aurora rising one shots, volume two.

Art by yours truly + a one shot of sorts

^^
that's it
that's what I just spent an hOUR AND A HALF ON—
also Kal with his hair in a bun and a knife in it bc why the hells not.

Auri do be vibing though.
wonder what she's listening to?

it's so bad skebwjsnrnenajjdbenw

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Aurora sits in the airlock with her head resting against the metal and her legs crossed, old headphones in and an a easy smile lighting her freckled face.

She looks beautiful.

I cycle the airlock open, and Aurora jumps, roughly tugging the headphones out of her ears and letting them fall to the floor.

She barely relaxes when she realises it's me.

"Hey, Legolas." She sighs, and shifts her body, inviting me to sit next to her.

Not wanting to miss opportunity I sit next to her, stretching my legs across the smooth floor.

"What'd you come up here for?" She asks, placing the Uniglass in her lap.

"Tyler wanted to check in on you," I say, like a complete liar.

He didn't.
I just wanted to see if she was okay.

"Also, it's cold. Do you want my jacket?" I ask, shrugging my Tank jacket off and handing it to her.

"Thanks, Kal." She murmurs, shifting her body so she can pull in her jacket.

She looks even more beautiful in my clothes.

"You look good with your hair up like that," Auri compliments, waving her hand in the direction of my hair, which is up in a bun ,"it's different, but good."

"Different but good." I echo, and thinking for a moment, I blurt something out ,"do you want me to do yours?"

"My what?"

"Hair."

She giggles ,"sounds like something my friends used to do back on Terra in New York. It was like a tradition. But yeah, sure, go for it."
"Have you got, like, a brush or something?"

"...no."

"I'll go get one." She giggles, and goes to stand up, but I tug on her arm.

"I'll go. You stay here." I say with a slight smile, getting up and opening the airlock.

I almost run to my room, grabbing a bright blue plastic hairbrush from my bed and an abundance of hair ties.

Now I run to the galley, pulling cookies and chocolate from the shelves and sprinting back to the airlock, my bun coming undone in the process.

I punch in the pin for the airlock and slide inside.

"Okay, I'm here." I breathe, dumping food and various hair supplies onto the floor.

"Holy cake, okay." She giggles ,"that's a lot."

"Yes." I grin, and sit down behind her, starting to brush her short hair.

Aurora leans over, stealing some chocolate while tapping away at her Uniglass.

Soft music spills into the room as I begin to braid her hair.

It's nice.
For some reason, the song sums up Aurora.
I don't know why though.

By the third braid, the song ends, switching to another that I don't like quite as much.

"This feels really nice." Aurora murmurs, still munching on chocolate.

"Why thank you." I almost laugh.

"You're nice when you're like this," she breathes ,"it's cute."

And I swear, my heart stops.
"Cute?"

"Cute." She confirms.

"O-oh."

I finish doing her hair, and brush mine roughly as it falls to my waist.

"I need to go. I'm on watch at three." I murmur.

She groans.
"Oh, god I feel sorry for you." 

I smile softly, and go to leave.

"Oh, and Kal?" She asks, and I turn ,"this was nice. Can we do this again?"

"Yes. I...I liked it too. Tomorrow night?"

"Tomorrow night." She confirms ,"see you then, Legolas."

I grin broadly now, and leave the airlock, and am unable to sleep for the rest of the night.