[PCs] team trust no bitch aka team hat aka chuuya & caren

[doublesmall]

[but is it really team hat if only caren has one, though? that's the real question here.

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(there is age difference ship content here but nothing nsfw)]

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[doublesmall]

As if I could ever really stop being stubborn.

[he's too much of a shit for that, caren.

but he's content to just hold her there for now, huffing out a laugh under his breath.]

We're still partners. What kind of team would we be if we couldn't trust each other with things like this...

I said I trusted you with all of me. I'm sure some people would say I don't have much of a heart, but-- that's part of me too, isn't it?

[sexorcism]

You aren't confusing what I said for just being faithful partners, are you?

[She knows he isn't. The way they're tangled together isn't completely sustainable since he pulled her over earlier, so Caren readjusts her weight a little bit, head forced even closer against his throat as she does.]

That part of you get you into not insignificant trouble. I'll be watching over you from here, then, just so you don't make the same mistake again. It's not a job I normally take on...

[She trails off, just mumbling into his chest a bit.] I hate that I was never a schoolgirl and yet feel like one now.

[doublesmall]

I don't need to be watched... but I guess if anyone's going to, I'd rather have your eyes on me than anyone else's.

[and okay, he tries not to laugh a little at that last admission, but it sneaks into his tone anyway.]

Hasn't this whole game been full of shit we didn't see coming? But don't worry, I don't think anyone could ever mistake you for just a schoolgirl, even if you feel like one.

-so does that make me the upperclassman in this scenario though, huh? Isn't that how those stories go?

[sexorcism]

You did say that you're too old for me. [She hasn't forgotten that. Maybe Chuuya can even hear the petulant expression in her voice when she says it.] I don't think that makes you an upperclassman, but instead, some hapless older local?

The conventions in those types of stories are beyond me in many ways.

[doublesmall]

I already told you, I didn't want to admit to it at the time...

[he has the decency to sound sheepish for snubbing her like that, though.]

And why would I have to be a "hapless" older guy, huh?

[sexorcism]

My apologies for cornering you later until you were forced to admit to it.[She doesn't sound very apologetic.]

Isn't it obvious? you spend your days in dogged, probably clumsy pursuit of that vibrant star of innocence and girlhood...

[He can't see her face, but she's making a blanker than normal expression for sure.]

[doublesmall]

Tch... you're not sorry or innocent.

[he wrinkles his nose... but he also leans back just enough to tilt her chin up and kiss her, grinning against her lips.]

But I like you best this way, you know?

[sexorcism]

Ah, are you certain? I can play at precocious girlhood if you'd rather have that for your own. [It's easier to couch how they feel in these banters; Caren blames men for teaching her they only care about sexual things half the time.

She's still frowning when he kisses her, but Caren rolls onto her back after that and rests her head against Chuuya's chest, breathing in tandem with him.]

[doublesmall]

I don't want you to play at anything.

[his fingers comb through her hair after she pillows her head on him, in idle little motions-- chuuya toys with a lock of it here and there, winding it through his fingers and smoothing it out again.]

-well, unless you insist on it. Who am I to say no to what you want, huh?

[sexorcism]

You're all too willing to cater to my desires. [How dangerous... she smiles, revealing a crack of cunning before she drapes one arm along his legs.]

And? If I were like that, a tender young ingenue, how would you handle it?