A hotel as a place to hide

[Shade]

His touch was relaxing and soothing. It told her Gambit cared and that there were far more important things than brooding over her own anger against a bitter, old mutant. Shade had not forgotten about the numbers on Magneto´s arm, but at some point she had stopped seeing them as an excuse for his bitterness, his using people. At some point she had stopped calling him Erik and started calling him Magneto - even in her thoughts. Her life had become better in the last few months. A lot.

She smiled and craned her head to look at Gambit. "Great." she said. "I can´t even remember any dreams, I think I just passed out."

[Gambit]

"It seemed dat way," Gambit agreed. "It was such a shame t' wake ya up," he smiled and touched the tip of her nose with his.

[Shade]

Shade returned the Eskimo kiss, keeping her arms around Gambit´s neck, a thumb stroking the back of his head, playing with his hair. "What, was I looking adorable again?" she asked playfully, smiling at the memory of a description of her sleeping self he had given weeks back.

[Gambit]

"Course ya did," Gambit said. "B'sides, considerin' at what time ya went t' sleep, I thought you'd need more sleepin' time, but, unfortunately, dere wasn't much of it."

[Shade]

"Never mind." Shade said, kissing his forehead. "I´ll catch up on it once I´m back at the mansion." She was still tired, but not much so for now. She knew that would come back eventually but she didn´t have any other plans for today. Her lesson for the other day she had finished preparing shortly before she had received Gambit´s phone message two days previously.

[Gambit]

"Okay," Gambit said. He leaned his chin on her shoulder, almost hiding his face in her hair. "I can't be around much these days," he said. "So I won't be able t' take ya out anywhere. I'll give ya a call when we can meet."

[Shade]

Shade nodded, nestling her face against his neck. Gambit had been intent on not drawing any suspition in public these days and what he had said about someone tracking him made it logical for him having to stay in hiding sort of for a time. It wasn´t the ´taking her out´ that meant most to her, it was just being with him, wherever that was, but she could understand his reasoning. "You do that." she said smiling. "You know where to find me." Her hand stroked his hair. "And you know I´d always hide you in my closet if you need a place to hide, do you?" she added, her voice a little more jokingly.

[Gambit]

"Oh yes," Gambit nodded, "definitely. But things are not so bad for de closet yet, I'll keep it in mind, though."

[Shade]

Shade pulled back a little to look at him. "That´s good." she said referring to both, his claim things weren´t that bad and him keeping the option in mind. Her coffee was getting cold... again, but she didn´t care. She felt more like enjoying their time together before she would be leaving to the mansion and therefore leant in to give him a confident kiss on the lips.

[Gambit]

Gambit held her closer, answering her kiss. He still had a little time.

[Shade]

Shade closed her eyes, gently kissing him, tugging on Gambit´s bottom lip slowly. "When do we have to leave?" she murmured.

[Gambit]

"De sooner, de better, bien sur," Gambit replied, freeing his lip for a moment, "but we got 'bout an hour, safely," he touched her chin with his lips.

[Shade]

Shade closed her eyes again and smiled. "Good." she said. "An hour sounds good." She pulled him closer and started to place a line of soft kisses from Gambit´s ear down to his neck.

[Gambit]

"Mmm," Gambit said in a tone as if he was intrigued, "anythin' particular Shade got in mind for dat hour?"

[Shade]

Shade smiled against his neck while had hands travelled down his back and found the hem of his shirt. "Shade still has a whole lot of positive, happy energy to act on." she said, nibbling on Gambit´s earlobe softly. "so she doesn´t just burst with it during the next few days."