciate it even more... but this is weird isn't it. I'm a workaholic. Ice cream is a joy I can get short, sweet, and just about anywhere." Qui hadn't meant to talk a mile a minute, but she was. Luckily, Jody was soon answering the new questions and she could let the blush on her cheeks fade behind the mocktail's cup. "I haven't read it. What's it about? Do you have the first one because I'll totally start reading it just to pepper you with more questions."

"You're a lean little thing, did you use to do gymnastics or am I just being a perv and picturing you in a leotard?" Giggling she took another sip and answered, "I love hockey, but that's mostly because I had to cover it when I started out. They wanted to draw in female fans. I don't think I was the right choice, but I learned to love the sport." Taking another sip of her drink, she tried to think of a nice way to approach the terrifying choice of rats. "Is the love of rats a science lab thing? I don't think I can do rats for pets but I mean snakes or raccoons, did you know you can even have skunks destanked? Of all the worldly crawlers of the wild, you had to pick the spider equivalent of a mammal? This may be your first red flag, Jody."

Jody gasped and giggled, the flush to her cheeks turning a more brilliant shade of pink as Quile spoke and held her close. She played coy, averting her gaze before peering up at the other woman through heavy eyelashes. "A good girl never tells." She replied before peeling herself away and began to make Quile a mocktail while keeping most of her attention focused on the woman and not the task at hand — which she had performed dozens of times.

Jody listened intently, stirring some glittery flavored syrup into the drink and garnishing it with a fancy straw and little flamingo topper before handing it over with glee. "Those roses really are beautiful." She agreed, making herself an identical drink to Quile's just adding alcohol because she was already in the safety of her own home, and why not? "I like how your answers tie together. The stargazer is my favorite because of its shade of pink and it is incredibly fragrant." She answered, giggling with the crinkling of her nose. She took a sip of her drink then leaned on the kitchen island. "Ice cream is an excellent answer, but what's your favorite flavor?"

After the peck to her cheek, Jody bounced giddily on the balls of her feet, positively beaming as she sucked down more of her drink. Her eyes were glittering with affection, she couldn't remember the last time someone was so keen to get to know her, and she liked Quile a lot. "Gymnastic, rats, and I'm quite fond of the Locked Tomb series. Have you ever heard of it?"

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Qui couldn't help but laugh as Jody teased her, grinning as they were pulled together. "You say you like having this power over me, hmm? Makes me wonder how many you've sent to horny jail." Quile tittered, tapping Jody on the tip of her nose. She let Jody lead her through the apartment to the kitchen, but didn't let go of her hand as her date answered her silly questions and made the drink. "You're such a precious girly girl and I love it. It's like I'm dating a real life princess." Reaching out, she tugged on a lock of Jody's hair. "Makes me want to bow down and spoil you."

"As for my answers, I love pink too but a soft blush-y pink, which ties in to my favorite flower. The Damascus rose, which is super fluffy, reminded me how there was still beauty in really dark places while I was traveling. That's also why I love the smell of rose water, those are usually the roses used for that. Dumplings are amazing, but I'm picking ice cream for my favorite food and I'm always shocked at the lack of people willing to pick a dessert as their favorite. I mean, if it's the end of times, why not, y'know? But I do think this makes our next date meal plans a lot easier."

Qui let go of Jody's hand to pick up her drink, leaning in and giving her a single peck to the cheek as she thanked her. "I'm bad at guessing so my next question is why the stargazer lily is your favorite. I don't know a lot about flowers. Next on the getting-to-know-you questions, favorite sport, favorite animal, and favorite book."

"Horny jail?" Jody repeated laughing raucously before she was grabbed by the wrist. This made her squeal with delight before laughing again, pressing herself against Quile and looking up at the other woman with glittering jewels for eyes. "I like having this power over you." She confessed, her cheeks pink. The interior of her apartment was spotless and organized — filled with cutesy girly things juxtaposed with displays of her taxidermy work. People usually had questions about that, but Quile seemed more focused on Jody as a person and that felt nice. "Hm... my favorite color is pink, like fragrant flowers and sunsets. My favorite flower is the stargazer lily — I'll let you guess why! And, as for food? There isn't much I don't like, but a good dumpling can never miss." She was all grins, playing with Quile's fingers. "Your turn! Whatever you ask me, you have to answer back so it's not one-sided like your interviews."

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Grinning Quile sighed, "Then I guess I'll have to suffer through horny jail for being very turned on by all the cute little things that you don't realize you do. It's a real struggle, but I'll do my best to manage." Walking into the apartment, Qui staved off her curiosity to immediately look around and investigate by instead focusing on Jody, specifically reaching for her hand and watching her step into her comfort space. "Oh my god you're so tiny and cute without the wedges. This is really unfair." Qui giggled pulling Jody to her as she toed off her own shoes. Wrapping her arms around the woman's tiny waist she smiled and begged, "Please answer all of those questions right now so that I can try to focus on behaving."

Jody sucked in a breath when Quile stepped closer and grazed those soft fingertips along her bottom lip. Her pupils dilated slightly and she fought the urge to let her tongue dart out and taste the pads of Quile's fingers. Instead, she flushed brilliantly and twirled a strand of hair again, out of habit, swaying on her feet like she was swooning. "I don't know how to stop doing it because I didn't even realize I was doing it in the first place." She teased, blinking sweetly at the other woman before using her key to unlock the door to her apartment, swinging the door open and gesturing for Quile to go inside. "I'm sure you can make it feel natural..." Jody continued, following the other woman into the apartment. She flicked on the light and started to take off her wedge shoe, smiling brightly still. "Did you want me to answer all those questions now or...?" She tilted her head curiously to the side as her smile grew.

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Stepping into Jody's personal space once they were into the privacy of the elevator, Qui gave her date's hand a squeeze and reached up with the other. Her fingertips brushed across Jody's bottom lip. "Don't do that. I'm never going to get to know anything about you except the way you taste if you keep doing things that are the perfect combination of sexy and cute." Quile smiled softly, inching closer, "I'm very interested too. I want to know the mundane favorite color, favorite flower, favorite food, and serious." Her free hand wrapped around Jody's middle. "But I also don't want you to feel like you're getting interviewed by a journalist. You're the first person that has ever made me nervous about asking questions."

Jody found Quile to be exceptionally interesting. The two women were worlds apart but Jody felt as though that made things more interesting. She flashed a sparkling grin at the other woman as the pair of them navigated the complex and made their way into the elevator. Inside, Jody hit the button for her floor then slipped her hand into Quile's. She sucked on her bottom lip as she listened, giggling gleefully as the elevator dinged and they stepped out onto her floor together. "So... get to know me." She said with a glimmering smile and sparkling green eyes. "I'm just as interested in you, you know? This could be the start of a good thing..."

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Jody was so exceptionally cute and sweet that Quile almost questioned if she should let herself go inside. It had been quite some time since she was attracted to anyone, too focused on her career to let herself go on dates. On the rare chance she met someone it was an alcohol laced one time interaction, usually before or after a deployment. Then there was Jody and there may as well have been a glow around her because Qui was sure she was the sun. "Oh, coffee and ice cream with you sounds perfect." Nibbling on her lip, she followed her through the complex, reaching for Jody's hand. "I've been having a really great time with you. I don't... Normally this is the part where I just jump the gun, have some fun, and slip out while a person whose name I hardly remember is asleep. I don't want to do that with you.... I mean, you're gorgeous and I definitely want to see what's under this pretty little dress, but I meant, God I'm rambling, I want to know actually know you."

Jody was very sociable but had found little time to date. Lately, though, she'd been trying to get back into the filed and found herself enraptured with the journalist. She couldn't help the force of her grin as Quile answered in the positive. She tried not to bounce with her glee but ended up squeaking a little anyway. "Oh, yay! I'm so excited. Are you sure? I have some juice... or tea... or coffee?" She offered, twirling her hair around a finger before squeezing the other woman's hand and leading her into the building. "I think I have some ice cream, too, if you want dessert?"

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This was the best first date that the reporter had in a long time. She was picky with the women she went out with, reluctant to let her boss or colleagues know that she wasn't straight because it would be a source of gossip in the male-dominant field of embedded journalism. Something about Jody had Quile saying yes to everything. "Well, when you smile at me like that it's impossible to say no to anything. I'd love to go up, but maybe water for me, you're already doing my head in. I just want a little more time with you." Her dark eyes sparkled and she reached for the woman's hand, brushing her fingers across her knuckles. "Shall we?"

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The night has ended too quickly for Jody's liking, but she's happy to have the other woman's attention and company. As they make their way up to the front of Jody's building, she pauses, hands folded in front o f her and sweet smile on her lips. "You didn't have to walk me home." She says, bouncing a little on her feet. "But, since we're here... do you want to come up for a drink?"