Gratitude and Southern Comfort (Jonash and Unna)

[Unna Hi Chaanu]

Unna pulled Cox close with one arm and stroked his hair with her free hand. "I am here...shhhh....shhhh..." she tried to soothe him as she was crying herself.

[Jonash Solo]

Cox rolled to his back. "You're more affectionate than I expected. I'm curious, why are you against sex?"

[Unna Hi Chaanu]

"I am more affectionate than I expected," Unna confided. She pressed herself behind him, making him into her little spoon. She did so in a way that her horns would not stab him, which meant that her chest was pressed into the back of his head. She wasn't really paying attention to that though, as she viewed this cuddle as non-sexual. "I am waiting for my one true love. I also just do not care about sex. My sexuality is not even important to me and I keep it to myself because I do not wish for it to define me."

"There is something about you," Unna mused, before digging her nose into his hair and sniffing his head.

[Jonash Solo]

"It's the eyes." Cox says with a small chuckle to himself.

"How do you know your one true love will be a woman?"

[Unna Hi Chaanu]

Unna didn't have a great sense of humor, she thought to herself that the lights were off and she couldn't recall the image of her companion's eyes.

"I found her and she is dead..." Unna cried out. "She never even knew. I don't know that I will ever find another..."

[Jonash Solo]

Cox whispers affectionately, "It seems like a part of you died in that moment." Cox lets the statement settle before continuing, "You must have loved her very deeply."
(Unna senses sadness and envy.)

"I feel a little numb as well. Perhaps I'm less numb because Celestina wanted us to be happy, so I pursue happiness to show her I love her."
(Unna senses melancholy.)

"I'm starting to think we crossed paths because you can show me how to love more deeply and I can show you how to love again. I don't even know if either of those are possible. Would you be willing to try?"

[Unna Hi Chaanu]

"I died with her, but that wasn't the first time I died..." Unna whispered as she sobbed. Her face was soaking wet with tears. Some of the tiny rivers flowed between her lips as she spoke, which causes her to taste her salty sorrows. She felt selfish to cry about herself when he came to her for comfort. She pulled him tightly against her. She felt a deep need to nurture him. "I just don't know. I am so confused right now. I've never done this before, but I think I like it. You are so warm and I have been so numbingly cold for so long."

"I'm here..."Unna continued to stroke his hair as she brought her lips to his scalp. She did not kiss, but she rested her lips there as she inhaled his scent and used her other arm to hold him tightly. "I'm here..." she said once again, without pulling her lips away from his head. She continued to inhale him.

[Jonash Solo]

"How about I provide the shoulder and you cry this time." Cox carefully readjusted himself onto his back so that Unna could cry on his shoulder and chest. He took great care to position himself so that Unna could choose where she placed herself.
(Unna sensed a father-like presence.)

[Unna Hi Chaanu]

Unna snuggled up to Cox. She rested her ear over his heart and listened to the beat. It has seemed like eons since she last felt this way. It was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't quite identify it. Still cuddling up to Cox's chest, she reached up to stroke his hair. It was soft and a completely new sensation to Unna. She hadn't really ever touched hair before and she knew he liked having his hair touched. "I think that something about you is your hair," she whispered, looking up toward his chin. Her lips gravitated closely to his neck, although she had no intent to do anything with them. Unna sighed as she enjoyed the soft skin. Cox would be able to feel her breath on his neck.

[Jonash Solo]

Cox gently caressed Unna's back. Periodically, he'd stop and embrace her more tightly and then resume the caressing. He felt her breath on his neck and a tingle spread from his neck to his head and back down to his toes. Cox's mind wandered and suddenly he saw the door pried open by carbonite, people screaming for their lives and his lovely Celestina saying her goodbyes as she accepted her fate. He watched again as her body got sucked into the crack.

At this point, he started to see fuzziness and then it was almost as if there were 2 of her. The ghostly version stepped forward and he could see her beaming smile and silky red hair as she walked effortlessly towards him. She started to speak, but he could hear nothing. Then he saw a familiar set of hand gestures. Celestina pointed at herself, then made a heart shaped symbol, pointed at Cox, and then raised 2 fingers in front of her.

The vision ended and Cox made a startled little yelp. The sadness that had permeated him faded away. "Unna?" he asked sweetly, hoping she would look up.