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Star Platinum had been watching over Jotaro as he slept. Star didn’t often sleep, he didn’t particularly need to. Jotaro often needed to be held to get to sleep for several reasons - his trauma, his college, rent… As badly as Jotaro wished, it turns out you couldn’t punch all your problems away. And Star worried for him.
Jotaro’s sleep was uneasy. Star had noticed and was perched next to him, ready to wake him if they got bad. He sometimes suffered night terrors and he wanted to help him out if he was indeed having those.
Star had a feeling he had something coming on. He could feel it in Jotaro’s soul.
And thus he got up to float to the kitchenette to grab the poor man some water and ice for when he woke up.
Star also yanked the freezer open - remembering just how strong he was and he needed to be more careful. Iced water was nice after a nightmare.
He plucked a couple of ice cubes to drop into a glass, then filled it at the tap and began to move back into Jotaro’s room to see sure enough he was thrashing.
“Ora.”
…
Star Platinum placed the glass down and promptly took Jotaro’s shoulders, quickly shaking him awake. Jotaro’s eyes flew open- to see the waving hair and the sculpted form of his stand above him.
“Star…” He croaked.
“Ora.” Star Platinum sat him up and thrust the glass of water in his face. The man exhaled a sigh of relief.
“Thank you, Star…” He whispered, immediately knocking it back. He needed that.
“Ora ora?” Star went to sit next to him so Jotaro had a shoulder to lean on- and he promptly leaned to rest on him.
“Well… I just couldn’t pay rent, then DIO showed up while I was on the streets and, yknow.” Jotaro pinched the bridge of his nose.
“Oraaaa…” Star wrapped his arms around his user to squeeze him tight, listening to Jotaro make a little uncharacteristic squeak as the literal air was squeezed out of him.
“Thank you.” Jotaro spoke after several seconds, Star Platinum pulling the blanket back over him. And then Star pressed a kiss to his hair— and touched his chest.
“Oraaa!”
“Star, I love you, but I need to get to sleep.” Jotaro told his stand softly, reaching to stroke his endlessly waving hair.
“Ora.” Star made a disappointed but considerate noise.
Jotaro shuffled back under the covers but Star insisted on holding him still. Jotaro was quietly thankful, he… did need to be held after that dream. He winced as he remembered a small detail of his dream - one of Dio’s damn knives hitting his eye.
Star squeezed him tighter. Now it just felt like he was being crushed, but that didn’t feel bad. It felt close.
Jotaro shuffled around to lean into Star’s chest. His poor waist. The crushing was quite nice, actually. He just hoped he wasn’t going to be actually… crushed or anything.
“You’re amazing, Star.” Jotaro didn’t often express admiration to anyone else, so Star immediately felt a smile spread across his face.
“Oraaa~”
And then Jotaro immediately had his face kissed over and over and over by the stand, struggling to stop from laughing. Once Star stopped, Jotaro took a moment to kiss him deeply. On the lips. Perfect.
He would have no trouble falling asleep from here.