"I didn't really think this through," Hana sighed for probably the eighth time in the last ten minutes.
"What do you mean?" Brian frowned as he leaned his entire body to the left in an effort to keep his digital car on the digital road. He even had his tongue out.
"THIS!" Hana exclaimed, throwing her arms wide as she turned her torso around to gesture at her house. And she was still winning. "Coming to Korea! I had originally planned on spending my time off with you in Numbani!"
"Yeah, and stuff happened," Brian glanced at her, noting the dark frown on her face. He thought that the way her eyebrows could drop into a straight line when she was sulking to be adorable. "You know what they say about best laid plans."
"Ugh, I suppose," dropping back into her chair, Hana lapped him. Again. "I didn't think of how restricted we are here."
"Whaddya mean?"
"I mean, I can't really take you anywhere. I can't show you any of the sights, places to eat, shop….you know...the things I love about my country," with another deep sigh, Hana won the game without even looking.
"We can go out and do stuff, Hana," Brian chuckled as he managed to not throw the controller to the ground while crying like a five year old with a skinned knee.
"Yeah, but you have to pretend to be working for me! We can't just go have fun!" As she spoke, almost with each word, Hana's voice went deeper, and deeper, a growl slowly creeping into it.
Brian gave her the brightest smile he could as he pulled the controller from her white-knuckled fingers, and placed it on the charging stand with his own. He stood for a moment contemplating the proper response before turning back and freezing.
Hana had pulled her legs up onto the chair and wrapped her arms around them. Her head was down, her face pressed into knees. She just sat there, unmoving. She didn't seem to be crying or anything, which was Brian's first fear, he had no idea how to deal with crying humans that weren't his brother. Unsure what else to do, he just sat slowly into his seat and stared at the now turned off vid screen.
After what felt like sixteen years, but was probably more like five, Hana's head popped up as she stared at him for a moment.
"Brian?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you a virgin?"
"Dafuq?" Brian's head snapped around so fast he felt his neck creek.
Hana just looked at him, her expression curious. "I was wondering."
"I...uh…" Brian blinked a few times as he rubbed at the back of his head. "I mean….why do you...I..er…" He was stalling.
"You're stalling," Hana frowned slightly. "It's not a big deal Brian. We're adults."
"-ish," Brian snorted as he sat back into the chair and let his head drop back so that he was staring at the ceiling. "We are adult-ish."
"Brian..." Hana started, her frown turning slightly darker.
"No seriously, Hana," Brian looked over at her. "We didn't exactly have real childhoods. I wouldn't know how to adult if you slapped me with an adulting stick. I had my accident, I had to raise Timmy, go to school and make money."
Hana's face softened as she dropped her feet to the floor with a small nod. "I guess. I played video games for a living, I made a terrible movie…"
"You got to be a child soldier…"
"Brian!"
"What? You did," Brian shrugged with a pained smirk. "Who drafts a teenager to fight some of the most dangerous things in the world?"
"Well…" Hana frowned, searching for the words. "Well...we are the best. We keep the people safe. That's what matters."
"I suppose you are more adult than I am then," Brian chuckled.
"I dunno, I think I'd rather fight omnics than raise a kid," Hana blanched. "That's probably the most 'adult' thing I can think of. I don't even like kids."
"Me either, just didn't get much of a choice. My parents made me promise to take care of the little nugget with their literal dying breath," Brian said quietly.
"I'm sor-"
"Don't," Brian said sharply. "Don't pity me, or Timmy. We made it work."
"I'm so...mmm…" Hana bit back her words. "I know you did. You can do anything Brian. It's why I...umm…"
Listening to her stumble to a verbal stop, Brian looked over at the girl. She was so pretty. And fun. "Four people."
"What?" Hana's looked back up at him puzzled before her eye widened, he mouth forming an 'Oh'.
"Three girls, one omnic."
"Boy?"
"Is that a problem?" Brian raised an eyebrow at her.
"Oh! No!" Hana pulled back, waving her hands in front of her. "Not a problem! I just...know how to compete with other girls…."
"Do you now?" Brian laughed warmly.
"Well...how do you even...I mean...an omnic?" Hana's expression turn more and more confused.
With a snort, Brian shook his head slightly. "Do you really want to know the nuts and bolts of it?"
"Nuts and….what?" Hana sputtered laughing. "Did you really just say that?"
"Broke the tension, didn't it?"
"Yeah I suppose so," Hana smiled warmly and turned in her seat, her feet pulled up in front of her as she leaned her back against the arm rest. "Two for me. Both boys."
"Why are we talking about this, by the way?" Brain tilted his head as he looked at her face. He could watch it all day.
"Well...because…" Hana faltered for a moment, biting her lip. "I really...like, you."
"I...like you too," Brian smiled, holding out a hand to her. "This whole romance shit is stupid isn't it?"
"Oh, it so is!" Hana laughed taking his hand in hers.
"Hey….Efi?" Timmy looked up from the screen of his work pad.
"Yeah?" Efi came back, as she dug through a pile of loose papers.
"Want to be my girlfriend?"
"Sure."
"Neat."
"Yeah."
Pulling out the few that she was looking for, Efi went and sat down next to Timmy as she read through them.
Brian turned back to his pad and began going over the numbers again as he leaned slightly against his girlfriend.
This is literally how it worked for my brother. Right after I had a break up. I was so pissed.
I didn't really intend to go the D. Va romance route with this, it's just building organically as I write it. When I first started my plan was to do a Tracer thing, but then Blizzard released the comic where she had a girlfriend. Mei is my actual favorite character, but is too old to do the Brian bit, and I didn't want to change that. I also really like Orisa as a character and the AI/Human romance angle has always interested me, ever since I read Chobits in High School. So there is defiantly going to be more Orisa in this. I'll probably do more Brigette, because I like where that can go.
If you have input or ideas, feel free to shoot them at me! :)