For couples_therapy 4. Discuss a favorite memory you have with

[call_me_snake]

Snake hugged her every time they met. He still loved her though now it was more appropriate for their ages than it had been in the past. He tried to think of it in that matter an only laughed. She was older than Bria. He really couldn’t win.

“What are you laughing about?” Katherine poked him in the side as she pulled back.

“Nothing.” He shook his head but the grin didn’t leave.

“Come on, Plissken.” Katherine had those big eyes and coercive voice that he couldn’t say no to.

“Remember how it was so bad for us when you... when we got together?” Snake felt embarrassed about what he was thinking.

“Yeah, you old cradle robber.” She was teasing.

Plissken laughed again. “I was just thinking how we got an “Appropriate relationship” for our ages.”

Katherine cocked her brow up because she wasn’t following. “How is that funny?”

Plissken felt his cheeks flush. Some women could embarrass him. Katherine was one of them. “My wife’s younger than you.”

A smile spread in her expression before she burst into hearty laughter. “YOU! Haven’t changed at all.”

“Is that a bad thing?” Snake asked chuckling as her laughter caught on to him.

“No.” Katherine gave him another hug before they sat down in the booth they’d been waiting for at the Thai place Snake frequented. “She better be taking good care of you.”

“I think she’s making me fat.” Snake said off hand. It was a joke around his house so why not here too?

‘You have put on some since I saw you last year.” Katherine was hidden behind her menu.

“Seriously?” Snake momentarily felt paranoid.

“Are you worrying about your weight?” Katherine lowered her menu to give him a queer look. “When did that happen?”

Snake shrugged while sipping his water. “When I started getting old and lazy.”

She shook her head and brought the menu back up. “You are not lazy and if you are, you deserve it by now.”

Snake saw wisdom in what she was saying but still laughed at it. He put in his order waiting for Katherine to do the same.

“So tell me about this, even younger girl you have now.” She was teasing him for his taste in women. The Diamond Dolls always had.

“She’s a lot like you.” Snake smiled. “Even took advantage of me while I was drunk and high the first time, just like you.”

“I did not take advantage of you.” She sounded insulted but Snake would bet it was fake.

“I was drunk and high when you came in getting all over me in all that red lace.” Plissken pointed at her but the grin never left.

“How was I to know you were crocked?” Katherine huffed as she batted his finger away.

Plissken leaned forward and whispered. “When was I sober back then?”

“Never.”

“See, did know.” Snake blurted out in his overly cocky tone. Both of them started laughing.

“I bet she keeps you on your toes.” Katherine grinned trying to stifle the remaining laughter.

“I like it better when she takes me off of them.” Snake couldn’t help but banter with someone as close to him as Katherine was.

Katherine rolled her eyes at him. “Dirty old man.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment from you.” Snake pulled out a cigarette grinning until she kicked him in the shin for it. They both went on laughing. It was good to be able to see Katherine again without worrying about her life. He really missed her though he dreaded that moment when her and Bria started talking. But the dread was good.



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