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[color=8882be]"Yeeeeeeup, we're already running late. They're supposed to be serving crepes for breakfast this morning, and I'm gonna want to stake out a few plates for myself early. So I'm gonna go and find Cap and Sangue, and [i]you,[/i]"[/color] Lauren clapped and leaned forward, biting down hard on Amy's lower lip the way she did to Ben's when he got uppity, [color=8882be]"get dressed and catch up with me. It'll surprise the shit outta everybody that way."[/color]

Lauren hopped backwards off of the bed and drummed on it enthusiastically for several seconds, before snapping her fingers and turning towards the hallway in the middle of a jog. She paused long enough to reiterate [color=8882be]"Surprise me!" [/color] in the middle of a pirouette before she completed her rotation and bounded out the door, slamming it behind her.

[color=8882be][i]Now, if I were Sangue, where would I be...[/i][/color]

Well, the answer to that one was with Lauren. Short of Lauren...

[color=8882be][i]I'd be with Ben![/i][/color]

Okay, that was easy. Now where would Ben be?

...

Again, probably with Lauren. Short of Lauren...

...

[color=8882be][i]Nah, I was already in the shower. I'd know if I saw him there.[/i][/color]

Could he have stayed in the Armory until dawn? That sounded unpleasantly like long, hard work, which was something that a self-professed slacker would recoil from...but then again, boys and their toys...

...

[color=8882be][i]So if I were Ben, and I had stayed in the Armory toiling and sweating all night...what would I want?[/i][/color]

...

[color=8882be][i][b]BESIDES ME.[/b][/i][/color]

Once Lauren applied the question to herself, however, it grew easier; she thought of her own exercise-driven mornings and her cooldown routine after - a routine that always included, above all else, a hot shower and...

[color=8882be][i]Some fresh clothes![/i][/color]

Lauren's grin was positively devilish.

[color=8882be]"[i]Caaaaap[/i]!"[/color] she called out through the hallways. [color=8882be]"I brought [i]your clooooothes[/i]!"[/color]