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Jaden woke up to the sunlight beaming lasers in his eyes. He felt comfortable.
Somehow the feeling felt familiar.
Jaden decided not to dwell on that thought and decided to spend his time trying to get more sleep.
He was still exhausted.But he couldn't quite put his finger on why. He still had to remember what had exactly happened.
The body next to him held him warm.
He relaxed into the comfort and closed his eyes again.
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A movement beside him woke him up.
He woke up for the second time today. Blinked twice and closed them again to think. He recalled thinking about his exhaustion.
But this time he knew what happened before.
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He had panicked before and Myst was there to comfort him. And it has helped.
That would also explain why the body beside him felt familiar.
They had spent a lot of nights sharing heat in cold stormy nights.
The sole presence of Myst in the dawn of the day made his heart and breath steady and made him forget his problems. He smiled to himself. And wished he could stay like that forever. Beside Myst.
The sun shone strongly against his eyelids. It started to hurt.
He was still weak. He hadn't eaten anything beside the soup from yesterday in weeks.
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To escape from the sunlight in his face he turned on his other side. He was facing Myst now.
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Myst….
Myst was not invis-
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What?
Myst was purple. Purple.
Like him. He who he had found himself caring for. He made him lose his appetite because of what happened.
All that regret and guilt pulled at him.
It pulled him down.
He felt like drowning. Even though he was in a bed above water.
He couldn't breathe. It all made him sick.
His pupils were roaming around wildly, it made him feel nauseous. Everything was blurry and he could only see a big purple blob in the middle of his vision.
Jaden closed his eyes with a lot of effort. Was this real? Was he still in a dream .. or a nightmare?
He had to be a nightmare.
Or a hallucination.
Also a possibility.
The thought helped him calm down a bit.
because he was sure that it was not real. It would simply not be possible. The other..
Jaden didn't want to finish the thought. Still in denial.
He hugged himself and curled together. He felt tears build up behind his eyes and threatened to slip out.
He tried to calm himself with thoughts.
Myst would never forget to put on invis. He would never. He thought of everything. The pirate couldn't possibly dare to bring the oh so perfect man from his route of remembering everything.
Sooooo- this had to be a dream. Definitely.
Why did he even think that it was Myst in the first place?
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But then there was still the question.
Why would he dream about him now?
After everything that had happened.
To him. And to him.
He regretted his past actions.
Why would his brain make him remember all the time?
When would his brain stop torturing him?
When?
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With tears in his eyes he tried to force himself to wake up. ( N. A. if it's not clear he already is widely awake….)
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Wemmbu woke up. Beside him was a curled sniffing mess of a pirate.
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He didn't expect to wake up to that…
He slowly pushed himself upward.
and got closer to the crying bundle.
Jaden was hugging himself, knuckles all white and completely red eyes pressed together as firmly as possible. ( How Wemmbu saw his eyes is a mystery till now…)
Wemmbu slowly wrapped his arms around him trying not to startle him.
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Without success. Jaden flinched hard. And his eyes shot open.
Instantly he started to sob and new tears started to flow down his cheeks. He looked Wemmbu in the face but turned his head away instantly.
He curled even more on himself than he was already before.
Wemmbu tried to see what made him have such a reaction.
“ Jaden, what's wrong? Did you dream of something bad? “
Jaden tried to hide even more into the mattress. As if he tried to hide from Wemmbu.
With no success because Wemmbu carefully cupped his cheek in his hand and made him look at him.
To Wemmbu's surprise Jaden started to shiver and cry even more.
Wemmbu simply didn't understand that reaction.
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But something caught his eye.
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It was a light purple hand.
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His hand.
His hand.
That could only mean one thing.
He was visible.
Something that shouldn't have happened.
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That also meant that he forgot to splash himself. With invis.
How ?
How did he forget something so important?
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Jaden started to shiver even more if that was even possible.
That distracted Wemmbu enough.
He found himself, against all odds , caring for someone else. Beside Egg and Minute of course.
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The fact that he was visible now, made him partly understand the reaction of Jaden.
He did understand because Jaden may have found out that his invis compagnon was his old? enemy. And he was sleeping beside him.
But he didn't understand why Jaden was crying so much. It just didn't make sense. Why would Jaden cry because of something like that? He should be angry. Maybe feel betrayed and he should have attacked Wemmbu.
But Jaden had the completely opposite reaction than what Wemmbu had expected.
It confused him… but at the same time it would mean that there was something between them… Something that made Jaden have the opposite reaction of hatred.
Wemmbu looked at the crying and shivering pirate again.
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What if Jaden's reaction wasn't because of Wemmbu but because of the same reason as before. When he found him in the bathroom of the ship…
And suddenly,
Somewhere deep inside him he felt the urge to calm Jaden down and find out why he had that reaction.
And that feeling got strong by each passing second and sob coming from the pirate JadenMan.