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Squall was expecting to see Nyx in his usual attire and when he spots his boyfriend in his own pants and looking all sweaty from training, well squall easily trips over his own feet but catches himself before falling. It's a good thing cause he has a bag in one hand and Lucky in the other and he would have been upset at himself if he ruined either of those things from falling. He knows Nyx probably saw so he doesn't even bother playing off the blush on his face as he reaches him and goes in for a cheek kiss.

"That's dangerous for you to wear in such a public place. I might get jealous of all the eyes on you." He teases before giving Nyx's other cheek a kiss. "Been here all day?"

What? Squall is embarrassed and blushy and teasing him? Squall is giving him kisses?

Too bad all of his attention is on this puppy now.

"Oooooh who is this handsome little man!?" He's grinning like an idiot and immediately reaching out to cradle Lucky's face in his hands. Sorry Squall he's missed everything you said because he's scritching velvety puppy ears and leaning in to let Lucky lick his face and if you loosen your grip for even a second he's scooping this dog up out of your arms.

Had it been another person, Squall might be jealous but he's more than happy to be ignored in exchange of Lucky getting all of his loves attention. So far they all are getting along with the cute pup and he couldn't be happier. Maybe getting 99 of them wouldn't go over so bad?

Not even hesitating he passes over Lucky to Nyx who eagerly hold him as Squall just sits back and watches the two. It's so cute and his heart feels so full in this moment.

"I love you, you know that?" He can't help but say it right there in the open as he goes behind Nyx and just holds him.

Nyx squishes Lucky to his chest, ignoring the fact that he's a wriggling ball of limbs for a moment to just smush his face into puppy. As soon as Squall is at his back, though, he leans back into his boyfriend with a deep, contented sigh. His head falls back onto Squall's shoulder, letting Lucky squirm up to be able to lick both their faces.

"You hear that, buddy? He ~loves~ us" He draws the word out playfully but tips his head enough to kiss Squall's cheek, even if he does have puppy slobber on him.

"Muja oui duu, geddah" A softer murmur, low and affectionate and then he's groaning and lifting Lucky away for a moment. "Ooooh your little claws are too sharp for me to not be wearing a shirt!"

Hyne, he loves this right now. Lucky is kissing them both and now Nyx is pressed up against him and barely clothed and honestly Squall doesn't even care if anyone even sees anymore. His arms wrap a little possessively around that bare waist, giving him a squeeze as he leans in to kiss Nyx, even letting a little moan out. He really loves him.

"Muja oui" He doesn't know what it means but he knows what Geddah is now and he can guess it's a reply to what he said. His pronunciation is a little off but he hopes it's a passing grade as he pulls Nyx and lucky a bit more to the side for some kind of privacy.

"You know, Lucky isn't the present I have for you. You haven't even looked at your present yet, love." His face does get a bit darker at the use of a nickname for Nyx. He's not sure he wants it to stick yet but it's an option for sure.

Lucky is still trying to lick and kiss them and wiggling in Nyx's arms, so incredibly happy to be with his Squall and this new guy who smells like the outside and his owner clearly cares about.

"Okay okay!!!" He laughs as Squall tries to maneuver them out of.... y'know directly by the door. It takes a moment to reposition Lucky, hefting the pup up under one arm so he can grab Squall's hand with the other, leading his boyfriend back into the training facility. Then he ducks into one of the smaller mat-lined rooms he'd been working in earlier, bending down to let Lucky down to sniff the rubber flooring.

"He's so cute." Then, as Lucky explores, he turns back to Squall properly, wrapping his arms around the brunet to lean in and kiss him soundly. "You can't expect me to ignore him for..." Nyx cocks his head, looking Squall over for... whatever else it is he has for him. "You know you didn't have to get me anything, right? You've got your new boys that.... need all the help they can get."

Not that he blames them but Squall's blonds are both less capable of living off the land and less comfortable with casual sex. Squall's got his work cut out for him looking after those two.

Lucky is more than happy to get to smell all the new scents in this room. He quickly runs around smelling all the things as the two men talk.

Squall is happy to have his boyfriends attention and eagerly holds him, not minding at all about the sweat or slight stickiness ot Nyx's body. It's kind of hot honestly and he just wants to touch him right now and that's what he does, wrapping his arms around his shoulders loosely and kissing him back almost too eagerly. "I got them things too, don't worry. I wanted to get you something special too cause...well cause you're Nyx and my boyfriend." His face does go a bit pink at the word boyfriend, still so shy about it. At least he didn't say he was 'his Nyx' like he wanted to. Squall is pretty sure no one could call him theirs, Nyx is too free a soul for that.

He gives another kiss before letting go of him and finally grabbing the present out of his back, wrapped in a black scarf for winter being Nyx's kukris. At least Squall hopes they are his weapons. He asked the peacekeeper for them and hoped his description was right. "I thought you might like your weapons back....these are them right?"

Nyx sucks in a sharp breath, eyes widening briefly as Squall withdraws his kukris. He reaches for them with a sort of reverence that might be surprising but Squall has seen the charms and beads dangling from the hilts, knows that the similar ones in Nyx's hair are very important even if he doesn't know why yet. The first one he takes and drops to one knee so he can strap it around his thigh, a comfortable familiar weight. The other he turns in his hands and shrugs helplessly at Squall.

"This is what I get for wearing sweatpants." He chuckles a little, clipping it onto the back of his pants in lieu of a belt but quickly has to retie them so the extra weight doesn't pull them down entirely. Even then it makes them dip dangerously low in the back. Nyx laughs again, stepping in close so he can kiss Squall.

"Thank you." Soft and warm and heartfelt. Clever hands settle at his hips, holding onto him lightly. Or- wait....

And then Nyx is flicking the buckle of one of Squall's multitude of belts open so he can slide it free and loop it around his own waist. "You can have it back when we get home, geddah~" He flashes Squall a mischievous grin, settles his other kukri onto the belt and then vanishes in a flash of light and crackling power, abruptly reappearing on the far side of the room, crouched against the wall, hanging from the blade now embedded a good 10 feet up the wall. "Oh that feels so much better."

Squall was trying to be good, honestly he was but with a boyfriend as hot as Nyx who constantly likes to tease it's something inevitable. With the look Nyx gives him as he takes the daggers and how low hanging those pants are, Squall doesn't care who might see them he's already focusing in on touching more of that muscular body in his arms and how good Nyx always feels against his lips.

"Nyx..." A soft moan as if a prayer of the man's name leave his lips as his own hands easily fall in place to that slightly exposed skin at his waist, holding him there as they kiss. He's so utterly distracted he doesn't feel Nyx take his belt until those lips against his own are gone and Nyx is at the other side of the room.

Grey eyes blink for a moment before he looks back to his now empty hands and then back to Nyx. "Wait...Nyx what in Hyne's name did you do?! How did you do that?" Oh now Squall is running over to him cause he has to know how to do that.

Squall's delayed reaction earns a loud laugh, echoing in the mostly empty room enough that Lucky removes his nose from the floor, ears cocking as he looks around confused. The fact that the puppy's expression is so similar to Squall's only makes Nyx laugh harder. Hard enough that he has to yank his kukri free to just slide down the wall, grinning and laughing and sweeping Squall up into his arms as his boyfriend hurries over.

"Just a little bonus the Kings get." He's still laughing when he kisses Squall again, extracting himself almost as swiftly as he'd wrapped his arms around him. "You bring Revolver? You wanna go a couple rounds?" One Kukri is still in hand, blade tucked back against his forearm as he bounces on his toes a little. "C'mon~~"

Does he just want to flex? Mmmmaaaaaybe a little? But he's also just so excited to have his weapons back.

The warping was maybe the coolest thing he's ever seen and he's been to space so that's saying a lot. He has to know how to do it but once Nyx mentions kings he doubts he will ever be able to. Fuck, that would be such a game changer for him.

Squall is about to say something when he's grabbed and kissed and then put back down and just left in a stupor.

Oh.
Nyx is really happy. That's really cute. He likes this. Nyx smiling is his favorite sight and it doesn't look fake for once.

"Y-yeah I brought her. Think you can beat me with your little knives and magic?"

Squall sounds hesitant at first and that just makes Nyx grin even wider, wicked delight gleaming in those silvery eyes just as surely as the violet spark of magic.

"Oh, I don't think I can beat you, Geddah. I know." It takes everything he has to wait until Squall has time to actually draw revolver. The moment she's in hand, though, Nyx is disappearing in another flash. He hits the ground immediately beside his lover, rolling with the momentum of a charge he'd barely taken a step of before he'd warped. As he tumbles past the flat of a blade slaps against Squall's side, just above his hip.

"That's one." It's utterly unfair and he knows it. Squall will need time to adapt to the absurd speed Nyx can move with when he has blades that are weighted well and the space to cover ground. If anything being in a room indoors will be a benefit to Squall for this.

Squall truly doesn't have a moment to react once Revolver is drawn before Nyx already tags him in quick warps. His own eyes can barely follow the movements before Nyx appears close again but this time he turns and barely blocks another one. Holy shit Nyx is fast, it's like he's used haste on himself times 12 or something. He's not going to be able to out maneuver him at all.

"You were holding out on me weren't you?" Squall takes to running then and with the small space of the room he casts blizzaga behind him, ice appearing behind him as he runs to shield his back at least. His guard up as he tries to get a better spot to gain an advantage over this warping.




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