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It had been years since Fatima had been to the funfair on Santa Monica Pier and that day had involved her and Leilani wearing ridiculous disguises and hiding from Sunset Canyon fans.
Today is far more relaxed, OA’s hand in hers as they wander, doing the tourist thing on account of his visit. He insists on buying her cotton candy and they take a ride on the Ferris wheel where he kisses her at the top and she snuggles into him on the way back around.
They do that twice. She regrets nothing.
But the fun really starts as they walk by one of the shooting games. OA glances at it and the stall owner catches his eye and actually calls out to him, something about winning a teddy bear for his pretty lady. It’s insulting to Fatima’s feminist principles, to say nothing of her NCIS agent credentials and when she looks up at OA, the twitch of his lips tells her that he knows exactly what she’s thinking.
“You want to show him you’re perfectly capable of winning your own teddy bear?” he asks, amusement in every syllable, and while it’s not quite an invitation, Fatima doesn’t have to be asked twice.
Not ten minutes later, the shellshocked owner is handing her the biggest teddy bear from behind that stall and she makes a show of presenting it to OA. “Here,” she grins, “I won this for you.”
He throws his head back and laughs, accepts the bear with a flourish. He doesn’t say thank you in words but his kiss says it all.
Later on, when he hands the bear to a little girl, all big eyes and dark pigtails, Fatima swears her heart skips a beat and she thinks they’ll definitely have to come here more often.