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 Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:03 pm
"You sound like your drooling..." She laughed from her turned spot.
"Relationships are always complicated." She closed her eyes now instead, "I haven't yet met a person who doesn't have it easy with one." She murmured softly beside him. Another time, another place and she might've believe relationships were possibly easy...but not anymore.
"I wonder if most hunters have such stories. It's hard to grow up seeing...knowing things that others don't..." She sighed in his arms. "My twin and I use to fight about it. About what we saw. And when we told our mother...she told us never to tell our father." She bit her lip, as if hesitating before shrugging again. "One day Alaska left, and it took only a little while longer for me to follow. I miss her." The words came out quietly again.
she laughed though at his surprised Really and turned her head a bit at him. "Of course Roland. I wouldn't have made such a close friend. Or snuggle partner. I'd be lacking wouldn't I?"
The presence of his body though surprised her as she felt him press closer into her. the slow usual thrum of her heart bumped twice before settling.
The sound of a hiccup made her laugh loudly and shake her head. "We'll see what you say in the morning handsome." She settled in nicely, letting it drift into quiet.
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:24 pm
"Am not..." he said with just a hint of a whine before growing quiet just snuggling closer. He wouldn't say it but cuddled up like this his head behind her's well. She smelled nice. Maybe it was because they hadn't been working all day, or maybe she had cleaned up for the dinner but he liked it.
"Nope, I don't think anyone has it easy... but that's what makes them worth it right? Working to make them better." Now it was his turn to squeeze her hand, a reassuring action to remind her he was there, that he knew what it was like to have no one believe you or tell you to stop talking about the bad things you saw.
"I wish I could say I missed someone..." But he didn't. Abusive father, possibly insane, mother who just didn't care and was slowly starting to waste away. Yeah, he didn't miss much of that.
"Maybe, you would have found someone else maybe." Would she have? Maybe it was her way of saying she liked him? He wasn't entirely sure. What about Lex for that matter? He felt a slight shift, as her heart thumped twice before calming but thought nothing of it still holding her close. Even as she laughed he slowly tugged their hands in squeezing her in a hug. "I can't wait..." He said softly as the silence set in. For a while it lingered and eventually he broke it.
"H-hey Nevada?" He tugged gently trying to convince her to roll over.
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:37 pm
"I think some splashed on me, here use your sleeve to wipe it off." She joked, well aware of how close he was holding her.
She chuckled again, "Yet working is just so hard isn't it? Some people aren't really good at it..." She rumbled against him.
Quietly, she clutched the blanket over them and thought about it. Honestly thought about it. "Perhaps I would've. Perhaps I wouldn't. Fate is such a fickle creature. I know I probably would've been sad about it...Not knowing you."
Silence lingered for the briefest moments when she felt Roland tugging on her. her breath hitched as she sighed before turning her head, crooking it on her shoulder to study him. "Mmm yes Roland?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:06 pm
"Oh let me get it..." reaching up with the arm pinned under her he rubbed his hand playfully on her face. Honestly it was the first time he had done such a thing, felt the way her chin curved, the tip of her nose. It was fleeting and foolish in action but somehow more in meaning.
Still they calmed a bit and he shrugged a bit with a single shoulder, "It is... sometimes... you seem to avoid it. And nap a lot." He said with a chuckle cuddling closer as she pulled the blanket higher on them. "I'd.... not knowing me..." the color in his cheeks rose ever so slightly as he thought about that. It made him feel something he couldn't place. But it was a good feeling.
Suddenly she was rolled over, violet eyes looking into brown as his hand untwined from her's hesitantly reaching out to stroke her cheek with the tips of his knuckles.
"Nevada... why me?" He said softly, "You just... we always end up like this. Together alone. And you trusted me, from the start. In the dungeon, here. I just... No ones ever done that." He said it all softly. "It feels... nice." His eyes flickered away before looking back at her again with a confused and hopeful look.
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:52 pm
"Hey Hey Hey!" She wriggled, her face heating again. The touch licked a little warmth...and a small tingle through her body.
"I'm not much of a hardworker. I prefer to wait and see what the outcome is before I act. it's easier for me that way. Selfish as it is." She bit her lip and smiled again. "thus being the Nap queen. Sleep does all the work for me, I shut my eyes and my worries, my stresses go away. It's easier to live, or was to live in a dream world then my real one."
With her looking at him now, she studied his features. Delicate and soft. To be honest, he was attractive. But as she had learned from the Island thanksgiving...the island was full of attractive and smart people.
The questions made her uneasy as she thought about. Too much thinking about why, what, how, who and when. Wasn't it just simpler to let it be?
But it must be important to Roland and thus it was important for the mist huntress to explain..If she wanted to continue a valuable friendship....honesty. One of those few moments where she would work to explain.
"Because you won't push me." She smiled sadly at him. "I'm naturally flirty, clingy. Most guys see that as a automatic invitation to do what they want with me, without really knowing me. It's hard to explain but...I can tease and feel comfortable with you or Lex and have to worry that both of you assume that I have to give something up for you." She lifted her hands and rested them on his cheeks. "Because when I met you, you were friendly...without any other kinda of hidden intent. Your a tad bit innocent Roland, but its not a bad thing..." She hesitated, "Because we were both new and because we can both learn about each other..." She fumbled her words now, her hands tensing on his cheeks. "I just need....a good friend while I'm here...until I can find Alaska."
Everything would be better if her twin was here.
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:23 pm
"What I thought I had to wipe it up?" He said with a chuckle.
He listened to her explanation about her sleeping habbits and couldn't help but smile softly. "It sounds really nice. Just closing your eyes and seeing the problems solve themselves." He frowned, "But my dreams, I don't think I want to live in all of them." He didn't have many nightmares, but sleep was never easy on the island, well it was better when Nevada was around. It forced him to stay still to lay down and just -stop- for a moment.
For a while they just watched one another's faces in the shadows of the room. He finally saw just what his fingers had felt, the roundness of her chin, her nose, all of it was lovely. Soft and young honestly. No older then he was.
"Y-yeah I kind of... noticed that about you..." He wiggled slightly proving just how clingy she was. "I never, I mean I never expected you to give me, anything I just..." He blushed a bit more, the heat of his cheeks filling her palm as he tried to avoid her gaze and finding the violet eyes to ignore. 'Er innocent?" He looked away at that feeling like a child right then as they cuddled.
His hands moved wrapping around her properly tugging her close resting his forehead on her shoulder, "I'll help you find her Nevada.... promise."
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:37 pm
"Such a gentleman, drooling on me and then wiping it up." She returned his chuckle and nodded. "Thats why I like sleeping with others. At least I know when I wake from a bad dream...someone is there for me to see me through it." How many times had she slept alone? Or tried to find comfort within someone else for the few traumatizing nightmares she had?
"Well, At least you don't mind it either." She chuckled as she squeezed him, "That's why I trust you Roland. Because you don't expect it." But his eyes hoped, and it confused Nevada. They barely knew each other, did she have the right to give him to hope for something more? but...perhaps it would be like Lex. A comfortable friendship without expectations to stay. One with benefits?
How many of those actually worked without someone getting hurt? or more, would it be one of those things that would hurt Roland?
"Innocent. Your very much so Innocent." She couldn't resist at least one more test as she leaned forward, her lips laying on his. violet eyes half lidded as she held the kiss for the briefest moment. She knew of course his reaction would be. Blushing and nervous. She couldn't almost paint the picture in her head. And it would let her know, should she pursue something more? Or hope that friendship would be stronger then anything else?
"Maybe we will, Maybe we won't." She pulled back and let his forehead fall on her shoulder. "Don't worry about it so much though. Our mission as hunters come first."
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:08 pm
"I do my best dear my very very best just for you." He laughed as well with her chuckles. "I just... I never knew." He frowned slightly running a finger through her hair. "I'll be here, at least tonight..."
He listened quietly to her, not saying anything, not interrupting her. What did he want from it all, what did he expect. Someone to care about him, someone to care for him. He wasn't sure, maybe he just wanted what Jordan had told him long ago. Someone to care about and care about him in all the madness of the island. Somehow the image of his easy going smile when he said that came back to him, but quickly replaced by Nevada's own right in front of him.
He went to open his mouth to say something and instead his lips found hers. Just as soft as when his fingers had brushed past them on her chin, even softer now pressed to his own. It was fleeting gone like a breath on the wind. His own lips had moved back but had barely had a chance to do a thing as she pulled away, his own cheeks a brilliant shade of red and eyes somewhat startled and confused, yet somewhat happy.
Eventually they where curled up together again, his promise lingering just behind the kiss. "Maybe... but It's still a promise Nevada..." He looked at her again pulling back a bit cheeks still burning, he leaned in pausing for a moment, he didn't go for the lips, just brushing his own over her cheek in the usual shy manner.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:16 pm
She shivered at the touch on her hair. Something that most guys like to run through with. She liked it, don't get her wrong...It just startled her to see Roland interested in it as well.
Unlike Roland though, she didn't expect anything much from the Island, especially since she had yet to face the madness of it. The worst to her, was a mission underwater and even that didn't seem so bad.
She smiled at his blush though, calling it right on the dot. Of course he would turn red as a beet, It was something unique to the hunter himself. Cute. Innocent.
She hummed an 'okay if you say so...' and studied him carefully. for a moment, she was sure he would iniatate his own kiss on her lips, like she had done before. Instead he brushed along her cheek and somehow...that was much different then her own kiss. It felt entirely intimate.
"Okay you. If you want Apple pie tomorrow, It's time to get some sleep!" She snuggled against him and willed her mind to shut off the conflicting and new emotions popping up for her. Best to sleep on it...lots.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:31 pm
It wasn't what he expected to find here, or hope for, it was what he realized would keep him together, or make him happier. Jordan was right, this wasn't an easy life to deal with alone, to cope with a friends death, or what was felt like a betrayal from another.
Someone who trusted and cared about him enough to make everything a little better. Still the blush passed with enough time, with a kiss to the cheek and a hand through her hair. He didn't want to make a mistake, to make her upset or scared.
"... I'd like that." He whispered softly, his hands moved wrapping around her slender, not bulky or bit, but they where confident as they tugged the girl closer resting against her. He wouldn't mind sleep either, his own feelings where conflicting, but more so the confusion of where to go, what to do? For now he enjoyed the moment, no matter how much he complained or struggled.
He really did like Nevada being so close to him.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:06 pm
Sleep came easily for the girl, like it always did. Dreams though haunted her and played.
And for once she woke before the other hunter. She studied him while he slept, knowing that the time was MUCH earlier then she ever wanted to be awake.
Instead, she slipped out of his grasp as well as she could, thankful she didn't wake him. Bent over, she smiled and brushed pieces of his hair out of his face. Roland Taft. Such a adorable sleeper. Stepping back, she headed out the door.
She disappeared soon after, on her way to the kitchen where she conjured a slice of pie on a big plate and a cup of coffee...sickeningly as it was.
Returning to the hunter's room, she left it on one of the side tables with a scrawled note.And left to her own dorm room. She'd sleep the rest of the time there and then figure just what she was going to do about feels.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:53 pm
For Roland sleep was easy and welcomed, the booze didn't hinder him at all as he slipped away. In turn it made it much easier for Nevada to slip away leaving Roland on his side arms stretched out for the warm body that was no longer there.
He didn't stir when she moved his hair, he didn't move much at all when he slept it seemed, though when she came back he had rolled to the other side tugging his pillow closer still lost in the depths of a booze and cuddle induced sleep.
When he finally did awake the coffee had cooled to a drinkable if not almost cold temperature, but the pie was perfect. It took him a moment in all the haze of waking up to realize Nevada was gone, but the note quickly explained the breakfast and coffee.
"Nevada...." He mummbled softly as he took a bite of the pie smiling softly as he worked slowly at his hangover breakfast.
Jordan was right, it was nice to have people who cared.
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