[ OPEN ] Hot Springs Episode!

[shri]

CHARACTERS: EVERYONE
WHERE: The Second Flight
WHEN: DAY :022
SUMMARY: The Sauna!
WARNINGS: Nekkid times.

[ A few hours after the murder, she hasn't blown the ship up, and here they are. Another knock knock on everyone's brain: ]

( For those of you that are interested - I have secured us a place at the Sauna. Free for us to be use without interruption from outsiders.

You are to be clean before you come in. )

[ Maybe you're here because she bullied you, maybe you want to soak - maybe you're the poor bastard that is standing guard at the door. Either way, welcome to the Suana, have fun. Or don't. ]

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[shiro2hero]

[Since he's just wearing a towel around his shoulders, the blush goes clearly from the edges of his scar, all the way down to his collarbone. Thank you, Elena. Thank you for that.]

He -- should probably not be doing that where everyone can see.

[Humor is good. Humor is less flustering.]

[otrazhenie]

[ It's a good look on you, Shiro. Elena approves. ]

I have a feeling that won't stop him.

[ She's trying so hard to keep a straight face as she says it, but she fails miserably, a grin breaking out at the end and a giggle slipping out. The both of them mean the world to her, and she loves the two of them together. ]

[shiro2hero]

[Her feeling is probably extremely accurate.]

[He makes a face that... is way more flustered than actually annoyed. Because a good part of him isn't upset at all. Maybe it's her amusement. Maybe it's the warmth coming off her.]

[... he'd wonder if this was what it was like to have a sister your own age, if it occurred to him.]

I'll tell him you said that. I don't know what that's going to prove, but. Something.

[otrazhenie]

[ This is exactly what it's like to have a sibling close to your age, Shiro. The teasing, the companionship, the genuine care for the other person. She's been missing this closeness, a distance having grown between her and Jeremy as their lives twisted and changed around them, and perhaps that's part of why she's so fiercely embraced her relationship with Shiro. He's helped to fill a void in her heart, whether he knows it or not. ]

It'll make him laugh, I'd bet money on it if I had any.

[shiro2hero]

[Maybe if there weren't the hierarchy between him and the others of his team. Or if he didn't have such a weight on his shoulders around them. Maybe then he'd know more of what this was like.]

[As it stands now, Elena is what he's got. But he won't be complaining. From the first time they met, there was that connection. That understanding. He wouldn't trade it for anything.]

What is money again? It's been so long, I think I forgot.

[otrazhenie]

[ It's nice to have that easy connection with someone again, to not have to try because you know the other person will accept you without question. In the beginning, she'd doubted that connection a little, but now she embraces it, nurtures it, protects it with all she is. She would die to keep Shiro safe, to give him the chance at the life he deserves, just like she would for Jeremy. Without hesitation. ]

The thing you get from doing work, that you exchange for food, shelter, clothes. That thing that's usually more trouble than it's worth.

[shiro2hero]

That... sounds fake, but I trust you.

[It's mostly meant as a joke, but he honestly doesn't remember the feeling of carrying a wallet anymore, much less money. In a way it's... it's nice. Freeing. But on the other hand, it's a bit of normalcy he'll never have again.]

[Joking with Elena like this, though? That is normalcy. And he's just as grateful for her.]

[otrazhenie]

[ The laugh that bursts out of her is uncontrollable and couldn't be contained even if she tried. In that moment, Shiro strikes her as completely adorable, and she can easily see them watching movies together on the couch and throwing popcorn at each other, if only any of those things existed here. No, the only normalcy they have are their relationships with each other, and she's so glad for that. ]