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“Wemmbu.”
“Yeah?”
“Are you going to leave me?”
Wemmbu paused and he looked back down at Egg, one foot was already on the stairs up and out of Minutes base toward the end portal. He was going to leave, but that wasn’t why he was pausing. Egg said if Wemmbu was going to leave him specifically and that made Wemmbu's heart clench in a horrible way.
But of course he didn’t say that, he scoffed, “I’m leaving the end Egg. I’ll be back when I’m done exploring… there’s a lot of stuff I haven’t done since becoming the strongest.”
Wemmbu smiled, it felt fake.
It wasn’t the same without Egg, his friend who has been there for him. After Zam, after Mane, after the mafia, after the farlands. But now he was stuck, bonded to the end in stasis and Wemmbu couldn’t do anything about it.
And like always, Wemmbu ran away from his problems. Or Egg was safer without Wemmbu. That has been an already proven reason.
“You could always stay here, it’s safer,” Egg says and Wemmbu almost bursts out laughing.
Nowhere is safe for him, only when he’s dead does he get to walk freely.
“No, it’ll get stuffy in here. With Minute and… you,” Wemmbu's voice cracks at the end.
Egg and Wemmbu stare at each other for a long moment. Egg looks serious, calculating and Wemmbu smiles. They know what the other is thinking, but they don’t say anything.
“You don’t always have to leave,” Egg says firmly and Wemmbu has to glance away from his piercing eye to compose himself.
“I don’t,” He just wants to, “Egg, I want to leave.” Wemmbu said and his voice was barely a whisper. He takes another step up and that’s all it takes to make Egg move.
He steps above the step Wemmbu is on causing him to look up and before he knows it, hands are cupping his face and tilting Wemmbu's head.
Egg kisses him on the corner of his mouth and Wemmbu stills.
Egg was warm, despite the end, and the kiss was fleeting. But the hands remain. Wemmbu doesn't know if Egg just missed his lips because of his invisibility or it was a well done ploy to get Wemmbu to hesitate, either way it throws all of Wemmbu's thoughts into the wind.
Egg lets out a long winded exhale, “Just stay safe out there okay?”
…
One of Wemmbu's hands grasp Eggs wrist pulling him down and his other hand finds itself on Eggs neck, closer, and Wemmbu kisses him. Deep, sweet, and violent; three combinations that were enough to make Egg pant for breath and lose his mind. That was the kiss, and that was Wemmbu.
Wemmbu pulls back and Egg almost falls to his knees if it were for Wemmbu's steady grip.
Wemmbu grins, this one was real, a smile from lips that had met Eggs and God… he wants to kiss it right off his face and make him smile like that again.
“I will.”