"I can't believe you've never been to a carnival before." Cosima said as she and Delphine walked hand in hand through the carnival.

"I was always too busy with school." Delphine responded.

"Ah. You were one of those kids." Cosima pulled Delphine towards a game.

"One of those kids?" Delphine asked as Cosima began to throw a ball at a stack of cups.

"Yeah, the kind who always studied and didn't have a social life." The ball missed cups.

"I guess I was like that." Delphine took a turn at throwing the ball. She hit the cups. She clapped her hands together in celebration.

"Don't worry, I was like that too." She nudged Delphine in the arm. Delphine picked out a brown bear for Cosima.

"For you." She handed it to her girlfriend. Cosima took it happily.

"Merci." Cosima said in her best French accent. "Now I wanna win you something!"

Delphine laughed and let Cosima pull her toward another game. This time it was shooting basketballs through a hoop. "Are you sure, chérie? Isn't basketball for tall people?" She said in a mocking tone.

"Hey! I'm not that short!" Cosima rebutted. "Besides this isn't about height, this is about physics."

"Is that so?" Delphine leaned against the counter, watching Cosima.

"Mmhmm." Cosima hummed. "It's all about getting the angle..." She lined up her shot and took aim. "…just right." The hoop swished as the ball fell through it. She did it a few more times and soon enough she was handing Delphine a stuffed panda bear.

Delphine beamed and took the bear happily. "What next?" She asked.

"Hmm." Cosima considered it for a moment. "How about the Ferris wheel?"

Delphine swallowed. She wasn't quite ready to admit she was terrified of heights. "Or we could play some more games."

Cosima eyed her suspiciously. "Yeah we can do that. There's a ring toss game we can play." Delphine let out a breath of relief. They spent a while playing games and soon enough they had their own army of stuffed animals. They had too many to carry around so they just ended up handing them out to little kids while keeping the first two they each won for themselves.

"I really wanna ride something now." Cosima said eventually. Delphine became nervous. "We haven't ridden one ride while we've been here."

"There's a carousel over there." Delphine points to a larger version of the kid ride.

"Carousel? But that's boring!" She began gesturing to all the rides around them. "There's a slingshot thing that I've always wanted to try. And there's that thing" she pointed toward a pendulum-like ride. "and there's a swinging boat, those are always fun!" Delphine had become increasingly panicked by Cosima's exclamations.

Cosima noticed "Delphine?" She put her hand on Delphine's arm in a comforting gesture. "Babe are you okay?" Delphine gave her a worried look. "Oh my god, are you afraid of heights?" Delphine looked down in embarrassment.

"Hey it's okay, we don't have to ride them if you really don't want to."

"I had a bad experience once. The one rollercoaster I did ride, I nearly fell out of when I was younger." Delphine admits.

"Well that explains that." Cosima takes Delphine's hand. "I won't let you fall out." She smiles brightly up at the taller woman.

Delphine chews on her bottom lip. "Maybe I could try."

"Really?" Cosima gets excited again.

"Can we take it slow?"

"Of course." Cosima says. "Why don't we try the rollercoaster? The smaller one." It was small, it didn't have too many bumps or twists and it wasn't too high off the ground.

Delphine hesitates. "O-okay."

"Relax, it'll be fine." Cosima pulls Delphine toward the rollercoaster.

"I feel silly." Delphine says as they sit in the small cars. They are surrounded by kids and their parents.

"Don't worry about it." Cosima waved her off. The rollercoaster started with a slight jerk. Delphine reached for Cosima's hand. Delphine closed her eyes. "Babe, open your eyes it's okay." She squeezed Delphine's hand tighter.

Soon enough the ride is over. "How was that?" Cosima asked once they got off the ride.

"It wasn't so bad actually." Delphine said.

"So you wanna try the Ferris wheel now?" Delphine looked at the large circular ride.

"I think so." Cosima interlaced their hands as they walked toward the Ferris wheel.

They got on and began moving upwards. As they got higher Delphine's grip on Cosima's hand got tighter. "This is very high."

"It is and it's a really nice night. I can see Sirius and The Big Dipper." She pointed toward the stars. Delphine followed her hand. "You know Sirius is actually two stars."

"No, I didn't know that." Delphine said momentarily forgetting they were off the ground.

"It is. And if you look just above the Big Dipper, you can see the Little Dipper. The Big Dipper is actually part of a bigger system called Ursa Major and the Little Dipper is-"

"Ursa Minor." Delphine finished for her.

"Very good, Doctor Cormier." Cosima noticed they were getting close to the top.

"Don't patronize me." She smiled down at Cosima and she suddenly realized that they had reached the top.

Cosima continued to smile at her. "We're at the top and guess what? Everything is fine." With those words it's like the universe took that as a challenge because the ride creaked, stopped, and the lights went out.

"Merde." Delphine's grip on Cosima's hand turned into a death grip. "Cosima-" Delphine buried her face in Cosima's neck.

Then Cosima started laughing. "Shoulda known something like this would happen." Cosima ran her fingers through Delphine's hair to comfort her and kissed the top of her head. "It's okay. You're fine."

Delphine groaned. "What are we supposed to do now?" She mumbled into Cosima's neck.

"We could make-out." Cosima said matter-of-factly.

At that Delphine raised her head. "We're not teenagers."

"So?" Cosima rebutted, poking her tongue out from her teeth.

Delphine shook her head and rested it on Cosima's shoulder. "You are a brat."

Cosima wrapped her arms around Delphine. "Tell me about the stars, Cosima." Cosima grinned and began telling Delphine about the stars and their myths. Cosima's voice calmed Delphine as they were suspended high above the ground. They stayed like that until the ride was fixed. Cosima speaking softly about the stars and Delphine reveling in the tender moment.