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[gemigod]

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Steven lives in Helian's Glade and can usually be found somewhere in the gardens. Letters can be left on his bed, which is made of moss and several supernaturally large blooms, or the drawer filled stump where he keeps his belongings. He is responsive to network communications but prefers not to speak one on one over them.

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[gemigod]

[Steven stops right away because this seems very pointed. Especially with what he heard Yuya talking about on the network.]

Oh, hey...! Did you have any luck...?

[With... kissing or whatever it is he's doing.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya pouts faintly.] It's my spit.

[He is, unfortunately, now made of drugs.]

[gemigod]

[Steven already suspected that. Still, though, he sets his harp aside completely, at that.]

Oh. [He pauses uncertainly.]

So... you tested it out?

[hippocarnival]

Uh-huh. [Yuya purses his lips, wrinkling his nose.] Something must have changed in me, but I don't know how to stop it.

[gemigod]

[Steven considers it, and then shrugs his shoulder helplessly. He certainly understands, with the way his own body is.]

I guess it's just like that, now. [He says, finally.] Maybe we could figure out how to make an antidote, for if we need it? But... at least it doesn't hurt anyone.

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya nods slowly, but he sinks further in the flowers.] It seemed like it made everyone feel good. But also like they couldn't stand.

[gemigod]

I guess at least usually you don't need to kiss a bunch of people?

[That's... an upside.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya grumbles under his breath, averting his gaze to the flowers. Sure, he doesn't, but it's more like he wanted a bunch of kisses with one person. And now he's poisonous.

Life is so unfair.] Why can't I just stay how I am?

[gemigod]

[Steven's ears droop. He wishes he had a better answer. He puts his hand on Yuya's arm, trailing his fingers down to his wrist.]

I wish you could. It isn't fair that we have to keep going through this.

[He glances aside.]

I just... want to be clear that... if this is going to be part of you now, I'm okay with it. And I'll try to work it out.

[hippocarnival]

[Yuua lifts his head as he feels Steven's fingers trail down his arm, turning his gaze back up at him.]

Work it out? [He tilts his head, sounding confused.]

[gemigod]

I don't know...

[His face flushes. He doesn't really know how to explain it.]

To just... do what I can to make it so we can do the stuff we wanna do.

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya pauses, before he pushes himself up on his arms, moving to sit.] Whatever you want to do, I'm okay with. You don't have to force yourself for anything.

[gemigod]

[Steven pauses, briefly uncertain, but then puts on a smile.]

I'm not forcing anything! I just want to put as much effort into the relationship as you do...

[His smile deepens as he thinks about thinks that Garnet has told him.]

That's what it is, right? A relationship... and sometimes those take work.

[hippocarnival]

Well... yeah... [Yuya brushes his hair back, his cheeks turning lightly pink.] I guess, but we didn't really decide kissing had to be part of it, right? I don't feel like I'm doing much more than you...

[gemigod]

[He laughs helplessly.]

Yeah, but I want to kiss you, though!

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya's face just gets redder.] I want to kiss you too, it's not fair!

[Whine, whine.] I didn't tell anyone about that. Should I?

[gemigod]

[He pauses like he hadn't really considered it.]

Oh... yeah... I guess you're usually supposed to tell people that you're dating...

[He pauses again, his cheeks flushing.]

We're dating, right? Can we call it that?

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya stares dumbly at Steven.] I don't know. Are we dating?

[There is, perhaps, a problem with Yuya trying to be entirely malleable.]

[gemigod]

[His tone becomes more frantic.]

Yuya, you need to agree that we're dating or we're not dating!

[hippocarnival]

I'm asking you! [They had an agreement??] If you want to date then we'll date!

[gemigod]

[Steven makes a frustrated sound, putting his hands to his face. It's sort of been building for a while now, hasn't it?]

No! Yuya... I can't just be the one making all the decisions all the time!

[hippocarnival]

I didn't even know we were making decisions besides kissing until now! [Did something else change? Did he not notice? He definitely must have missed it.] We haven't done anything else different, right?

[gemigod]

I guess... I was trying to ask you...

[He folds down his ears, looking a bit caught on the spot. He curls his arms around himself.]

We kiss, and... we spend all our time together. And I love you. But I don't want to date just because it's what I want.

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya swallows, frozen in the spotlight. It's the kind of thing he's wanted to hear, perhaps, a little too much. Now that it's presented to him he doesn't know what to say, gripped by a sort of performance anxiety. Of saying the wrong thing.

He slowly scoots closer on his knees.] I really love you too. I...

[He brings his hand up, like he's going to cup Steven's cheek, but he stops just before he makes contact.] I want to be with you.

[gemigod]

Then we can be. With each other.

[Steven touches the back of Yuya's hand, leaning into his palm.]

If that's what we both want, then we should, right?