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]

[She'd fling every last pastry on this plate at him if she was sure that she would have a good shot, but as it is, he disappears into the crowd as she throws one last one for good measure before she stuffs another into her mouth and sets down the plate with a huff.

Two more glasses into the party (that's four now?), and in that time, she has been caught beneath the mistletoe with three other people. Three poor souls who have to listen to her yell at them to get away. Three poor souls who have made an enemy of her for the night. Kupli has now joined the party along with the other moogles, and she flies around above everyone's heads as best as she can with a mistletoe strapped to her. She seems to be on the hunt for both of them, but Benedikta has been very good at avoiding her, even when she tries to fly over.

It's already been at least an hour, maybe more, and she is much more tipsy than she had been the first time she'd gone to hunt him down, but where could he be this time...]

[ramuhs]

[Whenever he hears her shrieking at a poor soul, he can't help but cringe and glance over. Sure enough, an unlucky victim of the plant. Really he might be teasing her for too long now, and those who have noticed or heard of his scheme say as much. But, for better or worse, it has also kept her out and about, meeting other people (if unwillingly and leaving...interesting impressions). Of course if she knew of his little "plot" she might dump the entire table on him, but what she doesn't know won't hurt her—or him.

Eventually, and after a few more pints of his own, he has made his way to the pinata where he's made a bit of a ruckus. Having schemed with the person putting the blindfold on him, he is able to see through enough to chase people with the bat instead and when she eventually makes her way over...]

[garudas]

[He should feel bad for the people stuck under the mistletoe with her and not for her. She is drunk enough now that socializing doesn't really bother her, and she has spoken with a few people here and there, as well as attempted to cut others off who might be a little too much for her while being tipsy herself.

But yes, if she knew what he was scheming, then she would absolutely throw every piece of food she could get her hands on at him.

If anything, though, she mostly just misses his presence and his company, and it manifests into her being a grumpy old bird when she's had one too many glasses of wine. So here she is, searching for him again, and demanding anyone that ends up in her path tell her where he might be.

Only for her to discover that he is wielding a very large bat blindfolded, and...]

Ci-dol-fus?

[Her voice is a little higher than normal in pitch, the syllables of his words already starting to blend together this time compared to last, but it's more confusion than anything as she tries to parse what the hell he is doing.]

I have come to collect.

[ramuhs]

[Did he hear her?]

Just a minute, love, there's a bird I need to smack!

[And with seemingly unsteady legs, he turns right to her and swings the bat at her...though not so close to actually hit her even if she's slow to move. In fact there is a clear foot gap between them.]

[garudas]

A bird? What do you—

[She cries out when the bat swings in her direction, and though there is a considerable berth around him, she still takes a wobbly step backwards, and then another just in case.]

Take that ridiculous blindfold off! I simply wanted a kiss, you do not have to go this far!

[And here comes a moogle, the telltale sounds of her pom bobbing around, and she is completely oblivious to what is happening. All she sees are the two of them together, and that is all it takes for her to try and chase them down.]

[ramuhs]

It's part of the game!

[And a step towards her and another lazy swing as he is also oblivious to the little moogle coming after them.]

[garudas]

[Not that Benedikta is paying much attention to Kupli's approach either, with Cid swinging the bat around like that. It's all made so much more dramatic by the several glasses of wine that she's already had.]

I am not part of the game! What are you doing with a bat anyway!?

[There's a wind between them now, trying to keep him back, but even that is a bit clumsy, whipping every which way, and weakly.]

[ramuhs]

[The wind does little deter him as he just continue his advance.]

I told you, I'm aiming for the big bird!

[He's going to be in so much trouble.]

[garudas]

[It's a good thing she doesn't have any wine on her right now, or she might have splashed that at him, too.]

But I am the little bird... [She brings a hand up to her mouth, as if to shield it as she hisses at him in that drunken way. Like she is telling him the world's biggest, toppest secret.] Your little dove.

[ramuhs]

Oh I don't know, I'd say you have some large enough assets—

[And he'll even stretch out to tap her hip, right on her butt.]

[garudas]

[She is trying to sneak around him, so how in the world does he know where she is!? And her squeal when he taps her gives her position away before she tries to run away (although it's more like a crooked jog), stuck between laughing and yelling at him.

Meanwhile, a very frustrated moogle can be heard from above. "Oouuugghhh! Why won't you both just stay still, kupo!? Stop trying to hit Mama Benedikta for one second!!!" She blasts a cloud of glitter at Cid in retaliation.]

[ramuhs]

Hah, trying to run are you!?

[If anyone is watching this, they probably will have stopped and gotten another bat so they can continue the game because what is happening. But Cid will continue that chase until he's suddenly blasted with glitter, some of it getting into his mouth so he ends up staggering and spitting it out.]

[garudas]

What else am I supposed to—Kupli?

[Benedikta slows to a stop and turns to see the moogle flinging glitter at Cid, and now it's her turn to bark out in laughter.]

That is your punishment for chasing me with that... thing. And—peugh!

[Kupli flings glitter at Benedikta now as well, and she definitely gets some in her mouth.

"No, you're both supposed to kiss, not fight, kupo! Kupli has been trying to get you to do it all night!"]

We are not fighting...!

[ramuhs]

[It takes him another second to wipe around his mouth before he removes the blindfold.]

Aye, we're just having a bit of fun.

[garudas]

[Covered in glitter, she frowns at him, arms crossed. This is the least intimidating she has ever been.]

Speak for yourself. What in the world were you trying to do anyway? And do not say "trying to catch the bird" or what have you.

[ramuhs]

What, I really was.

[Smirk.]

True, there was a different target, but I fancied a different bird to "hit on."

[garudas]

[Now she's pouting at him, even as she swats Kupli away when she tries to nudge Benedikta in his direction.]

You'd rather chase me off than kiss me? [And then she turns to hiss at the moogle.] Stop that.

[ramuhs]

I wouldn't say I was trying to chase you, at least not away like that. But are you admitting defeat?

[garudas]

What!?

[She scoffs several times, embarrassed, as well as—]

I am offended that you would think I am so weak-willed to give in so easily.

[ramuhs]

Weren't you the one asking for a kiss?

[He waves the bat at her as if taunting.]

[garudas]

I was not asking for a kiss...

[Technically. She eyes that bat with disgust, and Kupli floats between them.]

I was merely telling you that it was time for you to give me one.

[ramuhs]

Isn't that the same thing? It still sounds as if you want it.

[He'll lower bat as he saunters closer with that smirk, paying no mind to poor Kupli just trying to do her best.]

[garudas]

[Not that Kupli minds, she is all sparkles in her eyes when Cid moves closer, and she flaps her wings to move out of their way so that she can float above them instead, the mistletoe swaying from where it's tied around her. There's a squeal, but Benedikta ignores her in favour of his approach.]

Nnnno.

[There's a very visible pout now, and an audible whine to her voice as she closes the rest of that distance between them, and she hiccups when she finally reaches him. Her arms lift, like she's about to throw them around his shoulders, but she stops short and drops them dramatically to her sides.]

[ramuhs]

[He just stands their waiting, baiting her closer, and his eyes gleam when she reaches out to him. But seeing her resist, he chuckles.]

No?

[He leans towards her, but not to kiss her. He still continues to taunt her by being close but not close enough.]

[garudas]

[When he doesn't lean in the rest of the way to kiss her, Kupli cries out in her disappointment, mirroring the way that Benedikta feels on the inside, even as she tries to maintain an unaffected demeanour on the outside.]

Why do you resist so much? Must I work extra hard for you to want to?