Could you do a Lapis x human reader where they are stargazing together??
Of course! It’s under the cut!
Beach City was….nice, at night. The stars freckled the sky and even from the barn, Lapis could hear the sounds of the waves down below. It was soothing. It gave her a sense of stability that she sometimes lost sight of.
She found solace in the sights and sounds of it all, so naturally, she wanted to share it with someone she cared about. Peridot didn’t quite have the attention span for it, nor did she really consider showing Peridot it when she too lived right in this strange in-between that felt so private and intimate with all that this planet had to offer. Peridot could figure it out for herself.
No, she was waiting for a certain someone. A certain person who always managed to make her smile, and someone she was content to just stand next to. Her very own ‘special someone’, as humans tended to put it. She waited outside of the barn patiently, staring out over the ocean, a thick dark line against the lighter navy blue of the night sky. Lost in thought, she hardly noticed the sound of a car approaching the barn, only looking over when the headlights beamed at her where she sat on her own….barn-slash-back-of-car.
A small smile formed as the other parked, and she gracefully slid down from the bed of the car and towards y/n as they got out of their own car. A grin was on their face as they hugged Lapis cheerfully. “Hey,” they half-whispered, as if them meeting up was a secret even though it really wasn’t. They pulled back from the hug to open the door to the back of their car, pulling out a large knit blanket before turning back to Lapis, “I also brought a thermos of hot cocoa since you said we were going to be outside. What did you want to show me?”
That feeling was back again. The warm and fuzzy feeling that would seed at her chest, and gradually filter throughout the whole of her body. Just looking at them, all bundled up to fight back against the chill of the ocean at night, cheeks a little pink from that very cold, Lapis was just so…so….she didn’t know how to word it. But there was this overwhelming need to hold them close.
“Heh, thanks. I don’t really get cold though,” she reminded them, tilting her head ever so slightly.
“I know that,” y/n replied, beginning to seem almost bashful, “I just…hot chocolate is always nice to have and this blanket is really soft and I thought I should share it with you.”
“Oh,” Lapis’ cheeks flushed a bit before her smile grew, “Thanks.”
Pressing a sweet kiss to her cheek, y/n smiled, “You’re very welcome. Now, what did you want to show me?”
Right. That was what they were doing. Lapis nearly forgot. Sliding her arms under y/n’s armpits, she made sure she had a good grip on her before her wings formed into their watery essence. “Alright, hold on.”
With the grace of a professional dancer, she touched off from the ground, powerful wings flapping and launching the two skyward. In their surprise, y/n couldn’t help but yelp and cling to the blankets they held, watching as they got higher, higher, higher. Up until they landed on the roof of the barn.
Once they landed, Lapis held them close to steady them, until y/n regained their balance and looked over at Lapis with a giddy smile. Flying always did that. Initially, it was terrifying, but once they touched down, there was always that inner child that screamed ‘again! again!’.
“I wanted to look at the stars with you,” Lapis finally admitted, wings disappearing behind her back again, “This is kind of my…happy place. You can hear the ocean, and the sky is really clear tonight so…” She gestured at them, “I wanted to share it with you.”
Y/n stared at her with wide eyes, that same happy warm feeling messing with their own insides. After a beat, a grin split across their face again and they pulled her into a tight hug, “Ohh my god Lapis. Thank-thank you. That’s so sweet, I-” God, the gesture itself was almost overwhelming. Y/n felt lucky. All kinds of lucky to even have met Lapis. What were the chances that they’d find someone so… so perfect in all the galaxy.
Lapis hugged them back, glad that they liked it. She was worried that maybe they’d find it boring or just want to go do something else. But no, they wanted to admire the stars with her and she just…she felt like she could burst right now.
Eventually receding from the embrace, y/n laid out their blanket on the shingles of the barn. As they laid down, Lapis sat next to them, staring up at the infinite stars in an even more infinite night sky. Blue fingers wound themselves in y/n’s hair as she combed through it, finding comfort in the contact of y/n being by her side.
But y/n wasn’t quite looking at the stars. Their eyes were on Lapis’ face. The look of content and happiness that sometimes felt so rare to them. It was something they wanted to see more. The kind of joy gained from sharing something you love. And it brought a nearly once in a lifetime happiness to y/n that they just couldn’t shake. Not that they wanted to.
After a good while, Lapis could just about feel their eyes on her, and she looked down at them, “What?”
“I just,” y/n sighed contently, “I love you.”
Feeling like that happy fuzzy feeling was taking over her body, she leaned down and pressed a kiss to their forehead gently, “Heh, I love you too y/n.”
The two returned their eyes to the stars, looking up at the beauty that was the endlessness of space. A space that was a world Lapis knew and a world that y/n couldn’t possibly grasp. Not that it mattered. It was a sense of wonderment to them both, and something that only drew them deeper in. It was…nice, as Lapis would put it.