Guilin, China, Saturday morning

[heroic_jawline]

Are you ready to head back to Fandom? Frankly, us either, but you have until mid-afternoon to do a quick river cruise, buy some more souvenirs, go spelunking, or become masters of the art of dumpling making (not you, Tony and Steve).

Only a few hours before we bid China farewell, Fandom! Up and at 'em!

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Re: Room 21

[newroutines]

"Aww, honey, I don't think we can," Mike said as he pried his gaze away from the view to look at her instead. Like that was a hardship. (It was not. He was so lucky.)

He paused for just a beat, then said, "So guess we just gotta move in here for like, permanently."

Re: Room 21

[gobrookeyourself]

"Hmm. I don't know if I can do it permanently. Maybe a few weeks. Or even a couple days," she said, looking over at him.

Re: Room 21

[newroutines]

"What, you don't think we can just ditch our American lives and--"

What she'd actually said only seemed to process halfway through him speaking. Though in his defense, he was also reaching out an arm to pull her in close as he spoke. So, that was distracting.

"Wait, for real?"

Re: Room 21

[gobrookeyourself]

"What, take a few days?" she asked, snuggling in closer.

Re: Room 21

[newroutines]

"Yeah." The snuggling was also distracting. And so, so welcome. He let out a content sigh. "That."

Re: Room 21

[gobrookeyourself]

"We could," Brooke said, seriously. "I can throw down the cash so we don't even have to change rooms. Monday's class was going to be a jet-lagged movie day anyway..."

Re: Room 21

[newroutines]

Mike snickered. "Well, holy shit, I'm not gonna say no," he said, his fingers lazily tangling up in her hair to play with it. "I don't have any deliveries that need to happen and I'm not in a hurry to get back."

Re: Room 21

[gobrookeyourself]

"And we don't have to chaperone... Really, we're only helping ourselves here."

Yeah, Brooke, that was obvious.

Re: Room 21

[newroutines]

"Exactly. Without the chaperoning --" Which he hadn't been doing to begin with. "-- we can just focus on what's actually important."

Which was...?

Re: Room 21

[gobrookeyourself]

"...We're not going to leave this room, are we?" Brooke asked.

SUCH A CHORE.

Re: Room 21

[newroutines]

Mike laughed.

And pulled an exaggerated thinking face. "I mean, like, we're probably gonna at least take a walk at some point. And I maybe wanna go to the spa at some point for some ridiculous massage therapy thing, I don't know." That was a lot of maybe-ing. "But there's just so much left to explore right here in the room too, you know?"

He dropped a kiss on her forehead.

"Like, I'm still really interested in checking out the, uh, sturdiness of some of the furniture."

Professional curiosity. Research. Totally just that. Nothing dirty here, no ma'am.

Re: Room 21

[gobrookeyourself]

"Oh, I mean, you have to," Brooke said, mock seriously, draping her leg over his. "It's your job."

Re: Room 21

[newroutines]

"Exactly."

Mike grinned down at her.

"I love how you get me."