I'd be the luckiest man in the universe. [closed]

[shenunigans]

Who| Dave and Feferi
What| Friends reuniting after the Arena, friends doing things friends don't do.
Where| Feferi's room, D1.
When| After the Arena
Warnings/Notes| N/A

It's been a few weeks since Dave last saw Feferi. It feels longer and shorter than it should have been, what with going home and coming back to find he'd been gone a whole week. He's had time to deal with it since then. He's sulked and spent time alone in an effort too repress all the conflicting feelings it's giving him. But hey, what's a few more repressed feelings on top of all the other ones, right?

If there's one feeling he can't repress, it's the fact that he's eager to see Feferi again. Really, really eager. It feels weird not being joined at the hip with her, and it probably shouldn't, but he's started to acknowledge that she's good at making him feel. Well. Good. He doesn't actively watch Arenas, but he keeps track enough to know that she should be back about now. It's a friend thing, though. It's totally a friend thing. Warm, fuzzy friend feelings. That feeling of anticipation you get when you see a friend and there is nothing but platonic feelings so you don't need to obsess. You definitely don't need to keep fixing your mop of hair, your shirt is fine. Is that ketchup on your pants? You're a fucking disaster.

Maybe she went home as well. Maybe she won't come back. Maybe he's getting really tired of worrying about this shit as he catches the elevator down to her floor. He can't help feeling a powerful kind of anxiety when he knocks on her door. It's loud for good measure and it's followed by his voice in it's usual variety of low and deadpan.

"Room service, open up." And if she doesn't in a timely manner, he's going to slowly edge the door open.

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[shenunigans]

He's already thankful not to be alone, as usual. As usual, he probably won't say as much. It's good to have her here to circumnavigate the hate spirals he wants to fall into, though what she goes on to say doesn't precisely help. It's not her fault, he fucked up explaining that one big time, it's just hard to bring himself to correct her.

"I didn't make it that far." He points out, trying to restrain the bitterness in his tone. "Jade was dead, I was trying to get her to someone with Life powers to fix her up. Jack Noir and some other dog person got up in my grill about it. I tried to fend them off and I ended up dead." He can't help snorting, but of course it isn't out of sincere amusement.

"Of all the dumb things to fucking happen." He raises his hand to his temple, rubbing up and down to relieve some tension. "I dunno why I'm surprised anymore. Things don't even happen for a reason, they just happen aggressively and repetitively or just out of nowhere for no discernible reason." He sounds a little desperate, like he's hoping for clarification he doesn't think he'll get here.

[fintastic]

Jade... her other favorite human... Feferi frowns briefly, but shakes her head. "They do happen for a reason, though. We just don't always understand that reason. Sometimes we don't have the chance, and sometimes we just... can't. It is bigger than you and me and all of us that played Sgrub and Sburb combined."

She wishes her lusus was here. For being a giant sea monster, she was always so good at reassuring Feferi, maybe because she actually had some autority to be able to say that things would be okay. Feferi doesn't really know. Not for sure, but she has faith. It's what she's been told her whole life, and she can't imagine it's suddenly changed now. So many things happened to her and her friends, so she can relate, she really can, but it was easy for her. She was expecting it, braced for it. When it happens unexpectedly-- like a lot of what happens here-- it's more jarring.

"It does kind of suck being dead, though." That is something Feferi does have authority on. Even if it never got her too down, it's an experience all its own. "At least you died doing something heroic."

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"I dunno what shitty ass meaning needs this kind of karmic fuck up to happen. Like, what kind of destiny requires all this bullshit to get us to the end game? It's like a slip 'n slide full of broken glass." It feels shitty, on some level, to be so bitter about all the things she's trying to spin nicely for him. On the other hand, it feels good to be honest about it. It's sort of refreshing.

With his grumping aside, he can't really deny that she knows all this crap better than he probably does. She probably handled it better than he did, she does most things better. God damn it, he wants to kiss her again, he needs to focus on something else.

"Yeah, it does. Still feels crap though." He pulls himself up again, just hovering in her vicinity without getting close enough to tempt himself to kiss her or something similarly stupid. "At least both of us aren't dead-dead, though. I mean. It sucks massive, sweaty ass being here but I guess half the people aren't too awful. It's like a convention of people you never thought you'd meet, let alone be friends with." He thinks on that, then he groans. "You're infecting me with your cheerful, positive attitude."

[fintastic]

If Feferi is good at nothing else, she excels at getting stubborn boys to open up and just let it all out. Even if she can't totally console him, she believes in the efficacy of some good venting. It's already starting to show, though he has a long way to go before he's anywhere near he's just as upbeat as she is, so she just laughs.

"Am I? I did not know it was contagious." Yes she did, and it's thanks to her negligent behavior that he's catching it. "Should I take you down to the infirmary to get you looked at? You never know, it might be fatal to a human like you!"

Giving him a playful nudge, she pulls herself away from him and stands up, stretching. Her job isn't done yet, though. You don't just have a feelings jam and then call it a day. "Well. Since that is all settle, would you like to go for a little walk with me?"

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"Maybe you should. I'm feeling feverfish." Awful pun aside, he slides a hand up onto his forehead as if to check his own temperature. "It's like my insides are threatening to combust from critical masses of glitter and bubbles. I dunno how you cope, I guess it's the gills?" He gives her a skeptical look, not lifting himself from the bed even as she does.

He looks faintly confused when she suggests going for a walk and largely he feels as if he would rather not. Even so, his desire not to be alone and simultaneously spend time with Feferi seems to overrule his laziness and his apathy enough to make him stand. He lets out a long, unattractive groan as he pulls himself off the bed, brushing himself down when he does.

"Walk where?" Idle walking? Never.

[fintastic]

"Definitely the gills." But it's hard to keep a straight face whenever anyone else fish puns at her. It's just so... unexpected. "That's why we should get you moving! I don't want you to combust, you are too fun to be around. How about the roof?"

The roof seems like a safe middleground. She'd still like to take him to the aquarium, but that might be a hard sell. But anything to get him up and moving a little, get his blood flowing... she assumes, anyway, that it's just as beneficial for humans as it is for trolls, and even if it isn't, she doesn't think it will hurt him in the least. If nothing else, it's a distraction, so there's really no way to lose.

[shenunigans]

"That shits not fair." He grumbles to himself, letting the joke slowly fade out is hard when you always need the last word. Or all the words, really, given who he is.

"That's not a walk, that's an elevator ride." He points out with a narrowing of his eyebrows, but he won't fight her anymore on it. Evidently, he doesn't have a problem with it, since he's pushing his door open and leaning against it as he waits for her to walk past.

"Why do I get the sense I'm being lead out for excersise and piss all over everything like a restless shitzu?" He glances over his shoulder at her, brow raised.

[fintastic]

"Close enough!" She grabs for his hand as she walks past him, to... well, lead him along. At least she's not trying to put a leash on him. That would just be weird. "I have no idea what that is, but probably not! I just think that it is better for you to get up and move around a little."

At least she's being honest, as she leads the way out to the elevators. "You are my friend, and I am not going to let you wallow in misery. Sorry, but that is just not happening."

Not that he was resisting anyway, but she wants to make totally sure he knows she's going to look out for him. She almost feels like she has to coddle him even more than usual, just to make up for her ancestor being so terrible.

[shenunigans]

Dave refrains from launching into an explanation about how they're a kind of dog that's a kind of Ewok and that everyone knows what Ewoks are, but he loses interest in it fairly fast. Instead, he runs his tongue over his teeth in an effort to hide his petulant expression.

"I'm not wallowing, I came to find you." He points that out like leaving his room is the pinnacle of mental health. "Seriously, I'm fine." He says that, but he's still following her with no attempt to pull away or wander off. He pauses, like he can't even convince himself, but it doesn't last long. "Or, whatever. I'll be fine. Let's talk about something else, like you. How are you?" He shrugs heavily and exaggeratedly, because all fine people jerk their shoulders upward like this.

[fintastic]

"I'm fine. Same as always!" Almost as soon as she presses the button for the elevator, it arrives. Damn they're fast. She tugs him on behind her, mashes the button for the roof hastily, then turns around to take his other hand in hers as well, facing him with a doofy grin. She's not exactly glad that he's depressed over his trip home, but he came to her for comfort, and it just makes her skin tingle. "Better, now that you're feeling better."

Smooth, Peixes. Very smooth. It's a good thing the elevator ride is so short, otherwise it might start getting pretty awkward.

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"Wow. Comprehensive. I feel like I know you better already." His voice couldn't take a lower or flatter pitch or tone. He'd give her a flat look, but the shades do that for him.

He presses his lips together when she takes his other hand, because it brings about the increasingly prevalent urge to lean in and make it weird. Again.

"Cool." He says, equally comprehensive in his responses and eager to let her lead him out of the elevator and off to whatever they're doing after this.

[fintastic]

Stepping off the elevator, Feferi can't help feeling... a little weirdly disappointed. But she leads him along behind her, stopping about halfway to the nearest ledge-- or as close as they can get to it, anyway. She doesn't really have anything specific she wants to do, or at least that she knows she wants to do. She just gets a feeling they should avoid anywhere too sheltered. It seems like things would have an equal chance of getting awkward, or getting disappointing again.

"Well... if you ever wanted to know anything about me, then I guess now is the time to ask!" A little Twenty Questions never hurt anyone. Far be it from her to make things all about herself, but he provides her a convenient avenue for distraction, and it just so happened to be... well, her.

Or they can stand in silence and watch the glow of the city. She meant what she said: as long as he's feeling better, she's feeling better. And she is very much okay with whatever keeps that momentum going.