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Gordon groans, all he remembers is screams, some one saying ‘fucking declaw this thing’ and intense pain, he opens his eyes a bit, he can see the sky, it’s a beautiful blue, it reminds him someone’s eyes but he at this point can’t remember who’s eyes. He just lays there as he keeps looking at the sky, no energy to get up, he turns his head to check on his right hand and stares as he realises it’s gone and bleeding profusely, tears roll down his face as he forces himself to look away, he’s going to die, and if he’s going to die he wants to look at the sky instead of his lack of arm. He hears some footsteps approaching him, he doesn’t try to get up, “oh shit” he heard a voice say before someone comes into view, it’s Benrey, his blank face now showing panic and concern, his blue eyes catch Gordon’s attention, ‘that’s who’s eyes the sky reminded me of’ he thinks as he slowly blinks at Benrey. “Yo, you’re like super pale bro” he spoke as he picked up Gordon, Gordon of course didn’t resist, he didn’t have the energy, “uh…gotta find like…a med thingy” he spoke before walking with Gordon in his arms, “you’re nice and cold” Gordon muttered before falling asleep again.
Benrey panics, an emotion he’s unfamiliar with, as Gordon seems to lose consciousness, he adjusts his hold on him to check for a pulse, like how Tommy once taught him, he sighs as he feels his pulse, faint but there, he must hurry then.
Next time Gordon wakes up, his bleeding has slowed and started to scab over, he’s in a room, just a generic room that’d you’d find in Black Mesa, it has a couch which he is laying on, “yo, Gordo, you good now?” He hears Benrey speak, he moves his head slowly to look at Benrey, who is sitting nearby, “I…I don’t know man…I still feel like I’m dying” he spoke before trying to look at his stump, Benrey stops him from looking at it, “need med thingy? I bring med thingy to you, best friend Benrey do good” Benrey spoke, before going to the other side of the room to a med station before proceeding to rip it off the wall and drag it closer to him, he blinks in shock before deciding to look around the room, the door is blocked off by furniture and there is no windows, he’s brought out of his observations as Benrey grabs Gordon’s left hand and shoves it into the med station, Gordon squeezes his left hand and sighs as he starts to feel better.
“What’s with the barricade?” Gordon asks as he finally feels well enough to think, Benrey just blankly stares at him, “uh like I don’t know, den protection” he spoke blankly, “den?” Gordon asked with confusion, “yeah…to keep you safe, need safety because like hand gone, need to grow a new one” he spoke as he sits down, Gordon blinks at him, “Benrey…I don’t think I can grow things back…” he spoke trying to make sure he understands, Benrey stares at him, “wuh? No way bro it can grow back!” He seemed upset by this information despite his blank expression. Gordon watches as Benrey seems to go through the stages of grief right in front of him, he can only tell because of the look in his eyes.
Benrey and Gordon sat there is silence for at least an hour, Benrey is sad about the fact Gordon can’t grow back his arm, “hey Benrey, I have a question” Gordon spoke breaking the silence, Benrey looks at him, he is still laying down and looks terrible and still somewhat pale but better than before, “when you pat my tummy and say ‘it’s bad for the yknow’, what does it mean?” He asks, Benrey blinks, he’s silent for a moment because he’s waiting for someone to stop him before he spoke but no one did. “Uh…it means… I wanna have freaky hybrid babies with you and I don’t want yknow, where ever they’d go to grow to be hurt” Benrey spoke, a violet blush on his face, ‘oh no bro, Gordon is gonna act like the others’ he thinks as Gordon stares at him.
“So…you want to have babies with me and don’t want my insides to be hurt?” Gordon tries confirming, Benrey just nods, “the wanting to have ‘freaky hybrid babies’ with me is a bit weird but not a ‘omg stay away from me’ kinda thing, it’s more of a ‘oh that’s kinda weird dude’ sorta thing” Gordon spoke, he watches Benrey sigh, perhaps in relief, “and the being concerned about my body and if it’s healthy, even if it is to do with wanting to have ‘freaky hybrid babies’ with me, it’s kinda sweet man” he continued with a small smile, Benrey seems to blush more, “how about you tell me more things about the behaviours they saw as inappropriate or rude?” Gordon spoke, he is genuinely curious, perhaps he’ll give the alien a chance, Benrey started rattling off more of the weird behaviours they saw, many things Gordon never noticed. Gordon yawns as he keeps talking, Benrey’s voice is making him sleepy, he goes back to sleep, perhaps he needs the sleep for healing.
Benrey notices that Gordon had once again fallen asleep, he stares waiting for him to wake up again. He soon hears purring, it isn’t him and there isn’t any other aliens in the room so it must be… he gets closer to Gordon to listen, he stares at Gordon as it fully registers in his brain that Gordon is purring, “yo…your purring bro, how come I never noticed you can do that-“ he was speaking mainly to himself when he stopped speaking, remembering that the others did everything they could to keep him away from Gordon.
Benrey watches and plays with Gordon’s hair which is no longer in a ponytail, he scoots further away from Gordon when he stretches, just in case he is waking up but instead his big tail curls over so Gordon can hold it in his sleep. He scoots back over to Gordon, he decides to gently touch his tail, he doesn’t wake up or yelp about it hurting or something like that, he just remains asleep, he just blinks since he expected to be told to not touch his tail but soon continues playing with his hair. He likes how Gordon seems to purr louder when he plays with his hair.
Bubby curses as he gets up from falling over, depth perception is impossible with one eye, he needs to find that lab that has spare body parts in it so he can plop a new eyeball in, he dusts himself off and looks to Tommy who luckily only got away with a few bruises and cuts, Tommy had been helping Bubby get around while they looked for Gordon who they know tried to save them, Dr.Coomer had gone a different way to try and find him. “We’re- we are at the meet up spot, Dr-Dr.Bubby, I hope Dr.Coomer found mister Freeman, I don’t think I’d trust- I wouldn’t trust Benrey around him, he’s too unstable, his mating season is over but- yet he is displaying mating season behaviour” Tommy spoke, panicked about it, “I hope so too, I swear when we entered that room Benrey had been smiling, he obviously coordinated with the military, remember that Forzen fucker? He said they were friends once” Bubby spoke, not noticing Tommy’s reaction to the mention of Forzen, “ah hello Bubby and Tommy!” Dr.Coomer spoke as he cheerfully approached, he was lucky to only get away from the scuffle with bruised and bloodied fists, dispite having cybernetic arms he still bleeds from them, “have you- have you found mister Freeman?” Tommy asked, sounding panicked, “I’m sorry Tommy but he was nowhere to be found, nor was Benrey, however I did find some soldiers and with some convincing they confirmed that it was Benrey who coordinated the ambush! Apparently he asked that the old men get beaten, the younger man gets roughed up and if someone with a big tail managed to enter that they just restrain him! It seems he wasn’t happy about our attempts to protect Gordon from his advances!” Dr.Coomer spoke, “I fucking knew it” Bubby spoke with annoyance, “we-we have to find them! What if Benrey has already accidentally hurt mister Freeman or has already tried doing unthinkable things to him!” Tommy spoke with panic, “then we must go look for him! Harold, carry me! It’s impossible to maneuver through this place with only one eye” Bubby spoke, Dr.Coomer nods and proceeds to pick Bubby up like he’s a sack of potatoes and start the search.