"God, all of teethe movieth thuck. Don't you own anything good fithface?"

It was impossible to repress the small growl that bubbled in my throat. I slammed my palms down on the table, narrowly avoiding spilling ink all over the tactical plans I had laid out. I had been making great headway on them until my hive was invaded without permission by the idiot who called himself a hacker. Why'd he'd decided today of all days was when he was going to bother me I didn't know. All I did know wad that I was that after barely more than an hour I was so done with his whining. I was busy. I'd given him free rein of my television and any movies he wanted to watch and yet he was still complaining.

"They don't suck you just have no taste Sol."

"No. I have great tathe. You on the other hand…" The arrogant jerk shrugged rather than ending the sentence. "If your movieth are tho great why don't you pick one and fucking watch it with me and be a decent hotht for once."

Insulted by his suggestion that I was anything other than a perfectly polite host I did as he demand, picking a movie at random and starting it up. It was a wizard movie. Normally I would have been embarrassed for anyone to know that I still watched films of this nature but I didn't care. If Sollux had come over just to be a pest then I wasn't going to cater to his interests. I slumped down on the couch next to him, arms crossed and a deep frown on my lips. The frown didn't last for long however, it turned out that i'd grabbed one of my favourite movies to watch. Even the opening music was enough to turn my mood around a bit. That didn't make my 'guest' any less of an asshole though.

"Theriouthly?" When he interrupted a silent moment I wanted to punch him. Could he do anything aside from complain. "Thith ith what you call a good movie?"

"Shut up Sol, I like it and its my house. I can pick whatever I want." He stopped interrupting after that. At least at first. The movie was at the halfway point when I felt something tugging at my left hand. The muscles in my face twitched but I was determined to ignore him. He was just trying to get a rise out of me like always, I would not give him the satisfaction. His slender fingers kneaded my palm strangely for a few minutes before I my will to stay quiet broke.

"What is it?" I regretted the tone of my voice when I saw his expression. The expression on his lips wasn't so much a frown but rather something more perturbed. He'd trapped one finger in particular and was staring at it intensely.

"You never wear a ring on this finger. You fucking cover yourthelf in the gaudieth thit ever everywhere elthe but not here." I shifted uncomfortably at his statement. It was true, that ring was always bare of any of my usual jewelry for a reason. It was my ring finger. I was saving it for something important from someone important. I wasn't sure I wanted to tell him that was the case though. There was a good chance that Sollux would just make fun of me for it. He thought everything else in my life was stupid anyway, the only time he ever seemed to take me seriously was when I asked for help fixing my computer. And even then he usually told me how much of a moron I was for causing whatever problem I was having in the first place.

Maybe that's why his unusually serious expression caught me so off guard. I actually answered him.

"I'm wwaitin until I have the right ring to put there. Wwaitin for someone red to put one there. Its the heart finger." I could feel my cheeks burning with embarrassment, I locked my gaze back on the television screen. I couldn't look him in the eye after that. I heard the rustling of fabric and though he didn't let go of my hand I could feel that he had moved his eyes away. Thank cod. At least he'd let it drop. At least I'd thought he had. A few minutes later he was tugging on my hand again, what on Alternia was he doing?

Something cool slid up the finger that had been in question.

I glanced down as he dropped my hand like it was a hot coal, his face locked in a forced indifference as he stared at the screen ahead of us. Glittering in the ever changing light from the screen was a tiny bee ring. I brought my hand up to my face, it looked like a small piece of amber with a bee frozen inside. I'd seen other insects encased this way but never a bee like this before. It was so perfectly him. I couldn't take my eyes off of it, a fluttering heat working its why through my chest to fill me.

"Sol…" I reached out, fingers shaking. Cod I had thought I was the only one. After a while all the bickering and fights had lost some of their edge and I'd found myself actually giving a shit about if I hurt his feelings. He'd been getting on my nerves more and more because it had seemed pretty obvious that it had only been my hate that turned to pity but now I wondered differently. My now full fingers tilted his face towards mine and I closed the gap between us. My lips on his were more gentle than they'd ever been. If I was wrong about all of this he would push me away or something else.

He didn't. Instead when I broke the kiss he pulled me in for another, just as gentle, just as intense. This time when it ended it caused a spark because the next thing I knew I was pulling him into my arms, my mouth desperate for his as we melted into the red that was heating everything. He complied, tongue finding the cavern of my mouth, searching it as if it never had before. We were panting and gasping for breath when the movie blasted unexpected noise at us.

"Your tatthe in movieth thill thuckth."

"Shut up."

The jab was a playful one and when I silenced him with another kiss we both forgot about anything but each other as the night slipped into day.

((Sorry guys, this one is a little rough but its based off an idea a friend of mine had so its a gift for her~! Enjoy moiraeel~! ))