MHA #7 | Wednesday Evening

[flourish_or_perish]

This past weekend sure had been A Thing, hadn't it? And while nothing had happened to Faye, other than getting stuck with the cutest baby in this or any other galaxy (no, she would not be taking questions), she was a non-crappy enough person to know that that had all probably not been especially easy for Din. Or, rather, that Monday morning and the realization of how many people had seen his beautiful mustache had probably not been easy.

So, Wednesday night found her inviting people over to her apartment. On purpose. Look, stranger things had happened, surely, than Faye actually cleaning up and putting out drinks and snacks for company.

She'd even found some of those straws that Grogu liked, since, you know, this was more for his benefit and Stark's than for Din's. Call her crazy, but she didn't think this past weekend was gonna change much about certain be-helmeted individuals eating in front of other people.

[for an alien, an alien, and that guy who looks kinda like a shiny Boba Fett.]

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[thedadalorian]

Just because he had almost the exact same armor as Boba...

And hopefully she put those delicious Korean skincare creams up because this kid had a craving for some snail jelly.

But for now, it was just Din, politely knocking

[flourish_or_perish]

"Hi, come on in," Faye said, opening the door. She would have said hi no matter who it was, but if it had been Stark, there would have been kissing and probably a follow-up of giving him shit for knocking.

The Korean skincare lived on a very high shelf now, so if Grogu wanted snacks he'd have to use his telekinesis like a big boy.

[thedadalorian]

He'd do it too. It tasted like money and eternal youth.

Which was why Din wasn't letting him down right away. "Thanks. Your apartment is very... big."

Someone wasn't a party goer to know this was what most of them looked like.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Really? It's like, exactly the same as Stark's," Faye shared, pointing through the wall next door.

And it was smaller than...most of the places she'd been. Smaller than Eric's, smaller than John's, smaller than Shunsui's -- though, that was kind of hard to say because the guy was such a slob. Though it was bigger than living on a ship, so maybe there was a skewed perspective here, too.

"Feeling more like yourself?" she added, unable to keep from smiling. "Sweetheart?"

She couldn't not.

[thedadalorian]

Din did a little thing that illustrated how he was dying inside all without facial expressions. "I'm sorry about... whatever that was."

[flourish_or_perish]

"You mean all that cute winking and the outfit?" Faye checked. "Cowboy looks good on you."

Dying inside, shmying inside. She wasn't letting up that easy.

[thedadalorian]

"I looked like one of those people on your Big Shot show," he sighed, continuing to just diiiiie.

[flourish_or_perish]

"I mean, with enough time you would have," Faye agreed. "Your outfit was a little more conservative than Punch's."

But she would have found him some snazzy white chaps if given more time.

"You were charming," she added, trying to temper it a little with a compliment.

[thedadalorian]

Oh, the full body cringe at being that naked in public.

"Thanks," he managed a bit dryly. "I guess it could have been worse."

[stykera]

Faye, that sounded suspiciously like caring about another person's feelings! But it had been an odd weekend.
Stark had had an older and less adorable (sorry Liam) alien child to deal with, Din had been a cowboy, Faye had been busy with the more adorable alien child...

Today seemed normal enough, so far, aside from being asked to come next door with other people there. So there was Stark, having made the extremely long walk from his own apartment, and knocking on the door.

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"You don't have to knock," Faye told him in greeting once she'd opened the door, preemptively leaning in for a kiss hello. "I mean, you probably should as a general practice," because Faye was not always so forgiving, "but you're expected right now, come in."

[stykera]

Kisses hello were always welcome. Kisses in general from Faye were always welcome.

"I wouldn't want to sneak up on you. There might be screams."

No, Stark, that was just you. Nobody else.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Screams from me?" Faye checked, raising an eyebrow. "That doesn't sound like us."

No, no it did not. Indignant yelling from Faye, maybe.

[stykera]

"It may be just me who does that when someone comes in unexpectedly," Stark admitted.

"Still. Knocking seems like a good idea."

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"I mean, you might walk in on me in a state of undress or something," Faye noted, eyes wide with the scandal of such a thing. "Or in the shower."

Aww, memories.

[stykera]

Good memories! After the initial panic.

"I might." The horror!

"Then where would we be?"

Well. Probably somewhere they'd been many times before.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Probably in the shower together," Faye replied, shamelessly going to press another kiss to his cheek. "Though, again, I know better than to scream if only 'cause I don't want to bring the neighbors running."

Neighbor, singular.

[flourish_or_perish]

And once everything was settled with snacks and straws and food that wasn't expensive lotion or stoic helmet situations that didn't allow for snacks anyway, Faye turned her attention to Din.

"So how big a problem is it that we all saw your mustache?" She was always going to phrase it like that. The rest of his face had been there, sure, but she just needed to remind him that he was maintaining facial hair that barely anyone ever saw, apparently.

[stykera]

It was a sweet mustache, tragically hidden away from the universe at large.

"I wasn't expecting the mustache. Or the rest of your face. I didn't know it was your face, at first."

[thedadalorian]

They didn't know that he looked like a wildly different person without any facial hair.

"I haven't been without my armor around anyone since I was a child."

Well, that sure was something.

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"Why? It's cute," Faye told him, like this was just a matter of fact. "Your face is cute, I mean."

She had figured he was horribly disfigured or had a weird unibrow or something until she saw his face during shenanigans that day!

[stykera]

Faye wasn't wrong there. Stark wasn't going to say it out loud, but she wasn't wrong.

"That seems very lonely. Not seeing faces."

[thedadalorian]

"That's the Way." Ominous. "Even if there was Sabine..."

Crisis of faaaith.

[flourish_or_perish]

"What, did Sabine have a helmet, too?" The very fact that Faye wasn't sure probably said a lot. "I mean, the first time I met her we talked about each others' hair so I sure never saw it."

Maybe this was a different Sabine. An ex or something. (Ooooh.)

[stykera]

"Sabine that was here? Or a different Sabine?"

Stark was used to different versions of people by this point.