The garage, Monday evening

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Jaina wasn't the most romantic girl in the universe by a long shot, but she was actually trying today. After all, today was John's eighteenth birthday (and she could stop committing felonies in all the states), and she'd figured that the best way to celebrate was to do something nice.

So she had the blanket laid out, and the Chinese food and candles, the big details she could remember from that one date. Which, by the way, she could remember that, but had to keep reminding herself of when their anniversary was. That hardly seemed right.

Once she had everything set up, there was nothing else to do but wait for her date to show.


[For the birthday boy, and up early for SP. And yes, it's a public place, but you're gonna pick now to come down here finally? Really?]

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John had to admit it was cute to see Jaina working so hard to recreate his first attempt at romance. It was fitting that the garage was their thing.

"What no threatening note taped to the door?" He made sure that door was securely shut behind him when he walked in.

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"I kind of figured if no one ever came down here that I know of, we have the place to ourselves," she reasoned.

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"That makes good sense," he had to admit with a smile. As if he was going to stop smiling. "I like any logic that ends with us alone."

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"I bet," she smiled back. "Happy birthday."

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"Thanks," he said. "It's a big one back home, but here it doesn't mean all that much. Other than you not being a felon, of course."

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"Which I can't say I'm sorry about," Jaina said. "And it should mean all that much."

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"Well, there's really no voting or need to join the Fandom military," John pointed out.

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"Details. You're legal. That's enough," she said. "Come sit down."

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"Yes ma'am," he smirked, taking a seat by her. "This was definitely a surprise, by the way."

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"Then I did things right. What, you didn't expect me to... well, completely steal your idea?"

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John laughed and shook his head, "No, I really didn't. But I should know better by now, huh?"

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"Yes," she grinned, and shrugged. "Things have been sort of nuts for... a while, a thought you deserved something special."

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"I have something special," he reminded her. "In fact, I either owe you an apology or a proposal." John shouldn't say things that could cause her to hit him on his birthday.

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Jaina blinked. "Let's try the first thing," she said slowly.

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"I met your friend, Edward," John replied.

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And there went the fear that he might actually propose. "You see!" she said, a little triumphantly.

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"I had no idea," John admitted. "But seriously, that's just not right."

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"Did you try reason? Like the fact that we're eighteen and nineteen and still in school?" Not that those were Jaina's reasons, but whatever.

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"Yeah, apparently something I said along those lines meant I didn't love you. Sorry?" John stretched out, not wanting his feet to fall asleep.

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She studied him and said, "In that case, definitely a good thing you went the apology route rather than the other."

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"Sometimes I make good choices," John smirked.

"He seemed pretty sure that if I was into you, we should be getting married. That's one screwed up dating system."

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"Who needs to wait till people are actually ready?" she said, picking up one of the cartons of food to see what it was.

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"Maybe just the relatively sane among us," John replied, following suit picking at some sort of chicken thing. "I gotta say, I'm amazed by your food ordering skills here."

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"I take that to mean I did well?" she asked, still going for the utensils rather than chopsticks because she was pretty sure those things were evil.

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John was a pro with the chopsticks even where rice was concerned. It was sort of sick. "Yup. No complaints here."