Mallow/Olivia [Fluff, Established Relationship, During Canon]

Very obviously set during the course of Sun/Moon.

"Hey, Olivia! Wait up!"

Recognizing the voice, the dark-skinned woman paused and turned around to see the green-haired girl running towards her. "Mallow. How are you?"

"I'm great!" She greeted Olivia with a quick hug before falling in line next to her. "I was just running some deliveries, a bunch of fruits to Heahea City. What are you up to?"

"I saw an interesting little boat pull into port, so I was gonna see just who it might be."

"Mind if I tag along?"

"Not at all. A feeling tells me we may get some new challengers for our Trials soon."

"Cool, it's been kinda boring the last few weeks. ...Hey, what did you do to your hand?"

"Hm?"

"Your hand." Mallow grabbed Olivia's left, pointing out the band-aids on her index and middle finger. "You hurt yourself. What happened?"

"Ah, that's nothing." The woman waved it off "I just didn't pay attention for one second and cut myself on my tools. I showed you before, didn't I? Some of those are quite sharp. ...It's nothing major, really." She added at Mallow's skeptical expression.

The smaller girl frowned for a moment. "You should be more careful."

"I know, I know. Now, where'd that boat dock, I think I know who... Called it. Still haven't managed to find a shirt that goes with your lab coat, hmm, Kukui?"

"Deep down you're quite the softie, aren't you?"

Olivia joined Mallow who was waving to her from atop the stairs to the pier and gave her a brief hug. "Says who?"

"Was it really necessary for you to see the two of them off?"

"They're trial-goers, and I'm the kahuna, so of course I'd look after them."

"Suure, that's definitely in the job description."

"Oh, shush. What brings you here anyways?"

"I was bringing one of the chefs at the resort some special blend of herbs for this huge event tomorrow."

"Sometimes I wonder if you're a trial captain or a delivery girl."

"Touché." Mallow grinned. "But now that we're both here anyways let's go to the beach for a bit, maybe take a swim."

"I don't even have my swimwear with me."

"Neither do I, but it's not like that's a first either, we'll just have to find some small bay that's a little further off."

"You sound just like Lana, you know."

"Except she's always wearing that one-piece of hers under her normal clothes anyways, that's cheating."

"She is a Water-type specialist. She probably took more involuntary baths than the both of us combined."

"Whatevs. You coming or no?"

"I'm game."

"Then let's go!" Mallow turned and started towards the beach, but when she reached to take Olivia's hand, the woman flinched, drawing in a sharp breath as she gingerly covered the side of her right hand with her left. "What's wrong?" Mallow stopped in her tracks with an alarmed voice and turned around.

"Sorry. It's nothing." But the green-haired girl wasn't buying it for one second and grabbed Olivia's wrist, poking the visibly red area along the side of her hand. "Ow! What was that for?" Olivia angrily pulled back her hand as Mallow frowned.

"That's not nothing. What did you do this time?"

"...I may or may not have been briefly inattentive while working around a Magmar and burned myself on its tail. But it's no big deal."

"Geez, you really are hopeless sometimes. What do you even work with Magmar for? Whatever. The beach probably has some Pyukumuku, and if their slime helps with sunburn I'm sure it's good for regular burn too. Let's go find one."

"Whatever you say."

"Hello? Olivia, you there?" The voice made Olivia start – and slip with the knife she was using, cleanly cutting into the side of her left thumb and drawing blood. Muttering a quite unladylike curse, she spun around, hiding the wound, and the contents of the countertop she was standing at, behind her back as Mallow entered the room.

"I let myself in and- ...what are you doing?" Mallow peered past Olivia who in turn tried to block her view with her body, but she only needed a brief glimpse combined with the smell in the air to confirm her suspicions. "Are you cooking something?"

Seeing as she'd clearly been found out, there was no point trying to lie about it. "Well... yes. Or trying to."

Mallow giggled. "But you always keep saying you can't cook."

"Emphasis on 'trying'." Olivia frowned. "All I do is make a mess and mutilate my hands."

"Your hands... Hey, show me that!" For how energetic and perpetually bouncy she was, Mallow still could be quite astute if she had to. "You're bleeding."

"It's nothing."

"Don't be like that! At least put a band-aid on it."

"Alright, alright." With a placating gesture Olivia hurried to the bathroom, cleaning off her cut, which thankfully wasn't too big, covering it with a band-aid, and by the time she returned to the kitchen, Mallow had already taken over, expertly cutting the meat into neat pieces, much more regular than the chunks Olivia had produced so far.

"There really was no need for that." Especially since the ease Mallow was at it with made her feel even more clumsy in comparison.

"So~orry." Mallow singsonged turning around "I just couldn't help it. And besides," She giggled "why didn't you ask me to teach you?"

Olivia let out a frustrated sigh. "I wanted to be able to cook for you too, and it was supposed to be a surprise." Yeah, so much for that.

"Really?" All of a sudden Mallow stepped forward, wrapping her arms around Olivia as she stood on her tiptoes to place a brief kiss on the taller woman's lips. "That's so sweet of you!"

"You think so?" Even as she – naturally – returned the embrace Olivia frowned. "The surprise is ruined. And I don't even have anything to show for it yet except some band-aids."

"Maybe not." As usual Mallow's smile was unwavering. "But it's about the thought, you know? So, thank you. And besides, now more than ever I am gonna teach you how to cook properly."

Their lips met again in a much longer, more passionate kiss and apart from the faint smell of herbs Mallow seemed to always carry with her like it was part of her being – and in a way it was –, Olivia also noticed some much more acute taste of seasoning she likely had tasted right before on the girl's lips. "My, you're delicious today." She pulled back a little with a seductive smile. "Do you want to make me want to eat you?"

"I'll take you up on that." Mallow grinned, then gestured toward the counter behind her. "After dinner."

"As you say, love."

Yes, I'm still alive, just garbage at keeping any sort of schedule whatsoever. This one had been sitting in my file almost finished for months, I was just stuck on the ending; this ending (as in, the last 2-3 paragraphs) apparently wasn't the one I'd originally intended for when starting the story, but I quite like how it turned out.

Currently I've kind of run out of concrete ideas, but I totally want to keep writing more, so I'm very much open for requests/suggestions. Just be sure to include more than just a pairing (I literally wrote a small program that can generate me a random pairing from a list for that) and try to give me at least a few words of prompt, if not the outline of a small scene (kind of the caliber/shape of a 4chan greentext).

Any feedback/criticism/input is greatly appreciated, and as always thank you for reading and see you next time. Peace Out