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Miorine wakes up early, alone as she always does but this time there is this distinct feeling of longing that she cannot place. Managing to bury this feeling ,like all the rest, she is able to get up from her bed, and begins to start her morning rotunine. Getting out of her sleeping wear she starts to head to bathroom and after heading down the small set of stairs Miorine finds her there. Sulette Mercury has fallen asleep on the floor on the base of the stairs, her tablet and a couple of books surround her, the evidence of all night study session. Miorine takes a moment and just looks at the girl asleep on the floor, unbeknownst to her that feeling on longing begins to creep in once again, watching the rhythm of her breaths, admiring the way her unkempt hair adds to her beauty, and wondering how someone so purely kind could ever have found their way into her life. But as all things must past so too does the time to stare at the pretty girl sleeping on her stairs, so Miroine walks over to where Sulletta is sleeping kneels down and lightly shakes her fiancee until she stirs.
“Hey…Hey its still early but you have to get ready to take your make-up test,” Miroine talks in a hushed tone in order not to startle the anxious Suletta by accident.
Suletta slowly opens her eyes, stretching and yawning. Her movements are slightly stiff, likely as a result of sleeping on something as comfortable as stairs. “Oh, Miroine, I guess I must have fell asleep studying here, Im sorry I should have paid more attention,” Sulettas anxious rhythm of speaking is back in full force, a clear change from the confidence she had when Miroine and her were speaking of dreams late last night. This makes Miroine a bit sad, she doesnt want her finacee to feel anxious around her. As Miroine feels safe, secure and,some would say even, happy when around the red headed Mercurian.
“Its ok, just start to get ready while I get ready and then you can use the bathroom after I,” Miroine says to Suletta who just nods and starts to head up stairs. The princess walks into the bathroom, and gets ready quickly. When she gets out and makes it near the main office area she sees her pilot kneeling, just like she was yesterday, tablet in hand her gaze solely focused on whatever text is on there. Walking slowly toward her, Miroine wraps her arms around the shoulders of her fiancee, resulting in a startled jolt from the anxious girl and says, “I’m all set if you wanna finish getting ready. I’ll see you when its time for you to take the test”
“Yeah…I’ll see you then,” comes the typical meek response from Suletta as Miroine heads out the door.
Classes are a blur for the white haired girl. Her thoughts solely on what she has to do to help her only friend. She knows that its going to be tough, she only has a couple of hours of just the basics of spotting and mechanics. But nobody else that Miroine trusted was willing to help out, considering the list of people she trusts was limited to one and shes going to be in the pilot seat. Suletta’s status of the holder is certain to make people either hate or use her, this includes Miroine to a degree and she knows it. The “witch” as so many of the other students called her was ultimately the best way to counter the control Miroine’s father has over her. Suletta is someone who has no ties to any major companies, is so transparent in her motivations and desires, and is unflinchingly kind. All things the people in the princess’ world are not, what she believes she herself is not. Miorine hates whenever her thoughts drifted this way, because she really does genuinely like Suletta and wants to be around her as much as possible, but ulmitately she knows that her fiancee may just end up being an unfortunate pawn in this game of corporate manuvering despite all the effort on her part.
Fighting off those thoughts once again, she meets up with her pilot and the two begin to jog to where the test mobile suit is weighting in the hanger. Miroine goes over the run down of what she is going to do and what Suletta has to before running into another set of students who are also going to take the makeup exam. And after a bit of pointless arguing and banter, Suletta gets into the mobile suit and is ready to begin the test.
At first things are going smoothly, Suletta is a natural pilot and takes instructions very well, and Miroine is able to direct her away from the mines easily enough as its not a very difficult task, until she hears a panicked voice in her comms. Suletta informs her that her visior is completely black and she cannot see anything. Anger shows on Miroines face as this obvious act of sabotage comes to light, but she has trained herself to keep her emotions in check and tries to just go back to what was working before. Unfortunately Suletta’s anxiety is the largest hinderance, as several fails are from timeout do to Suletta being overly cautious from being unable to see in front of her. As the attempts begin to rack up they are able to slowly get further and further in. In their last attempt they were even able to make it to the weapons portion of the exam. Miroine gets ready for a another reset when she hears her pilot speak up.
“Enough..I want to go home, I cannot do it anymore.” Suletta is bawling, her voice is broken and shaky. “I was so sacred of going to go to school alone, I didnt want to duel, I just wanted a normal school life.” Miroine herself is internally on the verge of tears herself. She is the reason Suletta doesnt really have any other friends, shes the reason why the sabotage occurred, and shes the reason that the most important person in her life is having a breakdown. She knows that Suletta doesnt deserve this, that the girl only wanted to be helpful and has been had her entire life thrown into wack. Miorine always goes off about having her choices in life being taken away by others and here she is doing it to the only person who has ever given her a choice in anything.
She tries several different things to help the red head, reminding her of her dream and the people that are counting on her. Neither work, the cries of the girls fill the mic, and they seem like they are never going to end. Then all of a sudden she notices the pink girl she got into an argument with just before the test started, beating the soul out of two other girls. And as a shock to no one, the moment this is relayed to Suletta she is taken out of her break down as she begins to rush over to where this is happening. A small chuckle comes out of Miorines mouth, because of course the thing that helps Suletta is having an opportunity arise where she can help someone, and begins to follow after her partner.
Sulleta manages to break the girls up for a moment, until the non pink haired girl throws a punch that connects right into Sulleta’s cheek, and this causes Miorine to see red. Ready to murder someone, she picks up speed to try and join the fight but is unfortunately too slow as by the time she gets there the pink haired girl has already knocked the other girl out as well. But before the engaged couple could talk after the fight, Sulleta and the pink haired girl get called away by their instructor so the two walk away with him.
So Miorine goes back to the hangar to wait to hear what the instructor wanted, she doubted it was any serious repercussions considering the school loves its acts of violence as a way to determine strenght, and after about 20 minutes or so the two girls return explaining that the only thing said to them was that their makeup test was in two days and they needed to prepare for it.
After the debriefing Miorine walks up Suletta and lightly caresses her cheek. Suletta gives her usual jolt whenever theres physical touch, and Miorine askes “Does it hurt at all,” the red head is too anxious to answer and just nods her head a bit. “Well then we must go back to my room and get you patched up.” The injured girl is about to put her hands up in protest but is quickly stopped by a glare from her partner. Taking the girl by the hand Miroine begins to lead her back to her room, giving a quick goodbye to the two other students present.
They make it back into Miorine’s room, and the white haired girl tells the other one to take a seat somewhere while she goes into the bathroom to get some ointment and some ice, after getting a nod of acknowledgement she ventres off and retrieves the medical supplies. Finding her partner in the main living area, causes a rush of negative emotions to rush into Miorines head. The room is full of, nice organized trash, but trash nonetheless. She never cared about this room, never cared about herself enough to actually put in the effort to care for something outside of the garden she treasures. She knows that the Mercuian will never judge her, she would probably be the most willing to help her clean up. Willing to improve her life once again without a second thought in the world besides pure kindness. Miorine knows she doesnt deserve this, she shouldnt get someone so kind when she was cold and manipulative. She must have froze at the door for some time as the other occupant eventually turned around and just flashed a smile, completely snapping the princess out of her trance and she is able to walk over.
“This may hurt a bit. But dont move,” she says in her typical harsh tone, one that makes Suletta jump a bit but otherwise bounces right off her. So she puts some of the ointment on a rag and dabs it on Sulleta’s face, and as predicted the girl winces in pain but does everything in her power to follow the strick orders to not move. After applying the ointment Miorine she takes the bag of ice she prepared and puts it onto the other girls cheek. “Now hold it there for about 15-20 minutes so the swelling goes down.” Silence filles the room, Miorine just doesnt have the energy to do small talk right now, the self loathing has managed to deplete any of the remaining energy she had left, until the other girl breaks up the silence.
“You know, I never really thanked you for helping me. You are so amazing, you did the job of several people after just a couple of hours of studying. Just for me… so Thank you Miorine.” The princess doesnt really know what to say, she has caused so much trouble for this girl, was the reason for her breakdown yet here Suletta is, praising her and thanking her for fixing the problem she caused. She has no words, so instead she sooches closer and just lays her head onto the other ones shoulder.
She closes her eyes and takes in the amorma of the situation, getting lost in the softness of the girl, taking in the smell, and for the first time in a wild letting herself feel happy and content. She doesnt even hear the panicked stammering coming from her headrest, which fade quickly and are replaced by comfortable silence and the feeling of Sulettas head lightly resting against hers. She doesnt know how much time passes before sleep eventually takes her.
The next thing she knows is that she can feel someones arms around her and she is swaying slightly. As her eyes open she can see her fiancee easily carrying her towards her room. Blushing she opens her mouth, “I can walk you know, you should have just woken me up.”
“Sorry sorry sorry, I’ll put you down and leave,” studders Suletta.
“Dont you dare, this is nice,” whispers Miorine
“O…Oh,” is the only response Suletta can manage as she continues. After making her way to the princess’ room, Suletta rests the other girl softly on her bed and begins to walk away. Only to be stopped by a tug on her sleeve.
“Can you stay? I want to be near you,” askes Miorine.
“Uh, ok I..I mean i am your fiancee, this is something they typically do right.” Suletta gets into the bed. Miorine can feel how wooden and terrified to move the other girl is.
“You dont have to be so nervous around me, and you dont have to do this if you dont want to” Miorine gives the other girl a way out, a way to leave her. She has come to realize what that longing she felt earlier in the day was. She wants to be around Suletta as much as possible, wants to do all the things a normal couple do. But she doesnt want to in any way pressure Suletta into doing it anymore than she already has.
“I…I…I do want to do this thought, I just dont know how, Ive never been in this situation before you know, I dont want to mess up”
This response makes Miorine’s heart soar, Suletta is picking her for no reason other than just her. Not because of her status as heir, not to become the holder. Nothing but mutual affection.
“Its very simple,” Miorine starts. “Just turn on your side,” as the white hair girl turns first she can hear her partner do the same. “The you put your arm around me, and pull me close,” she grabs Sulettas arm, and puts it around her waist, the other girl wastes no time pulling her into a deep embrace. “And thats it, its as simple as this.”
Miorine feels Sulettas hand rest under hers and instally intertwines their fingers. She begins feeling things she has never felt before, its almost indescribable to her. But it makes one thing very clear to her that: Miorine Rembran is head over heals for Suletta Mercury. And as she hears the rhythmic breaths of her sleeping fiancee around her, feels the strong embrace and notices the fact that their legs have become entangled, she realizes that she will do everything in her power to help Suletta with anything and everything she wants to accomplish. While there is the fear that Suletta might just be going through the motions, that fear can wait for another day. For this day Miorine is going to focus on how happy she currently is and no one can take that away from her. So she closes her eyes and starts to succumb to sleep, and the feeling of longing she had earlier is no where to be find