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Andrew interrupted, grinning at her. Kaylee scowled and threw a sock at him.
     
                  “ You love it too ,” she argued, frowning as he ducked her terrible throw.
     
                  “ I do n’ t, I just watched i t‘ cause you wanted to ,” he retorted smugly .“I’ m a gentleman ,” he added, thrusting his chest out and jabbing it with his thumb like a two-year-old.
                 
                  “ Right ,” Kaylee snorted, bending over to pick up the sock and put it back in the basket. Andrew took the basket from her when she had finished and began his walk to the door.
     
                  “ Now, Alien , that would be great !” he continued, his eyes far-away looking as though he was remembering his first glimpse of Sigourney Weaver in her underwear. Kaylee did n’ t get it; she just could not understand what men found so attractive about that movie. Though by Aliens , the arsenal did get pretty impressive .“ And it might not be impossible, you know. Even if w e’ re all tha t’ s left, electricity is still an option . ”
     
                  “ Not in the summer ,” Kaylee murmured, following in Andre w’ s wake towards the stairs .“ At least not here . ”
     
                  “ Yeah, right ,” he answered, looking back at her over his shoulder .“ Not here . ”
     
                  Kaylee had heard this before. It was one of the reasons she thought leaving the city would n’ t be so bad, if she was n’ t so terrified of the actual journey. There were ways, out of the city, to generate electricity. They had a generator here, but it required gasoline and could n’ t handle very much and so was only used on the coldest days in the middle of the winter to keep them all from freezing. It broke down all the time and Bill was constantly swearing at it while he hovered over it with his set of tools. In the country there would be streams, running water, homes already equipped with large generators for when the snow and bad weather knocked their power out. If they got really lucky they could even stumble into a hydroelectric plant. Andrew had been studying every book he could find about them.
     
                  “ Yo u’ re starting to sound so much like your dad ,” Kaylee muttered, hanging her head and bumping into him when he stopped walking. Andrew turned and put the laundry down.
     
                  “ It would n’ t be such a bad thing Kay ,” he murmured, grasping her by the upper arms and looking down at her .“ We ca n’ t stay here forever, things just wo n’ t last the way they are. They ca n’ t .” Kaylee looked up at him and noticed how he eyes had gone soft and serious; how his lips had moistened, as though he had just licked them; how his head was lowering towards her. He was n’ t just talking about the food supplies or the need for electricity now. What he was talking about was so much more complicated than all of those mundane things.
     
                  But it should n’ t be , a voice whispered in her mind.
     
                  “ Andrew ,” she murmured, her voice low and hushed yet infused with hesitancy. It was not the tone he wanted, not the tone he hoped for and she knew that. His eyes closed and he held still, exhaling slowly.
     
                  “ Right ,” he said, his voice was slightly strangled as his hands slipped from her arms. He bent to pick up the laundry basket but before he could Kaylee stepped into his embrace. She hugged him tightly and felt him hunch into her, exhaling again.
     
                  “I’ m sorry Drew, I jus t —”
     
                  “ Do n’ t ,” he muttered, squeezing her once before letting her go .“C’ mon, le t’ s go put this away and then catch Emma reading trashy novels and pick on her for it .” Kaylee smiled as she