Victorious

" I know you're supposed to be watching me--but I could feel your eyes from all the way over there. " the princess chuckled, putting his hand in hers. " which makes me think...you really want to dance with me. " another party off world, another event where her bodyguard stood along the shadows.

but the company was boring.

He can't hope to squash the smile coming to his lips at Eris' keen observation. He is a simple man, this she knows too well, for he wears his heart all for her on his sleeve.

"Am I so predictable?" He asks, though he's unsure if he needs it answered as he feels his face heat at her reaching for him, beginning a plunge he knows he won't recover from easily. Logan begins a delicate walk through the others in attendance at this party, and if nobody expressly looks, they may not be noticed.

But they will see Eris.

"Is this allowed, your grace?" He asks, the old title falling off his lips more an inside joke and a poke at her. She will surely give him the speech that since she's a princess, anything she wants is allowed and for him to hush.

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑* ( 𝐏𝐓. 𝟑 )

Writing / roleplay prompts based on lyrics collected from various songs released by TWICE. ( Part one here & part two here. )

tw: some suggestive content

❝ I don’t even know my own heart. ❞

❝ Sooner or later, I'll step over the line. ❞

❝ I shouldn't be doing this. ❞

❝ Keep your eyes closed. ❞

❝ Just this once, no rules. ❞

❝ Pretend you don't know. ❞

❝ Surely you can see that you could never make her happy? ❞

❝ Heaven and hell are not far from what you think. ❞

❝ Take me to your paradise. ❞

❝ It's a starry night. ❞

❝ Kiss me in the blue moonlight. ❞

❝ Get me out of here! ❞

❝ Takе me with you. ❞

❝ I keep wanting you. ❞

❝ I want you so bad. ❞

❝ I'm afraid to be alone again. ❞

❝ I can feel it even when I close my eyes. ❞

❝ I've already made up my mind. ❞

❝ I don’t want any drama. ❞

❝ You don't look like yourself. ❞

❝ You are the bright one. ❞

❝ You’re a queen. ❞

❝ You make me feel special. ❞

❝ Focus only on me. ❞

❝ You will always be the one. ❞

❝ You enjoy my attention. ❞

❝ I'm gonna make you scream all night long. ❞

❝ Tell me it will be okay. ❞

❝ I know you've been waiting for me. ❞

❝ Why do you keep studying me? ❞

❝ That's not quite my style. ❞

❝ You think too much, that's your problem. ❞

❝ Being stuck in your head will do no good. ❞

❝ Your eyes are glowing in the dark. ❞

❝ All the stars above got nothing on you, baby. ❞

❝ You know that I'm what you need. ❞

❝ They know a thing like me is once in a lifetime. ❞

❝ You still can't get away from me. ❞

❝ I know it drives you crazy. ❞

❝ You think you're all that? ❞

❝ Don't ever think that you can win. ❞

❝ Don't provoke me anymore. ❞

❝ No one can compare to me. ❞

❝ Why did I become like this? ❞

❝ You got me right where I wanna be. ❞

❝ Are you ready for the ride? ❞

❝ I'll give you flowers 'til the end of time. ❞

❝ Say you wanna take me out tonight. ❞

❝ If you only knew what I could do to you. ❞

❝ Baby boy, can you handle it? ❞

❝ I'd put you on a chain. ❞

❝ Can I dance with you? ❞

❝ Honestly, I've been feeling insecure. ❞

❝ I'm not even mad at you, it's my attitude. ❞

❝ You do what you’re told, and I do what I want. ❞

❝ I'm better than before. ❞

❝ I gave you all of me. ❞

❝ I didn't mean to love you like this. ❞

❝ You always gotta be somewhere, but you won't say where. ❞

❝ You don't know yet that you've already lost. ❞

❝ Your eyes have already given it all away. ❞

❝ I really don't think I am the problem. ❞

❝ Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic. ❞

❝ I let you fool me once, but I can't let you fool me twice. ❞

❝ You know I'm always by your side. ❞

❝ I got you and that's all that matters. ❞

❝ No one knows me like you do. ❞

❝ I won't take you for granted. ❞

❝ Don't play with a girl like me. ❞

❝ You're in way, way, way too deep. ❞

❝ I came for the music, but I stayed for you. ❞

❝ I can't fix a heart, but I sure know how to fix a drink. ❞

❝ Just you and me, this moment is ours. ❞

❝ There's something in the way that you move. ❞

❝ You know I’m not in my right mind. ❞

❝ You’re addicted to me. ❞

❝ I'll be the one you can't forget. ❞

❝ You deceived me for your own benefit. ❞

❝ I'm the monster you created. ❞

❝ I'm not the same person I used to be. ❞

❝ You're on my mind all of the time. ❞

❝ I can taste you on my tongue. ❞

❝ I don't think that what we have is just a fling. ❞

❝ You won't hurt my feelings, tell me straight to my face. ❞

❝ You can't lie to me. ❞

❝ I'm a mess inside. ❞

❝ Is it a mistake, the way I love you? ❞

❝ I know your eyes, I know your heart. ❞

❝ I know there’s no point trying to change you. ❞

❝ I wanna be in your arms again. ❞

❝ It was a misunderstanding. ❞

❝ Who are you fooling? ❞

❝ You’re always fixated on something. ❞

❝ You should treat me right. ❞

❝ I decide my own worth. ❞

❝ I can’t keep living a lie. ❞

❝ We were lightning from the start ❞

❝ Won't you come and kiss my troubles away? ❞

❝ You can't take your eyes off me, can you? ❞

❝ No reason to be so shy with me. ❞

All the humans were exceptionally skilled at it, at hiding reactions with admirable discipline, and thunderer had remained attentive to the subtler shifts in them, observant and perceptive in an effort to uphold their newly formed relations.

' I would expect nothing less,' came the gentle reply, the god's mouth quirking before rising upward further, lifting as Logan immediately folded more tasks into the acceptance of the invitation. ' I suspect your eye for detail will prove very useful once we engage with the charting.'

And a selfish, unexamined part of him simply did not wish for the evening to end quite yet. This realization followed swiftly behind that particular thought, unbidden and unwelcome in its honestly.

Why these thoughts emerged had not been fully analyzed by the Agardian as of now, yet they had done so for these past weeks quite often. Logan's company was calm in a way that countered the rest of the mortals in many ways, their interactions solely feeling performative in nature. The man neither worshipped nor feared him, though traces of some reverence occasionally escaped despite the human's best efforts. Conversations never felt like negotiations, or politics wrapped in courtesies, they were easy, steady, earnest.

Something the god found himself looking forward to before it had become evident even to himself.

' I shall see you there later,' and the incline of golden head is a practiced, natural gesture, as was the smile.

----

By the time Logan arrived at the cartography deck the ship had quieted down into its artificial nocturne.

The chamber stretched wide around the central projection table, stars cast in languidly moving dots and lines of blue-white light across darkened walls. Holographic terrain maps rotated lazily above the consoles, ghostly contintents suspended in air as unfinished thoughts awaiting clarity. Beyond the panoramic viewport nothing but space, expanding as a dark blanket speckled with blinking stars.

Standing near the main display the god's broad back was partially turned, curved shoulders outlined in silver starlight. A hand rested against the edge of the console while the other manipulated rotating topographical scans with careful gestures, golden tresses now loose and spilling down as threads of pale gold and auburn.

Focus upon the maps faltered when the huff of the door breaks the silence, and there it was again, that small and unguarded easing in expression upon seeing the commander enter.

Logan wouldn't lie and say he didn't enjoy looking at the charts with others around him. The liveliness of bouncing ideas off other sharp minds was always entertaining and it made for a more jovial experience overall to this rather solitary job they were all embarking on. Sometimes a whole day could go by with nobody really interacting with one another much, so embroiled in all of their own individual tasks at hand. But tonight didn't have to be that way, and the thought made him more happy than it aught to have.

"You speak too highly of me." Logan begins with a playful smile. "I might be useless to you within an hour." A tease, really, and soon enough, they are naturally gravitating towards the idea of seeing one another later after a brief separation. Logan offers his own incline of head to match that of Thor's, one of the ways they communicated easily was growing into gestures and nonverbal things of late, and he liked to keep the simplicity of it intact as long as possible.

Bidding goodbye didn't sit heavy on his shoulders this time but lively like butterflies in his stomach.

---

Unfortunately, he was a little later than planned. Gathering his things had turned into a quick check of emails and answering some correspondence that he didn't want to have to do with another body in the room. Then he'd gone to the mess hall to raid the fridges for a midnight snack for he and Thor and had since been cornered by one of the engineers lamenting the lack of sleep he'd been getting. So when Logan entered the quiet of the cartography chamber, a weight did lift from his shoulders as he set down his laptop, further the little steel lunchbox as well on the desk he chose, opposite Thor for the moment, with a smile.

"Not reports, rather an engineer delirious with exhaustion." He says with a gentle glance over at the god and opening the container. "I swiped us a few things for burning the midnight oil." He muses with a scoot of the box a bit between the pair. A cup of pudding, specifically pilfered for Thor, and some of their more recent planetary harvest of fruits. They had come to the conclusion that planets they could manage to land on that had edible food, but didn't have the right conditions for colonization, didn't mean they couldn't snag a few treats for their continued journey through the stars.

He feels immediately relieved as he sits on his chair and opens his laptop, glancing around at the star charts and monochrome planetary scans in starlight glow glittering around them in the stillness of the low ambient lighting the ship has for evening cycles. If he'd been working here alone, he'd have enlarged the maps to simply encase him in a black void of glittering light, but he didn't do so with Thor beside him. Taking a slice of a fruit, approximate of an apple in human terms though colored differently and more juicy, Logan sticks the slice between his lips but doesn't chew on it yet as he types in the codes to access his reports on his laptop, only chewing it once he's able to touch the screen to open up his latest assessments nearly half finished.