itsjustagamerp | Do you see what I see?

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aqua,
terra

Do you see what I see?

Characters: Aqua and Terra
Content: Date night!
Location: Wherever would be suited to a date
Time of day: Dinner time, Christmas
Warnings: Sap and awkwardness, most likely

To say Aqua was nervous would have been an understatement. Even knowing that Terra was perfectly willing to accept her, planning something and actually doing were two vastly different things. The fact that she still didn't entirely know what she was doing didn't help matters either. It was only the fact the Terra was going to be just as lost as she was that kept her from giving into whim and running as far and as fast as she could. She hadn't even really had a chance to see if there were any relevant books in the library.

But she could probably muddle her way through things. She would have to. Someone would have to act as a pillar and she wasn't exactly sure Terra was not to manage. So with one last deep breath, and a final check to make sure her dress was arranged properly (it was, not surprisingly) she headed off to where she and Terra were supposed to be meeting. Waiting wasn't going to solve anything, here.

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Aqua was not the only one Rarity had helped dress for the evening. Terra walked down the hall in a fitted black suit, completely with a vest and a smashing red tie (which matched Aqua's dress, even if he didn't know it yet). He felt strange in such clothes, but Rarity had assured him he looked good. He adjusted the tie for the 500th time and flexed his hands. Terra was so nervous he could hardly stand it. If it wasn't the clothes it was the prospect of the date ahead. He was such an idiot when it came to these things and clueless that he had no idea if he was going to do okay or bomb out completely. Terra had to remind himself that it was just Aqua.

However, it was not just Aqua whom he saw waiting for him. It was Aqua wearing a stunning dress that complimented her figure and made her look 10 times more beautiful than she already was. No wonder Rarity had insisted she get Terra a suit. He would have looked HORRIBLE next to Aqua wearing what he usually did, even HE could understand that. Merely standing there took his breath away but finally he managed, "Wow Aqua, you look beautiful." Okay, that wasn't the smoothest of lines. He cleared his throat and started again, "That is...will you join me for dinner?" He extended an arm to her to escort her to the designated date area.

Even if they did crash and burn, they would at least be doing so together. But with any luck they'd manage to muddle through it together. But she couldn't - or rather, shouldn't - be thinking about that now, and she shook her head to clear it. Besides, Terra looked quite dashing in his suit, if she did say so herself. If Rarity had been the one to make it for him she'd certainly done quite the job of making sure neither of them accidentally saw the other's outfit ahead of time.

"Of course I will," she answered with a smile, taking his arm gracefully. Honestly, did he really think she was going to come all this way and not come through with it? "I'd be honored to." And if this was what it took to get Terra looking this nice? She wasn't going to have any problems with doing this more in the future.

Terra escorted her to the table where a meal had been set for the two of them. He was very grateful, now, for the help he had received in setting this all up. Honestly, he would have been completely lost otherwise. Still, he just had to make it through a meal, right?

And tonight's meal was a treat indeed. He wasn't sure how it had been managed but the plate was a delicious combination of steak and lobster, surf and turf if you will. Terra was slowly beginning to realize just how "high class" this date was getting and was thankful that technically it was all free of charge. He moved over and pulled Aqua's chair out for her. He may have been a terrible person when it came to understanding relationships, but at least he was educated enough to know how one behaved towards a lady in a situation like this. Maybe some of his time at the Castle of Dreams had paid off.

After Aqua was seated he took his own spot across from her, giving her a pleasant smile, he couldn't believe he was doing this! He was on a DATE with Aqua! He started to cut into his steak and realized that while he was enjoying his time he...actually had no idea of what to say. What did one talk about on dates and why hadn't he asked Rarity about topics of conversation? It's not like he could talk about the weather even because they were in SPACE!

And just like that, Terra's happiness turned back into panic.

And just as suddenly something sprang into his head, "So have you found any good books yet?"

Wow that was lame.

Aqua wasn't at all certain where the food had actually come from either, but it did look lovely. She'd have to thank whoever had set it up, if she ever learned, and she offered a nod of thanks to Terra as he held out her chair for him. Either he'd managed to pick up a thing or two over the time spent traveling across worlds or someone had managed to give him a few pointers.

That was, unfortunately, the easiest part of the date. The food was obviously good, and Aqua had every attention of tending to it properly. But what did she even say. A date was supposed to be more than good food and nice clothes. Worse still she couldn't even ask what he'd been doing since not only did she already know a fair amount of it but it would also sound... nosy, she supposed. And last time she'd gotten particularly interested in what he was doing when he hadn't exactly reacted well.

Out of desperation, she was about to ask anyway, when Terra spoke up instead. Even if it wasn't the best of questions, it was better than hers and she was determined to treat it as if it had been a perfectly sensible question.

"Not yet," she answered. "But I suppose it is Christmas."

Terra smiled, okay, great, maybe that hadn't been such a bad way to take the questioning after all. "Well, I do remember the Master would always make sure you got a book for Christmas. Then eventually, once Ven joined us, you almost always ended up getting three books for Christmas."

Aqua's room had filled up with books pretty quickly at that rate, but it was just a tradition by the time Ven showed up. Terra sometimes got her other things, but usually a book was something that was guaranteed to make Aqua happy.

Well, provided the books were decent, yes. The collection the satellite had so far had failed to turn up anything of real interest for all her attempts. Not that she hadn't tried reading some of them anyway, but she'd almost inevitable failed to make any headway in any of them, a fact that was frustrating at best.

"I'm not sure how many people here will know that tradition, though," she answered with a smile in return. Terra obviously did, and perhaps one or two more would find their way through thanks to Christmas miracles, but she wasn't really going to be expecting more than a single book if she was lucky. But one good book was a start, in the mire of what the library held.

"It'd be easier if I could get some good books I guess," he replied, shaking his head. He had another present in mind for Aqua, however, one that he hoped she would like. He had left it behind but he planned to give it to her later that night.

"I'm sure we'll have a good Christmas all the same." He tried not to think about the year he'd just had leading UP to that Christmas. It would only ruin the mood.

"I think that's going to to be the hard part," Aqua answered with a smile. After all, it wasn't really like there was anywhere to buy anything up here and it wasn't like they were going to be let down for something as simple as Christmas shopping. From what little she'd read on the subject it wasn't like a satellite could be brought down easily, much less sent back up easily. Worse still, she had a feeling that even if started it would become habit (she knew she'd ask, were it possible) and that was probably far too expensive for something like this.

So really, it was make do with what they had and hope (even if there wasn't any good reason to) that something good would come out if it all the same. There was already one bright point to the day. Why not a few more? "I'm sure we will."

Edited 2012-01-08 23:07 (UTC)

"Yeah, I wish we could go Christmas shopping. It'd be interesting to see what sort of stores they have on the world below the satellite." He imagined taking Aqua shopping. They had spent many days in the market of the Land of Departure, sometimes just buying groceries but also getting gifts for Christmas and birthdays, or just to take a break from training. He had enjoyed those moments, though part of him worried if they would ever happen again after what had happened to Eraqus and their home.

He took a bite, trying to turn his thoughts in another direction. Once he had swallowed he decided to make a suggestion, "You know. We have enough free time around here. If you can't find books you like maybe you could try writing one of your own."

"It would be," Aqua answered with a nod and a smile. There hadn't been the time to really stop and see what sorts of markets other worlds had, although if she was being honest with herself she only would have been going out of curiosity then any deep and abiding interest in shopping as a whole. Sometimes you really could find the oddest things in out of the way place, and well, other worlds did have different opinions and theories on magic. Although it was a shame she'd probably never get to see the market at home again. But she wasn't going dwell on that. She couldn't.

At Terra's question, she paused, fork halfway to her mouth. "Me?" she asked, blinking in surprise. "I don't really know much about writing books."

Terra tilted his head. Of course, his understanding of literature was probably different from Aqua's. He didn't read AS much but he certainly read some books (adventure stories, and certainly knights had been a fascination of his since he was a kid) but that was only on occasion recently.

So, when Aqua said she didn't know much about writing them it didn't seem to add up.

"You read a lot, shouldn't that help with knowing how to write a good story?"

"Well... yes," Aqua admitted after a moment more of silence. "It's just... what would I write?"

Most of what she knew was really too personal to write about and even her favorite genres were surprisingly wide. And that was assuming she could even manage to any good at writing in the first place. Besides, was she even going to find a way to get it published up here? It didn't seem exactly like the place for it.

"I suppose I can think about it?"

Unfortunately Terra couldn't really help her with that. He was mostly just going where the conversation struck him. Maybe Aqua had no interest in actually WRITING a story, he'd never thought about that. Still, it would be interesting to read something Aqua had written. It couldn't be any worse than some of the things they'd been forced to read up here.

He smiled, "At least, I mean, there's a limit to the number of activities we can do up here anyway."

It was more that she'd never really entertained the thought of actually writing something on her own. On second thought, however, she could probably manage a decent enough job of it, assuming she could ever narrow down a proper topic. So maybe she would have to give it a try. She had a pretty good set of examples of what not to do.

"There is," she answered with a nod. "It's almost like they want to induce boredom between the experiments."

The rest of dinner passed uneventful with Terra managing not to do much more in the realm of stupidity. He was trying to stay relaxed but there was a constant voice in the back of his mind that reminded him he was on a date. It made it difficult to relax because he continued to think of what he SHOULD be doing as opposed to just acting natural. It wasn't like this was a blind date or anything, this was Aqua.

So, eventually, he managed to be a little less spastic about the conversation. And, if nothing else, the food was decent. Before too long he noticed that both his plate and Aqua's was empty. He looked around, wondering what they were supposed to do next, when he noticed someone had left a C.D. player with speakers in a corner of the room.

Seeing it, he remembered a ball he had been to not too long ago. There had been dancing then too. Maybe...maybe that's what he should do next.

Terra rose from his seat, "Hey Aqua, there's music here. Do you want to dance?" He paused, looking back towards her, "That is, most people do that on dates right?"

If Aqua honestly stopped to think about it, she might have found it a little odd that Terra kept asking her what to do next. She didn't really have much more of an idea than he did. She was simply a little better with rolling with things as they came up. That was all. But there wasn't any more food to take solace in, not that she would have if there had been. She also had liked to dance. It was simply that there'd so rarely been time - or the occasion to - at home.

Besides, what else was a lovely dress for?

"I'd love to," she answered with a smile. "I mean, the music's here, right? We might as well use it."

Terra crossed over to where the music had been set up and turned it on. True, there hadn't been much time for dancing but that wasn't the same as having never danced. Eraqus was a Keyblade Master and with that came invitations to all sorts of important functions. Some of those had required wearing fancy clothes and learning how to dance. It seemed like such a long time ago, but Terra was fairly certain he could remember the basics.

Besides, if nothing else it was a matter of moving in circles while he held Aqua and NOT stepping on her feet.

The music started to fill the room and Terra held his hand out to Aqua.

A very long time ago for both of them, although Aqua had secretly enjoyed those occasions, few as they were even though she'd never been particularly outgoing. No, she'd liked them for the simple fact that it was one those rare occasions that she actually had the change to look pretty. But even with it being a long time ago it wasn't like she had forgotten how to dance. It wasn't exactly something one forgot.

Once the music started, she took Terra's hand gladly. There wasn't any better way to spend an evening, and she did rather like dancing.

The dancing went on for some time. Terra wasn't sure of the last time he'd felt so at peace. Certainly not during his journeys to different worlds when the threat of Darkness had been threatening his every move and certainly not recently on the SoL when he'd been panicking over relationships and the future. It was nice just to forget all of that and to just be in the moment. He was so bad about letting those things weigh on his shoulders that he never let himself just be happy.

The worries would return of course, they always did, but for now he could just appreciate the fact that Aqua was light on her feet and dancing with him like they had when they were younger.

He lost track of time but after awhile the cd stopped playing and he drifted to a stop in their dancing. He looked down at Aqua. Terra had begun the night on very uncertain terms, not knowing what to do with himself or anything but now he had regained his confidence and he knew, without a doubt, what he needed to do next.

Terra reached down, cupping his hand against Aqua's cheek and followed through by leaning down and kissing her.

Somewhere, deep in the back of her mind, Aqua had still been worried that somehow things might not have ended as she'd hoped. But between the music and the simple joy of just dancing - and better yet, dancing with Terra - all those worries simply faded away. Compared to all the other trials and tribulations of late, it was comforting to simply take a moment of time free from all of that.

And then before she knew it the CD had stopped playing. It was almost a shame to have to stop, but as Terra slowed to a stop so did she. She wasn't going to force him to bend to her wishes no matter how much she wanted to keep dancing.

What she hadn't expected, however, was Terra bending down and kissing her. But even with it being unexpected is was quite possibly the best ending to the evening, and after a slight pause, she leaned in to return the kiss. Now everything was properly done.

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