Of Anime, Poetry and Falling in Love: Mack and Rose
Disclaimer: We have issues with this don't we?
Challenge: Perception
Timeframe: Somewhere after Kick into Overdrive. Sequel to Yield
Summary: She doesn't know what to say, but she knows what to do.
He was quite shocked that Rose had done such a thing, an innocent little kiss as it had been. He gaped at her for a moment, trying to decide exactly what to say. "Um…wow. That was different."
"Just different? Not great, wonderful, amazing?" Rose teased in a light tone Mack had never heard her use before. She was messing with him, and he wasn't sure he minded. When he didn't reply Rose just smiled. "You see what you do to me, Mack? You come along and distract me and tell me to relax. And then when I do 'relax' you don't even talk! Make up your mind already."
"You only kissed me because you wanted me to be quite, didn't you?"
Rose had the decency to blush. "Well, maybe…" she looked up at him with big brown eyes, "And maybe I have a bit of a crush on you." There, she'd said it. Maybe there was something to be said for letting go of your composure.
"Really now," he smiled, "What would you say if I told you the same?"
"I don't know what I would say, but I think I would do this." And she threw herself into Mack's arms again and kissed him, this time anything but polite. Life was, Rose thought happily, just a matter of perception after all, and she decided this was the proper way to see things.