Baltimore, Maryland - Thursday Lunchtime

[itsananomaly]

Since Becker’s birthday was at the end of June, Connor and Cutter had decided to arrange a special birthday lunch for him and take him to one of the local museums on the mainland and show him their neck of the woods. Plus it was a nice way for both of them to spend time with Becker, since they hadn’t really done that lately with everything going on and since Cutter had gone on his camping trip with Becker the other week.

They were meeting for lunch first, Cutter had been able to print the photo of Becker licking the rock while fossil hunting on their trip and he’d made sure his shirt from shenanigans had been thoroughly cleaned and dried so that he could give it to Becker as well.

“So how are you liking Baltimore so far?” Cutter smiled as they sat at their table.

[for Connor and their guest. Up early for timezones. NFB for distance!]

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[itsananomaly]

Cutter smiled as he settled down to eat his food and continue to watch terrible reality tv ... that was really rather addictive, "we'll definitely get started on planning for next year's, won't we Connor? Don't worry Becker, between the two of us we'll come up with something equally amazing,"

[anomaly_research_nerd]

"For sure" Connor said as he enjoyed the food and the company, still marveling at how well everything had gone today. "We'll figure out some way to top all of this."

But for the moment the food, company, and terribly addictive TV shows were enough. And Connor was content to sit and just take it all in, hanging out with Becker and being with Cutter again, almost like old times back when he had first shown up in Fandom.

[itsananomaly]

“Absolutely,” Cutter agreed with a smile, “you deserve all the amazing birthdays Becker, I hope you really did have a wonderful time today,”

[thearcfamily]

Becker nodded in agreement and settled back, leaning against the pillows he had stacked up against the wall and got comfortable, freshly topped off glass of wine in hand.

And so it was, several hours later, the TV was still going and the bottle of wine, now empty, sat on the table by the bed. Becker looked over at Cutter and Connor. They had tried to hold out as long as they could, but somewhere around 1 am or so they had both passed out. He couldn't help but grin as he looked as he looked at them both sprawled out in the bed beside him.

[itsananomaly]

At some point in the evening Cutter had ended up draping his arm around Connor and had ended up snuggled in quite close to him without realising that he'd done it, every now and then he'd let out a contended snore as the bed was really comfortable and it hadn't taken long for him to fall asleep.

[anomaly_research_nerd]

Connor had tried to keep to the edge of the bed as best he could. He wanted to give Cutter room and not crowd him or anything. But at some point during the night he had ended up on his back, a bit sprawled out and had unconsciously ended up snuggled against Cutter a bit more than he had probably intended. But he was tired. He was comfortable. and most of all he was happy. So sleep had come easy- despite Cutter's snoring.