Christmas prompt! Either 20 or 21 for Kadar/Claudia. c:
20. (“Hug me so I can Get warm.”) Kadar/Claudia.
One of the cornerstones of their relationship was Kadar’s willingness to be bossed around (within reason) with good humour while Claudia quite enjoyed bossing other people around.
It was a dynamic that worked for the most part and when it didn’t it was something they could work out.
Sometimes, though, it was something Kadar could use to tease his girlfriend.
It was nothing terrible. Most people would even consider the way he brought her favourite throw blanket for lounging without having been asked to be sweet.
He smiled in the face of Claudia’s at him. “You’re cold, right?” He said, knowing that if he handed her what she wanted in the split second before she asked for it, it’d irritate her. It wasn’t a big thing, only a small irritant that she’d just brush off any other time. But Kdar had been at it for the whole day now, from handing her the milk just as she sat down with her coffee, offering to wash the dishes just as she was going to try to convince him to trade that particular chore for some favour, and handing her coat when she went to walk the dog before she could get it herself.
Claudia was curled on the couch, her hands curled around a warm mug of (unasked for) coffee that she set down with a clink on the (this time) aptly named coffee table. “You think you’re so clever.” Claudia said, reaching out to take the blanket only to throw it to the other end of the couch.
“I wouldn’t presume.” Kadar said even as Claudia sat up and pulled him down the couch. “I thought you were cold.” And Claudia thought, he must have given her the drink first so that when she pressed her fingers to the crook of his elbow it wouldn’t be cold.
“Then hug me so I can get warm.” She said. And if this was all a part of his sneaky plan then she didn’t care as he made himself comfortable on the couch and wrapped his arms around her.
Especially not when he pressed a kiss to her temple, whispering, “I love you.” against her skin.
(Though if she pressed her still cold toes against his calf it was really just fair after he’d been teasing her all day).