Closed RP: Harry and Murphy get Coxblocked

[dresdenfile]

Theoretically, I was studying.

I'd noticed Murphy studied, or at least pretended to, just about every day. I figured it would probably be good if I tried, if only so I didn't look like a loser slacker, but at the moment my brain just wasn't working. Instead, I was tearing parchment into strips and wadding the strips into balls, debating the merits

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[onceacop]

"You know, Dresden, one of those days he's going to kick your butt and I'm not going to stop it." She was trying to not be amused by Harry. Trying very, very hard. She was studying, and not... watching him flick spitballs with pretty amazing aim. "How did you ever manage to learn anything when you were younger?"

[dresdenfile]

I grinned. "He knows better than to kick the butt of the hand that feeds him," I said, not pausing to think about how wrong that sentence was. "See, it was different when I was a kid. Believe it or not, I had a longer attention span then." I flicked the monster-wad, which bounced right off Mister's ear. The cat woke up, glared at me, and curled up in a tighter ball. "Didn't you ever throw spitballs in school?" I had a hard time seeing Murphy with a hollowed-out pen as a spitwad-launcher.

[onceacop]

"Are you kidding me?" She snorted. "You obviously haven't heard enough stories from my mother." Which isn't an answer in either direction. But. Well. She closed her book, pretty damn sure there was no point in trying to study now.

She'd been trying to behave, sitting in his desk chair, but she got up and moved to settle next to him on the bed, leaning in. She was just taking a break. A little break.

[dresdenfile]

Heeeyy...

"No, I haven't," I said, my arm finding its way naturally around her shoulders. "Why, Lieutenant Murphy...I'm pretty sure you could get put in detention for this." My hand came up to play with a lock of her hair, and I gave her what tried to be an innocent smile and failed.