[ She returns his fond smile with one of her own. ] Where have I heard that before, I wonder?
[ Her hand moves from his cheek up, running her fingers and affectionately gently through his hair. As much as she wants things to be normal again, too, she knows that they can't, or at least not completely so. On her part, she'll have to be much, much more careful when she's alone on jobs. Maybe do things like only talk to Peter on the most secure channel she can use, do more jobs for the Shadow Broker and their people in exchange for information about the Ravagers to make sure she or the Guardians aren't even in the same quadrant of the galaxy, and maybe she finally needs to get out of Illium, in case it's been compromised. She has a lot of thinking to do, in short.
And she knows that, as much as Peter might want to pretend this never happened so that things can just go back to the way thing used to be, he won't completely heal unless he talks it out with someone. Maybe even her. She knows he'll hate that, and she's going to hate having to drag it out of him, but it would hopefully be cathartic to him, and well. Being there for him is something she needs to be, seeing as she couldn't exactly do that for the last five or so months. Kasumi would agree, though, that now definitely isn't the time for that; she just knows it'll be a thing, sometime down the line.
So she'll push these thoughts out of her mind for now, and maybe come back to them for when Peter falls back asleep (and this time she'll be sure to at least be in the room, in case something happens). For now, she'll be Playful, Fun Kasumi and her words take on a joking tone, just in hopes of lifting his spirits even a little. ]
Well, someone had to bring home the bacon while you were away, you know? Feed the kids and all that. I'm fully expecting you to be helping and taking some of this workload off of me at some point, yeah? It's the least you could do.
[ Her eyes close halfway, slowly, as she leans in and plants a soft kiss on his cheek. ]
I think for now, though, we both could use a little break. And that's coming from me.
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[ Her hand moves from his cheek up, running her fingers and affectionately gently through his hair. As much as she wants things to be normal again, too, she knows that they can't, or at least not completely so. On her part, she'll have to be much, much more careful when she's alone on jobs. Maybe do things like only talk to Peter on the most secure channel she can use, do more jobs for the Shadow Broker and their people in exchange for information about the Ravagers to make sure she or the Guardians aren't even in the same quadrant of the galaxy, and maybe she finally needs to get out of Illium, in case it's been compromised. She has a lot of thinking to do, in short.
And she knows that, as much as Peter might want to pretend this never happened so that things can just go back to the way thing used to be, he won't completely heal unless he talks it out with someone. Maybe even her. She knows he'll hate that, and she's going to hate having to drag it out of him, but it would hopefully be cathartic to him, and well. Being there for him is something she needs to be, seeing as she couldn't exactly do that for the last five or so months. Kasumi would agree, though, that now definitely isn't the time for that; she just knows it'll be a thing, sometime down the line.
So she'll push these thoughts out of her mind for now, and maybe come back to them for when Peter falls back asleep (and this time she'll be sure to at least be in the room, in case something happens). For now, she'll be Playful, Fun Kasumi and her words take on a joking tone, just in hopes of lifting his spirits even a little. ]
Well, someone had to bring home the bacon while you were away, you know? Feed the kids and all that. I'm fully expecting you to be helping and taking some of this workload off of me at some point, yeah? It's the least you could do.
[ Her eyes close halfway, slowly, as she leans in and plants a soft kiss on his cheek. ]
I think for now, though, we both could use a little break. And that's coming from me.