Phoenix breathes deeply and allows Gokudera to pull her back against the couch.
"So how did I...you know...?"
Phoenix disliked asking Gokudera for she could see how it affected him, but she had to know.
"You...You drowned."
"I drowned...God I always thought I would go out in a fight. Drowning's just...so...normal!"
"It's not like you could have prevented it. It wasn't a fair fight. You ended up fucking up your legs trying to get out."
"Okay...the dislocated ankle I get and I get the cuts on my right ankle. But how the hell did I manage to cut up the other one? It's not like there was much to cut it on...was there?"
Gokudera paused slightly, he didn't want to let Phoenix know exactly what she did to try and free herself nor did he want to think about it.
"I...I don't know. The chains maybe? Unless that bastard added in sharks when I wasn't looking."
Phoenix raises an eyebrow.
"Sharks? That's your theory?" The girl laughs. "God, it's no wonder I love you."
She sighs as she leans against the boy's shoulder. Gokudera grins at Phoenix's laugh, happy that she isn't pushing him for answers.
"I try." The silver-haired boy laughs and wraps an arm around Phoenix's shoulders, pulling her closer to him. "H-Hey, do you wanna...go...to...my room?"
Gokudera blushes as Phoenix stares at him.
"Really? I die and come back to life and you want sex?" Phoenix laughs as Gokudera's blush deepens. "That's wasn't what I was implying! I just thought...it'd be more comfortable to rest on a bed than on a couch. Really!"
"Of course you weren't." Phoenix smirks and gives the Italian a quick kiss that he readily responds to. "Actually I'm hungry..."
"I'll cook for you once we get you settled in. Sound good?"
The Irish girl's eyes widen slightly, "You can cook?"
"Of course I can cook! What kind of man would I be if I couldn't?"
"So your sister is the only bad cook in the family?"
"Naturally." Gokudera smiles stupidly. "I'm the genius of the family after all." Phoenix merely stares at him with a strange look on her face before laughing. "What are you laughing about! I'm being serious!"
"Do you have any idea how cute that stupid smile of yours is?"
Phoenix kisses her boyfriend, her hand resting against this side of his neck and her thumb slowly moving along his jaw.
"I don't have a stupid smile!" Gokudera pouts slightly but kisses her back anyway.
"You're right. You don't. I apologize."
Phoenix moves closer to Gokudera and kisses him again, smiling as Gokudera pulls her back towards the armrests. The silver-haired teen sits on the armrest, making himself taller than her, and holds Phoenix's hips as he kisses her deeply. Phoenix wraps her arms around his neck and pulls herself up against him, leveling their height again.
"We always end up doing this, don't we?" Phoenix gets as close to Gokudera as she can, all the while kissing him.
"We're hormonal teenagers. Not our fault." Gokudera moves his body closer to Phoenix and his lower regions rub against hers on accident. The friction pulls a soft moan from Gokudera's mouth and he automatically blushes and backs away a little. "I...I didn't mean to...I'm sorry!"
"Hey, we're hormonal teenagers remember?" Phoenix pulls Gokudera closer to her and pecks his lips. "Just don't do it again."
Gokudera hesitantly moves closer to Phoenix, kissing her briefly. "Don't worry, I'd like to stay in one piece."
Phoenix laughs. "At least you've accepted that I'm stronger then you." She kisses the boy quickly.
"One thing I learned is that women should not be fucked with. They'll always win. No matter what."
"Well at least you're learning something." The redhead kisses him again. "I love you, Hayato."
Gokudera looks into Phoenix's eyes and kisses her back. "I love you too, Aydan." He pecks her lips gently. "I always will." The boy presses his forehead against Phoenix's. "So please, don't do anything stupid."
Phoenix closes her eyes as Gokudera rests his forehead against hers and smiles.
"Now what sort of stupid thing do you think I would do?"
"I don't know...making another deal with Reaper?"
"Oh please, you're not still on that are you?" She sits back, unwrapping her arms from his neck. "I already told you, if I have a chance to get you out I am going to take it. And nothing you can say will change that answer."
Gokudera sighs and slips off the armrest so that he is once again sitting on the main part of the couch.
"Why? I don't want you doing stupid shit like that. I'd hate it."
"And I'm going to hate seeing you hurt." Phoenix looks at Gokudera pleadingly. "Please, Hayato, don't ask me to watch that when I had the chance to stop it."
"If you really love me, you won't do something I'd hate. So please..." Gokudera kisses Phoenix. "Don't do it."
The girl smiles as Gokudera kisses her. "And just think...if you got out, you could bring the Vongola here to rescue me." He smile softens as she rests her hand against his cheek. "Hayato, if that ever comes up I'm going to take the deal, and that's because I love you as much as you do me. I love you enough to take your pain."
Gokudera sighs and bites his lip as he thinks about Phoenix's suggestion. "Fine. I'll leave and gather up as many people as I can before coming back for you. But you better not fucking die!"
Phoenix kisses Gokudera lightly, her hand moving from his cheek down to his shoulder.
"That's all I ask. And if anything, this whole experience tells us that if you talk to me I'll come back."
The girl smiles but Gokudera frowns slightly.
"Yeah but, I'd rather not go through that a second time. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let you die again."
"Hey. I'm not going to die again. I promise you." Phoenix hugs Gokudera quickly before pulling back and sitting against the back of the couch. "I just wish I knew who I was waiting for in that room..."
Gokudera bites his lip.
"Should I tell her? No. She might not take it well."
Gokudera moves so that he is sitting beside Phoenix and places an arm around her shoulders.
"Who knows. I'd rather you not know actually. The consequences might be...tragic."
"What do you mean?" Phoenix asks as she leans against Gokudera's shoulder. "I felt like whoever was coming for me was special...but I don't think it would be tragic."
"But what If once you met them you would never come back. What if you wanted to stay, just to be with them? Then, it would be tragic."
"Unless you were with me, I will always come back. Even when I die, I'm still going to love you, Hayato. I'm still going to want to be with you."
"If you die...we'll never be together, Aydan." Gokudera sighs. "Don't you fucking understand! It'll all change if either one of us dies." He hugs the girl next to him tighter. "And I don't want that."
"Hey. If I can make it up there," Phoenix points to the ceiling. "you are definitely getting in." The girl smiles. "Now we just have to make sure to die together."
Gokudera smirks. "We better die together. I wouldn't accept anything else."
Phoenix smiles and kisses Gokudera lightly.
"Of course. We'll die of old age or in a fight right?" She laughs but then becomes serious. "Well...if I do die first, you have to promise me that you won't kill yourself."
"I'd prefer if we died of old age. Like that stupid chick flick. What's it called again...The Textbook or some shit?" Gokudera looks away from Phoenix. "I can't promise you that."
"You mean The Notebook? I personally would like to go out fighting. It just suits me better." Phoenix turns Gokudera's head to make him look at her. "You better promise me that. I'm not going to have your blood on my hands, even my dead hands."
"It won't be on your hands. It'll be on mine. And what's so wrong about dying of old age? It's better in my opinion."
"I just don't want to think about you killing yourself just because I died. I just don't like it." Phoenix looks down at her hands and smiles slightly. "Fighting is just what I like to do, going out kicking ass is just better than dying while hooked up to some machine to me."
"Then we just gotta make sure we're not unhealthy old folks. Although...all this drinking and smoking isn't really ensuring that." Gokudera laughs, feeling his spirit rise as Phoenix laughs along.
"I still think I would rather go out fighting, call it my Irish spirit if you want, but the idea of just taking death seems wrong to me."
"Everyone loses against Death. I'd rather just accept that than lose against an enemy."
"Oh I wouldn't lose, I'd just blow us all up."
Phoenix gives Gokudera a wide grin and there is a crazy look in her eyes that Gokudera has never seen before. He paused for a moment before answering her.
"I guess. If there really was no other option. But we're using my dynamite. It'd get the job done."
Gokudera laughs at Phoenix's expression.
"Okay...Guys and their dynamite."
Phoenix rolls her eyes and Gokudera laughs louder.
"That sounded so wrong."
Gokudera gulps as Phoenix smiles suggestively.
"It was supposed to."
"S-Stop it Aydan. I don't know how much longer I'll be able to control myself..."
The red-haired teen pokes her boyfriend in the chest. "Now you know how I feel when you act that way!"
"B-But...You always say you don't want to."
"Hey, I'm a teenager too, you know. I want it just as much as you do, I just have self-control...unlike some people."
Phoenix gives her European boyfriend a pointed look and the younger teen shoves her playfully.
"Oh shut up. I always thought I did."
Phoenix laughs at the slightly abashed look on her boyfriend's face and lays her head down on his lap, looking up at him as she stretches out her legs.
"You do have better self-control than most guys I know...they have had their hands broken and you haven't."
The girl smiles up as Gokudera and he smirks in return. The silver-haired Italian strokes Phoenix's hair as he responds.
"That's pretty damn merciful. I would've castrated them."
"Well that's 'cause you're my boyfriend. Completely different motivation."
Gokudera's spirit soared as Phoenix called him her boyfriend, he had no idea how much he had been wanting to hear it until that moment.
"Well, I'd hope so. Or I'd be one screwed mofo."
Phoenix laughs as Gokudera grins down at her.
"You are 'one screwed mofo' but you're my screwed mofo, so it's okay. Just try not to kill any guys who look at me, okay?"
"And why exactly can't I?"
"Because I don't want you to kill any guy who looks at me."
Phoenix takes Gokudera's hand and kisses it lightly while thinking.
"And my team is mostly guys."
"But it'd solve so many problems!"
She sits back up and looks at Gokudera. "No."
The Irish girl kisses him and as she thought he would, Gokudera shuts up and kisses her back.
"God, why are you so perfect?" Gokudera asks before kissing her vigorously, he holds Phoenix to him so her answer is muffled against his lips.
"Good breading." Phoenix laughs against his lips and kisses him passionately before pulling back. "Wait."
Gokudera stares at Phoenix for leaving him hanging.
"W-What?"
"You never told me who you thought was coming for me in the white room."
'Fuck.' Gokudera thinks but out loud he says. "I actually don't remember."
He tries to kiss Phoenix again, trying to distract her from her questions. Phoenix pulls away from the silver-haired teen.
"Don't think that simple trick will work on me, Hayato. Come on, what could be so bad that you don't wanna tell me?"
"No I really don't remember."
"Of course you don't." Phoenix gives Gokudera a piercing glare, her crystal-blue eyes boring into his light green eyes. "Hayato, tell me."
"Aydan, I'm serious. I don't remember."
"Fine. No more kisses for you until you tell me."
"W-What? Why! That's not fair Aydan!"
"You want something and I want something. I see nothing unfair in this arrangement."
"But it's not my fault I don't remember." Phoenix merely smiles and raises an eyebrow, waiting for an answer. ""Fine. I thought...What if the person you met was Nicky? Or maybe even your whole family..."