closed 🪶⚡ all i really, really ever want is under the mistletoe

[garudas]

Who: Cidolfus Telamon & Benedikta Harman.
Status: Closed.
Where: Around places.
What: Cid and Benedikta follow a lead and sneak into a fancy holiday party. Event stuff TBA.
Warnings: it's them, what do you want from me



🥂 🎄 ❄️

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[garudas]

Ridiculous.

[Face to face now, her lashes flutter to meet his eyes, and her lips quirk ever so slightly at him. She's going to be difficult.]

... Why can't you be the one to kiss me?

[ramuhs]

[He's already pulling her down before she finishes speaking, lips capturing the last word as he kisses her roughly and deeply. He will hold her there, too, even as the smirk forms before he pulls away.]

It will be your turn next time.

[And he sets her down.]

[garudas]

[She is not so inclined to let him go now, not after that kiss. Her voice dies away into a soft, happy sound, and she takes it and gives back with equal passion. Even when he pulls away and sets her down, she is chasing him, wishing for more, but her hands slide away from his shoulders and across his chest.]

Not if I take down every little kissing weed before you get me under them.

[ramuhs]

Is it really so wrong? I think they add a bit of fun.

[garudas]

[Is she teasing him? Maybe, maybe not—]

You know me and surprises. I just do not like being caught unaware.

[ramuhs]

[He's wager half and half.]

And if it wasn't a surprise?

[garudas]

Well then, what is the point of these if they are not?

[She puckers her lips at him, mimicking a kiss.]

Then you might as well just go ahead and do it.

[ramuhs]

[Well since she said so he's just going to kiss her again for that.]

[garudas]

[Once again, she is surprised by the sudden kiss, and she giggles as she shoves him back, albeit incredibly weakly.]

Careful, or you are going to use up all of your kisses before the night is even over.

[ramuhs]

As if that were a thing.

[A smirk as he leans in.]

You'd be begging for more.

[garudas]

Oh?

[That lights a challenging spark in her eyes.]

I think you might cave first. With or without the stupid plant.

[ramuhs]

Shall we see then?

[And now he starts backing away.]

[garudas]

[Her hands slip away from him, her gaze following as he backs away from her, a spark of want lighting within her eyes.]

Is that a challenge, Cidolfus?

[ramuhs]

[He'll just give her a little smile—]

We'll see how you long you last.

[—before just running off towards where the lift is, but instead of taking it he just jumps down and grabs the rope to swing down it instead.]

[garudas]

What—!?

[Before she even has time to register what is going on, he is leaping over the edge of the overlook. She rushes to lean over the rails, watching him slide down on that rope, and she calls out to him, her voice echoing throughout the cave.]

Cidolfus, where are you going?

[ramuhs]

To the party!

[His voice bellows and echos off the walls as he continues to slide down before he's jumping down the last few feet and land with a spark of lightning. From the ground he just waves at her cheerily before turning around to walk towards the main area where the celebration can be seen.]

[garudas]

You didn't even—

[He's just walking away like that!? The nerve! He didn't even give her a kiss goodbye! Not that it matters because she is completely fine without it. Totally fine. Not upset at all.

He'll feel her eyes glaring sharpened daggers into the back of his head as he saunters away like that, and then a wind that blusters up the back of his neck before she pushes back away from the railing with a sharp groan and heads down to the party herself. She is going to need several glasses of wine and cups of cider if she is going to win this challenge of theirs.

And she will win it.

It would seem that, for a while, they play keep away from each other. Where Cid is, Benedikta is not, and vice versa, both of them avoiding the other so as not to be tempted.




One and a half glasses later and she is already searching for him...]

[ramuhs]

[Well she said he would use up all his kisses—

And he can definitely feel those glares and that wind, but he's grown far used to them, only smiling to himself as he reaches a group, clapping the unsuspecting member on the shoulder to surprise them. He knows Benedikta will cave in first—she always does—and he will make it more difficult by avoiding her whenever he sees her around. He even makes it more obvious by leaping over a table once to literally run away.

However, at some point he seems to be alone over by one of the food tables, and there just so happens to be a mistletoe above him...]

[garudas]

[That some point is when she is already two full glasses of wine into the night. Fortunately, she has not hit the 'tipsy' point yet, but she is starting to feel that telltale warmth in her cheeks. She doesn't notice the mistletoe above him when she approaches, trying to sneak up on him from behind, though with her clumsy footsteps, he'll probably hear or sense her before she reaches him.

And when she does, she says his name with a bit of a whine to it.]

Ci-dol-fus.

[She pokes him.]

[ramuhs]

[Despite his own generous intake of alcohol, he just grins when he hears her, pretending not to notice as he fills his plate with some food...]

Yes, my dove?

[And then turns around to press a little pastry against her lips.]

[garudas]

[She stiffens, the pastry an unexpected surprise, especially when she would like something else pressed to her lips instead—

But she takes a bite anyway, the crust of the tart sticking to her lips as she does.]

You are not running away from me this time?

[ramuhs]

When did I ever run away?

[Feigning innocence.]

[garudas]

[As if she didn't also run away plenty of times when she saw him nearby—]

Every time you saw me coming, you would find a way to escape before I could reach you. And yet... [She gestures wide and dramatically.] Here you are.

[She knows that she didn't sneak up on him.]

[ramuhs]

Come now, I would never do anything of the sort.

[And he'll reach up to use his thumb to brush away the crumbs from her lips...slowly.]

[garudas]

I watched y—

[Her words are silenced by his finger, and she stares at him in stunned (and slightly offended) silence until he's finished brushing the crumbs away.

Her eyes narrow at him.]

... What are you doing?