hydrcphobic:
“you’re still so far away. afraid i might bite?” she teased, placing her hands on her hips. a few miniscule curls fell from behind her ear, but she didn’t care enough to shift it back. she was too busy eyeing the hephaestus boy, amusement twinkling within her sea green irises. she had half a mind to make a comment on his own staring, only deciding against it to keep from embarrassing him too much.
as he inched closer, she could feel her heart pick up in speed. her stomach churned, an excitement rising up within her that she couldn’t quite get a grasp of, considering that once he was in arms reach, closed the distance, looking up at him smugly.
clara had always been a guarded girl. from her old school days, to her first few years at camp, the most she could recall was turning away from people when she had needed them the most. how leo had managed to worm past her defenses, she would never be able to explain – but she was happy that he had. “so, what d'you say about you and i getting permission to leave camp for a few hours to go see a movie tomorrow?”
“i don’t think you could ever be a biter,” was his reply, chuckling to himself as he continued forward, just to the point where, if he wanted to-- and he wanted to-- he could pull her into his arms. “you’re not scary enough to be a lake shark.
but then she had gotten closer, just close enough where one shift of either of their bodies and they might as well be pressed together. leo might have already been warmed by the water, but his fingers and toes felt like the fires from the forge he worked in. he wiggled his fingers by his side in an effort to get them to relax, to stop feeling so heated--
“a movie? out in the big, bad world?” god, if he was already helping clara so much here at camp-- water-wise, at least-- imagine how prepared he’d have to be prepared for the both of them out there? but then again, a day outside with a beautiful girl and a movie that he probably wouldn’t have a chance to see otherwise without his siblings barging in... another jump from his heart. “it’s got to be a movie that we’d be willing to die for, then. or at least cry for.”
