[ Mako asks, genuinely confused; at least he's lucky she can be quite a good tutor, because she's looking through the pages of text, as if she's the one studying for the test instead of him.
Coming closer, she leans against him, sets the book comfortably between the both of them. Mako smiles, dryly. ]
I promise I won't run away when you're not looking.
[ Dammit Raleigh why do you just hate studying so much. ]
Because you have exams tomorrow. And wouldn't it be better if we do it after you graduate? [ ...Then you won't be thinking about exams or your next semester's electives when you're doing up your wedding vows. And -- ]
... There are a few things I'd like to do first, too. [ Like visit the grave of her parents. Of Tamsin and Stacker. ]
[Because he's a slacker and he likes to read but he gets distracted easily and there's only so much math that you can ask a person to do in one day, alright? He's smart but he's never been the bookish type, the fact that he barely graduated high school should say something about that.]
Stuff like what? [he asks because he's genuinely curious because she's never mentioned it before.]
[ He's just a slacker. But nevermind that, Mako believes in him anyway -- Raleigh is incredibly smart in the ways that don't involve academics, frighteningly intelligent, even, and she's curling up with him even as she flips another page thoughtfully. ]
I want to visit my parents. See if my old home is still standing.
[They're so gross, they're just cuddling with his textbook in bed, she's in his shirt and he's in a pair of boxers he fished off the ground, and he's so content just being right here, and it's so domestic that he can almost hear Yancy making retching noises in the corner of his mind.
Oh. That's... actually a pretty good idea. He wants to bring her to his mom's and Yancy's graves too, come to think of it and he should... reach out to Jazmine and invite her, she's family too and technically the only living family either of them have.]
Let's do it. But I still don't want to wait two years.
[ They're gross but she likes it, luxuriating in his shirt and basking in the domesticity of it all and talking about getting married, too. And yes, it's about time Raleigh reached out to Jazmine and made amends.
Big plans for their future, but Mako blinks at Raleigh's insistence, curious. ]
[ That's the cheesiest, most adorable, endearing line she's ever heard and she just beams and kisses his cheek, a warm flush on hers. How is it that he just says the things that makes her heart flutter?
You ridiculous, wonderful person, Raleigh; it's easy to see herself spending the rest of her life with him, to love him, to hope that he would always be this happy. She teases him gently, lips brushing his with infinite fondness. ]
[He's a walking Brad Paisley song, he can't help it.
Sometimes Mako's adoration of him doesn't even compute because that's like the sun loving the moon and how would the sun even know the moon existed since it doesn't make any light of it's own, it just reflects what the sun gives. Because he'd really be nothing without her.]
A lifetime of everything, Mr. Becket. [ Mako answers him with a warm smile, and she's usually not that poetic but today she is, so sue her. And they really need to talk about him putting her on such a high pedestal, because Raleigh has so much to give; he has so much to offer.
In a world of everyone else, he shines -- if she's sun, he's the moon that lights up the dark, an illuminating beacon in the night, he's the one who keeps her anchored and gives her hope. ]
We can do anything we want. Move out and live on our own.
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[ Mako asks, genuinely confused; at least he's lucky she can be quite a good tutor, because she's looking through the pages of text, as if she's the one studying for the test instead of him.
Coming closer, she leans against him, sets the book comfortably between the both of them. Mako smiles, dryly. ]
I promise I won't run away when you're not looking.
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No, I just-- why wait?
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Because you have exams tomorrow. And wouldn't it be better if we do it after you graduate? [ ...Then you won't be thinking about exams or your next semester's electives when you're doing up your wedding vows. And -- ]
... There are a few things I'd like to do first, too. [ Like visit the grave of her parents. Of Tamsin and Stacker. ]
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Stuff like what? [he asks because he's genuinely curious because she's never mentioned it before.]
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I want to visit my parents. See if my old home is still standing.
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Oh. That's... actually a pretty good idea. He wants to bring her to his mom's and Yancy's graves too, come to think of it and he should... reach out to Jazmine and invite her, she's family too and technically the only living family either of them have.]
Let's do it. But I still don't want to wait two years.
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Big plans for their future, but Mako blinks at Raleigh's insistence, curious. ]
When do you want to do it?
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[Because saying tomorrow, however cheeky of an answer it is, is probably going to get him elbowed.]
I just want to say that I'm going home to my beautiful wife sooner rather than later.
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You ridiculous, wonderful person, Raleigh; it's easy to see herself spending the rest of her life with him, to love him, to hope that he would always be this happy. She teases him gently, lips brushing his with infinite fondness. ]
Just that?
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Sometimes Mako's adoration of him doesn't even compute because that's like the sun loving the moon and how would the sun even know the moon existed since it doesn't make any light of it's own, it just reflects what the sun gives. Because he'd really be nothing without her.]
What else is there?
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In a world of everyone else, he shines -- if she's sun, he's the moon that lights up the dark, an illuminating beacon in the night, he's the one who keeps her anchored and gives her hope. ]
We can do anything we want. Move out and live on our own.