closed 🌠⚡ only you can be my light

[starshower]

Who: Eustace & Tifa Lockhart.
Status: Closed.
Where: Eltrut.
What: Eustace and Tifa paint the town ROYGBIV.
Warnings: idk more fluff??

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[flamekthunder]

[He's actually about to—or at least considering—when he accidentally steps back into one of the paint trays which is going to make them trip and fall back!!

Onto more paint.]

[starshower]

[Her cry of surprise echoes out across the street, and there are probably people who turn to look, but she doesn't notice as they go falling backwards onto the ground, landing with a mighty SPLAT in the paint that she had laid out for them earlier. She feels some of it splash onto her face, but Eustace takes the brunt of it with him beneath her, but there are speckles of colour all across her cheeks and nose and hair as she lifts her face.

...

....

And when she looks down at him, her eyes are wide at first...



Before she just bursts into a fit of laughter.]

[flamekthunder]

[He certainly doesn't look much better—perhaps worse, even if it's mostly his back. His hair is a mess of color, his face has gotten more on his cheeks and chin, and he just stares up at her in bewilderment before he laughs.]

I'm blaming you.

[And he's just smirking as he wipes his hand on her face in what hasn't been covered yet.]

[starshower]

[She is going to need a moment to overcome her giggles, but it just feels so freeing to be able to laugh like this, feeling like there is no other care in the world in this moment except how they are going to get the paint off themselves. She feels lighter already, regardless of the way they are covered in colour and lying in a puddle of it beneath them.]

Oh no...!

[She gives a dramatic gasp before she leans down and presses her colourful cheek to his.]

Does that mean I'll be punished for my crimes?

[flamekthunder]

[One eye closes when her cheek presses against his, but he just laughs against her ear as his face turns slightly for his lips to catch hers.... Which may not be the best idea with all the paint on them but whatever!!]

Yeah, and it will be a harsh one.

[starshower]

[Definitely not the best idea, but she will accept it anyway, and return it in full, her arm wrapping around him as they lie in the paint and not minding at all that they are only spreading it across each other's faces.]

Oh? Should I be scared?

[flamekthunder]

Scared? Maybe... Or look forward to it.

[A wolfish smirk, the gleam in his eyes telling. But knowing him, it could go either way.]

[starshower]

[She reaches over behind his head to take a dab of blue paint on her finger, and she swipes it all the way down his nose.]

And if I'm both?

[flamekthunder]

Then you won't be disappointed.

[He's going to return the favor and smear some green on her cheeks and forehead before laughing a bit.]

But we are a mess.

[starshower]

Well, we did fall into a pile of paint.

[She leans down over him and smushes their faces together, mixing the blue and the green on their cheeks until it's almost yellow.]

No thanks to you!

[flamekthunder]

[He just laughs and closes his eyes as he lets her.]

You're the one who charged at me.

[And now his hand snake up her sides, smearing more paint before he starts to tickle her.]

[starshower]

Eustace—!

[She feels his hands sliding up her sides but she is expecting something very different from what he ends up doing, so there's a surprised shriek when he does. She kicks and flails, which does next to nothing with the way that they are holding each other, and so she flips them over instead...

Though she has a feeling that now that she's the one beneath him, this won't end well for her.

That still won't stop her from trying to reach around to tickle him back anyway!!!]

[flamekthunder]

[Not really no, and while he laughs and flinches when she manages to hit the rare spots, he's still not as sensitive and will continue his assault, the paint getting everywhere now...!

Until there is the sound of the door opening and someone VERY LOUDLY clearing their throat.]

[starshower]

[Her screams of laughter immediately die away when she hears the sound of someone at the door, and she turns to find one of the shopkeepers staring at them with their arms crossed, and while they don't look angry about it, they do appear more exasperated.

Tifa looks up at them with a sheepish smile.]

... Sorry. We were just, um...

[She doesn't even know.]

Taking a break?

[flamekthunder]

[Ah ha ha...

Even Eustace feels a bit embarrassed to be caught like this, so he'll clear his throat and pull back to help Tifa up.]

We'll clean up the mess... But we might need some more point.

[The shopkeeper sighs again, though there is some amusement there before they head inside to bring them some supplies and paints. That they HOPEFULLY will use on the wall—

With the shopkeeper gone he looks at Tifa... And can't help but laugh.]

Looks like we got carried away...

[starshower]

Really?

[She stares up at him, her breaths quick and her cheeks rosy with laughter under all that colour, and as the shopkeeper heads back inside, she leans up to kiss him.]

I think this is pretty tame compared to all the other times.

[flamekthunder]

You think so?

[A wry grin as he returns that kiss, and he'll reach over to one of the few clean towels to try and wipe her face.]

What's the worst?

[starshower]

[Is he really going to try cleaning them off like this? Wel, she'll turn her cheek so that he has better access to her face, but it's going to be difficult getting some of it off that's already dried up.]

The worst... probably those Turkish delights. Or the gift boxes. At least here, we aren't stuck in anything.

[flamekthunder]

[There's a rough laugh at that.]

I don't think the gift box counts since it basically trapped us. But the Turkish Delights are definitely up there.

[Well!! He can at least try and get some of it off until the shopkeeper comes back with better cleaning supplies, hopefully including a bucket of water. Or two.]

[starshower]

Hmm, it was still pretty bad.

[She tilts her head up at him, smiling, not looking like she's very inclined to sit up yet.]

Why, what would you say was the worst?

[flamekthunder]

[Hmmm...]

Besides the Turkish Delights and this? Maybe... The vines.

[A different kind of mess.]

[starshower]

Ahh, but which vines?

[It's her turn to now take that towel from him and dab him on the nose.]

Weren't there two incidents?

[flamekthunder]

They were both bad, but the first one was more dangerous.

[starshower]

[She taps his nose with the towel, still smiling.]

Maybe, but stuff like that keeps us on our toes. I've been feeling myself getting a little rusty.

[flamekthunder]

I don't think we need that kind of practice to keep up.

[A wry grin because that sounds more like something he'd expect to hear from Beatrix of Zeta from his world.

But he'll just wipe over her eyes, smearing the purple paint there like some kind of eyeliner before he pulls back to sit up.]