author's note: i am so sorry this is so short!
Sometimes, he made her sick. It was normally at about five past three in the morning, after a mission, when they were huddled around the big oak table in the Headquarters kitchen, still reeling from what they'd just witnessed, and he'd say something like; "Seriously, though McKinnon, your arse when you shot that Stunning spell at Travers…" and everyone would groan, and she would grit her teeth and think 'Merlin, why am I with you?' because they'd just watched a man die.
And sometimes he made her heart skip several beats, like when they were walking back from a gig, or Headquarters, and he laughed so loudly it made the stars gleam brighter. When he slung an arm around her shoulder and said, "Y'know, Marlene, I reckon you're alright."
"Yeah?" she'd say, and he'd nod.
"Yeah."