[IC] Chicago After Hours

[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River – Cary, IL
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Despite Cassiopeia concentrating on kissing Nic, her body is hyperaware of where his hands on. She sighs on his neck, directing her kisses down his throat to the pulse in his neck before she moves back up and reconnects her lips with his.

The kiss deepens briefly before Cassiopeia naturally slows the intensity of their kissing. She brushes her nose against Nic’s before sitting up.

Cass looks down at Nic, smiling before she slides off his lap and sits on the ground next to him.

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Fox River - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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When Cass breaks the kiss and sits up, Nic grins lopsidedly up at her, dimples showing. He watches her as she gets up off of him and slowly sits up. He kisses Cass’ cheek. “Did you want to stop by your place to change at all before we head to Caden’s?” Nic asks, brushing her hair and making sure nothing is sticking up.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River – Cary, IL
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Cassiopeia is also fixing her hair until Nic starts to help her, and she lets him take over. She smiled at his offer and shook her head. ”I’m fine. Do you need to change?” She turned her head and nuzzled herself into Nic’s neck, placing one more kiss before she pulled away and ran light fingers through Nic’s hair.

Cassiopeia watched how Nic’s hair shifted from her fingers. Once again, she marvelled at how soft his hair was.

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Fox River - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic shakes his head, smiling. “No, I don’t need to.” He plucks a couple of strawberries out of the container and offers one to Cass as he eats the other.

“We should probably start towards Caden’s.” He says after smoothing down Cass’ hair one final time. It would take a hour to get back to Chicago still and then there’s the thirty minute drive from the city to Caden’s.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River – Cary, IL
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Cassiopeia happily accepted the strawberry from Nic and ate it in a couple of bites. She sighed when Nic mentioned Caden’s. All she wanted to do was go back to her place with Nic, maybe open a bottle of wine and talk. But Kimiko was at Caden’s, and she had answers for Nic.

”Yes, you’re right.” Cass looked at Nic and smiled warmly before pecking his lips. She shifted her focus and started to pack up, putting the garbage into their temporary table bag.

[Donut Look Now]

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Fox River - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic chuckles and kisses her cheek when she sighs. “That Kimiko kind of threw a wrench in any plans we had for today, I’m sorry.” Nic says, tucking a strand of hair behind Cass’ ear before starting to help with packing everything up.

“If we’re going to make trips out to Cary for the art museum, we should have a picnic every so often to visit these willows again.” He stands up and places a hand on one of their trunks before picking up most of the paper bags.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River – Cary, IL
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Cassi gets herself to her feet after moving the bags to the bench so they would be easier to grab. ”No, she’s the one who should be sorry,” Cassi said, mildly joking.

Nic beats Cassi to putting hands on the tree, and she smiles. She walks over, setting her hand next to Nic’s.

”They say we’re more than welcome. They liked the extra wind on a warm day,” she said with a laugh. Cass turns and rests her hands on Nic’s arms. ”I’d like that. Any excuse to be outside,” she said and wiggled her bare feet on the ground.

[Donut Look Now]

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Driving - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic grins at her, chuckling, before kissing her head. “You’re so cute.” He tells her before they start heading back towards the parking lot.

“So, what kind of drink are we getting for the drive?” He asks of his little drink goblin.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River – Cary, IL
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”Ooo!” Cass exclaims, hopping along happily with a bag in her arms as she thinks about it. ”I really liked that cider you go, so I’m feeling something sweet and bubbly like that. What about you?”

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Fox River - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic chuckles as Cass bounces around like a little bunny. “Then, let’s see if we can’t find an Italian soda place or something nearby. Would you like to do the honors?” He asks of her. He digs the keys out of his pocket while keeping a hold on both Cass and the bags.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River – Cary, IL
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”I can do that,” Cass agreed. She waits until Nic gets the car unlocked. She had left her bag inside with her cell phone, knowing she wouldn’t need it here. Once everything is in, Cassi climbs into the passenger seat of the SUV and pulls out her phone to search for a place that’s local.

[Donut Look Now]

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Driving - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic unlocks the car and packs the bags in the back of the SUV again, smiling to himself as he walks around the car and gets into the driver’s seat. He pulls out his own phone then to help with the search, already placing a hand on Cass as he does so.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River – Cary, IL
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Between the two of them, it doesn’t take long to find a shop within ten minutes of their location that sells Italian sodas along with other drinks and food. Once the address is put in the navigation system, Cass relaxes in her seat, claiming Nic’s hand with her own.

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Driving - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic gently squeezes Cass’ hand as they make the short drive to the shop, and then again as they walk into the store. There’s a counter that someone mans where you can get the Italian sodas made fresh, but there’s also a myriad of vintage candies and glass bottles to choose from as well. Nic absolutely loves the store already.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Fox River —> Italian Soda Shop – Cary, IL
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Cassiopeia looks around the shop and gets distracted by the candies. ”Oh, we have to get some of these!” Cassiopeia says excitedly.

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Italian Soda Shop - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic laughs, pulling Cass close to him to kiss her head before nodding. “Should we get enough to share with everyone?” He asks with a smile before letting go of Cass so she could look around. So cute.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Italian Soda Shop – Cary, IL
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”Oh, probably,” she said and grabbed a bag to start filling with all different types of candies for everyone. Then she grabbed a second bag and looked at Nic. ”Okay, now which ones do we want?”

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Italian Soda Shop - Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic leans over a little so he can see the options. “Well, I’m partial to salt water taffy, what about you?” He grabs a fistful and puts the little wax-paper wrapped candies into the bag.

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[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Italian Soda Shop – Cary, IL
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Cassiopeia looked over the rows of colourful candies and hummed over the options and Nic’s questions. ”Anything that’s good,” she said. ”but these jelly candies look good.” Cass grabbed a handful of those to add to the bag she would share with Nic, then grabbed some hard candies. She spun both bags shut and walked towards the counter to look over the different types of Italian sodas that could be made.

[Donut Look Now]

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Nicholas “Nic” Wu

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Location: Italian Soda Shop- Cary, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Nic laughs at her answer, finding it endearing, as he follows Cass to the counter. He leans down to whisper in her ear. “Oh look, they have a raspberry-peach soda.” He points at the menu behind the counter before resting his chin on her shoulder.

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