This is just silly fluff.

Let's Do What Kids Do

The camp had grown in the two months since the events of Mount Weather and despite the constant problems she had to deal with, Abby often couldn't help a smile as she walked around at night. Laughter filled the air, music escaped from the newly built mess hall, children were running around… It all felt like hope and it helped her not wallow in her own worries and uncertainties. It was hard to look at everything they had managed to build and not believe in a better tomorrow.

She was on her way to the mess, having half a mind to track Raven down either to share a drink or to talk some more about her leg – she wasn't sure which yet – when she was suddenly grabbed around the waist and pulled in the small space between two of the wooden huts that had started to pop out around camp. She yelped, she couldn't help it, but she was soon pinned to the wall, a hand on her mouth to muffle the sound. She wasn't scared though, too used by now to the feel of Marcus' arms around her not to recognize him.

Lips immediately attacked her neck, beard scratching her skin and she laughed in delight against his palm, nipping on it so he would take it away.

"If someone sees us…" Abby chastised him.

"Kids do it all the time." he argued with a grin. "Making out in narrow alleys at night is the latest rage. You should hear Octavia… Apparently, it beats storage rooms."

She shook her head at him with fondness. "We are not kids, Marcus."

She responded to his kiss eagerly anyway, wondering how it was possible to feel so light-headed from a simple kiss at her age. Love didn't concern itself with years, she supposed, it made a fool of everyone – even of Chancellors and Councilors.

"I missed you today." he finally confessed in a sigh against her lips, after a last peck. He had been checking the far perimeter of the camp and she had been stuck in medical all day. "You were going to the mess? Care for some company?"

"Of course." she grinned, stealing a last kiss while she could.

If anyone saw the Chancellor and her Councilor stepping out of the narrow space between two huts late at night, nobody ever mentioned it.

And if they were walking too close and sharing glances and secret smiles, well… It was the norm, after all.