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Kwazii limped into the Sickbay, dripping wet after a night of driving the Gup B, even after his beloved Captain said that he couldn’t be out for too long due to the storm. Well, what he didn’t know couldn’t hurt him, but it could certainly hurt the cat. He sighed in relief and worry once he saw that the short vitiligo man had fallen asleep reading through the crew’s medical files again.
Peso jumped awake as the stubborn cat nuzzled against his leg; he was in his natural form, a ginger tabby with a clipped ear while his clothes were strewn around in a line across the Sick Bay’s floor. Upon seeing that he got his precious medic’s attention, he jumped up onto the table and nuzzled his chin “K-Kwazii…Mi gatito pirata…what are you doing up so late?” he sleepily asked as he rubbed his eye from sleep.
“I went driving around in the ocean, Treasure, and-” he cleared his throat “, and I might’ve gotten banged up….”
“What! Kwazii!” Peso snapped his grey eyes up at him and pittered about in the Sick Bay, getting bandages, disinfectants, and ointments out of the drawers.
“Matey...Treasure...Look, I’m fine…” Kwazii’s complaints puttered off as Peso checked him over, putting ointment on the bruises and disinfecting minor cuts.
“I think that’s all...you’re not hiding anything, are you?” Kwazii gulped as Peso’s suspicious eyes stared into his green ones and shook his head.
“On my honour as an Octonaut, I’m not hiding anything from me favourite medic” Kwazii grinned as he saw Peso’s blush spread across his cheeks. “Though, I do have a bit of a favour to ask of you” Peso tilted his head, and Kwazii knew that the Captain would trust him over the pirate with this. “I need you to lie to the Cap’n.”
“WHAT!?” Peso’s eyes widened, and his mouth dropped. “Why would I- Why would you- Why would you want me- I-I don’t think I can Kwazii”, he whispered, and Kwazii felt terrible; he shouldn’t have asked.
“Peso?” They both froze when the deep smooth voice of their Captain pierced through the tense air. Kwazii forgot to close the door. “Peso, I saw that the light was on and wondered if you’ve seen-” he was cut off when Peso slammed the door on his face before covering his mouth and shaking.
Kwazii stared at him, eyes wide and body still as their youngest member trembled in fright? Horror? Something of the sort.
He laid on his side and watched as Peso breathed. “Sorry, Captain! I’m a bit indecent at the moment…” Kwazii choked on a laugh and laid his snout between his paws to stop anything from coming out.
“OH...uhm” Oh, how he wished he could see the Captain’s face, flushed red with the thoughts that were no doubt filling his head.
“What is it you needed?” Peso absentmindedly asked as he looked for a place to hide Kwazii.
They heard the Captain cough and cleared his throat. “I-I just wanted to see if Kwazii was with you; I can’t seem to find him anywhere….”
He sounded worried, and Kwazii cursed himself for making him worry, but he still doesn’t want the Captain to know about his excursions, and he silently begged Peso not to tell him.
Peso sighed and opened the door, Barnacles stood there, and his eyes widened when he saw Kwazii bandaged up. “I thought you said-”
“I wanted to try bandaging in my natural form...uh Captain”, Peso ducked his head and blushed. Not only had he lied to the Captain, but he’d interrupted him.
Luckily Kwazii took pity on his little antarctic treasure “Aye Cap’n, I simply offered me body as a test subject” They both blushed, and he heard Peso squeak; he couldn’t help but purr in satisfaction on getting them both.
Captain Barnacles nodded and cleared his throat “yes, well, I’ll leave you to that, sorry for bothering you, Peso, Kwazii” He nodded to them both and left.
Peso waved and closed the door before leaning against it and curling himself into a small ball, and tried to stop himself from hyperventilating. “Ay Dios mío le mentí al capitán, Le mentí a una de las personas que amo. Dios mío, ¿por qué hice eso?” he muttered and felt Kwazii hug him back in his common form.
“Thanks, matey. I owe ye one.”
“Please never ask me that again, Kwaz” Peso covered his face with his hands and tucked his head under the pirate’s chin.
“I won’t matey, but I gotta ask,” He waits for Peso to catch his breath “where'd ya learn to lie like that?” He brushes the black and white ombre hair out of Peso’s eyes as he blushes and looks away.
“I have a lot of siblings and cousins, and when I was younger, they go to me whenever they pick a fight with someone or did something stupid and needed someone to be their alibi to the adults.”
“Yeow sounds like my kind of people.”
“Yeah, maybe that’s why I was attracted to you first,”
“I remind you of your family, matey?” Kwazii smirked.
“You reminded me of home,” Peso corrected. “And now the Octonauts are my home, and I love you all, and I couldn’t be luckier.”
“Aye, we’re lucky to have ya matey; we’re all soft for ya.”
“Aw, Gatito, you’re too kind” He hugged him back and nuzzled his chest. “But really, I don’t want to lie to the Captain again, especially about something that could’ve hurt.”
“Aye, I promise not to ask again me hearty, but at least I know that you’d be a fantastic liar matey.”
Peso sighed and shook his head at him, “you say that as if it’s a good thing.”
“Well, it’s not like you’re going to lie to us when it matters. And I’m not dying, aye?”
“Yeah...I won’t..”
“Hey”, Kwazii cupped Peso’s head to stare into his grey eyes. “You promise you’d tell us, aye matey?”
Peso nodded. “I promise”
THE END