picnic date

[stealth_andsecrets]

Anastasia has arranged a nice picnic at Long Beach, complete with a variety of fruits and cheeses. She selected some place far away enough from Los Angeles, so not have to deal with the daily drama that occurs in the larger city.

The weather was nice today too. She watched the waves, as she waited for Niverian to arrive. As she waited, Purple enjoyed the sunlight. Today she was wearing a sexy sailor swimsuit.

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[nonvillainouscipher]

"Several," he replies, still smiling. "Mostly regarding how we met, what you're like. Naturally my answers usually involve a lot of gushing over how incredible you are."

[stealth_andsecrets]

"You gush?" She giggles softly. Tracing her fingers over his arms.

[nonvillainouscipher]

He chuckles a little. "When I'm talking about you, yes, I do. Quite a bit." He turns fully onto his side after a moment and slides an arm around her waist, kissing one shoulder.

[stealth_andsecrets]

Her fingers traced up to his head, where she plays with his hair. "Well you always are positive about what I can achieve, so I know you only gushed good things."

[nonvillainouscipher]

"Nothing but good things," he confirms, grinning, playing with a lock of her hair as well.

[stealth_andsecrets]

"Your support... your love encourages me to truly believe in myself. In what I can achieve." She whispers, leaning in to kiss him gently.

[nonvillainouscipher]

"Good," he murmurs. "I'm glad... You're absolutely incredible, and don't let anyone else make you believe otherwise. Not even yourself." He returns the kiss, leaning towards her a little and twining his fingers in her hair.

[stealth_andsecrets]

"Flatterer..." Purple chuckles softly.

[nonvillainouscipher]

"It's not flattery if it's true," he replies, just as quietly, still grinning.

[stealth_andsecrets]

"I have to say... just getting away for a while is really nice." She adjusts to rest her head on his lap.

[nonvillainouscipher]

"Mmm," he agrees, softly, returning to combing a hand through her hair. "Feels a lot like shore leave..." He glances down at her, still smiling. "But... that's pretty much how being with you always feels. ...Well, sort of." He frowns a little. "It's... hard to put into words."

[stealth_andsecrets]

"Naughty things happen on shore leave," Purple teases him.

"Are you saying you feel naughty around me?"

[nonvillainouscipher]

He chuckles. "Oh, that's definitely part of it," he replies, grinning. His expression sobers just a little, and he adds, "Being on shore leave is also a... it's a huge relief for me. A lot times, at work, I feel like I have the weight of the galaxy resting on my shoulders. And when I'm with you... it's like that weight just vanishes." He pauses for a moment, thinking about it a little more. "It's like... taking a gasp of desperately-needed air after being held underwater for several minutes."

[stealth_andsecrets]

"You dedicate yourself to your job, and you are important to the cause..." Purple smiles softly. "But I am glad... that you don't feel that weight around me. That you don't feel strained or stressed."

[nonvillainouscipher]

He smiles and brushes a hand across one of her cheeks. "I'm glad too... I didn't realize how much I need that relief until we started seeing each other."

[stealth_andsecrets]

"I am glad that I could provide you that... everyone deserves a break."

[nonvillainouscipher]

He keeps smiling at her, picks up one of her hands, and presses a gentle, lingering kiss to the back of that hand. "Love you," he murmurs, shifting his hand to brush up and down her arm now.

[stealth_andsecrets]

"I love you too." She smiles up at him, watching him brush his hand up and down her arm.

[nonvillainouscipher]

He spends a few moments like that, before he leans down to give her an upside-down kiss. When he pulls away, he remarks, "You know... there's some perfectly good ocean over there... Shall we go for a swim?"

[stealth_andsecrets]

"Sure... the water is always nice in California." Purple raises from her spot, to head towards the water.

[nonvillainouscipher]

Niverian gets up and follows her, shrugging out of his shirt and leaving it with their picnic stuff, catching up to her and slipping an arm around her waist as they head towards the ocean.

[stealth_andsecrets]

She smiles softly at the arm around her waist, as they enter the water. "Stick to the shallow end. There are sharks out there."

[nonvillainouscipher]

"So noted," he replies with a quiet laugh as they wade in. She's right, the water is, apparently, always nice in California. He stops wading when the water's up to about waist-height on him.

((Having now had a chance to visually check the comparison between someone who's 6'1" and someone who's 5'9", Purple comes up to about brow height on him, so I'd estimate the water would be about... hip deep for her.))

[stealth_andsecrets]

Once they get to this point in the water, Purple just leans back, allowing herself to get full emersed into the ocean. Just floating there for a while.

"It has been ages since I was at the ocean."

[nonvillainouscipher]

He goes underwater for a few moments, resurfacing beside her and sitting cross-legged on the ocean floor so that the water's about halfway up his torso, just letting the waves roll past him. "It's been awhile for me too," he agrees, smiling. "Last time I had the opportunity, I was... sixteen, I think? So five years ago."