Zenith notes that she's chatting with the clerk, but doesn't really give it much thought. He walks over and picks up a Deadpool comic. He flips through it a little, and immediately decides he likes Deadpool. Checking the price of the comics and how much money he has on hand, he decides he can afford three of them with his current budget.
He picks out three comics about the merc and goes up to the counter. He waits patiently behind Evelyn, not sure if she's just talking or trying to buy something.
(He is so bad at flirting things it doesn't even cross his mind that she might be doing that- even after he hears what she's saying, unless she's bluntly asking him out)
She smiles and writes down her number on the guys hand, grabs the comics from Zenith, and pays for them, and sticks them in her bag, then walks off, giving the cat some last minute luvin's. "Now then, off to the library. I have some books I gotta recheck out anyways." She says with a shrug.
Zenith smiles, waves goodbye to the clerk, thinking nothing of the number on his hand. Without Evelyn noticing, he slips the money that the comics were worth into her bag. "The library sounds good. I mean, if you were inviting me to come along."
"Course I am." She nodded as suddenly she got an idea. She walked behind him, and put him on her shoulders, and hands him her bag. "Here. Hold this." She then tapped her shoes together, and took off skating at top speed, just barely able to dodge people and trash cans and such. Everything was going by in a blur as she even dared to leap over things, and sometimes would spin around or go backwards, laughing widely. (YAY CORRUPTION!)
Zenith is holding onto the bag and laughing. He's always liked high speeds- y'know, unless it was a high speed object hitting him. That wasn't so fun. Zenith shoves those thoughts out of his head and just enjoys the ride, laughing as they make their way to the library.
Now, little does Zenith know, Evelyn's way of stopping is crashing, so she turns around and smacks right into the building."Ah shit, that fucking hurt. That's gonna leave some bruises and scratches in the morning." She sighs and sets him down carefully, and taps her feet together, and sits down. "Jeeze are my legs sore. Oh well." (Carry her I dare you, she's gonna be all blushy and quiet and cute and he may get kissed again who knows)
Zenith's injuries heal in seconds, bruises fading away and cuts vanishing. Zenith gets to his feet. "You okay? You seem to be crashing into things a lot." He hesitates a moment. "You okay to walk? If necessary, I can take you back to my place and call a friend- John's a nurse, he can probably help."
"N-naw it's fine." She shakily tries to get up, and nearly falls over twice. "At least I don't have skates on huh?" She smiled and finally stands up, and immediately sits down again. "Nope. My legs are too sore. May have pulled a muscle. Nothing a nurse can help with except get me an icepack and call me an idiot."
Zenith picks her up bridal style. "Here, my place isn't too far." He silently complains about how Crystal is going to yell at him and Katsumi tease him. "I mean, technically I live there, Katsumi, Crystal, Cherry and I all live together. But if we hide in my room and drag John through the window we'll probably be fine. And don't worry- the only person John actually insults is me."
"Wait no I-ahck!" She blushed and turned away, all embarrassed. "Seriously, I don't have any broken bones. I just need to sit somewhere and rest. Be cuddled. Have a leg massage. Something like that."
"I don't know much about normal people's injuries, but I'm pretty sure you don't need broken bones to be badly hurt. And you can rest in my place. I've got video games- will you be my player two?" Zenith knows that John has said that last bit to him before, so it's probably a saying. "As for cuddles, well, never really done that before, but how hard can it be?"
(John may have a crush on a oblivious Zenith)
"As long as you'll be my player one." She flirted back, kissing his cheek with a smile. (OH I CAN TELL and Evelyn's gonna have to protecc) "Cuddles are great. It's a good connection, a safe place."
Zenith resists the urge to question what the lip-touching means. "I mean, yeah, that's implied, if you're player two its implied I'll be player one."
"It's a romantic thing, and a reference to a musical. Basically you just asked me out. And I accept. Also that's a kiss, it's a sign of affection and love, in case you didn't know." It could mean other things as well but she wouldn't tell him about the sexual aspects of lips and kisses until he was good and ready.
Zenith blinks. "Oh. Wait…" His thoughts flash back to John, the person who said that to him. "You sure it's not just a figure of speech?" He's not entirely sure what she's referring to when she says 'kiss' but maybe it's best not to ask.
"Nope." She shook her head. "Awful clever of you though." She smiled as she sat in her arms. Her guitar case was floating alongside them.
Zenith silently swears as he realizes that John was flirting with him and wonders how he's going to react to Evelyn. "Oh. I didn't realize that." He gives a small nervous laugh. Finally, they reach Zenith's place.
He steps inside, and it's a bar. "This is just the downstairs- Katsumi and Crystal run a business here." He explains. He starts walking up the stairs.
"Zenith what the f*ck is going- who is that?" A girl with long, dark hair and caramel skin storms into the room.
"This is Evelyn, we're going upstairs now, tell Crystal I said hi." Without waiting for a response, he quickly walks the rest of the way to his room, carefully sets Evelyn down on the couch, then closes and locks the door. He breathes a sigh of relief. "Thats Katsumi. I think her sole purpose in life is to make mine hell."
She laughs. "Hey, I have a few siblings that they are convinced that's MY sole purpose." She said as she stretched out, and relaxed. "Hey thanks for carrying me by the way. That was super nice of you." She got a text and immediately responded back. "Really there's no need to bring in a nurse. I'm fine. Really."
Zenith hesitates. It would probably be better not to call John… but still…
He glances at her injuries. Before he can think, he says- "I can heal them in less than a minute if you'd like."
Oh. Oh no. Why did he just say that, he's going to share his secret and she's going to try to turn him into the government, holy f*ck why did he say that?!
"Naw. It's fine. Magical healing ruins the natural healing process and if you do it often enough your body won't be able to heal itself at all. You could die by a paper cut because you'd never stop bleeding." She shook her head. "I'm alright. I'm in the hospital like almost every week, I'm okay."
Zenith glances away. "It's not really magic. More of a technological property of an artificial creation."
He needs to stop talking. Like, right now. Why can't he shut up??? Why???
(AHHHHH THIS IS GREAT) "Oh? Well then I guess it's alright, long as it doesn't screw me up more than I already am." She shrugged and stretched her arms, lifting up her shirt, showing off her stomach a bit. She stayed like that, looking at him with a lazy smile as she yawned.
Zenith hesitates. Well, better to get it over with. "Okay, so, one small detail I left out… I, uh, technological thing is my blood because I was artificially created and I my DNA was so heavily altered that I'm near immortal and I heal from almost everything and my blood has the property to heal others because of that- you can say no."
Okay maybe he shouldn't have said that all in one breath.
"Wait so I gotta drink your blood. Hm. Ya know, not the weirdest thing I've done. Or heard. That's really cool." She was still super nonchalant about it. It was nice to know, but didn't affect her all that much.
Zenith pauses. "Well, drinking it removes any internal damage or a lack of magic, but the best way to heal external injuries is probably to put the blood on the wound."
He hesitates, still waiting for her to freak out.
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