David Rose is very uninterested in that opinion. (eatglass) wrote in valloic,
At Alexis’ little ‘whoopee’ David did his absolute best to beam his bitterest of feelings directly from his brain into her own, even as he squeezed his eyes tightly shut and scrambled to get a more thorough grip on Thor. Liftoff warranted a quiet “Oooh, fuck,” and he proceeded to bury his face against Thor’s chest. He was glad for the fact that he wasn’t tiny like Alexis. Thor had a few inches in height and like six tons of muscle on him, but he wasn’t small, and that meant he was fully capable of a full on bodily cling with excess limb to spare.
This was absolutely not any less embarrassing than the piggy back ride, and with arms and legs fully wrapped around him in an ungainly mess of elbows and knees that kept knocking into Alexis’ own limbs, he probably looked less like a baby koala and more like a teenage one that had outgrown both the pouch and its mother’s back, but was too overcome with separation anxiety to grow up. Or maybe more like a baby sloth. God, he was way more of a sloth than a koala. It was, arguably, much worse than riding on Thor’s back would have been.
David was too busy having flashbacks to hangliders and very tall trees and Anderson fucking Cooper to actually care how he looked for once, though. He had been so busy worrying about the bugs that he had somehow managed to forget about the roots of his phobia of heights until the moment he was actually airborne. By the time they’d reached what was presumably the roof of Morningside, he was a bit green, exceedingly nauseous, and utterly unwilling to let go of Thor or even move his face back. This was partially because of the obvious mortification, partially because he was afraid he would throw up on him, and partially because he seemed to have forgotten how to relax his body enough to let go in the first place.
While it was muffled, he did at least have the wherewithal to make a couple comments the first lacking much sincerity and the second lacking any real bite. “Thanks, Thor. Alexis, I hate you.”