Title: Where We Start
Author: Laylah
Rating: PG
Word Count: 275
Summary: It's Larsa's idea, of course.
It's Larsa's idea, of course, and there's a good ten seconds after he suggests it that Vaan and Penelo just kind of both stand there like they must have heard him wrong. Some really petty corner of Vaan's mind is glad that Penelo is caught off guard, too, so it's not like she'll be able to hold it over his head later.
"Um," he says, when he can't stand the silence anymore, "how does that even work?"
Larsa blinks at him. "You've no experience with this?" He sounds so surprised that Vaan blushes, maybe just a little.
"Well, basically, yes," Penelo says, and that is definitely something Vaan will have to ask about later, "but -- you do realize there are three of us, right?"
"Ah," Larsa says, "is that all?" He starts taking off his gloves, which Balthier says usually means somebody is serious. "I suppose we don't have to do it all at once, if one of you would rather wait, but it seemed the best way to avoid jealousy. At least the first time."
Vaan still has objections, he's pretty sure, starting with but we're both boys, but Penelo is starting to unbuckle her bodysuit and Larsa is smiling at her and -- there's no way, Vaan realizes all at once, that he's going to just leave the two of them here like this.
"Okay," he says, reaching for the clasps of his armor, his heart pounding. "You win. Where do we start?"
Larsa comes over to him, steadies himself with one bare hand against Vaan's side, and stretches up to press their lips together in a kiss.
Oh, Vaan thinks. Oh.