all this heat is causing fires
Leila is used to living with Solomon, by now (and don't think she doesn't find it a bit weird, how swiftly she adapted in Taxon), but she still is not really used to having Ferdi there, and furthermore it's different at her own apartment in Baltimore, a place she'd previously thought she'd left behind. Although they kept talking like going home ( Read more... )
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It strikes Sol as somehow absurd that after what he knows to have been months, they are home like it was nothing more than the blink of an eye and he has to go to work and tie up loose ends and not talk about any of it except the part where Leila walked in while Tonya and her parents were still screaming at him.
...but reality is frequently kind of ridiculous, so he does still have to go to work and that's where he's coming home from when he pokes his head through the bedroom door, pulling his tie loose like he is physically unable to remain properly dressed without being forced. "Hey."
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Leila brightens when she sees him, crawling forward over her papers on hands and knees, toward the corner of the bed that is closest to the door (she always prefers the side of the bed tucked into the wall, it's a thing).
"Hey," she says, smiling, "you're home. Come here."
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"You remember when I missed working? I was lying." He leans down with his tie in his fist and leans on the end of the bed to kiss her casually hello; let's see how long that lasts.
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"Aww," she makes an exaggeratedly sympathetic sound, tugging him closer by the shirt for a significantly extended hello, "poor thing. Good thing I'm stealing you away to another country and a new job soon, aren't I nice?"
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