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The Deck - Wednesday Late Morning

Guillermo’s ~~handwavey~~ attempt to let Goose!Graham have a go in the bathtub had been a complete and total disaster and so he decided to try again a few days later with a smaller pool of water and set up a kiddie pool like Kurt had suggested.

He had also decided to venture outside on the deck so Graham could be outside and to hopefully make sure that this wasn’t a repeat of the bath tub incident he had made several batches of fresh empanadas to ~~bribe~~ help keep Graham from getting to startled by being outside

“See this isn’t so bad right?” Guillermo said hopefully as he watched Graham splash about in the water and tossed another empanada to him, hopefully Graham didn’t mind that the empanadas were getting slightly wet.

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Guillermo. Graham's newfound love for empanadas was certainly no secret, and it was absolutely strong enough to transcend species. And, right now, it was a good challenge as he tried to make sure to catch all of those pieces tossed his way before they hit the water. He did pretty good on the first two, but he missed a third, but it was fine! It barely touched the water before he swept it up in his beak, swallowed it down, and then settled happily in the water with a honk of gratitude, and a contented delay of the inevitable, because sometimes, that was just funnier.

This wasn't so bad really, even if Guillermo's only other experience with looking after friends who had turned into animals was when Kurt had turned into a sugar glider.

Okay this was kind of cute and Guillermo thought this wasn't a bad way to spend a morning, "this is actually really adorable," he said out loud with a fond smile.

Well, Graham wasn't sure if adorable was a word he would have usually preferred, but, as a goose, it seemed complimentary enough that he felt compelled to preen just a little bit, lifting his head proudly and fluffing out his feathers a little bit. And it seemed that, with that little burst of confident posturing, that the timing seemed just about right. After all, pushing the delay too far would just wind up being tedious if you weren't careful

So whether or not such preening was still adorable when Graham was very suddenly back to skin and bones instead of flesh and feathers was up for the peanut gallery to decide.

His confident expression quickly turned to confusion, though, as he found himself his field of vision much higher up than it had been a moment ago, and, despite the warmth of the day, he was quite a bit cooler from the lack of feathers, and he frowned for a moment in confusion (with furrowed brows! He had brows to be furrowed again!), before looking down as he held out his hands, turning them over as if skeptical that they were really there.

"Hey!" he finally concluded. "I'm back!"

Flipping his hands over and over was amazingly fascinating to him in that moment, so there was a moment before he managed to look past them to his knobby knees and his long legs in the water, threatening to push out of the kiddie pool in which he was now just sitting.

"Aaaaaand," he realized, as one other very important detail came to be realized, "I'm naked."

Instinctually, he reached to his side, to get into his cloak to pull out some spare clothing, only to remember that, right. Naked. No cloak. Which probably meant...

Don't mind Graham, now patting at his head with a truly concerned frown at his complete and utter lack of adventurer's cap.

Priorities!

Guillermo really should have seen this coming and he soon found himself staring open mouthed at a Graham who was now no longer a Goose.

Also a Graham who was very much naked.

 “Um … hi…” he squeaked out, turning bright red and holding onto the container of empanadas very tightly as he shifted awkwardly and tried not to make it obvious that he was staring and failing miserably, “um … hi,” he said again, completely at a loss to what to say.

Well, on the bright side, while the water in the pool was pretty shallow, it at least wasn't too shallow.

Honestly, the worst of it was not having his cap. He really did feel naked without his...

...oh, wait.

An awkward chuckle started to drift out of Graham as he slowly began to process the precise details of his current situation, hands now discretely lowered. And while Graham hadn't exactly had the most....social of upbringings, there was definitely some kind of deep-seeded fear that existed in probably almost all teenagers to let them know that finding yourself sitting in a kiddie pool as unclad as the day you were born in the middle of the deck of your school dormitory was not exactly ideal, and he could feel the red creeping up on his face practically inch by inch.

Another awkward chuckle, and he figured he'd probably best address the elephant in the room. Errr...friend. In the...on the....deck.

"Uhhhhh," he started, eloquently. "Heyyyyy, there, Guillermo. Uh, nice day for a swim, huh?"

As if to lend credence to this claim, he moved his fingers a little to make a few light splashes. See? Wheeeee! Unbridled summer fun!

Guillermo chuckled weakly, trying to not stare so much but was not having much luck, “um…” he tried to speak again, “er … yeah, totally nice,” he tried to remember that words were in fact a thing.

“Um … “ he said again, wishing he could maybe say something that was a bit more eloquent but it was Graham and Graham was standing in front of him naked and it should not be possible to blush that much.

He tried to think of something, like maybe offer to go and get him some clothes but that seemed to be too much for his brain to process right then.

“Hi,” he said again.

You already said that Guillermo.

Ohhhh, man. This was going great. Just great and Graham, in a moment of not really knowing what else to do or say, just lifted his eyes upward toward the sky for a moment and let out a big, over-the-top, definitely-casual sort of conversational sigh as he then said, "Yup! Good day for a swim. Maybe work on that tan..."

Considering he was as pale as a ghost and that it was a miracle that this much of his exposed skin wasn't just straight up blinding Guillermo right now, he definitely had a lot of work to do there. Not to mention the fact that this much sun already was going to leave him as red as a tomato and not out of embarrassment for at least a week straight....

....the awkwardness was quick to come right back at him.

"Soooo," he tried instead, looking at Guillermo now somewhat worriedly. "I was a goose, huh?"

He'd always wanted to turn into a bird some day, but he was honestly kind of hoping it would have been something like a fierce falcon or a mighty eagle, not....a goose...

"Uh huh," Guillermo nodded, eyes wide and still clutching those containers like he was afraid of dropping them and spilling all of those empanadas.

Speaking of which, there was definitely something Guillermo had to check that he hadn't inadvertently poisoned his friend of something by feeding him all those empanadas.

"Um ... er ... are you okay?" he was finally able to ask a semi coherent question, "I mean ... I didn't give you food poisoning or something? From the empanadas I mean ... there were a lot of them," he paused, "I mean, I still have more if you're hungry,"

Because that was going to be Graham's concern right then Guillermo.

Graham's brows lifted hopefully.

"I don't think I could ever say no to more empanadas!" he declared.

So, yes, actually, apparently that was what Graham was concerned with right now. Mostly because he was easily distracted and, in that moment, had sort of forgotten about the whole sitting naked in a pool on the deck of of the dorms of it all.

Guillermo could totally focus on offering his friend more empanadas and not the fact that said friend was standing before him completely naked and that it was awkward and he was really trying to not stare but he was finding it hard to look away right at that moment.

Also Graham was rather cute and Guillermo was trying so hard to not think about that fact right now.

“Um …” he said shyly and offered out the container of empanadas towards him, “they’re a fresh batch, there was an incident with the bathtub the other day and I thought it was better to have the empanadas ready to go,”

Actually Guillermo didn’t know how much Graham remembered because that bathtub incident had been a lot.

And just when the blush of embarrassment for his current lack of clothes was starting to fade, a new rush of red hurried in to take its place over everything Graham did remember from the bathtub incident.

"Heh," he breathed out a sheepish laugh, one of his hands abandoning its past to rub the back of his neck a little, before it went to reach for one of the empanadas. "Yeaaah. Sorry about that. I, um....the water was a little....deep, and I, um, don't actually know how to swim."

Not even as a goose, apparently!

"So I panicked."

He could probably use some of that energy right now, really, truth be told, but there was an empanada, and that meant everything was just fine, why would there be any reason to panic right n---

---aaaaand there it was, as Graham absent-mindedly went to brush a few crumbs from that first bite off his tunic that was not there. He patted his chest just a few times as if to confirm, but, considering his other hand had his empanada, that meant that...

Both hands immediately shot back down to their station.

"Right!" he announced, as much of a reminder to himself as anyone else...or, rather, perhaps more of one, since it was probably unlikely anyone else was forgetting that he was in his current state at the moment. "I need clothes! Clothes are good."

And then, shaking his head, marveling slightly:

"They sure didn't mention that part in any of the spell books I've read!"

Which seemed like a really big oversight, if you asked him.

“Oh,” Guillermo blinked, feeling really bad at that and now had a whole new reason to be embarrassed, “oh ….I’m so sorry,”

He hesitated, “are you okay?”

He had nearly drowned his friend, he was feeling terrible.

There was a pause, as he tried to not stare at Graham’s chest and then he registered the last part, “oh, clothes yes,” he finally stammered, “um…would you like me to get you some,” and then a few moments later he registered that he was wearing a jacket, “wait you can …um wear my jacket if you’d like?” he placed down the containers to shrug out of his jacket.

"Oh," Graham assured Guillermo emphatically, "I'm fine. It just got a little...harrowing for a moment there, but, hey! What future knight and king doesn't face a few harrowing moments every now and again, right?"

He chuckled a little, the blush on his cheeks just going to a nice, sheepish pink as he wondered if future knights and kings had to face a few...naked moments like this as well.

"But, yeah," he admitted. "The jacket would probably be...good. For now."

Because a jacket was at least more than what else he had!

Guillermo definitely looked sheepish at that as he shrugged out of his jacket and awkwardly handed it over, still very much blushing that bright red as he did.

“I’m just glad I didn’t use bubbles this time,” he admitted, “they would have gone everywhere,”

"Zounds," Graham's eyes went a little wide as he stood up to take the jacket and started to pull it on, "there could have been bubbles?"

Granted, he would have still been a bit distracted about the whole almost-maybe-potentially drowning thing, but bubbles? Bubbles made everything better! Even almost-maybe-potentially drowning!

“I tried to give Kurt a bubble bath when he was a sugar glider, Guillermo admitted, “I was also really sleep deprived, it seemed like a good idea at the time,”

There was a pause, “he transformed back in the middle of it and the bathroom was a bit of a mess,” he added, “should I have used the bubbles this time?”

"Bubbles," Graham declared confidently, testing the length of the jacket to make sure everything was covered and then appreciating how nice and roomy it was, "make everything better."

In hindsight, too, he realized, they probably could have been very helpful in taking care of hiding some of the more...awkward bits of all this, really...

Guillermo had also been thinking along similar lines and apparently it was possible to go even redder than he already was.

“Oh,” he blinked, rubbing the back of his neck , “that …it would have made a lot more sense to use the bubbles then,” he considered.

"Well," Graham noted brightly, "then I guess that's just something to remember for the next time this happens! Although, really, I hope the next time it happens, I can maybe turn into something that's not a goose. Not that there's anything wrong with geese, but I'd really like to be something more like a falcon! Or a hawk! Oooh, or maybe a hummingbird."

One of those things was...not like the others, there, Graham, but good luck convincing him that a hummingbird wouldn't be amazing.

“Maybe each time you’ll get to experience being a different bird?” Guillermo wondered, “I …I think it’d like to experience being a bat,” he added shyly, which wasn’t the same thing and he also didn’t realise that it didn’t quite work that way.

"Ohhhh," Graham said, grinning proudly at Guillermo like he'd cracked some great, mysterious code by realizing this, "just like a vampire! Right?"

Guillermo beamed at that, “just like a vampire,” he nodded, he was feeling a bit better about the whole being related to Van Helsing thing, especially since Kurt had pointed out he could use his abilities to help protect vampires instead of hurt them, “I think that would be amazing to experience,” he added.

"I'm sure you'll get your chance, Guillermo," Graham told him confidently, an encouraging hand falling on his shoulder. "Whether it's because of whatever spell this place cast on people to turn them into geese or sugar gliders or whatever else, or if it's just down the line one day when you're finally a vampire yourself. And then you'll be the best bat around!"

Guillermo smiled at that and was a bit distracted by the hand on his shoulder, “I hope so, it would be fun to see what it would be like, changing into a bat and everything,” he paused, “and be a vampire as well, I’ve only ever gotten to see what it’s like wearing fangs before,” he added.

"That's a pretty good start, though, I'd say," Graham reasoned. "Fangs seem like a pretty important part of being s vampire, after all. Without them, there wouldn't be much of a....point."

....look, he hadn't been able to make a single pun all week; he was going to be a little rusty.

Maybe it was from how embarrassed he was earlier but Guillermo thought that was hilarious and he started laughing hysterically, trying to relieve some of his nervousness, “oh that was a good one,” he grinned once he had stopped laughing.

Edited 2022-08-11 02:08 (UTC)

By the time Guillermo stopped laughing, Graham's grin had only gotten bigger and more pleased until it practically stretched from ear to ear, and then he was ready to hit him with a, "Fangs a lot! I thought it was pretty sharp, too, and ain't that the tooth!"

And now he was really warmed up! Even if no one deserved this kind of pun-ishment.

No sooner had Guillermo calmed down, he started laughing again and his glasses slid down his nose, “okay those were definitely great ones,” he said shyly, pushing his glasses back up his nose before they fell off.

And now it was Graham's turn to be a little sheepish, even with the happiness that came with Guillermo's laughter, still unaccustomed to having people actually appreciating his sense of humor and silly jokes. So his chuckle was both modest and a little awkward with uncertainty.

"Oh, well," he said, "vampire ones are pretty easy. Like shooting garlic into a coffin."

Guillermo giggled at that, “I still like hearing you make them,” he told Graham, feeling his cheeks start to redden again.

"Really?" Confidence boosted just that little bit more, Graham straightened proudly, squaring his shoulders. "Then I guess I'll just have to keep it up!"

Please. Like he was ever going to stop regardless.

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