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If he were being honest, yes, he'd probably liked to have kissed Rose at midnight. Octavius thought he'd have found a way to pose it to her in a subtle way, try to not make her feel awkward, or anything. It might have been an amicably mutual split up, but they were still former partners and there was that awkward business with Charlie and pretending to date him and whatnot, so of course it would be strange to ask. Probably stranger still to do it, but if it felt like the right thing to do, the hell with it, no?

That was about as far as he got in his deliberations before Rose planted one on him, effectively ending his detouring train of thought. Oh, good Merlin. Had someone flipped a Time-Turner? Was he actually unknowingly visiting two years ago? Just as his shock started to wear off and he was kissing her back in earnest, she broke away, leaving him next-to-sputtering.

His eyes were still closed. "I should say," Octavius said, blinking rapidly. A smile began to form, tentatively, and he raised a hand to rub nervously at the back of his neck. Was it even more inappropriate to ask to do that again? Did she regret it? Or did Rose want to do it again too? Did she—his breath did a funny gulping thing—what, want to get back together? Did he want to? What was going on!? The pleasant after-glow that one should always get from an exceptionally good snog was rapidly leaving him as a wave of panic and confusion descended. Overthinking was his strongest suit, though it was a talent he could happily do without. He tried surreptitiously to take deep breaths and shut his head off. It was a midnight kiss, so what? He'd had those before. He thought he had, anyway. Octavius could not actually remember. Maybe he'd done too good a job shutting his head off.

"Shame we never had one of these before," he added only the slightest bit hastily, pulling himself out his reverie. Did he just make an awkward reference to when they were together? No, that was all right—he could salvage it! "I feel like my 1983 is off to a quite good start already." Be better if I could snog you again, though.

Stop that!