#saffron:val

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♥ Val / Saffron

If we kissed?

[] Quickie.

[🌈] Tongue.

[] Softly bite your lip.

[🌈] We wouldn’t.

[] Long and meaningful.

[🌈] Let’s hit up the bedroom. (pre-Halley)

[🌈] You remember last time?

[] Awkward…

[] Lol no.

Would I go out with you?

[] Yes, definitely.

[] No.

[] I want to, but it wouldn’t work.

[] Maybe.

[] Nope, you’re like family.

[🌈] You’re cute, but probably not.

[] Just simply not my type.

[] If I knew you better.

[] Already did.

[] I don’t know.

If we took a picture together, we’d be…

[] Hugging each other.

[🌈] Just chilling.

[] Holding hands.

[] Kissing.

[🌈] Acting dumb.

[] Normal picture.

[] You holding me from behind.

You are…

[🌈] Cute/Pretty.

[] Good looking.

[🌈] Sexy.

[] All of the above

You + me + room = …

[🌈] Movies.

[🌈] Cuddling.

[🌈] Hanging out.

[🌈] Kissing. (pre-Halley)

[] Playing games.

[🌈] Everything. (pre-Halley)

[] Wouldn’t let you in.

You should…

[] Hit me up.

[] Be mine.

[] Marry me.

[🌈] egg hunter’s house

If we got married, I’d…

[] Divorce you.

[] Make kids.

[] Take your money and bounce.

[] Smash every day.

[] I would cheat on you.

[] Be faithful.

[] Kill you in your sleep

[🌈] We wouldn’t

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"I guess that's true. Not much to do but eat and fuck and try not to die," Saffron said, shaking their head. She looked across at Val as she sat next to them. "I'm not too worried about Halley, honestly. I just don't know if I'll be any good at it, you know? I've never taken anything seriously in my life. Except maybe Roman. But we grew up together, so that's different." Val didn't seem to take life too seriously either, so maybe she would get it.

"Hey, if you're not counting yourself, then you shouldn't count Mo—they're perfectly happy with Eagan," Val countered, picking up her plate with the finished and mostly decent sandwich before making her way into the living room, gesturing for Saff to follow. "And it's not that complicated. Although I probably should talk to Leo. I feel kind of bad that I didn't realise he liked me like that." Dropping down onto the couch, she set the plate on the coffee table before leaning back and looking over at her friend. "You're a catch too, you know. Halley would be crazy not to like you like that. And at the end of the day... What else are we gonna do in this fucking town?"

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where: the pumpkin festival who: valeria moreno (@callofthxvoid)

“And then he had the fucking audacity to go on his fucking merry way, leaving me fucking staring after him like a gaping fucking fish.” Saffron glanced up from the pumpkin they were viciously stabbing, noticing the faraway look in Val’s eyes. “Hello? Earth to Val. You in there?”

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∞ ( Val / Saff )

If I Think They Are: Ugly || Plain || Alright || Cute || Freaking Adorable || Pretty || Beautiful || Hot || Stunning 

If I Would Go On A Date With Them: Not even if we were the last two one earth || No || Maybe || Eh….Sure || Yes || WILL YOU MARRY ME

If I Trust Them: Not At All || Not Really || Kind of || Yes || With My Life

If I Care About Them: Not At All || Not Really || Kind of || Yes || Deeply

If I Would Sleep With Them: Not Enough Alcohol in the World || No || Maybe if I were wasted || Maybe || Eh…Sure || Yes || TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF NOW! 

My Comfort Level With Your Muse: Keep a Distance || Okay You Can Stand There, But Don’t Touch Me || Let’s Get Coffee and Talk || Let’s Cuddle || I Can Change In Front of You || Let’s Take a Bath Together

If I See You As: A Stranger || An Acquaintance || A Friend || A Close Friend || My Best Friend || A Crush || The Love of My Life

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Now it was Saffron's turn to nearly choke. “You can't be fucking serious,” she said, shaking her head. “Val whyyyy? I thought you had better standards than that.” They took a drink to help with the coughing. ”You're hot. You can do so much better than dickheads like him. As your roommate, I'm forbidding you from fucking him again. For your own good.”

Val picked up her drink and had a sip, which turned out to be a grave mistake, since she almost choked by swallowing it down the wrong pipe. She had indeed heard of that influencer guy. "Yeah, I actually met him," she replied, shaking her head. "What an absolute dickwad. Spent two minutes with the guy and wanted to strangle him. But then I wound up just fucking him instead to shut him up." Her tone was deadpan, although with Val it was always a toss-up if that meant she was joking or not.

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Saffron got the tone, understood it even. She wouldn’t bring Hunter up again, even though it nearly physically pained her to see Val go off somewhere to be with him. It wasn’t any of her damn business.

“Oh shit, really? You were? Fuck. That must’ve been pretty fucked up, I’m sorry,” Saffron said when Val admitted to being the one to call in the body. “Roman and Lucy? Fuck if I know. He keeps saying she’s not his girlfriend, but he sure is acting like a boyfriend. But I ain’t ever had one of those so what the fuck do I know?”

Val spent another couple of seconds staring into the refrigerator before settling on making a sandwich. "No, 's with Mo," she confirmed, pulling out the ingredients and closing the fridge behind her with her foot. Looking at Saff, she shrugged. "I know, I know. You don't like Hunter. Nobody likes Hunter except me. I get it."

Setting the things down on the kitchen counter, she realised that in her quest to ignore everything tragic around her, she might have neglected to tell Saff that she had actually been there. "Yeah, I was actually the ranger that had to call it in," she said casually, before looking back at them again. "What's up with the two of them, by the way? I thought they explicitly weren't dating. Like wasn't that a whole thing?"

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“You say that, yet your life is more complicated than a telenovela,” Saffron said with a laugh, shaking their head. “You’ve got Hunter, Cain, Mo, not to mention poor Leo. I'm not counting myself only because I know I don't have those feelings for you. Though I totally could; you're a catch.” She grinned, scrunching her nose at the mention of Halley. “I can’t rush it. I don’t even know if she likes me like that. I’m still testing the waters.” She paused, wondering if they should mention Felix. “Plus with everything going on with Roman . . . and this fucking town in general. I mean, should I really be encouraging romance? I’ve never fucking done this before, much less at the end of the world.”

"Yeah, it wasn't great," Val admitted. She considered mentioning that Roman had also been there, but she figured that he'd already told them about it, and simply omitted the fact that she was there. Turning to the counter, she started making her sandwich before shrugging lightly. "Fuck if I know, Saff, I'm in the same boat as you," she said with a shrug. "Not really the boyfriend type. Or girlfriend type. I like my relationships nice and casual and uncomplicated." She looked over at her roommate. "Speaking of, how are things going with you and Halley? Y'all dating yet, or what?"

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"Right? Like, damn people. I hate idiots," Saffron said, shaking her head. "But I'm glad you're not taking risks." They took another bite of food. "Have you heard of that influencer guy in town? The one who's going around filming everything and acting like this is some big prank? That guy is gonna get himself fucking killed."

"Eyyyy, we can share a padded cell when we become truly bonkers, and that way we'll still be roommates," Val joked back. She had another bite of her food and a sip of her drink before letting out a short laugh. "But nah, you got nothing to worry about. There are a couple of rangers who are real do-gooder types that'll do whatever they can to save other people, but personally, I'm not dying over some idiot who doesn't know not to go into the woods alone close to dusk. We have signs for a reason."

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"Boys are stupid. You should dump them all and just stick with girls," Saffron said with a faint smirk. She turned back to her pumpkin as Val mentioned Halley, stabbing at it absently. "Yeah. She's really cute. I don't know. My life suddenly became complicated. I need to talk to Felix before I decide what to do about Halley."

Val managed to crack a smile at that. "Yeah, you're probably right," she agreed, slowly wiggling the knife in the pumpkin to fully eviscerate it before going in for another stab. "Just gotta talk to Hunter about the whole 'girlfriend' thing and I'm not looking forward to that." She looked up at Saffron, wondering if she should try to steer them back to the previous topic, before deciding that they could bring it up again if they actually wanted to. "Heard from Z that Halley is the first mate to your captain. That's cute."

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Saffron laughed. "It's okay, I fully expect to lose my mind at some point. We can go crazy together." She nudged Val with her elbow. "You gotta promise you aren't being too reckless out there, though. I've got like three friends here, and if you go that'd suck major donkey balls." They shook their head.

"Eh, I'm dead inside, so that helps," Val joked. She knew that her sense of humour could be a little dark sometimes but it honestly felt appropriate to her given their situation. She did put part of the blame on the people that she worked with, because none of them were normal - except perhaps Ric. "But yeah, a couple of the older rangers who by some miracle have survived this long are kind of nutty. But I think that's inevitable." She shrugged. "If I make it that long, you have to promise to still hang out with me even if I'm crazy. Y'know, just so I don't go full lighthouse man."

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"Yeah no kidding, that shit is super freaky. I don't know how you do it," Saffron said, shaking her head. She took a bite of her own of the food, chewing for a moment before speaking again. "You ever get rangers that go crazy after too much time working in those towers? You know, like those lighthouse workers that lose their minds after so much time alone."

Val speared a truly ridiculous amount of food onto a fork and put it in her mouth. "Game Warden takes care of that," she replied after swallowing, getting up and going to the kitchen to fetch them both something to drink before returning. "We basically have enough rangers to cover all four towers seven days a week and give us enough nights off to not collapse. Apparently, people aren't jumping at the chance to risk their lives to be on literal monster watch. Who knew?"

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Saffron glanced sidelong at her roommate, picking up a takeout box to check out the contents. "You're always fucking exhausted," they said, shaking their head as they reached for a fork to begin eating. "Can't you ask for a day shift? It's not like there isn't plenty of shit to look out for when the sun's up. There's like . . . bears and shit."

WHERE: Aubert & Moreno Apartment WHO: Saffron Aubert ( @ambercast )

"Joder, ya me quiero ir a mimir," Val muttered to herself, locking the door behind her and tossing her keys onto a nearby shelf. She liked her job, but she would be lying if she said that having to stay up all night on watch wasn't killing her a little bit. She'd gone from sleeping almost a little bit too much to catching a few hours in the morning after her shift. Which meant she was almost always tired.

Walking into the living room, she greeted Saff with a nod before placing the food she'd gotten from the diner on their coffee table and dropping down onto the sofa with a long sigh. "Got us dinner," she said as she began unpacking the bag, another sigh escaping her lips. "So glad I'm off duty tonight. I'm fucking exhausted."

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“Is it about what the paper said about you? You know it’s probably just a bunch of old church ladies complaining. You shouldn’t take too much stock in what they have to say,” Saffron said, more than willing to talk and think about something other than Felix. "They wish they were having as much sex as you."

"Huh?" Val replied, glancing at Saffron and then down at the pumpkin in front of her, blinking at the knife in her hand that was frozen mid-stab into the orange gourd. "Uh, sorry, got a lot on my mind," she apologised, pulling the knife out before plunging it into the pumpkin again. "Who had you staring after him like a gaping fish?"

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Saffron came out of her room as Val called, a little mussed after napping in bed, but awake. “Oh hey. Yeah, I found him. He’s been in his cave taking care of his girlfriend. Not really his girlfriend. It’s complicated. But you know that guy that died the other week in the woods? It was her dad or something. Super fucking sad, honestly. So yeah, she’s staying with him and that’s where he’s been. Not like he couldn’t have fucking told me he was doing that, but anyway . . .”

Saffron looked Val up and down. “Where’ve you been? Not with fucking Hilton, I hope.” They gave Val a pointed look. They’d already given Val her opinions on Hunter Hilton and the fact that Val kept fucking him.

WHERE: Val's and Saff's Apartment WHO: Saffron Aubert ( @ambercast )

Val had spent the better part of an afternoon at Mo and Eagan's place, and was therefore coming home a little drunk, a little high, and very blissed out without a single thought in her head about anything unpleasant at all. Absolutely no thoughts about calling in bodies in the forest or learning that her favourite teacher in high school had died or the futility of existence in a hell town. Nope. None of that.

"Saaaff," she called out while making her way to the kitchen, opening the refrigerator and looking for something to eat that would require little to no preparation. Which proved easier said than done. "You home? Did you find your friend? Is he okay?"