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"Grian!" Scar shouts waking Grian up, The sweater man sits up in bed rubing his eyes "what?" he asks the sleepiness evident in his voice. "server switch is this weekend we need to do everything we wanted to do before we moved on to season 10 come on!" Scar drags his boyfriend out of his bed. The two boys headed out into the server to cause chaos as a couple. Grian is still stressed about finding out how to stop the watchers while Scar's memories of the previous Life series are hazy. He knows he won but didn't know the implantations of that and how it got to that point.
"Gem!" Scar yells seeing the redhead flying in the sky, She looks down with a smile before diving down. "Hey boys, hows its going?" She asks, "Pretty good, server switch is the weekend!" Scar says exciced. "Yeah X said its important were all ready for it, actully i was on my way to go finish up some things at my base, I'll see you two later" She takes off once more as Scar drags Grian toward the shopping area. "what should we do first?" Grian asks, Scar smiles "a picnic but first we need to gather suplies" The vex drags Grian around to diffrent shops with a s brighter smile with each stop and Grian could careless about a picnic but if it makes Scar smile its worth it.
The two leave the last shop bags filled while Scar starts to rant before he suddenly stummbles across the ground catching himself against the wall of a building. "Whoa! Scar are you ok?" Grian asks quickly getting to Scar's side, the Vex shakes his head "fine, just tripped" Grian looks behind them at where they were walking to see no eveidence of anything that could cause the stubble but the hybrid is known for being clumsy "Ok" Grian says taking Scar's bags just for extra precaution.
Grian noticed on the fly home how Scar kept wincing in pain. Once the two land outside Scar's home and head inside Scar leans heavly on the wall making Grian even more worried "Scar are you sure you're ok?" Grian placed the bags down on the floor before waking over to Scar, "is your leg acting up? or is it general pain?" Scar shook his head "I'm fine Birdy but its nice that you worry about little old me" Scar says with his million dollar smile.
Grian wasn't convinced and told Scar to sit while he made sandwiches. "Fine but I'm baking cookies once your done in the kitchen" Scar says before limping over to the couch. Grian took as long as he could to make sandwiches but he couldn't stall forever. Scar went to stand up but crumbled against the couch once more in agonizing pain "Void" Scar breathes out trying to not curse or yell. Grian scurryed into the living room "Are you ok?" the bird man asks moving to sit next to his boyfriend. "like ive said I'm-" Grian cuts him off "but you're clearly not fine, we don't have to picnic today, I need you to tell me when your in pain" Grian states "Like when you tell me?" Scar snaps back, Grian held his tougne Scar stares at him "You don't tell me when you're in pain Grian, like last week when you broke your wing" Grian rolls her eyes "It was a sprain and this isn't the same thing" Scar turned his body as much as he could.
"Not the same thing? Grian you lied to me all week and continued to use your wing it might have been just a sprain but it could have been worse" Grian huffs "if pearl hadn't caught on I would have-" Grian cut him off "we aren't talking about me we're talking about you" The vex scoffed "you never want to talk about you now a days" Scar crossed his arms, "what's that suppost to mean?" The avian says getting defensive. "I think you should go" Scar states, Grian is taken back before standing up and walking out the door without another word. Scar called Cub, the only person he could think of to talk to who wouldn't rat him out to Grian. "so you kicked your boyfriend out?" Cub asks bringing Scar a heating pad. "well when you say it like that it sounds bad" Scar says feeling guilty.
"Look scar buddy, we are all aware Grian has some really messed up trauma he refuses to talk about but along with that means he's going to hide his emotions, a lot. From you especially but he shouldn't be mad at you for doing the same thing, Honestly neither of you should be hiding your pain from each other or your friends. You both have friends that can help you two out" Cub says lightly shoving Scar's shoulder. "I called you because I thought you wouldn't lecture me" Scar grumbles. "Well you picked the wrong hermit" Cub smiles "So you're saying I should aplogize?" Cub shakes his head "I'm saying you two should have a conversation and talk, before the end of the week" Scar nodded understanding.
Meanwhile Grian was annoyed in his house when both Pearl and Mumbo stop by. "I swear if scar called you-" Grian starts but the moth and mustache man shake their heads "he didn't call either of us" Pearl states confused "you just blew us off last minute and we wanted to check on you" Mumbo states. Grian smacked his forehead, of course their meet up later this evening. "Sorry guys I-" Mumbo shakes his head "no apologizing, what happend with scar?" Pearl leads the bird man over to the couch, Grian's sister and best friend stand over him like disapproving parents. "nothing, it was nothing" Grian lied through his teeth.
"If you fought with Scar its not nothing what happend and tell us the truth" Pearl scolds. Grian crosses his arms "Its fine he just- he just said I don't let him in but I don't let anyone in its not just him" Mumbo looks at Pearl before looking back at Grian "Is that what he said or is that what you heard" the mustache man asks. Grian looks up "what?" with a huff Mumbo sits down next to Grian "is that what he said or is that what you heard" Mumbo says slower. Grian frowns "I said, I need you to tell me when your in pain, he snapped back with like when you tell me" The hybrid wrapped his wings around himself.
Pearl sits on the otherside of her brother "I just don't want him to worry" Grian mumbles "and you think he doesn't tell you for the same reasons?" Pearl replies. Grian glares at her "But I can take his pain i can make him feel better mine is just a burden" Mumbo places his hand on Grian's shoulder "its not a burden, your friends and esspically your boyfriend want you to tell them your pain. we want to help" Grian shook his head "its not your pain to deal with, its a burden, its not needed, I'm fine" Grian lies to himself. "You know thats not true G" She takes her own wing pulling him closer. "Its a bit selfish to keep your own pain when we clearly want to help" The blonde man holds back tears.
Grian has had this converstaion with them over a million times, but it hasn't changed the way he thinks about his problems, pain, and truama. He knows their right, it is selfish to keep them from helping but its makes him feel worst to tell them. Grian tucked himself in to his wings maybe Pearl and Mumbo will leave on their own, but he should know his family better than that by now. They stay and evencually get him to start talking again.
Night falls and Grian stays up talking to Pearl and Mumbo trying to come up with an apologie for Scar. The next few days the two stayed separated, both not wanting to bother the other. Cub stayed with Scar over night to make sure the Vex was taking care of himself, Mumbo and Pearl switched off to make sure Grian wasn't sprailing then the weekend came he day before the server jump. Grian had decided on a redo of their missed picnic he built a whole new area in the middle of a plains biome, with specifically placed trees a picnic blankets and a ton of sweets.
Grian used his comms messaging Scar to meet him at the cordinets. Grian paced as he waited knowing that sorry means nothing without actions. Scar flew over before landing leaning heavily on his cane. "What's this?" Scar asks skeptical, Grian smiles "an apologie picnic?" The vex looks at his boyfriend then at the picnic before walking over. Grian helped him to the ground sitting beside the brunette.
"Well?" Scar asks stuffing a cookie in his mouth Grian took a deep breath "I'm sorry Scar, I know I should tell people when I'm in pain and that I was being a hypocrite for not scolding you for not telling me" The avian sighs, Scar smiles "its a start, I also apologize I didn't have to be so snappy with you about it, to be fair I'm not great with telling people my pain either, guess we both need to work on that" The vex lays his head on Grian's shoulder. "yeah we do" Grain wraps his arm around Scar's wasit.
"How about a code word!" Scar says perking up, Grian tilts his head to the side "a code word?" Scar nods frantically "A word we say before discussing something that might hurt the other persons feelings or a word that idicates when one of us is in pain" Grian thinks on it "a code word, what did you have in mind?" Scar thinks for a moment "Pandas!" Scar shouts all of the sudden. "Pandas?" Scar nods frantically "Pandas, like those Jelly Pandas i had in double life, Or we could say Jelly Pandas when were in pain and Panda's when we need to talk about something. Why are you looking at me like that?" Grian blinks a few times before responding "You remmbered something from double life" Grian says suprised.
The vex shrugs "guess i did, actully I'm remmbering a lot right now, like how we kissed in secret life and my jelly panda army, ooo and the ally i had, i miss that little blue guy-" Scar stops his face gaining a frown. "and?" Grian moves closer "and you and Joel tried to make a deal with me" Grian can see the memories flash across Scar's face "and BigB" Scar stares at Grian. BigB? what does he have to do with anything? Grian though to himself. "Pearl and Scott making each other suffer, your brother Jimmy- The fight we had before the end of double life" Scar's eyes were sad while Grian wracked his brian for the memory but it comes up blank.
"You cheated on me with BigB" Scar says upset Grian shakes his head "i don't remmber that" Grian admits, he only has bits an pieces his mind is still fuzzy of a lot of things. "You killed me in limited life, you- the sunflower feilds, BigB was there it wasn't BigB he had glowing purple eyes and-" Grian shakes his head "Scar you're not making any sense" The avian is worried, "We need to break up" Scar states taking Grian back "what? why?" Scar shakes his head picking up his cane and pulling himself to his feet, "I can't do this I- I'm sorry Grian" Scar says before taking off leaving a confused sad Grian in the middle of the plains biome.
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"where am i?" Lizzie's voice echos off the walls, "home" another voice replaies, "no this isn't home, home is with Joel where am i?" she asks scared. The room is a dark yellow, an awful yellow in Lizzie's option. "Him" the voice scoffs, "he's been chosen by someone else- This is your home now, you will-" Lizzie cuts the voice off "i will not, I'm not someone whos just going to abandon my husband, where is he? what have you done with him?!" Lizzie shouts. "Maybe time in the feilds will change your mind" the sound dispears and suddenly the walls desove into a wheat feild, "Joel! Joel where are you!" She shouts looking through the wheat.
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Martyn wanted to tell his friends, his memories were vibrint, he remmbered nearly everything but when he tried to talk about it a loud ringing would drown him out and cause him to colapse. Martyn then tried to write it down but the words would cause him to pass out. They were interfering with it he felt stuck, more stuck than he had in the past, crumbling in his base Martyn started to go mad
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On the Empires server a certiain lama dad had receved a letter written in purple ink, Scott couldn't read the writing but he knew it was bad, but since the rift had closed awhile ago and he doupted any of the other empires would help him get to hermitcraft. Scott decided to go to the one other player who at least would understand why this was important, "Jimmy?!" Scott shouts no responce, Scott checked the canarys base, the main spawn, and even sent out a message in chat asking where Jimmy is, but no one has seen him, making the blue haired man worried for the blonde...
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The watchers see the chaos unfold hermits and empire players losing their minds in diffrent ways. With bright grin's on their faces, Time for a new game, they think in unison, but this time lets make it wild....