driftfleet | Mistletoe Mingle!

[So. Here's Felix, stuck in a doorway. Definitely around the Blameless, but the Iskaulit as well. The most likely ~~culprits~~ doorways are the library and Space Bar doors (and when all else fails, the doorway between the landing bay and the rest of the ship because that's fair.

Invariably, he is going to be staring up at the offending plant with a sour and betrayed look on his face.]

I thought we didn't do this here...

[I mean. Come on. Why start now?

And unfortunately, someone ~~your character, it's your character~~ sooooomehow got stuck with him. Or not! Feel free to laugh and point. Or help him out. Promise he's only going to be grumpy a little.]

(ooc: Totally open to platonic or non-platonic kisses!! Whatever, whatever, let's have fun with pushy space plants.)

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[Gil isn't pleased with shenanigans being done on his ship when he isn't the one to do them, but here they are. Stuck. In one of the most walked hallways on the Blameless.]

So, is it some kind of mass effect field we're stuck in? It doesn't tingle the same way.

I really have no idea.

[Felix presses his hand up against what really feels like an invisible wall. That part's new.]

...At least it only started in the later part of the month.

Seems like they're celebrating something right? [He manages to sound a little amused, probably because being anything else seems tiring.]

Is that celebration 'making people miserable'?

[Sarcasm. Maybe tiring, yes, but it's how he functions.]

I actually still don't understand what this plant has to do with the holiday....

Mistletoe? It's a huge thing on some of the countries on Earth. You're supposed to kiss whoever is under it.

It also kills you if you eat it.

...Well, that's cheery.

Any idea how it got tied to the whole winter celebration thing?

[He's not stalling so much as he's realizing he's just never...asked anyone before.]

No clue.

You know, back home I know a bunch of smart people because of the science officer on the Tempest. Her name is Suvi. Now I kind of wish I had asked her once, but it's not like Andromeda has mistletoe.

Suvi's great though. If she ever shows up here maybe we can ask?

[Gil might be offering another way to stall, because if Felix asks for more details about Suvi, or Andromeda, or the Tempest, he'd be willing to share.]

[Maybe he should want to stall. Because at some point he's going to have to kiss Gil and he has no idea what it's going to...do. To them, to the question left unanswered between them. And it's easy to pretend that they're just willingly hanging out in the hallway.

....Until someone comes through and wants to get by. It would probably be even less fun to do this with someone spectating. And that's going to happen, sooner or later. Still...]

Sounds good.

[He'll always have more questions. But maybe...not right now.]

So, uh...I guess the key to our freedom is...a kiss. I don't know what the specific requirements are, though...

Yeah, that's probably exactly what they expect...

[He turns to face Felix head-on rather than being angled slightly away.]

I'm willing to try anything. Not that I might being stuck this close to you.

I mind the stuck a little. [But he smiles faintly at Gil.] Not the company. But I kind of like my mobility.

[Okay. ...Okay. This is happening.]

Well, I don't think we're going to get off with a kiss on the cheek or anything. [Phrasing, Felix.] So, uh...

[He steps in to Gil's space. Takes a breath, and then leans in to softly brush his lips against Gil's. He knows that Gil is into him, so there's no danger of...overstepping boundaries there. But that doesn't make him less suddenly nervous about it all.

...But also...excited. Because it's been a long while since he's kissed anyone who wants to be kissing him back. For both reasons, his heart has started pounding in his chest.]

[One of Gil's arms wraps around Felix, enjoying the closeness of his body, perhaps a bit more than he should since he should be giving Felix time to sort out his own feelings. The kiss is nice, exactly like he thought it would be, hesitant but warm.

When they pull back he can't help but grin at Felix.]

[When he pulls away, he'll notice that Felix's eyes have closed and that they stay closed for a moment or two longer.

It was...definitely nice. Gods, was it nice. Even if it was relatively brief, it was...nice.

He opens his eyes and clears his throat.]

...Well, that should...do it. [He's looking Gil in the eyes, for the moment.] Unless they want us to....really make out.

[Okay maybe not NOW. Though he's smiling faintly and awkwardly at his own (kind of) joke.]

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[Oh dear, Pavel seems to be trapped by the nefarious plant as well. The library is supposed to be a safe place, Atroma!]

The other prison universe that you were in also used strange holiday traditions as a means to coerce people into kissing?

It did, yeah. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that it finally spread here. [A faint huff.] It's sure to create drama, after all.

[Or serve the same function as it did back in Camp, if you don't believe the 'show' angle. Which is to say, studying interactions.]

I guess we'd better....

[He turns to Chekov, looking a little frustrated and a little apologetic. But also, he wants to not be stuck.]

The other two prisons I have been to had it as well. What an odd commonality.

[Pavel has kissed more people than he can remember thanks to pushy mistletoe and he's not inclined to be too bothered by it. (Okay, he's a little bothered, but that has everything to do with how immensely discouraging it is to only get kissed when it's forced and nothing to do with the kissing itself.)]

I suppose so. We should try to be as undramatic and disappointing as possible.

[That gets Felix to smile a little bit.]

Luckily, I've had a decent amount of practice with kissing with the minimum of dramatics and being really boring about it.

[...That sounds. Bad? But yeah, when you've got to kiss your friends that you're either not interested or who are definitely not interested in you...you pick that talent up quick or you make things awkward.]

Ah, good.

[That does sound terrible, but Pavel gets it. Their lives, honestly.]

Okay. Would you like to start, or would you rather have me begin?

I doubt this is going to work but...

[Felix steps in a little closer, puts his hand on Pavel's shoulder and leans in to kiss....his cheek.

Look, there was a certain age difference back at Camp where you could get away with something like this and it'd be foolish not to try but he doubts they're going to get off that easily. Early twenties is not nearly the same as a teenager.]

[It hadn't even occurred to Pavel to try that since the bots in Marina were seldom content with anything short of fully making out, but hey, why not. He tries to take a few steps forward and--

...And no, of course it didn't work. Why would it?]

It was a noble attempt. [He gives the mistletoe A Look.] Even if the Atroma may disagree.

[...Well. At least he tried.]

I don't think nobility is what they're going for.

No, likely not.

[Alright. Without further ado--because really, the 'ado' is probably what the Atroma get the biggest kick out of--Pavel puts his hands on Felix's shoulders and kisses him fully on the lips.]

[True to his word, Felix is pretty good about keeping this brief and professional. It's chaste but also just long enough to hopefully satisfy...whoever...before he pulls away.

...But that was definitely...faintly weird. Pavel is his friend and okay, if he was really pressed he would say that yes, he's cute (for someone 10ish years younger than Felix) but...no. He doesn't think about him that way. And he doesn't think Pavel thinks of him like that either.]

Hopefully that's enough.

[It has not occurred to Pavel to think of Felix as anything other than a friend, which goes a long way towards making this not-all-that-weird for him. It also doesn't occur to him, as a rule, that other people might consider him cute, especially not after going almost two years without anyone so much as expressing interest.

And okay, the sheer number of times things like this have happened? Also does a lot to cut down on the weirdness.

Once again, he takes a few steps to see if it worked. This time, nothing stops him.]

I think that it was.

Thank the gods.

[...He was going to walk into the library, but now he takes a step back out into the corridor.]

I guess picking up new books can wait until tomorrow.