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I will pretty this up later. But!
Appointments post! Use this for one-off interactions that would be difficult to do elsewhere, like messages or other isolated meetings/run-ins/etc. Just include the date, time, and choice of [action/voice/written] in the subject line of your comment.
Appointments post! Use this for one-off interactions that would be difficult to do elsewhere, like messages or other isolated meetings/run-ins/etc. Just include the date, time, and choice of [action/voice/written] in the subject line of your comment.
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Once that's done, Luke places his hands behind himself for balance as he leans back a little and looks out to the side. This... wasn't too bad. Being right near the shore like this. Not deep down, his lungs practically bursting while his eyesight faded and his last image being of the crushing blue around him and the blurry form of Asch -
No, no. Don't think of that.
He snaps out of his thoughts once Xion speaks up, and he looks forward to set his gaze on her instead. Her, enjoying the ocean and the view, showing more of herself than she's ever shown, the vast blue of the ocean spread out before her...]
Yeah... it really is.
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
It's ... a little weird, actually. The way it keeps pushing back and forth... I mean, I've watched it before, but being in it is totally different! [ She looks back down at the water and lifts a hand to cup it, grinning. ] It's almost like being in a strong breeze. Except it's back and forth, back and forth...
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
He looks up when she does, though he slowly lowers his gaze to the ocean that swells and splashes around them while she speaks. She really is enthralled by this, huh...]
It is pretty weird. [He pauses, glancing up at the deep blue of the ocean before his gaze returns to the lighter, more clear form of it around them.] It's kind of scary, too. The way it pulls out like that... I feel like I'm going to get sucked in or something.
[...] It's really deep out there.
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
She might think about that more, but what he says gets her attention, and she looks at him with sudden concern. ... he fell all the way in the deep with Asch. No bottom to rest on... it must have been hard, and scary, and sudden. But she doesn't know how deep the ocean really goes... ]
We don't have to stay in the water, you know.
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Are you kidding? It's hot as hell out here and you want to get out of the only cool place? [He takes cups his hand in the water to dump it in his hair again, running his fingers through it as if to get the coolness all the way through.] Thanks, but I'll pass. I'm fine here.
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
That's a good point! And it feels really nice to do that. So I guess we'll stay. [ She pushes some now-wet strands of hair out of her face and settles against him properly, looking up at the sky again. ] I wonder if I should go for a swim... it's gotta be really different swimming in the ocean than in a river! [ Her only real experience so far. ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
He moves his hand to her shoulder and gives her a light shove.]
Then what're you waiting for? Go try it out!
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
This is all memory. Not even her own memory -- but memory from Sora. From Sora, of Kairi -- and from Sora's own life. But the memories are there, faint, so she uses them, sluicing into the water like she's been doing it her whole life. ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
He still hasn't told her that he can't swim, huh... and he's hesitant to say so. What if she connected that to his own unplanned trip to the ocean? It'd be a little hard to explain how he got through that.
But he pushes that thought aside now. Instead, Luke scoots back a bit so that he can lie back without getting a face full of water. He shuts his eyes, feeling the cool water sweep across his back and hair and making his arms, which are splayed out, lift up a little before it disappears, falling back into the ocean, only to come back up again.
It was a weird sensation... especially with the way the sand shifts beneath him. But it's kind of... peaceful, too. Yeah... this wasn't so bad, really.]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
The war they left behind feels, for just a moment, worlds and years away.
But it's a little too quiet out here without him, so she returns to the shore. He'll probably hear her before he sees her -- she has to splash her way back through the shallower water, first. As she moves she idly wrings the water out of her hair and pushes wet strands out of her face. ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Hey...
[But the offer flies right out of his mind upon seeing her. The water's made her body, slick with water, shine against the sunlight, and her eyes are lidded, and even the way she lifts up her arms and lets the water slide down them and wrings out her hair, the way she pushes the strands out of her face...
Luke is suddenly hyperaware of everything about her and how dry his lips and mouth just became. Xion was... beautiful. And Luke doesn't normally think that about girls, even ones he considers very good looking.]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
That's when she notices him staring, and she pauses, blinking, to stare right back. Is something the matter? ]
Luke?
[ She makes it over to him and kneels down in the water, watching him with a mix of curiosity and concern. ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
It's as if he's in a trance. He balances his weight on one arm while the other reaches up to brush his fingers against her neck, to push some of her hair back behind her shoulder.
Then and there, he swallows, because the spot he uncovered looks so... enticing, and bare, and...
Just a second after that, he comes to his senses, and he jerks his hand back to splash into the water and quickly looks away. The coolness of the water contrasts with the heat in his body, most especially focused in his face, and he knows he must look about as red as his hair now. Oh god what has he done WHAT HAS HE DONE WHAT WAS HE DOING AAAAAAAAAAAAH]
I - I'm sorry! I was... w-wondering... I mean, I didn't...! That's not what I wanted to do! [... Wait that sounds terrible.] No, I mean, I... [... BUT THE OPPOSITE WAY SOUNDS TERRIBLE TOO.]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Then, of course, he breaks the illusion, and her face floods with crimson. She sits awkwardly beside him, hands going halfway up to cover her cheeks before she realizes what she's doing and lowers them again. She looks at him sideways, very shyly, then looks down and twists her fingers. ]
... what were you wondering?
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Uh... I - heard there's other stuff to do on the beach, so... I was wondering if you wanted to... do some of that stuff.
[Best to take their minds off of the subject of slightly inappropriate touching, is his way of thinking now.]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
[ She's looking at him now. Her blush intensifies a little when he glances at her, but he looks away... while her eyes stay on his face.
Very, very hesitantly she leans towards him and presses a kiss to his skin -- the soft spot just beneath his ear. His skin is just the slightest bit salty, like the ocean.
Then she sort of ... leeeans back, smiling a little to cover up her nerves and awkward ]
Um ... I think you might need to be a little more specific.
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
If Luke didn't realize his neck and ears were sensitive thanks to that odd experiment where he was engaged to Xion, he sure knew it now. His breath automatically hitches, his head tilts to the side just slightly, and the shoulder closest to her leans back on its own. It's certainly not out of discomfort that he does these things, either.
God, it's as if his entire body is red or one fire or something, even though it was the same color as always. He gives her another glance, this one lingering.]
Spuh... specific?
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Another rush rolls through her -- this time she can't tell what it is. But it's warm and it's real and it's reacting to him, reacting to her.
For a moment she just meets his gaze, lips oh so slightly parted.
... do either of them even care what they were talking about just now anymore? What were they even talking about? It's not important -- it's definitely not important now, because she's leaned forward to kiss him and shut them both up.
If she were in her right mind, she'd be flailing internally over, for the second time, being the one bold enough to initiate a kiss. But all she's thinking about right now is the taste of salt on his skin and the way his breath hitched in his throat. ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Were he of the right state of mind, he would also flail internally and maybe break away and hide himself in the water forever. But every other rational thought is thrown inside, and instead he leans into the kiss, parting his lips to deepen it and winding an arm around her waist to pull her closer to him, turning to face her as he does so.
And if Luke had any coherent thoughts left, they were tossed out with the rational ones as her bare skin comes into contact with his.]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
There is something impossible to resist about all of this. It's quiet, and the ocean rushes around their bodies, and he's holding her so, so close, and his mouth is--
He's warm, and she can feel his skin against hers, and that's not anything she's ever felt before. And it's completely distracting.
She lets herself get pulled, slipping an arm around his neck to help him with that whole "eliminate any last bit of air remaining between us" thing. Her other hand snakes its way up between their bodies -- her fingertips coming to rest, lightly, on his jawline, encouraging.
Even if asked, she still could not really explain why she wants this so much, what she likes so much about it. She could not be said to fully understand it, even now. All she really knows is that there's this incredible fizz under her skin, especially where he's touching her, and the wet slide of their mouths against each other--
Well. Luke's grown up a bit on his own terms. Xion's born from memories of a fourteen year old -- and is herself now sixteen, in that regard. They're teenagers -- what would you expect? ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th] 1/2
He explores both her mouth and her body - his free hand moves up just beside her breast, lingering on the strap, before it slides down her side to her hip and then to her thigh. And every contour and curve makes a pleasant yet almost painful sensation coil in his abdomen, and he can't explain just what drives him forward, what makes him want to explore even further and - and he doesn't know what. He wouldn't be able to say what even if asked. He just follows what his body is telling him to do, because it's so strong right now...]
[Action; Noon of June 14th] 2/2
His luck. It's horrible.]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Of course. Then comes the wave, and Luke is the lucky one, being on on top like he was -- he just gets knocked off. Xion nearly gets DROWNED for her troubles.
Okay, not quite. But she gets sea water up her nose and it hurts a lot, plus she has no idea what's where as the ocean tumbles her. She's left in a heap, sideways, on the sand once it withdraws, coughing and blowing air out her nose, trying to get rid of the sting in her nose and her throat and her eyes.
She is, perhaps mercifully, momentarily distracted from thinking about what they were just doing. ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
Even more so when Luke pushes himself up on one elbow, still coughing, though he's starting to recover, and reaches up to push his hair back... only to feel something hard in his hair.
Hard and moving.]
What the-?! [That's enough to send him flailing backwards as he rakes both hands through his hair to get whatever that thing is out of it, but the sucker's holding on tightly enough to a couple of locks that he can't get it out. Instead he just lets out a quiet, though growing sound of pain, because his scalp is pretty sensitive.
Thankfully this, as well as the fact that the ocean was cold, is a very good distraction from thinking about what he was doing just a little earlier.]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
But she pulls herself up when she hears him -- and that noise of pain -- and scrambles to her feet to make her way up the beach to him. Man, that hurt and she still feels a little dizzy from getting tossed around...
... is that a crab in his hair?
Oh, jeez.
Carefully she settles down beside him and reaches out, very carefully trying to untangle crab from red hair -- when the crab isn't especially happy to be there, either, and keeps trying to clip at her fingers. ]
Jeez, that was awful... [ Her voice is a little scratchy, even. ]
[Action; Noon of June 14th]
[Action; Noon of June 14th] ... /does this too
[Action; Noon of June 14th] ... |D
[Action; Noon of June 14th] :3.....?
[Action; Noon of June 14th] 8D
[Action; Noon of June 14th] BAM. ALL THREE.
[Action; Noon of June 14th] 8DD!
[Action; Noon of June 14th] ... two this time!
[Action; Noon of June 14th] 8DD! AGAIN