Sixth car - Mistletoes! [Action]

[teenagebadboy]

[Unaware of the castle's magic Aaron had ventured outside of his room. He was skilled at that, spending time alone in his room. But today he really wanted some toast. As nothing beat own made toast he had headed towards the kitchen. He was familiar with the tradition of kissing under mistletoes so while he walked through the castle he did his best to avoid them. Until he stepped into the kitchen and suddenly felt overwhelmed with the urge to kiss someone. It shocked him deeply and in confusion he looked up at the mistletoe above him. He cursed under his breath. So this was what he had gotten warned about.]

Bloody castle.

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[babyaliendaddy]

[Tucker is actually heading out to find people to kiss - but of course at this point he had only gotten one good hot-woman kiss out of this thing ... so he was starting to think of this thing as a bust.]

[Then he ran into Aaron - and he was positive. It was a bust.]

...Goddamnit. Why do I keep running into dudes?

[teenagebadboy]

Why don't you avoid them? [Scowls] Look either we get this over with or we won't but this flippin' urge is something i can be without.

[babyaliendaddy]

Fffff, I want to. But you guys keep cropping up. [Lame. A sigh.] Sure, come here. Thank God Donut's not around.

[teenagebadboy]

[Aaron snorts amused and places a quick kiss on Tucker's cheek.]

Good luck finding any ladies in distress then. Who's Donut?

[babyaliendaddy]

[Tucker made a face, but eh, wasn't that bad.]

Oh, I will. And Donut? Well .. he's the most sexually confused guy I know.

[teenagebadboy]

[Aaron do got some experience about kissing guys as he has had three boyfriends so far. But he's still not all that comfortable with PDA.]

Uh-huh. Doesn't he know which way he leans or something?

Hey wasn't you a monk during the Florence world change?

[babyaliendaddy]

Not in the slightest. But he says the goddamned most homosexual things I've ever fucking heard.

[A pause.]

... Yeah. That was me.

[teenagebadboy]

[Shrugs and takes a step back.] Maybe he just enjoy winding people up by saying suck things co he knows they don't like to hear it.

OK. Well it's good to get to know the real you. How much do you remember of that experience?

[babyaliendaddy]

...Yeah no that's my gig. Donut's gig was completely confused and serious at the same time.

[He smirked, faintly, with relief. Whew no questions about religion.] ... Too much, honestly. That was some fucked up shit.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix is, however, not avoiding the decorations whatsoever. He's still trying to place the culprit behind the phenomenon for this year and slowly narrowing it down. He'll not have any chance at winning if he hides in town all the time anyway. He'd actually not even been looking for such an opportunity when he encounters Aaron standing in the middle of the entranceway and stops]

Oh...[A very familiar impulse grips him, and he smiles]...hello....

[teenagebadboy]

[Aaron is not in such a good mood over it however. He doesn't like touching in general unless it's in a more private environment with someone he loves. Even then he's not getting it on all the time. So this experience is especially frustrating for him. When the red haired man approaches him Aaron rolls his eyes.]

Nice one, now you got yourself in the same flippin' situation as I am in. Bloody mistletoes.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix lives in something like a perpetual state hypocrisy given that he also hates being touched under normal circumstances unless it's this sort of thing, and never in public, but he enjoys seeing what reactions he gets too much to care.]

Oh, is that what's doing it?

[This is very helpful information he's filing away even as he steps closer to the younger man, nonchalant as ever]

[teenagebadboy]

Oi! [Aaron cries out and takes a step back. His old habbit to flinch when getting too close to another man is still there.]

Just let's get this over with and be on our seperate way, OK? I don't enjoy this kind of stuff.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix notices that reaction, and raises a delicate brow]

As you wish...

[Instead of moving forward again to close the gap, as the mistletoe is attempting to compel him to, he waits for Aaron to come to him. Neither of them really have a choice in the matter, but giving the younger man agency in the situation gives him at least a little control. It's the least Felix can do to ease whatever fear the Aaron seems to have]

[teenagebadboy]

Cheers. [Aaron responds and presses his lips together into a thin line. He is uneasy, not because it's a guy bur because it's a stranger. His aversion to PDA was still there. He gives himself a moment, pushing back against the urge,before he leans in and places a soft kiss on Felix lips, holding on for a few seconds, before he breaks it.]

[Afterwards he gives the other man a shy look.]

Sorry for before. You're a stranger to me and that makes me feeling uneasy.

[lord_wizard]

[Aaron doesn't give him long to respond, but he does, gentle but completely self-assured. He doesn't touch the other man beyond the flutter of a hand against his arm, but prevents himself from clinging.]

[Instead of irritation, however, Felix only smiles when Aaron steps away.]

I understand. Though we can amend that now, if you wish.

[He starts to move casually into the kitchen, though clearly to resume his earlier task of finding food and not to run away.]

[teenagebadboy]

What do you mean? [Aaron asks with a frown on his face.]

[peacockherald]

<sub>[ The kitchen was always a good place. It had been a good place for most of Vanyel's memory, and still served so now. He had made cookies here, and though he could wish for things like tea and cocoa, he enjoyed making it himself.

It was this want that drew him in now, only to late feeling the tug of magic - of Castle magic, the mistle toe magic. Havens!

He glanced around the kitchen, hoping no one was about, but his hopes dashed, seeing Aaron. Well, he would resist as long as he could...]</sub>

Looking for a snack?

[teenagebadboy]

[Aaron is still wound up over the damn castle magic so he'll just scowl back at the other man.]

I was until I that magic mistletoe did its magic. Never leaving my room ever again. Can't believe people find this kissing stuff as some flippin' game.

[peacockherald]

_{[ He gave him a look that said he shared the other's grievance, though with less vehemence. It was not the kissing that bothered him - he thought the tradition cute, actually - but the magic involved to make it happen, the working on the mind. It sat wrong with him, though there was little to be done for it as he came further into the kitchen and near to Aaron, opening cupboards in search of nothing in particular now. ]}

I think it just helps them get through it - thinking it's a game, treating it like that. If the Castle is to force it upon us, why not turn it into something like that?

[teenagebadboy]

Fair enough. [Leans towards the bench.] But I doesn't like this urge to have to kiss someone, like now. I can kiss someone I like but I don't want to be forced into it or have people staring at me as I do so.

[peacockherald]

I understand. Do not misunderstand, I enjoy kissing, but this is... to me it seems like mind magic, and that is not ethical where I am from. It is a thing for Dark Wizards, and I have dealt with enough of them to know it is bad news.

_{[ He shook his head and looked back at Aaron, eyes going over the young man and finding him not unattractive. He was not Tylendel, but in other circumstances, perhaps...}

No. That was the magic talking. Not that Aaron was unattractive, but he would not - oh this was confusing now. ]

[teenagebadboy]

It'd not ethical in my eyes either even though there isn't any wizards where I ma from. It's mind control and I doubt that's right anywhere.

[He licks his dry lips and observs the other man. He had to admitt that there was something about him. Wheather he found it attractive or not was something he was unclear to. He had no frame, yet, to judge attractivness of men against as he was so new to these feelings.]

I'm doing my best to fight back aginst it. But it's hard.

[peacockherald]

Well, it depends on the person, but to me? No, it is not right, and if there was ever a reason to dislike the Castle it is things like this.

And if you want my advice, don't fight it. You really can't, in the end, and it is easier just to do what it asks and release yourself for a bit.

_{[ He smiled sympathetically at him, coming over to sit beside the young man. ]}

My name is Vanyel.

[teenagebadboy]

Yeah... [Aaron trails off as his gaze starts travelling between Vanyel's lips and eyes. The urge is just too overwhelming and slowly Aaron leans forward towards the other man, sucking in his dry lips as he does so, feeling nervous and uncertain.]

Aaron. [He responds with a nod temporarily stopping himself for going further.]