Day 2 - Chase
Characters - ler!Raine (oc), lee!Pike (oc)
Word Count - 1088
Summary - Pike decides to hide Raine’s e-liter from them. Raine doesn’t take too kindly to that and a chase ensues.
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“PIKE,” Raine’s voice rang throughout their shared apartment. Currently, Raine was chasing their roommate and partner, Pike, around their apartment. Why you may ask? Because Pike thought it would be funny to steal Raine’s e-liter and hide it from them. Raine, of course, was not happy with this and decided to take measures into their own hands, causing Pike to panic and run away from them. The tri-stringer user was fast and slippery though, having experience running from his siblings back in the domes whenever they wanted to have fun.
The two chased each other around the small apartment for what seemed like hours while accidentally knocking pieces of furniture and decorations over until Raine finally caught up with the mischievous octoling, tackling him onto the ground and pinning him down. Pike tried to struggle out of the inkling’s hold, but Raine was far stronger than him so he just opted to giggle and squirm in anticipation instead. Raine didn’t have their respirator mask on, so they looked down at Pike with the most evil and predatory grin, causing the octoling to giggle even harder.
“I will give you until the count of three to tell me where my e-liter is or else,” they gave a small poke to Pike’s stomach, causing him to let out an adorable squeak. “I will not go easy on you.”
Pike’s response was only more giggling, his tentacle bouncing in anticipation as he had the cutest, wobbliest smile on his face.
“One…”
“Two…”
The inkling paused for a moment, giving their partner time to respond, their smile growing ever bigger. After a few more seconds, they striked.
“Three!”
Raine shot their hands underneath their roommate’s life jacket and started to skitter their fingers across his stomach, causing Pike to let out the most adorable laughter. The inkling always forgets how cute their partner’s laughter is, which is funny considering how many times they tickle him. Soon enough, the usually serious inkling found themselves laughing alongside the octoling; they couldn’t help it, his laugh was too contagious!
“R-Raihaihaine, stahap laughihihing at mehe!”
The silver inkling took a few moments to stop their laughter, causing them to slow down on their tickling.
“Okay, okay, I’m sorry. Your laugh is just too contagious,” they smiled before going back to their serious persona. “Are you going to tell me where my e-liter is, or am I going to have to take more drastic measures?”
Pike did not like their tone of voice at the end. On one hand, he wanted to tell Raine where their weapon was, but on the other hand, the octoling loves being tickled and wanted to keep this going on as long as possible.
“Do your worst,” he responded with a confident grin.
“Do my worst you say? Well, if you insist…”
The inkling’s hands darted towards the octoling’s exposed underarms and started their attack, causing Pike to go absolutely ballistic. He thrashed underneath the inkling and started pounding his feet on the floor; the two of them were totally going to get a noise complaint after this.
“BAHAHAHAHA! RAIHAIHAINE, NOHOHOT *snort* THEHEHERE!”
“Y’know, I find it quite funny that you wear a life vest that completely exposes your death spot,” the inkling chuckled. “What if my teammate, Atticus, came up to you mid-match and tickled your underarms with his oh-so-tickly inkbrush, hmm? Would you try and splat him with your stringer or lay there and take the tickly attack? Oh, who am I kidding, I already know the answer to that you ticklish little ball of nerves~.”
Oh that smug bastard. They knew how much teasing like this gets to him and he loves it. His face flushed a vibrant orange as tears of absolute mirth poured down his face. His kicking only got worse as Raine drilled their fingers into his death spot, causing him to send a flip-flop flying off of his foot, which Raine chuckled at. Seeing his partner reach for his foot, Pike immediately turned into octopus form, causing Raine to stop their tickling momentarily.
“N-no foot tickles, please,” the octo shyly said as he looked away, causing Raine to let out a noise of acknowledgment.
“Got it,” they responded while looking at the octo. “Are you alright with, uh, tentacle tickles instead?”
Pike let out an ‘mhm’ as he reached one of his tentacles out towards Raine. The inkling grabbed the offered tentacle and looked at the octo with a sinister grin.
“You ready to tell me where my e-liter is?”
When the only reply they got was giggles, they started lightly scratching at one of the octo’s suction cups, causing him to shriek and let out squealy laughter. It’s common knowledge that a cephalopod’s suction cups are extremely sensitive, hell, even the stubborn and cocky Raine’s suction cups are, though they try to hide it because they’re “too tough” to be ticklish. The inkling then decided to go all out and used all of their fingers on their attacking hand and went to town on the octo’s tentacle, causing him to absolutely scream.
“OHOHOKAHAHY, OHOKAHAHAHAY! IHIHI’LL TELL YOUHOU WHEHEHEHEHERE YOUHOUR E-LIHIHIHITER IS! PLEHEHEHEASE STOHOHOP!”
Satisfied now that the octoling gave in, Raine stopped their tickling, giving Pike some much needed time to recover from the attack. The octo turned back into humanoid form and embraced the silver inkling in a big hug, letting residue giggle pour out of his system. Raine would never admit it out loud to the public, but they love it when Pike hugs them; they’re just so touch-starved that it feels really nice to be in the warm embrace of their lover. Once the octoling was calmed down, he looked up at the inkling with the biggest and cutest smile.
“Your e-liter’s in the coat closet, Rainestorm,” he said while nuzzling his face into his partner’s neck. “Thank you for the tickles by the way, it was really fun!”
Raine sputtered as they processed his last sentence.
“I-I-I, uh, w-what? Did you really steal my e-liter just so I would tickle you?!” Pike responded with a big nod and goofy smile, causing Raine to playfully roll their eyes and shake their head. “Y’know you could’ve just asked me to tickle you, you know that, right?”
“Yeah! But this was way more fun!”
Raine playfully rolled their eyes again and scratched behind one of Pike’s ears, causing him to let out adorable snickers and scrunch up his shoulders.
“Oh, you ticklish little dork, what am I ever going to do with you?”
