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Hands to Myself by Selena Gomez


A/N : I don't think this chapter qualifies for a sexual content warning really, but the end of this chapter gets mildly spicy/handsy, just a small heads up for some of my readers sensitive to that.


*Chapter 204*

"Alright, Mr. Large-and-In-Charge," Kepa mumbled firmly under her breath, Gideon could hear her voice leave her body through a sly little smile. He cocked an eyebrow and tossed his gaze over his broad shoulder and tried to source Kepa, the two began to slowly walk down the blackened beach side with little to no light due to the new moon. The lighthouse's beams, from a few hundred feet away, only barely illuminated their area as said beams slowly came and went. Although low light, Gideon still was able to just barely see Kepa's facial expressions as the two came to a gentle sag in the sand, about two dozen feet from the black rise and fall of the darkened near-midnight ocean. Kepa sweetly continued on, her voice was low and had a small kiss of sensual, musing delight, "You had all of those racers literally trembling. I'm pretty sure Crumbelina was crying, but she just hid it well."

"Just doin' my job," Gideon grumbled cutely.

Wearing nothing but his favorite, cozy pair of baggy cotton shorts that draped to his knees, and the peak of the thick band of his boxer briefs that hugged his sculpted lower abdomen, the warm, nighttime breeze pushed against his bare chest and ruffled their hair about with easiness. He sagged his thumbs into the gape of his side pockets and watched as the beams of the lighthouse glinted against Kepa's eyes, and with such a quick flash of her gorgeous gaze, he noted that her pupils were drawn to full dilation, not even a sliver of the color in her eyes was visible. As the beams slowly tossed away, Gideon's vision nearly dropped to black, once more, and though he could still sort of see, he was relying on Kepa's voice, the glow of his glitching abilities were something he knew could be a backup. The two meandered in patient wait for Novus to arrive, the plans of their night flight was now upon them, it was something Gideon was desperate to enjoy, once more. He was absolutely certain Kepa was just as giddy as he was, and though he was due to opening his mouth and relaying said excitement for such an event to be upon them, shortly, he snapped his jaw shut as he could feel Kepa's lovely, slithering tail suddenly and almost seductively come about his big left ankle.

"I'm really proud of you... You stood up for your uncle and set everyone straight, and Zed didn't even have to wrangle you in," Kepa mused sweetly, she giggled and peered up into Gideon's handsome face, though his stare firmly blinked as he desperately did what he could to somehow evolve into a creature with greater eyesight than what he currently had.

"I... If I'm being honest, I was very close to exploding, a few times," Gideon grumbled in warm regret, he shrugged his bare, masculine shoulders and lulled his near-blind eyes shut and just allowed them to remain closed due to not being able to see well anyways. He carried on through a hefty sigh as Kepa stood close and assessed Gideon's handsome being in darkened secrecy, "I used to be so careful... So timid, so eager to not rock the boat. And now I'm out here just constantly wondering what I could do to ruffle feathers."

"I don't think you're technically ruffling feathers, you're just..." Kepa flattened her ears and gingerly rested the adorable little black toe-beans, on her fingers, to the muscle and squish of Gideon's left peck, "... Asserting yourself. You're sticking up for what's right. Y'want my honest opinion, Giddy?"

"Yeah?" Gideon mused gently as he furrowed his brow in a scrunch of dainty, smiling wondering of just what her opinion was.

"It may have been necessary, and you may not like having to play top-dog to correct bad behavior, but..." Kepa trailed off and wondered if she could be brave. She begged Gideon to have all of this move at her speed, she wondered if he'd step on the gas with her, in this instance. She confidently pressed on, the only reason she felt certain to be mildly vulnerable in this instance was simply because Gideon couldn't see her. A hack she was now wondering if she could use to her advantage. Her soft hand flattened over Gideon's heart as she shyly and lowly ushered him an innocently seductive string of words she tried on for size, "I thought you looked incredibly sexy..."

Gideon gently popped his eyes open in surprise, cocked an eyebrow and desperately hoped he was locking eyes with Kepa in the dark, though even the beams of the lighthouse hardly aided him any longer. In true, innocent fashion, Gideon donned a mildly dorky little smile, huffed a shaky chuckle of disbelief and suddenly felt his heart begin to pick up the pace. He wondered if he should play along with Kepa's very tepid, cautious advancement in words, he wondered if matching her speed would be good, though somehow he could sense her body language. He could tell that Kepa was now slowly warming up to the idea of allowing Gideon into deeper aspects of her heart, more intimate avenues of their fragile relationship, and though he swore to move at Kepa's speed, he wondered if his speedometer was simply fixated at a slower speed and matching her press on the gas would somehow be too much to soon. There was a huge chunk of him that wondered just what would happen if he innocently played hard to get, if the payout of her eventually clawing for his whole, undivided, sexual attention would be just as explosive as he imagined. A mild bout of being a tease, he wondered the morality of it all and inwardly concluded that temporarily playing hard to get, in this vein, would be in good fun. Knowing her molt glued him to her anyways, he bit his lip a little and grunted a small chuckle of further disbelief, he knew the two would eventually come colliding into each other in a frenzy of swapped codes and grippy hands anyways.

"...Y'think so?" Gideon pawed cutely, he shook his head and gently shrugged as Kepa's warm voice soothed his racing heart. Gideon looked off with a playful little smolder and fingered his chin, "I should yell at people more often, then..."

"I have never seen that side of you, it was pretty intense, but... I don't know, there was something about the way you got so passionate about what you were saying," Kepa's womanly voice was low, it was a new tone that Gideon had nearly never heard before, he long-blinked in now dizzy confusion and wondered if cancelling this little night-flight-date, with Novus, was something that he should do. He raised his eyebrows in dewy surprise as he could feel Kepa's gentle hand slowly slide up his chest, past his collarbone and onto the side of his neck in a gentle grip. She stood to her full height and eventually paired this all with the cup of Gideon's handsome face and chiseled jawline in her delicate little hands. He lulled his eyes closed in a long-blink of desperately trying to assess all of these words paired with being blind, he allowed his fingertips to find her hips as she pushed into his bubble and carried on with a breath into his face, "There's something ironically desirable with the way a once-doughy, adorable dude eventually let's his timidness go right out the window for everyone to witness."

"Probably not my proudest moment, though something in me sickly enjoys flippantly being a jerk," Gideon almost regretfully admitted in a sweet mumble into her face, he allowed said smolder to broaden as he was definitely picking up just what Kepa was putting down.

"But I know otherwise," Kepa whispered as she leaned in, so to place a kiss to Gideon's lips, though right as they were about to meet, she skillfully slunk out of the motion and slipped from Gideon's becoming-grippy hands and fingertips in a slow swipe, as she stepped backwards.

"Alright, chickie," Gideon grunted a hefty, playfully annoyed laugh as he stiffened, flared his incredible, glowing purple coding on his palms and firmly peered out before him as the sand illuminated, though he flinched in frozen surprise as Kepa was suddenly nowhere to be found.

"Whatsamatter?" Kepa suddenly whispered into the back of Gideon's ear.

"HO-kay," Gideon stabbed through a trembling laugh as he whirled around and peered hard into Kepa's eyes. She cutely stood with her arms tucked behind her back, her tail curled up and about her body in a coy display of sassy innocence, Gideon huffed a shaky exhale through his nose and felt all the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, "Did my angry pep-talk really make THAT much of an impact on you?"

"Yeah? So?" Kepa's alluring little giggle pierced Gideon through and through, Kepa's lovely, hugely-dilated pupils tediously scanned the rise and sink of Gideon's thick, bare clavicles, she flattened her ears and somehow felt every single last ounce of bravery inside of her come flooding out of her like a swarm of angry hornets. She knew this side of herself was something Gideon hadn't ever really seen before, she felt conflicted with segueing into a deeper branch of intimacy and sexual banter, due to her still-unresolved feelings towards Gideon, because of his previous absence. Somehow, the pheromones overrode every ounce of logic her brain had to offer, the very vision of Gideon swiftly handing wrong-doers their asses was what hung blasted at the front of her mind's eye so no other form of coherency could seep through. She could sense Gideon wanting to play hard to get, and with that, she knew playing his game right back at him was her only choice. She cockily carried on as the two held eyes in a dance of devious, enchanted fervor, "There's something about you... I think it's the fact that everyone else on planet Earth gets this hardened, go-getter version of you but I'm the one lucky gal that gets the molten goo underneath it all."

"...I'm learning a lot about you, suddenly," Gideon's deep voice made the fragile furs in the gape of her beautiful ears twitch, the bass rattled the bones in her chest. Gideon angled his head down a little and glinted the golden smolder of his eye contact through his thick brow, all daintily crowned with his infamous, heart-melting little smirk now sapped with devious darkness, "What version of you do I get? Your sweet and innocent front is surely something of a mask, I'm starting to sense..."

"I don't know, you were already so kind and handsome prior to this whole mess, but this bad-boy personality you've adopted along the way is driving me nuts," Kepa murmured shyly, she rubbed her forehead and tried to keep herself from literally flinging herself into Gideon's arms. She cutely smiled up into Gideon's eyes, almost with a sting of bittersweet defeat and figured being honest and vulnerable with Gideon was a good step in the right direction, a broader picture of healing she was eager for, "I guess the version of me that you get is... The idea that curiosity will eventually kill the cat."

"But satisfaction will bring it back," Gideon smoothly finished the quote, to which Kepa perked her ears and felt the heat of the beaming, glowing goodness of Gideon's coding melt the fur off of her face. She snapped her jaw shut and peered hard into Gideon's lovely, seductive gaze, her ears did absolutely everything to keep a proverbial watch for Novus's approaching figure, she held her breath and wondered if the two were about to flex into the same line of action with one another. A quick, well-afforded make out session was nearly blinding the two in the form of neon lights and tense, frozen, agitated body language. Gideon took a brave step closer to Kepa with his glowing palms still outstretched in the gorgeous coils of his beautiful coding, he shyly carried on in a croak of a grumble over the nearby crashing ocean waves, "I can practically read your thoughts..."

"Try me," Kepa snipped, almost meanly, she flattened her ears and did everything she could to remain a mysterious, closed book, though she raised her eyebrows in a twinkle of fluttery surprise the second she could somehow feel the deep, reverberating, buzzing electric bass of Gideon's live-wired coding on his big, opened palms. The gape of his hot purple coding fervently swirled on his fingertips amidst the spirals of his fingerprints, it wasn't until his intense coding so tenderly began to collect with the loose, wispy furs that gathered on the point of her elbows did Kepa now hold her breath and wonder if Gideon truly could read her thoughts.

"Innocent, neglected art dweeb runs away and turns into a hardened criminal, only to return to the love of his life all grizzled and world-worn," Gideon's grumbly, deep voice so softly pressed into the short little furs atop the flat of Kepa's snout. She finally exhaled a trembling breath as Gideon's coding fervently began to snake down said wispy frays of fur and onto her skin. With a lovely flood of his coding into hers, a rather brave act to be partaking in, due to all the turmoil his coding had been through, Kepa stiffened with a sudden suck of an inhale and rapidly felt the kiss of turquoise electricity sap her brainstem in a deep-fry of carnal instincts she was doing a very good job at suppressing, up until now. Gideon fluttered his eyes as their coding eagerly mixed in a swirly union of dark and light, the bass of his voice continued to press deeper into the gape of her beautiful ears as his soul cautiously began to scoop hers into an eager grapple of an embrace. Like an apex predator simply comforting its prey and assuring her the kill would be quick and painless, she could feel herself succumbing to the idea that he was boasting every ounce of his capabilities in just stoically standing hovered above her, "Previously, there was no mystery about just what you were potentially getting into. What you saw was what you got, though now that I've donned armor and refuse to let anyone in, the idea that your molt was your one-way ticket to garnering just what's underneath the wreck I've become, is a badge of honor that you wear proudly. It looks good on you."

"You're only now saying this because you're exterior swapping with me, my thoughts are no longer private," Kepa muttered, she desperately did what she could to act equally as hard to get, though knew she was mildly failing due to the way Gideon's bigger fingertips now began to hover less than an inch from the fur on her arms, in a slow drag up to her shoulders. As his fingertips drew by, her fur would stand on end and follow his every slow move like guided electricity. She huffed a shaky pant of a breath through her nose and fluttered her eyes as a spill of shivers plagued her spine, her ears twitched at the sound of buzzy strings of visible, turquoise electricity began to glide about the longer strands of white fur on her shoulders. Kepa's little chest expanded with a hefty inhale to desperately steady herself, she pushed on as Gideon almost menacingly hovered above her, "I'm still mad at you. Y'gotta lot of hard work still ahead of you, buddy."

"Anger and love have one common denominator, they go hand in hand, wanna know what it is?" Gideon mused darkly, he lifted his lightly trembling arms and continued to drag his fingertips in a hover about her fur, though he finally brought said little light show to the gape of her beautiful ears and cutely tickled the little furs at the very tips. She remained stick-stiff, the gape of her beautiful eyes hooked up into Gideon's as if she had fallen under his spell, and with the gentle sag of his bigger hands in a cup to the backs of her upper arms, he bravely allowed his and her coding to fully mix in a healthy dose of the word not only knocking on the closed door of her heart, but that brimmed from the depth of Gideon's delightfully, crackly deep voice, "Passion."

"Look, all I said was that I thought you looked sexy being all angry like that," Kepa muttered cutely as Gideon's eyes peered deep into hers in a half-lidded flutter of certain doom, Gideon bravely allowed the gape of his palms to slide down the backs of her arms and join in a seductive grip of a slide down the middle of her back. Although he was very slowly pulling her into his big body, she remained stood still and tried to utilize whatever last ounce of restraint she had. She stammered on her words, making Gideon's final strike to her heart an easy win, "I-I didn't... Say I wanted you to attempt to lure me into your trap."

"You're acting as if you're going to be somehow successful in escaping said trap, when in reality," Gideon inhaled a slow, thick breath and seductively began to trail his hands a little lower down her back, he muttered a cheeky conclusion into her face, complete with a snarky little seductive smirk, "You're draped in the arms of someone that the others failed to flee from."

"You'll spare me," Kepa returned in whispery confidence and an adorable, shaky little giggle to boot, she finally allowed her fingertips to sag to Gideon's strong, muscular upper arms, all bare and speckled with the misty spray of the warm ocean nearby, "The one cat to cross your path and stop you dead in your tracks. I'm not worried."

"You're a tough cookie," Gideon grunted in a playful show of meanness, he fluttered his eyes closed amidst the speckling glow of their fervent, passionate turquoise mixture of coding, "Even after all the crap I've done, after every ounce of abuse my coding has gone through, you still view me as a total prize, the greatest win to obtain? You're speaking really highly of someone who is, put quite simply, just a jerk who doesn't have an agenda any longer."

"Oh, but you do have an agenda, I'm not an idiot," Kepa volleyed as she finally flattened her ears, though she sucked in a trembling breath as Gideon's bigger hands finally slipped past the curve of her hip and in a slow squeeze of a cup to her round rear, slickly dressed in tight black leggings and a figure-hugging bralette; clothes that would be easy to move and fly in.

"Enlighten me," Gideon whispered deviously on her wet nose, she fluttered her eyes as he gently tugged her body into his and was happy to feel her grippy hands squeeze the muscles on his flexed biceps, due to the firm squeeze his hands had to her rear. She began to slowly drag her hands to the bend of his inner arms.

"I'm with you every day, you seem to forget that I have an incredible sense of smell and am marinating in your pheromones even long after you're gone," Kepa whimpered in smiling, deflating frustration.

"Sounds like a you-problem," Gideon's deep voice playfully grumbled, Kepa brightened with a wide grin and allowed for movement, between the two, she slid her hands up Gideon's arms and to his broad shoulders as Gideon very bravely kept one hand still gripped to one of her butt cheeks and slid the other in a firm slide down her spine, starting between her shoulder blades. He gave her a few long, steady pets, his fingertips felt her prickled fur as he passed the fabric of her black bralette, though he finally came to a gentle sag of a palm-hold just above the base of her tail as he cutely continued on, "I get to continue on blissfully unaware."

"Do you though?" Kepa sneered, she flattened her ears and felt her heart race in her chest, though as their exterior swap delved deeper and deeper into the throes of impending passion, she fervently remembered one little thing. Due to having Gideon's whole family to hang out with, for the past two months of Gideon's absence, she learned a world about exterior swapping and everything the intricate details of coding contained. With such, Kepa knew skills could be temporarily shared inside of an exterior swap, and with this information logged away for a rainy day, she did what she could to gift Gideon the vastly heightened case of all of her senses. All at once, Gideon's cocky, confident aura wiped into a sag of delirious, almost love-struck discombobulation. His coding finally braved a small wiggle, a weak link in the chain, Kepa narrowed her challenging gaze and could tell Gideon was now gifted the whole world of pheromones she had been drowning in since day one, "Yeah... Didn't think so."

"... I've underestimated you," Gideon mumbled in annoyed regret, he grunted a chuckle and cutely began to rub and pet Kepa's lower back, an erogenous zone right at the base of her hefty, long cat-tail, "But I still think I'm winning this battle."

"Put all your cat-knowledge away, that's not fair!" Kepa whined in whispery, giggly delight as she finally deflated against Gideon's strong chest, though within finally smushing her whole body against his, she sucked in a trembling inhale at the very prominent obvious she suddenly felt against her lower abdomen and upper right thigh, due to tearing through Gideon's comfortable cotton shorts and underwear.

"All's fair in love and war, kitten," Gideon muttered onto her face.

"A war in which I will be winning," Kepa skillfully snipped, and with at least the idea of throwing in the towel an option for conversation, Kepa firmly draped her arms about Gideon's neck and eagerly allowed the two to go tumbling down the rabbit hole.

Stirring skin, fur and clothes, thick, raspy inhales through their noses, the two messily writhed in a uniform of pressed bodies and grippy hands. Kepa hummed a shaky noise on Gideon's mouth as the two hotly gaped in a small part and returned in the deeper tilt of humming, sighing unfolding. Gideon's grippy fingers continued to hold her rear in a curious squeeze, his other hand now fumbled to grapple for the very base of Kepa's tail as the whole of it lifted up in a high swat of sexual gaining, even the noise of the crashing waves nearby began to drum to a fade-out of the world successfully falling to the wayside. Their coding eagerly tossed back and forth in exploding waves of unity as it surged in a light show down Kepa's stick-straight circuity, on her arms, and into the spilling, swirling mess of beautiful coils that Gideon's skin was laced with, every ounce of their rushing, passionate thoughts suddenly dampened every single pixel of rationale that either of their brains could ever dream of affording in this deliciously devious moment. Kepa sucked in a small gasp through her nose as Gideon gently released her rear from his grip, though only to return said grip in an eager tug on the widest part of her hips. He furrowed his eyebrows amidst the squish and sink of their stirring kiss. As he flexed his core and cautiously dug his distention a bit harder into Kepa's body, he raised his eyebrows in eye-fluttering, delirious delight as Kepa sucked in another gasp, one that interrupted their fast-paced, gaping, hot exhales on each other's wet lips.

"Gideon," Kepa whined in a shaky, whispery little moan as Gideon kept their easy-movement of passionate, writhing stirring, and though he let her catch her breath, he swiftly tucked his face into the gentle nook between the bend of her jaw and the gape of her beautiful ear. Kepa fluttered her eyes closed, pressed her body a bit tighter into Gideon's and relished in the feel of his everything squished up against her. She dragged her trembling hands to the sides of his big, broad shoulders and could feel every ounce of his terrifying, unbridled power menacingly hover right at the edge of her own coding, as if it certainly had the power to forgo any shred of consent and dive right in, though still hovered with the hot coals of gentlemanliness his heart was fervently holding onto. She felt body chills plague every ounce of her, the fur on her spine and tail stuck on end in riled delight, and as her tail firmly and slowly whipped back and forth between the twitches and swats of full, sexual availability her body did whatever it could to communicate, she giggled a whispery notion into Gideon's collar bone as he trailed hot, gaping kisses down the side of her neck, "Gideon, I-I'm trying to stay mad at you."

"Oh, please do," Gideon chirped in whispery cuteness as he seductively tugged their bodies tighter into each other. He raised his eyebrows in a swing of sweet, musing surprise the second Kepa draped her trembling arms about Gideon's thick neck and mumbled him a moaning little noise of unravelling uncertainty. His big hands climbed all over her little back, a gape of flat, grippy palms alive with their joined, turquoise coding, a dim light-show of fervent, swirling passion that grappled to every other emotion it could possibly be synonymous with. Gideon firmly tucked his face into the big, fragile gape of her cat ear, deep into the soft pink skin, he only mouthed the words knowing her hearing was already incredibly strong and fragile at this close proximity, as it were, "I'd like to see what you could do to possibly bring me to my knees and beg for your mercy."

"Youuu don't want that," Kepa warned through a soft giggle as her shy, panting voice returned to her, though with bravery, she wrinkled her nose and allowed her abilities, her coding, every fiber of her being was adamant about giving Gideon a taste of the abilities and senses he'd be blessed with, upon an actual code swap. She carried on through the beginnings of a trilling little grumble of a growl, deep into Gideon's strong bare shoulder, "Unless you're a masochist."

"...Lookit all the things we're discovering about one another," Gideon darkly grumbled into her shoulder.

Kepa perked her ears high in surprise, at his very brave insinuation, though the second she thought she had all of her thoughts and ideals straight, Gideon eagerly allowed himself to try on some of the coding Kepa had been very generously handing him. As his strong arms came about Kepa's back in a protective display of possessiveness, he furrowed his brow, wrinkled his nose, tucked his face deep into the little bend of Kepa's neck and dared to let the fervent roll of a terrifyingly low, quiet, reverberating grumble of a growl to simply brew at the very depths of his vocal ability. Such a terrifying noise that only male dragon gargoyles could ever hope to emit, Kepa scoffed a whispery, trembling little exhale at the hands of Gideon's near-successful take-down. Just as Kepa stiffened to continue their writhing stirring, said inhale of spiked movement somehow made something in Gideon's brain run wild, as if hunting instincts were suddenly triggered, and with such, Gideon allowed said deep, core-shaking grumbling to mildly strengthen as he bared his teeth into Kepa's fragile little neck and suddenly clamped down, though not hard enough to cause injury; it was just enough to cause Kepa to press her palms to Gideon's bare upper arms and sink her claws into his skin, just before the point of actually drawing blood.

Gideon huffed a shaky, growling, raspy exhale in a jolt of surprise the second a loud, echoey dragon-call could be heard rippling over the horizon, and as Gideon popped open his dizzy eyes and peered hard across the stretch, and to the lighthouse, he took note that Novus's huge body was successfully coiled tight about the top of the spire. Due to Novus's very poor eyesight, he relied on sound to find Kepa and Gideon, thus allowing his unique, terrifying dragon call of a roar to soak the horizon with readiness, a cute impatience that he was waiting for the two so they could go on their scheduled night flight. Gideon heavily panted over Kepa's furry little shoulder, though in the roll of realization, he long-blinked in hot shock and was floored to find that, due to their shared coding, due to all the cat and dragon gargoyle-like senses Kepa had very sweetly and generously offered him, however temporary, was fervently laying cozy groundwork in Gideon's frayed mainframe. His eye sight in the near pitch-black was as clear as day, his sense of hearing was suddenly otherworldly, the rich, tantalizing scent of Kepa's pheromones now sapped the inside of his nose and skull as if to teasingly remind him that this scent had made itself at home here a very long time ago, one of which he never noticed until now.

He trembled due to the world of sensations lofted his way, he could feel the hair on the back of his neck stand on end, he held his strong arms tight about Kepa's body as if the two were simply wild animals wandering in the night and the union of finding a mate was like striking gold. Instincts coursed through his body, suddenly Kepa's wobbly plight of sexual desperation was something he was slapped with, and though he felt almost sorry that she had to deal with all of these heightened feelings all the time, he gingerly allowed the two to be snapped out of their stirrings and felt wonderment of realization course him. As the two panted and peered deep into each other's glowing eyes, the kiss of their coding was dim and secretive, though powerful in the glint of turquoise flares of the misty ocean spray, it was here did the two realize that a full swap, a full act of animalistic lovemaking, was a whole entire new breed of lessons to be learned, something that they both were certain would need a whole day's worth. The two sagged their shoulders in the hot realization that this delicious new avenue was something they had to put temporary barriers on, once more, a road they only promised they'd travel down once they diligently arrived to said barriers in a slow and thoughtful state, though even with the silent notion of agreeing the two partook in, in the form of shaky sighs of defeat, they wondered just who would cave in on said agreement first.

"Novus is going to give us so much shit for this," Kepa whispered on Gideon's mouth, the two erupted into a shaky melt of sweet, silent laughter with one another, their smiles were broad, new, blistered with promised, animalistic unload.

"Y'know, I used to dread stuff like this, but I think we should just flaunt it," Gideon mumbled warmly, he sucked in a trembling breath and felt brave, "If we're to one day be a swapped pair, where sex is the norm, he's just going to have to get used to it."

"G-Gideon, can... Can we keep the exterior swap going? I-I know we can part and hold onto it temporarily," Kepa shyly whispered on Gideon's face, the undersides of their jaws were dimly lit with their beautiful turquoise coding, "I... I wanna fly about with this feeling, there's something so freeing and wild and imaginative about your coding that... I just want to experience it free falling."

Gideon long-blinked in tender surprise and was totally floored of one thing and one thing only. Even through the wreckage, Kepa saw straight through Gideon's messy baggage and fervently landed on the core of his heart, the raw shape of his character, the true-north diligence of love his soul was sapped in with no questions asked. She gleaned goodness in him, even while being totally entangled and exposed to the raw, horrible damage his coding had been through, it was very telling of her character, it was something that gave Gideon confidence that gifting Kepa the near-mangle of hardships he had been through maybe wouldn't seem so daunting and impossible. Although he knew there'd be hiccups and there'd be further-navigating and mild hardships, he was floored that all she wanted to do was to marinate in every last pixel to his name, to fly around and be free with his wild, untamed spirit he was adamant about sharing with no one but her. A love so rare, a union so unbridled and beautiful, Gideon scoffed a whispery, shaky guffaw into her sweet face and lovingly pressed a few kisses into her lips, a soft few smacks of warm gratitude as the two stirred into a hug of normality.

"...You are a new adventure at every single turn, little lady," Gideon grumbled cutely, as if he could hardly get his hands on her, as if she was simply a fluffy lightning cloud crossing the wild blue with adamancy, he humbly smiled into her face and caught her little sassy smirk with another few melts of sticky kisses. Upon a gentle part, he continued on, "I'd be honored... We'll give the whole ocean side a light show."

"Let's go," Kepa snipped gently with a nod as the two almost hesitantly sagged from each other. Kepa bravely continued on a mutter of teasing disapproval, "Before I lose my mind."