Let Your Body Be the Velvet of the Night
Happy Valentine’s Day @falcon-chill :)
Mantis/Nebula fluff and Nebula & Gamora sister love for the @womenofmcu Valentine’s exchange
title lyrics from ABBA’s “Andante Andante”
Let Your Body Be the Velvet of the Night
Nebula catches them late one night when most of the crew are in bed, though with how loudly the Terran song is playing, she’s unsure whether the rest of them are asleep or merely pretending, accustomed by now to the strange practice Quill and Gamora have adopted.
Her sister rests a hand on Quill’s shoulder, and places the other in his hand. He holds her by the waist, swaying to and fro along with the music. He watches Gamora through half-closed eyes, lips wrapping around words that even Nebula can’t hear. This is dancing, Nebula thinks, and while the way that Quill wraps himself around Gamora makes her nearly want to immolate him, a fleeting image of Mantis wrapped around her the same way passes through her mind.
She goes back to bed that night without an idea of sleep and a pit deep in her stomach.
“I want you to teach me to dance,” Nebula tells her sister the following day, when most of the rest of the team are collecting a bounty, with the exceptions of Mantis and Groot, who are out foraging for roots and setting traps for small creatures on the planet they’ve landed on.
Gamora looks up from the maintenance panel she’s been working on, a crease between her eyebrows. “What?”
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