#rae&kaia

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I would like kaia getting a high five. Doesn't matter who. I just think it'd be hilarious

                                                   high five

  Something had been nagging Kaia for the past few weeks. Something so inconsequential it made her mad at herself that she kept thinking about it.

  All around her, at any time, every moment of the day humans were constantly doing weird things. For some reason this act had been sticking out to her as of late, and dammit if she wasn’t going to find out exactly what it was so her brain could finally shut up about it. And today was that day.

  Alone with Rae was the perfect time, she being the one and only person Kaia knew who would indulge in her judgmental questioning of human behavior. She watched the teen from a slight distance who was practicing some formations that Kaia had tasked her with for her training. It was late enough in the evening by now that not many others wandered the park, thus giving the two plenty of space and almost complete privacy for Rae to practice with her powers.

  Kaia was supposed to be paying complete attention so she could point out any mistakes, but the lingering question had been pushed to the front of her thoughts. Getting more annoyed with herself by the second, Kaia took her eyes off of Rae and looked to her hands, flexing her fingers on and off her palms before she lifted one in the air to mimic the stupid gesture.

  “What is this?” She was stood behind Rae so the girl had no line of sight to figure out what vagueness Kaia was announcing.

  She didn’t turn around yet either, too busy trying to perfect her training lesson. “What’s what?” Rae called back.

  “This.”

  Rae’s shoulders twitched to signify her typical sigh in response to most things about Kaia and glanced over her shoulder to see her just…standing with her hand in the air. “Huh?”

  Kaia stared back with a hard gaze, but made no more moves to elaborate. Waiting wasn’t going to do anything, so Rae mirrored Kaia and stretched her hand above her head. ‘This’ could be many things, and she had no clearer an image even after.

  “You…have a question?” she guessed.

  “I already asked it.”

  Rae had to fight to resist the urge to pinch her nose. Coming to terms that she wasn’t going to finish training, and that it was going to be one of those days, she walked over to Kaia still with her hand raised.

  “Alright, what are you on about?”

  Kaia was pouting as Rae still wasn’t getting it, and she used her free hand to point at the one stiffly up. “What does this mean?”

  “It can mean a lot of things, I don’t know what you’re trying to do. Are you waving hi? Raising your hand to ask or answer something?” Rae didn’t know all of what she should list

  “No.”

  Rae huffed out a breath. “You have to give me more to work with.”

  Without lowering her hand, Kaia’s head tilted as her eyes slid away in thought. Her lips moved without talking before she finally straightened up. “Sometimes I’ve heard ‘good job’, or… ‘up top’ when it happens.”

  “A high five?”

  “A what?”

  “When two people smack their hands together, it’s called a high five.” Rae moved in for an example, but when she readied to put her hand against Kaia’s, she immediately dropped it and leaned back as if offended.

  “Why would you do that?”

  Here she was again trying to describe something so normal and human in words. Rae really did try her best to make explanations for Kaia, but sometimes she thought the Guardian expected too much of her. “Well, y’know, to be like, yay! —” she threw her hands up— “or congratulate someone on something.”

  “That’s stupid.” Kaia deadpanned.

  “Hey, you asked!”

  “Only because I keep seeing it happen! I got my answer, so it’s whatever now.”

  She could at least say thanks. Rae rubbed the back of neck, wondering if her efforts were ever appreciated. “Well, it’s late anyway. We should start going home.”

  Kaia stuck her hands in her hoodie and nodded, following after Rae as she headed for the bench they’d left stuff on. As she gathered things together, Rae suddenly stopped and half turned towards Kaia.

  “Hey, you could use that high five now to tell me ‘good practice today’!” She grinned to set the mood and even offered both of her hands. After Kaia quirked an eyebrow and stared for an uncomfortable amount of time, Rae deflated and handed off the empty water bottles. “Can you throw these out for me?”

  Wordlessly, Kaia took the trash and walked off. Rae was always too hyper for her; she only wanted an explanation, not some big to-do over it all. Once taken care of, she heard the footsteps far before Rae called, “Kaia!” from behind.

  But not thinking of much, she didn’t even have a second to react as she turned to have her arm pulled up and Rae’s hand lightly slap against her palm. “Good job.” She smirked, her tone edging on patronizing, but was obviously a show of humor.

  Kaia’s cheeks began to inflate in her signature pout, and Rae having foreseen this reaction, quickly sidestepped around her and jogged away down the path. Kaia gave chase, but not in an angry way. She’d rolled her eyes and that was that.

  It was weird, but maybe she didn’t mind the antics as much.

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❝ i’ll do what i have to. ❞ for kaia 👀👀👀

   “I’lldo what I have to.” Kaia spoke with a certain solemnness that was almost unlikeher, so much that it even surprised herself.

   Shewas staring down Rae who had just woken up from another of her panickednightmares — her third of the night — and found herself vowing that phraseafter the teen had apologized for keeping her awake. Kaia was by all meansexhausted, so the apology wasn’t unfounded, but her lack of sleep wasn’t thething important here.

   Ithad been a week since Rae’s rescue, and since then Kaia had been sharing herbed, waking up alongside her and even at times not being able to sleep at allin favor of keeping a protective eye on Rae as she struggled through the night.

   “Kaia…”Rae was also running on fumes which was attributing to her heightened emotionseven more, Kaia had come to notice, as Rae looked to be on the verge of tearsagain.

   Kaia’s head was fuzzy with exhaustion, but she forced herself to keep level with Rae’sgaze in the dim of the room. “If you need something, just tell me.” She balledher hands into fists on the tops of her legs and resisted the urge to bite herlip. It was still difficult to get her words in order, to put her thoughts andfeelings into speech like this. “I…I want to help you,” she affirmed her earlierstatement.

   Raebriefly wiped at her eyes, all but confirming Kaia’s speculation, and managed afaint, tired half smile. “That means a lot. Thank you,” she whispered. “I thinkright now…I could really use a hug.”

   Kaiawas surprised, to say the least. Since the whole incident, Rae had been very averseto any sort of physical contact. She frowned in worry as she eyed Rae, whose handswere shaking out in front of her, but Kaia supposed if she was saying it was finethen it’d be alright, but—

   “…okay.”

   Theproblem was Kaia still didn’t fully understand the way hugs worked. She knewthe motions and that it was meant to be a happy thing, but she didn’t know howto fuel that in herself. Rae was always the one throwing spontaneous hugsaround before everything had happened, to which Kaia only ever just grumbled inresponse, so to be asked for one was out of her comfort zone.

   Shehad said she’d do whatever Rae needed. Kaia’s lips formed a thin line as shescooted over to Rae. She stopped short of reaching out, overthinking somethingso simple yet foreign to her. It wasn’t but a few seconds later that Rae seemedto have caught on to Kaia’s shortcomings and grabbed her by the arms, pullingher in until her own arms were around the redhead’s back. Kaia let her handshang in the air, knowing what to do, but still unsure of herself. Rae seemedcomfortable at least, and Kaia felt fingers begin to twirl around her thick tresses.

   Sherested her teeth on her bottom lip and withheld a sigh from herself. Forcingpast her locked muscles, Kaia made the effort to bring her arms up and pressed herhands into Rae’s back. At the added contact, Rae flinched rather hard and Kaiastiffened again, ready to pull away.

   Raeshook her head against Kaia’s shoulder. “I’m okay. Don’t leave me.” She soundedso vulnerable and pleading.

   Kaiablinked slowly but did as she was told and let out a long breath through hernose. As the moment passed and Rae slowly relaxed, Kaia felt her tensed shouldersloosen as well. Rae was really warm, she noted. She thought it’d beuncomfortable and just feel awkward, but as the two stayed as they were, Kaiarealized she didn’t actually hate this as much as she had so vehemently protestedbefore.

   Maybethis wasn’t so bad after all.

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16. “Don’t you go off and forget about me, now.” for Rae and Kaia for the writing meme? (why do I ask for pain like this idk dksjf;alk)

“time has come let us be bravelet us be bravelet us be brave”

   “Don’tyou go off and forget about me, now.” Said with such a bright smile in theircircumstance only caused the onslaught of tears to flow harder down Rae’sflushed cheeks. “Okay?” Kaia’s voice was so quiet now that it was hard to hear.

   Throattight with grief and her vision blurred, Rae squeezed her arms tighter aroundthe burning body of her friend. “I won’t!” she choked out, “I would never.”

   Herresponse seemed to give some kind of peace to Kaia, as Rae felt her frail form relaxin her hold. But she also felt her shoulder begin to dampen and she pulled backjust enough to look at Kaia’s face to see, to her surprise and heartbreak, thatshe was actually crying.

   “Kaia—”

   “I’msorry,” the Guardian whispered. Her tears were thick and fast, streaming downher face before her scorching skin could evaporate them. Kaia sniffled hard andtried to wipe the tears away, but her arms wouldn’t move enough for her handsto reach. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry…” Kaia repeated, several more times as even fainterwhispers.

   Rae’svoice caught in her throat before she could speak as she watched Kaia’s bodytake on a slight pink glow. Rae knew what this meant. She had tried to be indenial, hoping against everything that Kaia wasn’t actually dying, but it was auseless hope now.

   “Ilove you, Rae.”

   Raefelt a harder pang and her only response was to sob, her head hanging down asher own tears dropped onto the small body that she held oh-so-tightly. Herthroat was burning so badly now and it hurt to try and use, but she forced hervoice. “I love you, too,” she cried. “Please, Kaia…please don’t leave me.”

   Raecried harder and harder, not even able to keep her eyes open from all of thetears. Everything hurt. Her chest, her head, her heart. Her sobs ceased racking her body when she felt a tiny, hot hand gently touch her face. Raemanaged to blink enough of the wetness away to look up.

   Kaiawas still smiling, even while crying. “I’ll miss you,” she said, “and I won’t forgetany of this.” Her voice was hardly even a whisper at this point. Parts of Kaia’sbody were beginning to fade now, with the glow surrounding her growing brighterand little bubbles of light had started to float into the sky.

   “N-no!”Rae desperately tried to cling to Kaia, but her hands passed through her. “Don’tgo! Kaia!”

   Kaia’seyes were drifting shut now, her body at last giving out. The light was so brightnow that it was almost blinding. Before it completely enveloped her, though, Kaiagave one last smile, the widest and happiest Rae had ever seen.

   “Goodbye, Rae.”

[pinkprisms]

last minute pride piece, was nice drawing kaia again <3

[kyubey-kat]

🙃🗺️❤️

🙃 and a vague spoiler for your wip

but are we all just monsters in the end

🗺 and a fact about the setting/world of your wip

brookfalls’ architecture is sort of a weird mix of an in-between stage of transitioning from small town brick buildings into a metropolis. it’s very apparent depending on which side of the park you’re on

❤️ and your favorite fact about an oc of yours

for literally no reason at all kaia just likes to hang upside down in random places

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10 and 11

( doing 10 here, 11 will be another time o; )

                                                       kisses

   The first time Kaia experienced this type of intimacy had been gentle lips to the top of her head by Rae’s mother in a maternal act. The sensation it’d left had made her skin crawl, but Rae had managed to calm her and explain it in a better light, though Kaia still went on to continue her pouting the rest of that day.

   The second kiss was a tease brought about by some absurd ‘Christmas tradition’ under a clump of leaves strung together by a red bow. A weird name for a plant, she remembered— Mistletoe. It’d been a cheerful day for Rae and her family leading up to everything that Kaia decided to let it be for once and not make a scene out of it. But her cheek tingled all night that she barely slept.

   Humans are definitely weird.

   The third was a time where Kaia felt unlike herself, stepping into a role she never would have dared to act on once upon a time. Clammy skin made her face grimace on contact, and the trembling body belonging to an inconsolable Rae at the time had Kaia holding a death grip on her friend’s shoulders to keep her still while she clumsily reached for a glistening forehead to reenact that first time she knew of. It was salty.

   And the fourth, and last, kiss, had Kaia firmly take her stance that kissing “isn’t for me,” to an even redder than normal Jason, who she’d nonchalantly agreed to to let him do the act one blazing summer day. It felt chapped and sticky, and despite the half second it took, time couldn’t have moved faster to get it over with. She thought to throw a ‘sorry’ in when Jason seemed to lose his ability to speak, but given the experience she’d just had Kaia left it at that and only looked forward to getting to wash her mouth as soon as possible.

   On reflection, perhaps it was the heat that poured over them that left the boy looking like a tomato, and maybe it was the sweat Kaia had been feeling all afternoon that made her briefly lose her inhibitions.

   But regardless of the how’s and why’s, the kiss was far from pleasant and Kaia decided then and there that human lips were gross and not something that needed to be near her like that again.

[pinkprisms]

7 years and not even a finished story to show for it what’s up with that

february 2nd marked 7 whole years since i created the concept for my main project, and though still a huge wip in many places, i’m still very happy with my story and characters, and i hope someday soon i’ll be able to do more with it <3

a fun bonus:

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going for a ride