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Tweak says, "I'm a cucumber"

Kimberly Corman hearts nerds (cheatingdeath) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-12-09 12:25:00

Day Thirty, afternoon
Who: Kimberly Corman, Connor Temple, and eventually Andy Gallagher and Elliot Reid
What: Gettin' some grub
When: Day 30, afternoon
Where: The Gym
Rating: PG-13?
Status: Active

This would be the first time Kimberly was willingly leaving the safe haven she and Connor had created in the library. Kimberly was anxious with worry. The fact that the last time she'd left, while it was through no control of her own, she and Connor had ended up in tanks, fighting for their lives and she'd lost the war was enough to deter her. It was cold as hell and Kimberly was freezing just thinking about leaving the barely-there warmth of their Safe Room just to venture into the main room again, never mind outside. But, Connor said there was food and Kimberly hadn't eaten in days. The one day she'd actually had food, the interaction between she, Connor, and Spencer had made her lose her appetite. By the time she'd gotten it back, it was too late.

Wrapping her arms around herself, Kimberly hung back from the door. "I really hope that the thrift store you keep talking about is on the way from here to the gym...I'm gonna freeze," she murmured quietly. Her heart was racing with that familiar panic of knowing she was about to do something that might end up being her last something. Hypothermia. Frost bite. Pneumonia. God she was so screwed...

"What would I have to do to get you to leave me here and bring things back to me?" she asked pathetically, giving him a weak, sheepish smile that said she was only half-joking. By the time Connor managed to bring anything back, even if it had been the theater instead, it would've been ice cold and barely worth eating, anyway, she figured.

There was really no getting out of going with Connor and she did want to spend more time with him. She just kept looking back at the clothes Connor was wearing - with perhaps a touch of jealousy or envy in her eyes - and wishing she'd been taken from someplace other than her bed. Tank top and pajama pants in the winter. Totally unfair.

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leconnortemple
2009-12-09 08:13 pm UTC (link)

They were officially a pair of idiots. She was blushing, he was blushing, they were pathetic. But it did make Connor feel about a million times better that she couldn't voice these sorts of things without a slight blush. He remembered Abby trying to teach him how to talk to girls and wondered just how ashamed she'd be of him just then. He wouldn't blame her, that was for sure.

The second the door closed behind her, he banged his head against the door to the outside. Had he actually just said that? Sure, Kimberly had practically egged it on, but that didn't mean he was supposed to rise to the challenge. Oh, hell, the puns about 'rising to the challenge' were too many to even go there. He could actually feel Abby smacking him in the back of the head and Sarah falling out of her desk chair. He knew better than to talk about women like that. Honest, he did. Well. Sort of.

It was just a good thing Kimberly had shut the door before he'd had the chance to call back to her what he'd been thinking. You're kinda cute all the time. Not only was it a lame line, but Connor was already pretty sure he was in deep water. He had to get out of there and into the cold air and fast. It was probably the only thing that would save him from doing something beyond stupid.

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