driftfleet | 07

Entry tags:

07 - video

Who: Winn Schott + you = awesome
Broadcast: yup!
Action: Tourist!
When: now!

[ the feed opens with a profile view of a sleeping winn. on his face, you can see an elaborate sharpie painted mustache (courtesy of opal) and from the ceiling right above him hangs a plastic flamingo in a coat and plastic sunglasses (courtesy of cisco).

to anyone who's been by to see him lately, it's a very familiar scene. but seconds into it something that hasn't happened in about two weeks begins to take place - movement. with a soft groan, winn reaches a sluggish hand to his face, shielding his eyes from the light. the hand then seems to decide that scratching above his upper lip is better use of its time and skills. slowly, his eyes blink open, struggling to adjust, to focus.

and then they do. on that flamingo.

he yelps, jumping up in bed, tearing the flamingo off its strings and throws it across the room, where he proceeds to stare at an off frame army of (four) flamingos. rubbing at his temples he mutters just loudly enough to be captured on film ] So Cisco's still here...

[ that seems to remind him of something, and with a sharp move his still sleepy mind can't seem to properly cope with, grabs at the communicator and misses. next attempt brings it into his hand and you finally get a close up of that glorious mustache.

he frowns into the camera ]

Of course it's rolling... [ his voice is raw, lips chapped, and he clears his throat in an attempt to bring back his usual volume ] Hi - Fleeters - if we're still calling ourselves that - Winn Schott here, back to the world of the conscious - if you recognize me check in and tell me how long I've been out - Kitty - you better still be here. [ because unless you call him within the next 10 seconds he's calling you as soon as he cuts this feed and if you're not there he will freak. he rubs at his painted mustache again, not quite realizing what's bothering him, and with a small tired smile fumbles to shut the broadcast off. ]

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[She laughs and shakes her head.] I'm in so much trouble. I don't seem to mind though.

[Skip forward?]

I won't let you drown.

[ he kisses her cheek and takes her hand, leading her back to the shuttle, and puns the whole way to their room. ]

I've created a sea monster. [But the next thing you know they are in their new room and Kitty goes to flop on the bed only to have it flop back at her.] Woah! Winn, I think the bed might be possessed. [It was startling enough that she phased herself through it on instinct.]

[ he laughs and pokes at the mattress. ]

...well, what else would they stuff it with but water. [ it makes sense now that he thinks about it. ] This is gonna be...interesting. [ he is not 18 omg he does not want a waterbed. ]

Wow. I have only ever heard about these. [Solid again, she pushes her hand down on it.] I wanted to sleep on one as a kid. This was not the wish I expected to have fulfilled.

I had a friend who had one in college. He got rid of it pretty fast.

[ poking some more to test it out. this is not going to be conducive to round three. ]

Did he have waterbed horror stories? [She carefully climbs on the bed experimentally. I mean...they have to at least try it, no?]

Tragically failed one night stand stories. Now that I think of it, it may not have been totally the bed's fault.

[ won't know until they try, maybe he was just bad at it! they're two geniuses.

he carefully climbs alongside her, feels like he loses his balance and tries to stable himself with one hand on the wall behind them and one on her. ]

[She laughs.] I actually think it would be easier inside a bouncy house. [But she looks amused and fond as she attempts to help him settle in.]

You might be right -

[ he finally settles in. sort of. maybe if he just never moved again - ]

Okay, this is where I live now, I don't think I can get up -

[She just laughs.]

We have to try it though, right? I mean, for science. [She holds his hands and gives it a squeeze.]

Can't let science down -

[ he leans in for a kiss. ]

[Giggling again, but she meets the kiss.]

[ if they could just make out always that would be good, it'll save him from all the hard talks he knows they still have to have. when she's kissing him, he feels so secure, so worthwhile. it's just...everything is better when kitty is kissing him, so he's in no hurry to pull back. ]

[She knows that there is more she needs to say and more she should probably hear. But he has a whole extra year in his brain and it doesn't all need to come out today. There are other years in there that she doesn't know everything about too. What she knows when he holds her and kisses her is that he loves her and prioritizes her. That means so much. She spent so much time in relationships where she didn't feel that way—trying to get back to better days that never came back around. With Winn it feels like it's always been good and always been getting better too. She strokes his face lovingly as she kisses him.]

[ that's what he's always going for - good that just gets better and better. when he has to break because kissing is breathless work, he nuzzles her instead. ] I love you. [ he can't say it enough, not after his year without her, and not after meeting chekov and knowing how close he is to losing her. ]

[So far from losing her. So very, very far. Lightyears and leagues and maybe some teaspoons and joules between here and there.]

I love you. And since we're keeping count... I missed you. I want a life with you. The separate kind sucks a lot.

That's two.

[ he smiles and kisses her forehead. ]

I kept trying to write you letters every day so you'd have that when you came back. Spoiler alert, there are no letters though.

[ he laughs ]

No letters, no voicemails, how will I know I was missed?

You were missed. [Brushing back his hair.] I kissed you once. Kurt mentioned something about waking you up with true love's kiss. [There's a blush.]

[ he smiles so fondly at that. that's...that's just so endearing. and that the thought came from kurt? wow. ]

Gotta account for the space delay, it clearly worked.

[She smiles back and then it turns more bittersweet.]

When Kurt fell into a coma too... [Had she told him that yet? She can't remember now, but well, she has now.] You're still the person I went to about it. I might have yelled at you a little and then slept next to you. [Just confessing now. Your girlfriend is kind of pathetic, Winn.]

[ kurt told him about it. he pulls her close to him, trying to shelter her from all this pain that wasn't his fault - but he still caused. he doesn't think she's pathetic. ]

I'm so sorry, Kitty. [ his heart hurts for her and his voice reflects it. ]

[Maybe she shouldn't have said anything. She doesn't want him to hurt. She holds him tighter.] It's so far from being your fault. [She just wants to share herself with him.] Unless you count the part where you made me fall very deeply in love with you by being relentlessly wonderful.

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