Fall☁️ | P2
| Chris Beck x reader |
Summary: You are part of the Ares III mission and (while on your way back home, already rescued Watney) while there, are sent to fix the gravity controls. A very handsome surprise causes you to stumble and fall.
Warnings: injuries, obviously fluff (?)
Y/E/C - Your Eye Color
Y/H - Your hometown
A/N: This is the epilogue of fall, enjoy! Or not. -Leigh🤠
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Blinding lights fill your sight. You sit up, adjusting to your surroundings, then you see a sea of white, the nursing quarters. You try to stand up but stumble and try to grip the bed with your left arm. You suddenly feel a stinging pain in it and fall, you look at it realizing it's in a sling.
"Whoa, Y/N, rest your arm. It's sprained badly." A pair of blue eyes stare into yours as Chris helps you back to the bed. "You've been out for 2 days."
"2 days?! I have so much work to do-" You scramble until Beck puts his hands on your shoulders, your whole body feels his warmth.
"Calm down, okay?" You saw a faint blush, he quickly looked down after staring for a second into your Y/E/C eyes. He wished he didn't look into those eyes, but he wishes he could look in them forever at the same time.
"We're handling your work until your arm heals." Rick walks in with the rest of the crew decked in their NASA sweaters and caps like it was a NASA holiday. "You gotta rest, Y/N. You won't be able to do the work with your injury." Vogel points to your sling, an accent vibrating from his voice.
"But what if-if one of you needs help? I need to work." You ramble and Melissa stands beside you. Her hair brushing on your shoulder.
"You have to rest until your injuries heal. Yes, you can help but only a little bit. We can handle your work alright. Commander's orders." The redhead nods to you. Her eyes twinkling with a slight sight of, mischief?
"Yeah, Y/N, we'll be fine!" Watney slaps the air giving Beth a smile, as the system operator chuckles and looks down. You knew why she did, to hide the blush caused by the bashful smile the space pirate beside her had. This made you smirk a little bit. "We'll handle alright," She says to you.
"Okay, if you say so. But how will I get to my sleeping quarters though?"
"Beck will carry you, duh!" Vogel nudges Beck. Mischief glinted in his eyes as he said the statement in a matter of fact tone.
"What?! Why me?!"
"Well, you're the flight surgeon-" Beth points to him. “And?”
“She’s a patient.”
"Uh,” He sighed “Fine, c'mon Y/N."
He steadily lets you climb on his back and wrap your not sprained arm around his neck, "Let's go, those tasks won’t do themselves." The commander nudges Martinez and the crew heads out.
"Y/N, just hold on," Beck mumbles as he maneuvers through the zero-gravity area of the Hermes. He hoped you wouldn't feel the rapid beating of his heart and the heat rising to his face. You hoped the same.
You two finally reach your sleeping quarters. It was bittersweet for both of you when you let go. You felt the warmth of his body fade away, and he missed the feeling of your hair brushing on his back already. "Well, that's my cue to leave. Go rest, Y/N."
"Will do, doctor." You chuckle as you close the door to your quarters.
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You hear knocking on your quarter door, it's been 15 days since your arm was sprained and it's healed fast. Your arm doesn't need a sling and can move properly. You get to the door and see your best friend, Beth.
"Hello, Mrs. Watney!"
"Shut up!" She blushes, her face almost as red as Melissa's hair. "Commander Lewis says Mr. Doctor needs your help,"
"Yeah, but you could've just used the intercom?" You went out of your room and floated out with her. "We couldn't reach you, you wouldn't answer. Then we realized you turned it off."
"Speaking of intercom, I heard what you said, Y/N. And Beth, you know you could just ask me if you wanted to be my Mrs. Watney."
"You smooth bastard." She blushes hard, looking down and shaking her head.
"But he's your smooth bastard." Rick laughs as Vogel rubs the bridge of his nose. "Could you please be quiet while I'm doing work? You know I love you guys, but this is getting annoying." The German male shook his head.
“Well, you signed up to go to Mars with 6 other people, what do you expect?” Watney laughed. "Zip it, commander's orders." You hear the redhead, but as you do you notice that Chris is silent. Maybe he turned his intercom off too.
"Okay- That's my cue to leave. I'll go there now." You floated to Chris's quarters.
"Hey," You open the door to Chris' room and he stiffens. "It's just me, Chris. Why do you look so nervous?" Chris loosens up, but still with a mind reeling at your presence. Today's the day.
"Yeah, um. I need help with some reports." He gulped as he passed me a pile of papers, ranging from due health reports on the team and Extravehicular Activity Logs.
Well, "needed help" was a lie, a lie he said just so he could see you, and talk to you, alone. He was gonna say it. Finally.
"You know, when we saved Watney, he was really mad at me for not doing something he told me to. He tried to kick my ass, well tried to. There's only so much energy a malnourished man stuck on a deserted planet can have."
(Flashback)
“Did you tell her?” The space pirate’s eyes lit up in hope that his ship could be finally happening. “Tell who what?”
“You know exactly who and what I’m talking about, Beck.” He shook his head at the doctor. “No, I didn’t tell Y/N that I love her.” Beck whispered. “You didn’t?! Why not? I told you to!”
“Well, I don’t think she likes me back.” Chris didn’t want to get his hopes up. “And everything you do is dumb, so I’m not taking advice from you.” He tried to sound happy, but he wasn’t. Mark could see right through. “Chris, I know everything I say and do is dumb, but not this.” Chris looked up from the sandwich he held to see Mark being serious. “She absolutely loves you, she will say yes. And if she doesn’t, you can throw me out of the airlock without a tether.”
“No, I am not throwing you out of the airlock.” Chris wrinkled his nose. “That part was a joke.”
“But really? How are you so confident that she even loves me?” Chris shook his head sadly and looked down. “A certain birdy named Beth Johanssen told me.” Chris didn’t look up despite the piece of info Mark gave him. “Come on man. If you don’t believe me, just go tell her. You won’t regret it.”
“But what if I do?” Chris finally looked back up. “Trust me, you won’t.” And the botanist walks away.
(End of flashback)
There was no turning back, he knew it. "And what was that?" You asked. He shook his head. This is it.
"Confess my love for you."
He looked to you, forcing you to stare into those stormy blue eyes. "I love you." You processed those words, what he just said. He loved you. The intelligent, funny, kind, handsome, hot, almost perfect, flight surgeon loved you.
You, a clumsy girl from Y/H, who's been in love with Chris since the first time you met him, he loved you. His soothing voice brought you out of your train of thought.
"Y/N, please say something. Do you not feel the same? I knew it-" You cut him off by connecting your lips with his, the gap between the both of you erased. Your lips moved in harmony as he kissed you back, in an angle that fit both of you well. It was all he ever dreamed of, the feeling of your luscious lips on his. As you both pulled away for air, he looked at you, your lips swollen and red from the kiss.
"I wanna be like this forever. Just you and me."
"Just you and me."
"Well, we're here too!" Watney claps as you turn and see the whole Ares 3 crew.
“I should have known the crew wouldn’t leave us alone for this.” Chris laughs as you chase the crew out, but they take off running.
"This is why I love you."
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