Apartment Above Lukes, Sunday Evening

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Kathy hadn't cooked much since the housewarming party where she'd discovered just how really not okay she was with meat. Heating up leftovers and microwaving pre-made meals didn't really count and yet, here she was trying to make a meal that wasn't too spicy (Anders), or too vegetable-y (Dante), but that she would be okay with eating, too.

In the end, she ended up making a bunch of dough, prepping a bunch of veggies (and fetching some meat from downstairs, though she made the staff prep that), and getting some jars of pasta sauce. First, she made some dim sum to eat as hearty appetizers while they all pitched in for the main course:

Personalized pizzas with a variety of handwavy toppings. Everyone could make what they wanted and nobody was stuck eating anything they didn't. One day, Kathy would like to make a real Korean dinner, complete with banchan and everything, but baby steps. She figured tonight would be better if she just kept everything as simple as possible.

Okay, the dessert of a strawberry-covered chocolate mousse cake hadn't been simple, exactly, but she knew her audience. She figured they'd appreciate that kind of complicated.

Now just to wait for them arrive. Hmm, what paired well with pizza? And also soothing jangling nerves?

Ah right. Dark and stormies. Kathy went to fetch the ginger beer and limes while she waited for the guys to arrive.

[For they what know and up early for SP!]

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[rebelseekspizza]

"What'd you have in mind?" Dante asked, stretching his feet out until they wound up on the chair on the other side.

[not_every_mage]

"I'm fine with watching something," Anders added. "Or just talking. I'm not bored of either of you yet."

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"I'm not bored of either of you, either," Kathy said with a smile. She dragged another chair over towards Dante and waved Anders over to take it. "But then, I wasn't trapped in a car and talking through three thousand miles of farm country, either."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Aw, the farm country wasn't so bad," Dante said, snickering. "Anders composed a song."

[not_every_mage]

"Thirty-seven verses," Anders deadpanned. "Would you like to hear it?"

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"Oh look I have that really important thing I have to do right now," Kathy said, checking her bare wrist. "Maybe another time?"

She raised an eyebrow at him. "Unless it was an ode to my perfection? In which case, thirty-seven verses is an acceptable start."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Hey, it wasn't bad," Dante said, tilting his head and finding - to his disappointment - that the buns were gone. "And by the time I got sick of it, it was usually time to screw our brains out."

... he was an absolute impossible pain when he didn't know what he wanted.

When he wasn't quite as fussed anymore, the elephants in the room could go get bent.

[not_every_mage]

"And having a lot of sex made him too happy to complain about the singing, and me too happy to complain about stopping at every pizza place we passed," Anders added. (If Dante was shameless, he would be too.) "Ten out of ten, would recommend."

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"Clearly, I need to start going on more roadtrips," Kathy said with a laugh, leaning against the table. "My last two weeks were nothing like that. However, if you need a recap of the main plotlines of multiple TV shows or the current rankings for various cooking shows, I'm your girl."

[rebelseekspizza]

"How about we catch you up on ours and you can catch us up on yours?"

Yeah, Dante knew he was walking on dangerous ground when he wasn't completely sure he could do this yet.

But he couldn't help himself. He had a fairly limited amount of different speed sections.

[not_every_mage]

"Or we could go to the couch and see whether we remember how to all mess around together," Anders suggested, since some part of him always wanted to go right up to the elephant in the room and say hi.

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Kathy kind of jumped at that...which pressed her against the table harder than she'd intended and she squealed. Stupid, decorative--ahem, anyway.

"I mean, I wouldn't complain?" she offered, easing away from the table a little so as to not do that again.

...She could figure out the mechanics of sitting when she got there.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante let out a soft laugh, sliding out of his seat. "You okay?" he asked, taking a few steps closer.

Very deliberate steps.

[not_every_mage]

"What's under your skirt?" Anders asked, looking about as concerned as he could look while he was also watching Dante move that way.

[spin_kick_snap]

Right? Watching Dante move that way was as distracting as all hell. She'd complimented him on his stalk multiple occasions and even now, she was biting her lip as he moved towards her.

"You should look and see," she said softly, dragging her eyes off of Dante and over to Anders. "If you're curious."

It was just a pretty little bit of decoration was all.

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[rebelseekspizza]

This was probably one of those do-or-die moments; Dante could laugh this off and go back to being the guy sleeping with Kathy's boyfriend, or he could push this and maybe wind up somewhere he didn't want to go.

Of course he put his hand on Kathy's hip and pushed up her skirt. Only one direction to go in. "I'll help."

[not_every_mage]

Well, Anders wasn't about to be left behind. He undid the zipper on Kathy's skirt and pulled the cloth away, nuzzling toward her neck as he did.

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Kathy wasn't sure whose hand found it first. With no underwear in the way, her skin was already extra-sensitive, goosebumping at the first bit of attention from wandering hands. "Umm, surprise?" she said, voice as weak as her knees felt.

Boyfriend's mouth at her throat. Friend's hand on her hip. How was she supposed to keep her composure exactly?

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante laughed softly, pressing up against her so she bumped into Anders. "How about we get you out of this everything before the pizza's done?"

[not_every_mage]

"Naked Kathy," Anders laughed. "Might make getting the pizza out a little tricky, but that's part of the fun."

His hands smoothed over her flanks, and he made a surprised noise when he felt something hard low on her ass. "Guess I found the secret."

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"I might make one of you get it out," Kathy said, then shivered as she felt Anders' hand on her ass. "The pizza."

Important to clarify. At least that she also meant the pizza.

"Is that really how you want me?" she asked Dante, her voice challenging but her eyes unsure. "Naked?"

You ready for this?

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante shrugged one shoulder casually, his hand sliding up her leg. "Yeah," he said.

Just going where the feeling took him.

Like kissing her right now, not nearly as chaste as before.

[not_every_mage]

A frisson moved up Anders' spine as he watched them kiss, and he leaned in to claim Dante's mouth for his own when he was done. His fingers stroked down Kathy's rear, teasing a bit as he tried to suss out what her surprise was.

Going with his instincts seemed to be the only thing he could do.

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy fell into Dante's kiss hard enough that she lost some of her nervousness. The problem with planning this out in advance? Kathy'd had two days to think (and overthink) this whole evening and how much was riding on it and how easily she could screw it all up and that had given her a serious case of nerves.

And a tendency to go overboard, like with dinner. And certain accouterments.

But now that Dante was kissing her and shutting down the voices in her head, she was able to relax. To let the nerves dissolve away in a tide of rising desire. Even when he left her mouth and Anders claimed it, she was still sandwiched between them, only a shirt in the way, getting to see the lazy way their mouths moved and the familiarity of their kiss.

God, they looked good together. Not just sexy. Good.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante sighed into the kiss, his hand tugging the tie out of Anders' hair as the other one remained on Kathy's hip.

He bit gently at Anders' bottom lip, giving himself a moment to get lost in a slow, deliberate kiss before coming up for air.