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______THE NIGHT BEFOREHAND_____
lime looked at the doctor who was on their 6th cup of beer, they themselves were only on their 2nd drink and lime was growing increasingly concerned for the doctor, they stopped Midway through their rant about how gremlins obviously we're sabotaging the ship with how much the reactor broke when they saw how truly out of it blue was.
“Big dawg, you good” lime asked tilting their head to the side, that got blues attention who giggled slightly, a hand of theirs twirling a lock of limes hair, limes shoulders tensed at this action,
“Yourrrr” hic “sooo beautiful limeeeee” The drunk doctor said outline, their usual calm and soothing voice was slurred and a little rough, this compliment made lime blush quite a bit, had they been brainwashed of something to look at them and call them beautiful??
“Ya don't mean that big dawg” lime half mumbled, looking away as blush swarmed their cheeks. Blue chuckled, running a hand through their own locs which were let down from their usual tied up state.
“I ain't just saying that my limeeee, you truly are a” hic “you truly are a sight to beholddd” blue giggled to themselves as they leaned more, their voice a partial whisper “especially your armmmsss” blue smiled at lime, lime sputtered to find words, the combination of blue for some reason liking their arms and tte fact they had called them ‘my lime’ was making lime short-circuit’, had the gremlins gotten to blues brain??
“Big dawg did the gremlins get to ya? Ya acting weird!” Lime cupped blues face and took a long look into the doctors eyes, no signs of gremlins.
“Theirrrr jusss drunkkk” a half drunk black called out from near them, drunk? Of course they were drunk, lime felt a little bit like an idiot, the doctor had drunken 6 large cups of beer, of course they would be drunk.
“You drunk big dawg?” Lime questioned slightly as blue giggled, their cheeks were flushed red as lime continued cupping the doctors face in their hand
“Possibly–” the doctor giggled out, lime sighed, they hated being around drunk people, they were so… touchy… lime let go of blues face who slightly stumbled off the chair they were sitting on as they were leaning into limes touch.
“Let's get ya home big dawg, where's your address?” Lime stood up, they found it a little ridiculous that the doctor that had preached safe alcohol consumption was currently piss drunk.
“Heheheeee I forgott to book a hotellll” blue drunkily admited, lime rubbed their temples, how could someone so smart be so stupid at the same time. Whatever lime wasn't going to let blue get taken, especially in their drunken vulnerability, lime didn't like it but they knew what they had to do.
“Get up big dawg were going to mine.” Lime sighed, hopping off their seat leaving their half drunken milkshake on the bar. Lime watched as blue stumbled off the chair, nearly falling, lime caught them with ease. “Be careful would ya big dawg your meant to be the doctor not me” lime grumbled annoyed under their breath, blue giggled at this clinging to the side of limes overalls. Lime sighed as they half dragged blue out of the bar, saying their goodbyes to the others as they left, getting some odd looks from yellow and brown as they did so, damn gossips.
As the two exited the building lime looked up, the heavy smokey clouds covering where the stars would be like a heavy blanket, lime sighed.
“Do you miss them? The stars?” Blue asked, lime flipped their head around quickly, looking at blue still clinging to their side, hiccuping and looking at the sky, even when drunk blue still says the most poetic things.
“Nah big dawg, just got use to seeing ‘em” they patted blues back slightly as they began the slow pace towards limes crappy apartment. The walk there was slow and in relative silence.
“Am I more than my face..?” Blue asked which caught lime off guard.
“What big dawg? Of course ya are, your got a body too!!” Lime said stupidly, blue chuckled slightly as they drunkingly sighed.
“No like, am I more than everyone's expectations, their idea of what I am. I say one thing that aligns with their interests and poof all they see is the hot doctor..” lime stopped walking to process what they were just told, is that what they truly thought, it took a moment for lime to find the right words
“Of course ya more than their expectations, your a crewmates too blue..” lime turned to look at blue only to sleep the doctor drunkily launched over limes pack asleep. Lime sighed as they slowly moved blue and picked them up over their shoulder, carrying them back to the apartment.
Lime swung the apartment door with one arm as they carried a sleeping blue with the other, blue laid them down on the bed inside and contemplated changing the doctors clothes, a deep red etching onto their face, they quickly shook their head the thought of seeing blue in that state especially when drunk made them feel too uneasy, instead they opted to changing themselves. Although they usually went to bed naked lime opted to wearing a pair of crappy pajamas shorts they had in the deep corner of their homemade cupboard, placing the doctors headmirror that had fallen off on-top of it while they were at it.
Lime then looked at the sleeping blue and the slow realisation hit, they didn't have an extra mattress or blanket. Lime rubbed their own temples contemplating on how could they be so so stupid. Lime sighed as they removed their hands from their head looking at the doctor sleeping soundly. Whatever, if they were going to get their organs stolen atleast they would be comfortable.
Lime slowly got into the bed beside blue, making sure not to touch or disturb the drunk doctor as to not wake them up, lime laid down on their side looking at the doctor, even now with their eyebags and messy attire they still looked so beautiful. Lime scowled themselves for thinking at them in that way, they took off their bandana and leaned over blue to put it on the beside table, as they placed it on the table they felt a large grip on their forearm. Lime panicked trying to drag their arm away from the intruder, only to look and see that the crewmates that had a death grip on their arm was none over than the passed out drunk doctor, not wanting to wake up them lime surrounded their arm and was only met with blue moving it under their head like some sort of pillow, lime grumbled under their breath as they blushed at this sudden physical affection. Lime laid back feeling the heat in their face, god lime was going to hell…
______THE NEXT MORNING_____
As lime recounted the events to blue, who lazily hovered over a trashcb after throwing up multiple times, lime watched as blues face grew redder with every single detail.
“I.. said all that…?” Blue wondered out loud,
“Yep big dawg, didn't know if I should tell ya, but I didn't wanna break ya trust like that… plus I ain't no liar” like scoffed slightly,
“Well I appreciate your honest-’ before blue could finished they dipped their head into the trashcan throwing up whatever was left in their stomach, lime patting their back blushing at the compliment.
“It's fine ya didn't mean it, you were drunk-” lime said out loud, it felt stupid to say, degrading to themself, but it was the truth, no one could've thought those thoughts about lime.
“Who said I didn't mean it..” blue replied, still looking away from lime. Were they still a bit drunk? Had the gremlins got to them?
“What…?” Lime asked in absolute confusion, surely they had misheard. They heard blue mumble something about unprofessionalism before they to face lime.
“I meant every word I said, even if I was.. in that state..” blue half mumbled out, limes eyes widened at this.
“HUHHH??” lime said, their voice a little louder than intended which caused a wine from blue “Ah sorry doc, just uh.. what?? What do ya mean by meant those words, ya sure the gremlins didn't get ya??” Lime questioned still confused on how blue could mean those words to THEM out of all people, lime was completely aware that weren't the best looking crewmates out there, but blue definitely WAS, and they liked them???
Blue took a moment before sighing.
“I know it's ridiculous, unprofessional even.. but I truly did mean what I said.” Blue adverted their eyes from limes, “but.. it's all true.” Lime remained silent, their face was beyond red at this point and the doctor looked no better, “I…” Blue rubbed their temples as they once again turned to lime, putting their hands on the engineers shoulders. “Im in love with you lime.” They said bluntly, limes made a small gasp, would this be a good time to run? To run away from this intimacy that they've feared for so long, to run from the connection they had only dreamed of happening. But they didn't run, they couldn't, lime looked at blues face, it was messy, disoriented but so, so real. This was the real blue, the blue like loved. Limes throat felt dry, as they felt their hands shake.
“I…” lime looked away, they could see blues face sadden, fuck they looked pathetic… “I love ya too big dawg….” Lime half mumbled, but blue heard, their mouth gasped slightly as they dragged lime into a hug, lime tensed up at the sudden display of physical affection which caused blue to let go.
“Ah, I'm terribly sorry- I know how much you dislike physical touch.” They moved to take their hands off lime, before they could lime grabbed them, taking the doctors soft hands in their own rougher hands.
“It's.. it's fine blue, you just uh..” lime sighed “you just smell like puke big dawg..” blues face flushed at the admission, they laughed slightly
“Ah, my bad. I better get cleaned up then.” Blue chuckled standing up.
“Showers to the left big dawg. Take whatever close ya think would fit ya.” Lime pointed to the cupboard. Blue nodded in thanks as lime sat on the edge of the bed awaiting for blues return.