Terrors in Subnautica(Complete)

Part 15: A Dance & An Errand

Chase's POV

After about 3 songs had played everyone seems to have relaxed from the earlier news. Everyone is either dancing around or just kind of swaying. Amy and Mark are pseudo wiggle-dancing and laughing to themselves. Beth and Sam seem to be doing some basic waltzing while Marzia and Felix are swaying and talking happily.

I look over to the side N/N is standing at and watch her smile calmly, admiring the atmosphere of companionship filling the room. It looks like the pain in her side has gone down for now, hopefully it really starts healing soon. I wonder if she likes to dance.

She looks over to me and waves briefly, still smiling. Trying not to feel awkward about being caught staring, I make my way over to her.

"It's nice to see everyone happy." She says.

I don't think I've ever seen her look so content.

"Yeah, it is."

She sighs, leaning back on the wall. Every feature of her body seems to radiate a strength so much of the time, it's good to see it all melt into a calm happiness. She looks back over to me, tilting her head slightly, her eyes always seem like they can see everything. It's odd to feel so comfortable with the idea of someone being able to look right through you.

Pushing off the wall I step in front of her and offer my hand.

"Wanna dance?"

She chuckles quietly and takes my hand as the song changes back to a more upbeat tune. I have no idea how to legitimately dance so I just take both of her hands and sway them side to side as we step back and forth. She starts to laugh and I can't help but laugh with her as I spin her under my hand. She seems to enjoy dancing a good deal.

For another couple of songs we just keep dancing and swaying, being silly and having fun. At one point Amy and Marzia pulled N/N aside and started skipping in circles around Mark, Sam, Felix, and I before Mark picked Amy up and started yelling about winning the best girlfriend prize. Felix and Sam automatically following suit and arguing who the real winner was. N/N and I standing by laughing. She nudged my shoulder with hers so I would turn to look at her... before she proceeded to briefly pick me up and walk in a circle. She's a lot stronger than she looks! Everyone else laughs and comments on her unexpected strength before returning to dancing.

"Doesn't that hurt?"

"I have good control of my muscles and knowledge of how to use certain ones when needed so it doesn't stress an injury. So nope!"

"Well, Good! Nobody wants you to get any more hurt."

She mumbled something I couldn't quite hear.

"What?"

"Nothing," She offers her hand to me," Wanna Dance a little more?"

"Sure!"

I take her hand and pull her into a simple two step her face seeming content. One more song later and we hear the front hatch open and close, Seán and Tessa are back. Ugh.. Tessa. I swear if she tried to pull any kind of shit while they were out there I'm gonna be pissed. I look to N/N and see her face light up when Seán enters the room. Wow, she really looks like she might be glowing. Sadly her eyes dim slightly when Tess struts in and is basically sticking to his side like glue. I grimace at how much more unhappy he looks than when they left.

"Dance party? Hell yeah!!" Sean yells," Wait when did we get music?"

"Beth figured out if you ask about music a search bar comes up and you can play anything." Mark smiles

"Dude, nice!"

"Everyone, come pick your fish!" Tessa calls squeakily.

Everyone goes and grabs a fish or two from them and heads over to cook them on the fabricators. They've only been back a couple of minutes and three times now Seán has tried to go see N/N but was intercepted by Tessa. I feel like I should do something, so I walk up and stop in front of him.