"Well-" he wouldn't really call it natural, he knows what all goes in it, but also a little madness gets thrown in and his hair is very soft and fluffy. As it should be.
He was going to explain all this, but what he does instead is kind of think about it while smiling like an idiot up at Germaryah.
Except then the other boy laughs and he blinks, almost as if he'd been spooked out of a thought and he gives a little nod, "okay, you can kiss me twice."
Hearing that-twice- made Ger giggle. He let go of his chin too, ducking his head for a few moments as he tried to get his sudden nervousness- and giggles- from getting out of control.
"Sorry- I- I dunno. Suddenly got nervous." He explained, shaking his head. "You wanna...sit a little closer?"
He really did measure the distance and went with what he thought would be 'close enough'. Ger snorted through his nose. Cute. What a little overthinker.
"Yeah." He leaned down, and gently leaned down, bumping their foreheads together. No kisses yet. "Good?"
Chris's goggles are right there, pressing his bangs down and he sucks in a quick breath at the closeness.
Being so close Ger might notice the sparking blue energy in his eyes is like static, causing his hair to rise just a little. It doesn't hurt though, just a little tingly
It is entirely illogical for him to go into cardiac arrest at this time, but like. He could see it happening.
They'll have to figure out the goggle thing later. That is not the hottest romance move. Maybe he could pull them off or stick them around Chris's neck or sometime! Not now but...later!
The air feels kind of tingly. It's kind of...weird. But not in a bad way. No heart attacks. John would strangle them both.
"Okay."
No hands this time. Instead, he leaned down, and offered a gentle kiss. It was soft and undemanding, letting Chris pull away, or pull in as much as he wanted.
For a moment Chris forgets you're supposed to close your eyes, probably because at the moment of contact there's that spike of energy again and his eyes are blown out blue.
It might feel a little like standing outside in a thunderstorm for a minute there, Chris frozen as if he isn't sure whether he should lean in or pull back.
His eyes shut finally, remembering, but he's still unmoving. This is the control for this experiment.
It feels a little static and crackly, and he can see the blue from under his eyelids. But he didn't move. He waited, quietly, his mouth against Chris, letting him feel how it was.
And he felt a bit of a shift, so ended up lightly nuzzling their mouths together, brushing his knuckles gently against the smaller teen's cheek. Nothing grabby, nothing to do with shoving or anything.
The little nuzzle gets a soft little sound out of him, not quiet a laugh and his head dips back and away when he touches his face.
It feels nice, and his heart feels like it's in his throat, scooting just a smidge closer to close the gap between them, palm settling on Germaryah's knee.
Cheeks still very pink, he asks, "can...the second one be like the first one?" And if Ger is smart he'll catch that he wasn't quite asking for the same kind of kiss he just got.
Ger pulls back when Chris does, smiling and putting an arm on his knee again. But he was surprised when Chris touched his knee- though the pinkness...yeah, that tracked.
But he was surprised at the request. Like the very first one...huh.
"I can do that." He looked down at him. He didn't move yet though. "Any other requests, darling?"
He shrugged, and griped him lightly by the chin, before leaning in for the second kiss. He tried to press I'm, and pull Chris in, like he thought he did the first time.
Chris is very unused to endearments, but he gets distracted enough immediately after to start wondering whether he liked them or not.
His palm isn't quite sweaty on his knee, but it's getting there, squeezing as he leans in more than he had been. He's not as passive this time around but what he does give back is colored by shy inexperience, and the sort of gentle that he usually reserves for Peggy, feather light.
That energy is building again though, and while it doesn't feel like it had when he was upset, it's definitely getting up there, bubbling just below his ears and threatening to spill out, tension tight as a wire.
Some of that static pulses out of him, tingling where his hand is touching his knee, and when he finally pulls back, trying to catch his breath, there might be a little shock between them, leaving chris and maybe Germaryah's lips tingling.
He doesn't mind that feather light shyness. Or the gentleness. He had a feeling that Chris didn't really do things very gently with much of anything, much less himself.
But Germaryah wasn't used to gentleness either. He felt a jolt on his knee from the aether, and he gasped a little at the tingly feeling on his mouth.
Lightly, he touched his fingers to his lips.
"It's like...pins and needles." Huh. Weird. But a cool kind of weird.
Chris pulls his hand off the other boy's knee, legs shifting so they don't touch any more. The blue of his eyes isn't disapating but he seems more focused than usual in this state.
He can see Germaryah, all of him, the wolf in the bottle, the way his own energy is still sparking and lingering where they had touched. He thinks he likes that, the way it looks, but his smile starts to fade as he realizes that he can't tell him because he wouldn't want to know.
His fingers curl into a little fist on his thigh and he glances towards the hall, "I- I'm...I have things I need to do. I should go."
First observation of this experiment: kissing boys who don't want to be monsters is fun but it kind of hurts?
The wolf frowned. This wasn't what he expected. He liked the kiss. It felt...nice. pleasant. Not like he was pulling a hood over his head, or drowning. The tingles were just kind of fun.
But he didn't know what he did, even if Chris's eyes were all lit up again, like when they met.
Ger blinked, and bit his lip, ducking his head. Maybe he hurt him with asking for a kiss this time. He had no idea.
"Deck, horse robots, next time?" He asks, starting to become distracted again the longer he looks at Germaryah. The lingering energy on his skin is fading away just as quickly as it appeared and, no... he doesn't want it to go away.
He pushes himself up, off the couch raising an arm for Peggy to hop onto from her spot on the couch. A moments hesitation after she's climbed up on his shoulder has him leaning to give Ger a lightening quick kiss on his cheek, more of that energy sparking to life before he straightens up and-
Oh, is he running away? Definitely. Bye, Germaryah.
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Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:07 am (UTC)Christopher's heart beats a little faster and he's trying not to smile like an idiot.
"You think I'm cute?" That sure was a failed roll on trying not to smile like an idiot.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:11 am (UTC)He offered a smile and a shrug.
"You've got cute fluffy hair and all that. Cute."
Not really zeroed in on things. But cute!
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:24 am (UTC)He chews on his bottom lip a moment, considering his options. He could get another kiss, that isn't a surprise, or have no kisses at all.
His lips pull into a scrunched up twist at the second thought before he looks up at Germaryah again, "can I have more than one?"
If you give a mouse a cookie...
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:33 am (UTC)Mind in Ger's world, there were businesses geared around magical results of their hair product.
The question had him blink though, and offer a surprised little laugh. "If you want that? Sure. Okay."
Would this turn into makeouts? He doubted it.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:38 am (UTC)He was going to explain all this, but what he does instead is kind of think about it while smiling like an idiot up at Germaryah.
Except then the other boy laughs and he blinks, almost as if he'd been spooked out of a thought and he gives a little nod, "okay, you can kiss me twice."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:45 am (UTC)"Sorry- I- I dunno. Suddenly got nervous." He explained, shaking his head. "You wanna...sit a little closer?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 03:04 am (UTC)He looks down at his lap, knees all covered in bandaids before he judges the space between them.
"Yes..."
There is a ridiculous amount of math that floods his brain trying to figure out what the measurement of 'a little closer' was exactly.
He scoots once, eyeballs the distance between Ger's knee and his own, scoots a little more. Not quite touching.
"Like this?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 03:14 am (UTC)"Yeah." He leaned down, and gently leaned down, bumping their foreheads together. No kisses yet. "Good?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 03:23 am (UTC)Being so close Ger might notice the sparking blue energy in his eyes is like static, causing his hair to rise just a little. It doesn't hurt though, just a little tingly
It is entirely illogical for him to go into cardiac arrest at this time, but like. He could see it happening.
"Um...yes." Probably.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 03:34 am (UTC)The air feels kind of tingly. It's kind of...weird. But not in a bad way. No heart attacks. John would strangle them both.
"Okay."
No hands this time. Instead, he leaned down, and offered a gentle kiss. It was soft and undemanding, letting Chris pull away, or pull in as much as he wanted.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 03:44 am (UTC)It might feel a little like standing outside in a thunderstorm for a minute there, Chris frozen as if he isn't sure whether he should lean in or pull back.
His eyes shut finally, remembering, but he's still unmoving. This is the control for this experiment.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 04:08 am (UTC)And he felt a bit of a shift, so ended up lightly nuzzling their mouths together, brushing his knuckles gently against the smaller teen's cheek. Nothing grabby, nothing to do with shoving or anything.
It was a very careful, still ongoing kiss.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 04:29 am (UTC)It feels nice, and his heart feels like it's in his throat, scooting just a smidge closer to close the gap between them, palm settling on Germaryah's knee.
Cheeks still very pink, he asks, "can...the second one be like the first one?" And if Ger is smart he'll catch that he wasn't quite asking for the same kind of kiss he just got.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 04:36 am (UTC)But he was surprised at the request. Like the very first one...huh.
"I can do that." He looked down at him. He didn't move yet though. "Any other requests, darling?"
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 04:41 am (UTC)He swallows, giving a quick shake of his head, "MmMm. Just- Just that."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 04:51 am (UTC)He shrugged, and griped him lightly by the chin, before leaning in for the second kiss. He tried to press I'm, and pull Chris in, like he thought he did the first time.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 05:05 am (UTC)His palm isn't quite sweaty on his knee, but it's getting there, squeezing as he leans in more than he had been. He's not as passive this time around but what he does give back is colored by shy inexperience, and the sort of gentle that he usually reserves for Peggy, feather light.
That energy is building again though, and while it doesn't feel like it had when he was upset, it's definitely getting up there, bubbling just below his ears and threatening to spill out, tension tight as a wire.
Some of that static pulses out of him, tingling where his hand is touching his knee, and when he finally pulls back, trying to catch his breath, there might be a little shock between them, leaving chris and maybe Germaryah's lips tingling.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 05:28 am (UTC)But Germaryah wasn't used to gentleness either. He felt a jolt on his knee from the aether, and he gasped a little at the tingly feeling on his mouth.
Lightly, he touched his fingers to his lips.
"It's like...pins and needles." Huh. Weird. But a cool kind of weird.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:03 pm (UTC)He can see Germaryah, all of him, the wolf in the bottle, the way his own energy is still sparking and lingering where they had touched. He thinks he likes that, the way it looks, but his smile starts to fade as he realizes that he can't tell him because he wouldn't want to know.
His fingers curl into a little fist on his thigh and he glances towards the hall, "I- I'm...I have things I need to do. I should go."
First observation of this experiment: kissing boys who don't want to be monsters is fun but it kind of hurts?
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:14 pm (UTC)But he didn't know what he did, even if Chris's eyes were all lit up again, like when they met.
Ger blinked, and bit his lip, ducking his head. Maybe he hurt him with asking for a kiss this time. He had no idea.
"...okay. I'll...see you around."
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:20 pm (UTC)He pushes himself up, off the couch raising an arm for Peggy to hop onto from her spot on the couch. A moments hesitation after she's climbed up on his shoulder has him leaning to give Ger a lightening quick kiss on his cheek, more of that energy sparking to life before he straightens up and-
Oh, is he running away? Definitely. Bye, Germaryah.
Re: Common rooms
Date: 2026-03-27 02:24 pm (UTC)Wait- he felt himself blush, two fingers to his cheek as he watched Chris run away.
He couldn't remember the last time someone kissed him on the cheek.