The wine from his breath wafted over between the air between them and she was all at once happy because the grey cloud that had been crowning his head the last few days, while she was around, had blossomed to a radiant halo of sun. And what was even better...was that soon his friend - Wine - would turn on him eventually and he'd be silent at last!, drooling where he finally passed out.
"Quite!" They'd gone through this honey/Honey joke probably once a month when they'd been the sort of together that didn't involve mergers and acquisitions."You're sooo funny darling." She told him as he bridged the distance all moony and sentimental. Honey wasn't sure if she should kiss him or stab him. "That's why I married..."
Xander lifted her with his embrace and she gave a great big "YOU!" because she wasn't expecting his exuberance. "Let me down..!" she simpered, almost laughing but then things got more serious and he was getting clumsy. She must have been lighter than she looked because he'd nearly bonked her head on the light fixture above their heads. "What are you doing? Pleeease let me down!" whether she liked this attention, of course, was locked behind her stony emotions.