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Micah would never tell the other girl exactly what she thought about their New Years party. She would never tell her that she loved the way her bed smelled like Keren for days afterwards. She would never tell her that she sported the green phallus on her stomach like a badge of honor. She would never tell her that, while she claimed to have no knowledge of what transpired that night, her lips still tingled pleasantly from their artless kiss. Micah wouldn’t… but Acubens was another story.

Acubens was almost another personality entirely. Acubens was an alien soldier, quickly training to become to warrior this planet deserved. She was, in every aspect, a different girl.

And Acubens had no qualms with this plan, though Micah curled up against it. Acubens had been the one who hatched it, as a matter of fact. Acubens, in the deep night of her patrol, had seen Keren walking home from her school. Acubens had abandoned her post and followed her home in the night. She gently pressed her finger to her lips, relishing how the tingling intensified in the presence of the other girl. Soemthing in Acuben’s stomach coiled pleasantly as her eyes slipped close. Oh, to feel those lips again. ******** the art of kissing, Acubens just wanted clashing on tongues and lips and hands going everywhere because she could no longer feel them.

Her boots clicked as she followed the girl, making no attempts to hide her presence. Keren would know, starting tonight, what made Micah such a temptress as a girl back home.

“It’s awfully dark,” she purred, hands resting gently on Keren’s hips as she nudged the hair from the back of her neck with her nose. “Pretty girls shouldn’t be out at night alone," she murmured against the delicate flesh revealed there.

Acubens hadn’t expected Keren to run away. She knew what she’d been through, if even just a part of it, and she knew that, to come back form that and still laugh, one had to be exceptionally brave. She only grinned softly, hoping to god the beaded cornrows didn’t give her away as the girl Keren was so confused about. The best way to hide, however, was in plain sight, and how my plainer could sight get than right in front of Keren.

“Clearly,” she purred, tilting her head to the side as she looked up at the other girl – god, she’d not noticed how tall her was, “However walked you home last did not get a good look at you.” Acubens grinned wickedly and pushed herself to her tiptoes, resting her hands on the other’s shoulders.

“And I think they are poorer for it,” she whispered softly, more letting Keren feel the puffs of breath against her neck, just below her ear. Even on her toes, Acubens could not reach her ear.

She pushed herself away, eyes darkened several shades at the closeness. She stepped away, lamenting the loss of heat from Keren's body. Still, she cracked a rather mad grin and cooed, “if a good witch is what you want me to be, Keren, then it is a good witch I will be. But if, on the off occasion, you require a bad one..." Acubens shrugged and toyed with a bead, inspecting it in her fingers.

Words were now falling out of Acubens' mouth, like she'd taken on a role that wasn't her own and was slowly growing more and more accustomed to it. She grinned, hips swaying as she passed by Keren, waving to her in a dismissive manner. "Your young lady friend knows people in high places, it would seem." She glanced back over her shoulder, beadded braids clicking gently as she did so. Her lips spread into an easy smile and she continued, walking on. "Though her, I know much that is hidden about you. I know you were taken from the earth ealier this year. I know that you seem to have a knack for finding trouble. I also know that your death and ressurection has placed a great deal of unease on the shoulders of a particular young woman." Not at all a lie. Since Keren had revealed rather unceremoniously her trip to outer space Micah had been a little nervous when she couldn't keep an eye on Keren. The little twinge of concern, however, had exploded into a mess of fear for the girl who made her stomach turn cartwheels after just a thought.

However, she laughed muscially as Keren spoke, pushing her nerves aside for the time being. She could worry herself sick later.

"I cannot promise that, Keren. While I promised your friend I would look out for you, I made no promises about my behavior while I did so." She turned, stepping backwards slowly, bidding Keren follow with a crooked finger.

"I'm doing this on a personal basis. For now... Acubens will do just fine. Sailor Acubens. Senshi of Velociraptors." She bowed dramatically at the waist, sweeping her arms out with a flourish as she stood up again.

"Call it what you will, it still has her frightfully upset. It's irritating to watch her, actully. Twithing and pacing, wondering if you're alright." Acubens made an irritated sound in the back of her throat before she went on. "Answering is one way to phrase it. Another is that I owe her a favor. Still another is that we are bound together through something niether of us understand." She shrugged again, turning back around the walk by the girl's side. "But yes, it was Micah who sent me." Acubens took Keren's offered arm with a smile, golden eyes glittering mischeviously.

And then she laughed.

Why did Keren always do that? Get her to laugh with her whole body, head tossed back and eyes glittering with tears of mirth. She wiping them dry again, trying to compose herself before she answered.

"And here Micah was upset because she had thought she'd made a horrible mistake." She was, however, relieved when her amusment died down. So Keren wasn't angry with her for kissing her like that. "But good luck getting her to admit to her actions. She's denying them to herself at this moment, thinking that if she can forget about it, she can earse the mistake from history." Acubens had chosen her wording carefully. Mistake. She wanted Keren to latch onto that word. Acubens was nintey five percent certain that if Keren was under the impression Micah had made a mistake kissing her, then she would react in the same way she did to the idea that she had died. Angrily.

And that was how Micah would keep her coming back. At least for now.

If Acubens wasn't so totally emmersed in her new role, she would have blushed at the sentiment. As it stood, however, Acubens was completley apart from the girl, Micah, and so she absorbed the new information with a quirked eye brow and thinned lips.

"I think I will put the request into my own words, but I will pass the message along." She nodded gently, logging the information away to use later during her next encounter with Keren. Because this was too much fun to just make a one time occurence.

"When I get an answer, I'll come back and tell you. I doubt Micah has the social ability to do so." Which was true, awkward as the poor girl was. Had Keren come to her like that, past life as a Don Juanita or not, she would have only startted rambling and stammering. That was just how artless this crush had become to her.

Acubens let out a breath of relief as they began to near Keren's home, ceasing her constant vigil for monsters and negas. She relaxed further as they entered her driveway. "As I made no promises to Micah, I make no promises to you. I told you that I would apss your request along, and I will, but in a wording and at a time of my own chosing." She nodded once to punctuate her finaly, lips drawn into a thin line. Micah might have been wrapped around Keren's little finger, but Acubens was not. "And I will return with her message in the same fashion. At a time and place of my chosing in a way that suits me best."

She watched as Keren toyed with the flag on the mailbox, one eybrow rasied as she did so. "Is there something else you need from me," she asked, placing a hand on Keren's forcing the flag down again. The fidgeting was putting her on edge a little. Well, more the situation than the fidgeting, the fidgeting just put a sharper edge on things.

All and all Micah had considered thier new years eve party a royal disaster. Not ony had she lost her composure getting drunk, but she'd violated her best friend and passed out in the middle. Now, suddenly, she was learning that it wasn't the fiasco she'd previously thought? It was throwing the red head off more than a little. Still, Acubens retained her composure, tapping into years of watching her b*****d of an older brother blow off thousands of good people because he just didn't care.

"You're looking at it form your own perspective. Look at it from Micah's, for a moment. She's been gay for a while. How long have you been gay? She's had several partners, all of which she's kissed before and even gone a littler farther with. How many have you had? How far have you gone? Further more, Micah never began as a friend to her exes. She made a point not to date friends and to drop out of the lives of those she broke up with. She has all of this to consider before she makes any decisions that could and probably would damage you."

Micah would lose her mind when she got home. Of this Acubens was sure. However, for now, she internalized the struggle and forced her breathing to be even. Keren knew that Micah was a steaming hot bowl of crazy, and knew what that crazy looked like. Exhibitting any kind of that crazy would give her away and end her fun. For now, she simply watched as Keren defended her honor, squealing at her purple-haired perfection inwardly. God she was pretty when she was angry. When she finished, Acubens simply shook out her braids and turned her body half way away.

"As I said, I made no promises to you. I will tell Micah at a time and place that is most advantageous to me and in a fashion that suits me best." She clicked her heel on the concrete as though the physically close the case Keren was trying to make. "As for your rather childish antics, I will not stop you. I am not that girls pet, nor am I her errand runner. She saved me and I own her my life. For that reason I answer to her. No more. No less." Now she tured fully away from Keren, waving over her shoulder as she did so. "Sleep well, little Keren. I will tell Micah that you got home safley, as was my duty." And then she was gone, taking off at the speeds that had been granted to her as a senshi. Back into the night, back to her patrol. Squealing allthe while.