making our days steadfast in the skyward mile
1x04: Asking for Flowers
--
As far as days go, Sam's filing today under A Pretty Excellent Day, despite all the swimming he had to do. The bad guy's captured, the woman's not gonna wake up in the morning fearful of what the day holds and – he's sitting here, at the back of the jeep, drinking a hot, delicious cup of coffee with Jules.
"My oldest brother would throw me into the ocean, when we were younger. That's how I learned how to swim," she's saying now, and he can't get the image of a young Jules out of his head.
(Pull it together, Braddock.)
Wet t-shirt clung to –
"Really? Nice. If anybody were to throw me into anything when I was young, it's probably some quicksand," he says, a little too abruptly.
She's chuckling lightly again and he grins the little lop-sided smile that his friend calls the gotcha smile. Taking a sip out of the coffee cup, he gives her a sideways glance, after the giggling has subsided. She notices (of course she notices) and frowns, wondering self-consciously if she's got coffee stains all over her face or something.
"What?"
"To Team One," he smirks, holding the cup up in a toast. "To us."
She throws him a weird look but clinks his cup (as much as paper cups can) anyway.