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[Eren patiently waits. He'd really do anything with Rui that she wanted to do. A game surprises him though.]
...No, I haven't.
...No, I haven't.
It's really fun! It's mostly like regular hide-and-seek, but with some special rules. You go down to a crowded place - usually downtown, hence the name - and then you start a game of hide-and-seek. But since there are more places to hide, the game is harder, so there's extra incentive. If you find your partner within ten minutes, you get three wishes from them. Fifteen minutes and you get two. If it takes you longer than twenty minutes to find them, you get one wish. When you decide to stop playing, the one with the most wishes gathered up is King!
[That....actually did sound incredibly fun. It certainly has Eren grinning which is saying enough on its own.]
I think that'd be a lot fun, Rui. What can the wishes be?
I think that'd be a lot fun, Rui. What can the wishes be?
[And Rui seems really excited, too.]
Anything! Well, anything that that person can do, anyway. I haven't played it in a really long time... It wasn't really one of those games that X could play with me.
Anything! Well, anything that that person can do, anyway. I haven't played it in a really long time... It wasn't really one of those games that X could play with me.
[Holy shit he really wanted to be there with Rui just then. The thought occurred to him sharp and sudden and nearly knocked him over. He wasn't used to those kinds of reactions towards a person.
It made his chest constrict. She just looked really fucking pretty when she was so excited. His expression softens a bit into an open look of admiration because yeah.
This was the girl he liked.]
Then I can play it with you. When would you wanna do this?
It made his chest constrict. She just looked really fucking pretty when she was so excited. His expression softens a bit into an open look of admiration because yeah.
This was the girl he liked.]
Then I can play it with you. When would you wanna do this?
[This is really the sort of thing that makes Rui achieve his livelihood: when he's not brooding about how he hasn't become humanity's savior yet and stuff, he can be bright-eyed and flush-faced, all warm and glowy.]
Really, you will? All right! I - I'm making a library run really soon here but I'm free any time after that, I mostly planned on staying inside with the books for the rest of the week... So... Anytime you want. I'll be looking forward to it.
[These are the times when Rui's most open, too.]
Um, Eren?
Really, you will? All right! I - I'm making a library run really soon here but I'm free any time after that, I mostly planned on staying inside with the books for the rest of the week... So... Anytime you want. I'll be looking forward to it.
[These are the times when Rui's most open, too.]
Um, Eren?
Yeah, of course. Really I wouldn't care what we're doing so long as I'd get to spend some time with you but it's nice to know that we'll be doing something fun. Not that uh- hanging out with you is ever anything but.
[Awkward stumble there and Eren clears his throat. Stop looking so cute like that, Rui.]
Okay. I'll let you know then.
[Eren blinks at his name and angles his head up.]
Yeah, Rui?
[Awkward stumble there and Eren clears his throat. Stop looking so cute like that, Rui.]
Okay. I'll let you know then.
[Eren blinks at his name and angles his head up.]
Yeah, Rui?
[Rui laughs. It makes his shoulders shake.]
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Just, I feel really happy now. That you asked me.
[oh..............
oh..
this was
so much more different than having her agree to go on a date with him
oh god.
Eren didn't realize he was staring until his eyes began to sting from lack of blinking and his cheeks were fully red and God.]
I really, really want to fucking kiss you right now.
[A sheepish smile is flashed and he tries so hard not to topple over right there.]
But I- will save that for our date.
oh..
this was
so much more different than having her agree to go on a date with him
oh god.
Eren didn't realize he was staring until his eyes began to sting from lack of blinking and his cheeks were fully red and God.]
I really, really want to fucking kiss you right now.
[A sheepish smile is flashed and he tries so hard not to topple over right there.]
But I- will save that for our date.
[Oh, wow. Ohhh, wow. Rui's not used... to this kind of...
No! He's going to be just as frank!]
If you win the game and you're King, you can kiss me. But if I'm King, I'll kiss you.
No! He's going to be just as frank!]
If you win the game and you're King, you can kiss me. But if I'm King, I'll kiss you.
That sounds...
[Like a win-win. Eren's mouth stretched into another smile.
He really can't recall the last time he's smiled this much.]
Yeah. I'd like that a lot.
[Like a win-win. Eren's mouth stretched into another smile.
He really can't recall the last time he's smiled this much.]
Yeah. I'd like that a lot.
All right. We'll go out together. Just you and me.
[Oh look. An anxious looking Eren. What could this possibly be????]
Ah...Rui?
Ah...Rui?
[No blonde, this time, because he's just being cozy at home, and he's more comfortable with Eren than he is around most others, so he feels free to present himself in his vaguely unfashionable giant snowflake-patterned sweater. (It's mostly used for pajamas, don't tell anyone he has it.)]
Eren, hi. How are you?
Eren, hi. How are you?
[Wow Rui you're disgustingly adorable and that's not fair when Eren is trying to figure something out. He stares for a really, really long moment at Rui like he's trying to process something.]
I'm not that much of an idiot, am I?
I'm not that much of an idiot, am I?
...No?
[It's not that he means to sound indecisive, it's just that that question feels like it came out of nowhere.]
I mean, I never thought that. Why?
[It's not that he means to sound indecisive, it's just that that question feels like it came out of nowhere.]
I mean, I never thought that. Why?
Um...Just something Alois said.
[He sighs quietly to himself and stares down into his lap.]
Are you keeping something from me?
[He sighs quietly to himself and stares down into his lap.]
Are you keeping something from me?
[OH CHRIST, DID ALOIS TELL EREN ABOUT AN ALIEN SUCKING HIS SOUL OUT OF HIS BODY????? That's so embarrassing and weird.]
What did he say?
What did he say?
[UMMMMM NO. But Eren's kind of thinking something much more negative probably.]
Just that I'm an idiot for not seeing what you really are and that it's obvious or something and that he knows you better than I do and I'm seriously going to fucking kick his ass one of these days I swear to- [Focus, Eren.] And just.
When someone looks and acts a certain way doesn't make them what they appear to be. Or something.
[There's a very distinct tone of mild anguish in his voice because seriously Eren just went through this with one of his comrades and he really, really does not want to have to go through it with someone as special as Rui. He stares up at the camera, mildly desperate.]
You're- you're a human, right?
Just that I'm an idiot for not seeing what you really are and that it's obvious or something and that he knows you better than I do and I'm seriously going to fucking kick his ass one of these days I swear to- [Focus, Eren.] And just.
When someone looks and acts a certain way doesn't make them what they appear to be. Or something.
[There's a very distinct tone of mild anguish in his voice because seriously Eren just went through this with one of his comrades and he really, really does not want to have to go through it with someone as special as Rui. He stares up at the camera, mildly desperate.]
You're- you're a human, right?
I'm - yes? Yes. I'm human. Eren, are you all right?
[This seems like a very strange thing to be asking, and as intelligent as Rui is, not everything about this situation has clicked yet. Looking and acting a certain way... Rui just acts like Rui, right? But he doesn't always look like Rui; he has that outward persona, Load, which he hangs onto because it's comfortable and nice.
Ahhh. And there was that time Eren asked about dating a girl and then asked Rui out, that's right.]
Oh. I think I might know what he was talking about.
[This seems like a very strange thing to be asking, and as intelligent as Rui is, not everything about this situation has clicked yet. Looking and acting a certain way... Rui just acts like Rui, right? But he doesn't always look like Rui; he has that outward persona, Load, which he hangs onto because it's comfortable and nice.
Ahhh. And there was that time Eren asked about dating a girl and then asked Rui out, that's right.]
Oh. I think I might know what he was talking about.
[Granted, asking Bertl whether or not he was human was just as pointless as asking Rui, right? What proof did he even have? Only, he'd never really thought Rui was anything but human so the moment Rui informed him that yeah, he was human, Eren leaned back into his seat and sighed, rubbing a hand over his face.
Thank fucking god.
Then he drops his hand and a brow is slightly raised.]
What?
[A touch of irritation because he really, really is going to slam Alois' ass to the curb. He liked to think that he knew Rui just as well as Alois.
But maybe he didn't.]
Thank fucking god.
Then he drops his hand and a brow is slightly raised.]
What?
[A touch of irritation because he really, really is going to slam Alois' ass to the curb. He liked to think that he knew Rui just as well as Alois.
But maybe he didn't.]
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