Raphael and Alice ready to merge,

“Hey you don’t need me to get you home do you? It’s pretty late.”

He had his hands on his hips, and his eyes were trained down at her. She knew the look well. The one that meant he was about to try to argue with her. He always got this look when he wanted to convince her something but she wasn’t sure how to respond or understand it, so she didn’t react at all.

It’s not that they didn’t have a relationship in fact, she had only known him for a little over three months, so she really did think of them as...