Shion shifts a bit in her sleep, slowly starting to wake up. It's odd, she swears that she fell asleep in her room this time, but still she hears the distinct sound of a computer fan next to her.
As the world starts to come in focus she sees nothing but various shades of blue, she also starts to hear Mary and Shelling talking somewhere in the room. Shion rubs her eyes a little and reaches over to the nightstand to grab her glasses. It takes a moment of tired fumbling before she can grab them and put them on, as she does her vision sharpens.
The big blue blob she's laying next to becomes recognizable as hair, and it's pretty dang easy for her to tell who that hair belongs to. Kos-mos lays quietly on her side next to her, just like last night. Last night...
OH, I almost completely forgot what happened last night!
The disorienting feeling of just waking up leaves Shion with that thought.
Oh... Oh god I kissed Kos-mos, and then I fell asleep with her. What did Mary and Shelley think when they came back? Wait when even did they get back? At least we're both dressed... Oh actually Kos-mos is still in full armor, isn't that uncomfortable?
She's pulled out of her thoughts when she notices Kos-mos slowly open her eyes, "good morning, Shion. I do hope that you slept well." Kos-mos shifts and looks a little uncomfortable with her position, she flips over to lie on her stomach instead, laying her head on her pillow between her arms.
"G-good morning Kos-mos... yes I uh, slept well."
"Well good mornin' you two!" Shion lifts her head when she hears Mary call to them, she's just barely visible in the lower part of their room and she appears to be working on curling her hair. "I sure do hope we didn' wake y'all up, we got back pretty late last night."
"Yes the little master insisted on staying up pretty late," Shelley seems a lot more exhausted than her sister, rubbing her eyes as she speaks.
"No, no, you're fine, I didn't hear you at all." Shion does her best to not seem too awkward and embarrassed while speaking, but she still can't help but feel the room is just too hot. "H-hey I think I'm gonna get up and uh, shower now..."
Shion practically jumps out of bed and starts gathering her things, even though Mary and Shelley have gone back to their business she still feels as though everyone's eyes are one her. Back on her bed Kos-mos stretches in an almost cat-like fashion, resulting in a few metallic sounding cracks from her spine. Shion didn't even know Kos-mos needed to stretch, although after what happened on Michtam she guesses that it only makes sense for her to act a bit more human.
"Would you like me to wait out here for you, Shion?"
"Yeah, I shouldn't be too long." Shion only gives a brief glance back at Kos-mos before she makes her way over to the bathroom, "once I'm done I guess we should also head out and actually plan on what we're doing next. In the meantime though, you can just relax."
Shion feels a bit better now that she's away from the others, she sets out her change of clothes and a clean towel then continues following her regular schedule in an almost robotic matter. She takes off her glasses and her attention is pulled back to the other room when she hears her friends laughing. It's muffled but she can definitely tell Mary and Shelley are talking with Kos-mos about something.
Shion considers just letting it go and just showering... For all of two seconds...
Letting curiosity get the better of her Shion quietly steps a bit closer to the door, leaning her ear right next to it.
"-on what were you two REALLY doing last night?" Shion hears Mary pester (she assumes) Kos-mos through the door. Shelley seems to say something afterwards, but she's a bit too quiet and she can't really pick apart what it is.
"I have already told you, Shion simply wanted to talk with me privately and so we did. The specifics of our night does not matter to you."
"Hahaha oh come on, we've seen how you two act together enough to know that's not all."
"Well why don't you simply continue believing whatever you wish then?"
Shion backs away from the door rolling her eyes, oh jeeze Mary... She continues to listen to Mary bother Kos-mos in the other room while she goes right back to cleaning up.
Kos-mos sits on the edge of Shion's bed, the only sound coming from the shower in the other room. After about a few minutes Shelley had decided her sister had enough gossip for the day, and practically dragged her out of the room.
I suppose I simply could have told her what happened, but I think I would rather have Shion be the one to do so.
Is that even a logical decision? She doesn't know. While she had begun to have slight thoughts like the ones now during the time just before Mary's awakening, they'd never been quite like this. They were very emotional thoughts that seemed to conflict so hard with what her logical drive was telling her, and it just left her feeling worn out and like she was going to overheat.
"T-elos? Are you awake?"
Silence answers her question, she can only assume T-elos is still asleep in her mind. The time she spends by herself is grating, Kos-mos has been alone plenty of times in the past however after having already gone so long with only herself and occasionally Chaos it's become less bearable.
"HEY, KOS-MOS?"
Her head jolts up at the sound of Shion from the bathroom, and she then hastily makes her way over to the panel by the door and switches on the communication device. "Yes, Shion, is there something you need?"
"Yeah, um... I'm sorry, but I completely forgot the other night I told Allen we'd go test out your combat systems today. But of course you're not where you'd normally be, so he's probably a bit confused now..."
"Oh, I see. Would you like me to call him and tell him to come here then?"
"Well sort of... I would just do it myself if that were it I'd just call him myself, but uhh... Listen, Kos-mos, Allen really REALLY thought me and him were gonna ummm..."
"I think I see where you are going with this."
"Yes, and if I had any idea what I'd say to him as to why you slept here with me I would, but..."
"Understood, I will go easy on him."
"Thanks Kossy." Shion's last word only just barely gets out before Kos-mos hangs up and makes her way back to the bed, grabbing Shion's communication device. She then nearly drops it as her body shivers just a bit.
"Oh good, you're awake."
"T-elos?" She immediately recognizes the voice of her companion.
"Hey you really have to warn me before you go and make out like that, had I known I was going to have to be part of that I would've gone to sleep earlier." First thing in the morning and already T-elos is snapping at her.
"I would not really consider that 'making out'" Kos-mos mutters under her breath, "anyway I had assumed that you would have gone to sleep after me and Shion left to talk. Seeing as that was supposed to be a private conversation."
"O-oh, yeah, well..." T-elos' voice seems to shrink at Kos-mos' accusatory tone, losing all the spite she had earlier. "Well, that's not important right now. Anyway don't you have other things to attend to?"
"Oh, yes I do." Kos-mos hurries and calls up Allen's number, embarrassed that she let T-elos distract her in the first place.
"Hey chief." Allen picks up rather quickly, and his voice comes through the device almost instantly.
"Actually it is Kos-mos, Shion is a bit busy at the moment." Shion herself actually comes out of the bathroom as she says that, but she then goes to blow drying her hair near where Mary was curling her hair earlier.
"Oh! well uh... Hi Kos-mos. Where have you been?"
"I am here in the girls room with Shion, actually that is why I am calling, Shion needs you to come up here to discuss what we are going to do."
"Okay, but uuuh, what were you doing up there? The professor said you never came down to your pod."
Kos-mos had planned to tell Allen that Shion wanted her to feel more human by sleeping in a bed, but she's overcome by an odd feeling. It felt as though her physical form starts to get distant as she's forced to the back of her mind by something... No... More like someone.
"I FUCKED SHION!" T-elos yells out in Kos-mos' voice. Allen doesn't get another word in as she hangs up on him and drops the phone.
"KOS-MOS!"
Kos-mos is then shoved back to her physical body only to immediately begin blushing, her inner systems feel like they may melt due to the intense heat. She's stuck with a very confused and flustered Shion she can't explain the situation to as T-elos howls with laughter in her mind.
Shion sighs, "well... Well... I suppose you sort of did what I asked you. And maybe the 'ripping it off like a bandaid' approach was for the best, but..." Kos-mos slowly turns to look at Shion who just looks... Disappointed. "I just really wish you wouldn't have said it like that... I mean he's going to come up here now and I'm going to have to explain to him that we didn't actually... Like if you really wanted to tell him that we kissed that'd be fine, but like.. You weren't even telling the truth."
Kos-mos briskly follows behind Shion and Allen toward the cargo bay of the elsa, still just a little frazzled from their shenanigans earlier. Shion had to explain to Allen that they did NOT in fact fuck and that Kos-mos was just goofing around with him. There's still a bit of awkward silence, though, before they finally reach the cargo bay.
"Alright then," Shion proclaims, stopping her two companions. "It may be a little hard to test everything out in such a confined space, but it's important that we make sure everything is working properly."
Kos-mos watches and listens diligently as Shion goes over every system they must go over, some targets they have to set up to properly test them, and a reminder to not use too much of a high power output so the ship isn't wrecked. Kos-mos feels calm and warm as she listens to Shion talk, and though she's still getting a grasp on her emotions this feeling is not new to her.
She feels herself pulled back from her thoughts as Shion places her hand on Kos-mos' shoulder. "Are you ready to start, Kos-mos?" Shion displays a soft smile as she speaks to her, and Kos-mos does her best to give Shion a smile back as she answers.
"Yes, I am ready to start whenever you are."
It's a simple answer, but Shion seems pleased with it as her and Allen go to set up a few targets for Kos-mos. Kos-mos decides to take a seat on an empty crate while watching them.
"So, what are we doing today lovebird?" A familiar chill crawls up her spine as T-elos' voice echoes through her mind.
Just some weapons tests and then we are heading down to the planet's surface. Kos-mos decides not to speak out loud, as she figures T-elos could hear her anyway. Not to mention it would raise some questions from Shion and Allen if she suddenly started talking to herself.
T-elos gives a simple grunt to signify she understood, but doesn't make a move to speak again. With their short conversation over Kos-mos shifts her attention back to Allen and Shion, mostly the later though. It looks like Shion is going over a list to Allen right now, pointing off to some targets occasionally.
You know T-elos, your joke was not that funny to me when you first did it. However after seeing Allen's face it was just a bit funny.
"Haha yeah he looked like he was going to pass out!" Kos-mos finds herself smiling along with T-elos' laughter,
"Okay Kos-mos we're all set up, come on over!"
Shion looks up from her list to smile at Kos-mos as she makes her way over, T-elos mockingly makes a little kissing sounds which Kos-mos barely resists the urge to roll her eyes at. "Alright to start us off I think it's pretty important that we make sure your hilbert effect still works properly. Care to give us a little demonstration?"
"Of course, Shion." Kos-mos takes a few steps away from the others, and a visor (similar to her first one) slips down to cover her eyes. Although she worries she may be a little rusty after so much time, the familiar feeling of her combat system switching on washes that away and a blue light is emitted around her as the hilbert effect activates.