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Here With You: Chapter 3 is now available to read on Ao3

58. Daisy/Victor, 3, for @afrikasisi

Character tries to make their date laugh.

A picnic had been a good choice for a first date, Daisy reflected. Victor was very clearly more comfortable out of doors; the tension had visibly gone out of his shoulders as they sat down on the picnic blanket she’d brought. He was quiet, though, his hard face sombre. On impulse, she threw a grape at him, laughed in startlement as his reflexes kicked in and he literally snapped it out of the air.

“What the heck?” Victor rumbled, after biting into and swallowing the grape. Daisy giggled mischievously.

“You looked like you were thinking dark and gloomy thoughts, and it’s too nice a day for that.” She threw another grape and broke up laughing as he was apparently impelled to snap that one out of the air too.

“Quit it,” Victor said, though a small smile began to play around the edge of his lips. “I don’t even like grapes that much.”

“I am not throwing you little bits of raw meat, like a zookeeper!” Daisy had to laugh at the mental image.

“I don’t even like raw meat!... much,” he amended when she gave him a cynical stare. She made to throw another grape but he lunged across the picnic blanket and caught it before it even left her hand, rolling her beneath him in the process. She promptly dug the fingers of her free hand into his ribs, wriggling them to find the ticklish spot.

Victor yowled, twisting off Daisy to escape. She followed him with tiny tendrils of her power, vibrating them along his sides until she hit the sweet spot and he burst out into deep, body-shaking roars of laughter.

Lol dw I’m forgettable