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"Mom and my little brother are both out of town for the time being, so… do you want a better jacket? Maybe something to drink?" Brian asked Hana as they walked into his home.
Gesturing towards the kitchen he looked back and saw the Korean star scratching her cheek and avoiding eye contact.
"No, the jackets fine, but…" her voice trailed off before she mumbled something into the collar of her borrowed clothing.
The teen in front of her just raised an eyebrow at her odd behavior and turned his full attention onto her.
"You know, mumbling isn't going to help me understand what you want to do… so just answer me. Face to face." His tone was playful, but there was no doubt he was tired from the previous antagonizing he had received from next door.
She just shook her head and grabbed his hand. The sudden movement surprising Brian as his recently reacquainted friend dragged him behind her over to the couch.
The pair sat down and D. Va pushed past her uncomfortable demeanor to look directly at Brian.
"Now that we are alone… I just really want to catch up with you. Maybe we can play some video games? It has been ages since we played together!"
The excitement was clear in her voice as she pointed to the gaming console attached to the TV across from them and was nearly vibrating in place.
He chuckled. "Um… sure. Fair warning, I haven't had a lot of time to play video games in the past few month, so I might be a little rusty."
That spiel wasn't going to work on the professional in front of him though. She just laughed and lightly hit his arm.
"No excuses Void. Now go get us a pair of controllers so I can pay you back for ditching me!"
With his reasons being denied, he did as he was asked. Grabbing the two wireless controllers, he handed her one of them and fired up the console.
The game they both decided on was just the newest installment of the popular first-person shooter that Timmy got for his birthday. It wasn't supposed to be anything special, but it was a way for them to pass a conversation back and forth while playing.
That is until Brian scored his first headshot.
From there it became an intense competition between Brian, who was keeping his distance using a combination of sniping and cover fire, and Hana, who was staying close to the walls and trying to light him up with a machine gun.
This continued for several minutes, the light conversation having ground to a halt once angry Korean began flying out of Hana's mouth each time Brian managed to one-up her.
Following a missed grenade on D. Va's part, she gnashed her teeth and addressed her companion.
"I thought you said you were rusty!"
Brian just smirked as he ducked out of a window and avoided a full clip being unloaded into his avatar.
"At Starcraft? Definitely." He responded as she just growled and jabbed a finger in his direction as they tried to maneuver into more advantageous positions in the map.
"You're still five kills ahead!"
"Well then maybe you're the one getting rust-"his response was cut off by a glare that could math even a drunken Emily's.
"NO! When I win, you will do one thing for me." The pro gamer declared.
"A bet huh? And when I win?" he asked casually, clearly not too worried about the situation.
That just seemed to irk his friend even more.
"IF! Then… Hm... Do you have a girlfriend?" she asked after calming down slightly.
The quick change in her demeanor and complete 180 in conversation topic made Brian pause before responding.
"Nope. Never had the chance to have one." His response was lax and, to her, seemed a little to honest for her liking.
"What? Why?"
"Eh… First month of high school, some girl didn't like the fact I didn't accept her advances and turned her down due to my family's financial issues."
"Who?!" She seemed to take offence to his plight.
"Mm… something Delmas I think? Didn't really care after she told everyone I cheated on her."
That got a much angrier reaction out of the MEKA pilot. "What?! How dare she do tha-"
"Your attempt to change topics has been noted." Brian said, clearly not completely comfortable continuing that path.
"I-I was not trying to change the topic from – " a bang rang out from the screen as D. Va's screen went red with the word HEADSHOT painted in blood running across it after the announcer yelled the same word. "Y…Your reward…" she finished, blushing like crazy.
He just laughed off her sudden awkward behavior and stood up.
"I figure your feet are cold too. I'm gonna go grab you a pair of socks so you don't freeze your toes off when we head back over to Em's later."
His only response as he left the room and headed upstairs was a muffled 'Okay' from Hana. He walked up the single flight of stairs and reached a single door on the left.
The door was labeled with a blue nameplate reading Brian, with a yellow one not far below that said 'NOT. TIMMY.'
The room was very plain. A desk with his laptop on it, a few mechanical parts strewn across the floor that he was using for various projects and a bed that was nicely made against the far wall that had a large window.
Stepping over the multitude of parts on his floor, he made his way to the closet and opened a drawer that was full of socks and underwear.
Shifting through the clothing, he grabbed a pair of socks and rolled his eyes.
"Of course. D. Va socks…" he clenched them in his hands, but shivered as he felt the cool breeze of outside hit his back.
"Man, I really need to remember to… close… the… window…" he finished with wide eyes as he froze.
A voice that he hoped to avoid hearing again spoke up from behind him.
"Don't. Move."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a fully armed Widowmaker lounging on his bed and watching him like a hawk. She stood up and slowly made her way towards him.
"You lasted a while, leetle piggy. But that ends now." Her hand roughly clamped down on his left shoulder as she gave him a blank look and pulled out one of her infamous poison mines.
Brian, despite freaking out at being caught off-guard like this, quickly rolled up one of his sleeves and pulled down some type of device from them, attaching them to his wrists and running wires across each. To the assassin it appeared he was just nervously rubbing his arm.
"Any last words before I shove zis mine down your gullet?"
"Just one… is that suit insulated?"
Her glare melted and she just looked down at the fidgeting boy confused.
"Umm… Yes? Cold, 'eat, electric?"
Her detailed response caused the teen to sigh and mumble out a quiet 'of course'.
The spider-themed villain was unprepared for the child in her grasp to shrug off her grip and turn on her. His arm outstretched towards her arm that, in shock, recoiled and as she dropped her mine harmlessly to the floor.
His target now out of reach, his momentum carried forth until his hand grasped onto the next area of exposed flesh… the inner curve of her right breast.
The duo sat there, both in shock of what had just transpired. After it finally sank in, Widow blankly stared at Brian, who at this point was redder than a tomato.
"… Truly you 'ave no shame."
"O-oh shut up… I was aiming for your arm…"
With their thoughts exchanged, the gauntlet on Brian's left arm fired up and a powerful electric shock rippled from his hand and into the exposed skin of his would-be assassin.
A loud crack echoed through the room as the watts shocked their target into submission, soon dying out to leave a slightly smoking and very dazed killer.
Brian, still blushing just looked at the glossy eyes of his attacker before nervously laughing.
"Doomfists are… left handed." With that said, he removed his hand and allowed gravity to take his opponent down towards his bed, where she landed with a thud.
"Right… uh. Just get some sleep there."
Quickly he detached his makeshift tasers and rolled his sleeves back down to cover them, before walking out his door. Socks completely forgotten.
Before he could even release a sigh of relief, Hana approached from the stairs.
"Is everything okay?"
"D. Va! Don't go in there. There is a huge spider!" He exclaimed as he tried to block the door from his very confused friend.
"You are scared of spiders?"
To that he just shuffled in place a little.
"Eh… Spiders? No. Their collapsible long-range, scoped brain-liquefiers… Just a little." He said making a motion meaning a little bit with his fingers. Something that Hana had to admit, looked way to adorable.
With slouched shoulders, he motioned to the stairs again. "So… change of plans. Want to go to the arcade?"
"Er, sure. Why?"
Their conversation was stopped as a groan came from behind his door.
"BOI!"
"Off we go!" Brian yelled as he forcefully shoved Hana out of his house and quickly back over to Emily's place.
The pair probably set a land speed record in the time they took to enter Hana's place of residence for the time being. She separated from her friend and made her way into the guest room to change.
What she heard happening on her bed however forced her to move faster, throwing her current outfit into the closet and quickly pulling on a long-sleeved, crop top and thicker shorts.
Brian, who was waiting against the wall, heard the door open and looked her way, only to see her stare directly ahead with the biggest blush he had ever seen adorn her face.
"D.V-" "Ahhhh!"
"That's my room…"
Getting the hint and knowing from listening to Emily's drunken stories, he allowed silence to consume their walk for a few moments before he turned back to his companion with a questioning look.
"Wait, hold on. Where's my jacket?" he asks, referring to the jacket she had previously been wearing.
A much lighter blush and a big grin appeared on her face as she looked right back into his eyes.
"I took it as payment~!" she said in her teasing, sing-song voice that had garnered notoriety around her fanbase.
"Payment for what…?"
His question was not answered throughout their entire excursion to the arcade. Nothing interesting took place while they were out, other than Brian finding out that D. Va was apparently awful at fighting games, at least awful by her standards.
The duo did run into a few of Brian's friends and fellow classmates from school, who were subsequently shocked that he was friends with an internet star, but didn't bother them much after that.
As they were walking home, D. Va began contemplating their time together and shrugged.
"Well, I am glad you aren't as friendless as you made it seem earlier… even if most of them were girls…" she stewed.
He grinned at her reaction.
"I'm happy that you care! BUT." He said loudly before dread filled his expression and he brought Hana extremely close to his body.
His arm wrapped around her midsection as he looked back and forth.
Her eyes stared down at him, face beet red and trying to ignore the cute gasp she let out when he grabbed her. What was his plan?!
He leaned in even closer, making her tenser, expecting something intimate to happen. When in fact…
"Seriously. What was that bet? Why are you so nervous?! What torture was I going to suffer if you beat me?" he asked.
The baffled and nervous expression D. Va held was replaced by a smirk as she returned his embrace. She was much more comfortable in the teasing role.
"Oh nothing~ I was just going to make you take me out. But considering what we just did…" she trailed off into a smile as Brian tensed in the embrace.
After a few tense minutes of standing extremely close to each other, Brian finally broke the hold and opened the door to his neighbor's home.
"Well that was fun. Especially since that was technically my first time taking a girl out." He said, avoiding eye contact with the superstar and looking around the home.
"Yea- wait? First… go out?" the revelation that she was his first, albeit casual, date made her brain short circuit.
"Anyway- Hey Em! You decent? I brought your new victim back!"
His voice carried throughout the house as he, and the mentally compromised gamer, entered the living room.
"Oh, hey you two!" a grinning Emily greeted as she stood from her chair and walked over to them.
Her hair was messy, the green blouse she usually wore was only covering her left shoulder and, much to Brian's embarrassment, she was not wearing any pants.
"I brought Hana back and wanted to ask if you still wanted to run tomorrow. And please put some pants on… you have company after all."
A smirk graced the clearly tired face of his childhood friend, and before he could back away from her, she threw her arm around his shoulder and brought him into a one-armed hug.
"Awww, does little Brian not like what he sees~" she teased, drawing his head between her shoulder and chest.
"Just answer the question!" the trapped teen demanded, looking to either of the other occupants in the room for help out of his current situation.
The first option, Hana, was slowly recovering from her mental overload so she was of no help. The second was even less likely as she was just grinning cheekily at his predicament and giggling to herself.
He glared at the giggling hero and turned his attention back to the shit-eating grin on his former babysitter's face.
"Never skip leg day! So yes, I will meet you outside at 6." She declared. Lifting her arm and pointing at him for some sort of heightened effect.
Once she lifted her arm, his nose recoiled in dismay.
"Ugh, or bathing. You reek of sex." He said, slipping out of her slackened grip and waving a hand in front of his face.
"Hey, I took a bath! …How do you know what sex sme-"
Her question was cut off by a hand shoving her midback towards her room.
"Not important. Bath, without your girlfriend, this time." He pushed the older woman down the hall.
"Fiiiiiiine." Emily grumbled as she closed the door behind her.
Brian walked back into the living room and pointed directly at the mascot hero of Overwatch.
"You. Wait your turn."
The Brit saluted him and nodded. "Yessir!"
The room fell into dead silence after that. The trio standing around and not looking at each other.
That is, until Tracer smirked towards the shorter boy and D. Va raised an eyebrow at him.
How do you know what sex-" they both asked, but were silenced as Brian stormed towards the door with a crimson face.
"SEE YOU LATER." The door slammed shut behind him.
Hands in his pocket, Brian trudged the short distance from Em's to his home.
A/N: As this chapter ends, we move into uncharted territories. That's right. We have officially passed the original source in content. The next chapter will be almost, if not wholly, original ideas throughout.
I am a little scared to move on without a solid guide for the direction of the narrative, but I also have faith that this story will only get better from here! That being said, I would really like all of you reading to review this chapter with your thoughts and ideas on what I should do in future installments. I might not use them all, but I do enjoy reading and responding to them.
Next Chapter: August 14, 2017