Who: Kitty and Rikku What: Kitty shows Rikku off some shiar tech, and there's talk about just what handbasket they're in and where it's going. When: Sunday Where: Rikku’s place Rating: PG-13
Kitty swung by Rikku’s in her truck. She had some equipment in the back and some food up front. She spent a full five minutes trying to tame her hair in the mirror before giving up and sliding out of the vehicle.
She might have worn a little bit of make-up. She hoped she didn’t look tarted up.
Even if she had, Rikku would’ve liked it; Rikku was good with makeup but she tended to err on the side of bright colors. Green eyeliner was just fun, darn it. She was in her living room, sprawled on a tarp, welding bits to her Feline Hug Bot.
Kitty pulled the equipment onto a trolley and lugged it towards the apartment. There was a white sheet over it, and she fidgetted nervously as she knocked. She could have just phased in but god only knew what she’d witness.
Oh that just made it more tempting.
Humming a little to the radio, Rikku was wearing grease spattered overalls with no shirt, and a her goggles. She was completely unaware that it was Kitty at the door when she heard the knock. Instead, she just hopped up, bouncing over to the front door and swinging it open. When she saw it was Kitty, her face lit up.
“KittyKitty!” She couldn’t help it, her arms wrapped around the other girl’s neck, tugging her down for a kiss.
"Hey!" Kitty hugged Rikku, then forgot how to breath when their lips met. "Oh..." Like she'd forgotten how awesome that was. She rubbed against Rikku a little bit like a cat.
Grinning, Rikku let her hands run over Kitty’s arms. “Hi. Come in! I’m glad you’re here!”
“Hi.” She held up a finger then turned to grab the trolley. She felt drawn to Rikku like a magnet. If she could get away with seeing her every day she could, and that actually scared her a little. She didn’t want to get hurt again.
“Oooh, what’s that?” Rikku bounced up and down a little, jumping up to see if she could get a view of what Kitty was pulling.
“I promised I’d show you some of my tech, didn’t i?” Kitty said, pulling it into the living room and then turning to lean against it. “It’s not even the whole thing, but it’s enough to really show you.” She lifted her hand and ran it through her hair, pushing her curls back, nervously.
Rikku’s eyes just went wide. She just wanted to poke it and see what it did and take it apart and rebuild it - but that would be rude. So she just sat on her hands.
Kitty grinned, and with a flourish pulled the sheet off of what looked like an engine. Only it was an engine unlike anything Rikku had probably seen before. "It's not the whole thing, but it'll run and we can play with it. Showed up in my garage a few weeks ago. Things have been crazy so I haven't had time to do anything with it. I'll probably put it in the VW bug I'm modding." She grinned at Rikku.
“Only if you want it to fly!” Rikku’s eyes went wide, and she bounced up and down a little, running over to poke it.
“Well that might be a goal for me and Nate,” Kitty said, nodding. She wasn’t sure of the status of their project, she really should check. He might have some ideas of what to do with this engine. “Don’t worry about breaking things, we can fix it up.”
Rikku nodded, sitting down and starting to tinker with the engine, taking apart single pieces and putting them back together. While doing so, she used a remote to activate the Kitty Hug Bot, smiling when it worked as programmed, walking towards Kitty and rubbing against her legs like a real cat.
Kitty laughed. “Oh it’s really working!” She knelt to pat it’s head. “It’s kind of adorable. And a little creepy. But adorable.”
The mechanical cat stood on its hind legs, wrapping its front paws around Kitty’s leg. Rikku beamed. “I’m just glad I got it to walk pretty convincingly.”
“What did you use? Some kind of fiber optics?” She thought Rikku would be amazed if she saw a Sentinel or someone like Forge. Actually, she thought Rikku would probably run away with Forge. Bastard.
“No?” Rikku shrugged. “Just some uh. Um.” She sighed and showed Kitty something she’d been doing with old solar panels and gum wrappers.
“You’re brilliant.” Kitty slipped her arms around RIkku and squeezed her from behind. She kissed her shoulder. “Hey..get me a list of parts you need. I’ll try to get them for you.”
“But how do I know what I need until I need it?” Rikku blinked, smiling and purring a little at the kiss to her shoulder.
Kitty’s kiss changed to a bit of a nibble. “Mmm.. We can guess? I can get you some stuff to help with..I don’t know. I have some ideas. How would you like some real robot parts?” Just not the AI. No one needed a Sentinel AI.
Rikku’s eyes went wide. “Yes please?” She giggled, purring at the nibble and leaning backward into Kitty.
She hugged Rikku a bit, and then stroked fingers at her hips. “I’ll see what I can do.We’ve been studying some parts, and as long as the brain doesn’t get out, it’s safe.”
“I’d rather wire my own brain, thanks.” Rikku turned to wrap her arms around Kitty, straddling her lap. “Hey. Um. KittyKitty?” Rikku’s cheeks were berry pink, and she bit her lower lip. “I like you. Like, I like like you.” Not the most adult way to phrase it, but Rikku was girlish even though she was legally a grownup.
Kitty blinked at her, her own face turning a little red. She wasn’t sure she was ready for this conversation, even phrased that way! “...Yeah? And how do you like-like me?”
Kitty was getting pink, and Rikku let her fingers brush her cheek. “I’d be sad if I had to kiss someone else.” It was that simple, wasn’t it?
“I might get hurt...might get you hurt, I mean.” She closed her eyes and leaned into the touch.
“I don’t mind,” Rikku shrugged. She reached up to run her fingers through Kitty’s hair. “If I get to have you, it kind of balances out, doesn’t it?”
“Nnn...the hair is cheating,” Kitty replied, laughing lightly and leaning more into the touch. “Might..balance out. But..” Too many buts in her life. She really, really liked Rikku, but part of her worried she wasn’t good for the girl, and not just over safety concerns. She was a hot mess emotionally.
But the way Rikku was touching her hair, the look in her eyes... “I really like you too, Rikku. You’re sweet, and smart, and funny. I do want to see where this goes. I’m just … I have a really low opinion of my ability to last in a relationship. It’s only fair to warn you now.” She laughed nervously.
“Well, we’ll find out, won’t we?” Rikku laughed, scritching Kitty’s scalp. “We can just go slow and stuff, right?”
"Slow yeah...I guess I won't be pinning you to the bed anytime soon." Another thing that Kitty failed at miserably. Slow. "Your older brother or something won't kick my butt?"
“I mean with the feelings. We can still... you know. On our third date.” Rikku giggled. “Brother? He’d try, but he’d just yell a lot. He’s not scary.”
“Anyone else I need to worry about?” Kitty slid her hands under the back of Rikku’s shirt, stroking her skin lightly and nuzzling her nose into the girl’s throat. She smelled good, and it made Kitty purr.
Rikku smiled, shaking her head. “I mean, Pops, but he’d just grumble at anyone I dated. Not just ‘cause it’s you.”
“And not just ‘cause I’m a girl?” Kitty asked, raising her eyebrows. “I mean..when I came out to my mom..well we haven’t spoken much since then. I pretty much no longer exist to her.”
“Oh, Pops wouldn’t care. He just wants me to never have sex ever. I told him I did it ages ago even though I hadn’t, just ‘cause I hoped he would let it drop. But noooooo, he keeps harping on about it.”
Kitty flushed. “I’m still worried I’m not going to live up to any expectations you might have.” She stroked her fingers in circles, then leaned in and kissed the side of Rikku’s face.
“Expectations of what?” Rikku blinked, turning so she was facing Kitty.
“How good a shag I am?” Kitty asked. She grinned. She liked that word, it felt better to say than sex or fucking. “I mean, I might be your first. That’s a lot of pressure. Never been with a virgin before.”
“You would be.” Rikku wasn’t ashamed of being a virgin. “And I know my first time will probably suck, honestly.” That was something that Rikku had counted on for a long while.
Kitty grinned at her. “My first time with a woman was really good, but she knew what she was doing. That’s all I wanna do for you.”
“Honestly, if we get to cuddle after, that’s all I care about.” Rikku blushed a little, chuckling and looking down.
“We can cuddle without that,” Kitty pointed out, lifting Rikku’s face up by the chin. “It’s just really nice after.” Maybe the fourth date, and not the third. Kitty smirked and kissed the tip of her nose. “Because I really like you, Rikku.”
“I like you too, Kitty.” Rikku bit her lip as she wrinkled her nose. “We should cuddle lots.”
She grinned, fingers stroking around to Rikku’s ribs.. “Well you can’t cuddle me and play with engine parts at the same time, you know.”
“Says who?” Rikku laughed, but she put down her welding tools and the part she had in her hand. “I guess if you say so. C’mon, let me wash my hands and we can snuggle.”
Laughing, Kitty kissed Rikku. It was like a jolt down to her toes and she kissed the girl like a junkie needing her fix.
Rikku couldn’t help it. Whenever Kitty kissed her, whenever she pulled her close like this, it made Rikku purr and pull her close. Gently nibbling Kitty’s lower lip, Rikku pulled Kitty even closer, hands on the older girl’s trim hips.
That thing. That thing about moving slow? Wasn't on Kitty's mind right now. She drew Rikku into a deeper kiss, until she couldn't really take it any more and tilted her head back with a groan, sucking in air. "Can I just say how jealous I am of your skin?"
That wasn’t what she meant to say, and she giggled.
“Why?” Rikku tiptoed up to kiss Kitty’s neck, nibbling gently. “It’s just skin.”
“It’s so smooth, and soft, and creamy,” Kitty said fingers trailing in little circles around some of Rikku’s ribs. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back, sighing happily. “So for our next date, I was going to borrow that Jet I was talking about, or do you want to show me yours.” She considered it. “Show me yours first, then I’ll show you mine.”
“Yours is too, though!” To demonstrate, Rikku ran her fingers over Kitty’s stomach, smiling to herself. “I don’t have a jet, but I can show you some of the engines I work on?”
She shivered. “That’ll be fun.” She sounded winded. “I like to see where you get your hands dirty...”
Kissing along Kitty’s neck, Rikku smiled to herself. “That’ll be fun, I think.” She kind of wanted to just lay on the floor with Kitty, tangling their legs together and wrapping her arms around her.
As if reading unspoken signals, Kitty pulled Rikku down for just that, a hand sliding around the waistband of Rikku's pants, before resting on the small of her back. She threaded their legs together, and held Rikku's face against her throat. She laughed softly. “Tickles.”
Rikku smiled, snuggling into Kitty’s touch. But when Kitty said that it tickled, Rikku couldn’t help herself and blew a raspberry on Kitty’s neck.
Kitty laughed, flailing against Rikku before hugging her tight. She kissed the mechanic's forehead and then rested her cheek there. She enjoyed this feeling of discovery and ... newness, but worried about what would happen when it wore off. If it wore off. Right now she could feel like this forever.
Kitty flailing and giggles made Rikku smile. She really liked this comfortable feeling, cosy and close. “Kitty? I like this a lot.”
“Yeah?” She squeezed Rikku’s butt, then brought her hand up to stroke her face. “Me too. I hope you don’t have anywhere to be for awhile, I don’t think I’m gonna let go.” She lowered her voice to a stage whisper. “I’m neeeedy.”
“Oh, you are not, or I’d tell you so.” She wrinkled her nose and kissed her again, amused that Kitty seemed to think very different things about her than Rikku did.
“A good needy maybe? I like touching, being touched, and holding, and you’re brilliant so I like sexy brains too...” Kitty smirked, closing her eyes into the kiss and letting out a joyful little noise.
“Then I guess I’m needy too,” Rikku murmured. She really just liked kissing her best friend, really just liked being close to her.
Kitty giggles, each kiss like a shock down her spine. She’d let go tomorrow. Maybe. If she decided that was a good idea.