Shiro & Alex, backdated to June 7th

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Another for the wayback machine, which has been hiding in our inboxes for days. Just a fluffy bit of Shiro and Alex going on an actual date. Conversation does get a bit deep, but they easily change subjects to something more interesting to two healthy young men.


Shiro screwed his eyes shut for a second as he left the cool, dark theater to quickly reorient himself to the lights of the cinema lobby. He ignored the excited chatter around him and raised an eyebrow at his companion. "I know it was not that good," he said as he tossed his soda cup into the trash, "But you did not have to cringe the entire time. There are worse films."

The moment the lights had gone up, Alex had let go of Shiro's arm but the slight bruises could still be seen from where Alex had been clutching it. "Trust me, it wasn't the quality," he said through slightly clenched teeth as he took threw away his soda.

"Was it the tentacles?" Shiro asked lightly. "I bet it was the tentacles. Don't let the tentacles bother you. They are all gone now." He gently placed a hand on the small of Alex's back to guide him out of the theater and into the warm, humid New York air.

Alex gave him a small glare before a look of thanks for the leading. Then he sighed, feeling better being outside as the sun hit him and interacted with his power. "I wish it was the tentacles. They made me laugh, thinking about that tentacle fetish your country seems to have. They must love Davy Jones." He said with a small smile, clearly just kidding.

"Tentacles belong on squid, which belong in my stomach," Shiro sagely informed Alex. "That scene where he inserted a tentacle up that man's nose? Ugh." He shuddered. "The writers have been watching too much hentai." A slight nudge, and they were on their way down the street to an ice cream parlor. The bells perched on the door welcome them with a pleasant jingle. "So what is bothering you, then?"

Alex ignored the question until they had ordered and were sitting down. He looked down at his ice cream, put a large bite on his spoon, then said "Calypso." Really quickly before shoving the spoon in his mouth.

That gave Shiro pause. "Calypso? Why would that . . . Oh." The sudden flush on his cheeks was nearly the same color as his strawberry ice cream, which he promptly scooped into his mouth. Crazy old goddess unlocked from a mortal prison who goes berserk. Figures that Alex might have an issue with that.

Taking his time to lick his own chocolate off the spoon, he finally sighed. "It's pathetic, I'm sorry. It's stupid but it was...too close to home. Who else can say that about a fake pirate movie? Stupid, right?" He tried brushing it off, but he was clearly unsuccessful.

"Probably," Shiro admitted, "But no less legitimate. Especially when you take into consideration that the X-Men disbanded yet another Selene cult recently. But, you know, this was just a poorly directed and poorly acted summer 'blockbuster.' You could just be overreacting to the all trash that Bruckheimer puts on screen."

Despite having finally gotten over his nightmares, Alex still flinched slightly at her name. "I wish... And the acting wasn't that bad." Change of subject, the Summers special. "Barbossa wasn't so bad, neither was that bad guy, the un-tentacley one."

Shiro licked his spoon clean, and provocatively pulled the utensil out of his mouth, just to see what kind of reaction he could get out of Alex. Anything to cheer him up. "Captain 'I am steleotypicarry Chinese and I wirr kirr you' Sao Feng?" he supplied before licking another spoonful, his tonque playfully darting over the frozen confection.

Shiro succeeded as Alex smiled slightly at the display. Then he laughed at Shiro's impersonation. "No no, the little British guy. He was cool. And I could keep track what side he was on...well for most of the movie."

"I was lost halfway through," Shiro admitted, "So I just stopped paying attention to that and focused on all of the special effects. Did you see the credits listing? More people worked on this movie than live in Kyoto." He smiled a tad bashfully, tried to cover it up by hiding behind another spoonful, and said something that might have meant "I think I want to do that" had he not been mumbling into his snack.

Alex beamed at the thought, being able to read his best friend better then anyone. "They were really awesome. Davy Jones was amazing!" He paused for effect before saying with a small hint in his voice. "You'd be really good at that, ya know?"

"We learn some computer programming at school, but that is not what I really enjoy, anyway. I like the design and the preparation. Shocking that I want to design video games and movies, ne?" Oh look, no more ice cream. But he shoved his spoon into his mouth to keep from saying more.

Reaching across the table, Alex pulled the spoon from Shiro's mouth. "Someone's gotta do it. And you'd be good! You come up with some pretty awesome stuff!" He meant it too. Shiro was always coming with amazing stuff, though he never seemed to believe it when Alex told him so.

Alex always made Shiro feel like a blushing schoolgirl. "You are just saying that because I have seen you naked." Which evoked certain images that made him turn even more red, but also smile a little.

That just made Alex laugh. "I let you draw me naked, too. You'd think I let just anyone do that?" Hell he already had Shiro blushing, might as well keep it up.

"You like to spend your time in hot air only wearing shorts and soaking wet," Shiro managed to say around the lump growing in his throat. "You have no shame."

Alex leaned over the table with a grin. "No...but you’re one of very few people who have seen me without the shorts on. And you gotta admit, they cover the best part." Okay so he really didn't believe that about himself (his hair was his beat feature after all) but the way Shiro was getting worked up was priceless!

"You only say this to me because you are trying to kill me." Oh, the woes of being a sexually active twenty year-old. "How can you treat me so?"

"Because I love you. of course." Alex said with a big grin before taking a large bite of chocolate ice cream. And he meant it, despite his teasing tone.