Mini Event! the spider and the mistletoe

[nopattythepider]

Across the Keep runs a rather large spider, scampering from building to building, room to room and carrying with him a decent sized branch of mistletoe. One might catch him skittering up a wall to build a web above a doorway, or stringing mistletoe up from various points on the ceiling.

He doesn't linger in any particular place for too long, save

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[hidingnolonger]

Well. The past few days had been…pretty interesting but the company wasn’t bad, she had to admit.

Except she was really ready to be able to navigate the Keep and actually walk around instead of huddled near a fire with some of the staff. They were nice and all, but Raven was worried about Charles and she didn’t want to sit around. It had taken everything she had not to get up and go on a hunt for him.

In fact, that might be what she’s doing now, poking around the Keep in search of her brother, and for food.

[mister_10_below]

Bobby was more than happy to not be confined to the bonfire as well. It'd been a hell of a lot better than what he'd found out had happened to some other people, and he was definitely grateful to have gotten there, but that didn't stop him from being relieved it was all over.

He was out exploring the Keep now that he could again, looking both for anything obvious that might have changed, any signs of a breach or something, and for his friends.

When he saw Raven, he smiled - because obviously he hadn't had enough of her company in the past few days - and headed towards her, pausing in the doorway of the room.

"Hey!"

[hidingnolonger]

She's distracted from her search when she hears a very familiar voice that makes her stop, turn around, and smile.

"Bobby! Hey!" Heading right over to him, she grins and gives him a hug. "It's way better to see you in the light. You okay?"

[mister_10_below]

And since Raven hugs were probably the best part of his day, his smile widened as he returned it, lingering a little bit.

"Oh, man, definitely. And yeah, I'm good. A lot better than what apparently happened to some people. How are you doing?"

[hidingnolonger]

She lingers too - maybe a little longer than necessary because she really, really likes hugging Bobby - and keeps on smiling.

"I'm okay. Looking for Charles. You haven't seen him around, have you?"

[mister_10_below]

Yeah, he wasn't about to complain about the longer than necessary hug. Really, any length of time for Raven hugs was totally necessary.

He shook his head at her question. "Not yet. I've been keeping an eye out for people, but I don't think I've heard from him yet. Have you talked to him since the darkness thing?

[hidingnolonger]

Raven shook her head, and frowned slightly.

"No. He was supposed to meet up with us at the Chapel, but he never showed. I'm a little worried."

Totally not noticing the dancing spider.

[mister_10_below]

Bobby frowned, now worried himself, especially since he knew some people had been stuck in the tunnels. "Do you want me to help you look for him?

Except then he was distracted, because he totally noticed the dancing spider.

"Uh...hi?"

[hidingnolonger]

"Yeah, that'd be really helpful, actually." Her voice trailed off though, and her eyes followed his.

"...What's that? Is that a spider?"

Do not want.

[mister_10_below]

"No problem. I'd like to make sure he's okay, too." As weird as it still was, Bobby really liked Charles. For himself, even, and not just because he was some young version of the Professor.

But then spider. Yeah, okay, this place was really weird.

"I think it is. A really big, excited spider."

That was kind of cute, actually.

"Hey, what's he got?"

...it kind of looked like he was hanging mistletoe.

[hidingnolonger]

She was going to say something else about her brother, but she's momentarily distracted by the...well. The big, excited spider.

Except she doesn't think it's so cute.

It's a giant spider.

"I...I'm not sure."

She squints, and tilts her head.

"I think it's mistletoe."

[mister_10_below]

But look at him with his mistletoe! He was definitely cute.

Wait. Cool. Because guys don't think things are cute.

Bobby blinked a few times, looking closer to confirm that it was indeed mistletoe.

"Huh. Good to know even the spiders here get in on decorating for Christmas?"

And then the whole part where they were under the mistletoe hit him. Normally, he'd just kiss her, but it was a lot more awkward to go 'hey, could you turn blue real quick, because I've kind of thought a lot about our first kiss and I want it to be with the real you' than it was to just be all 'oh, mistletoe, might as well!'

"Um."

[hidingnolonger]

Eeeh...maybe.

"I guess -- I've never seen one that...big. Or happy."

She smiled shyly, fidgeting a little and biting at her lower lip.

"I'm pretty sure it's not required."

Because she's pretty sure that hesitation means he doesn't want to.

[mister_10_below]

"Me, neither. It's kind of cool, though."

He'd very nearly almost said cute there, but fortunately, he'd caught himself.

"Probably not, but, you know, it's tradition."

Also, he really wanted to. And he'd been trying to work up the nerve to do it for awhile, anyway, so this is the perfect excuse, right? Except for the whole thing where he had to be a sap about kissing her.

"...I guess you probably don't want to, um. Go blue here?"

Right, because that didn't sound awkward at all, Bobby.

[hidingnolonger]

"Well, we can't break tradition, can we?"

She smiles -- hopeful -- and shifts at his question, momentarily confused, then realization dawns.

"Blue? I--oh. You want -- blue? Really?"

She looked over her shoulder, seeing if there was anyone around. No one seemed to really be paying attention to them, so, she took a deep breath.

He'd told her repeatedly that he found this form beautiful, but it was...incredibly hard to swallow and shifting in public like this wasn't something she should be doing. Charles would kill her.

She did it anyway.

"...Better?"

[mister_10_below]

There was a moment of worry when he thought she wasn't going to get it, and he'd have to explain further - or laugh it off as a joke, which he was more likely to do.

But then he smiled tentatively when she realized what he was talking about, and nodded. "Definitely."

That wasn't being too obvious, right? It definitely didn't imply that he'd given this some thought, it just said that hey, since they were going to kiss because of mistletoe, he'd like to kiss the real her. Yeah.

Of course, the way he smiled when she actually did shift might have given him a way a bit more, but he wasn't really thinking about that right then. All that was on his mind was that he'd wanted to kiss her, and she was okay with that.

"Much better," he told her, and then leaned down to kiss her.