554. Chapter 554

“So,” Maggie nearly whispers as the door snaps shuts behind Lucy. Her hands are still on Alex’s waist.

She doesn’t move them.

Both of them can still hear her laughing as she heads down the hall toward Sara’s dorm.

“So,” Alex croaks back. They don’t move, fearful of Maggie moving her hands.

They don’t want her to move her hands away from their waist.

Ever.

They glance down at Maggie’s lips again, at the way Maggie’s pupils are dilating, the way her lips are wet and slightly parted.

“So Lucy’s a loyal wingwoman,” Maggie manages to choke out, and Alex laughs softly.

Neither of them move away from each other.

“Yeah. Yeah, she uh… she’s a good egg.”

Maggie nods, her eyes making the trip down to Alex’s mouth.

“So I know you said you weren’t trying to get me into bed by inviting me back here – “

“I wasn’t, Maggie, I’m sorry, I – “

“Hey, hey, it’s cool, you’re okay. I was just gonna ask… there’s no chance you wanna kiss me, is there, Danvers?”

“No chance? Maggie, are you kidding? You’re smart and you’re tough and you’re… I mean, have you seen yourself in the mirror lately? So beautiful. But I mean… do you want me to kiss you? Because we don’t have to – “

“Danvers – “

“I really didn’t bring you back here with ulterior motives, and my breath is probably all pizza-y, and – “

“Danvers.”

“Rambling. Sorry. Lucy’ll kill me. Um. Go ahead. What?”

“Kiss me. Please?”

So they do.

They kiss her slow and tentative, and they see sparks behind their eyes, fluttered closed.

Maggie’s hands stay on their waist, and Alex busies their hands with her hair.

They part their lips and Maggie rises onto her tip toes, brushing her tongue against Alex’s bottom lip.

Alex moans softly. And swoons. Hard.

Maggie steadies them, and the two rest their foreheads together, knowing they need to breathe, but also unwilling to part from each other.

“Wow,” Maggie whispers after a long moment, and Alex splutters.

“’That was good and I wanna do it again’ wow, or ‘you suck at that and I’m regretting going on a date with you’ wow?”

Maggie laughs, and it’s the best sound Alex has ever heard. “The second one, Danvers,” she assures her.

“So um,” Alex grins, their face bright red, their eyes glistening with hope. “Wanna stick around? Maybe watch some Buffy? Do you like Buffy? I mean, we can watch something else, or we could keep talking, or we could keep… you know, kissing… I mean, if you – “

“Buffy sounds awesome, Alex,” Maggie soothes them, bringing her hand to Alex’s an intertwining their fingers. She looks over her shoulder as she leads Alex to their couch. “And so does the talking.” She clears some of Lucy’s law textbooks off the couch. “And so does the kissing.”

“So you’re saying you liked it? Because that’s… that’s what I got.”

Maggie laughs again, and Alex wants to hear that sound again and again and again.

“Come sit with me and find out.”

So they do. Again and again and again.