I'm Not a Thief, I'm a Treasure Hunter [FIN]

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He was deep, deep in the woods.

It took him almost an hour on foot to reach this part, but out here where the trees were bunched together and the sunlight streamed through the branches in gradients as though underwater, Loch felt certain that no one else would find them.

He made the map two days after he saw her and had his ass handed to him. He didn't really want to leave bed, not with a cracked rib, so he passed the time by illustrating various places around the school. His drawings weren't amazing, but they did show a surprising level of talent for someone who hated everything and spent his last art class posing half-naked for the ladies.

Then, he cut the map into four separate sections, slid one under the door to her dorm while she was in class, and then hid the rest in different locations: the library was the first one, with the page being folded neatly up against a copy of e.e. cummings' she being brand new. The next was tacked to the wall in the stables with a bright green motorcycle pin, and the final one was hidden in the observatory ontop of the tower. If she looked out the window towards the forest, she'd see a great big X where two trees had fallen during the storm.

All in all, Loch was quite pleased with his handiwork.

She wanted a pirate adventure, and Loch was going to give her one.

Far, far away from the actual water. Here in the woods, right on the border of the forbidden forest, the worst they'd run into was a tiny creek or stream. There were water falls in the woods, up higher in the mountain, but Loch would avoid them like the plague.

He wanted a nice, dry, land-locked pirate adventure. He wasn't sure if he could handle an actual relationship, but he wanted this, wanted something.

So he lounged on the branch of a tree, eyes half-lidded and soaking up the sun, simultaneously half-asleep and wide awake. He was so still a bird had landed on the same branch he was on, oblivious to the slow rise and fall of his chest. He still had a black eye and he was dappled with bruises, the worst a long black smear across his abdomen, but the swelling went away and it just made him more attractive in a rugged sort of way. The weather was a little chilly, fall weather, but with the sun out it was nice and made hiking enjoyable rather than a chore. He hadn't even bothered bringing a jacket, and he hoped that if she was cold she'd let him warm her up.

The thought brought a half-smile to Loch's face and stayed there with him as he waited, silently, patiently, for the adventure to begin.
 
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After the fiasco in the alleyway she hadn’t seen Lochlann. Outside of class, she did her best to stay locked in her dorm room.She was afraid and she was ashamed. She wasn’t sure why she was so ashamed, but she was. She was sure Lochlann would absolutely never talk to her again. She ordered him a sorry/thank you gift, a stuffed sheep and an eye patch, but they ended up left in the box and shoved in the back under her bed.

It was just too weird. She had ordered them the day after the fight after crying and shifting around in bed instead of sleeping and regretted it the moment they came in the mail the next day. Her heart soared and she thanked god when she received the treasure map, but still found it way too embarrassing to give him a stupid stuffed animal and a children’s play-prop. But he was still playing along with the pirate idea and that gave her hope and brought a smile to her lips. She decided to bring a smallish bag with honey buns, water and beef jerky since she had no idea how long they would be out and she’d been having some trouble eating this morning. Under the food-items she shoved the sheep and eye patch. She refused to give them to him, and yet for some reason she still brought them.

Budding feelings made her more indecisive than ever.

She wasn’t, however, indecisive about going on this quest with Lochlann. It was strangely warm that day, but she dressed in pants anyway, however she did decide to wear a forest green tank top with her dark blue straight legged jeans and pink sneakers with her black hair tied up in a high, sleek pony tail. She still couldn’t break away from the makeup just yet, even with Lochlann’s approval but she wore considerably less than she had in the past. She hadn’t done a ton of hiking, but it wasn’t her absolute first time, though it was the first time she had actually been excited about it. Finding all of the pieces of the treasure map was probably harder than it should have been for her. She was doing her best to stay out of sight of everyone and anyone, even people she know would be friendly towards her.

The excitement was mounting but the feeling when she finally reached the observatory and looked to see the big X in the woods was a like absolutely nothing she had felt before. She decided right then that Lochlann was a true prince charming.

Two hours later after being semi-lost the entirety of her hike and falling on her face a few times she approached the X. she had gotten a few cuts on her cheek but two of the four had already entirely healed the way he skin tended to when it split. She had a bit of a dark bruise under her left cheekbone from the fight. She didn’t mind the cuts, but bruises were so ugly, and unluckily for her, they didn’t heal the way cuts did. He probably heard her coming long before he saw her. She was a rather graceful young lady, but she was literally the opposite of rugged and she was very far from being experienced in the woods. The best she could do was climb a tree well. Dodging bits of rock and young tree stumps undertow was absolutely not her forte. She wasn’t used to have having to watch her feet.

When she didn’t see Lochlann upon her approach, her face visibly fell. She looked around, but not up. Oh god she hoped this wasn’t some stupid joke.
 
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At first he thought the noise was another squirrel (the smallest creatures in the woods made the most noise), but when Lochlann peaked an eye open his heart tried to give him a high five. It was her!

His smirk widened, but didn't quite break out into a full-out smile. When she walked up and looked around, Loch felt mischevious. He picked himself up and came to the edge of the branch, wrapping his arms around it and then swinging himself monkey-bar style so he'd land right behind her.

Cue the trumpet that bellows MISTAAKKKEEEE!

His landing wasn't completely silent--he let out a slight "umph!" when he jarred his ribs and immedietly cursed himself for the mistake--but he quickly compensated by placing his hands over her eyes and leaning forward, his breath hot on her neck as he whispered "Ahoy, mateys."

So maybe he felt a tad ridiculous doing it, but it was fun, just plain simple fun.

"Guess who?" He said then, a tad too late, because unless Cassie was out following someone else's map, she had a pretty good idea of who it was. He wasn't going to drop his hands until she said his name, though. Oh no. She wasn't getting off that easily.

[ooc=spoiler]Oh god short post is short[/ooc]
 
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Suddenly she heard a noise behind her and before she knew what was happening there were familiar hands over her eyes. She jumped, letting out an audible squeak and a familiar cold sensation ran through her body. He has scared her badly and she tried to pull her head away but it only took a second to realize he wasn’t going to let that happen so easily. Shetook a deep breath and let out a stiff laugh.

“It must be Captain Lochlann.” She giggled, then realized that didn’t sound very convincing. “arrgh” She threw in, just for good measure. She turned around in his arms to smile at him but as soon as she was reminded what sort of shape he was in her face fell a little. She did her best to force a grin as she hugged him gently and rather awkwardly. She didn’t know what to say. She wanted to ask if he was alright, but it made he feel anxious and sick to talk about what happened, especially since she was perfectly aware of likely something like that would happen again.

Sure denial wasn’t the best way of dealing with her situation but it sure felt better than trying to fix something she didn’t feel like she could solve. She sighed deeply before pulling away from him. She remembered better than the author that she had brought something two strangers had given her after witnessing the fight.

She pulled away to make sure he couldn’t see the bag as she hunched over it and fished out two bike chains with large heavy locks on the end hooked on the ends. “Uhm… some people gave these to me.” She offered him one. She realized too late that she would probably have to explain what they were for. “They were like um… Well they told me that if either one of us got in trouble again that we can just close the lock and swing it.” she half-demonstrated on her own, not swinging with enough force to even get the lock up in the air properly. Probably a good thing since she promptly hit herself in the knee with it. “Uhh... I mean… They said it was a good weapon to have around school that we wont get in trouble for having...”

Truthfully the two mysterious people had looked like drug dealers and were more than a little shady. She normally would have never been caught dead taking advice or even talking to someone that looked anything like them but they seemed to have a lot more experience in this department. She figured taking the bike chains wouldn’t hurt anything. She flinched as she remembered in graphic detail what the girl had told her would happen if she swung it at someone’s face. They didn't sit right with her, though it may have been because the boy had just sat there with a smirk on his face in silence the entirety of the time.
 
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Hot damn, she was just so cute.

He hugged her back a little tighter than he probably should have given his ribs, but it was hard not to, and Loch was almost feeling drunk off his excitement with being with her. When she pulled away, he wondered if his too-friendly hug had been misinterpreted, and he was ready to apologize when she started rummaging in a bag she'd brought with her.

When she pulled out the bike chains, he tilted his head, curiously at first, but a genuine smile warmed its way across his face.

"That's amazingly resourceful of you," he said, taking one of the chains from her. "I swear, I normally don't get my ass handed to me like that, so I apologize that you had to witness my epic levels of lameness."

Truthfully, Loch was also embarrassed about the other night, too. He flinched when she hit her knee, automatically kissing his fingers and then touching her knee gently without thinking about it.

He weighted the bike chain in his hand. "It kind of makes me wish I knew how to ride a bike, though" he said, but all the same he looped the chain around his belt loop, where it looked like an ordinary wallet chain.

"I actually have something for you, too," he said, holding his hands out in apology, anticipating an unhappy response, "But...we have to walk a little bit further for it. Spoiler alert: I hope you like apples."

He squinted at her, the corners of his lips pulled in the effort to look serious, "If you don't come willingly, I'll have to throw you over my shoulder and take you there myself. Your booty will be mine!"

And then he couldn't do it--he was laughing again, happy to not feel so serious for once. With girls, Loch tended to open up like this and have fun. It was an addictive rush of serotonin.
 
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She felt weird bringing up the fight at all and if those… Punks? Hadnt really seemed like they knew what they were talking about she probably wouldn’t have.

“Y-yeah I guess so.” Really she hadn’t come up with anything. “If it makes you feel any better I didn’t see much of what happened…” She wondered briefly why, if they had seen the fight and they were concerned, the punks hadn’t stepped in. The looked like they could have really beaten those jerks up, even the girl. Suddenly he touched her knee. She hadn’t been looking at him but it seemed related to the whack she had just given herself. She blushed, regardless of how confused she was.

She put the back pack back on and slid the chin through her belt loops, hooking the open lock at one end and then pulling her shirt over it. She gave him a disbelieving look, “You don’t know how to ride a bike? Didn’t you like… Say you wanted a motorcycle or something?” She laughed. She didn’t really remember if he had said that, but she remembered that they had talked about her dad’s bike the other day. She felt bitter, remembering that he was technically her adoptive father. She shoved the disgusting thought under the metaphorical rug.

She grinned at him as he revealed to her bits and pieces of his master plan, then threatened her booty, causing her to blush profusely. She suddenly jumped on his arm, forgetting the anxiety, sadness and fear that had been the past few days for her, squeezing his arm against her chest happily. “Eep!” She squeaked in mock fear though her laughter, then whispered “I better come quietly huh?” She gave him the most ridiculously innocent, sweet scared puppy face.

She was a rather good actress when she wanted to be.
 
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"You don’t know how to ride a bike? Didn’t you like… Say you wanted a motorcycle or something?"

Loch shrugged, but his forehead was wrinkled. Did he say he wanted a motorcycle? Maybe at the bonfire--he was pretty drunk then, not that he'd admit that willingly, but he did remember her talking about her father's motorcycle and painting in green.

So he smiled, poking her teasingly in the ribs. "I only want one if its lime green...and I won't actually ride it. I'll just keep it in my dorm--I don't have a room mate so I have luxury space."

He dropped his arm around her shoulder and started heading into the woods, but when she said:

“I better come quietly huh?” She gave him the most ridiculously innocent, sweet scared puppy face.

Oh god that face.

"Okay, you're too cute," he said, and he was about two seconds away from grabbing her and throwing her onto his back and running off with her, but with Loch, piggy-back rides could be fatal so he did his best to behave.

"I think you'll like what I have to show you," he said, looking in her eyes and licking his lips. He didn't quite realize he'd did it, and she could interpret it either as him being creepy, nervous, or hungry.

"I came out here a lot my first week at school, when I was feeling cagey," he said, "There's something about the air up here that's a lot nicer."

It didn't smell like the ocean.
 
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“I thought you said you DIDN’T like lime green?” She shook her head furiously, expressing her confusion. “I’m all mixed up…”

She allowed herself to be lead obediently. She felt a new sort of anxiety bubble up in her chest as her budding feelings for her friend flickered hotly at his handsome face and knightly actions. She wrinkled her nose adorably at him in response to the compliment.

With these pleasant feelings, she was slowly starting to become aware of less-than-pleasant ones. She liked him so much already and she was so positive that she would just keep liking him more and more. She suddenly became aware of how likely it was he would get bored or get a girlfriend and forget about her, or even more likely, she’d do something that would make him realize just how lame she really was. Everything just sort of tends to suddenly vanish just when she gets settled it seems. She felt prematurely heartbroken, half listening to Lochlann go on excitedly, trying not to let the sadness show through. And then he licked his lips, which was weird.

She stared at him, tripping slightly now and then but having enough grace to just roll with it. How could someone be so romantic and sweet? She suddenly grinned at him and hopped up, kissing his chin, making this adorable little squeak, a mix of embarrassment and excitement. She didn’t have anything to say, she was just too excited and feeling pretty special and giddy at the moment.
 
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“I thought you said you DIDN’T like lime green?” She shook her head furiously, expressing her confusion. “I’m all mixed up…”

"I don't like lime green," Loch said, "And it's not like I could ride a motorcycle even if I wanted to."

The iron. Loch wasn't technically fae--he was a Water Horse, but they were related enough. He had the perks, he had the glamor to change his shape, but he was no where near as strong as a regular fae. He still had some of the downsides, and iron was one of those. It wasn't bad, it wouldn't downright kill him, but he was most certainly allergic.

So straddling a nice leather seat covering iron,iron, iron was not something he wanted to do. Loch was far too comfortable with his balls, and breaking a leg would be like a death sentence.

Cassie was silent but when she grinned and hopped up to kiss his chin, his heart jumped with her, and he found himself puzzled because he half-stopped and turned to kiss her back, but he stopped himself and kept walking, but he did bring her a little closer to his side. The woods were still thinned out at this point, still the "safe" part, so as long as they were careful they'd be able to walk like this for a little while longer.

"I think," Loch said, and then he stopped himself. He was going to say I think I would like to kiss you, if you'd let me but Loch's entire existence was built around seduction and he knew it wasn't time yet. Wait until the get to the orchard. wait until the timing is just right. Then he wouldn't have to ask.

But he couldn't leave it hanging, so he went, "I think this about where I got lost once, like my first few weeks here."

He cast a glance in her direction. "Okay, promise you won't think I'm a total crazy person...but did you know there's a witch who lives in the woods? I met her. She offered to give me anything my heart desired, so I asked her to teach me how to cook. Only she didn't have an oven, so she had to like..summon one. And I've gone back a few times to look for her, but the cabin is gone, it's like there's no trace, and I know I wasn't hallucinating because they weren't sedating me then so it's not like I'd be--Oh"

Loch stopped his sentence midstream because he'd said too much and now his face was red.

His voice was quiet when he amended, "I swear I'm not insane or anything, I didn't lure you out here to kill you or something, please just forget I said that....am I making this worse?"

The arm around Cass's shoulders would have tensed, ready to pull away at the slightest indication of her discomfort.

The wind pushed through the woods and the tree branches rustled overhead, but he ignored it, because the sun was out.
 
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He was talking again, breaking her from her examination of the sky through the branches. It was too pretty. Everything was so perfect right now. She smiled as she listened to him with great interest, tilting her head to the side when he ended up not saying much and furrowing her brows. “Hm? But captain if you get lost so easily how on earth are we going to find the buried treasure?” She giggled. Oh yeah, pirates say arr. “Arrg.” She snickered to herself, taking way more amusement than she probably should from this.

Suddenly he started going on about a witch, promptly scaring the shit out of Cassandra. A WITCH?! “L-like a real witch?” She looked at him in horror, which turned to severe confusion. “Wha… What? Sedating? Why are they sedating you?” She was a little… put off since her mother always said horrible things about the mentally ill, and that’s what she immediately assumed he was, but she still couldn’t think of a single reason at all why he’d need to be sedated. She didn’t really seem bothered or upset by it, just really confused. She hadn’t really met a mentally ill person personally… In fact she didn’t think her mom did either, but she really liked Lochlann, so he couldn’t be that bad. Besides, he did just say he wasn’t crazy.

She gave him a ‘duh’ look as he continued to go on about how he wasn’t going to kill her. Why would he kill her after he just saved her twice the other day. Everything he said seemed silly and she felt bad that he was so flustered over everything he just said though she was secretly glad he had told her something personal, intentionally or not. Suddenly she nuzzled her head against his shoulder. “Nevermind. It’s okay.” He was clearly freaking out and she didn’t want to ruin this. She REALLY didn’t want to ruin this. So she thought he would probably like it if she just dropped it. She could always… Find out her own way later.

“So why’d you ask to learn how to cook? You could like, just learn that on your own, right?”
 
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