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”Hey.”
Blake whispers into Sapnap’s hair, still gently rubbing a hand up and down his back in an attempt to calm him.
“We’re off the ground now. See? You’re fine.”
Sapnap wants to believe him, but that nagging thought persists so he stays pressed into Blake’s chest and whines softly at nothing in particular.
“Nick. Can you look at me please?”
Sapnap just whines again and holds onto his friend tighter in response.
Slightly disheartened, Blake cranes his neck down towards his own chest and presses his mouth into the shell of Sapnap’s ear, whispering softly,
“Please Nick? Sweetheart?”
Sapnap tries to stay tucked into his friend’s chest, where it’s /safe/ and he’s surrounded by warmth, but the way Blake gently holds his shoulder and even sounds like he actually wants him convinces Sapnap to pull his head out from the covers and look up at his friend.
As Blake’s eyes meet Sapnap’s tired ones that are stained red from crying he smiles and pulls the other in to kiss him softly, a kiss that sapnap closes his eyes for and gently hums into. Swallowing as he pulls away and clearing his throat, he tries to speak but his voice threatens to break and the words gets caught in his throat and he bites his lip as he thinks over what to say.
Blake, catching on to this, shushes him before he can try to speak again and reaches down under the covers and pulls out Sapnap’s hand, reassuringly squeezing it and intertwining their fingers together, pulling their hands up to rest in between their faces on the pillow.
“You’re okay. I promise you it’ll be over soon.”
Blake punctuates his sentence with a kiss on sapnap’s cheek and he runs his free hand through his hair.
Sapnap nods his head in small strokes and pulls Blake in for a quick kiss before tucking himself back into his friend’s chest, softly murmuring about how much he loves the other and tangles their legs together under the covers.
Blake smiles to himself as he feels sapnap relax into him and fall asleep quickly, drained from all the previous stress and worrying.
He thinks of how much they’re gonna love Japan, and how all of the stress will be worth it, and he closes his eyes and holds sapnap tighter into his chest and follows him into sleep.