☆ Getting them something they need before they ask for it.
Acts of Affection /closed/ @frostkingoftheapocalypse
“Shit,” she muttered under her breath as the mangled tool fell from her hands. “This is far older than the client’s appraising. It needs an old-school touch, could you-” It shouldn’t have been surprising, not now. Not when they’d made a routine out of getting ready, zipping her grown, fastening the evening’s carefully chosen pieces, even checking the straps of her heels, he maneuvered them through an unspoken checklist with the same fluidity and grace he’d shown on the dance floor moments ago. And still, when the last of her picks snapped inside the antique lock Ororo found herself shocked to feel the gentle tug on her hair, even more so to realize her palm was already open and waiting for the bobby pin. When he’d learned to read her this well and when exactly she’d grown so accustomed to it that relying on him was now instinctual, she couldn’t pin.
“… thank you,” slender fingers closing around the tiny piece of metal as she decided this wasn’t the time to panic. And certainly, not the time to start comparing her new partner to the old, the mental alarms would still be sounding off long after the job was done, she’d attempt to reassure herself history wasn’t always doomed to repeat itself then.