Friends Are Only One Part...

Posted on Sunday October 21st, 2018 @ 9:36am by Captain Sumire "Remi" Rembrant & Neil Loren

2,834 words; about a 14 minute read

Mission: Season 2; Mission 2: It's Only Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt
Location: City-Ship; Residential Section
Timeline: October 19th 4566; Late Night

Jayce and Remi after an awkward thirty minutes that was spent mostly silently as they ate a meal, get up to head towards Remi's private room a mere minutes before their vessel arrives at the city ship. "Oh, we're uh, almost back where you're from now right?" he asks, looking a little upset.
(i'm in a writing mood atm if you want to reply, up to you)

During this time Remi had went through some emotional turmoil of her own. Silence was bad for her apparently. She was also reminded she had things to do when they got back... Little did she know after the next few hours she would most definitely need a friend. She said “it’s fine... they will get you set up with your own place and there’s nothing to worry about... some investigators might want to talk to you but; no sweat... it’ll be easy.” By the time their food was cleaned up and she spoke they had arrived; a Decontamination chamber, medical exam, room assignment and social work meeting later Jayce was released to his own whim. Watson was also moved from Remi’s VX to his VC unit. The connection Watson still had to Remi as she neglected to turn it off told him she was having some problems of her own and emotionally was in a crap place. She was currently drinking herself into perpetual darkness. Watson informed Jayce Remi was in the lounge of the cityship. The bar currently only contained the bartender and Remi whom looked dis-shoveled. She was finally nursing a water and food by the time Jayce arrived; the bartender meanwhile was washing a combined 12 glasses between Remi and someone she was drinking with who was now gone.(edited)


Jayce looks at her with a seriously concerned look. "Hey Remi...?" He shyly touches her shoulder, trying to grab her attention. "Watson told me I should come see you..."
He sits beside her, turning to face her.

Remi turned her head to him staring at him. Through the drunkenness it was visible she had been crying; how long ago that happened though was unclear. “Hopefully you’ve not come to lecture and then torture me too... like all the damn medical people here...”

He gently reaches to place a hand in her hair, rubbing it gently, him patting her head. "Come on. I wanted to thank you." ... he says, powering through his anxiety and own depression as he sees who he feels is his hero in a hole now the same day she saved him. "They tortured me too... They think I might be a carrier. Some put me through hell in there... threatening my life." he says with a nervous shudder. Following another sentence with a distasteful tone "Such great medics..."

“Eh... more like one of them a long time ago tried to get in my pants... the guy then runs off mid session stopping everything and going off on some shit about let’s just be friends... now has the Gile to tell me to take care of myself and apologize... then I yell at him... from there he more or less calls me a whore... then leaves... fucking people... sex is a huge deal for girls or is he too much of an idiot to see that... I’m... what the hell am I doing!? I just met you and now...” she shakes her head being super judgmental over her actions.(edited)
(she feels bad that she’s unloading her self on him)

"I never understood people like that... Honestly I'm a virgin, so sex isn't a huge drive for me. What matters to me is seeing people happy, even if I'm not. I don't mind you ranting to me about things that happened to you... I mean come on, you spent an hour with me listening to me sob today; it's only fair right?" he lifts his hand off her head, her feeling the caring warmth leave.
"You're also clearly wasted. I can smell it on you Remi. If you .... want? I can walk you to your..." he thinks a moment, having trouble putting together words, her noticing though he's a lot more concise than he was earlier. "... quarters? Room? Something?"(edited)

“... I guess I should go home... it’s a house... one of the few in this place...” Remi said finishing her food. “You’re nice for some reason...” she stands Watson directs Jayce to her house and the two walk. Remi stays silent thinking for a bit; she then says “ getting pissed at myself and trying to hurt myself in VR... then drinking myself into a sex crazed madness and having sex with someone in a bar before you arrived probably wasn’t the best thing for my sanity...” she unloaded.


He sighs out of honest concern. "Sounds like we both need a lot of help... I had a god awful evening being treated like a plague vector..." him walking at her pace... "I understand why, but you would think how I was they'd at least medicate me before I had tried to kill myself from how they treated me..."
"I had to go to a social worker, and a crisis counselor all because my medic put a gun to my head after I was buried away for six months on a flying graveyard...
"What else am i supposed to do...?" ... "Did he honestly expect me not to fucking grab the gun...?"

“... I’m sorry... I should be supporting you... what I’m going through is just another day in the life of Sumire Rembrant...” she said in a cynical way. “You should report that to Dr. Slane; the head of medical... their not supposed to do that; in my case at least it was some misguided form of help in yours it was just abuse”

"No, you're fine. we all need support, at random times." He stops, opening his arms for a hug. "it's your choice, but if you enter the hug, I'm playing best friend for until the night's over."
"I'm honestly medicated to a point of being high... I don't feel as depressed, just... pissed off."

She laughs. “You’re silly in kind of a stupid way... but it’s charming none the less...” she enters the hug.
“A high guy and a drunk girl... that sounds super safe...” she joked

He laughs alongside her, having an honest smile for the first time since he ate with her, eight hours prior. "I've been told that before. Plenty of times." he says as he lets go of the hug. "Damn, now I have to count how many bad idea stories start that way."(edited)

“Nah I’ll just give you an affectionate head pat and we’ll move on...” she said patting his head. The two soon find her house. The two story building with its front yard and back yard was one of a small housing district in the city. She shared it with Ari.

He laughs heartily. "Oh come on, it's the guys job to do the affectionate head pats. Or is this no longer an anime?" he gets to her front door with her, looking at the house and looking back, for a moment he has an upset realization in his eyes.

“Come in... and this is a manga don’t you know... all that meta...” she opens the door smirking. Ari wasn’t here.
Kermit10/09/2018
"oh, so we don't actually have the budget for more than one season?" he sits at the door frame a moment, getting the courage to step in and looking around. "Okay, this is a nice house, I guess royalty do get spoiled at least with property. From what you acted around your dad's military you sound like you didn't get spoiled as a person though."

“I don’t like them.., and eh... multiple volumes.” Remi sat in the living room as the house AI maid came to service them.

"So Remi, uh I'd like to thank you in detail for saving me... The last six months were hell. I just don't quite know how." he rubs the back of his head, brushing his hair back a little.

"Thank me in detail... what does that mean..." She gets a message and has to   head out for a little while. After time Jayce finds her again in her room; she had been drinking among other things; that much was pretty obvious. "What exactly did you mean earlier anyway?" She asked.

"Well, I was taught to always thank someone in a full spitting paragraph, then with favours, or niceties after. I guess though for now just forget it. There's gotta be something later on I can do for you."  he stretches out his back, having slept on a couch the better part of the last three months.

"Why; forget about it... I mean... like if you wanna do that... by all means... What I am saying is; do it because you want to... not because you are obligated to..." Remi gets up from her bed and grabs his arm pulling him to her bed and making him lay down; then she lays next to him. "Sleep here... you deserve it after what you have been through... Remember we are friends; just cause I keep getting called away... doesn't mean that is not the case." She said taking one of his hands into hers.

He awkwardly smiles and looks in her eyes with some shock. "Thank you still so much... I've needed a friend like you a long time..." He begins to relax, holding her hand gently, the mood in the air actually a perfect mix of the start of friendship and romantic. As he lays beside her a moment, his back cracks loudly. "Oh thank god." he moans out then chuckles after.

"its Been a long time since you had a bed, a friend and somewhere to lay your hat... Has it been awhile since...." She lightly kisses him but still just holds his hand after kissing him. She just kept eye contact with him after the kiss closing the distance between them but not getting on top of him or anything; still respecting his space.

He blushes hotly, blinking gently after as in disbelief that she kissed him. Her unaware that was his first kiss "I-I-It has been four months since I've slept in a real bed... almost three since I've talked to anyone other than Watson. Though... this is the first time I've been in a bed with somoene else that wasn't a cat..."
He shyly goes to set an arm on her hip, giggling an a semi effeminate manner... "Hell... first time being kissed too."

"Ironically... that... is a first for me... Usually people are not so indirect and shy... Since Akane anyway... Who was my first..." Remi said as he spoke after putting his hand on  her hip. She looks into his eyes and pulled him closer to her; atop her. "You can sleep in my bed as much as you want... it's safe here... Did you enjoy your first kiss... Lets try again..." She said kissing him again lightly as she clasped her hands into his. Something about her blue eyes and black hair were mesmerizing.

he looks in her eyes in a shy manner, blushing as she has him laying mostly on top of her. "I-I w-would try to get my own place first... B-But I-I did like th- mmf!" she interrupted him mid response to her question, blushing hotly. After a moment he closes his eyes and begins to trust the kiss, gently putting a hand on her cheek, using his thumb to caress both her cheek and just under her hair, breaking it to look in her eyes. "I-I... uh... I've never really done that kind of thing before... b-but now I really see why people like it."
"You're uh, really pretty up close... I never noticed that." He moves back a little, his medicines wearing off, the closeness bothering him a little as he doesn't quite know her yet. Though he's trusting her a lot more than he does most at first.

"It is quite enjoyable... and you don't have to get your own place... We have extra rooms here... That way you are close to someone you trust... If you don't mind sharing the house with two hot girls... I'm glad you are enjoying yourself though... I am too... At least today is ending well... I had a pretty bad go for awhile today but after this and something else... I'm content... So thank you for allowing me this moment." She said smiling at him as she started to have her cheeks turn red and get lost in his eyes; partly from the drinking but partly because she just wanted to trust the newcomer.... "I'm... pretty...  you say..." She lets go of his hands as he sits up. "I'm... sorry... I really-" She turns away still blushing. "Shouldn't have... done that... I always move to fast... Its why everyone rejects me..."(edited)

He gently grabs her mid turn and pulls her in a hug. "No, you're okay... I promise you that." he hesitantly speaks out. "I-I liked t-the moment too. s-something is just telling me to pull away... I want to curl up in the corner... but I'm trying hard to keep my head. After all there's a girl who just kissed me and thinks I'm running away." She sees a chivalrous and caring trait within him peeking out.(edited)

As he pulls her into a hug she stops and her whole self, arms included in front of herself pressed against him. She blushes remaining still as she lets him speak. "u--- your nervous...  I... liked; ... ---" She pauses slowly hesitantly enfolding her arms around him. "I like this... Earlier today--- I wanted to hurt myself; I felt like I was going--- Like I'd lose everyone who cared about me... that frightened me so much.... I dove into a bottle..." Silent tears began to fall from her face.(edited)


He gently pulls her head into his chest. "N-Now I may be having problems myself, but I am here for you. And if you lose everyone before I came in, I'm willing to fill a void. I'm willing to be a friend... maybe more if things go right." She feels him shaking a little nervously, him wanting to let her vent as he did most of the beginning of the day.

She just rests against him her tears stop slowly. “... I’m sorry... it’s the alcohol... I’m just making things worse on you... I’m polyamorous... but I’m starting to wonder if anyone truly understands... what that means... I don’t want you to be pulled too far in... unless—- unless that’s exactly what you want...”

"You are able to love and put your energy towards others... and since... since I've never had a partner If things go the right ways. I'd be okay with it. Though for now.. I need you to relax and trust that there's something good in the future for both of us regardless of what we do personally." he presses his head to the top of hers.
"I just need company that isn't a computer, my right hand, or the many bodies of my coworkers..."

“... I... want... to be able to love anyone who loves me and put energy towards them... if you’ve never- if... - you... I... - would you like to relax together tonight... and just learn what gives us both...” she pauses as he presses his head to hers and then she kisses him again this time putting energy into it.
Her face is turning more red and her eyes closing as she held him close.


he smiles, letting her kiss him as he begins pulling her closer, though the way he holds her hip is rather tight. His inexperience showing through manners like this, after the kiss is finished he gently yawns, the yawn sounding as though he's not slept right in days. Shamefully he has not.(edited)

She released the kiss. She didn’t mind his inexperience but he seemed too tired. “... do you want to make out until you fall asleep... or move further until then... you know have each other... or we can stop and just lay like this?” She asked as she nuzzles him. She in truth wanted to teach him, To have him express his fantasies to her but she didn’t want to go to far and too fast. She didn’t want to betray him. The two eventually fall asleep. 

 

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