The Apartment Above Luke's, Thursday Evening

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Kathy was still glowing from yesterday's museum trip with Anders and now tonight Dante was coming over for the evening, too. She appreciated the lengths they were going to make sure she didn't feel too lonely or lost while she was still adjusting to being back. She'd had a whole evening planned out as a thank you to Dante over it...

But then there had been puppies. She'd come in from her shower and decided to take a minute to refresh her Tumblr before drying off and getting dressed, and then she'd stumbled over a link for a pet adoption website that curated pictures of dogs that needed to be adopted from nearby shelters if you put in your zip code. Which Kathy, more fool her, had done.

And now was scrolling through picture after picture of adorable romping puppies and distinguished older dogs all looking for forever homes and who even knew what time it was anymore, there were puppies.

[For that guy]

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"I mean, you should," Dante said. "Doesn't mean you shouldn't be giving me some non-special kissing in the process, fuck, Kathy, how cruel are you?"

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"You came into my house, sassed me, then tickled me, and I'm still making you dinner," Kathy said, leaning up on her toes to kiss him soundly. "I'm in the running for best girlfriend on the planet, actually."

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"I'm sure you believe that," Dante told her, and kissed her again, smiling.

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"I, in fact, do have a habit of believing things that are factual," Kathy quipped, washing the onion off her hands again and turning back to Dante before he could get all whiny again.

...Not that she hadn't loved it, shut your whole face.

"I love that you're here," she murmured, not entirely meaning to. "I just...is it soppy to tell you how much I just love hanging out with you?"

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"A little soppy," Dante said, smiling, "But I like it and I won't tell anyone, so..."

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"You have been very gracious towards my tendency towards sop recently," Kathy told him. "I promise to appreciate it for as long as it lasts."

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Dante kissed the tip of her nose.

"I'm just glad me being here helps," he said. "Like, it feels like the lowest-hanging fruit too. Oh no, I gotta mildly inconvenience myself in a portal for an hour so I can spend time with my kickass girlfriend."

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"And bitch about the way she cuts up veggies and tickle her to death just because I'm mean," Kathy added, breaking out her stellar Limbo City accent.

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Dante poked her again. "You like it," he said, really playing up the Limbo City in his own accent.

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"Yeah, but we already established that I'm, like, a total masochist," Kathy said, doing a sudden about face and playing up a valley girl accent instead.

She was pretty sure she could make Dante cringe with it.

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"Ew, oh god," Dante said, laughing. "Don't fucking do that."

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"I should," Kathy said, hip cocked to the side. "Every time you start tickling me, I'll go full on Valley Girl. That'll learn you."

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"I'm not tickling you now," Dante said. "You can take it down like, fifty notches, all right?"

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"You were thinking about it," Kathy said, though she dropped the accent. "I could tell."

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"Oh, you're a mindreader now as well as a superball, huh?" Dante said, dropping a kiss on top of her head.

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"More like the Asshole Whisperer," Kathy snorted.

And then cracked up, wrinkling her nose and making grossed out noises. "Ew ew ew! I could have worded that better, ugh! But you know what I meant!"

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Dante took a step back - because he needed to get some space for that epic laugh that just forced its way out of his lungs. "Oh fuck, Kathy!"

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Kathy covered her face, laughing and groaning at the same time. "THAT NEVER LEAVES THIS KITCHEN, EVER EVER," she wailed. "It was a misspeak and you know it!"

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"Oh, sure," Dante said, nodding sagely. And then winked. "Total misspeak."

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"Ooooh!" Kathy poked him in the shoulder. "I was calling you an asshole, asshole!" she grumbled. "As you very well know."

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"Hey, your kink is not my kink, but I'm not gonna shame you for it," Dante said merrily.

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"You keep being a brat and I'm suddenly going to 'remember' that your kink is knifeplay and stab you," Kathy grumbled, giving him a very sulky face.

Look at that pout, Dante. Just look at it.

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"Oh no, stabbing, now I'm scared," said Dante.

He did not sound scared.

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Kathy, do not be tempted, even though your boyfriend clearly deserved it. That way lie felony charges.

"I can't believe I stopped looking at puppy pictures for all this. I made the wrong choice."

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"Finish dinner and we can look at puppies together," Dante said, snickering. "Promise."