Hey everyone. The next chapter of Until We Meet Again is brought to you by Pop Figure Collection, and Sophie's Smut (Or Not, As It Were) on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For Pop Figure Collection I wrote for Luke Cage's Mustache prompt of (feature) facial hair. For Sophie's Smut (Or Not, As It Were) I wrote for word prompt number 9. Quiver. I hope you all enjoy Chapter 2 To Tell the Truth.
It'd been weeks since she'd woken up as Dave, as she was now being called, and she was finding it easier to tell people she was a man. Not that she still liked the fact that she had to lie about who she really was. But then Klaus would suggest going out to some bar when they're on leave and she couldn't imagine not being there with him.
Klaus had made being away from her family easier in some strange way she couldn't actually put her finger on. She couldn't even tell if it's a number of things that have slowly been making her want to spend more and more time with the younger man. But slowly and surely, they stopped being wingmen for each other.
"Nice beard," she commented on his facial hair, and then as an after thought to keep her cover up, "I wish I could grow one. Never was able to."
"Are you kidding me?" Klaus laughed as though this was something funny. Taking another sip of his fourth drink, anyone can see he only had eyes for the person sitting across from him.
"No," Ginny/Dave laughed. She'd noticed the way he'd look at her too, and not for the first time wishes she couldn tell him who she really was. "Never been able to grow anything at all on my face." She realizes that he was reaching out a hand and as it brushed against the skin of her borrowed body she felt a tingle go up her spine.
"I think you look good without a beard," he told her, sincerity in his voice. "Wouldn't change you for all the money in the world, Dave."
"Thanks, Klaus," she said as her heart broke at having to keep her secret. "Can I ask you a question? Hypothetical and all that."
Klaus nodded patiently, looking Ginny like he was lost in her, no not her, Dave's eyes. "You can ask me anything," Klaus laughed. "I'm an open book when it comes to you."
Yet again, his efforts to make her feel better made Ginny feel like she was the worst person in the world. Klaus had been nothing but trusting with her and she can't even do the same in return for him.
"You going ask that question?" Klaus asked Ginny, no, Dave. Because that was who he saw. "Or am I supposed to just try and read your mind to figure it out?" He's laughing and joking. And it's all in fun but Klaus feels fear for the first time since he met Dave. What kind of question could this man that knows almost everything have to ask him?
"It's silly," Ginny said, waving it off and feeling worse by the minute. "Forget it."
"No," Klaus said, leaning towards Dave. "Ask me. What's the worst that can happen? I won't know the answer. If that happens we just go find someone who does know it."
Ginny laughed, a smile brightening her, no, Dave's face. It was cut short when Klaus's lips brush over her own in a short, brief kiss. She was so caught off guard that she doesn't know what to do. So her mouth without regarding her brain or heart just blurted out her situation.
"What if someone you're close with happens to not be who they say they are?" she blurted out breathlessly. "Like," she looked around to make sure they weren't be listened to, "if someone wasn't exactly a..."
Klaus looks hurt and confused. "Where is this coming from, Dave?"
"I'm not actually, Dave," Ginny confessed to him. "I'm actually a woman from the year 2019. My real name is Ginny but everything else that we've talked about it real." She bit her lip nervously, hoping he's not too pissed off with her. She wouldn't blame him if he was. She'd be pissed off too.
"Why wouldn't you tell me this earlier?" he asked. He didn't sound as hurt as she thought he should. "I'm not really from around this time period either."
"Wait what?" she joked. "Men dressed in towels don't just fall out of the sky? Is that what you're trying to tell me?"
Klaus joined in on her laughter. "Exactly what I'm trying to tell you." He looked around to make sure no one was listening to them too before he said her name for the first time. "Ginny." It fell off his tongue as easily as her other name did. But then again, Ginny and Dave are the same person. "Has anyone ever told you you're easy to talk to?"
"You're one of the firsts," she laughs. She feels a quiver of joy go up and down her spine as They continue to talk about the way they both ended up here. In Vietnam. She found herself falling more in love with Klaus by the minute and wished that they could be together. Not as Klaus and Ginny pretending to be Dave, but Klaus and Ginny.
"I'm going to go get us more drinks," Klaus told her. "I'll be right back."
Ginny watched him as moves across the not too crowded bar. "I love you," she whispered when she's sure he's far enough out of range because she's not sure he's ready to hear those words quite yet. But she does know she wants to be the one to say them to him when he is ready for them.
I hope you all enjoyed Chapter 2 of Until We Meet Again To Tell the Truth.