Just a Little Bit Closer, Just a Little Warmer [Closed to Steve]

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

Miku didn't like the observation deck anymore. Ever since the Punishment had occurred, she couldn't stay very long without hearing things that had been past days ago. She figured it was probably worse because it was "newer" than the events that had already happened on the ship.

Regardless, the moment she heard Stacy's voice quietly admonishing Big Zero for her actions in that cold voice of hers, Miku started to hurry across the deck like someone had lit her on fire.

Anywhere would be better than hearing or seeing this. Anywhere at all. She pointedly kept her eyes on her the ground to avoid seeing any of the Punishment again. Once was enough. Once was more than enough.

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[craaazyisland]

He was quiet for a few moments, before he finally sighed. "You don't have to be sorry," he said. "You're the normal one here-- most normal people couldn't hurt somebody, just like you said. I'm just..."

He sighed again. "Nevermind. You know. I don't want to make you do something you're not comfortable with."

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"And that's why you're a good person, too." Maybe not a "normal" one, but she wasn't really 'normal' either. Miku lifted his chin so she could look him in the eye with a finger. "I'll learn, if you teach me, Steve. Just... I'll only use it in a dire emergency." Don't expect her to go all Yakuza on the Ohm, after all.

Miku tilted her head and studied his features.

[craaazyisland]

He was turning cherry tomato red again.

"That's all I meant," he said. "I don't really expect you to go out and fight on the front lines, don't worry!"

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"I don't think anyone would let me do that," Miku smiled and pushed his hair out of his face. "You especially. Besides, I'm much happier as support."

[craaazyisland]

He grinned, leaning down to kiss her on the forehead. "I didn't think you'd be into the glory of battle anyway."

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"No, no," she assured him. Her ears turned pink. "I'm just one of those people in the background with the bandages, remember?" She laughed a little and put her arms around his neck, ruffling the hair on the back of his head.

"What about you? What are you going to do now that you're better? Aside from train with Luke, I mean."

[craaazyisland]

He twitched a little again, ticklish at the hair ruffling. Miku was going to have all kinds of devious entertainment as soon as he was full recovered.

"I don't know," he sighed. "Just because I'm better doesn't mean I'm any more useful than I was... though now, at least, I'll be allowed to do some more stressful things. I've been meaning to go poke around and see sometime soon."

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

She really, really was. He just didn't have an inkling of how much entertainment she was going to get out of him.

"Tell me what you decide," she looked a little proud of him. "So I can quietly boast." Miku rubbed the tip of her nose against his.

[craaazyisland]

Fire engine red.

"Hey, you should at least make sure I apply myself to something cool and not like. Ship janitor, or whatever. Before you decide to be proud of me."

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"No one would train you to be a janitor." Really, Steve, your cleaning leaves something to be desired. "And I'll be proud of anything you decide."

[craaazyisland]

Violet red?

"Of course you'd say that," he mumbled, shrinking down a bit further to try and hide the color of his face from her.

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"Wah! Look at me," Miku urged, laughing and angling her head so that she could get under his and into his eye line. For once, it was a boon to be shorter than he was. "Look at me, or I won't kiss you."

So it wasn't much of a threat, but if it made him look up, then she'd at least know she have some kind of upper hand.

[craaazyisland]

"I can't look at you, I think my face is on fire." He managed to look up at her, though, still fighting off the heat in his cheeks.

Then he could hardly manage to hold back his laughter. "Is it? Maybe I started bleeding and didn't know it. Yeah, that's it."

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you are. Here, and here, and here..." Miku punctuated the locations with little kisses. "There, I think you're out now."

[craaazyisland]

"Hahaha, nope..." Well, at least it wasn't humanly possible for him to get any redder. Steve bade his time until the color faded from his cheeks, then he leaned forward and kissed her lips. Two could play at this blushing game.

"You know, having a girlfriend really makes a guy silly."

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Or evil. He seemed pretty evil right now. Her face flooded with color and she reached up to tweak at his right earlobe. "Better silly than serious though, isn't that right?" She was just glad they were off a bit so no one (but... Stacy, she supposed) could see them. That would make this even worse, somehow.

Miku sighed at him and pushed her hair from her face, "I really mean it, you know."

[craaazyisland]

"Yeah. Better silly than serious." Steve could remember a time not too long ago when everything was serious for him, and every day felt like it was crushing him a little more than the day before. It seemed like an entire lifetime ago (not funny), and he couldn't even remember when it started changing. But he was pretty certain he preferred it this way. He missed laughing and smiling and being with people he was comfortable with-- and now, even with pain and guilt weighing on him, it felt good to be free from Veronica's constant threat, if not altogether free of it.

He woke up from his little monologue at the sound of her voice. "Huh? You really mean what?"

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku sighed at him, shaking her head, "Nevermind~." Honestly, he could get lost in his own little world sometimes. "It's my secret now."

[craaazyisland]

"Nooo! Come on, tell me." Was that a little whine in his voice?

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

Miku lifted her chin and turned her face away, "Nooo, no, I think I'll keep it." She opened one eye halfway to look at him, and failed miserably at keeping the smile tugging at her lips at bay. "So very sorry~"

[craaazyisland]

He leaned forward and rested his chin on her shoulder. "Tell me or else I'll make that face at you... Pleeeease?"

[ghost-bait.livejournal.com]

She smooched his nose, "I'll resist!" Well... she thought she could, anyway. It was hard when he had those big, blue eyes right there.

[craaazyisland]

There it was. The Face.

"Come on, Miku... tell me! I'll tell you something if you do. Anything you want to ask."

The Face continued pouting her into oblivion even as he negotiated.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

"Aaaaah~ no, not that face~!" She turned her face away and draped herself backwards over his arms. "I'll never tell...!" Even if the bait was awfully tempting.

[craaazyisland]

"Pleeeease?" Pouty lip stuck out. "I wanna know!"