Fluttershy is a little timid (alittlekindness) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2012-11-16 16:14:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, fluttershy, rainbow dash |
Who: Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash
What: Dash helping her get things down from the attic.
When: Some time after this.
Where: Fluttershy’s house.
Rating: Rainbows and Butterflies so innocent
Status:Complete!
Fluttershy pointed her fingers together whilst staring at the laptop screen. “Oh my gosh...” She invited someone over tonight. What was with her? It took everything in her not to type and tell her to forget it, and it was the desire not to upset anyone that only seeded that. She bit her lip and hopped up to do some quick tidying up of the place and struggled to get the ladder up near the attic. Why did attics have to be so high up anyway?
It had only been a half an hour wait and she’s already frazzled and panicked in meeting someone new. Being online was one thing. She didn’t have to actually see them or be near them, in person was something else entirely. She gulped in air when she heard footsteps and it turned out to only be the pitter patter of Angel’s tiny paws on the hardwood flooring. “Oh. Angel...” Looked at him sternly. “You scared me.”
RD had only ended up taking her time because, well, going to anyone’s place was kinda... awkward sometimes. Especially when you’d only just met them. Still, she’d promised to help, so she was damn well going to.
That didn’t stop the nerves when she knocked on the door, though. Damn her for being pretty seriously... that was truly RD’s one major weakness.
And she forgot to knock gently! Fluttershy let out an outright shriek and hid under the table before remembering that someone was coming by to help her. She inched closer to the door and took hold of it. Taking in a breath she opened the door only a enough to show her face, hair and shoulder. “H-hello?” Looked up at her with bright eyes, mouth slightly open with a pout.
Oops. RD knew she’d been forgetting something. “Uh. Hi. I’m RD... you said you needed a hand with something?”
“Ah... Oh uh.” Squeaked and opened the door even more and backed up. A few feet from the now open door, she tucked her arms behind her, locked one ankle behind the other, and hide one eye behind her hair. “Yes, I needed your help with... Getting things from my attic for Christmas.” Fluttershy bit her lip and brought both hands up to rub through her hair.
Okay, so she was pretty and adorable? Double win. Even if the nerves were a little bit much... “Alright. I can do that!”
“Oh... Goody.” Without looking up at her any further she led her inside and shut the door behind her. Fluttershy took to walking towards where she’d set the ladder right below the pulldown to the attic. “ I... I need the box that says tree and the boxes that say lights and tree decorations.”
RD cracked her knuckles, just to warm up, and set off up the ladder. She’d always been kind of thankful that her own place didn’t have an attic... it’d just invite her to keep more crap around, and she really didn’t need that sort of stuff.
“And let me guess: gotta be careful?” First, she had to find the boxes, of course. Probably wouldn’t be too hard.
“Uh... Yes. Yes. You have to be careful. I Keep your head down so you don’t bonk the ceiling...” Fluttershy kept her voice quiet as normal and held nervously to the ladder. “I have the ladder... So it doesn’t fall. If... If you see any bats up there, it’s okay. There’s a family that lives there and they behave so I let them.” She bit her lip and tried to keep from looking up at the woman too much.
“...Bats. Right.” Good thing RD didn’t tend to freak out at flying things, then. She managed to find out one of the boxes quick enough, shouldering it to make it easier to carry before bringing it down.
Skillz: RD had them. “You don’t have to hold the ladder, y’know. Pretty sure I’d be fine!”
Fluttershy gulped air and backed up. “Oh, uh... But... But...” Squeaked rather loudly before letting out a shudder of fear when she touched the wall behind her, narrowly managing to resist the urge to scream. She watched from below, bringing her hand up to nervously bite at her fingernails and cuticles.
“Seriously, totally fine... you go sit down, make nice with the bunny, I’ll get all this stuff.” Because RD wasn’t above showing off sometimes. It was one of her... special things or something. “And I won’t even break anything. I’m that awesome.”
“ I uh... Oh. Okay...” She gave one last hesitation before biting her lip and walking off to her living room. Once in the living room, Fluttershy sat down and pulled Angel into her lap. Dash was... Interesting. The confidence she seemed to have was matched by no other she’d ever met.
RD’s confidence was just part of her amazing charm, clearly! She made pretty short work of finding out the boxes and getting them down, for once actually taking care with everything. No point in rushing... especially since it might kinda kill any chances of being friends with her.
“Think I’m all done out here.” And she’d even learned to keep her voice fairly low! Today was clearly going well. “Anything else?”
“Uh... Uh no. No.” Fluttershy set Angel onto his little bed and tugged nervously at the bottom hem of her dress. “Are you.. Hungry at all? Can’t have you doing labour for me and not give you anything in return. And sometimes food can be the best way of... Of returning things like that.” She headed off to the kitchen a few steps away and opened up the fridge to pull out the thing of cinnamon rolls she had chilled since she didn’t get a chance to put them into the oven before her classes. “You may... Have to wait about thirty minutes for them but... I make really good cinnamon rolls. Or... At least it’s what people tell me.”
Okay, RD’d been totally set on doing this for nothing, but... free food! You couldn’t really turn that down. “Uh... sure. I’ll stick around for that.”
Fluttershy gave the most adorable of smiles before unwrapping the plastic wrap from it and setting the oven to preheat. “D-do you like hot cocoa? I can make you some... Or tea?” Tipped her head while starting a tea kettle with water on to boil. She was going to make herself some regardless. “ Or I have... Juice or soda. Or... uh. I have milk too.”
Oh, Celestia, how was she so adorable?! RD’s mental train of thought kind of temporarily derailed, and it took a fair amount of effort to get things back on track. She wasn’t even going to ask where that ‘Celestia’ thing had come from... maybe she could ask Twilight. Twilight would know.
“I’m fine with whatever. Not picky.” And honestly, it seemed like whatever she’d pick would be kinda awesome. Considering how shy she was and all, it all seemed to balance out pretty nicely.
Fluttershy nodded and grabbed a glass from the shelf. It may actually have a slight rainbow trim at the bottom, it seemed only fitting in her eyes. It had been a gift from one of her friends at school, something about some form of radar going off and wanting her to have something to match a secret that she had yet to uncover for herself. It had never made sense so she pushed it to the back of her mind and eventually forgot.
“Juice it is...” She grabbed the pitcher and poured the drink into it before adding a few of the ice cubes made from the same drink in. Can’t have your drink getting diluted with water after all. Setting it in front of her, Fluttershy then turned to the oven because it had beeped. She bent over to put them into it before slowly rising as she shut the door and set the timer.
Rainbows. Seriously? RD knew she was kind of obviously gay, as in the ‘walking pride parade’ kind of gay, but... maybe it was just a coincidence. Or down to the hair, that worked too. “You sure you don’t want me to do anything else? Feel kinda bad just... sitting here.”
It had been down to the hair, her subtle way at making a joke of sorts. Once the timer was set she bit her lip and poked her fingers together again. “I... I uh. Maybe? I need to organise all of my books for school and the box that they are in are rather... Heavy. They’re in the back of my car... I.. I don’t want you hurting yourself or doing too much, though.”
Hurt herself? Bah, like RD could do that! “I’m real strong, promise. Pretty sure I’m not gonna be defeated by a couple of books...”
“Okaaaaay... If you say so.” Fluttershy grabbed her keys and slipped her outdoor use slippers and headed outside to the car, hoping Dash would take the hint to just follow her. She opened the trunk and lowers the bottom half to reveal three large boxes full of the different books she’d been given. They were going to just send them off to donation anyway because they were older, so she offered to take them home so she could have new reading material.
Thankfully, RD was a master at taking the hint. There might’ve been a few more books than she’d expected, but... hey, she could take it. Even if she couldn’t, she wasn’t about to give up!
“Just let me know where to put ‘em...” With that, she went to try and lift the first box. She could do this, dammit. Her pride relied on it!
Fluttershy went back into the house silently, to the point Dash wouldn’t have heard her leave. Once inside she cleared off the coffee table before heading to the doorway. “In here and onto the coffee table, please.” Smiled softly in premature thanks for all of this. It was nice having someone to help.
The box was pretty heavy, yeah, but RD could handle it. Just about. It was pretty simple to get them into the house, and putting them down was the easiest part of the job... even if she accidentally put it down on her hand the first time, and had to bite her lip to keep from swearing rather explosively.
“Happy to help, y’know...”
At the first box Fluttershy went to opening it and pulled out the books, but not before pulling out the skeleton model of a cat for her to study. It was kind of creepy and she made a face at it, but she needed it because of the amount of bones cats actually have. You try remember the names of all of them without getting mixed up. “Thank you for helping... You’re so strong and powerful...” Smiled and brushed the hair behind her ear. Having strong friends was helpful, so maybe her and Shy could get to talking more often!
RD grinned and saluted, trying to ignore the creepy cat thing. “Just glad I could. Sounded like you needed someone like me around...” Only temporarily! She didn’t mean it in any kind of a relationship context... that’d be definitely rushing, which was a big no-no.
Fluttershy blushed slightly at the salute and was quick to put her head down and hide behind her hair. Of all weaknesses for Dash to use without prior knowledge, it had to be that one, didn’t it? “Y-yeah. I’m weak and helpless sometimes... So strong people are always nice.”
So, she had a thing for people saluting? RD mentally filed that away for future reference. You never knew when knowledge like that could come in handy! “Kinda doubt you’re entirely weak and helpless. You probably know way more than I do about a couple of things...”
Or a lot of things. RD couldn’t even pretend she was remotely well-educated.
“I wouldn’t say that...” She blushed again and ran her fingers through her hair. “ I still have the rest of this year until I get my masters after all... And then I’m contemplating another three to just get the PhD in my field. I’m just failing at ideas for my masters thesis...” Took out a book that read something about encyclopedia of genus and species of the animal kingdom: volume 1 of 22. The next three were the consecutive volumes. “Ooh, I didn’t know they added these!”
...Damn. And here was RD with her barely high school education. World of difference there. “Don’t think I’ve actually met anyone else who’s gone that far. Except maybe Twilight.”
Only Twilight was insane. This one, clearly not so much.
She wasn’t too much like Twilight, not like she actually knew anything about her yet. “ I’m training to be a Zoologist so that I can work with big animals in a zoo or something..” She tipped her head to the side and arched an eyebrow. “Who’s Twilight?”
“She’s, uh, special. Takes more classes than should be humanly possible.” In fact, RD was fairly sure that Twilight was some kind of alien. Nobody should enjoy learning that much... although, maybe it was just the dream Twilight starting to take hold of the real world one. Not that it made her any less insane.
Fluttershy squeaked out a little giggle before looking up to see Angel teetering on the top of the stair rails about to fall. She gasped and rushed over to try and reach for him. “OH ANGEL! YOU SILLY THING! WHY WOULD YOU GO SO HIGH UP?!” Flailed and tried to hop up to grab him, failing miserably. She stopped the hopping and held her hands up. “You... you stay right there, mama’s going to get a chair to get you down!” Ran off quickly to the kitchen to grab one from the table.
Goddamn, rabbits were evil. “Uh... I could try and get him down, if you want?” Because being useful was handy!
In fact, waiting for an answer was clearly for less awesome people than her. She moved quickly, not wanting to invite splatted bunny, and retrieved the little guy. Sure, she might not’ve exactly liked bunnies, but... she kinda liked Fluttershy. It balanced out.
Fluttershy rushed back with the chair, but stopped and slowly set it down when she saw that Dash had saved her beloved pet. She let out the most adorable of noises and rushed over to give her a hug around her neck and a happy noise of contentment before realising her actions and jumped back.
Keeping her head down the shy woman took the rabbit and turned around to scold and put him into his cage for a timeout.
That right there? Seriously far too adorable. RD couldn’t help but smile. “Does he do stuff like that often, or is he just jealous? ...Can bunnies even get jealous of humans?”
Clearly, that was the pressing question right now.
“What would he be jealous of? I... I have friends over sometimes and he’s never acted like this. ” Pushed her lips together and pointed at him. “ No carrot sherbert when that lady comes to help me put up the tree. You’ve been a naughty rabbit.” Squinted her eyes. “ Now you sit in there and think about what you’ve done.”
Fluttershy turned back around and ran one hand up her opposite arm. “S-sorry for the outburst and the hug... ”
“It’s fine!” In fact, RD had liked it. Quite a bit. “Nothing wrong with randomly hugging people, y’know. I have a friend who... kind of does stuff like that all the time.”
Why were all her friends insane? More importantly, why was she only just realising that now?
“I guess so.” Fluttershy whispered out and tucked her head into her shoulders. Suddenly the alarm for the oven going off startled her and she screamed out and jumped up to hold around her again. This time she didn’t pull away and instead simply held on for dear life and shook like a rattlesnake’s tail.
Right. That... was different. Good different! RD had to fight the urge to wrap her arms around her, not wanting to freak her out even more. “Uh... I think that means that’s done. Nothing to worry about!”
“ Oh... uh... Heh, yeah uh.” Fluttershy pulled away from her slowly, her cheeks bright red before rushing over to the oven to pull the cinnamon rolls out from the oven. Once they were out she grabbed the mix of the frosting and poured it on overtop to let the heat melt it and coat each of them. That was far more embarrassing than she thought it was. ‘Good going, Felicia... Scare off a brand new friend like you do at school. Brilliant.’.
She was actually even more adorable when she blushed. Not that RD was about to say that. She wasn’t going to scare her away right now. “So, uh... that was kinda nice. Not gonna complain about random hugs!”
Random hugs were clearly awesome. At least when they came from people you kind of liked on some level.
Fluttershy brought down two plates and a fork and lifted out three of the small cinnamon rolls onto one of the plates for Dash. She set the plate down in front of her alongside a refill of the drink before realising she forgot to even turn the kettle on. Blushing, the woman turned it on and grabbed her favourite tea cup down, a little china one with butterfly and flower print. “I hope you... You like them. It’s my own personal recipe.”
Maybe RD hadn’t been telling the whole truth when she’d said she wasn’t hungry. Or maybe that was just because, hey, suddenly food. Kind of awesome-looking food. “Pretty sure I will. You seem like the kinda person who’s awesome at this.”
And on trying one, it was definitely confirmed. Maybe she’d have to come around more often for stuff like this... maybe.
Fluttershy blushed again and took the daintiest of bites out of her own. She wasn’t used to so many compliments, and Dash seemed to love pouring them out. “You’re more awesome than I am. I’m just a hermit and an animal lover... That’s all. Not much awesome too that...” She squeaked when she managed to get the icing on her nose and crossed her eyes to look at the end of her nose and pouted.
RD was all about the compliments when it came to pretty girls. It was just part of her charm (and her awesome). “I don’t know. Animal lovers tend to do a lot of pretty cool stuff... I mean, someone like you helped me pick out Tank. He’s, uh, my tortoise.”
She was pretty sure she’d know the difference between a tortoise and a turtle. Tank seemed to have developed a habit of trying to chew on people who got things wrong.
At the mention of RD owning a pet she perked right up, her eyes bright. “You own a tortoise? Oh what’s he like? Is his colour more tan and gold like Astrochelys radiata? Or is he greener? Or, or! Is he smaller like Geochelone elegans?!” Set her hands on her lap and eagerly leaned forward. “You must let me see him...” Let out an eep noise and ducked her head into her shoulders. “If you wouldn’t mind, that is.”
Okay, she definitely had no idea about the fancy genus names. He was a tortoise. A very happy one, with tiny goggles of awesome for when he came along with her. “You can see him whenever. Most people aren’t that interested in him.”
“Well I’m interested...” Fluttershy took to biting at her knuckle nervously. She couldn’t really help it. It wasn’t like she was used to too many people being over. Especially people that complimented her at all.
“That’s just ‘cause you’re clearly awesome.” Because tortoises were kickass animals, dammit, no matter what other people thought.
“I wouldn’t say that, still... ” Fluttershy has yet to deal with the frosting on her nose, so she looks all sorts of dorky and adorable. She took another bite of the roll and it began to unwind, causing her to pull at it and flail at the stickiness. “Aaaagh!”
Goddamn. How could one person contain so much adorable? It was pretty special. “Well, I would. And that’s gotta count for something, right?”
“I guess so.” Fluttershy forced out, shoving her hands between her knees. “You can come over more sometime if you want to... I’m sure I can get other stuff for you to do with your strength.” Flashed a smiled her direction, her hair tipping over one eye.
RD grinned. “I think I like the sounds of that. I make myself useful, you... maybe pay me in delicious food or something. I can even bring Tank sometimes, if you want to see him!”
“I’d like that.” Fluttershy smiled at her and went to make her tea.