"Sounds like a plan." Kiss.

Kiss!

And then they can make their way back toward the hotel room.

Bellona sits in El's lap again on the subway ride back.

How squirmy can she make Bellona without other people realizing what she's doing?

The answer seems to be 'very,' at least until Bellona starts making actual noises (mostly loud giggles). The brief glances they get are definitely more in the genre of 'oh young love how sweet' or 'well, teenagers' than anything significant, though.

A decade and a half of experience in sisterly teasing is bearing a different sort of fruit now.

Bellona kisses her as the car's pulling up to their stop.

"You're mean," she teases.

"Why, thank you."

Helpless giggle.

Ruby snickers and stands. "C'mon, lovebirds. Unless you want to keep circling the station?"

"Not particularly, actually." Hup!

Hup!

She keeps hold of El's hand, of course, as Ruby leads them towards a much nicer hotel, with indoor plants and fancy shiny fixtures and a restaurant and bar and coffee shop and gym, and a very nice suite with two bedrooms and a living room and kitchen.

Two bedrooms, how fancy.

Seems to be only one bed per bedroom, still...

That's more of a feature, no?

She bumps her sister's shoulder.

"Absolutely. An empty bed'd be a waste of floor space."

"Shockingly inefficient."

"A tragic situation."

"Fortunately, it has been preemptively remedied."

Kiss. "Good. I hate having to spend extra energy on fixing things."

"There are better outlets for your energy."

"Like..." Kiss!

Kiss.

"Just so."

She nuzzles her sister. "I'm not quite in the mood to go to bed yet, though, even if the arrangement is sensible..." she says. (It's still pretty early, after all.) "Guess we could go dancing, or go bother our alts?"

"Dancing could be fun."