Sherlock Holmes

JUST KILL THEM. I CAN MAKE DO WITH FOUR, YOU CAN TURN SOME OF YOURS INTO NPCS.

Dan continued drilling the troops for two hours, picking up another sergeant's greenies halfway through when the sergeant apparently had a serious personal issue come up. As he dismissed the soldiers, he thought, I'd better be payed for overtime; these greenies are exhausting. He stretched himself out, then went over to the gym to work out, which would put him in a better mood. @ShadowLord_Lith

This is funny.

Dan landed at the training grounds. Only six of the forty soldiers in the squad he was being a replacement-sergeant for were here. He sighed and waved over the soldiers who were here as six more arrived. “You guys have the last ten minutes off, on me,” Dan said, and the soldiers saluted him with smiles on their faces. Over the next ten minutes, everyone got there. They weren’t greenies, not quite, but they hadn’t had enough discipline drilled into them yet. Most of them were older than Dan, but he was taller and more somber than any of them, so they respected him to a decent degree as he got them all working. He had to hit one or two when they started making loud jokes about having a ‘baby sergeant’, but eventually everyone was working and Dan could relax. “So did it work?” Dan spun around and almost attacked the person who’d snuck up on him, but stopped when he saw who it was. “Hi, Darrell,” he said to Darrell, relaxing and turning to face the soldiers again. “Did it, though?” Darrell asked again, walking over and standing next to Dan. “Did what work?” Dan growled, annoyed. “The stunt I pulled to get you to confess to Shae,” Darrell explained sufferingly. “Well... yes, kinda,” Dan said, trying to keep a blush off his face. “Please, elaborate.” “He brought me down to his room,” Dan did not want to tell Darrell to see what, “and kissed me, then asked me to be his boyfriend.” He said it quietly enough that none of the soldiers could hear, though he didn’t know why he didn’t want them to know. “Please tell me you said yes,” Darrell said, like Dan was a kid who had been offered a winning lottery ticket and may have declined. “I did.” This, for some reason, made Darrell smile. “How’s it been going?” “Definitely good. We haven’t fought about anything yet, and he’s amazing.” “Well, that’s good,” Darrell said, rolling his eyes. Then he paused and his face turned somber, maybe even slightly embarrassed. “So... I didn’t come here to see you. Your dad asked me to tell you something.” “What is it? To not be gay, I’m guessing.” Dan joked, but he was seething inside. Why did his dad have to try and ruin his life even from another planet? “Actually, he wanted me to tell you that he’s sorry for yelling at you, and avoiding you, and lecturing you, and all that.” Dan’s breath stopped for a moment. Could his dad actually be sorry about something for once? But no... “Couldn’t even bother to come here himself and say it to my face, could he? But that’s my dad, I guess. He always was a coward at heart.” Dan’s anger had subsided somewhat, but nothing Darrell said couldn’t change the fact that Dan’s dad had insulted him all those years, kept him away from guys the best he could, and in general been a huge jerk. “Agreed,” Darrell said, “but he still wanted you to know.” He glanced down at his watch, and said, “Sorry, I have to go. See ya around.” He turned and walked away without another word, and Dan didn’t try to stop him. He didn’t know how he felt about all this. Why should how his dad thought of him change him if his dad wasn’t around? But... he still kind of felt like a weight had been moved from his back, or his heart, or whatever. @ShadowLord_Lith

“I have to go work,” Dan said, and gave Shae a kiss on the side of his face. “See you later.” He walked over to the skylight, waved at Shae, then climbed out and flew over to the training grounds. @ShadowLord_Lith

Dan woke up in a weird position. He was laying on his stomach on a cold table. He rolled and slipped off the table, barely managing to land on his knees on a tiled floor. “Oof,” he said, opening his eyes and looking up. Shae was slumped over a nearby table, probably drooling on whatever he’d been drawing when he’d fallen asleep. Dan stood up and walked over to Shae, slipping the sheet of paper out from under Shae’s arms. He inspected it and saw that Shae actually hadn’t drooled on any of it, then set it back on the table and shook Shae’s shoulder. Shae was adorable when he was asleep, but Dan had to go drill some soldiers, so he wanted to wake Shae up first. @ShadowLord_Lith

"Night," Dan said. He was honestly kind of glad that it was cold today, otherwise Shae's close-by body heat would've made him sweat. He shifted so that he was on his stomach, and spread one of his wings over Shae, and folded the other on top of his back. He fell asleep a minute or so later. @ShadowLord_Lith

"Mm," Dan said, hugging Shae back. He lowered himself to his side. @ShadowLord_Lith

Dan opened his mouth to say that Shae had sexy muscles, but stopped himself, since Shae would probably pass out of embarrassment if he did. "You look, uh, nice," he said instead. "You don't have to be nervous, okay?" @ShadowLord_Lith

"Sleep." @ShadowLord_Lith

"I miss hammocks," Dan noted, then looked expectantly at Shae. @ShadowLord_Lith

"Yes, but I'll have to sleep in a corner with nothing in it, so that I don't knock anything over with my wings. I move them when I'm asleep sometimes." @ShadowLord_Lith

Dan nodded casually, like he hadn't been hoping Shae was going to stay. "I mean, it's not going to rain, so you'll be fine." @ShadowLord_Lith

"An oddly terrifying form of entertainment that I'd rather not explain," Dan said, falling back onto his haunches. "It's getting kind of late." @ShadowLord_Lith

"And that's precisely why Disney movies are always so creepy," Dan muttered into Shae's shoulder. Then he pulled himself together and sat up straight. "You just got me really scared, and yes, I will ask for your permission if I ever want to do anything." @ShadowLord_Lith

"I thought it was maybe like an on-and-off switch or something so I hit it again," Dan said, pressing his face into Shae's shoulder. @ShadowLord_Lith

"Youtoldmetopokeathingonyourchestandididandyoufellasleepandiwasscared," Dan said, hugging Shae close to him. @ShadowLord_Lith

"Uuuuuhhh, he definitely should've told me how to reverse this before I did it," Dan mumbled to himself, starting to genuinely panic. He shook Shae again, harder this time. @ShadowLord_Lith

Dan moved and shook Shae thoroughly. "You're scaring me, dude." He poked Shae again in the same spot, to see if that would work. @ShadowLord_Lith

Dan moved his hand, panicked, and said, "Dude, are you okay? Awake?" @ShadowLord_Lith

Dan didn't remember, but he ignored that and poked Shae in that spot on his chest. @ShadowLord_Lith