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Kitty x Erik: Snowbound
"Why haven't we gotten married?"
Lifting her head from where she had been drowsing against his chest, Kitty gave Erik an incredulous look.
"Seriously, you're asking me this now?"
Erik shrugged his shoulders slightly, answering. "I've been pondering on the question for a while."
"And you thought the best time to bring it up was when we were stuck in a cabin, in the middle of a blizzard at risk for hypothermia?"
"It's the first time in a long while that we're not in danger of being interrupted."
"Your faith in our teammates is heartwarming." Kitty shifted so that she was lying fully on his chest, nose to nose with him.
"Is this some back handed way of asking me to marry you?" Her eyebrows were lifted in mock question but her eyes betrayed her genuine curiosity.
"No."
Letting out a heavy sigh, Kitty dropped her head on his chest and mumbled. "I just don't know what to do with you."
"Well, obviously you have never thought of marrying me."
Her head snapping back up in disbelief, Kitty exclaimed. "Are you kidding me right now?"
Erik merely turned his head away with a sniff.
"Oh my land! You're sulking!"
Turning back to face her, Erik narrowed his eyes and grumbled. "We've been together for three years now."
"And?"
"And while I am determined to spend the rest of my life with you, it now seems that you're merely 'going with the flow' I believe the saying is."
Holding back the slightly hysterical laugh that was lingering in the back of her throat, Kitty lightly smacked his chest and replied. "You are a goob. One—that is not the term you are looking for; and two—of course I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Heck, maybe even have a couple of kids to terrify everyone with. I just thought after everything that's happened to you that you might not be the marrying kind. Again, this isn't a proposal, right?"
In a swift move, Erik had her beneath him, the cuff of his heavy sweater brushing her chin as his fingers trailed down her temple to cup her cheek.
"No, not here. I want your hands to be warm enough to feel the ring when I put it on your finger."
Her gaze melting from amused to adoring, Kitty muttered as her lips brushed his. "You have a ring?"
A deepened kiss was her only answer but Kitty was fine with that. After all when this was all over with she was dragging him to the tropics where their hands would be nice and warm.
Author's Notes: More fluff. All they would let me write for them this year. Sigghhh. I need some meat.
(Laughs) Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you Setsunakou for the Beta!