Alive and Kicking (Chrissy x Eddie)

He turns the music up to almost ear-shattering decibels so that he doesn't put his foot in his mouth and say something really, really dumb to her.

When they arrive, the mosquitos dance around the dingy light of the streetlamp.

He jumps out and turns, seeing Chrissy cautiously approach.

"This is, uh, my castle."

Wow, apparently he needs his music on at all times because that was incredibly cheesy and the definition of a dumb thing you don't say to girls that are cool like Chrissy.

But she laughs. She smiles and looks up and steps toward him, not away.

He opens the door, letting her in first. The smell of her perfume, something not overly floral and almost woodsy, wafts over him as she passes, the scent swinging from her ponytail.

He could get drunk on that smell, he thinks in a haze as she passes him.

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4x01!AU: Chrissy lives.

Eddie x Chrissy; told in snippets.