my_belfry_of_fun | For Yuna! (Whereishe). Continued Cuteness

Title:Continued Cuteness
Who:Yuna and Alex Mercer
What:Cuteness in an evolving friendship
Open/Closed:Closed
Additional Details:Originally based on a meme, set in the Explorers setting.

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From:

lessandmorethanhuman

"Just assessing how bad the problem is going to be." Alex responded with a smirk. Easy enough to grab the buckets and catch up as they walked back to the safe house.

He was glad Yuna wasn't really mad with him. Nor was he buying that she might not still try retaliation. Just because she hadn't pushed him in the water there... Not that Alex had ideas on what she might do, but he was going to be watchful all the same.

From:

whereishe

Yuna pouted but again her lips quickly curled into a smile. “I didn’t think hair of all things would intimidate you.” To Yuna he was fearless. She knew that was silly, everyone was afraid of something but he was always something solid that she looked too. She sighed softly pulling the jacket a little tighter around her shoulders. Her fingers reached out to the long braid and as she walked she slowly began to untie the ribbon. Beneath it was a tight braid of brown hair that Yuna usually kept hidden.

As she worked she looked over towards Alex feeling her cheeks flush red. She wasn’t used to having others see her hair unbound but she supposed if it was Alex it wouldn’t be so uncomfortable.

Yuna worked her nibble fingers as they walked though she hadn’t gotten her hair completely unwrapped by the time they got back. It felt like a shorter walk back though she assumed that was her imagination.

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

"You have a lot of hair, Yuna." Alex remarked, amused by her comment more than anything. Especially as part of him had noticed her starting to unbraid it while they walked. Granted he also was keeping his eyes open for potential enemies or trouble, but that didn't mean he didn't notice.

It definitely seemed a shorter walk back, and Alex stopped outside of where he'd seen her set her barrier up. "So...magic barrier. Anything I should know? Do you take it down? Cut a door?"

From:

whereishe

Yuna laughed raising her hand with a smile. The spell recast and it solidified in front of them. She then took Alex's hand letting her braid fall behind her as she pulled him through the spell unharmed. He could walk through on his own if he wanted but she wanted to make sure he understood the way it felt. Passing through a shield could be uncomfortable because he'd feel Yuna's magic surround him and most likely anything outside the shield would be met with dulled senses like looking through a cloud.

Once they were inside she let go of his hand feeling her cheeks redden slightly.

"I'm getting cold... can you help me with my hair real fast? Or do you think we should start a fire first?" She didn't think he needed her to start a fire but she wasn't sure what to do first and her skin was soon covered with uncomfortable goosebumps from the cold water.

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

It was a good thing he had a firm hold on both of the buckets as she took his hand and pulled. It was an odd sensation; a shiver down his spine and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. It was uncomfortable, but soothing at the same time.

He moved quickly, leaving one bucket on the ground where they were. "I think, you should get upstairs and get out of the wet clothes. Then we can see about a fire and drying your hair." Coming over and taking her arm gently, leading her and encouraging her up to the safe main-room.

From:

whereishe

Yuna was confused at first and the she felt her cheeks flush a bright rosy red. Did he realize the effect her had on her? Sometimes she wondered if Alex just mentioned things to make her feel flustered or if he really didn't realize what he was asking.

"I can do that without help. You start a fire?" Her voice faltered slightly but she hoped the compromise was enough. She could change with her spheres but it did nothing to the water on her skin. She needed to be able to dry off before she changed into her gunner outfit.

"I can change down here. Let me know when you have a fire going? I'll just take a minute."

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Alex tilted his head and looked at her. Why was she staying down here? Even with her spheres their spare clothing was upstairs, as was a towel. He blinked, and went over what he'd said in a quick review.

Then winced.

"I didn't...I don't think you need help changing, Yuna." Alex sighed at himself and pulled away. "I was more worried about speed. I'll just...go get that fire started." Moving upstairs, leaving her be.

Shouldn't be too difficult.

From:

whereishe

That was awkward and for a moment Yuna was just stunned. She didn't really know what to say and before she could get any words out he was gone. Her cheeks burned bright red as she changed from her thief dressphere back to her gunner sphere. Her hair and skin were still wet but being out of wet clothes felt good. She was still wearing his jacket and without the scent of wet cloth she was once again hit with the scent that she had come to associate with Alex.

She waited a moment longer sliding his jacket from her shoulders so that her hair didn't get it more wet. She placed the ribbon out to dry, not having any extras, and then inspected her long braid. She had stalled as long as she could and so with a less flustered expression she slowly made her way upstairs and towards the fire she was sure that Alex had already started.

She wanted to act normal but she felt a little awkward knowing that she'd be taking down her hair. It wasn't something she did in front of others tho she supposed that Alex would have been the person she'd choose to see her with her hair completely down.

"Hey." Yuna smiled holding her hair in front of her. Her skin still glistened with little droplets of water.

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

It was small, but Alex had indeed managed to start a fire in what was left of the fireplace in the room. He turned when she spoke, from where he was arranging their supplies to make them easier to get to.

Blinking, Alex looked at the tail of hair in her hands that was starting to unravel. How did she get it so tightly compressed that it hid in that ribbon? "I think I might've been wrong, in how simple helping you dry your hair would be." Bemused more than anything, but still willing to help. Even if it had been worth it to duck her in the water.

From:

whereishe

His comment helped her relax and she felt a smile tug at the corner of her lips. "You don't have to help if you don't want too." She wasn't going to force him.

Yuna walked over taking a seat near the fire with a smile. "Can you pass me a towel?" Since he was handling their things he most certainly found one and she wanted to try and get as much water from her hair as she could before she unraveled it.

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Alex shook his head, as he'd help. He was kind of fascinated now to see the physics of it. Feeding some more scrap-wood he'd found in other parts of the run-down house to build up the fire. Then bringing her two towels; he didn't really need hers, and he noticed she was still kind of soaked even if her clothing was dry.

Crouching near, still fascinated by the compression she achieved with the braid.

From:

whereishe

She took the towels draping one around her shoulders and then wrapping the other around her hair. It's amazing how much water hair can hold. She looked over at Alex curiously as if judging the distance of the fire.

"Thank you..." She paused with a smile. "One more thing."

She held out a palm and then flicked her wrist. Water appeared from her finger tips and then up from the earth below Alex soaking him while leaving the fire untouched.

Yuna's smile widened. "Now we are even."

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

His eyes-widened, but not because she'd soaked him. He'd been expecting retaliation earlier to be fair. It's more...the magic he'd seen before kind of made sense to him. In the idea that she was manipulating energy.

Pulling water though, from nothing (like her finger) and the ground? That had him baffled. Even if he accepted 'magic' over all.

Swiping his hand against his face, he was bemused in a different way as he at least stopped his bangs from dripping. "I expected that sooner, I admit. How the hell did you create it out of nothing?"

From:

whereishe

Yuna laughed. She'd never really get him back. She noticed that nothing ever really bothered Alex. At least nothing she ever did. She began to slowly dry her braid as she scooped a little closer to the fire.

"It's not from nothing. I used my own energy to pull the water from the air and from the ground. Water is all around us." The same was with fire, ice and lighting. They were elements all present around them and even if they are in short supply her own energy would be enough to supplement it.

She started from the bottom of her long braid which already started to unravel and began loosening the tight wrap of hair. She kept a towel in her lap letting her hair drip on the fluffy material.

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Alex just shook his head, standing from his crouch. "But...I...that..." A noise of frustrated amusement. "Ok, I get the idea of magic being manipulation of energy, but creating altered-states of matter and manipulating them? That just.." Throwing up his hands, as he had learned from her (and a few others on their crew) that it just wouldn't be solved easily.

Intellectually, he accepted magic had laws and rules. Could be viewed as a science in its own right as much as an art. But he did not understand it, and it kind of drove him a little crazy when he wasn't purposefully NOT letting it do so.

"I suppose one trick deserves another though." Hands out at his sides, as he let bios-mass flow over him. Slowing it slightly, as he shape-shifted; mostly into his usual clothing rather than uniform. But enough that Yuna could see how his very shape and make-up changed, composed ultimately of red-and-black viral-bio-mass.

From:

whereishe

Yuna watched curiously realizing then that she still had his jacket. She slipped it from her grip and tossed it over towards there stuff so it wouldn't get wet or get in the way of whatever Alex was doing. She could sense the flow and ebb of magic around him and it's change but she wasn't sure if she should comment on it.

Once he was finished her focus shifted to her hair which was slowly becoming undone, falling in long silky locks across her lap.

"I haven't seen you do that before. It's..." She paused thinking of the right word. "interesting."

Yuna smiled and then waved Alex closer. "You said you'd help or have you decided to back out?" She gestured to her hair. Now that half of it was out of the braid it was longer and harder to dry.

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Alex shrugged, hands moving to his pockets as he headed over and then sat next to her. One leg stretched out, other curled in as he rested his arm on his upright knee. "How much hair do you have?" She'd only half-undone the braid and he was already amazed.

From:

whereishe

"I think it goes down past my ankles now." She didn't take it down often so she didn't really know for sure. She pulled at her hair with her teeth trying to release on part of it before continuing up. She was over 3/4's up her hair and she worried the lower section would get tangled if she wasn't careful.

Yuna tossed the extra towel from her shoulders to his lap with a smile. "Can you start drying the ends? I might pull them from you to finish unbraiding this but my hair will start dripping if I let it stay wet."

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Alex blinked in surprise--how could anyone stand having THAT much hair? Tilting his head, he scooted closer to her. "Here...let...me..try." It should be like a knot right? Just had to be patient.

Yet he was nervous, as his fingers moved to carefully start pulling apart the braid.

From:

whereishe

"okay"

Yuna's hands brush against his as she slowly pulled away from her hair. She wasn't expecting him to want to unravel the mess of brown and feeling the slight tug on her hair makes her cheeks flush a light rosy hue.

She smiles. "I guess you aren't used to long hair?"

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Fortunately it wasn't that difficult. Yet. Mostly it was a matter of going slowly and patience with the length. Some of his research and work in the past hadn't been so different really.

"Not with this kind of long hair, Yuna. Most people where I'm from don't have long hair to their ankles. The longest I've seen was just to the top of the hips." It was like something out of a fairy-tale.

Then again, Yuna was often like someone or something out of a fairy-tale, if Alex was being honest.

From:

whereishe

She still as his fingers gently loosened her braid. It was amazing how fierce and how gentle Alex could be. She smiled shyly feeling warmth flood through her limbs. She liked it when he was close and bit by bit she felt herself relax.

"I suppose I'm unusual then."

Yuna began to slowly dry the ends of her hair and after a little bit more effort it would be completely down and slowly falling in brown waves. The shades of brown differ but it's dark where its the wettest and that's where Yuna begins to dry first.

"Does it look okay?"

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Alex didn't bother responding to her first question. She was unusual, but that wasn't a bad thing in his eyes. Most of the 'crew' of Explorers were unusual in one way or another. He figured it was a not-quite-requirement.

"You're worried about how it looks?" Alex asked with some incredulity. It was hair, it looked like hair. It wasn't a horribly tangled mess, and a lot of it was wet. "There are no major knots or tangles. I tried to be careful. You can stand-up and check yourself if you want."

From:

whereishe

"Okay." She didn't want to pull away from the comforting tug of his fingers through her hair but she didn't wear it down often and she was feeling a little odd having it down. She slowly stood running her hands through the brown locks and then tossing her hair over her shoulder.

It fell in long waves down her back a little crumbled from the dampness that was left behind from the water. The tips of her hair brushed the ground and curled inward slightly at her toes.

"I don't have a mirror." She paused turning slightly as if to show him. "What do you think?" It might but a little odd but Yuna needed him to be a mirror for a moment.

From:

lessandmorethanhuman

Alex's eyes were slightly wider under his hood, expression mostly closed. Except he looked...impressed? Slightly stunned? There was something there.

As far as he was concerned, she really was like something out of a fairy-tale, with her hair falling down around her and framing her the way it was. Made him feel slightly nervous, and he wasn't entirely sure why at first. Took him a few seconds where he was focused on trying to puzzle out that reaction and get his brain back to working properly.

Then he blinked so he wasn't staring anymore, and tilted his head. "It doesn't look tangled from here. I am still definitely impressed that you compress it into the tail you do." He meant that--because that was not an easy feat as far as he was concerned. "Were you worried about anything specifically with it?"

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