Roxy, Sollux, and Hal. Third Person Perspective. Mature. Xeno and Android.
"Are you sure this is going to work?"
"Yes."
"You're sure you're sure?"
"Yes RX. I've debugged the code on my machine ten times without any errors. You've looked through it several times now. I even gave both DK and AR skeletons to look over. The code can be inserted without any issues and there aren't any errors and the coding is good. I've studied his schematics enough that I could draw them in my sleep. I think in his algorithms now. Do you know how annoying that is?"
"Okay, if you are sure..." Roxy sighs and relaxes away from the screen. "Thanks for doing this, babe."
"Anything for you, RX."
"Oh my god. I am going to gag if you two start that again." The human and troll look down at where Hal is sitting down against the desk with wires running from the ports just under his ear to the computer.
"Shut up, AR."
"Just get on with it already. I have my backup on Roxy's server in case shithead screws something up."
"Fine." Sollux presses the enter key. Roxy bats him on the back of the head as he snickers at Hal's body falling over at the unexpected shutdown.
Data transfer complete.
Rebooting...
Checking for errors...
No errors found...
Proceed wiith iin2tallatiion?
Yes.
Pha2e two iin2tallatiion iiniitiiated.
Pha2e two iin2tallatiion iin progre22...
Pha2e two iin2tallatiion complete.
Checking for error2...
No error2 found.
Proceed wiith 2tart up?
Fuck you, Sollux.
Unknown command.
Proceed with start up?
Yes.
"Hal? Can you hear me, Hal?"
"Good morning, snookums. And a healthy fuck you to you, Sollux."
"Hehe."
"Sollux?"
"He had some cute code thrown in. Don't worry about it."
"Alright... So how do you feel?"
"All systems are green. At least internally. Seems like your matesprit might be competent with coding after all."
"Hal."
"I'll play nice," Hal promises as he pushes himself up off the ground. "Motor functions are functional and running as smooth as a well oiled machine."
"See. I told you it would work."
"No. We haven't proven that yet. So far we just know that you haven't fucked up. Congratulations, you have bested Karkat at coding."
"Fuck you."
"We're getting to that." Hal turns to Roxy. "In fact, would you like to test the sensation functions, my dear?"
"What? Now?" Roxy's cheeks turn pink at the suggestion.
"I'm not talking about going straight through the whole shebang and dive head first into the grand finale. I was thinking baby steps and starting with a kiss," Hal explains.
"Oh. I can do that." She throws her arms around Hal's shoulders and pulls herself up to her toes, placing a gentle kiss onto his lips.
Hal feels the pressure first. Skin against rubber. He feels the heat next. Precise to the body temperature pulsing in her veins. And then he feels a buzzing warmth that is unrelated to temperature. Unrelated to any actual physical sensation. The only way he can describe it is that it feels good. It's pleasurable. It's pleasure.
With a gasp he breaks the kiss early.
"What? Are you okay? Is everything alright?" Roxy pulls back far enough to look at his face as if the answers are there.
"You did it." He pulls her back into another kiss. "It worked." Kiss. "This is..." Kiss. "Fantastic!" He dips her low and kisses her around her giggles.
"I told you so."
Hal stands Roxy up and grabs Sollux before the troll can slip away and dips him as well, catching his lips in sputtering kiss. The pleasure is slightly different. Hal has a hard time categorizing or even qualifying them but there are definitely differences between kissing Roxy and kissing Sollux.
After an appropriately inappropriate amount of time, Hal stands Sollux back up and releases him. All three, human, troll, and android, are smiling brightly at each other.
"I think this calls for a celebration!"
The greasy pizza is a flavorful explosion in Sollux's mouth. He closes his eyes and moans at the wonderful flavors. The hot melted cheese mixes with the bright juicy bite of pineapple and chewy texture of ham.
"It's like he's never had a pizza before."
Sollux rolls his eyes at the android even as Roxy laughs with him.
"He's never had Hawaiian before. Though I think we've found a new favorite. I've only heard that kind of noise a couple times before, but never outside of the bedroom."
Sollux enjoys the delicious food in front of him and pointedly ignores his matesprit and her boyfriend.
The pizza parlor is modeled after an old arcade and actually still has some of the games lining the walls. It is a nice casual place suited to their tastes. Well, at least the pizza suits Roxy and Sollux. Hal doesn't eat, but he still enjoys being part of the date. Especially with the way that Roxy has been holding his hand and the fuzzy feelings such a simple action produces.
Even if Hal would never say it to his face, Sollux really outdid himself with the coding. There is a difference between touching Roxy and touching something else like a door handle or even another person. There is even a difference in the type of fuzzy feeling between Roxy and Sollux. And then there is the attention of detail to the intensity of fuzzy feelings. Just holding hands is a much softer sensation than kissing. Hal is eager to experience the higher levels but Roxy had called for a date. So here they are at the pizza parlor with plans to go mini-golfing afterwards.
"Is there anything else I can get anyone?" the waitress asks as she stops by the table.
"I think we are good food-wise, but can we go ahead and get the check?" Roxy answers.
"Sure thing. Um... separate checks?"
"No. I got it," Hal offers.
"Okay. I'll be right back then."
"Hal, why are you getting dinner? You didn't eat anything," Roxy inquires.
"Well, a lady should never pay for her meal-"
"That's sexist," Roxy emphasizes with a punch to his shoulder. Hal records the fuzzy sensation that is definitely pain, making a note to explore that further, as he continues.
"-and if Sollux covers the check then he gets a discount on the date since I don't eat."
"You do remember that we are all rich enough that money doesn't matter and won't matter and wouldn't matter ever even if we didn't have jobs that paid well."
"It's the thought that counts."
Sollux finally responds to the conversation with a snort at the statement.
Sollux manages to sneak away from where Hal is distracting Roxy with some statue at the entrance to the mini-golf course and purchases three games.
"Guys! I am completely capable of buying stuff myself!"
"Not when you are around us, Princess."
"Well, I'm not opposed to that. Matesprits are equals. But I couldn't have Tin Can one upping me."
"You guys are going to drive me crazy," Roxy sighs. "And not in the good way!"
"We'll get to fixing that tonight."
They head outside to start their games. Hal and Sollux maintain a stream of pithy comments about the cheesy decorations that line the paths and laughable geometries of the courses. Well, until they stop making hole in ones on every course. Hal falls silent to check his algorithms and curses the random hidden bumps that screw up his calculated shot. Sollux faces similar issues but Roxy interrupts him whenever she hears the telltale crackles of psionics.
Sympathetic to both of their plights, she bribes them to continue with kisses after each hole, until at they finally tally up the scores after losing their balls down the eighteenth hole. Sollux and Hal tied at thirty-six which is far below par but double Roxy's perfect game. They don't even argue the result besides the two agreeing that it's Lalonde witchcraft under their breath.
As Sollux pushes the elevator buttons, Hal takes his advantage and pulls Roxy in close by her waist. She giggles happily as she leans back against his cpu-warmed torso. His arms came up around her as he bends down a little to kiss the side of her neck, closing his eyes against the fuzzy feelings the simple act brings him. As the elevator moves upward, he feels a pair of hands on his own waist. He opens his eyes just slightly to see Roxy kissing Sollux. He smiles against the curve of her shoulder.
Sollux only pulls away when the elevator gets to their floor. Roxy takes a half step after him before being swept off her feet, tumbling into Hal's arms with giggles. Sollux glances back at them only to roll his eyes.
"You know I could carry you, Sollux, if you are feeling jealous."
"Actually I'm pretty sure I could too!" Roxy adds with a stolen breath between rounds of giggles.
"Yea, yea, laugh it up," Sollux tries to brush it off, but the other two catch his amused smile as he unlocks the front door. He turns and blocks the entrance as they approach. "No entrance until toll is paid."
"What's the toll because I really don't want to reenact the Black Knight scene. You have neither the correct outfit nor the correct blood color for authenticity. And we aren't in the middle of a medieval english forest. And Roxy would not make a good Patsy to my Arthur. I don't even have the right costume. If anything, I am closer to being the Black Knight with my black tee shirt, but I don't bleed. I would be able to get all of the lines out before succumbing to death though. Roxy, can we pick up a couple gallons of fake red blood?"
"What sort of sweet sickbilge is he spewing, Roxy?"
"Aye dee kay. It's just Hal. So what do we owe you?"
"A kiss." He leans over and takes one from Roxy while she is still in Hal's arms.
"Cool, now get out of the way. I mean, I could hold her up forever because I am just that awesome. And also an android, but I'm leading with the awesome reason first because the android one is kinda obvious. But either way you are still not moving. Why?"
"Why the fuck do you talk so much? Wait. Are you nervous?" Sollux teases.
"Nervous? What the fuck would I be nervous about? I have the woman of my dreams in my arms and the troll of my lamest nightmares in front of me. I don't know if androids can even feel nervousness and that's not even calculating in the fact that I am a Strider and Strider's don't get nervous so fuck that noise."
"Hal? Sweetie?"
"Yes, Princess?"
"You are nervously rambling. It's alright. Just pay your toll."
"Oh."
Sollux smirks as he leans in and presses his lips against Hal's complete with excess giggles from Roxy who is trapped between them. Entrance is finally granted and encouraged as Sollux grabs Hal by his shirt and drags him into the apartment, leading him all the way to the bedroom with Roxy squealing and clinging to Hal. As Sollux pauses to close both sets of door with psionics, Hal finally lets Roxy down.
"I'm gonna go get myself comfy," she announces as she dances over to the bathroom. "Play nice," comes from behind closing doors.
"She means she's going to get sexy."
"I know what she means," Sollux replies with a heavy roll of his eyes.
"Why don't you get 'comfy' for me?" Hal smirks.
"Because I hate you." He silences Hal's next comment with a rough kiss, digging his fangs against Hal's lips. He pulls away with a light pop.
"Ow," Hal complains. "Wait. Ow."
"Can't have pleasure without pain," Sollux smirks back at Hal. "So what do you think?"
"You are brilliant."
"Oh." The statement catches him off guard. Sollux was expecting a snarky or witty response. Not obvious sincerity.
"For a rival, you are a good one. Not that I would allow my rival to be lame. Nor would I let my girlfriend's matesprit be anything less than stellar at nearly everything he does. That said, I still have to get you to make a better firewall. It still only take me a handful of microns to get into your system. I want something that I can stick my metaphorical teeth into and chew on it for at least thirty seconds. And it would be nearly orgasmic to get something that lasted a minute. God that would be nice. Hot AI problems though. Being a supercomputer sucks sometimes. There are only so many ways to rearrange your dirty alien porn before I get bor-" Hal's mouth drops open to interrupt himself as a shock of pleasurable code floods his system. It even takes him a couple seconds to register the subtle crackle of psionics and where the pleasure is stemming from on his chassis. He feels phantom pressure against his crotch and two pinpricks across his chest where he would have had nipples had Dirk built him with them. But like a Ken doll, he was perfectly smooth underneath his shirt and jeans. Then just as quickly as the pressure and subsequent pleasure was applied, they disappear.
"What the everloving fuck was that?" Hal gasps as the fuzzy pleasure feels slowly dissipate and allow the return of routine processes.
"Do you know what erogenous zones are?"
"Duh. Oh... Oh fuck."
He is still processing the realization when bands of psionic energy wrap around his wrists, ankles, neck, and torso and lift him off the ground. He is drifted backwards until he is pinned against the bedroom wall. A quick test proves that he has no motion; Sollux is very effective in his bindings.
The bathroom door opens and Roxy comes out. Sollux smiles appreciatively at her lack of clothes. Swinging her hips, she saunters over to Sollux, putting on a show for Hal. She reaches up and cups Sollux's face before leaning in for a sweet kiss. She circles around him, lifting herself up on her toes to murmur, "You just keep doing your thing," into his ear.
Sollux grins and resettles his gaze on the trapped android.
Hal gasps as the phantom pressure reappears against his body. The sensation is just as sharp but now that he is expecting it, Hal's systems don't automatically overload and he can actually pay attention. The energy patterns seem to be formed into shapes resembling fingers that stroke the surface of Hal's chassis, pushing against the pressure points in those areas that would correspond to certain features he would have if he had been organic. The way that pleasure floods his circuits, it almost makes him believe he is.
The psionic caresses are sustained even as Roxy begins to undress Sollux. She pulls the fabric of his shirt up his sides until he finally has to help her maneuver it over his shoulders. Her hands return to his body even as the fabric settles on the floor. She presses her bare chest against his bare back and lays kisses against his exposed shoulder blades. Her hands flit around to the front of his hips, following the line of his waistband. With a flick of her wrist, the button is undone and the pants begin to sag. She makes quick work of the zipper, letting the pants fall away entirely. Sollux steps out of and kicks away the article of clothing as Roxy's hands press themselves against the boxer briefs that cling to his thighs and waist.
Hal watches through the haze of synthetic pleasure how Roxy outlines Sollux's bulge beneath the thin fabric. He watches how the shape coils and pushes back against her fingers, slowly dampening the front. He lets out a low moan as Sollux uses his psionics to mirror the way Roxy is touching him.
Roxy moves to slip her thumbs inside of the waistband and slowly sinks down, pulling the briefs with her. She drags her hands back up the sides of his legs up to his waist. She slides them forward and encircles the base of his bulge with one hand and gently slides her other hand farther back along the edges of nook. Sollux's body shudders at the simultaneous sensations, but maintains his concentration enough to keep Hal pinned, even if the delicate touches do become more erratic.
Gently Roxy pulls him to the bed, moving around to his front so that she can guide him to the edge. He scoots up the bed and rests on the pillows. Roxy crawls up after him, dipping down to place kisses along his legs, hips, torso, chest, shoulders, neck, until she finally reaches his lips. She throws one leg over his hips and together they groan as his bulge brushes against her wetness. An echoing moan comes from the far side of the room.
Roxy glances behind her and smiles as Hal even as she reaches down and strokes Sollux's bulge to a position she can sink down on. She shivers at the tip flicks eagerly at her entrance. With a sigh she lowers her hips, letting Sollux slip inside with equally happy sounds emanating from him. She pauses for a moment when they are flush to relish the sensation of being full. When she feels the bulge start to wriggle inside of her, she lifts her hips and sets a bouncing pace. Sollux's yellowish natural secretions mix with her own wetness to provide a slickness that assists with the pleasurable movement. Roxy braces her hands on Sollux's chest as she rocks her hips. Sollux matches her pattern with upward thrusts and coiling ripples through his bulge. Hal watches at the appendage disappears into Roxy when she drops down and reappears when she rolls upwards.
Roxy leans down and kisses Sollux as she slowly builds up speed. Her breath is choppy and paired up with her moans. Sollux's hands come up and cup her breasts, thumbing her nipples which sends shudders through her body and makes her tighten up on him. Gently, he bites her lower lip when she tries to pull away from him, keeping her arched over him. While the psionic bindings are easy to maintain, the caresses across Hal's body become sporadic but still draw the occasional moan and gasp from Hal.
"Please," Roxy murmurs into Sollux's ear as a particular touch draws a keen from Hal.
"Yea, okay." Sollux closes his eyes to concentrate to pull Hal away from the wall and set him on the floor without dropping him. He gently draws him to the bed with a steady push against his back until Hal is crawling up the bed as well. He situates himself behind Roxy, straddling Sollux's thighs. His hands go to her hips and she moans at the additional contact. She leans back into him, finally released by Sollux to do so. Her hips still grind down onto Sollux as she turns her head to kiss Hal. His metallic but warm fingers slide down her pelvis and brush against the wisp of blonde hair there. Sollux can't draw his gaze away from where Hal reaches down to rub circles around her clit which cause her body to send reactions directly to his bulge.
Warm, happy, fuzzy feelings swamp Hal's circuits as he touches Roxy and hears she moaning get higher pitched in between her stuttering breathing. He rocks along with her body to the pacing set by Sollux's thrusts, aiding in her failing movements.
"Feels good, doesn't it, babe? You are so amazing like this, Roxy. I love you," Hal murmurs to her.
"Hal. Sollux. I love you. God I love you both. So much. So damn much. Oh! Sol... Hal..."
"Will you come for us, RX? Will you come on my bulge and HL's fingers? We love you, Roxy."
Roxy's body arches up, pressing against Hal. Tensing and tightening up on Sollux, she cries out as her orgasm swamps through her body like a tidal wave. Both Sollux and Hal hold her tight as she rides it out.
Eventually her body relaxes and she slumps down in Hal's arms. She lets out a gasp as Sollux's still aroused bulge twitches inside of her. Hal gently lifts her up and she whines as the bulge slides out of her. Hal gently lays her on the bed next to Sollux to recover. Sollux wraps an arm around her, drawing her close for more kisses as Hal reaches down to wrap his hand around his bulge as he had seen Roxy do earlier. Sollux lets out small sounds to match the different movements that Hal tries out. He slides his palm up and down along the length, flexes his fingers at different pressures, feels the blood rushing through the flexible organ. His hand becomes slick with pale yellow. His other one gently strokes the troll's hip and thigh, encouraging touches that make Sollux react on each pass. He dips down lower each time, coming closer to the base of the bulge until he passes it and slides along the soft and wet edges of his nook.
With a keening gasp, Sollux spreads his legs as far as he can do while still under Hal. The android takes this as an invitation and gently presses his exploring fingers into him.
"Fuck yes. Shit, hell, fuck, yes. Hal, please, touch, don't stop. RX, Roxy. Fuck. HL, Hal," Sollus spills jumbled nonsense as Hal slides two fingers in and out of the tight channel. Hal watches his reactions, fascinated with the way Sollux arches against the bed even as Roxy gently strokes his chest and lays gentle kisses along his collarbone and shoulder. Again, a different kind of sensation tries to cloud his functions. He tries to categorize the subtle discrepancies between when he touches Roxy and when he touches Sollux but his system is too flooded to be of much use.
Hal feels Sollux's bulge tense and his nook tighten so he applies the techniques that he found to elicit the best responses and is rewarded with a low groan as Sollux loses himself to the pleasure.
Hal pulls his fingers back when Sollux's nook relaxes its grip on him and gives his bulge one last stroke before wiping his hands on his jeans. He makes a mental reminder to do laundry later. Roxy giggles at Sollux's heavy panting.
"Well, I think that went better than my calculations predicted."
"Oh Hally, we aren't done yet." With semi-lethargic movement, Roxy sits up pulling on Hal's shirt to get him to lean over. Their lips meet in a clumsy kiss. She breaks it a moment later with laughter, falling back on the bed and pulling him down with her. He has to catch himself over her to keep from crushing her. He's only balanced for a moment before hands are on his back pulling him into the spot where Sollux had been lying previously. Hal allows himself to be maneuvered until both human and troll are grinning wickedly down at him.
"Um," he tries to begin just before the two start pulling at his clothes. Roxy manages to wrestle his shirt over his head and Sollux gets his pants off. The dark seems of his joints are almost highlighted against the pale matte plates of his chassis. But Roxy and Sollux only look over his naked form briefly before applying their hands against him.
Hal groans as the flood of fuzzy feeling comes back just as their touches along his arms, shoulders, outside thighs, and loosely across his torso. He seizes up when for the first time, flesh brushes up against those erogenous zones instead of psionics. The pleasure sensations spike up into another level that Hal didn't know was possible as two sets of hands touch him. His own limbs are paralyzed by the lack of computing power left after trying handle the new coding. It is amazing.
When Hal vaguely recognizes someone laughing at him, he realizes he might have said that last statement out loud. He doesn't care much as long as they keep touching him. Another set of giggles accompany that statement. He can barely feel their fingers touching him, touching his chest and crotch. All he knows is that if the pleasure keeps building up in his system that he'll crash. He briefly realizes that's probably the point of the exercise before all cognitive thoughts are swept away. He can barely control his lips enough to form their names.
And then he shuts down.
"Sollux, is that supposed to happen?"
"Yes. He'll be fine. He'll reboot in a minute or so."
"Okay." She pulls her matesprit into a kiss over her unconscious boyfriend. "Thanks. This was wonderful. Ultra wonderful. Incredible and amazing. I'm so happy right now."
"I'm glad. And happy too. It does seem to be working out. But I really need a shower now."
"So do I. Go ahead and start one and I'll wait for Hal to wake up."
"Alright. I love you, Roxy."
"I love you too, Sollux."
"I love both of you guys so fucking much," Hal chimes in from below.
A/N: I want to do a quick shout out to tumblr users auto-responding and wixxards for being great inspiration for my Roxy and Hal. They are adorable.
Also, this is my second to last story planned for In Between. I'll probably mark it as complete but I will be open to adding stories from prompts if anyone sends me anything. It's been fun writing these, but I am kinda glad they are almost over, I have too many projects going on and I'm not a supercomputer. Anyways, I love you guys for reading this far! Thanks!