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“I am seriously not drunk enough for this, Richard.” Alex's voice was a slightly muffled and disgruntled huff next to him and it was met with a laugh.
“You wished to watch a movie, Miss Reagan, and I agreed to your request.” There's more than a little amusement in his tone when he responded back to her, keeping his voice low. “And you so graciously allowed me to chose the movie so…” Richard left the sentence hanging knowing that Alex would jump to respond.
“Yeah, Dr. Strand, a movie not one of the “scariest movies about demons released in the last twenty years!”
In response he just let out the sigh that belonged to Alex alone before she spoke before he could get a word in edgewise. “No I wasn't snooping. I can see your google search for it from here. Next time close your laptop.” Alex probably would have said more, but the sound on the movie was rapidly approaching the level that inevitably meant a jump scare and instead she just found herself curling into his side and pressing her face against his arm.
“Alex,” he chided softly, with a gentle tug of her hair. “You're not watching the movie.”
“I swear I think you like waking up in the middle of the night to me having nightmares!” There's more than a little bit of an accusation in her town to go along with her audible frown.
“Well…” Richard drawled, letting the word drag out to the background of the movie, “I can't deny that it does have its benefits.”
“Like you've ever needed their benefits before, Richard!” Alex countered, lifting her face from his side. As she did it, she caught a glimpse of the paused movie. “Goosebumps?! You put on Goosebumps, Richard?”
Strand couldn't help but sounding proud. “That I did. You expected to be scared so you were. That's it…”
“If you say aphonenia to me again, you're definitely sleeping alone on the couch tonight.”
With a huff of a laugh, Richard leaned forward and kissed her gently. “Well, I'm not drunk enough for that, so I suppose we should let that lay, yes?”
“You're a smart man, Dr. Strand,” the amusement was inherent in her voice before she kissed him again.