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Cascade [Open party time!]

Billy had just launched another portal in that maze of mazes, exhaustion setting in. Surely this time he would land on another moving platform of death?

Nope, just the exterior of the finished bathhouses. All polished, systems running, and just about ready to open! Given how sore and exhausted he was, that sounded like an excellent idea at the moment.

With a quick message to the rest of the crew, he set out the 'Open' sign for the first time and took advantage of his owner status---the prime waterfall spot could be his!

((ooc: The bathhouses are now open! Feel free to mingle around, relax, and have a party. Or cause trouble, but that might invite more trouble. Just start a subthread with your character's location and have fun. For reference there are individual showers in front, followed by hot tubs centrally located, saunas further back, and private baths along the side. The showers, tubs, and saunas have smaller sex-segregated units along with a central group unit that's larger.))

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She's stopped peering into Cagalli's aura, she doesn't feel the sudden feeling of being threatened. Instead, she leans in without a word, closing her eyes and pressing her lips against Cagalli's. Give her this, she's a decent kisser.

After a heartbeat, she sucks Cagalli's lower lip between hers. After only a second, she pulls back, and resumes leaning at a 'safe' distance away, letting Cagalli hopefully feel comfortable again. "Yes, you're far too hard on yourself."

Something in Cagalli's mind seemed to break for a moment, all thoughts grinding to a stop. She was being kissed by a relative stranger. Not a light, chaste, ghost of a kiss... a real honest to god one, no matter how brief. "Y-you..."

The moment her brain kicked back in, she immediately threw a hard straight at Mei-Xing with the hand that wasn't holding the towel onto her body. "Don't touch me again!"

Mei-Xing looks up to see the fist heading for her, then instinct and training takes over. She surges up, sliding her arm around Cagalli's. She raises a leg, then sweeps Cagalli's, sending them both splashing into the water.

She scrabbles to put the other girl down, trying to immobilize her. At the same time, her mind races to remember the entire formula, headware working overtime to feed it into her mind so she can wrap a spell around the both of them.

They're underwater. But a tingling feeling later, coupled with a thin ribbon of blood starting to flow from Mei-Xing's nose, and suddenly breathing's not a problem. "Settle down!" She just talked. Underwater.

It only took an instant for Cagalli to realize that this had been a bad idea. The woman was faster, stronger, and better trained, on top of having magic. So, she stood... zero chance.

Then she was pinned under her underwater of all places. For a moment she struggled at the thought of being drowned, until she heard a voice... and realized she wasn't drowning, and was being straddled by the woman, on her back, her towel having nearly fallen off. "Wh-what are you...?" she wasn't even sure what question to ask, honestly.

Mei-Xing sighs in relief, the girl isn't struggling. Good. Not that she'll let her up. "Keeping you from trying to punch me again, that's what I'm doing!" There's a beat. "...I had to cast a spell so I didn't accidentally drown you. Sorry about that, you took me by surprise."

She acts like this happens every day. "Got a bit more fire to you than I thought. I figured you'd be the shy type 'til the end." She adjusts her grip, taking a moment to make sure that Cagalli can't wriggle out from under her. Then again, with the weight of things underwater, it'll be harder than she expects.

She blinks, then takes a look down at Cagalli's towel. "...You aren't wearing anything." That is... That's a revelation right there.

Wait, what? This is the girl who was just...

And now she's... Cagalii shakes her head as best she can underwater before speaking. This woman was just messing with her the whole time? She had a mind to... to do something after they got out of here. "So what, you were just playing with me the whole time? Just... trying to get a good reaction out of me?"

She leaves the lack of clothing alone for now.

"Partially." Mei-Xing admits it sheepishly. "Yeah. But I wasn't lying about how good you looked, at least? If you took up wenching at Kang's bar, you'd be pretty popular. He doesn't even make you wear stupid clothes, so."

She has a naked girl pinned down. This bears careful consideration.

For both parties, in fact. Cagalli couldn't fight her way out of the situation, and at this point the woman on her seemed reasonable that she might not have to. Now is words time, even if she hasn't gotten quite as good as she'd like at talking her way out of things. "Sorry, but bar wench is one thing I'm definitely not interested in."

"Fair enough." Mei-Xing shrugs. At least Cagalli seems to have calmed down. "I think I might let you up. Only under two conditions, though." She pauses, looking at her hands pinning the girl, then shakes her head. No demonstrative hand-gestures now. "First, you promise not to tell anyone this went down. I don't fancy going to the brig over a little joke." She'd spent her time in there before, and it was seriously old by then.

"As for the second..." She tilts her head, as if considering. "We seal the deal with a kiss. A real one." As if the one earlier hadn't counted! "In return for that, I'm willing to lay off you for the rest of the night. No more touching, unless you want a shoulder rub or something."

To her, it sounds like a perfectly fine deal. Then again, she's the one with the spells to let people breathe underwater.

Mei-Xing's first demand is entirely reasonable. Frankly, she'd be just as happy to brush something that didn't turn into something really bad under the rug, and the woman was drinking anyways. She'd seen people act far stupider under the influence, yet couldn't really blame people for wanting to - hell, if she hadn't been raised the way she was she probably would've hit the bottle over the situation in Orb. "Alright, I won't snitch."

The second... "H-hey! You already kissed me without permission! That should be enough already, right?"

She grins at the first agreeance, happy to hear that she'll stay brig-free for another night. Cagalli was probably just as embarrassed about it as she'd been worried. "Good."

Mei-Xing shakes her head. "No. For one thing, that was rushed. You deserve to be kissed with attention and care. And another thing... You didn't really participate. Too shocked, I guess." She smiles again, and this one is very smug. "If you walk away with a bad opinion of me, fine, but I'd at least like you to think something positive."

"Who says kissing you would give me a positive opinion?" Kissing Athrun is alright. He's her boyfriend! Kisses on the cheek would... not be a bad thing from Kira or Lacus; maybe Mir could get away with it.

This, however, is a woman she's only just met who wants to kiss her full on, on the lips. Her blush isn't terribly visible under the water (the heat's making her red enough now). "And yeah I was shocked..."

"I'd rather you think I was at least a good kisser!" This is, for some reason, more important than just letting her go?

"A good, real kiss to seal the deal. When I'm satisfied, I let you up, maintain arm's distance. We're chill for the rest of the night. Deal?" She twists to look at where the booze is. "I'll even let you have the rest of that bottle." She has more, anyway.

If it gets her out of here... and hell, she may as well take the bottle as a souvenir.

"Alright, alright already. You win, we kiss." She took a slow, deep breath, pausing to consider how weird that is underwater. This was the second person she'd ever kissed, and she'd effectively been molested into doing it. Life on the good ship Stacy is a real experience. "Then we retain a comfortable distance and I don't come back until I've picked up a swimsuit."

Mei-Xing grins and sits crosslegged, pulling Cagalli up into her lap. Somehow, the towel just happens to get left on the floor.

She grins a little, resting her hands on Cagalli's hips, then takes a light breath. She opens up slowly, just brushing her lips against the girl's. Then, she goes for a light kiss, sucking on Cagalli's lower lip again.

Victory is always sweeter when it's freely given.

Mentally berating herself for giving in so easily, Cagalli lets herself be manhandled, the weight of the soaked towel pulling it away. Sure, why not be naked on top of everything, and then Lacus walks in. Perfect day.

She kisses back, if not very well or enthusiastically. Just enough to hopefully placate the woman, while going through financial calculations in the back of her head. Price of imported grain compared to technological exports... the sucking isn't appreciated.

She's distracting herself. Mei-Xing tugs on her lower lip with her teeth to pull her back to reality. On a second thought, she shifts her hands from Cagalli's hips to her rear, pulling her closer.

Mei-Xing grins a little, feeling Cagalli pressed against her, then goes back to the kiss. It's a little harder than before, trying to force Cagalli into responding with more than a lackluster performance.

Cagalli would rather her lip be left alone, but her ability to occupy herself wanes with that, even as she tries really hard to not give Mei-Xing too much satisfaction.

Her disinterest takes a bit of a hit when Mei-Xing grabs her ass to pull her forward. For a moment, her eyes widen and she actually presses back with her lips before mentally backpedaling and trying to think of more complicated numbers. Oh, if only she remembered more details about the hydraulics on her mobile suits...

Mei-Xing breaks the kiss for a moment, leaning up to nibble on Cagalli's earlobe before whispering. "You're not putting any effort into it. I can keep up the kiss forever, if you're just going to act like someone's hand." She trails her fingers up Cagalli's spine lightly, letting the water swirl against her skin.

"We can do this right for a little while, if you'll pay attention." Seriously, it was rude. Who just thought about other things to deliberately turn themselves off while you were kissing them?

Someone who has a boyfriend and never really considered herself bisexual in any way, that's who. Mei-Xing should consider herself lucky that Cagalli's naked and kissing her underwater in the first place!

She leans away from the nibbling, even as a bit of a chill runs up her spine. "L-listen... I've got a boyfriend and he's... he's here on the ship so I think you can understand why I'm not all that enthusiastic," she hoped to reason. Success may be unlikely, but she had to give it a go.

"I'm not asking you to pin me down and set off fireworks behind my eyes." She sighs, leaning her head against Cagalli's shoulder. Like she was the wronged party. "Just... Don't treat it like a chore. It's insulting."

You have to wonder about this woman's priorities.

Cagalli sure as hell wondered, as well as wondering why she was leaning her head against her shoulder like they were, y'know, lovers or something. Still she had... kind of a point, anyways. After all if she was a... weird... molester she'd want her efforts to be appreciated? Something like that.

She gives Mei-Xing a somewhat patronizing pat on the head. "Okay, okay, I get it. I'll try, anyways."

Mei-Xing is just like that. It's probably the fact that she hasn't gotten any attention that wasn't in her own fantasies for almost a year now.

She smiles when Cagalli finally relents, kissing her on the ear again. She repositions herself, both hands on Cagalli's ass once more, and looks up. "You can start this time, then." Just to make it that much more difficult.

That earns Mei-Xing a frown. It's pretty obvious why she's doing it, and yet Cagalli agreed, and it was how she was gonna not be a boiled lobster.

If Mei-Xing wants her to do it right, then dammit... when Cagalli Yula Atha decides to do something, she gets the job done. It doesn't hurt that she likes having her butt grabbed.

"Well, if you insist..." Cagalli puts her hand behind Mei-Xing's head, fortifies herself with the assurance that this totally isn't cheating, and presses her lips firmly to the elf's with ten times her prior enthusiasm. Easily.

To prove her wrong or... something.

Mei-Xing's fingers tighten and she whines into Cagalli's mouth as the girl pushes the older woman into the kiss. Oh, she likes that.

Opening her mouth to the kiss, she lets out a happy little noise. The sudden enthusiasm is a much welcomed change, and she knocks the probable length of the kiss down from a few hours to maybe a few minutes. No reason to punish the girl over this.

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