[EM] Dinner and no Coffee...

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Nadia had been in extremely high spirits for the past month. Being engaged wasn't even the tip of the iceberg for her, because she was more happy just to be alive and living with Eric. She wasn't sure that she could pinpoint the moment that she fell in love with him, but she knew that it hadn't been something she was looking for, but when she found

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It was a match made in Heaven...him, Nadia, the best restraunt in town, and the steak of a lifetime. It really felt like the best meal he ever had, but that might have been the diamond-encrusted glasses he was seeing through these days...the diamond in question being the one on Nadia's finger.

He caught her look when he initially ordered, and beaten her to the punch by making jokes about his own predictability...truth was, he liked it. He enjoyed that she knew him that well, and that he knew her just as well...more or less. Nadia was like Sydney in that respect, just enough of a wild card to keep you guessing...so she picked the baked salmon over the chicken, and the wine? That had caught him off guard.

The coffee thing, though...

"Okay, that? You're so fired for that." he teased with a quirk of his eyebrow. "No self-respecting member of any law enforcement agency, federal, covert, or otherwise would *ever* turn down a fine, fine cup of coffee, and with the tiramisu in this place, no less. C'mon...what's cookin'?"

"I've been

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Nadia laughed at him, shaking her head with an amused expression on her face. "No, no double and besides I'm not watching you vaccuum at three in the morning again, you've had enough coffee at work I'm sure

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"Okay, first off? I can never have too much coffee, don't you know that by now?" Eric teased, smiling when she laughed...God, he loved to make her laugh. Then of course, she was blushing and fumbling a little over whatever she had to say, and he was good with that, too...she was adorable when she blushed, for one.

Still, her jitters were making *him* jitter, just a little, and he couldn't help but wonder just what this was all about.

Leaning over a little, he laid one hand atop hers. "Hey...whatever it is, you know you can just say it, babe." he soothed with a grin. "I mean, you really got me wondering now. What'd you do, cheat on your taxes? Join the circus? Buy concert tickets to go see Hanson, 'cause I can definitely understand how that'd be humiliating..."

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Nadia was laughing again, because truthfully it was just an instinctual response when she was around Eric. There was something just about being around him that made her feel lighter, happier. The fact that he was trying to ease his own nerves with humor was also something that had endeared him to her. She took a sip of her water to clear her throat and to give her hands something to do.

With a deep breath and a warm smile, that really only Eric had ever seen Nadia exhaled slowly and reached for his hand, "I know it's so soon, and almost in fact... well it is sudden. I just know that my life has been spent rushing through everything and I have gotten to slow down with you. I've gotten to enjoy what living is actually like, and I've enjoyed it with you. I can't imagine another day without you, and..." she took one more breath and squeezed his hand gently nearly letting a nervous laugh of her own escape, "Eric, I want... I want us to have a baby."