Random Alec x Kiera scene, Continuum Season 1. Insert some dramatic time-wrinkling thing here and then they are back in Kiera's flat and -
He seems sad so often. This time it's she who needs comfort. He wraps his arms around her, and he and she realise simultaneously that he is about to kiss her.
"Alec no."
"Sorry. Jeez, this is messed up."
"Yeah."
But then she relents. What is the worst that can happen? They have already toyed with parallel futures, the death of ancestors and descendants. Every move they make might be the one that destroys it all.
"Hey," she says, giving him a squeeze, and he looks up. She gives him a half grin, and quirks an eyebrow at him. Well, it was his idea.
He kisses her gently. With any luck she won't know she's the first.
He's so sweet. And affectionate. She knew this would be no grabby, clothes-ripping affair. He's gazing at her with wary eyes. She kisses him in return, less gently. It's ok Alec, I'm a big girl.There is something keen about showing a person how it's done.
He gasps, clutches her, gives it right back. And then they are cocooned in each other on the bed, kissing and caressing and both of them blinking away the tears of too much emotion.
"Hey," he says. "We better stop. I don't want to be my own grandadddy."
"Relax," she says. "Nobody's being anybody's grandaddy today."
"Mark me down as gallantly disappointed."
She chuckles, flings herself back on the pillows. He watches, propped in one elbow, as the heat between them ebbs. She twines her fingers through his, and instantly sees fiery longing in his eyes.
He is just a kid, but he's not a child. "It's only kissing," she whispers. "It's not like we're engaged, right?"
"Yeah," he says, and it's obvious to both of them that he's lying.