"I heard you wanna make everyone immortal. So, did Bella order you out of a catalog or are you an illegal science experiment?"

He laughs. "I like you. Did Isabella tell you that? You're cool. And as far as I know I'm neither, it just so happens that sometimes more than one person has huge prosocial ambitions at a time, I know, surprising, right?"

"She did tell me that. I just expected it'd take her forever to find one, and for all I knew everybody like-minded she met would be a dom too or whatever."

"Yeah, I've been calling it serendipity in my head."

"Sounds like a romcom. A weird niche romcom."

"Yes. 'A couple of lost eclipsed save the world and, unexpectedly, each other,' or something," he giggles.

"I can think of one person who required a romance to 'save' them and it's not either of us," snorts Isabella.

"Well, a romcom about us would certainly have some of that when fictionalized, and we'd probably not start dating until we'd fought at least two villains together. Also I bet they'd make me much subbier than I am in general."

"Yeah, there's like no switches in the movies, Mom complains."

"Yeah, wow, I bet they'd give me long hair. I'm wayyyy too lazy to take care of long hair."

"Or they'd, like, have you think you're a switch but then discover that you're actually not when you meet her, and then grow your hair out."

"Yeah, that's plausible," he snorts.

Isabella laughs and scritches Sadde.

Okay he may go a bit subbier for that.

"Awww."

He grins. "What can I say, Isabella is my one weakness, which the villain will have to somehow exploit, and then it turns out the sub will rescue the dom, and we can all pat ourselves on our backs for being so subversive."

"Truly a love story never before told."

"Well, the bit where the 'everyone lives happily ever after' part actually includes everyone is pretty new."

"Oh, we're leaving out the love triangle?"

"Who would we even triangle with?"

"In a movie? Jackson, probably, he'd be competing with me for your affections and defect to the villains when you 'discovered you were a sub'."

"Uh, yeah, there's no way, shape, or form that I'd ever be Jackson's dom. If I'd never met you I'd probably have dommed him a couple of times, but nothing remotely longer term than that."

"And then he'd probably follow you around like a sad puppy literally all of the rest of your life, I can't see that being a good idea."

"Well, maybe I could order him to go to therapy and take care of himself, then, and he'd actually get a personality and such and not be a sad puppy forever."

"Maybe. With any luck his new dom will straighten him out."