MHA # 2 | Tuesday Morning

[knife_bender]

Diego had meant to arrange stuff for Annie's birthday sometime last week, but had not predicted he'd be a cat for eleven days. So he was kind of scrambling this morning, between that and trying to catch up on the weird shit that had happened while he was of the feline persuasion.

He managed to sneak out early and go to J,GOB to pick up some cupcakes and found some leftover candles from his own birthday in a drawer. It wasn't, like, spectacular or anything, but it was the best he could do on short notice.

[For the birthday girl]

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[knife_bender]

"I hope I didn't do too much damage," he teased, giving her waist a squeeze.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"It wouldn't matter if you did. The joy of time loops, apparently," Annie said, pressing a little closer in response. "Mostly I just wished you -- knifey, competent, you-shaped you -- were here the whole time."

And since he was here now, he deserved another kiss.

[knife_bender]

"Think I'm competent, huh?" he asked, smiling. Not a compliment he got very often.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Of course I do. It's one of my favorite things about you," Annie said, completely honestly. Diego's overall competence was why she couldn't be trusted to keep it in her pants when he started throwing knives. "You're so good in a fight. Better at, like, strategy than I am, too."

Annie had basically voluntarily gotten shot on Sunday, after all.

[knife_bender]

"I think we're both at the same level of strategy." Meaning they both tended to wing it and hope for the best.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Maybe," Annie conceded as she smoothed her hands along his shoulders. "But you notice stuff I don't. Reason number, like, a thousand why we make such a great team."

[knife_bender]

"We do," he agreed, kissing her again. "Which is why it's such a shame when one of us turns into a cat or a dog."

It had happened an awful lot this year.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Just makes me appreciate the times when neither of us is an animal all the more," Annie sighed, trailing her fingertips down his arms in a demonstration of that appreciation.

[knife_bender]

"That's an optimistic way of looking at it," he joked, not surprised by that at all. "So since it's your birthday we should be doing some of your favorite things, right?"

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Oh, look who's a birthday expert," Annie teased lightly, all but beaming at him. "I mean, yeah. Eating cupcakes for breakfast is a pretty great start to a day of Annie's Favorite Things. Orange shirt would be a nice addition."

And then beyond that she hadn't thought very far ahead, but she remained optimistic.

[knife_bender]

"What about picking you up?" he suggested.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Well, judging by the way Annie's eyes had darkened at that idea, and how her arms had just neatly slipped back up around his neck, Diego was really onto something, there.

"I mean, being picked up is definitely on my list of favorite things," she noted, already a little flushed. "Pretty high on the list, actually."

And it tended to lead to a lot of the other things on that list.

[knife_bender]

"Well since it's your birthday and everything," Diego said before moving to get his hands under her thighs so he could lift her up.

Oh yeah, like they didn't do this on regular days.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Totally special birthday treatment here and not just 'because it's Tuesday' treatment, yep.

"I love you," Annie told him happily, doing her part to loosely thread her legs around Diego's waist as soon as he had her lifted up. "You have such good ideas."

[knife_bender]

"Occasionally I do," he said, oh so smoothly sliding his hands to her ass. For stability purposes, of course. He started walking them to the bedroom. "Let's get this orange shirt."

[defenderofdesmoines]

Look how wonderfully stable Annie was now! So helpful! Don't mind the little noise of pleasure she made -- she just loved stability that much, okay?

She also had her part to play when being carried to the bedroom, and so she leaned in to press a few distracting kisses along his neck. "Remember when I wore the orange shirt?"

Maybe he'd forgotten.

[knife_bender]

"Oh I'll never forget that," he said, giving her ass a squeeze. "You look much better in it."

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie gave a pleased hum, moving to very lightly bite just below Diego's ear. "Not true," she declared softly. "But it was a nice change from putting on all your black clothes."

She still couldn't exactly explain why she liked wearing his things so much, but it was one of those weird things that was equal parts romantic and sexy, to Annie.

[knife_bender]

"I still look good in black though, right?" he teased, going to sit her down on the bed.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"You look great in black," Annie promised, trying to tug him down on the bed with her. "And in orange. And in nothing."

Annie was not biased on this point at all, thank you.

[knife_bender]

"You're going to make me blush," he said, crawling on top of her. "For the record, I think you look great in nothing too."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I like making you blush." Partly because it was pretty rare, if Annie was the cause. She wound her arms up around him, lest he get any ideas about going anywhere. "I think 'nothing' might actually be my favorite on you. Even more than orange."

[knife_bender]

"You think I should skip the orange shirt and go straight to 'nothing'?" he asked.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Well, you have to take off this shirt, anyway," Annie pointed out, leaning up to kiss him and lightly fingering the fabric of his shirt between her thumb and forefinger. "And you'll have to get off me to put on the orange one. Seems like a lot of work for right this minute."

Annie's prediction was that this orange shirt thing was going to be kind of a 'later' thing. Maybe even an 'after' thing. Call her crazy.

[knife_bender]

"I'm so happy you said that." Diego pulled away slightly to pull his shirt off. Why waste time?