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Post by dootdoot on Apr 7, 2023 19:36:30 GMT
Faye giggled, getting easily pulled into Yves' rhythm as she settled down next to her. "We can pick. I had a lot of movies downloaded, so... Uh..."
She scrolled through a long list of files. Yves could potentially recognize a few names as popular horror movies, but a lot of others seemed more obscure. "Hm. I'm not sure if you'll like these actually..."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 7, 2023 20:02:33 GMT
"Oh..." Yves's voice dipped, her usual uncertainty kicking in for a moment-
"I'm really not good with horror movies, actually... buuuuut," She scoots closer to Faye, somehow, despite being so close that their hips, legs, and shoulders are already bumping, and continues, now closer to Faye's ear, "I should be fine, since I have an adorable little cuddle bunny with me in case I get scared, right?"
"I'm okay with whatever you wanna watch too, maybe we could watch one of your favorites! Doesn't that sound nice? If only we had some snacks or something, this would be a perfect movie date..."
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 7, 2023 23:12:51 GMT
"Cuddle bunny?!" Faye sputtered, getting so flustered even Jack had to peek over the laptop's screen to make sure she wasn't choking. "Er, I mean, sure! If you, if you need me, then, uh my favorite..."
Her hand hovered over the mouse for a moment. "Um. How good are you with gore?"
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 7, 2023 23:24:31 GMT
"Hmm..." Yves hums thoughtfully as she leans forward, petting Jack's head after he popped up to ensure Faye wasn't dying. "I'm not super super squeamish, when it's just in movies and stuff. Seeing it, like, real and up close is a different story... So your pick should be fine!"
She settles back in against her pillow chair, deciding to not leave Faye out of the new round of pets, running her fingers through the back of Faye's, probably still a little wet, hair. "I've thought since I first saw you, your hair is so, so pretty. I wish my hair looked half as good as yours does. It's so soft too. And the way it matches your bunny ears perfectly makes you even cuter!"
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 8, 2023 3:04:41 GMT
"Yves... Did something happen?" Faye asked, leaning into the other girl's hands. Her hair was still a little wet, but perhaps more importantly, it was a little knotted up. Faye likely hadn't brushed it after showering. "I mean, it's not like, uh, I dislike this or anything, but..."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 8, 2023 5:30:43 GMT
Yves is silent, and her fingers still for a moment before continuing to thread through Faye's tangled hair, slowly undoing the knots. "No..." Is all she says, at first, staring at the side of Faye's head, ghosting lines against the other girl's scalp with her nails.
"Nothing happened. Or, well," She struggles to find her words, for the first time since she entered the room, so chipper and forward, her unoccupied hands smoothing against her leg, "I'm just... seeing you at the pool earlier, hearing about what happened, while I was getting ready, it really, it hit me. As you walked away, I was really scared, because that could've... it could've been the end, Faye. That's what I thought." Her hands, so unusually steady as she's been heaping affection onto Faye, tremble. "I've been thinking a lot about what we've said to each other. The way you make me feel so comfortable, and so safe, despite the situation we're in. How I wanted to- to hold you in my arms for as long as I could and never let you go, and the way you nuzzled back against me, of holding your hands and seeing the way you smiled and looked at me, at the dance..."
"I'm afraid I could've lost you, Faye. If I hadn't- I was so shocked that I almost couldn't handle it." She turns to face Faye, now, resting on her hip and propping herself up with her hand planted in the space between their legs. Her voice begins to waver. "I care about you so much, Faye. It- It happened so fast but I really, truly do. You promised to protect me, and I was too scared, then, but I wanted to tell you that I'd do anything to protect you too, but, I could've been too late, and you could've been gone, and I... I decided I couldn't hold myself back anymore. I won't."
"I needed to let you know exactly how I felt, before it was too late."
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 10, 2023 2:32:18 GMT
"Yves..." Faye shuddered as Yves ran her hands through her hair. "... I'll be fine. Xhuli was just being annoying, I don't think she meant to do anything really bad... But, whatever, that's not important, what's important is, I'm... I think I feel the same way, I'm glad, I'm actually really really happy right now and you're really nice and soft but-"
Faye took a deep breath.
"... You cast façade on yourself, didn't you?"
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 10, 2023 2:56:58 GMT
Yves stops dead in her tracks. There's a moment of silence as she stares back at Faye, very obviously trying to come up with a lie instead of telling the truth. "I-"
She couldn't come up with anything. She settles for shaking her head vigorously, and, somewhat carefully half-climbing over Faye, trying not to crush her laptop as her arms box Faye in, palms settled on the pillows on either side of the girl. "Even if I did, that doesn't change how I feel! If... if I didn't cast the spell on myself, I would never have been able to tell you. And, now, I- I'm so afraid of something happening to me, or to you, that... I didn't want that to happen. I really... really like you, Faye. I don't know what to do, at all, but, I really wanted to you to know that. I don't even care if I'm second place! Or if you don't feel exactly the same, I just wanted you to know-"
Yves's sudden rush of words comes to an end, suddenly.
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 10, 2023 3:00:56 GMT
A droplet of moisture falls onto Faye's adorable rabbit pajamas as Yves's arms start to tremble around her.
"I... I really just wanted to tell you. Even- even if I think you don't l-like me back. Using Façade was my only option. I'm, I'm sorry..."
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 10, 2023 3:18:43 GMT
Faye put up no resistance as Yves boxed her in, her eyes darting around nervously as she took in everything she said. "I... I think I feel the same! I just, I don't know, I just only ever had one person basically my entire life and then all of a sudden when I already gave up I'm making friends and going to classes and dancing with a nice girl and I don't know how I feel about that and, and-"
She breathed in and out a little too fast, a torrent of words to rival Yves' falling out of her mouth. "And it's fine that you used façade! I think, I don't know! I thought it was fine, I was fine before, I used it before, and then all of a sudden stupid fucking Xhuli happens and I feel all gross thinking about using the spell and it's like the day I had to stop eating meat I don't like it and I just want to go back to being fine but I keep feeling like this! I just want it to stop! I want to stop feeling bad and guilty all the time..."
"I want to, I want to..."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 10, 2023 4:26:36 GMT
Yves slumps over, gently and not in a way that would be annoying or upset Jack, laying down next to Faye, trying to blink away the tears that caught her unaware as the spell faded. With some last vestige of courage, she reaches towards Faye and places a hesitant hand on her wrist.
"You... want to what?" She asks, putting a pin in the other important piece of backstory-sharing dialogue in the preceding post for now and not dismissing it, because she's an attentive and diligent Gal Pal.
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 10, 2023 4:50:05 GMT
"Can you... Hold me...?" Faye asked, shuffling closer to Yves. "... You called me a cuddle bunny earlier. I'm not letting you take that back."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 10, 2023 5:05:48 GMT
Without hesitation, this time, Yves shuffles over to her side, and wraps her arms around Faye, pulling her close and resting her chin and one of her hands on top of her head, the other snaking around the shorter girl's back.
"I never would. Any of it." She strokes her hand through Faye's hair, again, to make up for the lost time where she was freaking out and confessing, as girl is wont to do, "Y-you... I think you're cute, and sweet, and you hop around when you're excited. Just like a bunny. The..." She has to nuzzle against Faye's hair for a second to muster up her words, "The cutest bunny."
"I'm... I'm sorry, for saying all of that. All of the sudden. Really. N-not, I'm not trying to take it back, I did mean all of it, it was just... a lot."
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 10, 2023 16:23:12 GMT
"Alice called me a bunny too." Faye said, flatly. "... Sorry. I keep thinking about her. But you two are actually nothing alike. The only thing in common really is that I think I love you..."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 10, 2023 18:32:09 GMT
A tremor goes through Yves’s body and she gently squeezes Faye, hiding her smile in the girl’s soft white hair.
“I… me too. I, um… think I do.” Yves starts, very eloquently, “I never… I don’t know what love love is supposed to feel like. I didn’t think that it was possible, that I’d ever find someone who would want a girl like me. Who- who’d want me. But, being around you, it, it makes me feel like I matter, for once. Like I’d do anything to make you smile, because it’s so precious. That… that must be l-love, right?”
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 10, 2023 18:56:57 GMT
"I think so..." Faye muttered. She started to tremble in Yves' arms. "But, I'm not sure if, I don't know if this is okay... I was supposed to make her happy. But I never did. I never found any magic for her like I promised. And now I'm... Here, and I'm... I'm really happy, but I feel guilty...!"
"Am I allowed?" she pleaded to Yves. "To just do what I want. I want to do something for myself for once..."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 10, 2023 19:34:14 GMT
Yves hugs Faye tighter, rubbing small circles into her back. She’s silent, for a few moments, until she presses a quick, feather-light kiss to the top of Faye’s head.
“What… happened to Alice? If you can tell me. You don’t have to, if- if it’s hard. I just… I’d like to… be here for you. To try to be, at least.”
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 10, 2023 21:46:49 GMT
"She died." Faye answered, without hesitation.
"... That was a long time ago. I'm fine. She was sick, that's why I always did the investigations, she was sick since before we even met, so I knew it would happen, so I'm... Fine." she shuffled even closer to Yves, hiding her face. "I'm fine."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 10, 2023 22:41:01 GMT
"Oh, Faye..." Yves's voice is barely above a whisper as she holds Faye snug in her arms.
"I'm so sorry." Her shaky fingers play with the ends of her silky white hair, "That's- I'm... I'm sure Alice would want you to. Live for yourself, now. It's not... no one likes saying goodbye. But-"
Yves's voice breaks, and she curls tighter around Faye.
"I'm sure she would want you to be happy. Alice. Even if you didn't find any magic, I'm sure you being there for her made her happy, before she was... gone. Because I- I think you're wonderful, Faye. And she must've, too..." Her fingers clench the back of Faye's shirt as her voice gets progressively smaller and quieter. "It's the time that we share together, that makes it so precious. That's, that's what my Nana says to me. What she's been saying to me, to get me ready. Your time together was the best thing in the world, and that's why it hurts to much now that she's gone..."
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 11, 2023 2:21:57 GMT
Faye was silent for a few minutes. Yves would be able to feel her shallow breathing slowly stabilizing as she kept her face hidden and close to her chest.
Until finally, she spoke up: "Hey. Can I be a little selfish right now?"
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 11, 2023 2:26:19 GMT
"Hm?" Yves hums, shifting her head a bit while still idly playing with Faye's hair in a hopefully soothing way.
"Wha- Of... of course. You," She's somehow able to gather some sort of divine willpower to say this, considering her usual ability to convey her thoughts and feelings, "You can be as as selfish as you want to, with me."
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 11, 2023 2:57:33 GMT
"Please don't use façade again. At least with me. It just... I can't explain it. It just makes me think of Xhuli now." she said. "And..."
She lifted her head, looking into Yves' eyes. "... Kiss me?"
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 11, 2023 3:23:32 GMT
Yves is mid-nod in response to the first half of Faye's sentence when her entire body ceases to function. She stares, wide-eyed, back at Faye, blood and heat rushing to her cheeks while her brain is still processing the request.
"I- Wh- Bu-" She's doing well, clearly, sputtering out a bunch of gibberish with a mix of absolution elation and complete terror in her voice. "Are... are you sure?"
Barely holding back the urge to fire off a million questions about whether Faye is sure that she wants to, and self-deprecative remarks about probably not being a good kisser and ruining the moment and being a disappointment of a girl, Yves's excitement gets the better of her as she shifts and slowly, timidly presses her lips to Faye's.
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 12, 2023 18:43:52 GMT
Faye, for being the one who asked for this in the first place, was somehow less prepared for it. She froze up in Yves' arms on contact. Yves could feel her face heating up as she awkwardly just tried to press it closer to hers.
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 12, 2023 19:15:28 GMT
The kiss ends up as nothing more than a very drawn-out, chaste peck on the lips, with Yves wrenching her eyes shut like she’s about to go flying off a Roller Coaster Tycoon deathtrap and gently bumping her nose against Faye’s. She slowly pulls back, resting her forehead against the other girl’s as the most pitiful little whimper escapes her.
“W-was… was that okay…?”
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 12, 2023 19:47:05 GMT
"Y-" Faye stammered and raised a hand to her chest, feeling her heart beating out of control. "Yeah! I mean, yeah! I... I loved that..."
She breathed in and out a few times, basking in Yves' presence. "I think... I'm just going to stop thinking if I should or shouldn't do things."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 12, 2023 21:51:53 GMT
Yves doesn’t voice her own opinion on the kiss, but the way that she buries her burning face in the crook of Faye’s neck, kicking her feet and squeezing the shorter girl like a stress ball, I think her feelings are getting across pretty well.
“I-I’m going to be selfish too…” Yves balls up the back of Faye’s shirt in her hands, her voice a little muffled by her shoulder, “Live for yourself, Faye. With- with me. Please…”
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 16, 2023 0:03:43 GMT
"With you. With you." Faye repeated the words, hugging Yves back. "That would be nice..."
She spent a few moments in silence, breathing so softly she might have seemed to be asleep, until she finally spoke up again: "So. Do you still want to watch that movie...?"
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 16, 2023 0:12:54 GMT
Yves’s new official snuggle bunny gets squeezed again. And nuzzled. A moment later, she responds.
“I’d love to.”
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Post by dootdoot on Apr 16, 2023 1:12:07 GMT
"I just need to... Hold on..." a little hesitantly, Faye slipped out of Yves' arms to go back to her computer. "Uh, it's a little... Old. I hope you don't mind. The, uh, the beginning is kinda slow too but..."
"Wait. Jack?" the dutiful jackalope popped its head up from behind the laptop again. "Can you get the lights for us?"
Faye settled back next to Yves as Jack turned off the lights (and even closed the door for them!) and the movie started. As Faye had indicated, the movie was a black and white feature that began with a grim old man staring out of a window and monologuing about how dull he found life in his big rich gothic manor. Apparently, there would be a family conference soon and he wasn't thrilled to see his children again.
Faye's eyes seemed to be torn between looking at the movie and flitting back to Yves. "... We can skip some parts. If you want."
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