closed ► you would take the breath from my throat

[fujibayashi]

Date & Time: 6/23, around 5pm.
Location: Room 103.
Characters: Zelos (wilder) and Sheena (holeseeker)
Summary: Sheena's checking in like she promised.
Warnings: Tsunderes and feelings and failure everywhere.


[It's kind of late. Sheena knows this, but she doesn't really care. She hesitates before knocking quietly on the door to Zelos' apartment. Hopefully she can catch him before he's left for the night shift. If not, she'll just leave the food and go, and they can talk later. Or never.

But... there's something nagging at her. She hasn't been entirely reasonable with him lately, and this is the best she can do for an apology.

Her grip on the edges of the covered bowl tightens slightly. She looks to the side, waiting for someone to answer the door.]

Comments

[wilder]

[a sigh!]

I wish. My eyes are really good, but nothing like that!

[fujibayashi]

Do you even realize how disgusting you are?

[wilder]

Hey, I'm just being honest! You get some seriously weird sounds going on and it'd be nice to get a visual to know what's happening!

And oh yeah, who doesn't have a few people in mind they'd want to see naked?

[fujibayashi]

Ugh!! You pervert!

[... yeah she's throwing another coaster, this time at his head.]

[wilder]

[And it hits him in the head]

Owww! C'mon! It's not like I can actually see through walls!

[fujibayashi]

Like I care! Keep those kinds of thoughts to yourself!

[wilder]

[a sigh] Okay, okay.

[He'll lean forward and prop his arm up against the table, resting his chin in his hand, and just...look at Sheena with bedroom eyes and a smirk]

[fujibayashi]

[She is not prepared for the sheer amount of dirty that look contains. Zelos has not looked at her like that before, even when he's checking her out in whatever outfit she has to wear this time. At least, he hasn't looked at her like that when she could notice. She turns the color of her obi and continues to redden even beyond that, her fingers tightening in the fabric of her tunic.]

W-- wh-- why are you looking at me like that!?

[wilder]

[Yep. Totally worth it]

I can't say. Keeping thoughts to myself, you know?

[fujibayashi]

[Hell hath no wrath like a tsundere's fury. She is pretty worked up and about to leave, or at least throw a toaster at him.

Why the toaster? Why not? It was in arm's reach.]

I can't believe you! There's a child living in this apartment!

[wilder]

[My god don't throw a toaster at him Sheena you'll get him sent to the hospital with severe head trauma]

What? She's not here right now! It's not like I say anything like this when she is! [RUDE SHEENA]

[fujibayashi]

[She's still holding onto that toaster. SHE'S rude? YOU'RE THE ONE GIVING BEDROOM EYES WITHOUT CONSENT.]

So!? That's no way to treat someone! I'm not-- I'm not some piece of meat!

[wilder]

[PUT DOWN THAT TOASTER!! ]

Hey hey hey- I never said anything about you being a piece of meat! I just looked at you! Now could you put down my toaster?!

[fujibayashi]

That was not 'just looking'! That was-- that was... I don't even know what that was but it was something!

[She glances at the toaster, then back at him.]

I'll put down the toaster when you stop being so damn infuriating!

[wilder]

[...Yeah, he won't explain what that look was. But wow way to get her worked up what gives]

Okay okay, I won't look at you like that again! Now come on, no need to throw appliances!

[fujibayashi]

[She's pretty sure she knows what that look was, and the fact he even tried to send it her way is kind of terrifying.

It's not an apology, but she doesn't really want to deal with his whining about a head injury on top of everything else. She takes a breath to calm herself, eventually setting the toaster back down on the counter. She even takes the time to plug it into the wall.]

You're so dumb sometimes.

[wilder]

[Oh good, terrible head injury and need to buy new appliance averted. Which one would've been worse in Zelos's opinion is debatable]

You know, you keep saying that lately and I'm still not getting why...

[fujibayashi]

[... oh, right. He can hear like. Everything.]

It's too bad there isn't a crash course on how to treat girls properly. You obviously need it.

[wilder]

Hey, most girls never seem to have a problem with how I act!

[Then again he hardly teases other girls like this...BUT HEY DETAILS]

[fujibayashi]

Oh, really? Where are they? [There's only Sheena bringing him stew and fawning over his leg right now.] Shouldn't you be surrounded by vacant-minded floozies fanning you with palm leaves and feeding you grapes?

[wilder]

[Ouch. That definitely feels like a punch in the gut. Then again, he probably deserves it for teasing her so much. ]

[He keeps a smile up, but he's pissed enough not to really hold back his own tongue as he states quite lightly]

Haha, well you know...girls like that aren't really into dead guys.

[fujibayashi]

[... Ow. That definitely hurts. He says it because he's kind of immune to it, but he knows how much that hurts Sheena. She couldn't act like that didn't mean anything if she tried, honestly. Her fingers tremble a little bit as they curl into the loose fabric of her tunic.

This time, she bites back her tongue. Maybe she did go too far. He really has changed, huh? He can say stuff like, 'the girls all love me' and whatever else, but when it comes down to it... he's alone.

She has friends here. A precious few, but... at the end of the world, when they're pushing back UE troops, it's always Zelos who comes for her. And she would come for him, too.]

Heh. [She tucks a bit of hair behind her ear.] What does that make me?

[wilder]

[He is still very much immune to his own death, the idea that no one wants to be around a dead dude is something he accepted awhile back. He knew that it upset Sheena (he still didn't fully get why sometimes)- what he said he knew was catty and mean but it was just to get her to back down a little. To stop trying to force that old mask on him when he's made it pretty clear it was gone. He wouldn't say he was maskless (he never is), but to at least stop being the Chosen-]

[But his eyes will widen when she says that remark. 'What does that make me?' after a remark about girls being into him-]

[No way-]

- What?

[He could've heard it wrong right? Could've gotten the wrong idea or something?]

[fujibayashi]

[Wait, what.]

... Uh-- that's not-- I meant I just... I hang around you--

[ABORT ABORT ABORT ABORT]

I-it's not like I'm into you or anything like that. I care about you but that's-- [The blush isn't helping fuck you blush fuck you.] -- that's different, and it's pretty obvious I'm not your type anyway, [a little nervous laugh, not very convincing--] and who really has time to think about stupid stuff like that when you're fighting a war?

1/2

[wilder]

[No, the blushing certainly doesn't help. Nor does the heartbeat, which he's actually listening to for once. Sheena was someone he normally didn't bother with, she was so terribly honest he never felt the need. She couldn't carry a lie to save her life.]

[Just like now. Every single sense could point out that it was a lie.]

[This wasn't...shit. He knows that other guys would be thrilled to hear that maybe the girl they've liked for years likes them back. That's a normal thing to be thrilled about right? But...he wasn't exactly like normal guys.]

[All he'd cause her is pain.]