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[plntfood]

With the dogs racing around the yard, Mathias steps back from the work he's completed on his hut and dusts his hands off on his jeans. Even if Veronica decides that moving in is not in the cards just yet -- although he thinks she will decide to do it -- he's glad that he's built the extension. The hut was large enough with the two bedrooms, but it'

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[neptune_sleuth]

"Someone else getting all your secrets?" Veronica asks, teasing, her hands swinging in front of her as she approaches. The house looks good, she realizes. The extra space added on fits it, is sturdy, livable. It's strange to look at the place and consider it as somewhere she might live when she's been in the same hut for years, but in the long run, the house has nothing to do with her choice. Heading over to him, she pushes up on her toes, kisses his cheek. "Careful I don't get jealous."

[plntfood]

"That was my goal," Mathias asks with a straight face, leaning into the kiss and resting his hand on her waist gently. "But if you prefer, I could speak to you in German as well. Pretend to tell you all my secrets even though I am just talking about my boring chores."

He smiles then, and leans in to kiss Veronica again, pressing his mouth to hers briefly. "And River is teaching me Mandarin, too."

[neptune_sleuth]

"I'm doomed," Veronica says, all mock-exasperation, then slips her arms around her neck, unable to maintain even that sliver of a pretense. "You couldn't learn a language I know?" There's English, of course, and she's not fluent in any others, only having dabbled in French and Spanish. It's something she knows she ought to correct now she has all the extra time, but somehow that time doesn't stretch as far as she feels it should.

[plntfood]

"You could learn Mandarin with me," he suggests, wrapping his arms around her waist in return, more than happy to leave the dogs and the work he's been doing to spend time with her. "Or I could teach you German. It isn't that hard and we could go at our own pace, unlike a class."

He pauses and adds, "I could teach Sam, too." At first he'd been joking, but now that he's thinking about it, it might be good for Sam to know German as well.