[closed - Les - morning after the blackout]

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Her ankle still hurts.

That's the first thing April registers when she opens her eyes in her bed at home and she winces a little, throwing back the covers to look at it. It's still swollen and she can't put much weight on it, but she gets up anyway and limps to the bathroom where she brushes her hair, washes off the rest of last night's makeup and brushes her teeth before going to the kitchen.

It's not until after she starts her coffee maker that she realizes the power is back on. She checks her phone to find both reception and a message from Les that makes her smile. Apparently they had both needed rescuing the night before and had both been unable to come through as the hero.

She sends him a text -- I'm okay. Survived the night. Come by when you can. I'll pretend to make you breakfast by ordering something in. then settles down on the couch to drink her coffee. Her conversation with Caden from the night before is still fresh in her mind and she smiles a little. Once Les is here, she'll see how he's feeling, then maybe ask him what his thoughts on Caden are.

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[lesparker]

Without any idea about her criminal past, Les takes her joke as it is and begins to chuckle, putting his hand back against her cheek and kissing her on the mouth. "Don't even worry about it. I like my women a little dangerous," he says. "And if you get arrested, I'll just. You know. Break you outta there." And he probably would more so because the cops in this town can be a headache, so it'd be kind of fun. "Anyway, it was perfectly fine. No one saw us. Aside from sitting in the dark for a few hours it was kind of fun," he admits.

It had actually been more than that. Since everything happened with Corry's father, they hadn't had an opportunity like that to just do something carefree and off in their own little Corry & Les world. It's not that he's keeping that from April, but he doesn't want to make things awkward for her. He knows how Corry feels about her newly discovered family.

"But if you want to spend the rest of the day with me, I don't mind," he teases with a grin.