pullmeoutalive | RO > call me out; a forever open RP post

[ He takes a step back, using his height advantage for once and keeping the book out of her reach. ]

Doesn't look like nothing to me.

[ He has a sister. He knows what a super-special-secret scrapbook looks like. ]

[ ...Don't make her take you down over a scrapbook, Raleigh. He may have height on his side, at least half a foot on her, but he should never underestimate Mako's need to preserve her pride.

She leaps for it, bracing herself with a hand on his shoulder to jump higher. ]

— No, I told you, it's nothing! — don't — Raleigh — give it!

Come on, Mako. [ he stands his ground, keeping the book just out of her reach ] If it's nothing, then I should be free to look at it, right?

[ So mean, Raleigh — she's going to be so humiliated when he actually sees what's in it, even if she was only a teenager at the time.

She considers making him hand it over, but that would involve enacting some kind of violence and an embarrassing book of pictures isn't worth it, she thinks — so she huffs and goes to the other corner of her room, snatching up her turtleneck sweater and pulling it almost irritably over her head in the process. ]

...I guess there's no stopping you from doing so, is there.

[ She folds her arms stubbornly across her chest; she should have said it was technical blueprints, and he probably would have left it alone, then. ]

We've been inside each others' heads, how bad can it really be?

[ He remarks absently as he begins flipping through the scrapbook. Lots of things on Gipsy, which doesn't surprise him considering Mako helped rebuild her.

As he gets farther in, however... ]

Mako, were you-? [ He flips through a few more pages. There sure are a lot of embarrassing picture of him in here. His understanding of Japanese as a written language is rough at best, but "he loves me, he loves me not" is helpfully scrawled in English a few times ] Were you a Danger Girl?

[ And yes, he is quite aware of the name of he and Yancy's female fanbase. He may or may not have Googled himself a few times out of pure vanity. ]

[ She stays away at the far end of the room as he starts browsing through the book, flipping through pages of pictures...until he starts to reach the part where she began to focus on himself and Yancy. And Mako grimaces, because yes, she'd looked up that portion of his fanbase as well, and had maybe identified with how it kept track of them a little too closely.

She turns back to face him where he's sitting on her bunk, browsing the scrapbook, and tries to cover her face with her hands. ]

...I never called myself one specifically, no.

[ ...that's a yes. ]

Oh my God, you were. [ it comes out as a laugh, and he flips a little further through the book. Until he hits the Tiger Beat years. ]

... those teen magazine photo shoots were the worst.

[ She scowls when he laughs, but then his voice gets slightly quieter and she can hear nostalgia settling in. Mako wanders a bit closer to where he sits, hands on her hips, peering over his shoulder at the pictures in question. ]

What do you mean, 'worst'? [ She tips her chin at a picture of him lying in a field of grass, smirking at the camera, his shirt open to bare his smooth, unblemished stomach as his hand toys teasingly at his belt line. ] ...That one was my favorite.

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Mostly because I thought I was hot shit and the photographers didn't care for my attitude.

[ He shoots her a glance ] ...That one? Really?

[ She can't help the curve that comes to the corners of her lips when she imagines Raleigh being cocky in front of photographers; she knows he was so, when he was young, she'd heard the reports of it and she'd made up her mind about his attitude herself, that he was reckless, without having really known him. (Something that she still regrets thinking about him in a sense; Raleigh takes risks, but he's not completely without thought when he does so.)

Mako edges even closer until she's perching on the edge of the bunk next to him, leaning a bit on his shoulder as she looks again at the pictures she hasn't glanced at in years. ]

Everyone feels as though they're a little invincible, when they're young. [ herself included, even if she's the same age now as he was back then, and even though she's much more cautious and calculating than he is.

she nods again at the picture in question. ] That one was, yes, because of the look you're giving the camera and where your hand is. It's playful, like you're teasing the viewer. Seducing them.

[ ...still smirking. ]

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[ He snorts. He had to learn a hard truth in the worst way possible- that he and Yancy were not as invincible as they thought.

He's not upset by her remark, it's just a truth of his reality- of their reality. ]

Yeah? [ he glances at her, a grin creeping its way onto his face ] And did I seduce you?

[ Admittedly, he was pretty hot shit back then too, Mako would definitely agree. (He's pretty hot shit now, for that matter.)

As evidenced by the way she reacts to his question — the corners of her mouth turn upwards, a gleam in her eye somewhere between shy and happy and predatory shining through, before she schools her features neutrally and mock-frowns at him. ]

...No. Of course not. I'm immune to your charms.

[ ...for maybe all of five minutes. ]

Besides, I'm pretty sure I'm the one who seduced you.

[ That draws a laugh out of him, amused and warm. ]

You know, I think you did.

[ Because really, he was pretty taken with her from the moment they met. ]

[ When he laughs, it breaks the spell and she can't help but smile at him.

Maybe she did seduce him, after they'd met, but it had all started as a spark from her admiration for him, back when she was young; she glances back down at the scrapbook again, a bit sheepishly. ]

...You must think I was so silly, though, writing those kind of things back then. I didn't even know you, and I imagined meeting you when I became a pilot, impressing you with my skills.

Nah. If anything, I'm embarrassed looking at some of these pictures.

I can't believe I agreed to some of this stuff.

[ a pause, and he considers her for a moment ] And for the record, you did impress me with your skills.

[ She smiles at his praise, but then her expression turns serious again. ]

You shouldn't be embarrassed. You were a celebrity, then and now; someone to be looked up to and admired.

[ They both are, although Mako is nowhere near as used to it and isn't very fond of the public's attention. ]

— By everyone, not just teenaged girls who had crushes on you. [ And then the smirk makes its reappearance. ]

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Careful, Mako. You're gonna give me a big head if you keep that up.

[ She smirks again, her hand reaching out to card her fingers through his hair, and then mock-frowns. ]

...That would be terrible, wouldn't it. You'd be so demanding — you'd probably start calling up some of your old Danger Girl followers, to relive your glory days.

[ ...He'd better not get any real ideas of doing that though, because she's just teasing him and if any of those former Jaeger flies even dared to set foot near him...

...well, let's just say they might be short a foot, then. ]

Hitting up random bars for free drinks, partying all night.

[ he smirks, clearly joking, and he leans over to bump their foreheads together ] You're right. It does sound terrible.

[ nuzzling him affectionately, forehead to forehead. ]

It would be fun, but you'd feel it the next day. You'd probably need someone to take care of you.

[ the phrase "no longer a spring chicken" hangs in the air, unsaid. ]

Are you calling me old?

[ he does is best to look so offended, but it's really hard when he's grinning like that ]

...Not old. Just well-seasoned.

[ she might be trying her best to hold back a giggle. ]

No matter how you say it, it still means "old".

Experienced?

[ now she's laughing outright. ]

Now you're pushing it.

[ not that he really sounds angry, what with the way he's laughing too ]

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retributively - 2014-03-21 07:42 (UTC) - Expand

RO > call me out; a forever open RP post

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..I may have too many nuzzling icons :3

you can nevr have too many nuzzling icons

yess i am enabled!!!

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