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Zam was definitely a night owl, maybe that was because he stayed up late at night to make sure he wouldn’t be killed by Mapicc or Roshambo.
Normally he would be doing multiple short tasks to tire him out, but currently he was doing the opposite. He was sitting at the edge of his bed just looking at the floor, occasionally he would look over at the clock on his nightstand. It was a small sun. It read
“12:40 AM.” He muttered into the dimly lit room. At least he knew he could still speak.
He should be doing something right now, maybe cleaning his armor. Maybe tidy up his room or clean a part of the base that is commonly used. But no, he was being useless. He wasn’t doing anything.
The silence in the base was deafening, he wanted to hear someone else’s voice but no one else in the base seemed to be up, otherwise he probably would’ve heard them talking or walking around.
He was being a useless teammate these past few days, he wasn’t helping around the base very much with his team. He was practically isolating himself from his teammates. Anytime they asked if he was okay (Which was mostly Vi) he would just brush them off and go back to his room.
He felt horrible about that. He was being a horrible teammate. Maybe his teammates would kick him from the team, he would be alone again.
He didn’t want to be alone again.
He didn’t want to have no one to turn to.
His thoughts began to get increasingly worse, to the point he was silently sobbing. He learned how to do that a while ago. His tears were falling down his cheeks as he slowly got up and walked towards the bathroom.
There was a blade on the sink, he forgot that he had placed it there a few hours ago. His hands were shaking now as he slowly went to grab the blade.
He took a deep breath before slicing a part of his arm open, he didn’t do the wrists as they were quite obvious when anyone grabbed his hands (he learned that a while ago too.) he forgot that the pain could be addicting as with the first cut came another, and then another.
The blood was still rushing down his arm and starting to drip on the floor when he started to feel light headed.
He should really bandage these up before he passed out.
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Vitalasy immediately woke up when he heard a thud in the base, was there an intruder?
Vitalasy turned towards Subz since the two decided to share a bed he quickly shook him awake (How could he even sleep through this anyway?)
“Subz, Subz wake the hell up!” Vitalasy spoke in a more panicked tone since he still didn’t know if someone was in the base even if he couldn’t hear footsteps.
“What- what Vitalasy, why are you waking me up in the middle of the god damn night?” Vitalasy scoffed at Subz response to being woken up.
“I’m surprised you didn’t wake up when a loud thud hit the base. You wanna go see if someone is in the base?” Vi asked.
“You know that also could have been Zam right? He’s normally up at these god awful hours doing something.” Subz responded with a sigh.
“I would have heard his footsteps.” Vitalasy muttered as he was getting up, he looked towards Subz who was doing the same thing, great he wouldn’t have to face some other lifestealer alone.
Vitalasy walked towards the door, quickly opening it to reveal the main room being lit by the lava in the walls. There wasn’t anyone in the base from what he could see currently. He didn’t see a username either.
Subz was walking closer to Zam’s room. Vitalasy started to walk behind Subz as the two went into his room.
Vitalasy immediately spotted the door the bathroom being opened.
“Zam?” Subz called into the room, he received no response, just pure silence excluding Vi’s footsteps into the bathroom.
“Subz. Go grab the god damn medkit.” There was panic in his Vitalasy’s tone, Subz didn’t know why and he was too tired to piece together what the hell happened so he just rushed to get a medkit.
“God damnit Zam- why the hell would you do this.” Vitalasy muttered taking note that Zam was still in fact breathing. But he still seemed to be bleeding from the cuts. They were definitely gonna be having a talk once Zam woke up.
Subz ran into the room before immediately coming to a stop as he stared at Zam. “What the hell happened?” Subz asked as he handed Vitalasy the medkit.
Vitalasy immediately got to work, grabbing the bandages and placing them to the side as he asked Subz for a few cleaning supplies for the wounds. (Mostly just basic things to clean them.) after that he quickly bandaged Zam’s arms.
“You’re carrying him to our room, I’m not letting him wake up alone in his room.” Vitalasy told Subz as he was throwing the blade away that was on the floor next to Zam.
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Zam woke up to a Vitalasy staring down at him, immediately his mind flashed back to the bathroom. Damn it- he had passed out. “Morning sunshine, you have explaining to do but I won’t push you!” Vitalasy told him smiling afterwards.
That was not a conversation Zam would be looking forward to.
Hold on.
sunshine?
Oh my god- he was just called sunshine. What the actual hell? “I’m not looking forward to that.. but did you just call me fucking sunshine?!” Zam questioned
Vitalasy laughed at that response before looking down at Zam again “I did, do you not like that name?”
Zam just turned his head away, before muttering “It’s- fine.” God his thoughts were gonna be crowded with that all day.
Zam finally turned his head back towards Vitalasy as he sat up, immediately feeling a sharp pain in his arm. “Also I hope you know I will be changing those bandages for you, as I don’t trust that you would somehow not mess it up.” Vitalasy told Zam.
“Yeah yeah, where’s Subz?” Zam asked, Vitalasy just looked at him for a second raising his eyebrow before responding.
“Hes in the main room, I was just staying here so you wouldn’t wake up alone. He was worried about you.” Vitalasy paused before continuing. “I can go get him, or we can go to him.”
“I’d rather go to him and possibly scare him.” Zam responded getting up off the bed, it only just registered to him that he was in Subz and Vitalasy’s room.
Anyone who said he had a slight blush on his cheeks was wrong.
Zam walked out of the room, noticing that Subz had his back to the room as he ran towards him and wrapped his arms around him, immediately startling the poor guy.
“Hello Zam, nice to see you!” Subz laughed.
Vitalasy hugged the two of them.
Zam could enjoy this moment for a long time. Maybe it would dwell his time until the confrontation.