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Rial's working, stretched out on the couch and staring at a datapad. Totally not actually comprending anything.

He wonders briefly where Plourr is, and whether or not he can convince her that they should have another holiday.

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"Um. No?"

Ahhhhhh.

"Shut up, I'm asking if you'll take the throne with me."

"Okay?"

Her smile fades.

"That's not exactly a resounding response."

"Oh, kriff, Plourr, of course I'll do it."

He tilts her chin up, and looks her in the eyes.

"It's just a lot to think about."

"Why?" she asks defiantly. "It's not like we would have duties any different than what we do now. It's just a title." That's what she keeps trying to convince herself of, anyway.

"Yeah, I know. It's just - oh, forget it."

He tugs her down again.

She raises herself back up on her elbows. "It's just what?"

"Nothing."

Count Zen, calm and refined, looks back at her.

And Princess Cranky, worried and a little upset, looks back at him.

"If you have reservations, I'd rather hear them than have them go unsaid, Rial."

"I'm nervous, okay?"

He growls low in his throat and tilts his back, away from her.

"I don't like the responsibility that comes with a title."

"But it's the same responsibility you have now," she says, stung by the moving away from her. "Probably even less, because I'll be here to share it."

"But people don't think like that."

He sighs.

"Count is a lot different from emperor. And besides - Emperor Rial Pernon? It sounds funny."

"Who cares what they think? And it doesn't," she says stubbornly. "It sounds dignified."

Rial rolls his eyes.

"No, it sounds like some stupid would-be dictator with bad hygiene."

Sobering a bit, "But I'll do it. I love you and I married you and I'll do it and probably even enjoy it."

Plourr tries not to laugh. But a muffled snort escapes her, anyway.

She smiles very softly down at him. "Thank you."

"You're welcome, my princess."

And he smiles at her.

"I need to teach you how to take cues, I think."

Rial laughs, and leans up and kisses her softly.

"You do?"

"I was going to say that was a perfectly good excuse to kiss me."

"Well."

He smirks.

"Maybe I can take a hint."

Plourr laughs low, presses a kiss to the corner of his mouth. "Maybe you can."

And Rial just grins.

Because this? Is pretty damn good.

Is it hard to keep grinning when someone's kissing you (rather intently, at that)? Time for a scientific experiment!

It is.

It really is.

Rial also really doesn't care, and kisses back, pausing only to breathe.