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[beentodamascus]

It takes entirely too long for them to get back into bed. All presents opened (and half of them put on), Coraline's piled out into the snow to play with Cat and Adam's made tea and he brings it back to bed still in his pajamas with freezing cold feet. He carefully passes Sarah her tea before he climbs back up onto the bed, shoving his cold toes

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[thedescent_into]

Hissing that the touch of those cold toes, she curls her fingers around her cup with a thankful sigh, blowing steam from the rim and giving him an expectant look, a smile playing at the corners of her lips.

"Well, out with it."

[beentodamascus]

Adam leans out of the bed and rummages under it, looking for the carefully wrapped packaget aht he'd left there earlier. He holds it out to her, one eyebrow slightly raised.

"There," he says.

[thedescent_into]

Her lips curling into a playful smile, she unwraps it with equal care, the wire ring dropping into the palm of her hand, the single stone twinkling up at her.

It surprises her, and she doesn't try to hide it. Not much still surprises her these days, but lately she's had one after the other.

"Adam..."

[beentodamascus]

"Notice how I'm not on my knees," he says, reaching out to hook her blond hair behind her ear. "Not a proposal, Sarah. I don't think either of us need that, right? It's just a ring."