http://yattagarasu.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] yattagarasu.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] route_10652010-08-03 11:33 am

MAKE UP YOUR OWN CATCHY LYRICS

Who: Kay Faraday and Johan Andersen
Where: Azalea Town
When: Tuesday, August 3, late afternoon/evening-ish
Summary: Kay didn't want her first date to be with a Pokémon kidnapper. Johan is a good friend. Date GET.
Rating: G, most likely!
Log:

Had anyone told Kay Faraday that she'd be going on her first date in a world not her own, she would have laughed.

... Or maybe she would have been intrigued first, and then she would have laughed. But at the moment, Kay wasn't laughing. She was instead waiting outside of Azalea's Pokémart, shoulders for once free of Pokémon after a long talk with them about staying in their balls this time. Just for a little while, she'd promised, and they were more than welcome to stick close to her for her eventual date with 777, but this wasn't him, it was Johan, and for Johan's sake, it was only going to be the two of them.

Plus, she didn't think a date with anyone would go well with a jealous Zubat trying to bite whatever he could reach.

With her limited knowledge of what one was supposed to do/look like on dates, Kay had done her best with the minimal resources she had. Namely, she'd let her hair down, had a minor moment of panic upon realizing that her only other outfit was something reminiscent of a burglar, and had been on the verge of convincing herself that this was Johan and he wouldn't care if she wore a sweatsuit and baseball cap until the inn's owner had taken pity on her and found her a dress to borrow (she missed her regular outfit already).

"Okay," she said aloud, sucking in a breath and doing her best not to fidget. So maybe this was a first date, but at least it was with a friend, and just because she'd never gotten any dating advice except "Not until you're thirty" from both her father and Uncle Badd, that didn't mean she couldn't pull this off! This was practice for a mission! "This'll be easy!"

Or so she hoped.

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-07 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
At the speed of her response, naturally, Johan faltered some. A lot, actually, but he was strong and he was, well, surprised too, which saved him from reacting too early. Even though he had asked, he really hadn't been expecting that, but he supposed he'd done his fair share of bridge burning since he'd known her; or at least, that one conversation they had had about his relationship with her had probably done enough, but still, had that really--

Then he caught another look, a sudden look of understanding, and Johan stopped himself from reacting too soon. A moment later, he couldn't help but quirk a small smile, and he might have even laughed had he been feeling like his usual self, but at least he understood now. She just meant the drowning. In all honesty, Johan had almost forgotten about that part given how he'd been so blown away by the other one.

The other one which, after a few more moments and a firm look from Kay, was again repeated to him. Once again, despite the fact it hadn't even been half an hour since he'd heard it the first time, there were all of the emotions again. Maybe because it was said that much more sincerely this time, or maybe because even without the emotion, it just meant so...

He took a sharp intake of breath, clenching and unclenching his fists, and as much as he wanted to say something, to do something, he had to look away, taking another deep breath as he did. He felt so... low all of a sudden, compared to her; her conviction. With all of his questions, here she was saying... No one else had ever...

What was wrong with him? He could feel himself shaking on the inside. They were just words, weren't they? Sure, words with a boatload of other things behind them, but... Still...!!

He wanted to say something. To tell her something, and as he slowly, tentatively looked back at her, unable to meet her eyes, he found that he couldn't find his voice. He couldn't even apologize for not being able to say something, and that was even worse. All he could do was look at her, still not directly at her, and hope she could get even a fragment of what he wanted to say, even though he himself only had a little idea as to what that was.

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Even with all of what had happened, if Johan were to be asked, he would still say that this had been a good idea. He had had fun with her, he'd enjoyed seeing the sights with her, and up until that odd moment that had spun things a tad out of orbit, he'd even been having fun tricking the townspeople. Furthermore, he would have added, he HAD wanted to find out more things. He just wouldn't have thought something like this would have happened was all.

Right now, though, good ideas and bad ideas weren't really the kinds of things going through his mind. Instead, he was trying to bring himself to look at her, especially with her declaration of standing on her toes which, finally, got him to crack the smallest grin and look her in the eyes.

"Sorry," he said at long last, and though it wasn't as much of an apology as he would have liked (he did have the rest of the date, assuming it wasn't over now, to make it up to her) but it was certainly a start, that was for sure. He swallowed, and after a moment, his voice firmer now, he spoke again, repeating his apology. "Sorry for this."

With that, he reached out and put a hand on her shoulder. It was kind of curious, to be touching it directly instead of through her usual outfit, and especially not through her muffler, but that was something to ponder at a much later time, when he wasn't looking her in the eye trying to explain himself.

"I can't... I can't remember when anyone--" Johan stopped quickly, a different look taking over, and then he shook his head and resumed, correcting himself. "I can't remember when anyone human ever said anything like that to me with such... honesty, and earnesty. I just... I don't know what it means. I mean, Juudai and I have been through a lot, and I never up and had to run away when I was with him, but..."

Johan frowned. He wasn't doing a very good at explaining himself after all, was he?

After a moment of silence, he put his other hand to his chest and looked down.

"You... Really are a great friend to me, Kay. I don't think I've ever had one like you, before." That was important. He couldn't keep saying people were like Juudai or weren't, and Kay certainly wasn't like Juudai, because no one was like Juudai but Juudai, and no one was like Kay but Kay. And through her words--

And it clicked. His eyes widened in surprise, the clenched feeling went away and, in its place, came warmth. With that in mind, he put his hand on Kay's other shoulder and, after all of this, actually smiled at her.

"I get it now, Kay. I think I really get it now!" And he couldn't help but laugh. He almost felt like crying even. In fact, he'd hug her if he hadn't been doing close to that just a few moments ago. "I... I do care about you for more than just our partners, Kay! A lot more! And I realize that now, I just-- I didn't understand, I've never had this kind of thing before, and it was so--"

And then... Oh, the heck with it.

Johan, grinning like a fool, pulled her over and gave her a hug.

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Johan wasn't so sure about that, but he knew for sure that this outing of theirs had definitely been for the better. Meeting Kay had been for the better, quite frankly, and that wasn't going to change, no matter what ever happened in the future.

At Kay hugging him back, Johan let himself close his eyes and smile for a moment. He definitely was right now, and there were going to be no more doubts about Kay. Of that much, he was sure. It seemed he was suddenly becoming sure of a lot of things, as it happened, and he didn't mind at all.

"Actually," he mused quietly, finding himself starting to tremble just a little bit. As long as he had her there, though, he knew he would be okay-- That everything would be okay. Tipping his head slightly, pressing it against hers, he grinned a little and continued. "If you ever want to, I won't mind getting stolen if you're the thief behind it all."

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Johan get?" he repeated after a moment, as if he was testing out how the words sounded out of his own lips. Not that him doing that to himself made much sense, but then, not a lot of what had transpired tonight would make much sense to most other people anyway. That was kind of nice, in a way. A night only they would understand.

He chuckled a little at her boldness, having no idea what was going through her mind at the moment, and even nodded. He hadn't been lying when he said that, oddly enough, even though him and being possessed (literally and otherwise) by others was always a soft subject.

"So long as you don't go stuffing me in any balls--" Johan pulled back just a little, just enough so he could look her in the eye and grin properly at her. "Yeah, I don't mind being yours then."

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, Johan hadn't really meant to fluster her - he wasn't even aware of the reaction he'd gotten out of her. He had already agreed to be her partner, in more ways than one, tonight after all, and he found himself fine with the concept of "being Kay's", as unusual as it sounded. But then, he'd never known a thief before, and even if it had, they still wouldn't have been Kay, so he supposed this kind of thing came with the territory. He'd even be fine with it if she wasn't a thief, really. He trusted her more than--

... This was probably where Amber Mammoth would have hit him with his trunk for being weird, so Johan had to make do with a mental version of the feeling.

Now, what Johan was aware of was the fact that she was looking... flushed? Red? That, combined with the fact that she was there in that dress and her hair was down... Johan knew what the word was, but he couldn't bring himself to think it. In fact, he couldn't even bring himself to comment on that particular thing he'd noticed out loud, so instead he stored that picture, the image of her before she'd looked away, away in his mind and pondered her question for a moment, as well as the feeling of it as well.

"I don't mind," he told her, in response to her first comment, and that was the truth. After all, they'd been in close quarters from nearly day one, having to huddle together for warmth under the rain and all; he really didn't mind Kay being close. He tilted his head slightly and glanced in the direction Kay turned, before looking back at her. Deciding, since she'd gone and asked and all, he would bring up her face; albeit not in the way he had initially thought about it. He still wasn't sure what to make of that. "... Are you getting cold? You're starting to get red."

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Never?" Johan laughed at that. He had no idea that that wasn't the entire truth, though it wasn't as if he had any reason to suspect her of anything anyway. Instead, he just laughed at her determination. She seemed plenty fired up to him, but he wouldn't comment on that if she really was getting cold. "Maybe I'll take you back to my school someday then. It's really cold there!"

Johan, having never seen a romance movie and having little knowledge on the subject, might have been innocent. But he did, for better or for worse, try to know a little about dates, for Kay's sake, if anything, so perhaps he wasn't completely innocent - even moreso given that he was about to tell a little almost lie of his own - but all the same, there were only good intentions behind his next move.

"Anyway..." With that, Johan stepped back and slipped an arm around Kay's shoulders, giving her a grin of sorts as he did. It wasn't the only reason he had done it, but-- "We can head back now. Mind if I keep you warm on the way?"

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
At her shiver, Johan reminded himself that, as much as he liked to joke about it, Kay really wasn't used to the cold and apparently she wasn't a fan. A fact he'd suspected and now confirmed, and at the feel of it against her, he pulled her a little closer and gave her shoulder a comforting rub. Though it hadn't been his original intention, he could still do his best to warm her up, right?

"Hehe, is that so?" He pretended to look thoughtful, tipping his head up towards the sky as if he was remembering something. He waited like that for a few moments, with a mmmmm and hmmmmm as he "thought", until finally he glanced back at her with the most innocent, blank look he could muster. "The thing is, I don't think I have any spares..."

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
Johan really did hope she'd get to see his school someday, or something like it. Perhaps it was just because he'd grown so accustomed to it, or perhaps because he just had always had an affinity for things like crystals and the like (so seeing enormous ones made of snow and ice on a regular basis was just amazing), but he really did love his school's surroundings, no matter how harsh they could be, and he did think that Kay would at least like to see them.

... But that was really neither here nor there, at least not right now. Instead, he simply looked at Kay, still keeping himself looking innocent, but now came a smile because, really, what else could he say to this after the words they'd exchanged earlier? "I don't know. Why would you need to do that when you've got me?"

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Johan smiled broadly as Kay began to laugh. Now that was the Kay he knew! Of course, he might not have been smiling had he known that Kay was imagining him being turned into a Johan jacket of some kind, but for all he knew, he might have laughed at the mental image as well. Once he'd gotten used to the idea of him being worn, anyway.

He didn't really mind that they would be slowing down a little, really, the only thing that would have made him mind was if she would be cold, but given that it was her who instigated it, he supposed that that was a moot point. He did have to grin at what she said, though. So she was after him and his clothes now too, huh? Just where was she going to stop?

"Double warmth, is it?" he mused after a chuckle or two of his own, adjusting his arm to Kay's new position around him, looking down at her as they walked. "Hehehe, well, I'll be sure to get in all the practice I can get then! But you'd better be prepared, Kay, that means I'll need you for that too!"

At that, he really did almost laugh. And, continuing on the theme of him being used...

"Sorry, but I don't know how to turn into an umbrella."

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
As if reading her mind, Johan just shook his head and answered for her. "I don't think any other beautiful girl thief would be enough like you for me to have to do that anyway." At that, he gave a firm, serious nod as if to make this point more true. ... Plus, he really hadn't ever met another girl thief before. Or a regular one, for that matter, at least as far as he knew.

"Hmmmm..." Grinning all too happily at the reaction he'd gotten out of her, Johan withdrew his arm from around her and, doing his best not to break her grip around him, Johan did his best to lean over her, spreading his arms out over her head, to pull off the best impersonation of an umbrella he could do. ... And he was trying not to join her in laughter as well, but who knew how long that would last. "Look at that! A Johan umbrella after all!

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-09 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"As your loyal umbrella!" Johan leaned just a little closer, not noticing quite yet just how close their faces were, and instead puffed his chest out as best he could, given the... position he was in. He'd gotten her to laugh, that was something. "I will keep you dry no matter what circumstances come our way!"

-- Hm? When did her nose get so close to his? He could see the sparkles in her eyes (Were they of the stars? Or something else?) a lot more clearly than he usually could.

... Oh well, it didn't matter really. He gave her a grin, not moving much, then nodded just a bit, so he didn't bump heads with her.

"But I guess if you really want me to stay Johan, I guess I can manage that much. Hehehe."

HE DID IT BECAUSE HE CARES

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-09 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
At Kay's comment, Johan felt... something bubble up. It was nice. As they began moving again, that stupid grin he'd start wearing more often slowly began to resurface itself, and he aimed it directly at her for a moment, not sure how to question what he now wanted to ask, or if he even wanted to ask it. While he was still perfectly fine with their closeness, even enjoying it, it was her words that had gotten to him once again.

... Sadly, he'd forgotten that he was still the ever, well, derp Johan Andersen, and after his body had gotten the better of him earlier on, it was time for his mouth to get ahead of him before his brain could give it the orders it needed.

"So you'd only do any of this for Johan?" he asked, both curiously and... no, it couldn't be hopefully. That was just silly. Besides, he was probably one of the least possessive people on the planet, ironically enough.