"S'fine," the mechanic repeated, voice cracking as she struggled to remember other words and phrases. She forced a cough, but it was too late to hide that jarring pitch, so she turned to face her workbench once more because she was pretty sure she was blushing again.
"Yeh, I bet it would," she mumbled in response to the wine, feigning distraction as she inspected an off-balance ball bearing she had picked up from the table. She was only aware of the Krotazi because Kreska had spoken of em once or twice in the past. Usually complaining, and with the stories she told Rocket was chill with not having made eir acquaintance in person.
'Ye really don'hafta worry bout it. Payin' me, anyway. We're friends, yeah?" Rocket's gaze skirted away from Kreska as soon as she realized the shirt was coming off, but she dropped the bearing she had been holding and it clattered to the floor, rolling a few feet away from her. She chased after it, snatching it up, not at all concerned about looking like an idiot, because it was easier than trying to find something, literally anything that wasn't happening in Kreska's direction.
She couldn't think because the only sound in her head was the echo of internal screaming.
Ohfuck her hair was so fluffy? Why did she notice that? When did she start caring about the fluffiness of someone's hair? Why did she want to touch it?
This was hell. She was in hell. At some point in the night she had died in her sleep and this was her fucking punishment for accepting contracts from smugglers and letting them pay her in unregistered plats. It's a good thing she had not been a serial killer, because she couldn't imagine a scenario worse than this one.
"I'll findya somethin' t'wear," she said quickly, setting the piece of equipment back on her workbench. She waved her metal hand to stave off any further apologizing, because the Jobari should know it was all fine by now. "Y'hit the shower, and when yer done, I'll prolly be on the Var:jo." She pointed in the general direction that the ship was located. "Big, black, y'can't missit."
She attempted a calm, normal smile until Kreska turned around, and she all but collapsed into a pile on the floor. When the alarm system alerted her that Kreska was no longer in the garage, Rocket's screaming became very external.
Waiting until she was positive that Kreska was hidden away in her shower, so she could sneak in and out of her own room undetected in the presence of a woman who was apparently super comfortable in her own skin.
The mechanic rifled through her closet and her dressers until she found what she was looking for. A black shirt with the face of a white cat on it, and a matching tail climbing up the back of it. Rocket had no idea why she had purchased the shirt, mostly on a whim because some stupid voice in the back of her head told her Kreska would like it. The reasoning was still unjustified, but the impulse had come with the realization that there was no not-weird way to give Kreska a gift.
Especially if that gift was a stupid crop top with a picture of a goddamn cat on it. Rocket held the shirt up for inspection, the smug ass cat on the front stared back at her. She tossed it on the bed, along with a pair of sweat pants that would hopefully tighten enough to stay put on the tiny woman, and a clean towel. On her way back to the garage, she gathered all of Kreska's other clothes and dumped them in the washer, before heading onto the Var:jo to resume her work.
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