"Do I smell breakfast or is that the house burning down?"
Alex scoffed, shuffling a pile of scrambled eggs onto the second plate in front of her. “You set ONE measly fire ONE time and suddenly its are you burning the house down every time you step near a stove.”
She was trying to feign angry over the accusation, or at least remain huffy about it but one look up at Maggie drained it all out of her. She was in Alex’s shirt, the orange one with HELLO SUNSHINE in block letters across the middle. A shirt she hadn’t seen since she’d moved and unpacked it into the drawer full of old t-shirts. Some so old they say Midvale High on them.
“You’re wearing my shirt.” Is the first thing she says after the long pause in which her brain short circuited because holy crap, Maggie is wearing her shirt. Alex didn’t know that was a thing that would affect her so much but, confusingly, she was learning a lot about herself recently. Ever since Maggie walked into her life and even more so since she’d stop sleeping at the DEO and started sleeping in Alex’s apartment.
It felt like the right thing to do, it must be awful being there twenty-four seven. Well, Alex didn’t mind it but usually it was because she was working and work was a thing she always minded the least. Still, Maggie had been through a lot and she deserved somewhere a little more home-y than the sterile concrete of a barely private unlocked containment cell. Even if it did mean Alex had to take the couch for a while, she’d insisted.
“I mean...” She shook her head. “Sorry I just wasn’t---Ow!” Her stuttering explanation interrupted by a thoughtless touch to the underside of the hot pan she was still holding onto.
Alex tossed it in the sink and turned on the tap to run cold water over her now throbbing fingertips. She lifted her gaze, glaring in Maggie’s direction as a warning not to say a thing. Alex wasn’t burning the house down but she wasn’t so into first degree burns either.
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