Note: This is set after the season three episode "Survival Instinct".

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5. Coffee

Later that morning, Josh came back from a rejuvenating ski run and found Kat sitting on the steps of their new van, watching something - or someone - on the slopes through a pair of binoculars. "What's up?"

She lowered the binoculars and pointed. "Ethan Raptor's spaz attack."

Josh squinted and zoomed in. Sure enough, there was Ethan, acting... weird. Well, weirder than usual. "He's, um, kind of hyper today, huh?"

"Sometimes revenge tastes like four double-espresso shots mixed into your grande mochachino latte," Kat said.

Josh switched his attention to her. "You spiked his coffee with coffee?"

She shrugged, but her malicious grin belied any nonchalance. "Idiot chugged it down - it's not my fault. Besides, he almost killed all of us yesterday. Twice! A caffeine headache is the least I can give him."

He couldn't help it: he started laughing. "Remind me never to drink coffee around you," he said as she stood up, dusting snow off her pants.

"How do you feel about drinking hot chocolate around me?"

"Will there be little marshmallows?" he asked, hopeful. He was cold, and he loved hot chocolate with little marshmallows.

Kat grinned. "Sure. Oh, hey, I almost forgot. Yesterday, when you were missing and presumed annoyed to death, I had this idea."

"What?" he started to ask, but got cut off when she put an arm around his neck and pulled him down into a kiss. It lasted a while and he felt considerably less cold by the time they pulled apart.

"It was a good idea," he said.

"You're not allowed to die, McGrath," she said.

"Neither are you," he said. "At least, not until I get those little marshmallows."

Kat snickered and kissed him again. This time there was a mocking hoot, distant but echoing, from nearer to the ski lodge. "Get a room, losers!" Ethan's voice called.

Kat bristled. "Now revenge is gonna taste like rat poison."

Josh laughed again. "C'mon," he said, took her hand, and went in search of unspiked hot drinks. Preferably, ones with little marshmallows.