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After everything that had happened during the whole coffee fiasco Peyton had locked herself in her room for around twelve hours before hunger forced her back out into the general populace.

She'd gone to the cafeteria and had a blissfully uneventful lunch, and was actually feeling quite a it better as she headed back to the dorms. So far nothing crazy had happened, and she'd even gotten to remove the bandages that covered her hand. It was still a little bruised, but everything that had broken was now whole again.

It was turning out to be a nice day.

Little did she know a certain Moon division ninja was waiting just around the corner to ambush her. She was none the wiser as she strolled through the Sun common room humming a P!nk song that had been in the top ten almost a year ago.

Poor Peyton. She hadn't even considered the possibility that anyone would want to ambush her besides maybe Tuck, and certainly not inside the dorms. Dakota had actually managed to snatch her up and toss her over his shoulder before she even registered anything had happened. He was lucky really, that he'd managed to shock her rather then all out startle, cause she might have tried very hard to kick him if it had been the latter.

As it was she gave a rather undignified sort of squeal as he took off out of the dorm and towards god only knew where. "What the ********?" Tany hands pressed into his back so she could push herself up enough to see who the hell was carrying her, and when she realized it was Dakota her cheeks flushed scarlet. "What are you doing?" She sounded a little distressed.

Being able to see only where they'd been, and not where they were going, Peyton had no idea where he was taking her. Though even if she did, she wouldn't have known why. He managed to get her through the portal and into the real world with minial questions or protests, at least until he mentioned the word date.

<That was nicely played.> Drawled Warrick, and Peyton hissed back at him before turning lavender eyes on the giant of a moon hunter that still had her slung over his shoulder.

"Was this strictly necessary?" She growled between clenched teeth, furious with herself for the rosy tint of her cheeks.

Fighting she understood, but dating, or boys in general, she was not good at. Her experience with the opposite was pretty damn limited. "I don't suppose you'd put me down now?" It was almost polite, aside from the coating of sass.

The dainty Sun begged to differ on the absolute necessity of him having to ambush her, though in all honesty he was probably right. She stared at him a moment, then gave a resigned sigh, shoulders sagging slightly. "Fine."

If he realyy wanteds to spend time with her, why was she so determined to push him away? It didn't make a whole lot of since. She'd always used the fact that she was awkward around boys as a crutch. A reason not to step out of her comfort zone, but being on the island, awakening into this new life, maybe it was time to start facing the things she usally ran from.

Social interaction with attractive men that seemed to have gotten the impression that she was cute was included in that.

Besides, she hadn't been to an arcade in years, and she'd always liked video games. She didn't know if theyd actually get as far as her opening up about herself, but they could at least have a little fun, right? Right.

Probably.

"Any particular prize we're going for?" Thin arms folded over her chest, weight shifting to one hip.

Peyton followed his pointing finger up, and just sort of stared at the giant alpaca that was currently strung up over the prize counter. All things considered about the tiny Sun, it was probably for the best Dakota had kept his opinion of her needing something cute to himself. It would have made her not want it. Staring up at it though, head tilted slightly to one side, she could admit to herself that it was kind of neat. In all her youth, she'd never yet managed to snag the mother of all prizes from an arcade. "We're trying to win that? That's going to take a lot of quarters."

Challenge accepted.

So it was lady's choice as to where they would start? The Sun spot turned, taking in the entire arcade as she took inventory of just what they had to offer. It was a pretty damn good arcade, actually. They had what looked like endless shooting games, the normal skee-ball and other things you'd find most places, and a very wide selection of the more rare games that had to be shipped over seas.

It was the later that had pink lips tugging up into grin as Dakota returned with the quarters. She crammed the offered handfuls into her pockets, then pointed towards a very colorful machine with two heavy duty floor panels with arrows. "You any good at DDR?"

The dainty hunter shrugged, then nodded, the corners of her lips twitching up into a smile. It wasn't just dancing games, really. Pey actually liked to dance, a lot, but tended not to do it where anyone else might see her. Usually she kept her moves restricted to her room, or the shower. Anywhere private.

An arm settled around her shoulder and though she briefly tensed she didn't try to shrug it off. He might have kidnapped her into this date, but he was being nice, and paying for everything, and she did like arcades.

A smirk replaced the grin at his admission to having moves. "I'll believe it when I see it," she countered, pale brows lifting in challenge."

She stepped up onto the machine, inserted the appropriate number of quarters into both slots, then scrolled through the music until she got to one she liked. Music selected, she gave Dakota a pointed look as she set her difficulty to hard, then hit the button to indicate she was ready. "Game on, bro."

That was unexpected, shocking, but hilarious and a little impressive.

Challenge accepted!

With a grin Peyton fell into line beside him on the machine, and together they were like this:



Only perhaps not quite that in sync. Still, That giant alpaca was in the bag!