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Red bursts into security, Purple practically jumps out of their own skin before realizing it's just red.
"Happy Valentine's day purpssss!!!!!" Red quickly shoved a bag of candy and balloon into purples hands.
Purple didn't even know how or where they got that balloon.
They would've had to bring them on the skeld themself.
Purple just looked at them with surprise. Red seemed so proud of themself. Purple still hated reds guts, at least, they tried to hate them.
"Thanks red," purple said, giving them a hesitant smile.
"I'm sorry I don't have anything for you" purple continued.
Red pat purple on the head "it's no biggie!"
"You tend to say that when it is a biggie red"
"Uh- no I don't" Red said defensively, crossing their arms and trying to appear more mighty than they actually were.
Purple snickered and set the gifts on their desk gently.
"Im pretty sure you do"
"No!"
"Yes"
"It's part of my captainly duties purps, I can't have the crew freaking out"
Purple rolled their eyes and groaned
That line alone ruined the mood.
No matter what happened and no matter what mira did red remained a bootlicker stooge. Even if mira cut corners on important things, even if mira didn't pay them well, even if mira sent them on a ship with alien eggs, they were still gonna worry about their captain position that mira gave them.
"When we get back to industria without the ore+ you're not gonna be captain very long" purple mumbled.
Red tried to laugh it off but now there was a painfully obvious tension in the air.
"Yeah yeah I guess you're right" red tried their best to keep on smiling.
They waited for purples response, which never came.
They sat in silence for a good 30 seconds.
Purple always did this.
"Why do you do this? Can't we have a decent moment?"
Red asked a question they already knew the answer to.
"Y'know exactly why we can't red. As long as you keep being a bootlicker for Mira we won't be having nice moments!"
Purple grabbed red's shoulders and started moving them out of the room.
"Purple come on!"
Red tried to stop themselves from getting pushed out of security but overall they got shoved out and a door in their face.
That escalated way faster than it should've.
Red sighed and put their hands over their face. They look at the door contemplating if they should go back in. They decide not to and walk back to navigation.
There's no way that would end well.
Purple plopped back into their chair, spinning around in it. They felt the tears start to sting at their eyes. God they hated this.
They still really really really cared about red, they wish red had never signed that NDA. Or they wish they could just forgive and forget, but they simply just weren't that type of person.
Purple sniffled, wiping the tears streaming down their face. They hated this feeling so much.
If there was one thing they hated more than mira,
It was feeling like this.
All they wanted was for everything to go back the way it was. Before the accident. Hell even before they met red.
It was all just a big jumbled mess ever since their internship together.
Purple felt like garbage, they held their knees to their chest and turned the chair back around to face the computer. They slowly checked each camera.
They still had a job to do.
The job that red gave them.
The job that still puts them under mira.
Red was sitting in navigation, the ship was on autopilot so they were just leaning back in their chair. Thinking.
They dug themselves a hole signing that NDA, and everything after that just made the hole deeper. They were so done with pretending that what they did was okay, but they just didn't know how to fix anything.
Everything has gone to shit for awhile, and it seemed way beyond repair.
But red wanted to fix it so bad.
They just had no idea how to.
They groaned and put their hands over their face.
They didn't know what to do.
Maybe they should go ask black and cyan, purple got along with them well.
Purple mindlessly clicked through the cameras again. Peaking on navigation every few minutes. Red was just sitting there staring off into space.
Eventually they got up and left navigation.
Maybe purple should apologize for snapping at them?
No.
Red was the one who needed to apologize.
But,
Purple really couldn't go on like this, go on hating red. Go on arguing with them. Go on with blaming them for everything.
Because when it came down to it red was guilty, but the main issue was mira.
And maybe if purple could show red that mira was god awful maybe...
Things could work out.
Purple didn't want to deal with that disaster right now though. They were too tired to deal with it, they were up way too late last night checking the cameras.
It was only around 4 in the afternoon and they just wanted to sleep.
They probably could...
Purple got up from their chair and started heading to the sleeping quarters. The only person who could have a real issue with it is orange, and purple couldn't care less what orange thinks.
As they slipped out of security they saw blue watching lime work on some wires in the reactor. Lucky for purple blue seemed too enamored with lime to notice them.
Purple snuck around in the hallways trying to avoid everyone, they didn't want anyone questioning why they weren't in security.
And they didn't wanna run into red right now.
As soon as purple saw their room they practically ran in, they quickly but quietly shut their door. Purple sighed as they laid on their bed. They were gonna get scolded later but they really don't care right now.
They tried to think of anything but red. But of course that was all that was on their mind.
Despite that, purple still drifted off fast.
Red was currently walking around the skeld looking for cyan and black. They checked O2 first because it was closest to . To their luck cyan and black were in there, but they were both asleep.
On the floor.
In o2?
What was wrong with everyone on this ship?
Red left as quickly as they arrived. Whatever was happening there wasn't their problem right now.
Red was in the cafeteria now, they were heading to security before yellow shouted out at them to go get the crew because it was dinner time. Red groaned before going to get everyone. They went to medbay and didn't see anyone so they kept walking, they looked in security and found nothing.
Where was purple at?
Red brushed it off for now and looked in the reactor to find blue and lime. Red told them to go to the cafeteria for dinner before walking all the way back to o2 to get cyan and black. They walked down to communications next. Seeing white and green sitting and talking to each other.
Orange was already in the cafeteria before red could even talk to them.
Soon everyone was in the cafeteria but purple.
Red sat alone at one of the tables, with the heart shaped pizza brown and yellow made. They had one paper plate with the pizza in front of them and another in front of the empty seat beside them. They were hoping purple would turn up and sit by them but the whole dinner went by without them showing up.
Soon almost everyone was gone, and yellow and brown were cleaning up. Red went up to yellow and brown.
"Hey uh can I get another slice?"
"Y'know the rules, you only get two slices."
"No- it's not for me, it's for purple, they weren't here and I wanted to bring some to them"
Yellow sighed and handed red another slice.
"You better not be lying to me" yellow said, pointing a finger at red
"I would never!" Red said defensively
"Mhm. Right." Yellow then shut the counter door in red's face. (I think that's what it's called, I low-key have no idea)
Red shouted a thank you before running off to go find purple, they were in none of the rooms on the top floor of the ship which meant they were probably in their room.
Red quickly went to the bottom floor of the ship, skimming over the doors before they saw purples. They stare at it for a minute, hesitantly they knock on the door.
Purple gets woken up to the sound of someone knocking on their door. They reluctantly get up and open the door.
"Orange if you're just gonna write me up can you wait till tomorrow-" purple stops talking as soon as they see red.
Red holds out a plate to purple, it has two slices of pizza on it.
"You weren't there for dinner..." Red looked at the ground.
"Yellow and brown made the pizza heart shaped! Y'know for Valentine's day!" Red put a small smile on their face.
Purple slowly took the plate.
"Thanks red"
There was a moment of silence between them.
"Can we talk?" Red's voice was soft.
Purple just nodded before opening the door all the way to let red in.
Purple gently closed the door behind red once they stepped in, purple sat on their bed putting the spot next to them. Red quickly sat beside purple.
"Im.."
It took a minute for red to spit the words out.
"I'm sorry, purps. I'm really really sorry."
Purple froze. They set the plate on their night stand and turned to face red all the way.
"Do you really mean that?" Purple questioned.
Red nodded "of course I mean it purps. Signing that NDA-" red felt like they were about to cry. "It was the worst decision I've ever made."
Purple just stared at red for a moment. They didn't know what to say.
"I- Purple I miss you terribly, I know I messed up, and you shouldn't forgive me right now or really ever. But I just-"
"I want to try to fix it, if you'll let me" red was tearing up really bad now.
"Red you have a lot to make up for. But I want you to make up for it- I want things to get better. I've missed you a lot." Purple moved a little closer to red.
"When we get to industria- please-... Please don't keep working with mira. Please don't help them cover up the alien stuff. Please just..."
"I don't want us to get separated again so please stay with me."
Purple gently takes one of Red's hands.
Red nods.
"I'll stay with you, purps."
Red sniffles and they use their free hand to wipe their eyes. Purple scooted closer again, knee touching reds. They hold reds face with their free hand and gently wipe their tears with their thumb.
Red swallows hard. Purple hadn't been this close in a long long time.
They both just stare at each other. It was hard to look each other in the eye since everything had happened but right now it felt easier. Everything felt a lot easier.
It was dead silent in the room right now but it didn't feel awkward like every other time before, it kinda felt like when they were interns.
When they would hide in the storage closet and eat stolen pizza crusts together, laughing and holding each other's hands.
Purple looks down at red's hand in their own before looking back at red's face. They tilt their head slightly, just observing each part of red's face. Nothing had changed since they were interns. They were still the same old red.
"You still look the same as when we were interns" purple let out a small laugh, smiling somberly.
Red smiled, tears still falling down their cheeks. Purple let go of reds hand, both hands holding reds face now. Red put their hands on top of purples.
"You're really pretty purps" it slipped out of Red's mouth before they could even think. Purple mumbled something that red couldn't hear.
Purple leaned forward a bit, nose almost touching reds. Red felt their chest get tight, they leaned into purple. Red put their forehead against purples.
They stayed like that, every movement slow and hesitant, neither of them wanting to overstep any lines. (OH MY GODDDD JUST KISSS ALREADYYYYYY)
Purple knew red wasn't gonna do it, so they did. They leaned forward and pressed their lips against reds.
Red reciprocated the kiss immediately, hands making their way to gently play with purples hair. Purple kissed red until they were breathless.
Purple pulled away for a moment panting.
"Purps.."
"Redsie"
Purple kissed red again this time more desperate. They were trying to make up for all the lost time in-between them and red. Purple leaned red on their back pulling away from the kiss.
"Is this okay?" Purple asked softly.
Red nodded and pulled purple back into a kiss, hands resting on purples backs, gently clutching onto their shirt. Purple gently bit red's lower lip drawing out a soft sound from them.
They pulled away from the kiss again, moving down and pressing small and gentle kisses down red's jaw and neck.
"Purps-" red gripped purples shirt harder. They tilted their head letting purple have more access to their neck. (Are we vampires or something genuinely what are we doing?)
Purple continued kissing up and down their neck, moving their hands up to unbutton the first few buttons of reds shirt. They leaned gentle kisses all the way to reds collar bone.
Purple went back up and kissed red again.
Reds heart was doing flips right now, they had wanted to kiss purple ever since their internship, and after they signed that NDA they thought they would never be able to experience the feeling of being close to purple let alone kissing them.
Red pulled away again, breathing unevenly as they rested their head against purples.
"Can you stay with me tonight redsie?"
"Of course," Red said.
Purple got off of red, carefully laying beside them, red turned onto their side and put their arms around purples waist, burying their face in their chest.
Purple gently took off reds hat and let their hair.
They both stayed like that for a while.
Purple hoped red would keep their word about staying with them.
Red hoped purple would actually let them stay.