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So we had a fitness assessment in PE today.

[He idly rubbed her back while he spoke, fingers moving up to massage her neck and shoulders a bit. No doubt she'd been feeling pretty tense earlier and could stand to have a neck rub.]

So I did just well enough to maintain my A- in class.

Mm, that's nice. [Tense wasn't the half of it, but he was good at - well, her. He was good at her, and both the little massage and the talking were settling her, making her feel back on even ground.] I don't know how you manage to take it down that many notches.

[Peter know that for as bad ass as Arya was she was still human. Getting stalked and stabbed bothered her because most people were bothered by stuff like that. Although he wasn't sure how much of her tension was having to deal with the aftermath of being stabbed and the complications from that.]

I mostly just look around and make sure I'm doing worse than most everyone else.

[Oh, plenty of it was the aftermath. Being stuck here right now, and being required to rest, 'take it easy,' almost a nightmare for her. Having to be worried over - even if she was only telling two people - and in particular having to worry him... no, none of that is her definition of a good time.] I'd give you much more than an A-.

Good think you're not my gym teacher then.

[Peter kissed the top of her head again, then tilted his head so that he kissed her cheek, the tilted her chin to face him so that he could kiss her mouth again. It was slow and lingering, the type that wasn't leading to anything other than another kiss. It was the kind of kiss you gave to someone to reassure them that everything was going to be okay.]

A lot of people should be very concerned if you did like any of what you did with me with your gym teacher.

[That was the sort of move, the sort of kiss, she didn't think would ever work on - or for - her, and yet him doing it now worked completely, and she sunk even more into him, in a way she wouldn't ever let anyone else see her.]

Eugh that is a mental image I don't want.

[Which is why he kissed her again because he so did not want to give his brain time to try and work through that. Instead he was just going to give her slow, tender kisses until he felt her completely relaxed.]

You know... sometimes taking care of a person isn't because they need it but because they deserve it.

Sorry not sorry. [Arya did have the luck of not actually knowing what his gym teacher looked like, so no such mental image. She grinned, and then sighed, not a bad sigh, at the rest of what he said. It wasn't the first time Peter had said something like that, or exactly that, and probably wouldn't be the last.]

I know. I just... I don't know. [What if she didn't completely believe she did? Not in any huge way, like she was undeserving fundamentally as a person or something, she didn't think she had done an awful job letting him when she was sick. That truly wasn't her fault, though, and she knew he didn't think this was her fault either, but - well, it was. If she had done a few things differently, this wouldn't have happened.]

I promise not to go over the top about it. I'd only go over the top if you stubbed your toe or something.

[Something where they both knew that she could probably handle herself but she might let him be his ridiculous self just because she was good like that. With something serious like this he wouldn't do that.]

What are you thinking right now? You have your thinking face going on.

I have a specific thinking face? What's it look like?

[She'll give him a serious answer too, it's just going to take another minute. She wanted to be able to put it into words that wouldn't just immediately make him think she was being too hard on herself or something, cause she knew it could sound like that but she didn't think she was. Also there was a lot, now he had just asked her flat out what she was thinking, things she hadn't even realized she was thinking.]

I - I mean I could have avoided this. If I had - been more careful. And I know you aren't going to ask me to do that, but that doesn't mean you don't want to ask me to do that, and there's plenty of other people too that worry, that would worry more if they knew about this, and they have asked me to be careful and I don't and doesn't that make me kind of an asshole? I mean -

and I hate hospitals. I'm thinking I hate hospitals, when Bran had his accident we couldn't bring him home for months, and what if the whole family did find out and I was the one dragging them all back into a hospital?

and what if - no. no, never mind.

Uhhh... kinda like this?

[Peter did his best to imitate her thinking face. It was kind of like a brow slightly furrowed in a quiet, contemplative way. He wasn't sure if he properly conveyed how attractive her thinking face was. Probably not important in the long run.]

Do you think you did the wrong thing? Like morally wrong? And if you were more careful... how many times have you done something good because you weren't careful? And yeah it would suck for your family... but it's the fault of the person that stabbed you.

Hmm. That's not a bad thinking face.

[It made her smile, even amidst the serious talk which had her tenser again. That was important, both short run and long run.]

No, I don't think I did something morally wrong. Actually not doing something morally wrong is why she was - is? - angry with me, I'm pretty sure.

I've done plenty of both good and bad things when I wasn't being careful. I'm not sure what you mean?

I guess I'm just saying... don't blame yourself? Or try not to. But if you feel like you need to be more alert or whatever... that's also on the cult.

[Peter felt like he wasn't explaining himself very well. Probably because "don't blame yourself" was probably the most hypocritical thing he could have ever said. The difference was that what happened to Uncle Ben was his fault, this wasn't hers.]

I don't know what I'm feeling. Seems like everything. Definitely too much, anyways.

But I'll try not to be all blamey at myself. [Which... she did not so much think she would succeed at, but if he was so certain - at least she's going to try not to think about it at all for the rest of the night, and that's almost the same thing. Right?]

They can be very irritating, feelings.

Okay, I think that's fair enough.

[Peter felt like he couldn't really ask for more and if she said she was going to try to then he knew that she would. In the meantime he'd continue to just hold her and run his fingers through her hair.]

They can be. That scar is going to be bad ass though.

In other news: Sansa believes you're capable of keeping me from getting into any worse of a scrap than I already have, so you should feel proud of that. Especially since she doesn't even know you have, you know, abilities.

[That was a nice distracting thought, for all that it might not be exactly complimentary to her, Arya definitely felt like she was bragging about him, and she very much liked bragging about him.]

It's definitely badass. Might also be hideous, though. Still going to want to see me naked?

Yeah my plan for that is to keep you so distracted with sex and snuggles and good conversation that you have a lot less time to get into trouble.

[Which was kind of true. He wasn't doing those things to keep her out of trouble but that probably was contributing to it.]

Maybe not? A bad ass scar will make you even more sexy and I almost can't handle how sexy you are now. I'll just have to see you naked a lot to get used to it and then I'll be fine I guess.

That's a very good plan. If this were a different type of injury, I'd see what we could make a heart monitor do and if it would actually alert the nurses.

[It was contributing to it. Also contributing was that she really really didn't want to worry Peter in particular, which Sansa also said (in a particularly Haha you're soft way) but Arya wasn't going to pass that along.]

Oh, no. How are you going to cope with having to see me naked a lot?

No we definitely don't want the nurses coming in during any of... that.

[Because that would get them kicked out. The thrill of maybe getting hot was super hot of course but Peter wasn't sure how he felt about things when it was basically guaranteed someone would catch them.]

I'll just have to suffer through it and get used to it.

No? Not even if I were just kissing you very very thoroughly?

[She probably wouldn't do it anyways - the nurses are at work, it hardly seemed fair to make them see that - but talking about it has her smiling again.]

The sacrifices you make for me, honestly.

Oh no that's always okay to do, you can do that whenever you want to, no questions asked.

[Arya's kisses were amazing. Maybe the most amazing thing about them was how she had so many different types and they were all so good. She could excited him or soothe him or just... make him feel good all with kisses.]

Yeah I'm just that kind of guy. Want to know a secret though?

Well, I'm glad we got that cleared up.

[Obviously she has to kiss him after he says that, although it's not the long very thorough variety, because of course she wanted to know a secret, but it's not like he's ever complained about the quick grinning while it happens variety, so.]

Course I do, what've you got?

[Peter kissed her back, although he was definitely hoping for more of a kiss. It was probably his own fault though for asking her about a secret. Shifting a bit he moved so that he could whisper in her ear.]

I think about you naked or getting you naked almost all the time.

[It probably wouldn't be long before she kissed him again, if that helped, but first she has to have a good laugh and she's certainly not going to try and stop him from whispering in her ear.]

Okay... so what's the secret?

Uhhhhh, that sometimes I'm not thinking about you naked or getting you naked?

[It was good to hear her laugh and he couldn't help but smile, pressing his face against her neck before kissing along it and behind her ear again.]

Sometimes I'm just doing something and wish you were there to share it with.

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