curiously_cora

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When Coraline was a child she had thought university was supposed to be a boring affair, in drizzly England with really old crumbly buildings. What Coraline had found out though at eighteen was that college was a whole other thing. College had cute boys with American accents, it had sprawling campuses with exciting classes, warm weather with beaches, lots of places to explore and lots of new friends to get into trouble with.

Like Sam Witwicky; best friend, fellow dork, captain and general all round nice (hot) guy. It didn't matter that Sam didn't really seem to notice the fact that Coraline was a woman, Cora was just glad to spend time with him. And his totally cool car which Corline was convinced was alive from the few times she had been allowed to get a ride with Sam (once for thanksgiving, where she got to meet Sam's parents who were mental but lovely. And once to the airport where she cried for about an hour after she got on the plane.) Not that Sam ever let on the car was magical or alive or alien or something but Coraline had a knack with these things... she just knew it.

"You know I know, right? The whole magical car thing, I know." Coraline said casually, leaning back against the car. Boots pressed against the tires, Coraline leaned forward looking up towards the dorms where Sam was getting his stuff. Honestly Coraline was curious, an explorer and had known Sam for nearly a year now and even if she hadn't known him for practically a lifetime, she was still Coraline Jones, "So, that's how we're going to play it then, huh?"

Coraline looked at the silent car, smile turning into a grin before she patted the bonnet. Good car.

"Yeah, yeah I'll get you to spill eventually you wait and see Bumblebee." Coraline said, squinting in the early morning light at the familiar sight of her best friend. Waving wildly at Sam, Coraline picked up her bags and bounced on her toes as she waited for him. "Come on Witwicky, we haven't got all day. There are beaches to see, waves to surf, classes to not go to."

Coraline bounded over to Sam as he got near the car. Pouncing on him, Coraline wrapped her arms around Sam and hugged him tight. Coraline pulled back to look at him, grinning.

"Is that what you're wearing? Really? Are you sure? Because I think that Will Turner might want his outfit back, is that pirate chic? All you need now is guyliner and you are all set, do you want to borrow mine?" Coraline asked, reeling off a hundred questions as she grinned goofily at him. "I'm kidding you look... you know."

Hot.

She wasn't saying that. At all.

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"Nope, see you're all talk and no dread pirating." Coraline said with a smile, sliding her hand down Sam's arm before leaning forward to fiddle with the radio. Okay, if Sam's car wasn't magical or sentient or whatever then he really needed to get a new radio because occasionally it would play what she wanted and other times it just randomly burst into song. "Leo has more mad dread pirating skills and he's Leo. You're too... Sam to be a dread pirate."

Coraline looked at the radio hopefully, as she tried to coax the radio to turn on. "Oh come on Bee, you know you want to work for me. I'm clearly your favourite, forget Sam he's faux dread pirate, I'm the real dread pirate Roberts."

Sam had accidentally mentioned Bumblebee by name a few times and Coraline had picked up on it. Fortunately, naming a car wasn't completely unheard of. He just prayed that Bee wouldn't do something stupid and act like he could hear her right now.

I like you
Don't want to Marry you
I really wanna really wanna
Do you
A favor
And let you know
That I really really really really

Like you
Don't want to
Marry you
I really wanna really wanna
Do you
A favor
And let you know
That I really really really really

I want to show you a magic trick
Yeah I promise it's sick
Like whoah oh oh oh
Every time gonna blow your mind
Just don't
Just don't don't don't don't
Don't get attached when I call you up
Trying to get some ass like no no no no
Don't want a boyfriend
Just want to get some.

No such luck on the non-stupid Bee front though. Sam growled and fiddled with the dial to try and turn the station but it wasn't working.

"Come on, come on... hilarious, hilarious. That's it, I'm letting Leo it in the car," Sam muttered. "Hear that? I hope you're happy. And you? Leo? You know what? No surprise for you. Because that's cold. Surprises are for people who don't say Leo has more dread pirate than me."

Coraline jerked back a little in surprise at the sudden burst of music, looking at the radio with a sly and curious grin. Brushing her fingers against Sam's as he tried to fiddle with the dial, Coraline sat back and watched the way Sam acted and listened to the music playing.

Coraline bit her lip, blushing slightly at the lyrics. Ahuh, if he didn't have a sentient car then that was one hell of a coincidence.

"Hey! You can't back out now, you promised me a surprise. You know I didn't mean it," Coraline said, leaning forward to put her hand on Sam's leg. "You're the most dreadliest pirate of them all. Leo isn't even Buttercup in this scenario, I mean Leo's like Count Rugen. Definitely."

"Okay, I guess that makes up for it," Sam said with a grin. Even if she didn't backtrack with what she said, the tiny touches she was doing were driving him more than a little crazy. Hopefully she didn't know just how easily he would give in to her.

"And Leo had better not be Buttercup. But if he's not Buttercup, then who is Buttercup?"

"I don't know, maybe that weird girl from orientation what was her name again? Alice or something? I don't know, I'm clearly Inigo though I mean if I can't be the Dread Pirate Roberts then I have to be Inigo to keep you out of trouble." Coraline said with a smile as she curled her fingers around Sam's leg, gently squeezing before letting go. Coraline looked at Sam curiously, half wondering if he'd been working out or something before she turned her attention to the road and their approaching destination.

If Coraline knew how easy it was to get Sam to agree with her then boy, would he have been in trouble. There was nothing more than Coraline liked than hot dorky boys who happened to be her best friend, guns and fast cars and not necessarily in that order. Luckily when it came to Sam, she had zero clue.

"Come on Sam, are you seriously not going to give me any small, little, tiny clue?" Coraline asked. "For Inigo?"

For a brief moment, when she squeezed his leg again, the car veered over a bit into another lane. A driver back a ways honked and Sam corrected their course, or rather Bee corrected it. Sam would probably hear about that later.

"Alice? No. No, no, no. That's just... that would be bad. Besides, she's got like... her lips are all weird and stuff. And you know he gets stabbed, right? Inigo gets stabbed. I don't want you to get stabbed. But that means you'd be Fezzik and that would just be weird."

And maybe if he kept talking like this, he could get to the surprise before she got the information out of him.

"She had weird lips? Right because that's what all the boys were staring at, her weird lips." Coraline said with a tone of disbelief. Honestly Coraline thought Leo was going to have some sort of accident the way he stared so intensely at her. It had been quite nice not to have Leo actually staring at her. "Well, I guess I am ridiculously tall so I could pull off Fezzik."

Coraline looked up at the honking, turning her head to look at the other car curiously. Twisting her body to look at the other car, Coraline turned back in her seat sliding down so she could stretch her long legs out more. "Plus I won't get stabbed. I have you to help out right, so I've got not worries there. I know you won't let anything happen to me."

"She did. Totally odd lips," he mumbled. True, Sam had stared at more than her lips, but not much. And he didn't want Coraline to think he had been staring much at those other things too. Mostly he didn't want her to think he looked at other girls much, because that would somehow completely ruin the secret crush on her that he had and she didn't know about.

"And you can't be Fezzik. He was a big, smelly, not super attractive dude. And of course I won't let anything happen to you."

It was almost a flippant line, but Sam gave it with the conviction of someone who had done outrageous things to protect other people.

"Here's the turn off for our surprise," he said, taking one of the turns down what looked to be the entrance way to a very exclusive, gated community.

Coraline never understood the attraction of Alice, as far as Coraline was concerned Alice was completely and utterly nuts. Gorgeous yes but completely crazy and was far too interested in Sam. Which meant as far as Coraline was concerned she was public enemy number one.

"Yeah, well I'm tall and okay maybe I'm not smelly but I'm not super attractive either so I could be Fezzik if I wanted. I don't but I mean if you get to be the Dread Pirate Roberts then I should be able to be Inigo. It's not like I'm Buttercup." Coraline said wrinkling her nose at the thought, stretching her legs out and arching her back as she shifted to get comfortable. Coraline looked over at Sam when he made that little statement and smiled at him. "Of course you wouldn't, you're my best friend Sam and best friends don't let people get stabbed by six fingered men. Or let their friends slash roomies hit on them, leer or let them try to accidently walk in on them when someone is using your room as a changing room."

Coraline liked Leo but he also made her bash her face repeatedly against Sam's chest or back and occasionally a wall.

"We're here?" Coraline turned, looking curious and confused as Sam turned into a gated community. Glancing around Coraline watched curiously, turning in her seat to face away from Sam and half lean out the window so she could see. Huh. Why on Earth where they here? Cora could not figure it out at all. Twisting back into her seat Coraline looked at Sam with a vague smile on her lips. "Where are we? More importantly what are you up to Sam?"

Sam just stared at Coraline for a moment. Not super attractive? Coraline was absolutely gorgeous. Even if you didn't count how smart and fun she was, just by looks alone she was absolutely stunning.

"Not super-"

Before Sam could finish the statement though, apparently Bee had something to say on the subject.

Here I come
I'm comin' to get ya
Foxy lady
You look so good
Yeah, foxy
Yeah, give us some
Foxy
Yeah, get it, babe
You make me feel like
Feel like sayin' foxy
Foxy
Foxy lady
Foxy lady

"No, stop, stop," Sam sputtered, flipping buttons and switches on the radio in an attempt to make Bee stop. "I really, really need to get that radio fixed. And you'll just have to wait and see."

He added a slap to the dash for a good measure. Bee could be very, very opinionated about things and Sam knew that he really liked Coraline. Ignoring the Bee problem though, Sam pulled up to the little guard shack.

"Sam Witwicky," he said, leaning out the window. "I'm on the list."

The guard scanned over something and then nodded, pressing a button to open up the gate so Sam could drive through.

Coraline scrunched up her nose at the music, making a face. If this was a magical, sentient, alien or whatever car well she and him we're going to have words. Foxy lady indeed, as if she needed reminding how unattractive she was. And definitely unattractive in comparison to Sam's ex who looked like a playboy model who had just tumbled out of bed with her perfect legs and stomach and those pouty lips. Stupid perfect pouty lips.

"You've been needing to get that radio fixed in a while. I don't know I kind of like it even if it does have sometimes dubious taste in music. Sometimes," Coraline said as Sam slapped the dash. Coraline leaned forward rubbing the dash with her hand and murmuring a quiet 'he doesn't mean it' so Sam couldn't hear her. She was covering her bases just in case Bumblebee really was alive.

As Sam pulled up to the guard house, Coraline leaned across him looking up at the guard with a grin before mouthing 'You're on a list?' at Sam. Leaning back as the gate went up, Coraline looked at Sam curiously.

"On a list huh?" Coraline asked.

"I am on a lists. I'm on several lists. I'm an 'on a list' kind of guy. I'm on lists you don't even know about."

National security lists totally counted, even if he couldn't tell her about that. The government kind of frowned on it when you revealed national security information just to impress a girl, no matter how awesome the girl was.

Winding through the roads, Sam drove a ways through the community until he was away from the rest of the houses. He stopped outside of a small house that was at a cove, pulling up into the driveway. Shutting off the car, or at least seeming to, he grinned at Coraline.

"A friend had a private beach-house he wasn't going to be using so he said I could come hang out here. Private beach-house also means private beach."

"Do I need to be worried about these lists? Do I need to stage a list intervention?" Coraline asked with a grin as she laughed at Sam's easy ramble. Coraline looked around curiously as Sam pulled up at a rather private looking house.

"A private beach?" Coraline wrinkled her nose as if it was a bad idea before grinning at Sam happily. Unclipping her seatbelt quickly, Coraline threw her arms around Sam and hugged him tightly. "Sam this is so awesome. No fighting with toddlers for exploring rights or wolfwhistling idiots or people who hog the waves. This is so briliant, you're the best Sam."

Coraline looked expectantly at Sam as she pulled back, nudging him in the stomach Coraline grinned. "So... race you to the water?"

Sam was worried for a moment that Coraline didn't like the idea, that maybe he was some creepy guy getting her away from people so he could do... whatever. Apparently she totally got his intention though, that they wouldn't have to deal with all the other crap that was at the beach that made it less than fun.

As she gave the challenge though, Sam was all ready to beat her. Only his seat belt wouldn't unlock for some reason. Apparently Bee was a bit sensitive and didn't like Sam's comments earlier.

"Oh come on!" he shouted, struggling with the belt and what was apparently a locked door. Coraline's door seemed to just swing open on its own. "This doesn't count, this is so not fair!"

"This so counts. See you later slow coach," Coraline said with a grin as she swung her legs out of the... huh open door. Coraline bounced out of the car, tossing Sam a smile over her shoulder as she got a surpising head start. Pulling her tee over her head Coraline threw it behind her, revealing the bikini she was wearing beneath her clothes as she ran towards the gate, vaulting over the fence before landing on the other side and running straight towards the beach. "I'm going to win Witwicky!"

The beach was completely empty, private, quiet and peaceful. Well, peaceful except for Coraline's joyous whooping as she ran towards the water slowing only to pull off her boots and toss them into the sand.

Bee finally opened Sam's door after he yelled at the car and explained just where he was going to put energon and just how hard he was going to shove it. Coraline was already the clear winner, but he didn't want to be too late. Unlocking the gate, Sam threw off his shirt and headed out to the water. He took a moment to appreciate the view, and he didn't mean the lovely surf and sand.

Coraline looked... hot. Not just gorgeous, but seriously fall to the floor, crawl to the door smoking hot.

"Okay, you won," he said, kicking off his own shoes. "That means you have to cook lunch. Congratulations, I'm so jealous."

"Ahuh, remember what happened last time I cooked. I still don't think the soccer team's stomach have recovered from it," Coraline said with a wry grin as she undid her shorts, wriggling them down her legs as she looked up at shirtless Sam kicking off his shoes. Reason number one why Coraline liked going to the beach with Sam wasn't because he was her best friend and awesome, well it was that too but it was mostly how much he was a hidden badass beneath all that rambling dorky best friendness.

Coraline snapped out of her staring, brushing her hair behind her ears and up into a ponytail as she stepped out her shorts.

"Do you really want me to cook? I mean, if you really really want me to then I will. If you think you can handle it that is," Coraline said stretching her arms behind her head as she grinned at him, walking backwards towards the water.

Sam couldn't help but stare as Coraline removed her shorts. The wiggling almost killed him. It was bad enough that she had such long legs and a great ass, but then she had to go wiggling it.

"Alright, maybe I can help you out with the cooking a bit," he said. That actually sounded fun, doing an almost silly thing like that with her. He bet they would have fun if they didn't burn down the house. He hoped they didn't burn down the house, Lennox would be pissed.

"So you approve of the surprise?" he asked, following her into the water.

"A bit? How about a lot?" Coraline said with a pleading sort of smile. Really when it came to cooking Coraline had firmly inherited her father's talents or rather lack of talent in the kitchen area. There was a reason why she ate out a lot or at Sam's or in the dining hall, essentially anywhere other than at hers. "I suppose I could boss you about though. I mean, that's what head chefs do right?"

Coraline smiled, wading backwards into the water. Slipping her shoulders beneath the water, she watched Sam follow her in before mmmming thoughtfully at his question.

"Do I approve of the surprise?" Coraline asked turning to swim a little away from Sam. Biting her lip as she grinned she turned back towards him waiting for him to catch up and waiting until he was close. "Hmmm, yep!"

Coraline grinned, reaching for Sam's shoulders with her hands. Coraline ran her hands over his shoulders, moving in close before she pushed down with all her weight trying to dunk him under water. "Love the surprise."

She was touching him. Coraline was often touching him, small little touches that probably meant nothing. Even if they meant nothing, they felt amazing.

He responded with something like "guhhhhh, bzuh" even before she had pushed him under water. After that, it was all gurgles and burbles as his hands flailed out, grabbing at her to pull her back under. He just hoped he didn't grab anything he shouldn't while his hands were flailing.

Coraline let out an eep, taking a breath as Sam's fingers brushed against her... waist. She was going to say waist and if he said differently well, she'd just blush and lie and say waist. Slipping under the water as he grabbed hold of her and pulled her down with him. Hands slipping down his chest, Cora pressed against him before tugging him up and kicking back to the surface.

Emerging out of the water gasping, Coraline smiled looking for Sam.

Sam popped up behind Coraline and wrapped his arms around her waist and tried to wrestle her back into the water. It was a challenge since he had to be careful where his hands went AND the fact that Coraline was a long stronger and squirmier than she might have looked.

"You shouldn't have started anything that you can't finish!"

"Sam!" Coraline yelped, squirming as a pair of strong warm arms wrapped around her waist. Pressing back into Sam's body, Coraline covered his hands as she pushed back against him wriggling in a bid to get free. "I'll give you finish what I started Sam Witwicky. My name is Coraline Jones, you killed my father prepare to die!"

Coraline laughed as she twisted round, facing Sam with a bright smile as she pressed her hands against his chest still trying to get free. "Revenge will be mine... How are you super strong? You're going down Sam."

"I work out, very wiry," he said. Her hands seemed incredibly warm against his chest, as if his body was trying to draw attention to the fact that she was touching him. Speaking of super strong, Coraline was no weakling.

Rather than admit defeat and let her go, Sam decided that he could take one for the team, team Sam that is, and just dunk them both. Taking a deep breath he sunk underneath the water, pulling her down with him before letting her go.

"Ahuh, I can see that." Coraline said sliding the flat of her palm up across his chest. It would be really easy to just kiss Sam, blame it on a wave pushing her into him or too much sun. Really easy just to lean forward and- Coraline let out a shriek as Sam dropped suddenly and pulled her down with him.

The water was cool against her flushed cheeks and for once she was kind of glad Sam had stopped her with his Samness. She was going to kiss Sam, Sam her best friend who didn't have a clue and who'd probably hate her forever and let things get weird if she had kissed him.

Coraline swam back to the surface, looking at Sam with a seriously annoyed face before splashing him with a grin.

"Jerk. Okay, you win this round Sam. I'm yours to command oh dread pirated one." Coraline said trying to push back the fact that she had almost kissed him.

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