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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[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?

[ramuhs]

Never said I didn't want to.

[garudas]

So then what is the delay?

[She leans towards him, peering at him through her lashes, waiting. Did she pucker her lips a little just now? Who's to say...]

[ramuhs]

[He does indeed see it, but he still doesn't move.]

I haven't heard the magic words.

[And he just blows warm air over her lips, the scent of ale heavy before he leans back.]

[garudas]

What—?

[She leans her head away from him when he blows over her lips, the sensation leaving behind warm, tantalizing tingles that, if she is not careful, will completely consume her. And she cannot lose to the likes of him. Not tonight!]

Magic words? I do not have to ask, I only have to demand to have what is mine. But very well.

[She starts to turn around, though her eyes remain on him.]

If you still do not want it...

[ramuhs]

If you're demanding it, does that mean you're folding?

[He is still unbothered by it all, while Kupli is very bothered. Why aren't they kissing!!

The starts kupopoing around them again, stopping Benedikta from going much further.]

[garudas]

[She was trying to leave before she did fold, but no matter which way Benedikta moves, Kupli tries to stop her, much to her chagrin.]

Not at all. There is a difference, but...

[She wiggles her hips at him before she's plucking Kupli out of the air and holding the squirming moogle tight in her arms.]

If you do not want it, then I suppose it is back to the party for me.

[ramuhs]

All right, have fun!

[And he says that with a cheerful wave.]