Engagements! (Noah, Daria)

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They had come to Bali for Daria's birthday and it was their last night in the gorgeous country. Noah had something special planned for the both of them. He took Daria out for a nice dinner that was their kind of fancy. When they were both full and had partaken in a few fruity drinks, Noah whisked her off to a Balinese night club. After dancing for hours, Noah suggested that they take a walk on the beach. He had ulterior motives, but he covered it all in just wanting to get away with her.



They walked in the sand in front of the resort they were staying in. The waves lapped at the shore and the moon glittered on the water. Noah wrapped his hand around Daria's and he grinned. "I really love being here with you," he said softly.

Daria turned to smile at Noah, the endless warm, black wash of the Indian ocean behind him. He was so, incredibly beautiful. "I love it too," she said. "I think... I though that I was in love with this place, a bit. When I came here when I was pregnant and loosing my mind, it made me feel real, and good, and whole again. And I was noticing that feeling again this time, except that I've been feeling that way for a while - before we came back here. I've been feeling this way for a while and it's all because of you." She slid her arms around his neck, touched her forehead to his.

Noah grinned widely as Daria said such sweet things. He wrapped his arms around her waist and he kissed her forehead. "I feel that way too. Actually that's pretty much what I wanted to tell you." And he wanted to propose, but he let what he had said sink in first.

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Daria laughed happily. "Well I beatcha to it, didn't I?" she said smugly, leaning forward to kiss his neck. Her cheeks were sore from grinning all night, but she was exquisitely, perfectly happy about this. "You make me laugh," she said, pulling back to rest her forehead against his, her hands cupping the back of his neck. "You make me make myself laugh, and there was a good long while when I didn't think I could do that anymore. And you make the girls laugh! And you are so goddamn perfect, you are this perfect piece of my family. I kinda wanna keep you around forever." She kissed his lips. "We should get married."

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Noah blinked as she brought up getting married out of the blue. Then he burst out laughing as he realised she had sort of undermined all his plans with one sentence. He didn't mind in the least.

Returning the kiss while still laughing was slightly awkward, but he couldn't help it. She was wonderful. "Well isn't it handy I have a ring for you then?" he said when he finally pulled back. He reached into his pocket and fished it out so he could hand it to her.

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"What? You what?!" Daria exclaimed through her laughter, grabbing the hand that wasn't holding the ring and jumping up and down. "You have a ring?!" She pointed at it, then at his face, then back at the ring again. "You were going to ask me to marry you!?"

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Noah's laughter only grew harder when she reacted with such glee at seeing the ring. "I really was," he said, chuckling as she pointed at him. "I kind of love that you beat me to it."

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"Well that's a relief!" Daria said, although she didn't have any fear that he would mind. She knew how he loved her (they'd been telling each other how much they loved each other all night) and that her habit of letting her mouth lead the way was part of it. She should probably calm down a wee bit, and stop vibrating and pointing. "Do you want to still ask? I mean I guess I just gave away the answer! But if you want to! You seem like you've maybe thought about this. Not that I haven't! I have. I really have. But you've got the props!"

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He could still get down on one knee and ask her to be his wife, but he actually liked this way better. It was just...so them. She was excited and hopping about and her joy was infectious, especially since this meant they were engaged.

They were going to get married.

"I've been thinking about it for months now, but I never could have planned it going as perfectly as this," Noah said honestly, grinning so hard his face ached. "How about we ask each other. I like the idea of it being a mutual thing so much more anyway!"

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"Yeah, yeah!" Daria grinned, grabbing his shoulders with her hands and locking eyes with him, she put on a much more serious face. "Alright, shall we do this on three?"

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"On three!" he said excitedly. He watched her eyes as they counted up, "One. Two. Three. Will you marry me?" And then, because she had said it at the same time, he grinned and said, "hell yes!"

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"Hmm, I don't know..." Daria said. It was taking all the strength that was in her to keep a straight face. "That's a big step. Maybe we should just be friends."

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Noah snorted and then he leaned forward to kiss her. "Uh huh," he said, amused. "Pants friends?"

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"Mmm pants friends," she agreed, giving up on the act as she slid her hands down onto his butt. "Pants friends forever. Ha! If that is in our vows, my Dad will be so- actually he'd just laugh. Pants friends forever. PFF. Excellent."

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"It's so going in the vows now," he chuckled as he wrapped his arms around her. "And I think we should put it on the invitations. And on the cake."

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"The cake should be pants," Daria decided. "Or at least little, tiny icing pants. So small no one will know what they're eating... till it's too late."

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"You are amazing," he informed her then, and moved to kiss her neck. "I love you, Pants Friend."

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"I know," she said, pleased, tipping her head back to give him more neck. The stars up there were excellent tonight. Everything was excellent. this trip had been a chance to breathe, away from London, and a chance to celebrate themselves (which they had absolutely been making the best of). She hadn't been lying when she said t=she'd been thinking about marriage lately. Ever since they'd started living together she'd been noticing how good of a family they made. How they dealt with everything that came along, the stress of having two tiny, often sick daughters, the stress of living in messed-up London, the stress of the mistakes they made, sometimes. How even when things were bad, at the end of the day they dealt with it as a team. She'd found a strength and a joy with him that she'd never found with anyone else. "Oh, oh," she realised, all of a sudden. "Did I say yes? I should say yes!"

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He stopped kissing her long enough to laugh at the fact that she hadn't even accepted and neither of them had realised it. "Yes is the best answer," he informed her before kissing her neck again."