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“Ok, so each point on this graphic represents a star.” Wally explained pointing at the graphic on Victoria’s monitor “Black points are normal stars. Blue and red points represent blue straggler stars belonging to two clear sequences. The blue solid and blue dashed lines are theoretical model predictions. The left sequence is composed of blue straggler stars formed roughly at the same time.”
“…Could you repeat the last three-quarters of that?” Victoria asked sheepishly, but with a knowing grin Wally just chuckled and began his explanation again, in all honesty? She only had to ask again because she got distracted by the color of his hair.
Victoria had always liked stars, but she wanted to have some more knowledge on astrophysics, after all, now she had the chance to learn much faster than a regular person, she liked to take advantage of that.
Besides, it turned out Wally had a hidden love for the subject, or well, not really hidden, but it just wasn’t a subject he had mentioned as much. Now, having Wally as her tutor for a subject he was so interested in had made both of them closer and happier, it was a total win situation.
“…expelled within several million years, star clusters had long been thought ‘infertile’ stellar systems that can’t form any new stars…”
Well, it would be more of a win situation if she didn’t have to catch herself every once in a while from getting distracted on her boyfriend’s voice instead of what exactly he was trying to tell her.
Not that he was a bad teacher, no way, it was effortless to understand what he meant, but she’d get lost on her own daydreams whenever she’d see him getting excited over things like this.
“…When the very core of clusters collapse under the gravity of all the stars in the small volume of space, the cluster becomes extremely dense, and many stellar collisions can happen in the core region, and then a whole lot of straggler stars get produced from it” He finished looking at her with a grin.
When Victoria raised her hand from over her desk to ask him a question he smiled, feeling confident about answering whatever question she might have, so he nodded for her to ask away.
“So, how do magnetic fields play into this?” She asked innocently.
Wally glared at her “Fuck off; I don’t know.”
She laughed at his answer, over the last couple of days she had realized magnetic fields were pretty much the bane of their existence for astrophysicists. Wally was trying to look at her with the best frown he could muster.
His expression didn’t last long, a smile soon found its way to his lips as he stared at his girlfriend being so happy “You are terrible, were you even listening?” He asked loudly.
“Yeah! I was, I promise!” She quickly tried to reassure him, he looked unconvinced “These clusters should be infertile and unable to produce any more stars but when the clusters collapse because of the gravity in that small volume of space, which, surely has a lot to do with their magnetic—“
“Yeah, yeah, stupid magnetic fields, I got it” He chuckled rolling his eyes “Alright, you were listening, sorry for doubting you.”
“You better be” Victoria raised her head triumphantly “How could you think I would be so irresponsible, I bring you into my home, offer you cookies and hot chocolate and yet you assume I have no respect for you!” She dramatically claimed
“Oh come on, I saw you staring at me instead of the screen, not like I don’t like the attention though, and Alfred offered me cookies” Wally smiled and leaned down to kiss her forehead.
She sighed happily at the feeling of his chapped lips and before he could separate from her she reached out for his hands and took them in hers, Wally caught up into her fingers exploring his palms and remained close.
They were quiet for a couple of moments before Wally leaned back with a sigh “Enough physics.” He said and reached down, the office chair rolling back slightly as he lifted his girlfriend up and walked her towards the couch.
She smiled and leaned into him as he sat down with her in arms.
“You’re like a magnetic field,” He told her after a moment of thinking, Victoria looked up to catch Wally already looking down at her, exploring his words as he stared at her like he was looking for an answer, he cleared his throat
“I don’t always understand you, I have no idea what you’re thinking half the time, even though you are something I should for the most part understand, it seems so simple, and then you baffle me completely by doing something I think impossible: you make me like you even more. The difference is that I don’t want to stop talking about you.” He grinned
“Also, electromagnetic forces outstrip gravitational forces in strength by a huge factor, and babe, I don’t gravitate to you, I am completely stuck on you.” He finished while running a hand through her hair.
“That was the most beautiful nerd-fact slash compliment I have heard” Victoria grinned up at Wally fascinated and kissed him, he chuckled leaning down so she could reach better.
Once the kiss was over though, Wally yelped in surprise feeling as Victoria’s fingers reached his sides “No, wait, don— Hahaha! STOP” He panicked, trying to get the girl off him, but she was relentless.
Victoria laughed with a terrible grin Wally knew too well, the grin she used whenever she was about to wreck you up, and darn it; Wally was ticklish.
He knew there was no fair way out of her grasp, so within a blink of her eyes she was soon the one being pinned as Wally rushed, he grinned down at her for a moment as she took a grasp on the change of situation. Her eyes widened frightened.
“Walls, I’m sorry.”
“It’s too late for apologies, gorgeous” His grin widened as he reached down to her armpits making her burst out into yells and laughter.
He continued his attack with her trying to apologize all the while “Was it worth it, Vic?” He asked in between laughs as his fingers reached down to her belly.
“You know wh-aaa-at? It was!” She managed to say between her crazy laughter only making things worse for herself. Finally, she succumbed, unable to endure the torture much longer, “Alright! I-it wasn’t! Wally! Ple-e-ease!”
Finally, Wally laughed triumphantly and stopped, they both took deep breaths to relax from all the laughter, Wally rested half his weight on top of her, too tired to move from where they were resting as he gave her a warm smile.
She grinned back at him, catching onto how bright his eyes were, he was so happy.
She was about to try and lean down to kiss him when he started speaking, strange words she had a hard time processing made their way to her ears over his dreamy gaze “I love you so much.”