"Thank you," a bare murmur as she was bundled into the next room--a stark block of a thing that practically shouted clean, the unidentifiable, stinking goop that she consisted of made even more evident against scentless tile and glass. Alex winced as he set her down, despite his apparent precautions the jolt of pain caught at her skin, tugging at the edges of bruises trying to heal, and new ones from falling. She shifted on her feet and a sucking sound followed the movement so she stilled. Why did it feel like her feet even touching the floor infected the cleanser?
She snorted quietly as he left her clinging to his arm while he stripped.
Insofar as a man encased inside a metal suit could strip. The suit.
He's going to go into the cleanser in a...suit? Wait. Does that mean he doesn't bathe? Does that mean he never takes that thing off? How gross must it be in there... It was the kind of series of questions she'd normally have asked aloud. Curious yet insulting because it was Alex and Alex lacked a galaxy of tact despite her efforts to the contrary. Had Captain Fenris known her, he would have been concerned by her relative silence, even in the short term. She stared dazedly up at him and snorted again.
This snort turned into a gasping laugh, the kind that had her wincing into silence because the demands of irony versus her gut just wanting all the pain to stop NOW had a pretty clear winner. Forcing it back down her throat as he decided it was her turn next, she clung tighter to his now "nude" suit. Had she not been in such pain, she would have taken the opportunity to explore--he was occupied, after all, and surely wouldn't notice as she tapped and prodded at the human-encasing instrument.
But no. Her knees were like some kind of unset polymer, her vision was blurred, and her head felt like a vise were about to crush her skull inward. This was definitely not her best side, so she could only hope he'd come to view her through her engineering skills rather than "that stowaway who falls a lot".
Alex shook her head at her clothes with a flicker of a smile at his joke--recalling her earlier tease. Then she nodded at the ones he'd hung on a hook. "I hope you weren't attached to those...and I'm sorry you'll probably have to recycle them. After...this." She made a halting attempt at a sweeping gesture down her front and at the same time realized through the haze that she wasn't just motioning toward the filth on her skin that would have transferred to him as he carried her but also the bits that had managed to remain clean beneath fabric. A half-squeak, half-moan came out.
But it was far, far too late for modesty, wasn't it? After everything she'd been through on the Diem Vuong? Alex blushed like fire, a flush spreading up from her chest, flaring over her neck, and filling her cheeks with the blaze of embarrassment all the same. He probably won't notice the freckles. A small consolation while he maneuvered them into the cleansing unit. Then, Oh shit. He totally will when this thing does its thing.
So at some point between now and the end of the wash cycle to come, she had to get herself under control again.
Easier said than done, when a tsunami of actual water engulfed her in white-hot laser fire. She barely heard his words, his laugh...and she didn't find them funny. Especially coupled with pain. Too many memories flicked to life with the particular combination. Alex gritted her teeth and locked her knees, determined to get through the interminable humiliation without breaking down. Goop of a decidedly different sort coated her head to toe, but it took the rest with it, every shred of muck from her experience. As promised.
The air was far more forgiving but also revealing in its sweeps; now every mark on her skin would be visible to the naked eye.
Oh nonono! Why did I have to think 'naked'?!!?
The blush erupted again.
Alex followed his motion again toward his clothes. The wrinkle in the bridge of her nose came as slowly as every movement she made now, trying not to sabotage herself with another chain reaction that would land her face-down on the floor in front of him. "Uhn. Pass."
"I'll sleep like this, just so I don't have to touch anything from that ship again." She motioned toward the sleeve she'd been clinging to, and the lapel she could barely see against the wall where he'd hung the jacket. "Thank you," she winced at a sharp pain as she shifted around her footprints on the floor, "though, Captain."
Maybe not anything, she reconsidered after wrapping one arm around her waist. Could she? Her engineering mind was starting to pull at her again, trying to give her an escape from the pain, something more present to focus on than memory. She'd much rather be concerned with the suit under the fingers of her other hand than the Diem Vuong, but it was too late, her brain had already chosen a target, was running down blueprints against her will. He was contemplating tossing the ship out the airlock...but what if the repairs needed here are bad enough I really need the spare parts?
She snorted quietly as he left her clinging to his arm while he stripped.
Insofar as a man encased inside a metal suit could strip. The suit.
He's going to go into the cleanser in a...suit? Wait. Does that mean he doesn't bathe? Does that mean he never takes that thing off? How gross must it be in there... It was the kind of series of questions she'd normally have asked aloud. Curious yet insulting because it was Alex and Alex lacked a galaxy of tact despite her efforts to the contrary. Had Captain Fenris known her, he would have been concerned by her relative silence, even in the short term. She stared dazedly up at him and snorted again.
This snort turned into a gasping laugh, the kind that had her wincing into silence because the demands of irony versus her gut just wanting all the pain to stop NOW had a pretty clear winner. Forcing it back down her throat as he decided it was her turn next, she clung tighter to his now "nude" suit. Had she not been in such pain, she would have taken the opportunity to explore--he was occupied, after all, and surely wouldn't notice as she tapped and prodded at the human-encasing instrument.
But no. Her knees were like some kind of unset polymer, her vision was blurred, and her head felt like a vise were about to crush her skull inward. This was definitely not her best side, so she could only hope he'd come to view her through her engineering skills rather than "that stowaway who falls a lot".
Alex shook her head at her clothes with a flicker of a smile at his joke--recalling her earlier tease. Then she nodded at the ones he'd hung on a hook. "I hope you weren't attached to those...and I'm sorry you'll probably have to recycle them. After...this." She made a halting attempt at a sweeping gesture down her front and at the same time realized through the haze that she wasn't just motioning toward the filth on her skin that would have transferred to him as he carried her but also the bits that had managed to remain clean beneath fabric. A half-squeak, half-moan came out.
But it was far, far too late for modesty, wasn't it? After everything she'd been through on the Diem Vuong? Alex blushed like fire, a flush spreading up from her chest, flaring over her neck, and filling her cheeks with the blaze of embarrassment all the same. He probably won't notice the freckles. A small consolation while he maneuvered them into the cleansing unit. Then, Oh shit. He totally will when this thing does its thing.
So at some point between now and the end of the wash cycle to come, she had to get herself under control again.
Easier said than done, when a tsunami of actual water engulfed her in white-hot laser fire. She barely heard his words, his laugh...and she didn't find them funny. Especially coupled with pain. Too many memories flicked to life with the particular combination. Alex gritted her teeth and locked her knees, determined to get through the interminable humiliation without breaking down. Goop of a decidedly different sort coated her head to toe, but it took the rest with it, every shred of muck from her experience. As promised.
The air was far more forgiving but also revealing in its sweeps; now every mark on her skin would be visible to the naked eye.
Oh nonono! Why did I have to think 'naked'?!!?
The blush erupted again.
Alex followed his motion again toward his clothes. The wrinkle in the bridge of her nose came as slowly as every movement she made now, trying not to sabotage herself with another chain reaction that would land her face-down on the floor in front of him. "Uhn. Pass."
"I'll sleep like this, just so I don't have to touch anything from that ship again." She motioned toward the sleeve she'd been clinging to, and the lapel she could barely see against the wall where he'd hung the jacket. "Thank you," she winced at a sharp pain as she shifted around her footprints on the floor, "though, Captain."
Maybe not anything, she reconsidered after wrapping one arm around her waist. Could she? Her engineering mind was starting to pull at her again, trying to give her an escape from the pain, something more present to focus on than memory. She'd much rather be concerned with the suit under the fingers of her other hand than the Diem Vuong, but it was too late, her brain had already chosen a target, was running down blueprints against her will. He was contemplating tossing the ship out the airlock...but what if the repairs needed here are bad enough I really need the spare parts?
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