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"I want to see your face light up at every new thing." Andy says, holding her close. "Sometimes, I have these crazy dreams about us a couple of years down the line, where we're taking trips to all sorts of places and just being happy."

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"I wholeheartedly approve of this idea. There's no reason we can't be happy now, in a few years, and as long as we want."

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"I really thought you'd end things after I told you what I'd done. I wouldn't have blamed you, either. " Andy says.

"But I want us to be happy as long as possible. Starting with the moment we get home." Andy says.

"We have cheesecake and lots of it. We should do something about that."

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Cue The Look. "You're talking crazy now, hon. I won't pretend I like what you've done, but it was reasonable when you explained why you did it." The dark interior hid a mischievous smile. "And then promising me cheesecake shenanigans is just devious on your part. I can forgive almost anything if you promise me cheesecake."

She looked out the window and realized they were a few blocks from her apartment. "Not far from here. We could run it faster than the cab. Care to race me?"

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"You...wanna race? Are you sure? I might have some hidden speed you don't know about." Andy grins.

"But if you're that eager to race, let's do this." Andy says.

"Driver, you can let us out here. My girlfriend wants to run the rest of the way." he says.

Of course, Andy plans to cheat a little, just to give Jenny an orthodox way to start the New Year.

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Considering how she spent the last one, having a drink with friends in a pub and going home alone, everything about this one was different in a good way.

She wished the driver a Happy New Year as she scooted out of the back seat into the cold night air. The traffic was too slow when she wanted to get home, warm and curl into Andy as long as she could.

She waited for him to pay the cabbie and took off running while he was occupied.

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Andy expected such treachery. He pays the cabbie, taking note of her far away Jenny got with each moment. As soon as the cabbie is paid off, Andy regards the distance between them, seems to think a moment, then takes off running.

Five steps into his run, he leaps into the air, covering most of Jenny's currently distance, to come down five feet behind her. There might be a sound of cracking concrete as he lands.

"Okay, you got your head start, Beautiful. Now what will you do?" he asks.

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She grinned over her shoulder, still moving as quickly as she dared on the icy sidewalk.

"Keep moving, natch," she called back. "There's no winner until it's done, and it's not over yet, hon."

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Andy reaches out to grab her.

"Well, it will be over when I catch you, but we won't be close to done." Andy grins.

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She made a show of evading his grasp, dancing from side to side like a prize fighter.

"You know you don't dare bump into me," she teased. "What'cha gonna do?"

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"I'm gonna cheat." Andy says.

Then he leaps ahead of her, heading toward the building.

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A cry of mock outrage followed him. "CHEAT!"

She ran after him, dodging other people and laughing out loud. Big demigod showoff! It was going to be so sweet to hear him beg later.

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Oh, he couldn't grab her now, but he would later.

"It's only cheating if I'm caught!" he yells, dashing toward her apartment.

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"I have the keys!" she yelled, running for the entrance after him. She'd never catch him, but she'd make him wait at the door!

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"You have /keys/. I can always take the door off the hinges!" Andy laughs. Not that he'd ever do that, unless Jenny was in danger on the other side of said door.

In any event, he just wants to see if his girlfriend will run any faster.

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She ran harder. That he would win was a given, but she wouldn't give up so easily. Not with the prize waiting to catch her.

"I don't want to have to explain that," she protested breathlessly, running full tilt into him when he stopped.

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Andy was not fully expecting Jenny to launch herself at him, but he expected some kind of trickery. He catches her and finds out, for the first time, the uses of her power outside the bedroom.

The pair of them hit the door and fall into it, not enough to knock it off the hinges, but Andy is pretty sure he's going to need to look at the frame in the morning.

Right now, they're both on the floor, near the couch. Andy is laughing madly.

"If we just broke the door, that was so worth it." he grins.

"But now you're all sweaty from running. What ever will we do about that?" Andy grins, reaching up to kiss her.

"Hm. I hear this place has a shower. Care to join me?" he asks.

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Jenny was pretty pleased at the results of her unexpected launch. Especially with landing on a demigod grinning back at her. The power burst exhilarated her.

"If we broke it, I'm telling people it was foreplay," she said, leaning down to meet his kiss. "Shower, play, sweat, repeat at will."

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"Yes, it was foreplay. So, if we crack the wall in the shower, can we say that was foreplay, too?" he asks with a grin.

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"If we manage that, I think we could call it mid-play." Still sitting on him, she began to strip off her coat. "I hope you kept your hotel reservation. We might need it if we damage too many things."

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