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First time posting drabbles or anything similar here, so pardon if I don’t do this correctly....

This was posted in ff.net but I thought I would post it here too.

This is a collection of snippets that show the evolution of Rick Hunter and Lisa Hayes’ relationship, all of them revolving around food or eating.

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“I’m going, I’m going!  You don’t have to drag me over… Geez.”  Lisa complained.

“Someone has to drag you out of that office to eat something.”  Rick said as he gently but forcefully led his CO towards the table where his other friends were already eating.

“Wow, you have managed the biggest miracle of all.”  Claudia marvelled at the sight of her friend finally being able to eat lunch with the rest of them.  Lisa had been so busy lately that it had been a good couple of months since she had joined them.

“Behold, a wild Lisa, out of her natural habitat.”  Roy said in a dramatic manner.

“Ha, ha, you are all very funny.”  Lisa said snarkily as she sat down in the table next to her friends to eat.  She rolled her eyes at their antics but she was secretly happy to be there.  While the others were distracted, she shot a smile to Rick, giving him silent thanks for dragging her away to spend time with her friends.

Rick just smiled in understanding and turned to Max and Miriya’s latest story about Dana.

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“That was a killer shift.”  Rick complained to Max as they walked into the deserted mess hall.

“The question is what was worse, the fighting or writing the report after?”  Lisa teased him from her seat at the table.  They had agreed to meet for dinner but men’s shift had been extended by a particularly pesky Zentraedi attack had dragged their shift for a good couple of hours more.

“Writing the report of course.”  Rick replied cheekily as they got nearer.  “I guess we will have to get a sandwich by now, the kitchens are probably closed.”  Rick said, disappointment clear in his voice.

“Don’t worry, we saved you a plate from earlier.”  Lisa said as she pointed at two covered plates.  “We even warmed them up when Max called to say you were on your way up.”

“It was Lisa’s idea.”  Miriya said, giving credit where it was due.  The Captain blushed at being outed like that.  Both men turned to her, twin smiled on their faces.

“Wow, thanks Lisa.”  Max said, gratefully as he sat down next to his wife.   “Yes, you are a lifesaver!”  Rick said appreciately and the Captain blushed.

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“Oh, they are out of chocolate chip cookies?”  Rick asked with a pout.  He had just gotten out of another patrol and was joining his friends for afternoon coffee and cookies so he could have enough fortitude to write his report.

“You snooze, you loose.”  Roy sing-songed at his little brother.

“Don’t worry, I got some for you.  I know how you like them.”  Lisa said as she presented a small plate to him.

Rick looked at her and the plate she was offering him with stars in his eyes.

“Don’t feed the addiction.”  Roy told her in a mock scold.

“Oh yes, keep feeding the addiction.  Thanks Lisa!”  Rick said happily and she just smiled in return.  Claudia and Roy looked at her with a significant look but she totally ignored them, content on watching Rick enjoy his treat.

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“Oh!  I’m stuffed!”   Lisa said as she laid back in her seat.

Rick looked over at her plate.  She had some croissants left on her plate, intact.

“Are you sure?  You are not going to eat that?”

“Nope, stuffed.”  She replied and Miriya giggled at her uncharacteristic tone.

“Do you mind?”  Rick asked shyly.

Lisa just looked at him seriously for a second.  His baby blue eyes were clear and earnest.  He looked like a little kid begging for food.  With a delicate snort, she waved at her plate and said. “Go right ahead.”

Rick grabbed a croissant and gleefully attacked it with strawberry jam.  As he stuffed some of it on his mouth, he happened to look at Roy, who was looking at him a bit incredulously.  

“What?”

“You just grabbed it from her plate.”

“Yeah, can’t let good food go to waste.”

“And you do not find that weird.”

“Why is it be weird?” Rick asked perplexed.  He looked at Lisa who played it off as nothing.  She knew what Roy wanted to get at but she knew that Rick had no ulterior motives.  He was that much of an oblivious, innocent child when it came to things like that.

“Let him be.”  Lisa said, a warning in her voice.  “He’s hungry and he’s right.  Food should not be wasted.  I should not have grabbed that much food to begin with.”

“‘S fine, you saved me a trip to get more.”  Rick said innocently and smiled at her.  Lisa returned the smile and Roy just sighed at the way she indulged him.

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“Oh There you are Lisa.  Hey Roy!” Rick said as he hurried over to them.

“Good morning Rick.” Lisa said brightly. Roy just rolled his eyes at them.

“Here, I brought you some coffee.”  Rick said happily.

“Did you bring me some?”  Roy sing-songed.

“No.”  Rick deadpanned an answer.  He was extending a cup to Lisa when he suddenly stopped and said. “Um… I forgot which one was yours.”  Rick said uncertainly, looking at both his hands in puzzlement.  “Didn’t the guy mark them?”  He mumbled to himself as he looked at the disposable cups.

Lisa laughed at his predicament as Rick analyzed the cups to see if they had any markings.  He had no luck, the cups were completely identical.

“I think it’s this one.”  Rick said, unconvinced.

“You sure?”  She asked doubtfully.  Roy was trying hard to contain his snickers at their predicament.

“It would make sense that I would grab yours in my left hand so I could drink from mine with my right hand… Yep, it would be this one.”

Lisa took it with certain trepidation.  Rick liked his coffee with hazelnut flavoring which she absolutely detested so she hoped not to end up with that.  In turn, she liked strong espresso coffee with just a bit of milk to cut the bitterness.  Rick claimed that he didn’t need any more chest hair and didn’t even want to smell it.  She usually would end up teasing him by calling him a wuss.

Taking the cup, She took a tentative sip and wrinkled her nose at the liberal taste of hazelnut as it coated her tongue.  She had only taken a small sip as a precaution and she still felt the need to brush her mouth out with something strong to scrub that taste out of her tastebuds.

Rick on the other hand was making a face after taking a sip out of his own.  “Man that is bitter!” He claimed.

They looked at each other uncertainly, sizing each other up and their options.  Granted it would be a bit weird… but on the other hand, it was a perfectly good coffee, and if there was one thing that they had learned from their jobs, was to never give up on good coffee.  So with a shrug, they exchanged their precious liquids and took a new sip, finding their respective coffees to their satisfaction.  They nodded to each other and smiled.

Roy, who had seen the whole exchange, had been sputtering from the moment the two had sized each other up, not quite believing but seriously suspecting the exchange that was about to happen.

“What did you just do?”  he squealed in shock.

“It was good coffee.”  Rick answered nonchalantly.

“No need to waste it.”  Lisa said.

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“Dude, you and Lisa are seriously weird.”  Roy blurted out one random afternoon.

“What are you talking about?”  Rick asked absentmindedly as he looked over the maintenance records for his plane.

“The whole eating from her plate thing and exchanging coffees… Normal people don’t do that!” Rick finally stopped looking at the papers to pay attention to his flustered friend.  “Why do you say that?  We are friends.”

“Friends don’t do that!  Is it like a sisterly Thing?  Do you see her like a sister?”

“What?  Sisterly?”  Rick recoiled giving his older ‘brother’ a shocked look.  “You remember I’ve kissed her,” He said like it was another unknown fact. He then leaned forward and finished his sentence, “like in the mouth.” he whispered as if it was some kind of secret.  “ That would be gross if I see her as my sister.”  Rick straightened from his position and wrinkled his nose in distaste.

“Well, it is still weird.”

RIck just looked at him in shocked puzzlement and walked away, scoffing at the line of questioning.

Roy’s body sagged, his energy all but sucked out of him from dealing with the two oblivious friends that could not even admit about the fact that they liked each other.  Roy really thought that if he pointed it out long enough, both of them would admit that their actions towards each other spoke louder than words.  Apparently though, they didn’t speak loud enough for Rick to understand.

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“No Rick! just go and get some for yourself.”  Lisa told the pilot exasperatedly as he kept making puppy eyes at her.

“But Lisa!  How will I know if I’ll like it or not?”  Rick asked as he blinked innocently at her.  Lisa snorted at his antics as the rest of the table groaned at what would promise to be more flirting involving food.  Roy felt an indigestion coming his way.

“Then serve yourself a little bit and get more after.”

“But that means that I have to go back and forth.”  He whined with a pout as Lisa rolled her eyes at him.

“You are young, you can… Hey!”  She exclaimed as he suddenly bent over and ate the rest of the morsel of food that was left over on her fork.  

Rick hummed appreciatively at the food as Lisa just groaned at his childish antics.  Everybody in the table froze at the familiarity that Rick had taken upon himself when it came to Lisa.

“It IS good.  Ok, going to get some.  You need anything?”

“Bring me another piece of toast will you?”  Lisa replied.

“Got it!”  He said good naturedly as he left.

“Is he always like this?”  Sammy asked incredulously as she watched the young pilot walk to the serving line.  This was the first time that the Trio had witnessed the interactions between the two but today they had all come out of a meeting and had decided to eat lunch together.  So aside from the Trio, Max, Miriya, Claudia and Roy were witnesses to this latest affront to Lisa’s personal space.

“Yes they do but now it has gone too far!  Lisa, you have to put a stop to it!”  Claudia exclaimed.

“I don’t really mind.”  the brunette demurred.

“No Lisa, Clau is right, I cannot believe the liberties that kid has been taking from you.  One thing is friendship but this is beyond…”

“Here you go Lis!” Came the infuriatingly cheerful voice as Rick placed the requested toast in her plate.

“Rick, you are touching Lisa’s food.”

“I washed my hands.”

“That is not the point!  And what was that stunt that you pulled before where you ate out of her fork?”

Rick had the decency to look ashamed at that.  He looked at Lisa, an apology in his eyes.  The Captain just sighed and waved it off as if it was not a big deal.  

“No, don’t wave it off!”  Roy hissed at her, trying to keep the conversation in their table.  “This is a big deal.  Rick you cannot be invading Lisa’s personal space like that.  People are going to talk.”  He finished and instinctively all of them turned to the Trio, who just blinked at them in surprise.  Kim was the first one to catch on and crossed her arms angrily at the implication of their actions.

Rick coughed uncertainty to diffuse a bit of the atmosphere and to cover up his guilt at basically outing them as gossipers.  He decided to answer the question to divert the attention and to finally put a stop at all the recriminations from their friends.

“But Max and Miriya finish stuff from Dana’s plate all the time.”  Rick pointed out, innocently.

“That’s because they are her parents, you dunce!.”

“Well, what about Max and Miriya tasting food from each other plates?”  Rick asked, puzzled.

“They are married, of course they can do that!”  Claudia now said exasperated at the boy’s naivety.  Claudia snuck a peek at Lisa and her heart almost broke when she saw her proud friend look away.  She could almost picture those big green eyes of her dearest friend starting to fill with crystalline tears.

Rick frowned in puzzlement, thinking hard at what his friends had said.  Suddenly, it seemed like he’d had an epiphany and exclaimed, “Well you two aren’t married and you feed each other.”  He said, pointing at Roy and Claudia triumphantly. All of his friends groaned in unison, the sound eclipsing a small sound coming from Lisa.

“But she’s my girlfriend!”  Roy said, completely exasperated.

“Oh.”  Rick said quietly.  Everybody thought that they had finally gotten to the clueless man.  “I guess there’s no problem then.”  Rick said with a shrug as he grabbed something else from Lisa’s plate.

They all looked at him, their jaws unhinged at his callous response.  Claudia turned to her friend, who was still looking away, hiding her face from them.  She noticed that Lisa’s shoulders were shaking infinismaly and her heart broke for her.

“And what does that even mean?!”  Roy roared and Lisa let out a squeak.

At the sound, Rick couldn’t hold it back anymore and burst out laughing which prompted Lisa’s shoulders to shake even more.

“Did you see what you did to Lisa!  The poor woman is crying!”  Kim pointed to her.  

That comment had the power to make him stop laughing.  Rick finally turned to look at his CO who also turned to him.  Rick realized that they were right, he could see the evidence streaking down her cheeks.  They looked at each other in silence for a few seconds.  Lisa’s lips trembled…

And then they both couldn’t contain it anymore and burst out laughing again!

“What?!”

“You all should look at your faces!”  Rick cackled as Lisa laughed so hard, she fell sideways on to him.  Rick placed his arm around her and squeezed her shoulder as Lisa buried her face on his chest.

“I think you shocked them into silence.”  Lisa squeaked as she wiped tears of laughter out of the corner of her eye.  “Is this really how we are going to tell them?”  

“You - and him…” Roy babbled.  Claudia had not managed to close her mouth and neither any of the Trio.  Max just watched them, blinking in shock.

“Husband… Does it mean what I think it means?”  Miriya asked in puzzlement.  Sometimes the Micronian’s speech was so confusing to her but it seemed that in this case it was puzzling for all the others too.

The first clue that she might have understood correctly came from the Trio that squealed loudly at the self satisfied smirk that Rick and Lisa gave each other.  To dispel any other doubts, Rick leaned over and nuzzled Lisa’s cheek in an affectionate and intimate gesture that was hard to explain in any other way.

“Girl!  Since when?”  Claudia asked after all the hugs and exclamations were given.

“Oh, a couple of weeks now.”  Lisa said nonchalantly as she cuddled to Rick’s side.

“How?”  Roy asked his friend.

“I guess it was your questions that made me realize that what I felt for Lisa was a bit different than regular friendship.  She IS my best friend but she’s more than that too so…  I just asked her if she wanted to go out on a date and well, you know the rest.”  Rick answered as he looked at the emerald orbs that robbed him of his sanity.  Lisa just flushed at the look that he was giving her.  The Trio awwed at their loving looks while Claudia looked on like a proud mother.  The moment was interrupted however when Roy thought of something.

“Wait, does this mean that you guys are going to get even worse now that you are dating?”