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Characters: Sollux Captor and open
Setting: Starting in room 2-06, but you can assume he's wandering the halls anywhere, since he'll go out exploring.
Format: I'll follow your lead.
Summary: Sollux has just arrived (~~again~~) and he's confused and Unhappy about it.
Warnings: None yet.

Sollux didn't remember falling asleep, but he definitely remembered waking up. He fought the sleep paralysis for the full thirty seconds, and then shot up from the bed the moment his eyes opened, his teeth bared in a snarl.

He'd been dreaming...something. Something bad. He always woke up badly when he dreamed about his own death, but the specifics were fading like wisps of fog in the morning, and he couldn't be sure if it was a vision or not. The voices were sure loud, though. Fuck were they loud.

He was distracted from the question of the dream, though, as he looked around the unfamiliar room in confusion. "What the actual fuck?"

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"Complicated as in I wasn't really sure what I was doing, at the time," she replied, shaking her head and tugging at the pale lavender of her Derse clothing. "Complicated as in I'm not sure what to do about him right now. He still likes me, you know? But I... I'm not the same as my robot self..."

Sollux scowled a bit, caught between dislike of Equius on principle, and believing that Aradia was probably better off with him than with Sollux. He hesitated, trying to control his expression. He didn't want to get pitied if her heart wasn't really in it.

"Of courthe he liketh you," he said. "You're amathing. The quethtion ith, do you like him?"

"I could," she admitted, fingers moving to slide onto his arm, eyes locked on his. She could have liked Equius, really she could have- but he wasn't what she wanted. What she'd always wanted. "But I don't. I like you, Sollux- I always have. You know that, right?"

His cheeks flushed and warmed slowly with yellow as she looked at him. He bit his lip and nodded, scarcely able to believe that she was saying this and really meant it. Here she was, being courted by a blue blood, and he was practically giving her to him, and she still said she wanted him.

"Are you sure you want me, not him?" he asked, his voice cracking a little. Though despite his words, his fingers curled in her hoodie, clinging a bit.

"Sollux," she said firmly, hands rising to cup his cheeks, and looked him dead on despite the bright crimson she could feel warming her own cheeks. She took a breath, expression uncertain for just a moment, and then steeled herself and leaned forward and up, pressing her lips to his. She pulled back, and pressed her forehead lightly against his, smiling tenderly.

"I'm sure."

Oh wow.

He drew in a breath in surprise, then tightened his arms around her as he leaned into the kiss. His eyes slipped closed as he pressed into her, her body warm in his arms.

Then she pulled back, but not far, and he realized there was a pretty stupid-looking grin on his face.

"Well... okay," he said shyly. "That'th good enough for me."

She smiled shyly back, her hands slipping around to clasp at the back of his neck and resisting the urge to curl with her cheek pressed to his chest, if only because she liked the look of that smile on his face. It was so rare to see him actually smiling and not just smirking that she wanted to make sure she got a good look at it.

"Good- I'm glad. I wasn't really sure how else I could make that point."

He grinned and cupped her cheek, rubbing with his thumb and just drinking in the sight of her smiling at him so sweetly.

"I know thometimeth the only way I get thingth ith through a good hard thmack to the fathe, but I think I've got it thith time," he said, his lips starting to twist into that self-deprecating smirk, after all.

She giggled at that, shaking her head slightly and reaching up with one of her hands to tap him on the nose lightly.

"Well, I think this method will work just as well, don't you?"

"Kithhing?" His smirk widened, his eyes dancing behind his two-coloured glasses. "Oh yeah, kithhing ith like the magic ingredient. You should try it again, all the time."

"Really?" She said, giggling again and slid her hands down to his shoulders, attempting to look coy and likely failing at it. "Then I will definitely keep that in mind..!" She leaned up, lips pursed-

-and kissed the tip of his nose with a laugh.

"In moderation, of course."

He leaned forward a little, all ready for another kiss, but then her lips were on his nose and he rolled his eyes, giving a lock of her hair a tug. "You're thilly."

"But you like it, so there," came the retort, and leaned forward to bump her nose against his. She pulled back a little afterward, hands squeezing his shoulders as she closed her eyes.

"So I guess you can steal one if you really want..."

"Ith it thtealing if you give me permission?" Sollux asked, flashing a grin as she closed her eyes. But he didn't hesitate before leaning in and kissing her again, softly.

"Probably no- mm!"

The words trailed into a quiet sound, and she pressed back into the kiss as gently as she could, fingers tightening slightly on his shoulders. She hadn't ever thought she'd have this again- having him here now, like this was almost too much for her to take.

He snickered into her mouth a little even as he leaned into the kiss, sliding his hands down to the small of her back. He certainly had never thought he'd have this again, either.

She felt wonderful in his arms, and his heart soared, even as a voice whispered doom in the back of his mind. But what else was new?

She gave a little shiver at the feel of his hand sliding down her back, hands letting go of his shoulders to slide down his arms, gripping tightly to them as he leaned closer. The proximity was simultaneously wonderful and a little overwhelming- and aside from that hug when her soulbot had exploded, she couldn't remember the last time she'd been this close to him. She was surprised the quick thrum of her heartbeat wasn't more audible to both of them, as fast and as loud as she felt like it was.

Fortunately, she was pretty sure they were more distracted by the kiss than anything else.

His own heart was beating at least as fast, and he definitely could sympathize with feeling overwhelmed. He could scarcely believe that this was happening, but he relaxed more and more as the kiss drew out.

Finally he was forced to come up for air and he broke it regretfully, sighing. "Wow."

"Yeah," she breathed, a little dazedly, and then flushed at the tone of her own voice, trying to come up with something more eloquent to say. She couldn't though, and settled instead for leaning her cheek against his shoulder for a few moments, breathing deeply to try and slow her heart a little.

He was more than okay with this, and cuddled her close while he caught his own breath. "Tho, uh... we can do thith again, thometime, I hope?" he asked, teasing.

"Oh, well..." She pretended to hesitate, hiding her burning cheeks by pressing her face into the crook of his neck, the tip of a finger tracing idle patterns on one of his arms. "If you really want to..." She nuzzled closer, giving his arms a squeeze. "Then yeah- that's definitely alright with me."

Thankfully, he knew she was kidding. He grinned and squeezed her tight. "Cool."

"Should I preparing for surprise kissing onslaughts?" She laughed, her hand resuming its idle movements against his arm, the other slipping around him so she could walk her fingers up and down his spine. "Or will this only be every once in a while?"

"You should alwayth be prepared for thurpritheth when it cometh to Thollukth Captor," he said playfully. For once, he was in a damn good mood, and no wonder.

"You're not the only one that can surprise a troll you know," she laughed, and shifted her body weight suddenly, knocking the both of them sideways. She laughed and pressed a kiss to his cheek and then stood, twisting back around to face him, rocking back on her heels with her hands clasped behind her back.

"But I think you know that already, huh?"