FEELING A HEARTBEAT // ask out

[LUMIA CIPHER.]

When Vayne had initially come to Lumia to talk about Danny, the girl's aunt had honestly expected her to have figured out her feelings. She had assumed that the brightly colored feline had come to her for some kind of advice on how to confess, rather than to just ramble about her general feelings regarding Danny. Mia felt bad about it, but she had honestly struggled to resist the urge to laugh as Vayne had gone on about the canine, and how the other made her feel. Despite Vayne being the older of the two of them, she really was still very much a child in some ways. And sure, Lu had her own romantic things to sort out – regarding a certain scary woman from the Coalition – but at least she had been able to identify what she was feeling. Even if she had spent several days agonizing over those feelings, questioning why the hell she was having them for someone considered an enemy. They weren't focusing on her for the moment, though. They were focusing on Vayne and Danny.

After a long afternoon of conversation, Lumia liked to think she had gotten through to Vayne about what she was feeling, and what she could do about it. Still, she wasn't about to just force her niece to go and confess, so she had simply lingered around, doing her usual privateer duties while also keeping an eye out for the other Cipher. Eventually she spotted Vayne heading towards Danny's house, and she felt a flutter of excitement within her chest. This whole thing wasn't even her relationship, and yet still things felt like they were incredibly high stakes. So, she ended up trailing a little behind Vayne, watching as the girl slipped her note underneath the canine's door and headed off towards the beach. Lumia, of course, followed along, not wanting to miss what was about to happen. Once they reached the warm sands, she settled down near one of the huts, wanting to hear what happened but not wanting to interrupt at all. Plus, if Danny ended up hurting her niece, she wanted to be nearby to rip him a new one.

As Danny finally approached, Lumia dug her claws against the sand, listening intently to what was going on. Once more she had to bite her tongue to keep from chuckling a little, hearing the nervousness in Vayne's childish way of putting things. It really was sweet, though, and the privateer felt herself growing antsy as she waited for Danny's response alongside her niece.

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