[He hauls the guy up on the beach and that should be that. Everything's settled, he fucks off into the ocean before the human wakes up, they never see each other again.
Except that isn't that. Gepard lingers a moment too long, and the guy wakes up a moment too quickly, and Gepard recoils- it's never this quick. Humans never wake up this quickly. Was it the mouth-to-mouth? Because he usually doesn't try that (and by usually - never) and that's the only difference...
He'd vanish into the ocean right then and there and hope the guy chalks it up to a hallucination, and he should just...fuck off, because it's either that or snapping his neck, and Gepard doesn't want to do that. But he also doesn't want to leave, either. He should. But-
Ah, call it concern because the human's vomiting up seawater.]
Here. [He's using his most soothing guard captain of the water voice as he reaches out to squeeze the man's shoulder, then, rub a circle against the human's back. Are all people like this? Sure, he's interacted with them before, but the extent of the interaction was a bunch of knocked out bodies or them ignorant of him watching from deep below, it's not as if he really had a chance to talk to them...]
You're safe. Once the storm dies down, someone will find you. [He...assumes.]
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Date: 2024-08-28 02:33 am (UTC)Except that isn't that. Gepard lingers a moment too long, and the guy wakes up a moment too quickly, and Gepard recoils- it's never this quick. Humans never wake up this quickly. Was it the mouth-to-mouth? Because he usually doesn't try that (and by usually - never) and that's the only difference...
He'd vanish into the ocean right then and there and hope the guy chalks it up to a hallucination, and he should just...fuck off, because it's either that or snapping his neck, and Gepard doesn't want to do that. But he also doesn't want to leave, either. He should. But-
Ah, call it concern because the human's vomiting up seawater.]
Here. [He's using his most soothing guard captain of the water voice as he reaches out to squeeze the man's shoulder, then, rub a circle against the human's back. Are all people like this? Sure, he's interacted with them before, but the extent of the interaction was a bunch of knocked out bodies or them ignorant of him watching from deep below, it's not as if he really had a chance to talk to them...]
You're safe. Once the storm dies down, someone will find you. [He...assumes.]