MHA #2 | Wednesday Evening

[defenderofdesmoines]

No one had specifically asked Annie to try to stick to the island as much as she could lately, but she'd been doing her best. Partly because she wanted to, and partly because some things didn't need to be explicitly asked.

She had taken a quick trip to the tower earlier this week for some meetings she couldn't move, and seeing her teammates -- seeing one of her teammates, because let's be real, she really only had one teammate and then several assholes she also worked with -- gave her an idea.

An idea that she'd been working on via text message ever since, and was about to come to fruition here and now as she half-watched American Ninja Warrior and casually convincing herself that she could totally beat the dude on the screen's time (and she and Diego would absolutely destroy at the team version of this show, thanks for asking), and her phone gave a little buzz.

And when Annie looked at her screen, she couldn't suppress her smile at seeing that begrudging, all-lowercase answer. fine. "We're gonna have a visitor this weekend."

And now to convince her she didn't have to wear her breastplate.

[for the guy!]

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[knife_bender]

"I love when you do that," he said with a grin. "And not just because it reminds me of other times your eyes light up."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"There's something to be said for being able to turn off the TV without having to move from your lap," Annie noted, teasing a little as she leaned in to press a kiss near his ear. "Though don't think I'm not really grateful you like the eye thing."

The alternative was keeping them shut a lot, probably? So as not to freak him out? And that would just be weird and sort of difficult to maintain in the long term, so Annie was very glad that he liked it -- regardless of whether they lit up in a climactic context, or a fighting context, or just a I-don't-want-to-move-from-your-lap context.

[knife_bender]

"People who don't like the eye thing are nuts," Diego said, giving her another kiss. "I wish I had a cool eye thing."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Most people who see the eye thing are about to be on the receiving end of something pretty bad," Annie pointed out, smiling into the kiss.

But it wasn't like she didn't know perfectly well that that was part of what worked about it for him. Like, sure, sure, obviously her eyes lit up when she came, yeah. But fighting was also kind of like foreplay for them, so. That was a thing, too.