♡Valentines day♡

Too much happening at once can lead to disaster

Kwazii was talking with Shellington in the medbay. Having used to date each other, they were very close as friends. Kwazii was leaning on the wall while Shellington leaned on him.
“You doing anything for V-day then?” Kwazii asked,

Shellington sighed.
“I mean… i was gonna do something special for Dashi but i guess ive kind of fucked up the chances of that…” they frowned. Kwazii squeezed his friend’s shoulder. Shellington was much taller than Kwazii (him being around 6,1 and Kwazii 5,6) so the position they were in was a little uncomfortable but neither of them really cared.
“Cheer up mate, I'm sure Dashi will figure something out,” Kwazii smiled thoughtfully.

Shellington just shrugged. Kwazii was right though.

Dashi, finding herself with only one day to get her shit together, was out in the ocean. She had found a huge patch of bioluminescent algae, and had started to scoop some up into a big chemical flask. The glass bottle glowed like a star in her hands. The minty green colour made it look mystic and mysterious.

Of course, Tweak was with her. She was somewhere else, collecting bits of seaweed for the ‘medbay display’ as her and Dashi called it. Origianally Dashi was going to bring her partner out to the ocean, but now, she was going to bring the ocean to them.
“Tweak!!” she called over her helmet radio,

Tweak got the signal, although it sounded a bit fuzzy, being down so deep.
“Yeah?”

“Hows getting the seaweed going?” Dashi asked, knowing the limited time she had.

“its going good. Ive found loads of different colours, and the sea creatures around it are happy to let me take a little bit” Tweak smiled, although Dashi (obviously) couldnt see that.

“Thats great. Keep it up Tweaky”

Dashi ended the radio call and continued collecting pretty samples of things. She needed everything she could find to make Shellington’s and Her day special.

She pulled a few strands of seaweed from a cliffside.

-CRASH-

“Dashi? DASHI!?” Tweak panicked over her helmet radio. She put her samples in the gup-A and swam as fast as her legs would let her towoards her friend. She gasped as she saw Dashi struggling, with a big rock on top of one leg. It wasnt big enough to put her in a wheelchair or something, but her leg definatley did not go unharmed. Tweak went over and attempted to move Dashi from under the boulder, but stopped as she heard Dashi’s breathing speed up. Dashi was having a panic attack.

Dashi began to cry. Her breath shook as the tears silently rolled down her face and dripped onto her helmet. Tweak was off in her own world

“CAP’T. YEAH I DONT FUCKING CARE IF YOURE DOING SOMETHING. DASHI’S LEG IS BROKEN” she yelled into her radio.

“Okay! Im on my way down with peso already! Calm down…” Barnacles said over his radio. Him and peso sped down in the gup-C (being that the girls were in the gup-A).

Dashi started to sob loudly. Tweak wrapped her in a hug, which Dashi returned. She cried into her friends shoulder, trembling out of the insane mix of emotions.

She closed her eyes and sighed. If she could sleep, she could escape this hell…

…

Blinding white light. Dashi slowly woke up, holding her body up with her elbows. She noticed her clothes had changed, from her usual… what was she wearing before?

…why was she in the medbay?

She felt a warm hand slip into hers. She wearily turned her head to see the brown skinned, soft hand that had intwined its way into hers. She looked up the arm and eventually saw the face she hoped shed see. Shellington worriedly looked down on her, but avoided eye contact. Not because they were being rude, or he was checking her out, it was just a thing he did.

They lied down next to Dashi and gave her a gentle kiss on the lips.
“what happened to me…” she groaned quietly

“you and tweak were out and you broke your leg” Shellington replied. Dashi looked down a little and saw her right leg in a cast. She made a loud groaning sound
“fuuuuuuuuuuuck…”

“At least we can spend valentines in here together? I dunno…” Shellington shyly said, as their cheeks went a dark peach shade, that complimented his skin. Dashi wrapped an arm around Shellingtons waist and made him move closer.
“that’d be nice Ku'uipo…” She half smiled.

Although Dashi was just happy to be with her partner, her mind was a cloud of dread. How was she going to make valentines special of she was stuck in a cast and crutches. All she wanted to do was make the day special for him. Honestly, shed tried to do that so much, she had forgotten to keep herself smiling too.

She sighed. Shellington got out of Dashi’s bed and walked over to the sink to get some water.
“Do you want anything? My rib isnt at all healed, but i can get out of bed now… i could get you some kelp cakes?” Shellington asked as they filled up a water bottle. Dashi smiled to herself
“Yeah…” she said.

Shellington kissed her forehead as he left the medbay. Dashi dramatically screamed into her pillow. The ring shed bought hadnt even arrived yet. It was a white gold ring with a tiny peice of obsidian. It was kind of a girly ring, but Shellington wouldnt give a fuck. Obsidian is a stone that can help someone turn away from the darkness and accept love from themselves and others, which was perfect for Shellington, as he was doing just that to try and recover from their recent depression. Dashi cursed herself for basically anything she could think about in that moment.

Dashi sniffed a little. She hadnt even realised she was crying, let alone upset… Her partner walked back in the room with a plate of 4 strawberry kelp cakes. Shellington saw their girlfriend silently crying on her bed.

“Oh Dashi…” he said as they got in the bed and lied face to face. Shellington held her hand and put his other arm around her waist.
“Keep crying, leannan*… you need this.”

Shellington was always good at telling of something was wrong, and the best was to deal with something wrong, was to let it all out. If Dashi was crying, they’d let her. Of course hed comfort her, but not by forcing her to smile…

There was no point trying to keep her upbeat and happy if she wasnt ready for that yet, and Dashi loved Shellington for that.

(leannan* - scottish gaelic for sweetheart or love. The previous word is Bràmair which means boyfriend 😭😭😭)