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It was a normal day, at least if you can consider it as
'normal' nowadays.
The rain on the windows kept falling slower than it was before as the weather started calming down.
It had been raining all day so the CRT couldn't go out to help the walking weapon and Toomp on their mission.
He had nothing to do on that day so he tried to pass the time.
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𝘏𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴...
He was already used to being alone most of the time without family, without friends or even going out and socialising.
All he had before was TV which lead him to being so obsessed with it to the point he went insane and cut off his own head to put the TV in it's place.
After that He tried to get 5 stars on his shows to make people proud of him and get power to control the real world but it had failed miserably.
Then he wanted to open his own amusement park, something he always wanted to own when he was a child which he had also failed at it, got himself arrested and on death row.
He had tried to be friends with meggy...well mostly for leggy, but she didn't want to be his friend, even after he tried to win her over, the more he tried, the more she slowly hated him more.
He was at an all time low, his mental health was decreasing, his insecurities about his body were getting worse and he felt so lonely all the time with no one on his side.
He felt like he had failed everything and he was doubting his life and questioned his purpose.
But then he had met him, a person who saw him as a friend, a REAL friend, a partner in crime, his boyfriend.
Even after using him and betraying him they sacrificed eachother trying to close the time rift to save the world. Which surprisingly lead them to the border, They had found a place to stay where eventually both of them settled down together.
Toomp had come down from space and joined them later on when he realised that they were both still alive.
They have been living with eachother for a months now, and at first puzzles was nervous to live with someone since it was his first time ever moving in a nice and comfortable house with a boyfriend that's a literal walking weapon and his slime ball that keeps raiding the fridge every opportunity he gets.
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𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵...
There he was on the bathroom floor thinking about how his new life with his boyfriend was going and if it was worth it.
Maybe WPNZ didn't actually love him Or was using him until the last second like he did to him. Mr Puzzles wouldn't really blame his boyfriend for that because he had done the same thing.
He was about to start panicking.
Until he hears the front door swing open.
"BOXHEAD IM BACK!!!!" He heard as He ran to that voice and hugged him tightly ignoring the fact that the walking weapon was covered in blood.
"LOOK AT ALL THE SHIT WE GOT FROM THAT MISSION. THE HEAVY RAIN MADE YA' MISS OUT ON ALL THE FUN SHIT WE HAD RUNNING FROM ALL THOSE STUPID ASSHOLES" he laughed as he hugged Puzzles back and swung him around.
Puzzles giggled as he looked at walking weapon "At least you both had fun doing what you know best" he said Smiling.
Then leaned down to pet the slime ball and frowned "Also TOOMP can you PLEASE stop raiding the fridge, we are almost out of food and you know if you rip any more of my solution bags while I'm weakened it would take me a LOT longer to recover! Last time you ripped one of my Favourite flavoured solution bags that I was going to have for dinner and it was the last one I had!".
"Calm down' boxhead it won't happen again. He learned his lesson' ain' that right toompy woompy" WPNZ pet toomp as he smiled at puzzles and seeing him roll is eyes in a jokingly way.
"Fine! Fine! But anyways are you gonna show me what you both got?" Puzzles said with curiosity.
WPNZ smirked and held back a laugh as he handed one of the bags to puzzles "look for yer' self jigsaw. We got a shit load of stuff to sell but also got you a lil' something too"
Puzzles was more curious as he opened the bag and looked inside. "Is that a shark plushie holding a star....? My dear how did you know I liked sharks?" He questioned as if it wasn't obvious.
"Well I was looking for stuff to loot up on and I saw it, then I remembered that you had made a dumb comment about me 'looking like a shark' so I got it for ya'. Oh and when I saw that it had a Star on it too
I just knew you were gonna love it" WPNZ said as he looked at puzzles with a smirk.
"Oh an' by the way since I told you what happened today with me n' toomp how was your day?" WPNZ ask curiously as he sat on the couch.
Puzzles didn't respond quickly, in fact he didn't even even know what to tell to his boyfriend.
WPNZ seeing his boyfriend saying nothing asked "boxhead ya' good?" And gave him a worried look.
"Yeah I'm fine don't worry my star" Puzzles replyed a bit too quickly. "are ya' sure?" WPNZ said as he gave him another look.
"Yes my dear I'm sure, dont worry about me" Puzzles said as he was walking away slowly "oh and uhm...I have a script to write so I will talk to you later, I'll try not to take too long." He said as he left the room.
WPNZ knew that there was something going on, Puzzles was good at hiding stuff since he was an actor, but was not good at hiding his genuine feelings from WPNZ since he was an assassin he was always observant of every little detail about everything especially his boyfriend.
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Puzzles ran to the bathroom feeling guilty about lying to his boyfriend.
How could he tell him how he feels about himself and his body?
How could he tell him that he feels like he doesn't deserve him and Toomp?
He had betrayed the both of them and yet they STILL CARED?
He kept getting horrible thoughts about them and himself.
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶?
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵?
𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘠 𝘋𝘖𝘕'𝘛 𝘞𝘈𝘕𝘛 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌.
𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘠 𝘞𝘐𝘓𝘓 𝘓𝘌𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛 𝘓𝘐𝘒𝘌 𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘍𝘈𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙 𝘋𝘐𝘋.
𝘞𝘏𝘠 𝘚𝘏𝘖𝘜𝘓𝘋 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘠 𝘊𝘈𝘙𝘌 𝘈𝘉𝘖𝘜𝘛 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘈𝘍𝘛𝘌𝘙 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘉𝘌𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘠𝘌𝘋 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔?
𝘏𝘌 𝘕𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘕𝘌𝘌𝘋𝘌𝘋 𝘠𝘖𝘜, 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘕𝘌𝘌𝘋𝘌𝘋 𝘏𝘐𝘔.
They just kept getting worse and WORSE.
Puzzles was gasping for air at this point, grabbing his tv head with one hand and started digging it in his vent on the side and another tugging his entenna with force.
He felt weak, everything seems like a blur, was he powering down? Was he dying? Because he sure felt like it.
After a minute or so he hears a *snap* and puts one of his hands down seeing his broken entenna in his hand, his face morphed into shock as he saw it.
His entennas are usually very sensitive so if it was touched, harmed or broken off well...
All he could hear is static as his vission was getting worse. "Oh no, oh god" he said trying to calm himself down but all that did was make him feel worse.
He wanted WPNZ but he didn't want to worry him. He doesn't want him to feel like a burden, always dumping stuff on him and making him worry, so he tried to stay quiet.
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And hour went by and Wpnz hadn't heard puzzles yet. "Ugh 'm tired of 'im not talking to me normally anymore." He said frowning to toomp as then Toomp gave him a sympathetic smile.
Wpnz always offered to help puzzles when he feels down, hell he WANTS puzzles to tell him because that could make him more aware about what he's been going through and maybe if it was something he did, he could try apologising and comfort him.
He got up from the couch as he set toomp down "Im checking up on boxhead stay here for now until I tell you alright?" Toomp nodded approvingly, he was also starting to get worried on puzzles at this point.
WPNZ Then he turned around and started walking away to go check in Puzzle's office.
As he approached it he knocked, not wanting to walk in the room and invade his space.
he heard nothing. Not even a noise.
"Boxhead ya alright in there?". Now he was really getting concerned.
After a few minutes passed by he said "Alright 'm coming in" and still heard nothing.
He opened the door to find nothing in there, just some scripts that were organised to the side and his computer off but no puzzles.
He sighed as he's closed the door not wanting to be in his boyfriends office without him knowing.
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He had looked everywhere around the house except the bathroom, so he knew that there had to be something wrong.
He started to walk to bathroom that was lit up.
As he approached the bathroom he started hearing quiet sobs and became more worried for his boyfriend.
He tried twisting the door nob but it wouldn't budge, it was locked form the inside. "Boxhead? Can I come in?" He said in a light tone trying not to frighten him further.
After just a few seconds he heard shuffling, then the door unlocked. He slowly opened the door and looked down to see Puzzles hugging himself in a corner with his entenna laying on the floor and the side of his head covered in blood.
"Boxhead what happened?" He came closer to puzzles, crouching down to his level as he started to comfort him. Seeing Puzzles hyperventilate and shaking violently he knew he had to act fast.
Puzzles was in a blur he felt everything spin couldn't even hear or see anything, just holding on to himself for dear life, wishing for everything to disappear.
"Boxhe-ad! Ca- y-u hea-r m-e?"
He tried to listen as static was mostly the thing he was hearing, which was getting frustrating for him.
Then he felt a metal hand on his face. Puzzles could register that WPNZ was trying to speak to him as he tried to hear his voice over the static.
"Boxhea-"
"Brea-th -or m-e"
"Boxhead-"
"Come on jigsa-"
"Puzz-"
"Puzzles....Puzzles!"
"PUZZLES!"
"Breath with me" Wpnz said as He placed his hand on puzzles chest and took puzzles hand on his own as he guided him to breathing with him.
He took a deep breath then puzzles did the same and coughing a bit "That's it, good job" wpnz said as he saw puzzles improving slowly.
As Puzzles's vision became clearer he looked to see his boyfriend Infront of him, looking at him with soft eyes.
He was feeling more embarrassed then ever, he used to hiding his feelings, but he couldn't hide them now ESPECIALLY Infront of his boyfriend.
He was never this bad at masking his feelings even before he had lost his 5 stars and his park.
Before he could go back to panic mode Wpnz snapped him out of it "Hey jigsaw are you alright?".
Puzzles looked up at Wpnz feeling ashamed as his face expression changed so it looked like he had more tears on his face. "I'm sorry....I'm so sorry..." He said as he hugged Wpnz tightly as if he was going to disappear.
Wpnz hugged him back "hey, hey why are you apologising? Did something happen when I was gone?"
Puzzles shook his head as he took one of Wpnz's hands and replaced it back onto his face for comfort "J-just my thoughts, it's nothing serio-ous....I'm sorry for *hic* worrying you o-over a silly thing..."
"If it's troublin' you then it has to be serious not matter how silly it is, yeah?"
Wpnz said as he wanted to know how this all happened. "if ya' don't mind me asking, how did this happen? Why is your head bleeding and why is yer entenna on da' floor?" Looking at it with a bit of concern, he knew that it had a purpose and how fragile it was so the fact it was bleeding showed how much pain he was probably in.
Mr puzzles just looked at the entenna that was laying on the floor and his hand that had blood on it then looked at WPNZ in shame and humiliation "I *hic* dug my fingers in my head and as for the antenna I Pulled at it to *hic* calm down but I pulled at it too much I guess..."
WPNZ kept looking at him for a bit "well let's fix you up then you continue explaining yeah? Don't wanna leave you in more pain then you already are." He said as he offered his had to Puzzles hoping he takes it which to his suprise he actually does take it and stands up while shaking like a leaf in the wind. "Do you think you can walk or anything you are shaking quite a bit there?"
Mr Puzzles gives him a look "I think? My legs work but I'm feeling like falling if I walk too much".
WPNZ hums to himself as he guideds puzzles to the toilet that was shut "sit here and I'll go get the toolbox".
He comes back with the toolbox and the broken off entenna "It doesn't look damaged just needs to be put back on"
His boyfriend was looking at nothing as he put the toolbox down and started getting to work with fixing the antenna and the side of his head. "Tell me if it hurts or if ya' need to have a break Kay?"
"Sure my star" puzzles replied back and tried to give him a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes but he was still grateful that his boyfriend was worried about him and was taking care of him.
After a few minutes wpnz was done and put the tools back in the toolbox and he placed it back where it was placed before.
Then he approached his boyfriend as he lifted him up bridle style. Puzzles had a huge ECG line on his face as he put his arms around his boyfriends neck. "Do you need to do this my destructive darling?" "Yep and that's final."
He led them to the living room, placed him on the couch and started looking for movies that puzzles liked.
Toomp went to cuddling on puzzles side hoping to make he feel better. Puzzles gave him a small smile as he pet him back
After finding one he put it in the dvd player he went back to his boyfriend and held him in his hands.
Puzzles had appreciated all that WPNZ had done for him but he knew that now he had to open up. He knows that his boyfriend won't force him to tell him what happened but he knew that not telling him could make the walking weapon worry more then he needs to be.
"So mind explain' to me what happened From the start? I have all the time that I need for ya' boxhead." WPNZ said as he gave an affectionate rub on puzzles shoulder.
Puzzles looked at him for a while before answering "well it started when you left today...I was having doubts... about me and about you...I feel like I don't deserve you after EVERYTHING that I did before and to you and Toomp and you both STILL forgave me as if I didn't throw you under the bus at the showgrounds."
Mr puzzles looked at his boyfriend as his face projected a tearful expression and he continued "How and WHY did you forgive me?!?! I had used you both and you Forgive me....*hic* I feel like you are going to betray me like I did back then.
I realised what I did back then and I'm so sorry my star... There's never a time where I will stop apologising to you and the fact you are treating me so well makes me feel like I'm not enough for you...I wanna help you too but I don't know how or what to do anymore... And I don't know why you forgave me..." He cried as he finished his sentence.
The walking weapon looked at him before talking "boxhead you apologized back then and you realised your mistakes don't you realise how you have grown as a person? You tried to ruin and hurt yourself to apologise to me man...and let's not forget you almost destroyed the world for me.
How could I Not forgive or love you? Fuck I even sacrificed myself to help you save the world. I beat you up before I forgave you, which I hate to think about it, but does that mean I don't deserve you then? We deserve eachother jigsaw and if someone gets in the way I will beat them to death."
Puzzles giggled at the last part as WPNZ continued "but on a serious note boxhead no matter what the world throws at us I'll still love you Kay'?" He turns to the side of puzzles's face where he had bandaged it for him and gave him a small kiss.
"How did you become so great with words?" Puzzles asked while trying to wipe his tears even though his face is a projection.
"I learn from the most dramatic person I know" WPNZ jokes as his boyfriend elbows his softly.
"Shut it you brute" puzzles jokes back as he calms down and the tearfull expression changes into a smile. "Love you so much dear" he says then looks at the movie that his boyfriend had put for him.
"Love you more boxhead" WPNZ Replies back "I'm here for you no matter what."
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