13: Passion:
Wide eyes followed the blonde's movements, every whirl precise, every shot perfect. The range was cleared in only about thirty seconds, and Keira was captivated completely-she loved seeing the emotion Tess exuded when she played with her guns.
Tess handed Keira another wrench, smiling as she chirped a 'thank you!' and rolled back under the zoomer. They'd been there for an hour, and neither had said much-except for some choice words from Keira when she smashed a finger or something was difficult to unscrew-but it was time together, and Tess didn't mind returning the favor of watching Keira play mechanic-they were good about sharing each other with their passions.
14: Fire:
"Then you light this…and put your hand here, and-" "Ouch!" Tess cradled Keira's hand in hers, mouth latching over the small burn. There was a soft whimper pulled from the sea-haired girl as the blonde's tongue gently touched the burn, but it was quieted down after a moment, relief evident on the younger girl's face. Tess pulled away with a wet 'pop' and smiled, pecking the red spot gently. "All better!" They turned back to what had caused the flame, an intricate candelabra set. "Now we know not to let Keira play with fire, hm?"
15: Laughter (semi-AU):
Big blue eyes looked to the two older boys as they looked to each other, one amused, one bored and moving his hand as the Shadow-Samos-talked. The taller one laughed, which in turn made Samos look and scold the redhead, but neither teen looked remorseful at all despite their apologies.
He'd seen people interact like that before-his friends from the village, his dad and Sig, and now the two older boys-and decided then and there as he said goodbye to the them that he was going to find a friend like that, and swap laughter like they did.
16: Music:
Daxter lugged another box into his room, burnt orange iPod blaring Florence and the Machine. He sang along-quite loudly, actually-as he unpacked his stuff, running smack-dab into a muscular chest as he walked toward the main room again. The blond blinked down at him and apologized, pulling a headphone out of his own ear. Dax paused his iPod for a moment to accept the apology-holy Precursors, the guy was tall!-and introduce himself ("Hi, I'm Daxter." "Jak. Nice to meet you." "Same here, big guy."), awkward almost-silence overtaking them, save for the strumming of a guitar from Jak's headphones… He grabbed one of the them-neon green, he noted with approval-and put it in, grinning as he heard 'We Are The Waiting Unknown' by Green Day.
"I love this song," he laughed, shaking his head a bit as he handed the earbud back, "Sorry 'bout that, I know you prolly have stuff to unpack too, huh?" And yet the rest of the afternoon found them merely taking the boxes in their rooms instead of unpacking as they should, plopping down on Jak's bed-which, unlike Daxter's, was made neatly-to share their music with each other, oddly comfortable conversation carrying on between the two strangers.
Guys, I'm trying something pretty new for me here: Tessy and Keira. I'm still gonna write tons and tons of J/D, but this chapter, the prompts just called out, 'yuri cuteness~!'-that and I've been reading Yurimm Fairy Tales (so cute! They need a yaoi version tho :\)-so here we are. Fear not if girl-lovin' isn't your thing-this is still mostly a Jaxter collection. Thank you for reading, and also your patience! Also, 15 was an AU in which Daxter is not an ottsel, but they still went on their excellent adventure-just warning you so as to avoid confusion! Music is loosely based on sillynekorob's story Room and Board-it gave me the inspiration to write some more, so here I am. ^_^
As always, thank you very much for reading!
Perpetual amity,
~Mel