Red Roses
The first time, the roses had been completely unexpected. They had showed up on her desk on a Valentine's Day that Caoimhe had fully expected they would ignore, accompanied by a note that had made her laugh and brought her an awkwardly warm and fuzzy feeling at the same time. She had told Marion just days before that romance just made her self-conscious, but in the end she had decided that feeling self-conscious wasn't always so very bad.
Roses had gone well for him the first year, so when Valentine's Day rolled around again, Sturgis stuck with a plan that worked. Roses again, signed once more "Your hitwizard", and she wasn't any less charmed for having been fairly certain that he would do something or another.
And so red roses had become tradition. Red roses at Valentine's Day, red roses when she got the promotion at work, and she made him laugh with a vase full of them when he landed himself in the hospital again. Red roses in the bouquet she tossed at their wedding reception, and red roses when Bianca was born two years later.
There was a prevailing belief that red roses were cliche, overdone, or showing a lack of creativity, but Caoimhe had never cared much for public opinion. After all these years of red roses, she wouldn't have wanted anything else.