RAF Mildenhall, UK- Saturday Fandom time

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Jaina was really regretting getting John that Snuggie for his twenty-sixth birthday, for the simple fact that he never seemed to want to take it off. She'd raised an eyebrow when he said that he wanted it, and moreso when she actually had to go buy one and it was suddenly reality, but she'd figured it was something that he'd think was cool for a day and that'd be it.

Nope.

And after a while of watching him walk around in it today, she finally just had to say it. "Why do I think I'm being replaced by a sheet of fabric with holes?"


[For the Snuggie wearer. For shame.]

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She was so unintentionally dirty. "Not just any holes," John corrected, smoothing his dark blue Snuggie across his lap as he took a seat. "Holes that keep me warm and still allow freedom of movement."

And yet he wasn't saying it hadn't replaced her. Hmm.

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Yeah, Jaina had noticed that, too. "I'm glad you can tell me the selling point of better-than-average holes," she said.

...Still unintentionally dirty, huh?

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"It was on the box," John said with a shrug. A warm shrug, given the way the Snuggie tucked around his neck and the warm fleece clung to his shoulders with the power of static electricity.

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She tilted her head. "That's... somehow worse. You memorized the box?"

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"No," he told her, frowning because he was not Rain Man, "I just remember it said somethin' like that. What's your issue with the Snuggie? I told you we should have gotten two."

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"I'd drown in it," she pointed out as she came to sit by him, and this might have been a polite way of saying she was not wearing a blanket like clothes. "And I don't have an issue with it. Except for it being a replacement girlfriend. Otherwise it's fine."

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"We could get it altered," he suggested, lifting up the side to pull over her legs. Given that they'd yet to really define what exactly it was they were doing together again, John very nearly asked when she became his girlfriend out of curiosity. Instead, he went with, "It could be a replacement boyfriend when you're in Fandom."

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As far as Jaina knew, there just wasn't another term for what they were to each other. When she needed a label of sorts, she just went for what she knew. Admittedly her legs were warmer now anyway, and she said, "You know I'm not in Fandom long before I'm here again. I'm not sure I'm really in the market for replacements that don't have a back to them."

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"Feels like weeks to me," he teased, giving her a nudge with a fleece-y arm. "And backs are completely overrated."

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"Until you get cold and you're wondering where that draft is coming from," she said, nudging him back.

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"You act like I don't wear pants under it," he said, making a face like maybe he should try it.

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"Please keep wearing pants with it," Jaina said, a touch pleadingly. Because she didn't put it past him. "I'd never be able to take you seriously again."

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"Because you take me so seriously now?" John held back the laughter by the grace of Snuggie warmth.

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"I do," she protested. "At the very least, I listen to you speak and don't think of you as a pantsless man in a Snuggie."

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That actually sounded kind of gross. "Yeah, let's not say that ever again."

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Jaina tried not to laugh. "You see what I'm saying now? Somehow I never thought I would be having this conversation."

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"I seem to recall hearing that from you before," John realized.

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"Saying what, the bit you just told me never to say again?" she asked.

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"No, that you never thought you'd be having this conversation," he clarified.

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"There have been a lot of conversations I never thought I'd have," Jaina said with a shrug. "No one can say you don't keep things verbally interesting." All around interesting, really, but that was not the point right now.

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Yeah, it was obvious she liked having him around.

"Better that than hearing you're bored with me," he figured.

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"Yeah, 'cause that could happen," she said dryly. Seriously.

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"Just like you could never be jealous of a blanket with sleeves," John pointed out with a wee smirk on his face. Sometimes it was fun to mess with her.

Okay, all the time.

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You'd think one day she would learn not to rise to that. "I'm not jealous of a blanket with sleeves. I was just commenting that it was getting a lot of attention for a piece of... clothing?"

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"Attention that could be focused on..." John tapped his chin for a moment, "right, you!"