He finds you standing behind the main building of the base you were stationed at. A cigarette loosely between your lips as you scroll through your social media accounts. Too deep to not hear Simon coming.
āSmoking will kill you one day.ā
His voice, gravely and deep, it reminds you for some reason you canāt make out anymore, of the paths you walked as a child through the mountains, those paths gave you excitement and calmness, make you jump, almost dropping your phone. But lucky you, you keep yourself together
āJust like getting shot at. I prefer to go out on my own terms.ā You shake your head and watch Simon pick the cigarette from between your lips. He pulls his mask up, like always when on base he hides his face, and sticks the cigarette between his chapped lips, you can make out small scars from knives or his own skin picking, but as always you donāt say anything about it.
But you watch him take one drag after another, you follow the stream of smoke up to the sky before returning to look at Simon again. Simon whose lips quirk up to a grin when he realizes how much you stare at his lips and you turn away to hide your embarrassment.
Simon is having none of it, instead he wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you against his chest. āSince when are we shy, lovely?ā He asks and takes the last drag from his, no your, cigarette and throws the butt to the ground.
Only you donāt care about the environmental pollution, not with the way Simon presses his lips, hot and rough, against yours, his hands still wrapped around your hips, giving you no way out. Not that you want a way out with how easily your arms wrap around his neck and breath in the smoke he has kept in his mouth only to exhale it into yours again.
When your head starts spinning and your breath gets cut short from the intensity of his kiss, you were trained to hold your breath for longer than that, why was it that Simon fucking Riley made it so much harder? Simon breaks the kiss off and you stumble with weak knees against the wall in your back.
āDonāt go out on me before I get a chance to take you out!ā He grins before he pulls his mask back down and leaves without looking back, leaving you head spinning and breathless without a single thought in your head aside fromā¦
āWait⦠was this⦠did he just ask me out?!ā
















