Can I Have A Mountain Dew? (Lucas)

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Ugh….It was hot. Fucking hot…

Marcus could feel the sweat dripping down her neck. She could feel it streaming down her sides. She could…ew! Feel it collecting under her boobs! Ew, ew, ew, she didn’t even have much of rack to begin with and it was still doing that! How!?

Ew. Hot days were the worst.

Marcus stepped down the stairs to the first floor of the dorms, heading for that wonderland oasis called the vending machine. A cold soda sounded heavenly right now. Preferably one loaded with caffeine. Like a Mountain Dew. A red bull could be cold, but it wasn’t a sipping drink. Monsters…well, those tasted nasty. Nope, nothing beat a hot day, quenched your thirst, and slammed you with energy like a good ol’ Mountain Dew!

She dug into her pocket and pulled out some loose change that she hoped was enough because Marcus sure as hell didn’t want to go all the way back upstairs to nab her wallet.

25…50…75…85…95…YES!

Awesome! She totally had enough!

Marcus fiddled with the change, taking the coins between her fingers, and started plunking them into the machine. She pushed the button.

Nothing came out.

She pushed again. Still nothing.

She tried something else.

“Ugh….dammit!” she exclaimed, giving the machine a frustrated smack with the palm of her hand. Why did this thing never work when you wanted it to?

[Lucas Blacke]

''Driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-''

Lucas ran through the narrow hallway, with what he was sure was an annoying doppler effect, to the vending machine. He was on his way to Karalie to surprise her, but he needed a drink first so his mouth wouldn't be completely dry when they.. you know.. that.

'Nk!'' He skidded to a sudden stop before the vending machine and stared a girl in the eyes. She wasn't someone he had seen before. It also kinda looked like a guy with feminine features? Or a girl with masculine ones? He shook his head slightly and smiled at the it as he reached for his backpocket to get the wallet out.

It wasn't until he had taken out his money that he noticed that the it had its palm placed on the machine, Luke assumed it did so because the machine was being a dick again. It did that. He saw the code for mountain dew was pressed and noticed that the mechanism holding the beverage in place wasn't working like it was supposed to. He looked at the it, smiled and stepped slightly towards the machine.

''I don't know you, and it might sound crazy, but let me slide something into this here slit.'' He grinned as he put a single dollar bill into the machine and pressed the code for mountain dew, maybe it'd come out if he tried. He didn't know. He was odd. And not above wasting money.

The machine hesitated a bit and finally began moving, but still didn't achieve the desired effect. ''Hm..'' Luke murmured as he dug through his wallet and reached for another dollar. ''It wants something to slide into it.'' He grinned at the it behind him yet again as he pushed in another dollar and repushed the code for a mountain dew. It would only come out half way.

''Right. Step aside, please.'' Luke said as he stepped in front of the machine and lowered himself to his knees. ''I'm going to put my entire arm up its hatch now.'' He did so and attempted to wiggle the beverages out of place, he even tilted the entire machine a bit. And after minutes of wrestling the three dews fell down and onto his arm.

He grabbed one of them and handed it to the it behind him, who he knew wanted one, and he took the two other dews for himself as he got up. He opened the beverage and took a sip, he gulped down a good one and widened his eyes after that.

''Crapnuggets. These have caffeine, don't they?''

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Marcus was used to people not being able to tell which gender he was. Because it was true, as a girl he was built like a boy, and as a boy he was skinny and effeminate. It actually really bugged him than he was so sexless in either direction, it really messed with his head a lot. Especially when it came to changing up gender pronouns all the time. As much as he might insist to everyone that he was a he and therefore they should use the masculine, it was still confusing, even for himself. So he would have had some manner of sympathy towards Lucas’ confusion, had he voiced it.

Well, she would have, as she was most definitely a girl right now.

Seriously, she checked, the dong was gone. Which was still the strangest feeling ever, even after dealing with this shiz for the past 8-ish years.

You know how vets say they can still feel their missing limbs even after they’ve been blown away? Yeaaaaaah, it was kinda like that.

Marcus raised an eyebrow as the black-haired boy stepped up like he was the big-man on campus, suave and clever. What did he think he could do? This machine was craptacular, they really should just get it replaced already.

Marcus waved him towards the machine, taking a step back. “Be my guest.” She spoke in a low, husky voice. It was characteristically deeper than most women, which sounded more like the deep sexy voices one might get from one of those sex-sevice phone companies. She rolled her eyes at his suggestive comments, holding back a smile as he “slid” the dollar “into” the machine. “Damn thing just won’t put out, won’t it? Like a temperamental princess.”

She watched as he got on his knees for a more direct approach. “Service it with your own two hands, huh? On your knees even.” Marcus whistles as she crossed her arms over her chest. “Color me impressed,” she said with a laugh as he suddenly produced a whole three cans of caffeine loaded beverages.

Marcus took the one offered and opened it, chugging down the refreshing taste of sugary Dew. “Uh..yeah. These things are kinda loaded with it.” Didn’t he know that?

[Lucas Blacke]

As the girl (Luke assumed it was a girl judging by her voice. Also the curvature in her chest, even if little.) opened the can of mountain dew she confirmed that there was caffeine in it with a confused expression on her face as Luke had downed one single can in the time she took to tell him it was loaded with caffeine.

''Well then.'' Luke began his reply as he threw the empty can to the ground, not even trying to hit a garbage can. ''That would explain me suddenly wanting a truckload of this shit. Also, caffeine fucks me up. It hurts my muscles. It makes me fast, but unpredictable. As in even to myself. As in. Ass in.'' He cracked open the second can and took a huge sip before putting it down on top of the vending machine.

He pulled out his wallet and took out another dollar bill. ''You might wanna stop me soonish.'' He said as he realized that surprising karalie was a no-go now, unless his legs suddenly moved him over to her out of themselves. He slid the dollar bill into the machine and very nearly broke his index finger as he smashed in the combination to mountain dew.

The can fell down the machine as he took his opened one from on top of the machine and emptied it further before grabbing the unopened one. ''You really need to stop me. I can't controlmymusclesliketyhis. Alsothehumantongueandgeneralspeechisamuscle. Muscle. Muscle.'' He shook his head back and forth.

''What the hell now? Why did I begin drinkingthisstuff? Why didIwanttoimpressyou?''
''Areyouwetyet?''

Dude! No more caffeine!

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Marcus didn’t understand what the big deal was with caffeine. Hell, she practically lived on the stuff. In face, if she didn’t get at least three in her system in a day, she was bound to fall asleep halfway through it.

Maybe he was one of those who had dietary restrictions against caffeine? Like, maybe he was a Mormon? That would make sense, right?

But that didn’t seem to be the case as the boy started explaining the situation rapidly…and increasing in rapidity. And with his increasing speed, there also seemed to be a rapid increase in his…stupidity, is what some might call it. “H-how am I supposed to do that?” she exclaimed, her voice rising in pitch as she watched him pull out another dollar and stick it in the machine. Seriously, Marcus was made out of noodles, boy or girl, her limbs were not made for trying to physically force someone to do something.

Whatshouldshedowhatshouldshedo?

This was becoming a very seriously scary problem very quickly!

“Uhh….” At a loss of what else to do, and from pure desperation, Marcus reached forward and tried to grab the unopened can straight out of his hand.

[Lucas Blacke]

Luke's gaze shot from place to place he noticed, and was only barely able to keep them momentarily focused on what he wanted to see, which was the girl asking him how she was supposed to do that. ''Ihaveno idea. Nope. Nope. No idea. None. No. Nyet. Maybe smack the canoutofmyhand? Crushmyhands maybe?''

The boy remained oddly calm even though his body and mind where doing everything but keeping calm. Why didn't he have a manual on his ability lying around somewhere? Couldn't he have an off button for it for those moments he didn't really need it? He was starting to feel a little.. awkward as he hadn't experienced all that much caffeine yet.

''I suggest youdosomething soon because I'm onthevergeof burning my ownmuscles.'' He said as his empty hand reached for the lid of the can as the girl before him let out an audible ''uhh'' and reached forward, probably in an attempt to take the can from him.

His hand opened with a reflex as the can was taken from him. ''Dude.'' Luke said as he reached for his wallet with effort and dropped it on the ground. ''Mindkeeping my money forabit? I really need to notbeable to buy more mountaindew.''

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Smack the can out of his hands? How was Marcus supposed to do that? Well, probably just do it, but then she’d hurt herself! Oh what she would do to have Safia around, she would have the guts to act instead of flailing about like a…well, like a girl!

Whaaaaa~!

“I can’t do that!” she squeaked, cringing back as he was practically having a seizure. Wait? What if he really did have a seizure? And what if he died from it because Marcus was too busy panicking to do him any real good!? What if he was charged with murder!?

“I don’t know what you want me to dooo~!” she cried again. Other than take the other can away from him, which she did. Actually, she should probably just get rid of them both.

When in a panic, Marcus often made rash decisions, and this one was to chuck the Dew cans across the room(presumably towards the trash cans), which unfortunately missed their mark and exploded against the wall of the common room. Other students who’d been lounging in there were staring.

Then, at the boy’s request, Marcus snatched up the wallet and dashed past the boy towards the front entrance hall of the dormitory. Great! Now she was a thief!! Wheehh~! Somebody heeelp!!

[Lucas Blacke]

Not even slightly feeling any dip in the way his body was acting Luke knew he had to take measures of his own to stop him from doing anything rash. As thee girl took the Dew from his hands he couldn't help but smile as her hand brushed over his. Why would he smile at a time like this? At least he could hide behind the fact it wasn't a voluntary smile.

The cans exploded all over the wall behind Luke and he felt his body turning around. He was getting sooooo tired of this, he needed to create some sort of ''do not feed caffeine'' patch or something, he hated what it did to him. And this was the second time it had done anything like this to him, the first time was to get out of a conversation between his current girlfriend and his ex, and it worked. Luckily the effect of the caffeine didn't last all that long in that situation, but that was only one sip of coffee.

This was a can of Dew times two. And it was affecting his entire body as opposed to just one appendage. He was doing so much with his ability he began to sweat as he felt his muscles tiring, but not slowing down. At this rate he was sure to burn through his muscles, or worse. Worse being doing something he didn't want to happen.

The girl had taken his wallet and ran past him as Luke had asked. He let out a sigh of relief and suddenly widened his eyes. He did something, this meant his system was busy filtering out the caffeine slowly but steadily.

''I think I'm going to run after you.'' He announced to the girl.
She looked more nimble, but Luke was able to catch up to her with ease and grabbed her by the shoulder, turning her around. He leaned in and seemes to ignore his wallet in her hand as his lips trembled.

''Uhm. uhm uhm uhm. I don't think I will like what my body wants me to do so as long as I keep talking you will have time to prepare.'' He took a short breath and managed to keep off for a moment longer as he looked at the girl. ''So sorry, this isn't me, please trust me on that one.''
''Oh, you might want to hit me or something.''

He leaned in further.

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Marcus grimaced at the Mountain Dew that now decorated the wall. She wanted to cry. Now, not only was she a thief, but she was a vandal, too! Not the German guys who conquered a bunch of people from and 400s(although she was German), but a hooligan-vandal who went around and destroyed property on adolescent impulses!

She didn’t meeeaaan toooo!! This guy made her do it, he was freaking her out!!

And now chasing her, whoops! She never should have stopped to look behind her, only people who wanted to get caught did that kind of stupid shit, at least that’s how it always went in the movies with those big chase scenes, right?

Before she could take another step further, Marcus felt her shoulder being grabbed and was spun around. Marcus took a step backwards as he seemed to lean into her. Then she took another. Then another. She would have taken another, but now she was backed up against the wall between the exit and the stairwell.

The way he was leaning into her…it was pretty obvious what he was trying to do!! And honestly, that wasn’t the thing that Marcus was put off by!!

As soon as that thought entered her mind, suddenly she was back in the auditorium, hearing Dr. Neville iterate his answers during the Q&A session of the lecture, reliving the moment when he answered her question almost specifically. And the first thing that entered her mind was…Oh my god, if he kisses me and doesn’t know that I’m really a boy, does that constitute sexual assault?? Whaaaa~~!! I don’t wanna be a rapist!!

“Wait, wait!” she exclaimed, her eyes suddenly shut tight. Marcus continued, speaking rapidly. “I don’t care if you kiss me, honestly really, but if you’re going to do it, then there’s something you should know about me, you see, I’m really a boy and if you don’t mind kissing boys then fine, go for it, but if you’re not okay with that, then you might want to back off okay, because I don’t think I’m strong enough even as a boy to push you away, got it, okay great!!” She took a breath.

[Lucas Blacke]

''Dude. Fuck you.'' Luke said just inches before his/her face, pouring every bit of energy he could muster into not kissing the it just yet. ''Guy or not I reallydonot have any control right now!''

First off, the gender of the it had been revealed, it turned out to be a guy with feminine features. This made Luke actively shudder at the thought of kissing him since, while he wasn't exactly repulsed by guys, he didn't see himself kissing one ever. But here he was, captive in his own body and apparently his body saw a mouth to kiss, and not the surrounding person. This was going to be an issue of epic proportion in the future. It was either learning to cope or stay away from anything caffeinated, and he was sure that'd be quite the adjustment for Karalie.

Which brought him to the second issue. He had a girlfriend! Kissing anyone, male or female, was not something he wanted to do, not with Karalie in the picture! He panicked slightly and momentarily lost control and slipped another inch closer to the guy before him. Luke tried to close his eyes and began to hope it was just a dream, but in reality he knew it wasn't.

It took him another moment to regain control and braced himself for the inevitable unless he could somehow knock himself out cold. ''This will probably be the best kiss you've ever had. Just saying.'' Luke said with a final sigh and a forced roll of his eyes as he decided to just give up on trying to force his way out of it.

His head came closer to the guy/girl and kissed him/her.

''I'm kissing a guy! Gods, why?!''

Ugh.

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“If it makes you feel any better, anatomically, I’m a girl right now, so at least you can trick yourself into thinking differently?” Maybe, maybe not. “And if we survive this, then I’ll totally show you what I really look like, you know, once I get a chance to shift back…”

“Somehow I doubt that,” she squeaked. Well, this was going swell. Marcus closed her eyes as the boy and his lips approached ominously.

She kept her eyes closed for the duration of the kiss, wondering when it would finally be over.

[Lucas Blacke]

Luke would be lying is he ever said he wasn't trying to wrap his hands around her/his throat right now and start to press down on it, not only did he/she deceive him by acting like a woman but he/she also dared to use the word we.

And while his mind was racing from place to place he could only make minute adjustments to his own body as he felt his lips press against those of the girl/boy. This person was fucking confusing. He/she said he/she was a boy, but he/she looked like a girl, so how in the name of fuck was Luke supposed to address him/her?

As he felt some of the control of his muscles coming back to him he quickly jerked back his head and turned around, breathing heavily and scrubbing down his tongue with his teeth.

''This did not happen, got it?''

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Marcus didn’t intend to deceive anyone! She just happened to be a girl right now with no way of turning ba-a-a-aaack!! At least not for a….how long had it been? Almost an hour? Maybe she should try it? NO, that would probably only make things worse!!

And it wasn’t like Marcus went around actively pretending to be a girl, actually a lot of people said she didn’t act like a girl when she was a girl, so that definitely meant that she was a boy, but without the anatomical features to back that up, apparently it didn’t matter to this guy and the only thing on his mind was “TRICKERY!!”

On a separate note, the kiss wasn’t horrible. Marcus wouldn’t call it the best he ever had, but, ignoring the circumstances, it certainly wasn’t the worst either.

When he finally pulled away, Marcus finally dared to take a breath, sliding down slightly against the wall behind her. “Gotcha,” she said with a nod. Though the area wasn’t exactly devoid of people who could re-tell the story anyway.

Marcus let the boy readjust himself and spaz for a moment longer before posing her earlier offer. “So…did you wanna see?”

[Lucas Blacke]

The shock of the kiss was enough to reset his muscles it seemed as he didn't do anything on automatic pilot anymore. He sighed a sigh of relief and watch as the girlmanboy slightly slumped down the wall she was pressed against and confirmed that it had never happened. What had never happened? Exactly.

He finally turned back and looked at the girl, not sure where to place his eyes at the moment, and the urge to make jokes was lacking from the situation which was slightly odd. For some reason Luke was taking this way more serious than he had to and had just about forgotten the entire incident that went down earlier. Why was he so upset? His body was out of control, right? He did what he could, right?

She then asked him if he wanted to see and caught the boy by surprise. Wanted to see? See what? His mind raced through possibilities before that tiny voice finally said that hey, she mentioned being a boy, right? Maybe she was wanting to show that.

''Sure, fine, go the fuck ahead.'' Luke stated. ''Boys I can hit.''

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Despite having “forgotten” about the incident, the boy still seemed really disturbed. “Sorry…” Marcus said despondently, averting her eyes to the ground and twirling her hair to hang over one shoulder. She felt like maybe…maybe she could have done something different to prevent this sort of thing from happening. If only she wasn’t a girl right now, then maybe the boy would never have considered her lips as ones appropriate for kissing!

Her eyes went wide at 1) his harsh language, and 2) his intent to hit him.

“W-wait!” she protested in a raised voice. “Why do I have to be a boy for you to be allowed to hit me?” Wasn’t that a little sexist? Furthermore… “Why do I have to be hit at all? You’re the one who kissed me! I didn’t force you to do anything!” That was ridiculous! Marcus straightened up, her hands clenched in exasperation.