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Kohala Coast, Hawaii | Morning & Afternoon | Tuesday | February 22nd

Everyone should feel sorry for the poor bastards left behind in Fandom where snow collected atop the ice that coated the ground overnight. But in Hawaii, everything was sunny, warm, and beautiful. It was paradise, and everyone there should take advantage!

[Guest Quarters | Resort Activities | Spa Without Walls | Beach Activities | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | OOC]

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"Shhh." Nathan put a finger to his lips because she was still talking and he didn't want to get lectured again. Nathan moved around until he was on his knees and leaned closer to her, letting his lips find the line of her jaw.

This was easy, he thought. And this was affection he didn't give to other people either. Eventually, he'd need to use words with her, he knew, but for now, he was just going to slide his lips up and her jaw towards her cheek.

Caroline's eyes closed at the soft feel of his lips against her cheek. "Even that's not as easy as you think," she pointed out. Mainly because she wished he would kiss her but ugh, he'd probably taste the blood on her and it was so disgusting and wrong and wow was it a good thing her eyes were closed so that he wouldn't see how totally torn she was.

Nathan kind of gave up on getting her to be quiet since it seemed like she had to talk just to be comfortable. That was all right, he could listen.

He moved his lips up near her ear, kissing both earlobe and the shell before finding the spot right behind it and pressing a light kiss there as well.

"Why is this not easy?" he whispered since he was so closer to hear ear. "What's hard right now?"

That wasn't even an innuendo.

For once, Caroline didn't feel like answering out loud, but it seemed like he was expecting her to. "I don't know. Something always happens. You know that as well as I do."

Nathan was trying not to get discouraged or put off by her negativity right now. She seemed to be expecting something to happen, whether it be his attitude or something else, and he was determined to prove her wrong.

"You're thinking too much," Nathan decided, moving his head away from her ear for the moment. That made it easier to cradle her face between his hands and kiss the spot under one of her eyes. "Stop that."

It was scary, but Nathan was probably right about that. Caroline opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Stop thinking?"

Caroline could hardly stop speaking, let alone thinking. How was she supposed to obsess over things if she had to find a way to shut off her brain without use of the lovely dulling alcohol she so enjoyed on Wednesdays.

"Yes, stop fucking thinking," he said, meeting her gaze with his own. He didn't let go of her face though so that kept them close together. "Is there something you want right now that you're thinking about? Tell me true, Caroline. Don't make me break out my human lie detecting skills."

"You have human lie detecting skills now?" Caroline asked, smiling just a bit as she stayed close, suddenly feeling very aware of where they were and how warm it was. "Think they work on vampires?"

"They don't discriminate," Nathan said wisely, nodding. "So yeah, I think they work on everyone. You planning on lying to me for some reason? The question wasn't that hard."

"I wanna know more about these skills." Lie detecting was fascinating. "Not that I'm a liar. I'm just an interested party."

"I can't explain the innate and inherited skills I've got, Caroline," he said, shaking his head. "There aren't any schematics or a manual or any technical shit like that. It's just the way it is."

He nodded, trying not to seem like the liar he was. "I think you should answer my question instead of avoiding it by talking about the skills that make me a superior human being."

"I was not trying to avoid your question," she told him. "There's nothing I want." Not anything that she could have at the moment at least.

"There's nothing you want?" Nathan didn't believe that and it probably showed. He shook his head and looked away for a second. "So, you're telling me you're just sitting here, letting me do this, not thinking or wanting anything at all? Do I have it right?"

It sounded like that's what she was trying to get him to think and he just didn't believe it.

Caroline rolled her eyes at him. "Um, hello? Did you miss the part where I very clearly liked you...doing all that? I like you kissing me."

"Yeah, but you don't think it's easy," he pointed out even as he leaned in to resume that kissing. This time, he kissed one corner of her mouth before moving to the other and then up to her forehead, above her eye and near her hairline.

If she liked it, he'd keep doing it even if he still sensed some reluctance or just...uncertainty there. He'd keep doing it though.

She did like it, even if he kept trying to ruin it with the questions.

"God, if you're going to harp on it, I guess I should just spit it out and make everything awkward ever." Caroline was perhaps a touch dramatic about these things.

"I was just eating, Nathan," she said, nodding back toward her thermos in the sand. "It's kind of worse than too much garlic, you know?"

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Poor Nathan didn't immediately realize what she meant so he looked momentarily confused before putting two and two together. His snacks were so much more flavorful than hers.

"You want me to kiss you, is that it?" Nathan guessed, glancing down at the thermos. "Kiss you properly, I mean. I know, I'm already kissing you, my lips aren't fucking paralyzed."

Caroline shrugged, trying to downplay things. "It doesn't matter. The timing's just bad." So far the two of them always seemed to have something wrong.

Nathan couldn't stop himself from getting a little frustrated. Yeah, she drank blood, he knew that, and kissing her might be a little weird but man, she just didn't even wanna give him a chance to decide for himself.

"The timing's just bad," he repeated, nodding and sitting back, hands dropping away from her face for the moment. "You know, if I ask you what you want, it means it does matter. Stop with this fucking 'it doesn't matter' shit. Yes, it does."

"Well maybe I would rather avoid seeing you look horrified by me," Caroline pointed out, not getting why he seemed mad at her for this. "I don't exactly take rejection well, okay? But if you just want me to say it anyway, then God help me, yes, I want you to kiss me!"

Nathan had things to say about all those assumptions she'd just made about what he'd do and wouldn't do. They were on the tip of his tongue but he forced them back.

He leaned back in quickly and kissed her instead, not giving himself time to think about what she'd been drinking or what it was. If he tasted it, he'd deal but good fucking God, it was just nice to hear that she wanted something even if he'd had to pull it out of her.

She'd probably be pleased to know that he didn't kiss her like he was horrified. That had to count for something.

Caroline would have argued that she always wanted something and that he made a lot of assumptions when he thought that she didn't.

But his lips were on hers and she was reaching her arm around his neck and kissing him back and there was really just no time for thought that went beyond reacting. Sometimes Caroline really just needed to shut her trap and go with these things.

They probably both made a lot of assumptions about each other. And those assumptions seemed to start arguments which seemed to be how they ended up ended up in their sometimes vicious cycle.

And see, she didn't have to deal with any rejection because there weren't many times he was going to reject her. Nathan was already trying to move closer to her even if the sand wasn't making that easy. He wasn't about to fucking move away, not now, not after he'd started kissing her and she was trying to get herself closer to him and he so did not care about the public location or his previous bitchiness.

It really was a cruel cycle of bitchery and missed make-out opportunities, but right then Caroline was perfectly happy to sit up more and pull him closer by his t-shirt. It didn't really match up with the tiny bikini she was wearing, but she didn't care if he was overdressed for the beach since she could grab hold of that shirt and not let go if she didn't want to.

And maybe she was starting to understand his previous bitchiness. If he'd wanted to do this while she'd been with Bod, well, it made sense on some seriously jealous level.

Poor Nathan hadn't gotten around to actually getting into the water so the shirt had stayed on while he'd sulked and pretended not to watch earlier. And while a part of him hated that he'd missed the opportunity to have her hands on his skin, another part thought it that much hotter that she was grabbing him by his shirt and bringing him closer to her.

Besides, there was plenty of her skin out there for touching and now that Nathan was closer to her, he realized that touching had to happen. Without missing a beat, he'd reached down and trailed his fingers along her stomach, alternating between fingertip stroking and flattening his palm there just because he could.

See, he could do this much better than he could do jealousy. He was so not good at jealousy hence the bitter bitchiness. At least that was gone for the moment. He liked it better that way.

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