I was away with my bf so Triple update!
prompt - Dancing
It's Izo's birthday, and aboard the Moby Dick birthday's are always celebrated. Izo's theme Ballroom dancing. Ace doesn't know how luckily; he has Marco to teach him.'
"Izo I don't know how to Ballroom Dance! I'm not old like you people!" Ace shouted at the Cross dresser who was rummaging through the closet for one of the three ball gowns he had, slowly getting angry at the fire starter. Couldn't Izo get it he hated formal dancing and didn't know how to.
"Honestly Ace I have told you! What, like three times now? You DO NOT have to ballroom dance because not everyone is going to! Besides that was the nurses idea." Izo was nearly shouting in Ace's face at this point, but as always the fire user persisted.
"But Izo! That's the theme!"
"Get Marco to teach you. Aren't you to items or something." At Izo's words Ace had bolted up and passed the fuming Izo and to his and Marco's shared room. "Geez, now green or lavender? OH, or this pink."
"Marco! Marco? Are you in here?" Ace shouted as he ran into the room to see his older lover on the bed reading a book. Marco looked up, stoic, bored face still in place, but he wore a gentle smile when he looked at the young man before him.
"Hey love, what's wrong?" Ace just loves how gentle Marco is when it comes him, he treats Ace as if the youth would break if he was too rough.
"Can you Ballroom dance? Can you?" Ace asked looking hopeful; panting from the doorway, because he literally ran the entire way, from one end of the ship to the other and the Moby Dick is a massive ship. Marco on the other hand just stood there, dumbstruck. Yeah, he knew how to ballroom dance - he was that old after all -,but why would Ace need to know? Right, Izo's party how could he forget.
"Yes, Why is it important, yoi?" Marco by now had closed his book, and gotten up to make his way to the young man leaning in the doorway. Pulling Ace in and setting the man on the bed while he seated himself beside the raven he waited for an answer.
"I want to be able to dance with you, at the party tonight but I don't know how." The freckled man admitted letting out a sigh before pouting , Marco found it absolutely adorable. "Will you teach me? Well, at least teach the basics anyway."
"Of course, but pay attention we don't have much time before the festivities will begin yoi." Marco said as he brush Ace's hair out of his face. The later loved when he did that.
"Okay Ace come here. Put your left hand on my shoulder here and bring your right to lace with my fingers here, then bring them up level with you shoulders and stand straight." As Marco was instructing, Ace hung onto every word the blonde spoke. Apparently Marco was teaching him the waltz which seemed simple enough. "The waltz is known for its three beat count. As we step, we should be able to count 1-2-3, 1-2-3, and so on. Two 3-counts should complete a box." Marco pulled Ace closer and began counting "1-2-3, 1-2-3, let's try without saying the numbers, and we can add turns and such easily once you get the hang of it." Ace simply followed Marco's lead, he rested his head on the taller mans shoulder, and they danced to the sound of soft melodic humming provided by the first division commander.
Ace thought to himself 'Maybe formal dancing isn't so bad?'