body heat meme

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The Body Heat Meme



Post with your character! They're now stuck in a very cold place of your choice. It can be anything, such as a freezing chamber, a cavern or a small cabin in the midst of a blizzard. The choice is up to you.
Comment around! Now your character has some company in this bone-chilling environment. The two of them share two things in common: clothes completely unfitting for this weather (be they summer clothes or even lingerie) and a blanket.
A blanket? Yes, just one warm blanket and no other ways to escape the cold. The two of them will have to share it in order to stay alive in this weather. Don't worry, you're sure to find a common language in this terrible situation!
So, uh, have fun, I suppose. Try to not freeze to death!
Protip: friction and body heat are both excellent ways to fend off cold.

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[353]

[ Mike keeps his voice equally hushed when he responds. ] Yeah?

[ His gaze is curious as he wonders what she'll say next. ]

[iunderstand]

I have a sister.

[Her expression is always more open around Mike than anyone else and right now is no exception. There's sadness in her eyes but there's a small smile on her face. She hasn't even told Hopper that much about Kali yet. She'd wanted to talk to Mike first.]

[353]

[ Mike certainly wasn't expecting that. And he thought she'd be happier about having a sister, about feeling less alone when she had family out there, but he can tell by her eyes that it's not as simple as that. ]

Is she... like you? [ He taps his fingers gently against her 011 tattoo above her wrist to make his question clearer. ]

[iunderstand]

[Nothing about their lives is simple. She doubts it ever will be, all things considered.]

Yes. Eight.

[She pauses.]

Kali. She's older. In Chicago. I went there.

[353]

Woah, you went all the way to Chicago? [ Unlike Hopper, he actually sounds impressed rather than horrified. ]

So... what's she like? Is she nice?

[iunderstand]

Yes.

[She smiles a little, even if she'd been secretly amused by Hopper's reaction. She'd still been kind of mad at him and also she didn't feel sorry that she'd gone to Chicago. She'd needed to go.]

A nice man in a truck drove me.

[And now it gets more complicated.]

Yes, but... [She looks uncertain, then props herself up on one elbow so she can look at him better, expression troubled.]

She's going after them. The bad men.

[353]

[ Mike mirrors her as the conversation gets more serious, up on one elbow with his chin against his hand. ]

After them? Like... hunting them down? [ He bites his lip, concern etching his features. ] On her own?

[iunderstand]

[Eleven nods slightly, meeting his eyes.]

Yes. [She hesitates for a moment.] With friends. [Not all of whom she trusted by any means.]

I helped find one.

[She lets her gaze drop.]

[353]

[ It's in Eleven's nature to help find people, Mike gets that. But to help hunt one of the bad men down... That doesn't seem like her. All he'd ever known her to do was to hide from them, and she only ever hurt them out of self-defense. She didn't hunt them like prey, or out of revenge. That had to be all Kali's doing. ]

What happened after you found them? [ He could guess what happened, what Kali wanted to do him, but Mike wants to know the details. He wants to know how Eleven felt about it. ]

[iunderstand]

[She's quiet for a long moment.]

Wanted to hurt him. [And by hurt she means kill.] He hurt Mama. [Her voice is barely audible.]

I couldn't.

[353]

[ His heart breaks for her when she mentions her mother too, another victim of the bad men. But it doesn’t actually surprise him to hear she couldn’t, though. ]

I would have wanted to, too... [ Hell, he wanted to kill “Papa” when he saw his hands on her at the lab. ] But that would have made you like the bad men, and you’re not like them. [ He cups her cheek with his palm, encouraging her to look at him. ] You’re a good person. That’s why you couldn’t.

[iunderstand]

[She does look at him and a tear trickles down her cheek. She sniffs a little, leaning into his touch. She's not too sure about the good person part, but she knows, somehow, there's a difference between what she'd done to the bad people at the school that night and what she'd almost done to the man who'd hurt Mama.]

She's good, too. Just wrong.

[353]

[ Mike wipes the tear away with his thumb. ] Yeah. Good people can be wrong about a lot of things. Doesn’t make them bad.

Are you glad you met her?

[iunderstand]

[She thinks that makes sense, because Hopper is a good person but there are things he's been wrong about, too.]

Yes. But I miss her.

[She knows, though, that she'd done the right thing. Made the right choice by coming back and not staying with Kali. She doesn't want her entire life to be about the Bad Men. There hadn't really been a choice to make. Mike and her friends had been in trouble and the decision had been made without any thought. She had to help them, simple as that.

Eleven gazes at him for a moment, then leans in slowly and kisses his lips, soft and sweet before pulling away.]

[353]

It’s not like you can’t ever see her again, right? You could go back to Chicago to visit. Maybe let Hopper drive you next time though. [ No more getting into vehicles with strangers, please. ] Maybe if you talk to her more, you’ll change her mind.

[ He’s so busy talking about Eleven’s sister that he doesn’t see the kiss coming, surprised at first, especially since she’s never initiated one between them before. Then he gently returns it, smiling as she pulls back. ]

What was that for?

[iunderstand]

She said she's a [She has to think for a moment, to remember the word Kali had used.] -- fugitive. She wanted me to stay with her.

[And some tiny part of her had wanted to. But she knew even then that her home was here in Hawkins, with Hopper. With Mike. Who's smile is so infectious that a smile spreads across her face now, too.]

Wanted to.

[353]

[ Her response makes him smile even wider, then he thinks over what she said about her fugitive sister... ]

You could have stayed with her, but you chose Hawkins?

[iunderstand]

Yes.

[She'd seen him, in trouble, and the thought of him being hurt was almost too much to think about. She rests her hand on his arm.]

This is my home.

[353]

Even with all the bad stuff that happens here? [ It's hardly the safest town. He's surprised Will's mom hasn't moved their family out of town. They probably would have if they had the money. ]

[iunderstand]

You're here. [She says simply.]

[353]

[ Mike might look back at this moment in ten years time and realize the feeling he was experiencing at this very moment was love. But he's too young to understand it yet, so he just smiles, touched by her response. ]

You won't leave town like that again, will you? Without me? And the others? [ But mostly him. ]

[iunderstand]

[Eleven has no idea what love really is. It's something she hears on TV a lot - especially on shows like All My Children and One Life to Live, and she wonders what it means, but she hasn't yet asked Hopper. But one day, someday in the future, she'll also identify the way she feels for Mike as love.]

I won't leave you again. [She pauses.] Promise.

[353]

[ That's a relief to hear. He leans in to kiss her cheek, something new. Maybe that's a kiss they can do when Hopper is around without him hitting the roof. ]

Next time Hopper's working late and you want to see me, tell me to come over instead. I don't want you out there freezing like this again. Especially in the snow.

[iunderstand]

[She smiles shyly when he kisses her cheek. It is new, but she likes it. She's liked everything new she's done with Mike. Hugging. Kissing. Dancing. Talking. Cuddling.]

But then you'll be cold instead.

[353]

Well, yeah - [ good point, Eleven ] - but that's okay. Better me cold than you cold.

[ He'll always put her first, something she should figure out if she hasn't already. ]