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yoru was not having any luck. no matter what he did he always made himself look bad in front of her. he’d been crushing on skye for some time now, there were so many things about her that he liked. she wasn’t like any girl he had seen before, she was not any other girl yoru had been with. skye was strong, not just physically but mentally. if she loved something she loved it with a strong passion, the greenhouse that she personally took care of, the carving workshop she did sometimes. the physical strength was also a factor to his crush, he’d never think he’d find it so attractive. she was so independent and obviously didn’t need a man. but if she wanted one, yoru was hoping that could be him.
only problem is, she hates him. although it’s justified, yoru didn’t mean to be sexist or imply any stereotypes about women and men but it always turned out like that. the first time they were alone, he said, “you’ve got big muscles for a girl,”. he didn’t mean to say it like that, actually, he shouldn’t of said it at all. he just was nervous wreak talking to her. before he could explain himself, skye excused herself, obviously uncomfortable.
or that time they were setting stuff up at site, “skye, let me carry that crate for you,”. he was only trying to be nice and maybe speak to her again to apologise but she replied with a snarky, “am i weak now?”. he noticed how the muscles in her arms flexed a little, annoyed by yoru.
it only got even worse when yoru tried to give her some leaves and used the nickname “flower girl”. long story short, she threatened to break his nose.
“that’s pretty bad,” phoenix replied sitting on yoru’s desk chair,
“i know!” yoru exclaimed laying down on his bed, “i just can’t get things right!”
“i don’t know what to tell you,” the brit thought out loud, “probably best to give up?”
“i can’t,” yoru said sitting up to face his best friend, “even if i’m not going to romance her i need to set things straight, we’re colleagues after all,”
“hey! i got an idea,” phoenix snapped, “next time you’re on a mission together get hurt so she has to heal you, then apologise!”
“are you telling me to throw a mission? a life or death situation?” yoru questioned, perplexed at phoenix’s idiocy,
“i mean do you have any other ideas?” he asked,
yoru was backed into a corner, he really did have no more ideas after all of his resulted in failure. his chance to try out phoenix’s plan, rumour had it that omega earth was planning on infiltrating breeze so a mission was called. luckily, yoru was assigned and maybe tipped off they should bring skye as their healer. brimstone assigned them both at B site but they stayed on opposite sides. skye with a marshal at arches and yoru waiting at back site.
they stayed at their stations for a little before brimstone’s voice came through their earpieces, “get your asses over to A site,”
“roger that,” skye replied, yoru heard over the radio,
yoru focused on the mission, started pushing through B main, slowly and quietly. then he started hearing footsteps, he pulled out his gatecrash letting it go down elbow and get stuck behind boxes. the footsteps around the corner went quiet and suddenly they were right behind him. he shot his head behind him and yoru relaxed when he realised it was just skye.
“just me,” skye said continuing to walk past yoru,
“skye- wait,” he said remembering those other footsteps he had heard just seconds before,
she snapped her gaze towards him, “i don’t need your help,” she said coldly, glaring daggers at him,
at a loss for words, he grabbed her wrist, begging her not to go. skye only glared before ripping her wrist away and going around the corner. gunshots were fired from skye and the other person in elbow.
it all happened in under a second, out of options yoru threw a blindside into elbow and gatecrashed. right in front of him was someone’s omega double who had turned to the noise of yoru’s teleport, luckily everyone but yoru was blinded. he pulled the trigger on his gun, watching as the omega double fall to the floor.
he rushed over to skye as she dropped on her knees, her hand on her arm. “are you okay?” yoru asked his hands just hovering above her,
“fuck, yeah just— grazed,” skye said lifting her hand and showing yoru the wound,
“why didn’t you listen to me?” yoru asked, feeling a little angry,
“what do you mean why ?” skye said matching his angry tone,
“if you just listened to me you wouldn't have gotten hurt!”
“why should i listen to you?” skye asked, “you’ve been nothing but sexist and rude to me!”
“i haven’t been meaning to!”
“sure you haven’t, mate,” at this point they were both angry. yoru was angry that he let skye get hurt, he should’ve tried harder to stop her. he snapped.
“skye!” he exasperated, “i’ve just been trying to talk to you! to spend time with you! because—,” skye looked at him with an eyebrow raised, “because i like you!” he admitted. a silence fell between them, in contrast to their yelling seconds earlier. both of them had a frozen look of shock and surprise on their face. yoru was the first to gather his thoughts, clearing his throat, “i just mean, i’m sorry for ever making you uncomfortable, i know i have no chance now but i needed to apologise,”
the silence lingered before skye held back a smile, “you like me?” she asked,
“yeah,” yoru admitted again, looking down to cover his face, feeling a little shy now,
“you’re serious?” she asked, how did she not realise it sooner?
yoru was wondering what she thought of the confession, her questions didn’t help. was she just making fun of him? he let out a cough, “skye, we better go to A--,”
he was caught off by skye grabbing his collar and pulling him close. planting a kiss on his cheek before saying, “i like you too,” pushing him away and letting go.
“what?”
“i liked you for so long,” skye laughed feeling a little embarrassed and stupid, “but then we started talking and i thought you had this hidden misogynistic view and it completely turned me off of you,”
a voice suddenly spoke from both of their earpieces, “we got all of them, where are you guys?” brimstone asked,
“skye got injured,” yoru said over the intercom still looking at her,
“well hurry to the vulture, kiddos,” brim said before the line went silent,
yoru got up and extended a hand to skye, “can we start over?”
“take me on a date,” skye said grabbing his hand, “then i’ll decide,”
they smiled at each other and lived happy ever after falalalala~~~