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i-am-beckyu · 6 months

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Dancing in your Hands

Full credit for this idea goes to @entomolog-t and this prompt here about gt and dancing. Featuring to random OC's I made up on the spot that will likely only ever exist in this fic lol.

Premise: Human teenage girl doesn't have a date to prom and wasn't going to go. But her borrower friend saw how excited she had been and gets her to go anyways. She has a wonderful night but when it comes to the couples dance she side lines herself because she had no one dance with. She comes home and tells this to her friend who knows how much she had dreamed of this.

word count: 1510 cw: very very very minor hurt but lots and and lots of comfort and fluff.

"You should have just done it Jane." Zephyr sighed as he watched the human teen sit dejectedly onto her bed.

"How could I Zeph? I would have looked so lonely dancing by myself to a romantic song."

The girl flopped backward onto the soft purple duvet, grabbing a heart shaped pillow and giving it a comforting squeeze.

"I already don't have many friends, I don't need the whole school knowing I can't get a date either."

Zephyr couldn't help but feel sad for his friend. He knew how much this prom had meant to her even if the thought of so many humans gathered in one loud space terrified him. But whenever the teen talked about dancing the night away and having that special ‘one on one’ slow dance with that someone special, he couldn't help but hope she would have the most magical night of her life.

Even if she had reassured him that not having a slow dance partner didn't matter and she still had a good time, he could tell she still longed for that special moment.

Perhaps he could change that.

"Jane," The borrower called from the side table to get the girl's attention.

"Leave your phone here and wait outside of your room, and don't come back in until I call you."

Jane turned over on her bed to face her little friend, the smaller waiting expectantly for her to follow her instructions.

"Um what for though?" Jane asked, confused. What could he possibly want her to leave her room for?

"Just trust me." Zephyr smiled. "I promise it will be worth it."

The girl furrowed her brow whilst taking out her phone to set it down next to her friend on the side table. It dwarfed his size completely; being almost a whole 2 inches taller than what he already was, but she complied and stood, leaving the room wondering what on earth he could be planning.

It was about 15 minutes later that Jane heard the Borrower call her back inside.

Her eyes widened in surprise when she entered.

All around her room the fairy lights she had placed ever so delicately had been switched on, illuminating the room in a soft glow. A melody she recognised from her romantic dance playlist was playing softly from her speakers and created a magical feel to the enclosed space.

And there on her dressing room table stood Zephyr, dressed in his nicest borrowing clothes (the borrower telling her so) and holding a single red rose she recognised from the rose bush just outside her window, high above his head by the steam.

"Zephyr," Jane breathed in amazement at a loss for words.

The Borrower stepped forward holding the rose out to the human girl, which she took oh so timidly. "I don't know what to say."

"Then say you'll dance with me." The boy asked, reaching his hand out for her to take. "Allow me to lead you in a final dance"

Jane blinked, her brain short circuiting.

He wanted to dance?

Her 3 inch tall friend wanted to lead her in a dance?

Jane burst out laughing.

"Zephyr, I appreciate the gesture but I don't think that's exactly possible when you're the size of my index finger." The teen said as she tried to regain her composure between each laugh.

"You're not exactly able to lead at your size."

Jane missed the way Zephyr's face fell as she wiped a stray tear from laughing so much.

"Oh. Right" He said quietly, slowly making his way over to Jane's phone and began to switch the music off.

"I guess I thought I could give you the special slow dance you always talked about."

This grabbed the girl's attention.

"I guess it was foolish to think a Borrower like me could give you clearly Human experience."

Finally Jane realised what she had done and saw how dejected her friend looked. Zephyr had rushed to go to the effort of giving her a special slow dance just like she had always talked about, and what did she do? She practically insulted and laughed in his face.

"Zephyr." Jane began crouching down to be on the Borrower's level.

"I didn't mean to hurt you. You did all this just so I could have a special moment and I laughed in your face."

"I just wanted to make your dream come true." The boy whispered, dipping his head down sadly.

"You already have Zeph. You encouraged me to go to the prom in the first place. I had such a wonderful night and I shouldn't go mopping around just because I didn't get the dance I had hoped for. And I especially shouldn't have laughed at you when you did all this for me." Jane reached her hand out slowly and gently lifted the boy's head with her finger, blue eyes meeting smaller green ones.

"I'm sorry Zephyr."

The boy grabbed onto the humans finger and hugged it tightly, a silently accepted apology; the two smiling having made up. Zephyr eventually then pulled away and raised his hand out.

"May I have this dance?" the borrower asked once more, the girls heart melting as he did.

But there was still one slight problem.

"You may, but how do you want to do this?" Jane asked. As she had said before, how was he going to lead her in a dance when he could fit in the whole palm of her hand?

The Borrower grinned as he lifted his hand up horizontal to his chest and splayed his fingers apart.

"Hold your hand out like this, and hover it about an inch above the table. I’ll do the rest."

Jane pulled her left hand back a little bit and matched the way Zephyr had instructed her too with her hand before the boy got to work. He gently curled the human's ring and pinky fingers under to rest on her palm and then instructed Jane to keep the tips of her index and middle fingers on the table, before grabbing her thumb and pulling it forward to lift her hand up.

"Oh you're so clever." Jane exclaimed as she realised what Zephyr had done.

"I've got a finger person." She smiled at the smaller, who returned her smile with one of his own.

Zephyr then quickly ran over to the phone and tapped some buttons till Jane's favourite piece of dancing music came, on before running back and bowing to her finger person.

She returned the gesture with an awkward curtsey of her own the best she could with her fingers, before the Borrower took the human's thumb in hand, and wrapped the other around her index and middle fingers. His hand barely covered the tip of her thumb at all, and his touch was so light, but the fact the Borrower was even touching her hands at all was a marvel in itself.

As the music began to pick up, so did Zephyr in leading her hand in a dance.

It was difficult given she couldn't turn her hand 360° degrees all the way round, but nonetheless they were dancing. It seemed when she had been practicing to dance for prom, that Zephyr had been learning the leading steps too, because she was certain each step he made was one of her favourite waltz.

How far they had come since first meeting, from the Borrower not even wanting to interact with a Human to now leading her hand in a dance. She did not deserve such a kind hearted friend.

She couldn't help but gaze at him fondly as he moved her hand about the table dance floor.

"Hey Zephyr?" Jane asked the borrower as he looked up to her.

"May I try leading?"

He smiled. "Of course Jane."

Jane carefully released her hand from the smaller before scoping him up and gently laying him against her chest, stepping into the middle of the room before gently swaying with the music.

Zephyr felt the steady rhythm of Jane's heart beat beneath him, as her hands cradled him close. It was soothing and he leaned into it more. Had she done this a few months before, he would undoubtedly be screaming, but he had come to trust and adore Jane so very much. The human holding a piece of his heart though she may not realise it yet, cared for him oh so very much and was nothing like the terrifying humans from stories he had been raised to believe.

He loved her and he would do anything for her to always see her smiling.

"Thank you Zephyr." Jane whispered quietly. "You truly have made my wish come true."

They stayed like that, gently swaying for the rest of the night, basking in each other's embrace as song after song played, never really wanting the moment to end.

It may not have been like the fairy tale slow dances like Jane had envisioned in her head, but it was so much more than what she could ever have asked for.

~Fin~

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