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After a couple hours of sleep, Lúcio was woken up by the announcement from the pilot, reporting that they would be arriving at the base soon.
Lúcio looked around groggily, finding Dez asleep in the seat next to him, still having his earphone attached to her ear.
He smiled softly, admiring the sleeping beauty next to him. He studied her face for a bit as he will probably not see her with that expression anytime soon.
While taking in the view, he started to wonder why she acted so affectionate towards him, after only knowing him for for barely a day. Not only did she decide on her own behalf to sit next to him during the flight, she also showed personal interest in him by asking personal questions. Not that he minded it much. He was actually pretty happy about it. But he could still not fully grasp her reasoning behind it.
Lúcio decided to check his phone which had charged by now, as it was basically dead the whole time, because he forgot to charge it before the mission.
After checking out the several calls the team gave him while he was away yesterday evening, he began checking out his text messages.
He saw that Hana had messaged him. When he looked at the contents of said message, his eyes grew wide. It was a picture of him and Dez sleeping, while his head rested on her shoulder. Lucio didn’t realize that he did that and a sense of deep embarrassment overcame him. He started typing.
Lúcio: Delete that immediately!
D.VA: Not im a Million years Lmaooo.
Lúcio: You’re the worst.
D.VA: Luv u too brochacho ;)
Lúcio jolted as he felt movement from beside him. Dez had woken up from her slumber.
„Fuckin hell how long did I doze off for?” She asked Lúcio as she stretched her toned arms.
Lúcio, who was still flustered from the picture of him practically cuddling up to the same women asking him that question answered.
„I just got up too. We’re almost at our destination, so I believe that we probably slept through the whole flight.”
„You didn’t try anything funny while I was asleep did ya?” Dez asked jokingly.
Lúcio, who still had the picture in mind Hana had send him, tried to calm himself down with no success.
„W-what something funny? Me? Never, I’d never do such a thing!” Lúcio stuttered.
Dez who was still groggy from waking up, decided to ignore Lúcio’s stammering as her head was still a bit sleepy. Which Lúcio was more than happy about.
„Oi, here do you have your earphone back. By the way, I’ve got to admit that you really know a lot of bloody good songs” Dez admitted to him, earning a quick thanks from the man next to her.
After they landed the doors of the aircraft opened, letting in a wave of cold winter air, reminding everyone that it was still winter in Europe.
„For fucks sake it’s freezing here” cussed the Queen.
Lúcio noticed that she still had the same clothes on which she wore back in Australia. Her outfit consisted of nothing than a pair of knee high boots, some hotpants and a very skimpy tanktop which barely covered her chest, leaving her midriff completely open to the cold.
Lúcio didn’t waste a second and immediately offered Dez his oversized hoodie, which he wore on the way to Australia. Which Odessa gladly accepted.
„Well aren’t you a Gentleman” Dez teased Lúcio with a grin as she threw the hoodie on.
Seeing her wearing his favorite hoodie, made his heart skip a beat for a second. The contrast of the rather wild looking woman wearing a grey hoodie with a silly green frog on it, made Lúcio chuckle a bit.
Dez noticing the short Latino giggle, immediately activated a defensive reflex in her brain.
„The fuck is so funny? Do you think I look stupid little man?” She hissed towards Lúcio.
He immediately stopped laughing, not meaning to disrespect Odessa.
„No! Quite the opposite! I think you look Beautiful” Lúcio said instinctively, not even processing how embarrassing that sounded.
Dez, who was taken aback at the sudden remark, noticed her face heating up a bit. She has never been called that in her entire life. She was used to be called things like strong or intimidating, but never beautiful. She almost never lost her composure like that. Not for any man not for any compliment.
After a quick moment of awkward silence, Dez quickly changed the subject and started walking towards the exit of the aircraft.
„Well I’m fucking starving, let’s see where we can find something to stuff our faces with boys.” She said gesturing to Junkrat and Roadhog to follow her.
Lúcio began packing his belongings, and headed towards the exit aswell. If it weren’t for Hana waiting for him in the doorway with the biggest smug grin plastered on her face.
„Look who we have here if it isn’t our very own Casanova over here! Not only has he cuddled up to his girlfriend he picked up literally a day ago on our mission, she’s also already wearing his beloved favorite hoodie! Hats off to you Lúcio I wasn’t familiar with your game big dawg!”
Hana was having a field day, whereas Lúcio’s face lit up in a crimson color.
“You got it all wrong, I fell asleep on her shoulder by accident and I only gave her my hoodie because it’s freezing cold outside and she didn’t bring a jacket with her!” Lúcio tried to explain to Hana with no success.
„Whatever Romeo, your Juliet is probably waiting for her prince to show her around the castle” Hana joked unable to contain her laughter.
Lúcio just sighed and gave up trying to convince his friend of the opposite.
As Winston and Vivian showed the Junkers around the base, Lúcio took the time to head to the canteen to grab himself something quick to eat. After that he went straight to his room to take a shower and freshen up a bit.
Although he got some sleep on the flight, Lúcio still felt tired as the few hours on an uncomfortable plane seat, didn’t manage to provide the best sleeping experience. So he got himself ready for bed as it was starting to get dark outside.
At least that’s what he was trying to do. After closing his eyes, the events of the last 24 hours played like a movie in front of his eyes. For some reason all he could think about was Dez. He pulled up his phone in an attempt of distracting himself with watching some YouTube videos.
Instead of showing him his home screen, his phone was still on the chat with Hana. Reminding him of the picture she took of them two. After looking at the photo for a bit too long, he caught himself subconsciously smiling at the sight of the sleeping woman.
The following realization hit him like a brick on his head.
‚oh my fucking god, am I seriously crushing on the literal Queen of Junkertown right now?!?!’ He thought to himself.
After not being able to fall asleep for some hours, Lúcio decided to head to the training room to distract himself from his own thoughts for a while. As it was already morning and it would not bring anything to try to fall asleep now.