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Picnics and some "First" Encounters [Closed Log]

Date: 23rd June
Characters: Ben and Sadie

Sadie dashes about her room, digging through her closet and packing items away into her rucksack. Tarp-bottomed blanket, check. Rain mac and large umbrella, check. Plastic plates and cups, check. Thermos of tea, check. They were going to grab food on route so she doesn't have to worry about that. Oh, jacket! She makes sure to fish that out too and puts it on before grabbing her bag and heading downstairs.

"I'm good to go, Ben! Are you ready too?"

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"This really is fantastic," Sadie beams down at him, "And even now a little unbelievable. Thank you for sharing this with me."

Sadie takes in the sensation for a little longer before she taps his hand to signal that she wants to get down. Once back on the ground she takes Ben's hands in her own again, "It must be difficult sometimes but I know you and I think you'll be able to use this strength to do some spectacular things."

“Heh, you should see me jump,” he says with a bashful rub at the back of his neck with his free hand, color at his face revived minutely.

As soon as he feels the tap at his hand, she can feel a small jolt of recognition from within his muscle holding her in a twitch. He slowly lowers her from his shoulder and bows to put his elbow back to the blanket surface to let her scoot off. Rising back up straight, he rolls over to side sit to face her only to have his hands taken before he can find them a place to settle. His fingers curl to wrap around her smaller hands and he smiles as she begins to reassure him. The smile drops into mild surprise at her expectation of him harnessing the strength for something greater, and his cheeks flare as bright as before as he looks downward, “...I can’t imagine what I’d need it for, but I suppose it’s possible.”

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"Maybe you'll be able to show me before our date ends?" Sadie asks hopefully then focuses back in on Ben's reaction to talking about his strength. It's sad, to see the surprise on Ben's face at the suggestion that his strength could be used for something good, that just meant it was up to her to remind him.

"There are loads of instances where strength might be helpful. Maybe you could be a part-time firefighter? And that's not even accounting for the amazing thing I know you'll be able to do with your mind."

He gives a nod with a cheerful smile as an agreement to the demonstration. That gnawing worry that he might frighten her when so disconnected from their experiences with the Numbers is beginning to quiet somewhat.

"That's not an option I had considered," he answers, and leaves the doubt such an arrangement could be made aside. Between his continued growth and the chances he would be tempted into revealing his full strength in a crisis make it a risky position to pursue. "For now, I think I'll stick to using my head. Building a motorcycle is just the start."

"But before we delve into anything else, how about we start eating? We brought along some things from our favorite bakery. Should still be at least a little warm in the cooler."

Sadie nods, "I do remember the motorcycle if that's just the start what other inventive plans have you got in the works?" She asks eagerly, Sadie doesn't have Ben's knack for inventing and has always found his process fascinating.

Food certainly gets Sadie's attention and with a nod, she opens the cooler eyes widening at the selection of pastries and snacks. The apricot twist is swiftly located and pulled from the cooler, Sadie humming happily as she takes a massive bite from it, "These are lovely, did we got to that bakery?"

While Benjiro would rather not occupy her limited time with detailed discussions regarding his building work, the eagerness in her question gladdens him to his core. A brief overview is quite reasonable, and his excitement over the work comes through in the tone of his voice, “Lately, I’ve been working to build a stealth boat for use in the bay for exploration, modifying a drone, and designing three long-range encrypted headsets for communications. The boat isn’t anything to get excited over. It’s a small craft, maybe fitting two or three comfortably, with electric systems and a few basic choices to minimize any radar presence. The headsets are much more involved technically speaking. They’ll switch between open radio frequencies at short intervals to minimize the risk of having our conversations overheard and followed.”

Benjiro leaves the cooler to Sadie, and takes a moment to get drinks poured for both of them. From the selection in the cooler, Benjiro claims one of the cinnamon rolls after Sadie has taken an apricot twist. More from habit than anything, he takes small bites in which he can keep his teeth out of sight. He nods his head to confirm before he can answer verbally, “Yeah, we stopped in on our way out here.” Quite hungry these days, he continues to nibble at his cinnamon roll eagerly.

Sadie stops eating, "I'm sorry, did you say a stealth boat?!" She asks incredulously, "What is God's name is the stealth boat for?!"

After a swallow, Benjiro answers her honestly, “I did, and it’s for travel out to the Moss Army Forts. The military and coast guard monitor the bay, and the last thing any of us need is to get attention from the authorities. We need to go check out one of the forts to confirm if someone else involved with the Numbers is hiding out there.”

Then it is back to his cinnamon roll like all of this is very natural.

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Sadie groans, "That sounds like a bloody mess. number stuff really isn't simple is it?"

After a swallow, Benjiro answers her honestly, “I did, and it’s for travel out to the Moss Army Forts. The military and coast guard monitor the bay, and the last thing any of us need is to get attention from the authorities. We need to go check out the bay to see if there are any landmarks out there like at the river mouth, and scope out the forts.”

Then it is back to his cinnamon roll like all of this is very natural.

Sadie groans, "That sounds like a bloody ridiculous. Number stuff really isn't simple is it?"

Cinnamon roll consumed entirely, Benjiro chuckles once at her question, and confirms her newfound understanding, “Not in the least. But…” He trails off only for the seconds needed to shuffle himself a little closer to Sadie with his side turned towards her as he stretches an arm out behind her to lean enough over the boundary line to get close enough he can barely feel her warmth radiating in the cool air, “It’s made a few things very simple.” Punctuating that idea, he gently places a kiss at the side of her forehead.

Tilting his head away after, he looks down to her with a warm smile that only she can bring.

"Well that makes things a lot better doesn't it?" Sadie sighs happily as Ben leans into her, "Your smile has always been one of my favourite things, the small smiles make your eyes shine beautifully but smiles like this one you've got right now are my absolute favourite."

The last few millimeters separating them vanish with that sigh, Benjiro taking it as a sign of her comfort with him getting so much closer. Gently leaning against her, he pauses to listen as she praises the way he smiles, and it immediately draws out a light color across his cheeks. His far hand comes up to rub the back of his neck, and he responds, “I hadn’t realized...”

Even now he still worries about showing his teeth when he smiles, convinced the teeth would always come across as malicious.

“Hm. I think I know my favorite thing about you too,” he starts as he drops his hand from his neck to make a circling motion towards Sadie, “All of you.”

Sadie's face blazes, "Ben! Oh my god!" Delighted and embarrassed in equal measure she tries to hide her face against her arm, "I can't believe you just said that!" Despite her protestations, the smile curling her lips tells Ben exactly how pleased she is about it.

Her innocent reaction stirs an outright laugh from him, the sound disrupting his attempt to apologize half-heartedly, “Sorry, I’m sorry..! I couldn’t resist.” He can hear her smile more than see it, and that’s enough for him. Truly, it would take him a long time to choose a favorite thing about Sadie, so at least he was honest.

Still giggling her hands move away from her face, "I love you so much, you dork."

There is definitely a smirk on his lips when she looks at him again, and he takes pride in his words, “I am your dork.” Then with less humor, he adds, “I love you too, Sadie.”

Reaching to snag a second pastry for himself, he settles to nibbling at it while snuggled up with Sadie to listen to the rain. If she wants to ask more questions, he is more than ready to answer them.

"Yes, yes you are." She falls silent, content just to relax with Ben and the soothing pitter-patter of the rain.

"I'm not sure what else to ask, is there anything that you think I should know or that you want to tell me?"

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