[ sneaky and it prompts the corners of his lips to twitch, the threat of a smile. no hallucination or vision could even hope to be like this, so real and so perfectly her, right down to the very cadence of her voice. he isn't at his apartment, but he's close. she caught him during his trek back. ]

You always did like to tease me.

[ which is bordering a joke, but there's too much of that lingering warmth bleeding into it for it to hit its mark. she saw through him from the very start, he thinks. it makes him feel transparent, now, but she's the last person he'd duck away from. ]

But I think they're sneakier than they let on. It's a good deal. There has to be some kind of catch, right?