Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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Wednesday night found Firekeeper and Blind Seer, as usual, in the common room for their weekly dose of Darkest Night.

At first, tonight's episode had looked especially promising, as the plot claimed to center around a girl who'd been raised by wolves.

Within minutes, though, there was a somewhat annoyed-looking girl who actually had been raised by wolves throwing the occasional piece of popcorn at the screen.

Those weren't even real wolves they were using!

[ooc: ohhhh so very open.]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Francine!" Look at Merlin flounce run hurry on over.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Merlin!" Francine's eyes opened wide, and she let out a laugh that was half relieved, half nervous. "You have ears again." ....She'd meant to say hands. She'd really, really meant to say hands.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin reached up to touch said ears. "I do."

Oh god, what was he supposed to say now?

[thatsamilkshake]

An excellent question! Even if you changed the pronouns. Francine considered the possibility that she could say something that would actually make the situation less awkward.

...

...

Ahahahaha.

"I'm glad," she settled on. "I missed them."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"They're good... ears," Merlin agreed quickly.

How they made it this far was almost a mystery.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Are you, um. Glad to have them back? Or do you miss flying? I'd miss flying, I think. But maybe not the food. I don't think I ever want to be anything that doesn't like Oreos. Did you really get bitten by a gremlin?"

Smooooooooooooooth. Yes.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin blinked a few times, trying to figure out which one to answer first. "Yes! No! Um..."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Um...?" Francine bit at her lower lip. She'd believed Arthur, but maybe that was because she'd wanted to believe Arthur.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I don't know which one to answer first," Merlin admitted.

[thatsamilkshake]

The last one. The others were mostly filler. "Oh. Um. Whichever one you want?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"The flying was fun," He started, trying to pick out the important questions. "And... yes it was a gremlin. Not the flying, but the--beard. Thing."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Yeah, that. The Beard Thing." Look, a new name to put on the shelf of let us never speak of this again, right next to That Which We Do Not Remember Because We Have Amnesia. "That wasn't so fun. Well, the beard was actually kind of--" Hot. "--Nice, but the rest was not so much."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I'm not!" Merlin informed her suddenly. "That. You know."

A beat.

"I like girls."

Oh, this couldn't be more awkward.

"...like you."

[thatsamilkshake]

Oh, what're you, new? Of course it could be more awkward!

"There's nothing wrong with that!" she insta-flailed. "If you're, you know, like Tony? That's okay. It's not weird or evil or--" Click. Whirr. Re-set. "Oh. You do?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

They could almost brain each other!

"Well. Yes." That was why he was seeing her, right? "May I kiss you?"

Sure, Merlin. Ask that when you can barely look her in the eye without thinking she was going to think you mad.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Oh, thank God!" Way to play the relief close to the wait, what? "Huh?"

Nobody had ever actually asked her that. If you didn't count Jimmy Conroy in fourth grade, and really that was more like offering her a dollar and the other half of his Nutty Buddie if she'd let him.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Inara told me to ask!" Ages ago. It was probably not even the right thing she said.

[thatsamilkshake]

"....Inara wants to kiss me?" That would just be weird.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"No!" Merlin paused, thinking that over. "No, she was telling me about kissing you."

A beat. "Have you kissed her?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"What? No! I mean she said something about about me being...uh...lush... one time, but that was for a class and there was no kissing!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Lush?" Merlin frowned, taking that the entirely wrong way. "I think she was talking about me kissing you, but..."

He wasn't certain anymore.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Not drunk lush! Like, you know, womanly--" Why was she saying this? "I mean..." What? There was an offer on the table that seemed to be slipping away, or no, not an offer, because there were no Nutty Buddies involved, just a really polite request, and he wasn't a bird and he liked girls like her and WHY WAS SHE TALKING ABOUT ... AT ALL? Didn't she have an off switch, or like, something that could at least stop her lips from moving?

...It would be nice to think that throwing herself at him and kissing him was a well-thought-out and rather elegant response to that question, but it didn't really qualify on either count.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh.

This was certainly better than the time with Gwen. He wasn't half dead now and... Huh.

Merlin waved his hands inches from Francine's waist, wondering where on earth he was supposed to put them.

[thatsamilkshake]

Well, there would be a good place, though Francine was a little too busy flailing herself, and wondering if she'd smacked his nose as hard as it felt like and whether there should have been a breath mint but how could she have known and also this really wasn't bad at all assuming he didn't think she was some kind of crazy person when it was all over.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin was simply glad to have had something to eat that wasn't raw meat before this.

Not that fruit helped or anything, but...

He tilted his head to the left to try and make sure they weren't crushing noses. Of course, he still had his hands waving about like a mad man. And they were in a common room.