aterat | One Fall And One Less Bear

"I'm glad to hear that." Ignis replied with a smile of his own. Really he didn't think he did much to earn those precious gestures at all. But if Nida thought so and that made the man happy, that was what counted. It seemed so easy to have the other smile and the advisor would do whatever it took to keep them going as much as he possibly could.

You know what? Cooking could wait, for just a moment. Nida reached for Ignis, turning the man toward him to kiss him. Light, sweet, happy.

"After dinner, I'm going to rock you. If you want."

He was quiet as Nida turned him around, wondering what he wanted. But there was a genuine smile as he was kissed. Ignis loved every moment of the affection between them whether it was given, received or somewhere around mutual.

A small chuckle escaped him as he looked into those wonderfully warm dark eyes and he gave a small kiss of his own. "I don't believe that I would ever be inclined to say no to you in that regard."

"But if you are, please do so," Nida counters, smiling back. But with their kisses exchanged... he pulls away.

"Okay. I'll... uh, try to mix up this seasoning if you want to get back to dinner proper."

Ignis smiled and unnecessarily fussed with his glasses to give him a moment for something to do once Nida pulled away. So he went back to heating the oven. "That's fine, give me just a moment or two here so it can get onto the table."

The rice was done, the fish was in the process of getting reheated and the vegetables had been already chopped up waiting on the side.

"Alright then," Nida smiles, starting to mix things up. They can probably throw this into the oven after.

"Hey Ignis... Thanks for stopping by the tree that night."

The blondish head looked over his shoulder and he blinked a few times. What made Nida bring that up? But he just smiled instead of asking that question. "I'm rather glad that I had. You might not have otherwise danced with me that night." Or..who even knew if things would be as they were right now and there were no regrets on the advisor's part at all.

Nida had put pieces of him back together and he didn't realize some of the things that he'd been missing out on.

Of course he brought it up. That was the night they rolled from casual acquaintances to friends. Friends to lovers. Lovers to... more.

They had rebuilt each other, and perhaps neither of them knew just the extent of that.

"We've got to find real music to dance to, my flame. I want to teach you some of what I learned. Swing dancing, I think you have the body for it."

Real music..that might prove to be quite the challenge. "I'm not quite sure what they have here." And his face was turning red at that endearment again. But he looked at Nida when the swing dancing was mentioned.

"That isn't something I learned back home. But I'm willing to give it a shot.." And that's when he realized his body was being mentioned so he turned red again and lowered his head with a self conscious laugh.

"We'll find it," Nida counters. "Music. And I've got to ask, is swing music a concept your world has?"

He nodded. "Yes, but it wasn't something I learned. The dances there were more formal, more ballroom type for more formal royal occasions as it were." Ignis had learned them early on and had to in turn teach them to a sullen dark haired Prince who'd rather be playing video games or sleeping or who knew what else.

"We'll teach you then," Nida offers with a grin. IT would be entertaining for them both. And perhaps its own form of foreplay. "Not that ballroom is any less fun, but... Well, we could have far more fun than that."

And here was Nida, never even having played a video game in his whole life.

There was a grin on Nida's face and Ignis just smiled with a shake of his head, turning back to dinner. Dinner was heated up now and there was no time to follow through on the thought of carrying the other man into the bedroom in order to see that earlier rocking promise through.

So the advisor mentally disciplined himself so that he could pretend he wasn't affected but he kept his smile as he began to set dinner down. "Indeed, I'll look forward to learning it from you."

"I look forward to learning together," Nida counters. Because dancing with someone means learning them, and learning how you work together. It's better.

That statement had Ignis smile as he finished getting everything set down on the table. And as he went back for the vegetables, he gave Nida a quick kiss to the side of his head. "Right, we'll learn together then."

He really liked the idea of it and he had heard of it back home. But formal occasions would frown on things like that and so he never told Noctis about it nor would he have taught him anyhow.

"Best lessons are shared," he grins at his boyfriend.

"But first, I suppose, is the wonders of dinner," Nida grins as he moves to the table to start grabbing cups and filling them with water.

Nida got a smile and then Ignis let out a small laugh as he set the veggies down and grabbed some butter.

"Well there's plenty here I daresay."

There always was, what With having to feed four grown men back home he'd learned how to cook enough. Sometimes though he thought if he gave the boys even more to eat somehow it wouldn't go to waste.

"We'll have to keep the felines away," Nida smiles as he settles down to their dinner.

"Perhaps we should offer the leftovers to others."

Ignis waited for Nida to sit first as he usually did and then sat down himself. Really though he needed to get off of his tail and pull the other's chair out allowing him to sit first that way.

But at the thought of giving the food to others, he nodded. "And when it gets warmer, we can have dinner on the rooftop."

Ignis, come now, they can both live with taking turns at being gentlemen. For now, just be together.

"Dinner on the rooftop. With candles. And dancing."

He would need layers to do it now. Too cold here.

Green eyes lit up delightedly at the suggestion of candles and dancing. "We can add some flowers as well and have quite the time up there in the Spring." It sounded so wonderful he was going to have to climb up there and take a look around, and maybe write some plans down in his book.

They truly could have a magical evening to themselves if they tried.

"Flowers, huh? Sounds like a plan to me. Maybe we should look into this."

How did they keep it private, though?

Well a magical evening (or rather evenings as Ignis planned to do this often) under the stars on the rooftop was the plan. But of course the advisor would want to keep it private as well. Too bad there wasn't a way to completely make it private but he most certainly would work on that. After all, things such as making out or more without being seen or caught would truly make it magical.

Nodding at the flowers comment, Ignis started getting their plates together. "But of course, why stop at one or two ideas if the whole thing can be properly pulled off?"

What, no sock on the door knob to the roof to solve it? Well, they'll figure something out.

"You're making this a whole thing, aren't you? In your head it's so much more. I like that. The way you plan."

Ignis smiled as he finished getting the food done. "Well, I certainly wouldn't wish to do something..what is the expression..half assed?" And while he wasn't the type of person to do that, this was more to show Nida that he listened and paid attention. The rooftop and stars were important to the man and the advisor wanted to do everything within his power to show that these things were important to him now too.

He loved making his beau happy, and he loved to do it.

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