July 27, 2074

[adios_cowboy]

Hands that have seen untold battles, wielded untold guns and rifles and knives, caressed that long golden hair of hers untold times now, and smoked untold numbers of cigarettes let the room's curtains fall back silently. Brooding out at a city that's only done him and his woman relative deadly harm isn't going to solve anything, and while he's good

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[rainingthatday]

It hasn't been her imagination. Several times tonight she's thought there's something on his mind, but she's felt sure he'd tell her when he felt ready. It wasn't something gnawing visibly at him, something that kept him from kissing her, from smiling at her, from eating dinner with her: it wasn't like Gren when she met him in the cafe in the city before they went to TJ.

Her first lessons at Red Dragon U must have been different from his; never stay in one place too long is a lesson she's learned more effectively from them since leaving their ranks.

"This is the longest I've stayed anywhere since I left Tharsis," she acknowledges. She can't say she has no attachment to this place, but the city itself isn't what's inspired it. Gren and Spike are her reasons for attachment.

"You want to leave?"

[adios_cowboy]

Damn if he's going to be the one to let attachments form to a fucking place. No, he's always figured his heart was with her, from the moment that first electric jolt passed between them way back when she showed up on Vicious's arm to now.

Eyes softening, he takes a moment to just study her face. She's so beautiful. Those eyes... he saw them every day for three years, every time he closed his damn eyes to rest, and when he didn't do that he spent his time looking for them. For her. By some damn twist of fate he's found her, and like hell is he letting her go.

He loves her.

"Three" (five) "years ago, I had a hell of a plan. Maybe it's about time we made use of it." There's no recrimination, no you said you'd show up and didn't, none of that shit. It's more a case of why waste something good? "I always did like the idea of disappearing

[rainingthatday]

Of all the lessons she's learned, from the Dragons or from anyone else, one of the most acute has been that she loves Spike. She's carried the memory of him with her ever since she left Tharsis City, and she has never been as happy without him as she is with him.

She has no intention of going back to 2071 if she can help it. Things are falling apart there, and she knows she'd have her work cut out for her in trying to stay alive. The hunt is in earnest. As long as she stays in this time, she has Spike, she lives without the shadow of Vicious two steps behind, she has Gren. She has relative freedom.

There's no reason they have to stay at this hotel to be together.

Her arms wrap around him. "Where are we going?"

[adios_cowboy]

Those words are like music to his ears. Holding her close, he breathes in so deeply. Breathes her in like she's the most fragrant rose ever created. Back in Tharsis, she never said she'd go anywhere with him. He just assumed, and it was a wrong assumption for a lot of reasons he never understood until they were here and had a chance to discuss it all. There might have been times when he doubted her feelings for him, but now sure as hell isn't one of them.

He's never quite as warm, quite as content, quite as complete when they're apart and he knows it. He knows it real well.

"How's Europa sound? There's this great little town there, tucked away into the side of a mountain overlooking a river. Filled with all kinds of creatures. None of them are red or dragons." That's Blue Snakes turf and they both know it, one of the last fucking places anyone would come looking for them. A surprise Dragon attack would be impossible -- the Snakes keep too tight a rein on things for that -- and if they keep a low profile, no one needs to know who