trans_9 | What is Love? [Valentine's Date Event]

It's shaping up to be another average day on the Transmigration 9. Crew members are going about their business as usual and all is (to most appearances, at least) about as "well" as things ever are on the ship.

Some crew members are going to be stopped out of the blue by impact with a force field.

"Attention Crewmen: You have been chosen to participate in an experiment!" GLaDOS's voice informs. They're not alone, someone else that was nearby is also caught within the same narrow radius. "Participation is mandatory. Please try to relax and enjoy the experience, as this will improve the quality of the test results."

Clearly this is going to be a wonderful day for science.

"You and your new scientific partner are now on a date," GLaDOS goes on. "As it would be detrimental to our study of the date experience if you were to be separated, you must remain close to your partner for the duration of the experiment. This will be enforced with the Transmigration 9 Crewman Containment Field. Prolonged exposure to the Transmigration 9 Crewman Containment Field may have unexpected side-effects. While any side-effects encountered will be documented and your desire to offer yourself to science is commendable, it is not a necessary part of this experiment."

"You will be informed when the test has been completed. We would like to thank you in advance for your full cooperation in the experiment and failure to attempt to foil it in any way."

"The experiment has begun, so you may begin dating."

[OOC: The exact details of your characters' confinement are up to players' discretion. Being trapped in a sensorium or other stationary place is a possibility, as is being stuck in a sort of roving invisible force field hamster ball that only affects the two of you. How far partners can move apart is probably subject to whatever's fun but they ideally shouldn't be able to sit on opposite sides of a room ignoring one another the whole time.

ICly the "test" lasts for a few hours and you are free to godmode GLaDOS telling them the experiment is finished.

If you would like a few tags from GLaDOS herself in your thread, ping me on this account or plurk or AIM or whatever is most convenient for you. :)]

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Diana smiled slightly and brought her hand up to run through Jinx's hair.

"Thankyou." Her fingers slid from Jinx's hair, down her neck. "Though, let's face it, you're rather good looking yourself."

Jinx purred affectionately "We must deserve each other then. Two very pretty strong willed women stuck on a ship in the middle of no where. Strangers thrown together by fate, bound together by...well." She chuckled and stretched out her legs curling her toes. "Remind me to write a book about it all someday. We'll be rich."

“Big believer in fate, are you?” She stroked down Jinx’s neck and back.

“You think we’re bound?” Diana asked, wondering if she could get Jinx to bring up the subject of what their relationship was first.

Yes, Diana had been avoiding it but eventually, she’d have to think about and face it anyway, so she’d rather it be on her own terms.

“How so?”

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All the teasing of her neck and back was making it hard to focus, so her face lit up when Diana asked her the following questions. So much so she couldn't even joke about her powers leading her to usually dismiss fate.

"Well..." She thought for a moment "Not in that way really. I mean...you come to me for a reason, right?" She offered while inside the part of her that was actually afraid of losing whatever she had was throwing her arms in the air with frustration. This was a conversation that could end very poorly if Jinx wasn't careful.

"What makes you think that?" Diana asked, keeping up the physical contact by stroking her slender fingers along Jinx's arm, knowing it made the other girl lower her guard.

Yep...she was in trouble now.

"Well, we enjoy each others company. You may not let me in on you know...your life, but I let you in mine. And we spend alot of time...enjoying each others company." She was stuck and tried to dig herself out. "So not you know...bound. It's really up to us just how...close we get."

"So, how close are we?" Diana's eyes were fixed on Jinx's, keeping the girl locked in a gaze. She brought her face to Jinx's, their lips brushing just slightly. "And how close do you want to get?"

It was her eyes that did it.

At first there was a flutter of panic as Jinx thought for maybe a moment that Diana had some mind control powers of her own. That she was once again being a puppet in some game.

But this was a different feeling, and she scolded herself for the irrational fear. Even if it was a game, if she was being manipulated by this girl with those deep dark eyes that were sucking her in. She was a willing participant.

Was she sacrificing her own emotions, risking pain and heartache simply because she loved how it felt? Diana hadn't ever really hurt her yet. But she hadn't let herself get swept up like this in a long time.

And she'd never felt this strongly about a relationship.

Staring back into those eyes she felt her muscles running slack. Her heart was racing, she'd begin to sweat and hoped the water would mask it. And among all the nervousness there was hope, and excitement. Was she actually enjoying the anxiety? How messed up was that?

What felt like hours of letting Diana's eyes suck away her resistance was really only a few long agonizing minutes when Jinx's lips began to move and she whispered softly, hopefully, "As close you'll let me."

Diana could see the conflict in Jinx's eyes.

Well, at least she wasn’t the only one having to mull over this whole relationship idea. She still refused to acknowledge any sort of commitment but she could confess to herself she was a lot more attached to the pink haired girl than she’d planned on getting.

She wouldn’t tell Jinx that, though. But she would put the girl out of her misery with a kiss.

Whatever conflict was in her mind melted away as soon as their lips touched. Something inside Jinx broke free and she kissed back deep, unreserved. There was a heat behind not born from lust but that other L word that she was so enamored with but also completely terrified of.

For that one brief moment she gave Diana all of her pent up emotions, like forgetting for even a minute that there was a reason to hesitate. A reason to guard herself.

Diana felt all the emotions of the kiss and was rather surprised by the intensity of it. She'd been expecting something, yes, but not this much.

It gave her something to think about.

But for now she responded by kissing back, not with same explosion of feeling of course, but more meaning than usual at least.

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