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Blue groggily woke up from their slumber, their head spun and their body aches, they felt like wanted to throw up. As they adjusted their eyes to the room they were in they saw the toolbox that sat beside them on a worn, clearly handmade bedside table, a beside table which was not theirs. As they woke up a bit more they felt the pillow they had been sleeping on was not a pillow at all as they saw the hand that was connected to the arm that they laid upon twitch slightly. The hand was covered in bandaids and was clearly worn. Blue slowly sat up as to whoever the arm was connected to, their eyes glanced over the unfamiliar room they were in, it wasn't the cleanest of rooms and it was quite small and the paint on the walls were beginning to peel, they also noted the head mirror that clearly belonged to them neatly stacked on-top of a cupboard by the door. The next thing to look over is whoever blue had shared a bed with, slowly they looked beside them.
Despite the room being dark, blue could clearly see the structure of the person, shorter than the average person with well built and hairy arms, aswell as messy Gray and lime hair that laid sprung across their pillow. Wait lime hair? Blues eyes widened despite their headache as they realised who was beside them, their coworker and engineer lime. Blues hand covered their mouth as to not gasp, blues cheeks turned a dark red as they turned away. They had just woken up in bed with their COWORKER, sure they had gotten closer on the skeld but not THIS CLOSE blue had thought.
Blues eyes slowly went back to the engineer beside them, drifting to limes exposed chest which lifted up and down lazily, it was hairy. Somehow blues face flushed even deeper as they caught themselves staring, if like was shirtless does that mean.. blue quickly checked themselves, phew blue was still wearing their doctors uniform, which now seemed uncomfy to sleep in. Blue looked back the exposed lime, what had happened last night for the two to have come to this situation, they tried their best to remember.
______THE DAY BEFOREHAND_____
“Well team another successful mission!!” blue heard Red called out the the crew from somewhere on the ship as the skeld slowly arrived to industiria, the mission had lasted 3 months, one month more than planned because of a certain contest winner hitting the ship with an asteroid but it was finally over, blue packed their poetry book into their small messenger bag, it was nearly full as they often wrote things down, they looked at the vent as they rembered all the conversations and times the engineer had checked up on blue during the late nights, blues cheeks reddened slightly as the memories flashed in their head. They looked away from the vent after awhile to finish packing, after packing their little remaining, including a small vial of holy water lime had insisted blue needed to carry, blue slid their finger against the cork of the vial smiling slightly, they shoved it into their lab pocket. How unprofessional of them! Lime was their coworker, their patient! They walked out of med-bay to storage where the doors would open so the docking bay could get everything off the ship.
“Hello doctor!!!” A certain gemologist yelled out to blue, blue turned their attention and flashed a soft smile at the tall crewmate.
“Ah cyan, how are you doing? Feeling docking sickness?” blue questioned, they always packed sickness lollies in their pocket at these times, cyans cheeks flushed a pink
“Ah! No doctor!! Was just wondering if you would like to accompany the rest of us to go to a bar after we dock? Even limes coming!!” Cyan gleefully added, blue scanned the room for the engineer, spotting them carrying a large bag over their shoulder and a toolbox, their arm muscles flexing from the weight they were carrying, blue stared at the muscles flexing and sweat trickling down, they coughed at they looked back at cyan their face blushing.
“Ah! That sounds.. that sounds good cyan.” Blue nodded putting the facade of the calm and collected doctor back on “thank you for inviting me cyan” blue added, cyan seemed too swooned by blue to have noticed blues staring at lime.
“T-thats good to hear blue..” cyan fumbled, turning away quickly and walking off.
The next few hours were extremely busy for everyone on the ship, blue was mainly focused on the paperwork and distribution of the paperwork, sending emails on their phone as they handed paperwork to different departments by hand. When they had finished it was pass 7pm, they also noticed that someone of the crew had gotten blues phone number and had added them to a group called “Red Sucks” which contained all workers from the skeld.
HeraclesLvr; So we are all meeting up at the bar on polus Avenue Right?
CrystalAndGems; Yeah! Blacks cousin owns it so we get discounts!!! (≧▽≦)
GlxW5Ticks; No discounts, stop telling people that cyan!!
CrystalAndGems; Awwww (´;︵;`)
NotAWormKssr; I don know if I will be abl 2 go I go no money :(
TrustBalls4life; Any after-work celebrations are mandatory to attend :))
Capitalist; Don't worry about that Greenie I'll do everyone the favour of paying for the drinks, since I'm feeling generous.
There were heaps of messages blue glaced over but all that mattered reading was the location of the bar and that white had appointed themselves as covering the drinks. Blue replied to messages here and there but one caught their eye.
TheCaptain; anyone add lime to the group chat??
Fl4kySalt; Don't even think that crewmates got a phone.
Lime didn't have a phone? I mean blue never saw the engineer interact with any device besides to fix it, How were they to know about where to go, blue thought to themselves as they walked outside of the engineering department, there they spotted lime arguing with another crewmates.
“Lime this is the 12th time!! You can't keep not documenting everything!!” The crewmate scowled lime.
“I ain't documentin’ nothin’!!! They ain't keepin no tracks on me!!!” Lime retorted back, the other employee rolled their eyes.
“Whatever lime!!! WHATEVER!!” They threw their arms up as they walked away, clearly not wanting to deal with limes stubbornness, this left lime alone and a perfect opportunity for blue to approach.
“Hello lime!” Blue spoke out as they arrived behind the shorter crewmates who jumped slightly and the sudden sound behind them.
“ARGH!! WHO GOES THERE!!” lime swung around to see blue, they sighed relieved as their shoulder relaxed. “Ah, big dawg don' come up behind me like that! I almost thought ya were a gremlin!!” Lime slowed down their breathing as blue tilted their head slightly, chuckling
“Ah, I'm terribly sorry. I'll be more careful next time.” Blue smiled softly at lime who became flustered at blue softness
“Whatever big dawg, what do ya need?” Lime questioned as blue suddenly remembered why they had gone to lime.
“Ah yes now I remember! I've noticed that you probably don't have a phone and wanted to tell you that we are meeting up at the bar at polus Avenue in around 40 minutes.” Blue recounted what they had read in the group chat “whites also covering the bill I'm pretty sure.” Lime nodded
“Of course their covering, their trying to brainwash us using their money!! Not me though! I'm aware of their games, I won't let ‘em hurt ya big dawg.” Lime admitted which made blue blush, did lime just swear blues protection, even if it was from something that probably wouldn't happen blue couldn't held but feel a little giddy from the thought of lime protecting blue in such a way.
“I'll keep that in mind.”
The two didn't have time to change so they arrived at the bar in their work attire, majority of everyone else was in their work attire aswell besides black, white and orange who all had changed into more casual clothing, everyone had paired up and were in conversations, Yellow and Brown were trying to convince Red to join their union for some odd reason, white was chatting to green about the wine they both were drinking, cyan was yapping blacks ear off about crystals, black taking shots to try and drown out cyans yabbering and the oddest pair was orange and purple who were oddly drinking a bottle of champagne talking about something including silver rings, whatever it wasn't blues business.
Blue sat comfortably on one of the bar chairs, blue didn't consider themself a drinker but they did have quite the tolerance for it, and an odd taste for beer. Alter ordering one glass of beer they watched as the engineer plopped themselves on the seat next to them.
“So what do you think you will get lime?” Blue asked, questioning what drink the engineer could possibly get, beer? Rum maybe? Or were they more of a vodka person.
“A milkshake.” Lime admitted looking away, putting the drink menu down.
“Oh? Nothing with alcohol?” Blue questioned, they didn't expect this from the rough grumbly engineer.
“I don' drink, messes with ya head too much.” Lime admitted, blue nodded understanding, they found it oddly cute that lime would prefer a milkshake over something alcoholic.
“Ah that's fine, I understand that some people don't like to drink.” Blue smiled as a large glass of beer was placed Infront of them, lime looked at the glass then at the doctor
“Looks like you'll be drinking enough for the both of us” lime chuckled as blue stifled a laugh
“Ah, I just have a taste for it I don't think I'll ever finish the glass-”
Three glasses, or was it four, blue couldn't remember, whatever 3-4 glasses down and blues vision was blurry, they weren't one to over drink, I mean on the occasion they would get a little tipsy but right they their head was swirling and all they could see was moving shaped, they were drunk. They could hear lime talking beside them, something about reactors and gremlins?? Whatever. Blue took their cup and gulped the entire thing down in a big swig, then sudden, blackness.
______THE MORNING AFTER_____
The memories flooded back to blue but that didn't explain why blue was currently in bed with a half naked lime, blue sat up, holding their head as they did so, god they felt sick. They looked towards lime and shook them slightly.
“Lime, lime?? What.. happened last nigh-” before blue could answer they vomited whatever food they had eaten last night into a trashcan beside the bed, lime instantly sat up, despite their clear tiredness they pat the doctors back until blue had emptied out their stomach.
“Let's get ya cleaned up big dawg, I'll explain while cleaning.” Lime cupped blues face, blues visor twinkled slightly at the physical touch, limes rough hands calmed blue, almost enough to soothe the headache that only grew stronger.