Title: Gambit, Part 3
Fandom: Codename: KND
Characters: Nigel, Lizzie
Prompt: # 49 (club)
Word Count: 153
Rating: T
Summary: Being with Lizzie is an awakening of sorts. In which Nigel learns of the hearts and minds of women-girls.
Author's Notes: Part 3 of 4. Holy crap, it is hard to write in Nigel's point of view.
He meets Lizzie in the third grade. She's so, so different than any girl he's ever hung out with before: she hates to fight, she wears jewelry and dresses. Those years at Arctic base led Nigel to believe that all girls wore combat boots and colanders.
So they begin to date. And Nigel learns a few more things: girls want flowers. Girls want kisses and hugs. They want I-love-you's and yes dear's and your time and your heart.
Lizzie brings him back from his paranoia and his pseudo-war in exchange, though. It gets harder and harder to pull him away with the passing of every season, and when the computer goes rogue it's the final straw for Lizzie.
So far she was the only girl whose passing from his pantheon of romanticism was mourned. He sees her flirting like crazy with the barkeep at Lime Rickey's one night and internally wishes her luck.