Literally Pirateninja (shadowcat) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2020-01-13 00:09:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, diana prince (wonder woman), kitty pryde (shadowcat) |
Diana
Who: Kitty and Diana
What: Birthday Skydiving
When: 12/9
Where: Up up and away
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13
It was Kitty’s birthday, so celebrating was going to be happening. The first phase of which was going skydiving. Now, Diana had never gone skydiving before. At least not in the sense of what they were about to do. But she wasn’t going to cheat and use her flying ability here, she was going to do it according to how it was supposed to be done.
So it was getting in their gear and getting into the plane. Diana had put her hair into a fishtail braid, perhaps a bit of an unconscious choice considering she’d worn her hair in a fishtail braid while she’d been on Themyscira before leaving with Steve Trevor to find Ares. But that was neither here nor there. Instead, she was focused on the moment and on Kitty. Diana could already feel the adrenaline begin as the plane got ready to take off. She might’ve even been grinning already.
One thing Kitty had never actually told Diana (though she couldn’t remember if she’d ever mentioned it online) was that she had experience sky diving without a parachute.
Granted, Kitty had been unconscious at the time and falling from an exploding orbital space station asteroid but that was besides the point; her powers allowed her to float on air. And then there’d been the time her airliner had gone down but Kitty didn’t want to think about Xi’an’s death right now.
Sometimes you had to be excited about plummeting at near terminal velocity and hey it was probably a sign of growth that she was willing to do this.
She just needed to not be distracted by Diana in a fishtail braid. Or in skydiving gear. “Excited?”
Looking over at Kitty, Diana nodded. “I am. I have not actually been skydiving before.” Which she wasn’t sure if she’d said that before or not, but there it was. Diana wasn’t afraid to try new things, so that was never in question. In fact, she’d possibly be prone to jumping out of the plane before being told that it was time to do so.
“It’ll be fine. Worse case scenario is both parachutes fail to deploy and you put a small crater in California.” Kitty squeezed one of Diana’s biceps, “I think the ground will be hurt more than you will. Because what does Diana Prince do when she’s falling at terminal velocity? She parries the earth.”
Diana couldn’t help but to laugh at that assessment. “I do not doubt your assessment of that. Still, I would rather not put a small crater into anything.” Diana could withstand it, of course. But that didn’t mean she’d enjoy it. “Still, it will be fun regardless.”
Bouncing in her seat, Kitty gazed at her lover with absolute adoration in her eyes. It was like Diana knew exactly the sort of thing to appeal to her. That adrenaline and danger were like food to Kitty, and no matter how much she might complain about how little downtime she had in her dreams, she needed it to live.
Skydiving was a nice compromise. “Wanna take bets on if that man over there pees himself?”
Diana wouldn’t go so far as to say she herself was an adrenaline junkie, but she did enjoy excitement when appropriate. In her world, there was such a thing as too much adrenaline, but Diana did tend to like her downtime just as much as kicking butt and helping those who needed it.
Glancing at the guy Kitty, indicated, Diana smirked as she looked back at her lover with a glint in her eye. “Are you certain that he hasn’t done so already?” Because there was possibly a non-zero probability the guy had already pissed himself.
“Figured we’d be able to smell it.” Kitty wrinkled her nose, then laughed, leaning against Diana. Their gear made it too bulky for a proper hug or glomp, so she made do.
“So which of us is going first?”
Diana chuckled. She then pressed a kiss to the side of Kitty’s head after she leaned against her. It was the calm before the adrenaline rush that they were about to embark upon.
“Well, you are the birthday girl, I feel that is your choice to make.” After all, it only seemed appropriate.
“So either I get to watch you jump out or you get to push me out,” Kitty mused, eyes twinkling. No, she knew exactly what she wanted.
“Diana,” she said, seriously. “I need you to yeet me out of this plane.”
At the request, Diana raised an eyebrow. Despite the fact she spoke very good English, sometimes there were still words and phrases that confused her. Or words that she’d heard in passing but not really known what they meant. Like ‘yeet.’ “What is yeet?”
After all, she didn’t want to disappoint the birthday girl.
Kitty giggled, and squeezed Diana’s hand. “An internet thing, it means for something to be flung away at incredible velocity or distance in a way that’s usually freaking hysterical.”
Squeezing Kitty’s hand back, Diana nodded a little in understanding. “Ah, then I shall be more than happy to yeet you out of the plane.” Except not so far so that Diana herself couldn’t catch up to her or land in the same vicinity as Kitty, of course.
The plane was nearing the drop point, and Kitty couldn’t contain her excitement. Jumping out into the air with only a thin bit of fabric between herself and death was exciting enough; having Wonder Woman throw her out was both fun and sexy. “I think I’m about to burst from inside to outside.”
“You are going to have quite the experience,” Diana commented with bemusement. It wasn’t quite a once-in-a-lifetime type of experience because they could do this sort of thing again. But it was still something to treasure. And she was ready to toss Kitty out of the plane, then jump after her.
“I love you,” Kitty said, as she got up and moved towards the doors. She watched as people started to jump out, giggling to herself as she realized she was going to have Diana pull a fastball special; usually Logan was the one that got yeeted at their enemies!
“I love you, too,” Diana responded, then stood up and moved along with Kitty. She watched as people started to jump. The adrenaline was starting to kick in as she set her arm around Kitty’s shoulders. “Are you ready?” She asked as their turn was getting close.
“I’m so ready,” Kitty replied, bouncing on her heels. “Was born ready. Blood, who needs blood when you’ve got adrenaline?” She rolled her shoulders, excitement flooding her along with the adrenaline. The rush had only just begun and she couldn’t wait, couldn’t bear the wait.
And then it was her turn.
Again, Diana chuckled at Kitty’s words. “True enough,” she responded. Then when it was Kitty’s turn, Diana stepped closer, grabbing hold of her. “Prepare yourself,” she murmured in her ear before she yeeted Kitty out of the plane. It was hard enough to send her flying, but hopefully not far enough to send her into a completely different country.
Diana then jumped out of the plane shortly thereafter.
Kitty wooped as she accelerated like a roller coaster. If she wasn’t wearing goggles she might have been blinded by the windsheer. She spun out, throwing her arms out like an airplane, twisting and turning and spinning through the air. And then gravity took hold of her again. She angled herself down, pinning her arms to her sides and pointing her toes like her days as a ballerina.
How fast and how far could she fall before entering the danger zone?
With Kitty clear of the plane, Diana leapt out of it and followed her girlfriend. She didn’t do many tricks or spins in the air, but she did turn herself so she was doing a slow spiral. Suddenly, she wondered if this was what it was like to be an eagle and doing the mating dance. Not that Diana was going to actually recreate such a thing, but she did feel as free as a bird would.
Diana closed her eyes, pinning her arms against her sides as gravity pulled her downwards and she began to spiral a little faster.
Kitty twisted herself around so her back was to the earth. She could pick out Diana easily enough, and sighed affectionately at her beauty and her grace. Diana was a tiger she decided. Power and grace, dangerous beauty.
She phased to slow herself, before returning to a solid state, hoping for Diana to catch up to her so they could land together.
Hurtling towards the Earth like this was definitely exhilarating. And she picked out where Kitty was, smiling as she fell towards her. It didn’t take overly long to catch up to her, and once she did, Diana reached out for Kitty to take her hand.
Kitty took Diana’s hand, using ot to swing a little closer to her, until they were face to face and spinning slowly, even as the Earth rose up beneath them. A quick check of the gauge on Diana and Kitty knew they still had a little more time before they needed to pull the chutes. Not a lot. But just enough to sneak a kiss before she giggled and pulled Diana’s cord, and then hers a heart beat later.
Diana grinned as Kitty pulled her close. She returned the kiss, then couldn’t help but let out a noise of surprise when her girlfriend pulled the cord and her parachute came out. She jerked a bit as her momentum was suddenly broken, but she kept her eye on the ground where she would land. And when she did come in for a land, she couldn’t help but to do the superhero landing, or as close to it with a parachute as she could get.
Kitty hit the ground a moment later, though she eschewed the super hero landing in favor of a running landing as the parachute fluttered to the ground behind her. She laughed, bouncing around in circles for a moment before she detached the chute and got around to stowing it. “Holy shit that was amazing!”
Watching Kitty bounce around, Diana couldn’t help but to chuckle as she detached her own chute and started to gather it up. “It was certainly exhilarating,” she confirmed before turning a bright grin towards her lover. “Happy birthday, love.”
“Thank you.” She wrapped her arms around Diana, practically slamming into her with more force and muscle than she looked like she had. “I love you so much.”