RAF Mildenhall, UK- Saturday Fandom time

[solo_sword]

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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[solo_sword]

"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."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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

[solo_sword]

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

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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

[solo_sword]

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

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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

[solo_sword]

"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.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was obvious she liked having him around.

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

[solo_sword]

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

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"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.

[solo_sword]

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?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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

[solo_sword]

She opened her mouth to protest, but she did like his attention on her. Oops. "If you're going to be logical about it..."

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"Yeah, well, they taught me how to do that in college," he told her.

[solo_sword]

"Guess I'm going to miss out on the logic skill by not going," she teased, moving so that she could lean against him more. "I'm glad you're enjoying your new fashion piece anyway."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Oh, how future talk hurt. He'd done the math more times than he'd care to admit and recalling the number of years that would pass for him by the time she graduated never left him feeling great. Even jokingly adding college to that and, well, he didn't want to think about it.

"I'm telling you, the leopard print would be right up your alley."

[solo_sword]

"While I trust your eye on that sort of thing, I'm going to have to disagree," she said, looking up at him. "Something wrong?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I'm good right now," he replied honestly. It was anything future that bugged.

[solo_sword]

Well, there was no lie to pick up on, but this wasn't the first time she'd caught something just a little off, only to have him say it was fine. "Okay," she said. "But so you know, if there was something bothering you, it seems the sooner we deal with it, the more time we have without issues hanging over our heads."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

It was sort of annoying that the issues 'we' needed to deal with were always really his issues. Jaina was seemingly happy and issue-free and it was consistently John ruining the happiness by having far too much time on his hands.

Which was kinda the problem.

"If you're good, I'm good."

[solo_sword]

She didn't so much like that answer. "And if I said I wasn't good?" she asked, speaking hypothetically. It wasn't that she had any serious issues that bubbled to the surface, but she did have things that stuck in the back of her mind. She could just not let them bother her if it wasn't an imminent problem.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Imminent meaning she didn't have to deal with it staring her in the face four-fifths of the month.

"Then there might be something to talk about," he said. "If you brought it up."

[solo_sword]

"Might be," she nodded. "Is there anything you need to bring up to talk about?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

It didn't take an empath to figure out she was worried. John reached his Snuggie-covered arms around her and gave a squeeze. "Nah. It's fine, I promise."

Thinking he knew the only possible solution to his problem, John wasn't willing to bring it up.

[solo_sword]

"I just don't want to be in the dark if you're having doubts, or problems with something," she said honestly. "And I really don't want to find out something was an issue when it's too late."

Hey, there was something she was now worried might be an imminent problem.