[CLOSED] she rides with the gods of the night, she rules the tides in me.

[slapfight]

CHARACTERS: Peridot (slapfight) and Feferi (fintastic)
DATE: Some nebulous time between the end of the castle attack and now.
WARNINGS: None, unless you're offended by PURE YURIS.
SUMMARY: Feferi asked Peridot out on a date. So that happened.


Peridot does not arrive at midnight.

Peridot arrives at eleven.

Being punctual, after all, is a sure sign of interest and dedication. Being extra punctural means she has time to make sure she is the most presentable. She only knows how this works because of television, but most of the rendezvous situations in Camp Pining Hearts revolve around this exact situation.

And because camping uniforms are not readily available to set what she presumes is the mood, she's produced one of the scarves she got from Woodhurst and tied it around her neck in some awkward imitation of how the campers wear theirs. It's a bit too long to be effective and mostly she just looks like she's wearing a lopsided green bow around her neck.

The entire hour she's waiting she works on poses, trying to figure out the best way to present herself when Feferi shows up. Should she lean against the tree? No, no too casual. Should she sit under it? No, that's stupid. What if she doesn't see her? Ugh. The show makes these things look so natural.

Maybe if she shakes the tree a little and lets the blossoms rain down on her? No, she'd have to keep doing it and it would ruin the effect... Maybe she can find something metal to put on the branch and manipulate it...?

As expected, she spends so much time trying to work out her sense of dramatics that she doesn't even realize when midnight comes.

Comments

[fintastic]

"Oh god, you know he would have, too..."

Feferi shudders a little at the thought. She appreciated Mettaton's advice, really. But he could be a little over the top at times. She's just glad he didn't try to follow her out here and film this whole thing. The thought also amuses her a little, too, and she laughs again.

"He told me you had cake for me, though." She feigns a pout, but it's ineffective at best, because she's trying too hard to not smile, and also failing at it. She can't even pin her fins back properly. "That would have been nice. What did you do with it?"

[slapfight]

Peridot bursts out laughing herself, slapping her knee with her free hand. "He would have!" The laughter breaks off, however, as she remembers The Cake. The cake that started this whole thing. And she forgot it. What kind of mega-clod does that?!

"...It's back in my room. I spent so much time getting ready, I forgot to bring it." She sounds so distraught, even if Feferi is clearly teasing. It doesn't matter. The cake was important. SHE HAD ONE JOB. "Maybe Pumpkin can be alone with it unsupervised."

That's a very large maybe.

[fintastic]

"Pumpkin can have it! I have something a lot sweeter right here."

And in case it isn't obvious that she's trying to be slick, she reaches up to boop Peridot soundly on the nose. Feferi is now in full leaning-in territory, and wondering if she should just ask the question already, or if she should let this play out a little bit longer...

Nah, what's the point in waiting? She's pretty sure they both know where this is going anyway.

"Soooo... when I do go back and tell Mettaton how tonight went, am I going to get to tell him you're my girlfriend now, or not? This is important! I want to get it right."

[slapfight]

Peridot's entire face turns blue at that nose boop, and if there was any debate about how much illusory sweat a gem can manifest, it's clear now that it's a lot. On some level, maybe Peridot did know where this was going, but it still floors her.

Possibly because in her infinite naivety, she might have thought she was reading into this wrong. Or hoping beyond all reason because it was what she wanted. Imagine! A Peridot with a-a...

"Oh my stars," she whispers, fighting the urge to fall over and back up against the tree to regroup and be more smooth- Feferi makes it look so easy. "I, um... Well."

She's going to kick Mettaton in his stupid box. She should have known he put her up to this!! He played them both!! How dare he be such a good friend!!

"I would hate to disappoint him," she starts out, and then realizes this is not about Mettaton being disappointed. This is about her and Feferi, and what they want.

What she wants.

Why shouldn't she have what she wants Percy and Pierre have? Who lives vicariously through fictional characters when they can have the real thing?

So instead of leaning back, she calls upon the knowledge of a dozen marathons of Camp Pining Hearts, and leans forward until her lips brush Feferi's. It's very quick- more of a peck, really, because she's never done it before and she's scared she won't get the reaction she expects.

"Is that answer sufficient?" At least the boldness it took to even try to kiss her gives her the confidence to sound a little bit smooth. The eyebrow waggle might have been taking it a bit too far, though.

the fifth quadrant was love all along

[fintastic]

Well, that's one way to surprise Feferi-- but in a good way. She's actually surprised that Peridot went for the kiss first, and squeaks a little in the process, but the big grin on her face says that she definitely doesn't mind it one bit.

"Yes, that is a sufficient answer! Come here!" If the eyebrow waggle is too much, then there's really nothing to describe the way Feferi throws her arms around Peridot, and starts plastering kisses all over her cheek. Excited and affectionate don't even begin to cover it.

She might make it seem easy, but she did a lot of thinking on this-- soul searching. Of course, she still has Sollux to think of. She wonders sometimes if Sollux would even like Peridot, or if they'd just fight over nerd stuff, and if they did, if it'd be the good kind of fighting or bad. And she doesn't think it prudent to try to get Peridot into troll quadrants when human romance seems enough of a challenge, and anyway it seems like a good enough middle ground to meet on.

In the end, Feferi decides that it's different enough, and if it's not... she'll deal with that problem when the time comes. No use in worry about the uncertain future, after all.

So she's happy, and it's a little bittersweet, but she's not going to let that get her down.

"...was that romantic enough? I tried to make it really dramatic, like your show!"

[slapfight]

Peridot squeaks, planting her hands behind her so she doesn't fall over (and for a lack of knowing where to put them, and allows the kissing to go on uninterrupted until she's flustered and her bowtie is askew and the grin on her face is so unbelievably dopey. Also her visor might be a little fogged up at this point.

"That was... actually better than any episode of Camp Pining Hearts," she murmurs, still a little shell-shocked. "Including the one where Percy and Pierre are trapped in that cave-in in Season Three."

Steven and Lapis are never going to believe this.

[fintastic]

"Oooh, that is a good one," she says, having never seen it. She is just going to have to trust that it is a good one, and that she did a good job at the romance thing. Feferi snuggles in, with her arms still around Peridot, satisfied that she got the hard part over with, but wondering where you even go from here, besides into wild makeouts.

"...you wanna watch it together?" She came out here for the scenic view of the tree, but magitek and chill seems like a good option around about now. It's still comfortable, and fragrant, with all the sounds of the outdoors around them.

[slapfight]

Peridot might actually poof a second time this week if wild makeouts were the next logical step in this, though it always seems to come to that in teen dramas. She's not quite ready to be Percy and (ugh) Paulette behind the boathouse sucking face all the time.

But this? This she can do. Two people, uncertain of what the heck they're doing, cuddling outside and watching two stupid boys have ridiculous amounts of subtext on Peridot's magitek.

She boots up the episode on her magitek and then wraps an arm around Feferi's waist. "So for context, this is the one after the kayak race is sabotaged and both Percy and Pierre think the other was responsible for it. It adds some dramatic tension to their interactions in the whole episode, but ultimately leads to- Well, you'll see."