Missing (OTA)

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Liz stood in the middle of the lobby with a quiet, panicked look on her face. She turned around a second time, surveying the scene around her, but the second pass didn't help any. She ran a hand through her hair and then headed for one of the couches. She pulled back the cushions, digging her hand into the crevice of the gaudy plush decor and when her hand emerged empty, she felt her chest tighten.

Liz's journal was missing.

She thought she had brought it back to the room yesterday after studying in the cafe, but this morning when she went to review her notes from the day before, she had discovered that the familiar book she had so many things in was gone. She had checked the library, the restaurant, the cafe, even the kitchen itself. It had to be somewhere, right?

(ooc: Find her pretty much anywhere. Also! Feel free, if your character would so choose, to find the journal and read all or some of it because I am a cruel mistress.)

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She let out a suddenly playful yelp as she backed away again. It was harder to move in the water as deep as it was. Liz's expression can't remain serious despite herself. It never could when she was pretending around Peter. And then suddenly she tried to splash him.

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Peter splashes her right back. He's not going to let her off that easy just because she's his girlfriend.

"So this was your plan from the beginning," he says with a laugh. "Lull me into a false sense of security and then launch your attack."

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She yelped again as the cold water hit her face, tensing with her hands out like he hands could stop the onslaught. She laughed. "It's all part of my evil plan" She giggled, splashing with both her hands this time as she backed up a little.

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"Hey!" Peter protests. Still, he will not be subdued! Squinting, Peter pushes through all of Liz's splashing and makes an earnest attempt to catch her.

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Catch her he does, even when she tried to evade, and she let out a surprise, playful screech. Liz pretended to struggle, but couldn't stop laughing.

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Peter smiles, and in a desperate attempt to subdue, he presses his lips to the side of her neck.

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Almost instantly does the struggling stop - her neck being one of the places that she quite enjoyed his mouth on already. In fact, she practically melded into his body, though the amusement she felt continued into a wide, warm smile. He cheeks a little flushed despite the water around them.

"That's cheating too." Though she didn't sound like she minded at all.

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"It's making good use of my available resources," Peter insists, planting another kiss further up her neck, right behind where neck met ear.

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She felt a burst of butterflies like fireworks go off in her chest. Her hands against his shoulders curled in a little and she inhaled quietly - the two more physical signs he had definitely won the battle she had started.

Her right hand moved along the back of his shoulder, fingers tangling in the hair at the base of his neck. "You are... really resourceful." And distracting enough to make forming a sentence a little more difficult.

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"Yeah?" Peter's still smiling. "I've been told that."

He moves his lips away from her neck and back to her lips. One hand finds its way to the nape of her neck; the other settles comfortably on her back.

Peter briefly recalls what Alec told him about pools and he pushes that particular thought aside before it can really seize hold over him.

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She kissed him back. Her eyes fluttering closed and Liz pressed against Peter like her body knew how to perfectly against him. There was something about when Peter initiated them kissing that made Liz feel weak at the knees and she was grateful for being in a lake where standing wasn't necessarily.

Liz kissed him again, pressing close to him and deepening the kiss while letting her tongue press forward.

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The fingers on the nape of her neck trace a path down to her shoulderblades. It occurs to him that maybe he should be worried about someone finding them, but they were up to their shoulders in water, and --

-- well, it didn't matter anyway. Everybody knew they were dating, so they had to know they were doing more than handholding now.

Peter pulls away briefly and looks at Liz. "Are you okay with fooling around?"

More than just handholding or kissing.

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It was ironic that people told Liz she had to get out of her mind more. While she might over think a lot of things, with Peter it was the opposite. She didn't think at all sometimes, but followed how she felt.

She looked at him, biting her lower lip as she nodded twice.

"...if you are."

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Continued here.