Judging by how easily Smokey gets infatuated, a pat on the aft might be considered courtship ;)

But nah, a courtship fic would be glorious for these guys! :D Admission time: I have a thing for well-written courtship fics, especially if there's some kind of difficulty put in the way of the characters but they end up together at the end anyway (I'm totally blaming Jane Austin for this, because it's entirely her fault :P).