A hotel as a place to hide

[Shade]

"So important to brush teeth." Shade said. She was exhausted, yes, but not enough to just drop dead the next second. "and how could I say no to being carried around?" she added with a wide smile.

[Gambit]

"Well, easy," Gambit said, getting up from the bed, "you coulda jus' said no," with that, he scooped her up in his arms.

[Shade]

"I could." Shade said. "but it wouldn´t be a smart thing to say. Same as in saying ´no´ to ´Do you mind another piece of chocolate? or ´Do you want to be better-paid?´" She slung her arms around his neck.

[Gambit]

"Totally," Gambit agreed. He carried her to the shower and stopped in front of the sink. "Go ahead."

[Shade]

"Thanks monsieur." Shade said with somewhat of a gracious movement of her head, took her tooth brush and started to brush her teeth, looking at Gambit through the mirror while she did so before looking at herself. She nearly had to chuckle. Her hair was still half wet and she looked every bit as tired as she felt.

[Gambit]

Gambit kept holding her, knowing he would have stood like this an entire day if he had to - holding her felt amazing and he didn't want to let her go. If Shade knew this, he thought with a chuckle, she would probably demand to be carried around for every small thing. Not that he would mind...

[Shade]

Shade leant against him while continuing to brush her teeth, feeling herself tempted to get distracted by Gambit´s embrace. Part of her demanded to stay awake simply because it felt so good seeing him like this around her, so affectionate and caring. It made her want to never walk far enough where she couldn´t touch him in some way and she smiled at that thought - which looked strange with a mouth full of tooth paste.

She rinsed her mouth after a while and turned towards Gambit, looking up at him. "Finished." she said. "Now we got to see if my teeth are clean enough and if stinky breath is gone."

[Gambit]

"Yeah, but we can't check dis wit' my teeth not brushed, non?" Gambit grinned.

[Shade]

Shade mirrored the grin and shook her head. "Nope." she said. "We definitely can´t." She turned to the sink again while he was still hugging her from behind, picked Gambit´s tooth brush, put some tooth paste on it and turned towards him again, holding it up. "Be good and say ´Aah´" she said.

[Gambit]

Gambit opened his mouth, though it was hard to do since he was barely suppressing laughter.

[Shade]

Shade could tell he was trying hard not to laugh and started brushing his teeth. "Careful there." she said with a grin. "you might swallow your tooth brush and that would look weird." She was totally amused by his giddy mood which mirrored her own, thinking that when they had started their relationship he had hardly ever had moments like these. It was a very pleasant change.

[Gambit]

Gambit pretended to eating the toothbrush with an animalistic growl.

[Shade]

Shade giggled stupidly, pretending she had to pluck the tooth brush out again. She held it aloft like someone giving a speech might hold a pen and tipped it against his nose which left a spot of tooth paste there which she ignored. "Be nice already." she said with feigned seriousness. "All your teeth will fall out if you don´t look after them properly."

[Gambit]

Gambit shut his mouth tightly and pressed his lips together, all his appearance expressing terror at the thought of losing his teeth.

[Shade]

Shade had to fight hard not to start laughing at the expression Gambit made. She tried digging the tooth brush between his tightly squeezed lips for a moment then shrugged with a heavy sigh. "You´ll just lose them if we DON´T brush your teeth, silly." she said.