Unwinding

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya's office door was shut. In hospital terms that meant 'don't disturb'. In the Brea's terms it meant 'time to relax'. It'd been a good week actually. They'd finished early and there was a little bit of time before Aya had to report for her volunteer weekend shifts. "Any plans sister-mine?" Aya asked over her shoulder as she walked over to the discreet stereo on one of her bookshelves.

"For the weekend?" Maya asked, thinking it over "...no. I'm tired of tennis." she admitted. "Maybe some house cleaning? Or, hey, gardening! There's that one vine I'm sure I can get to curl along our railing. It's big enough to start anyway..."

Aya nodded, clicking the volume on the music up until it was just loud enough to be heard. She liked to sway along to soft music, it was relaxing! "And the Irises are ready to be thinned...maybe spread them to two new beds? And sprinkle some wild flowers around them?" she suggested, wiggling out of her coat and hangng it up while dancing.

Maya eyed her sister and then fished a bottle of nail polish out of her purse. They relaxed in different ways! "Irises are all you dear, they don't like me. And that little tree..."

"The Bonsai? What's wrong with it?" Aya blinked, worried for a moment.

"Nothing except the morning glories want to eat it! Move it back here! You need more plants in here!" Maya waved the bottle of polish for emphasis, then nodded to the slim window in the back of office "It'll get enough light now right?"

"Hmmm, I could do that..." Aya admitted, thinking it over. "It's a lot stronger than it was when we got it, so translocation might not bother it."

"Sweetie, I'm pretty sure being dropped three stories won't hurt it at this point. It'sa a tough little thing...except when it comes to my vines."

"Fine, fine..." Aya laughed "I'll bring it in with me tomorrow alright?"

"Good girl." Maya smirked and put her foot up on Aya's desk to do her toes.

Taking that as a signal, Aya turned the music up a bit more.

Comments

[sliceitwithwind]

Braig leers, "You'll have to do a lot worse to make me afraid of you."

[mitochondriaaya]

Maya tilted her head back and laughed at that. "Good to know that I'm not as immediately terrifying as some people say." she joked. "So, what kind of experiments have we been abandoned for?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Auto-immune and hearts." he says softly, "And Dilan knows the most about the first, and the second isn't open for the public."

[mitochondriaaya]

She fiddled with her food a minute, swirling her chopsticks in the fondue rather than taking out her meat. "I don't need to know details." she admitted at last. "I just like to know where people are running off to. What about you, Braig? What experiments are going to pull you away sometime?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Still can't talk about most of that, but I'm also doing work in teleportation..."

[mitochondriaaya]

"That's just fine." she grinned. "Do you two ever work together on non-secret stuff? I can't imagine your specialties cross much...but I've been wrong before!."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Sometimes, yeah. Metaphysics and biology cross a lot."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Well, I'm wrong then." she laughed. "So sometimes we'll lose you both to science. Or, if it's a really bad night I'll lose all three..."

[sliceitwithwind]

"If it's not confidential we can smuggle you in and feed you hot cocoa." Braig offers with a leer, "Dilan makes a mean cup of cocoa for a guy who hates sugar."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hmmm late night labs, smuggling...how could a girl say no to such adventure?" she said it teasingly because labs weren't really her thing...but she'd put up with a lot to keep people company. "Probably because he likes people who adore sugar? Adaptation in the name of affection?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Pretty much." Braig grins, "If you ever want to really make his day, offer to trade strawberries for chocolates. He keeps chocolate on his desk for grad students."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hey, I'll have you know I'm a young and successful nurse practitioner! I can get my own chocolates!" she laughed. It was something (with modification) that Aya said in their dating arguments. She'd always found it funny. "Is it worth the strawberries?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Totally." Braig says with a grin, "He gets the good chocolates, and he doesn't force people to feed him strawberries. He just enjoys fruit like we do candy."

[mitochondriaaya]

"And strawberries are a particular favorite? I'll have to remember that." Maya grinned and set aside her chopsticks, more than full now. "So, strawberries and fruit for Dilan...and for you Braig?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Expensive chocolate and anything home made." instantly.

[mitochondriaaya]

She ended up laughing again. Really, the instant reply was...new. Most would have dithered. "Seems like you've answered that one before."

[sliceitwithwind]

"I know what I like, babe." Braig informs her happily, "And I'm not afraid to make myself clear. How about you? What are your dessert choices? Aya's, too."

But they are separate people and he wants it clear that even if he can't tell them apart yet he doesn't assume they're the same.

[mitochondriaaya]

"I'll keep that in mind." she promised lightly. "Me? Almost anything that's bad for me. Think warm brownies drowning in caramel and chocolate. That will get me anytime. Aya's fond of sherbert and ice cream, followed by chocolate with flavors of things she can't manage to eat fresh."

She really appreciated the distinction. Hopefully it'd stick!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Okay. So super sticky sweet things for you, obscenely decadent desserts. Aya likes sherbert and ice cream, then chocolate with flavours of things she's sensitive to. What kind of sherberts? Orange, strawberry, lime? And have you had the lava cake down at the Glass Lime?"

It's an upscale bar-slash-club.

[mitochondriaaya]

"Kill me with desserts." Maya agreed with a laugh. "Just about any flavor but coconut? She's not real picky..."

She had to think about the lava cake establishments she knew..."No, and I doubt Aya sampled it for me."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Want to go there next, then? After we're done here, before karaoke?" he grins at her "They've got some private rooms for Mitochondrials."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hmmm...depends. Do we have to wade through crowds to get to the rooms?" she asked. She wasn't sure how much of that she could stand today...

[sliceitwithwind]

"Nah. If you want to go I can call ahead and we can go in the back. Straight up to the hall with the rooms and you can pick one that is either fully private, has a window over the bar, or is a balcony."

[mitochondriaaya]

She tilted her head thoughtfully then smiled. "I could handle a balcony tonight...you're going to seriously try my promise to have you home at a decent hour aren't you?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yes, yes I am." he agrees with a grin "What can I say? I love the night. Dilan puts up with it as long as I don't mess around on weekdays."