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They went to bed around midnight, and after three hours of spooning Uki from behind and just listening to his soft breathing, Fulgur already knew that he won't have any chance to get any sleep in a short time when he saw the clock turned to 4 am. He learned how his insomnia works, and it always took him more hours to fall into a disturbing sleep if he could fall asleep eventually. His energy was already spent during the day that he couldn't move any one of his heavy limbs, even just one inch, he felt parlayed and the only thing he could control was his weary eyes, just blinking slowly. 

Uki mumbled soft incomprehensible sleepy words before he ruffled a stir at the left side of the bed, the cyborg shut his eyes, just dead pretending he was actually sleeping, just like other normal nights. Uki drag himself off the bed for the toilet and came back with fumble steps, curling himself back into Fulgur's arms and placing a gentle smooch on the cyborg's neck before he dozed off again. 

It was better than those sleepless nights before he live with Uki, before, these nights were longly and terrible as the only thing that kept him company was the dead silence in his bedroom and the rumbling bullshit noises in his head. Now, he could find comfort in the warmth radiating from Uki's bare skin and the soft snuffing sound Uki made during his sleep. It was near the dawn, Fulgur could sense the unique smell of fresh air getting heated up by the coming rays and the room was getting brighter because both of them forget to close the curtain a few hours before. The experience of letting your cognition and your body separate wasn't fun, Fulgur closed his eyes just for his soar eyes' sake but still found no sleep even though he knew that Uki was going to wake up anytime soon and the observant psychic might find out he had no sleep at all. It was about time for the psychic to wake up since they went to bed at a normal time.

Don't want to wake his soon-to-awake lover who was nestled in his hug, Fulgur stared at his soft purple hair with a tired smile on his face and found that under the dim light through the windows, Uki's purple hair wasn't even the same shade of purple, some were more pinkish, some were more blueish. The grey-haired cyborg tried his best to keep his hands away from that soft-looking hair and the sleeping man's buried face, holding back the urge to brush the bangs away from Uki's face. He knew Uki wasn't getting enough sleep recently, that was a downside of always wanting to be as perfect as he can be, the psychic just wanted all the things to be beyond ideal and it would take so much time. Uki was a perfectionist, and that could be a problem sometimes.

"You already awaked?" Uki's morning voice pulled Fulgur out of his thoughts and made him hold his breath till his foggy brain finally comprehended that Uki was awake and caught him wasn't sleeping. "What time is it? Fufu-chan..., you didn't sleep, did you?" Uki pushed up his upper body while rubbing his eyes open, putting on one of Fulgur's shirts he hauled from the floor before his hand reached for his phone. He frowned when he saw a weary and sorry-ish smile on his lover's face. Uki knew sometimes the high-energy cyborg can't find sleep for days, and he hated himself that sometimes he was so stupid that he didn't notice how sleep-deprived his lover was.

"Don't worry, it's fine, I didn't have any stream today, it's fine..." Fulgur inhaled and muttered, he was so drawn out that his head hurt like someone was pocking his brain with tons of knives. Fulgur always offered Uki an assured smile to ease his lover's worry when the psychic found out he was suffering from insomnia but now he just lye there, eyes shut tight, trying so hard to block out all the pain he was undergoing. "You have to stream at 10, right?" The last thing he could do was not let Uki worry too much, the psychic was going to do an ASMR stream in 2 hours, and he didn't want to let his lover worry about him during the comfy stream.

Uki said nothing but a small thinking hum before he left the bed to seal the curtain and stand in front of the cabinet for choosing the right scented candles that might have a chance of helping the sleepless man fall asleep. Maybe the musky woodfire one that he found comfort before?

"I'm fine, Uki, " Fulgur blinked his eyes again, trying to find his lover's slim figure with his hurting eyes. "You should get ready for your stream soon. Remember to eat something before that, get yourself comfortable before having a comfy stream is important for a streamer."

"I know, baby. Before that I wanna make sure you are okay too, " Uki lighted up the tip of the wick and placed it in a safe place, in a pinkish purple glass. He double-checked the curtain and strode back to the bed before sitting down, placing the first kiss of this new day at the corner of the cyborg's eyes, and covering his eyes with his palm, suggesting the sleepy man to rest his eyes. "I will be right back, " Uki added.

Even though he knew Fulgur was awaked, Uki still tried his best to close the door really quiet, avoiding making that poor old door squeak. He went straight to the bathroom and left there after he did his normal morning routine two times quicker than normal, then moved to the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. While waiting for the coffee he made himself a simple sandwich, just heating up two pieces of ham and placing some cream cheese and two slices of lettuce with the hams between the toasts.

It took him 10 mins to go back to the bedroom. The first thing he saw was Fulgur's hands clasping the sheet, so he quickly placed down the tray and went back to the bed, securing the man in pain with his arms. "Hey..., " Uki lowered his voice and said. "Do you think ear rubbing will help with your migraine?"

Fulgur shrug his shoulders even though his whole body actually was paralyzed, he wanted to answer Uki's question but it was too much for him to open his mouth without making an ugly painful noise. His head hurt so bad and all his body too, especially the connections of his real flesh and the metal limbs. He wanted to say it's okay, Uki, go eat your breakfast, you know I'll be fine, for letting the purple-haired to go get prepared himself for the coming stream, but another side of him want the warm soft man to stay in bed with him and maybe rubbing his ears, just company him through his discomfort. He always enjoys ear rubbing sound from Uki's ASMR streams.

"I can see the pain on your pretty face, you stubborn bitch, " Uki chided, "Let's give it a try, okay? " He coaxed.

As the cyborg nodded, Uki left the room for soaping his hands clean, just want to be careful about causing an infection or other bad things to happen. Drying his hands with a clean towel, Uki sipped on his hot coffee before placing Fulgur's head on his thighs, making sure they were in a comfortable position. He slowly traced the outline of the cyborg's soft helixes with his fingers, and stop at the middle to rub the outline of the ears there and making sure that it wasn't too much for his lover, ear rubbing was intimated and the cool looking cyborg was really bad at dealing with that.

"Hey, babe, if you want me to stop, just tell me, okay?" Uki continued his massage after bending his back for placing a coffee flavoured kiss on Fulgur's lips. Uki wanted to smooth the deep frown between his lover's eyebrows, so he moved his fingers to the point right behind the earlobes. He learned that that spot could probably smooth the bad migraine that Fulgur was suffering from. His fingers traced up before he think that spot was well-taken care. 

"Sandwich, Uki," Fulgur relocated his head a little bit higher on Uki's lap, assuring his neck wasn't staying in the same position for too long. Uki pouted at Fulgur's reminder, the man always had so much care and love for others, even though he was the one who needed to be taken care of. For shutting the man up, Uki dragged the tray near him and bite a mouthful of his simple breakfast. 

"Shut up, " Uki pressed his lips together while he was chewing after he bitching about Fulgur's words. He backed to the rubbing after Fulgur finally settled down in another position. The psychic moved to the cyborg's daiths, pressing small circles after circles with his thumbs and searching for any further uncomfortable hint on Fugue's face. His thumbs pressed a trace of soft pressure line down, moving toward the cyborg's clenching jaw. Fulgur's jaw was sharp and the pointed bone at the corner of the jawline was Uki's favourite spot to bite on after they made out, the jawline was just too tempted to leave marks on it.

Finally, Uki circled the entrances of the cyborg's ears while feeling the steady, weak pulsing of Fulgur’s veins under the skin of his jaw through his pressing palms. 

He always did that during his ASMR streams, cupping, stroking and rubbing into the fake plastic ears at the different sides of his 3dio mic, but he never did that on a real person. He wanted to ask but stopped his doubting mind as he heard Fulgur exhale a prolonged breath with a little shiver. Uki took that as permission, his index fingers swam into the canal of his ears, stroking the more utter part of the canals before pressing slightly harder. A finger stayed still at the conchas, and Uki's thumb pressed at the slightly harder cartilage part of the backside of the ear, just using enough pressure to create feelings. 

Uki pressed and caressed a few more different spots with different strengths while he nibbled a few more bites of his sandwich. After finishing the final bit of the sandwich, Uki pressed another kiss on the sleepy man's face.

"Can you sing for me...?" Fulgur's eyes fluttered open, his eyes were full of sleepness and maybe a tiny bit of pleading even though he knew Uki will definitely do anything for helping him fall asleep. "I'm really sleepy... but I just can't-" Uki stopped the sentence by pressing one of his palms above his mouth, not so dignity and gentle but it worked. 

"Shhh...you know I will sing you as many songs as you want anytime, Fufu-chan." Uki hushed the man before he clear his throat with an obvious fake cough. "Just relaxed. I've got you, babe."