#hello friends. i have wrat

[riajade01]

Just Friends (No, Really)

I wasn’t going to do OC Kiss week and then.... inspiration happened, so. This is a couple of years before game start, in @inquisitorhotpants‘s Krynverse (so neither Mara nor Akrona are the canon Warrior). Mara and @fluffynexu's Akrona are besties at the Korriban Academy, just a couple of years from graduation (so they’re in their early 20s). 

Mara fidgets impatiently as the shuttle takes a small eternity to settle the last few meters onto the landing pad. The doors slide open, disgorging a steady stream of Sith Acolytes. She ignores them all, amber eyes scanning the incoming faces for her friend.

Akrona spent the last two weeks at her family's estate. An interminable two weeks, to Mara's mind. Aside from the loneliness that comes with being without your best friend and the accompanying language of inside joke and covert glances, it's been months since Mara realized her feelings for Akrona have shifted.

Shy and reserved, with cloud-grey eyes uncharacteristic of their species, Akrona is wholly unlike any other Red Sith Mara has known. Beyond the shy exterior, though, is a warmth Mara has found herself craving and a ferocity that, once triggered, is awe-inspiringly beautiful. There's also a complete lack of arrogance that means Akrona never notices when others flirt with her, including Mara.

Finally, Akrona appears. Her grey eyes meet Mara's and when she smiles, Mara's heart stutters. 

She missed her like hell.

As they embrace, the warmth Mara missed washes over her, along with a touch of sadness. She frowns, pulling back slight to look her friend in the face. 

"What's wrong, 'Krona?" 

Akrona sighs and looks away, her eyes shadowing. "Home is always... complicated," she says softly. She meets Mara's gaze and brightens. "But I'm back, now." 

Mara's heart clenches. She knows a little of Akrona's past and why going home would be a bittersweet affair. She cradles her face with both hands, holding her as if she's a priceless jewel, and before Mara can lose her nerve, leans down and presses a soft, chaste kiss to her lips. 

Akrona inhales softly, her surprise a gentle flash in the Force. Mara pulls back, blushing, worried she's overstepped. Her friend is staring at her quizzically, her head cocked to one side. Then she grins, pulling Mara back into a hug. 

"Hello to you, too." Her lips brush Mara's cheek in a traditional Red Sith greeting. She loops her arm with Mara's and steers her back toward the Academy dorms, chatting about the wrats and various other pets that make up the menagerie at her family’s estate. 

Surely she can't think that was platonic....

Mara reaches out, brushing Akrona's sense through the Force. None of the annoyance or discomfort one might feel from an unwanted advance is present; Akrona's sense is just... Akrona. Warm and sweet and completely oblivious. 

She swallows a frustrated groan and returns her focus to the conversation at hand.