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It all started when Purple was getting ready to go to bed, grabbing some stuff to take to their room before the saw something pass by Security on the cams. Purple quickly snapped their head to the cams and saw a black figure. They ran to Security's entrance to see what it was, maybe even try and scare it off, but once they checked there was nothing in the hall. A bit paranoid now, Purple decided to stay in Security just for the night, wanting to make sure nothing was in the ship with the crew..
And they did just that, staying up just watching the cams all night. It got boring really quickly, but whenever Purple looked away they got a bad feeling and something pressuring them to look back to see if something happen. Purple got no sleep that night, being thrown into a loop of boredom then fear for the whole night.
They did come out in the morning, but went back to Security to check the cams often.
The next night wasn't as chill though.
The same thing happened, Purple saw something in the hall, and went to go check it. Nothing. Purple started thinking this was just a joke. Just a stupid joke someone set up. They packed up whatever they needed from Security and started to walk to the bedrooms. Once they turned the corner to the Electrical hallway, Purple saw that black figure again, but in front of the door to where the bedrooms were. Purple rubbed their eyes, maybe they were just sleepy, maybe it was apart of their imagination, right? But it didn't go away, it stayed standing there, looking at them from the dimly lit hall. Purple backed away, their breathing becoming uneven and faster to more they stared at the 'thing'. Purple flinched as the door to the bedrooms opened and the thing faded away, Red coming out from the bedrooms and Waving at Purple.
"Heya Purps! Whatcha doing up so late?" Red asked, walking over to Purple. Purple tried to recover from their shock but couldn't control their shaking. They just hoped Red wouldn't wrap an arm around them this time..
"Uh, I could ask the same thing about you.." Purple said, their voice shaking slightly.
Red then wrapped their stupid arm around Purple's shoulders. Great, now Red would probably feel the shaking.
"Well I was going to- woah, Purps! You alright there?" Red said definitely noticing it now. Purple suddenly pushed them away, almost falling backwards when they did.
"I'm fine! But.. I've.. forgotten something at Security so I'm going to go get that! ..before I sleep.." Purple said, backing away into Lower Engine.
"Uh, Alright? well I'll see ya in the morning Purps!" Red said, waving as they walked over to Storage, Probably to get to Navigation.
Purple then Ran the rest of the way to Security, their mind making them think the black figure was going to be there at any corner they turn. Once Purple got to Security, they slammed the doors shut and slid down to the floor from against the door. Purple held their chest, feeling their heart beating faster and their breathing getting quicker. They needed to calm the fuck down, it was just some joke someone was playing on them, right? It was just some stupid joke..
They got up and wobbled over to the cameras, seeing Red move over to Navigation. Purple let out a shaky sigh, thinking maybe they'll just stay here and watch the cams for another night..
And just like that they were stuck in that loop again, the only thing keeping then awake being the fear they felt whenever they kept their head down to rest for a moment.
The morning was also different. Purple Didn't come out at all that day. Just before night time, Lime had poked Their head in Security since they thought it was the Reactor again. Lime was a slight bit shocked to see Purple was flipping through the cams franticly, stopping sometimes and looking really closely before going back to flipping through them. Lime stared at Purple in confusion for a few seconds before slowly lowering themselves back into the vent, going to Navigation this time.
It took Lime a long time to get to Navigation, Opening the vent to the Shields room and then O2 before finally getting to Navigation after like a half an hour.
"Hey! Ship flyer! Captain! Or whatever you name was!" Lime yelled once they found their way into Navigation, scaring the shit out of Red.
"Jeez, What do ya need Lime?" Red asked, spinning their chair to face Lime.
"Your Purple friend has locked themselves in their little spy room! And their acting weird! Fippin' through the cams all paranoid and stuff!" Lime said, gesturing stuff with their hands.
"I'll look into it." Red then stood up and started walking to Security without another word. Lime watched as Red left and shrugged, diving back into the vents to get their tasks done.
Red thought about how Purple was acting the night before. Shaking, saying they were fine... That wasn't normal. Red knew something must have happened but didn't have the energy to ask last night, but now this was actually starting to concern them. Purple has never acted like this before, and Purple has never locked themselves in their room...! Well...
Red sighed as they continued walking, only halfway there. They didn't like being so far away from Purple's 'room', and being so far away for like, any other important room.
Purple was seeing stuff, oh they knew they were going insane. all this paranoia and stress mixed with no sleep for two days straight was REALLY fucking bad. They kept thinking they see the figure behind crewmates on the cameras, before staring for a few seconds to see nothing there. What kind of sick prank was this?! And who was doing this!? Was it their mind? Or was someone on board doing this to fuck with them?
Purple let out a shaky breath for the hundredth time, before stopping at the cam outside of Security. Red was standing there, seemly waiting for the cameras light to turn red so they knew Purple could see them.
"There, now Purple.. mind telling me what's happening with you?" Red asked, their voice muffled by the closed door.
"I-I don't need to tell you anything.. Everything is fine, Red..." Purple replied, too tired to notice Red called them 'Purple' and not 'Purps' this time.
"Well it doesn't seem like it! Lime told me you've been switching through the cameras and stuff! And it's my job as captain to-"
"I don't wanna hear about your stupid "My JoB aS cApTaIn" shit right now Red! Just leave me alone!" Purple Yelled, before continuing: "I swear if you keep bothering me I'm going to lose it! Gosh, Maybe I've already lost it! If I this stupid person shows up on the cameras one more time I swear-"
"Purple." Red said sternly. "What are you even talking about?"
Purple sighed loudly, it breaking off into a sort of whine at the end. "Just go away..!"
"A person? Purple what?" Red looked at the camera and pinched the bridge of their nose. "You're starting to sound like Lime, Purple. But fine, I'll leave you be. Though I'll be checking up on you tomorrow so expect that."
"Ya, ya ok, Leave me alone now!"
Red walked off, unsatisfied with what just played out. Purple groaned, flipping endlessly through the cameras again.
That night was horrible. Purple looked through the cameras and kept seeing that thing around the whole ship. Once in the cafeteria, another time in Electrical, but mostly right outside the Security door. Purple hadn't counted, but the amount of times they felt their heart almost stop was not heathy. None of what they were doing was heathy at all, they hadn't even ate anything in the past 24 hours. Their whole focus was on the cams.
They wanted to go to bed, but they couldn't even leave..
Were they even sure that thing was even real?
Was their mind playing tricks on them?
Or was it just a stupid crewmate wanting to make someone go insane?
But who would stay up for three days straight just to fuck with someone's mind?
Why was Purple even doing this?
They're 27 god damnit, Scared over some fucking shadow.
Purple was snapped out of their thoughts by rough knocking on their door. They checked the cameras, nothing there.
Great, now they were hearing stuff too...
...
"What the fuck kind of Insane shit is this!?" Purple said to themselves "Like what am I even doing..?!"
They laughed a bit, too tired to care about being to loud. The others probably couldn't even hear them from Security anyways..
Purple continued looking through cameras all night for the third time, not stopping even when the others woke up.. again.
Red hit the Emergency Meeting button in the cafeteria, everyone gathering around the middle table in only a couple of minutes.. everyone but one.
"Uh-" Red cleared their throat. "Look around! Do you all notice something different!?"
The crew looked around, Green spotting it first somehow, or just being the first person to speak up about it. "Purple's gone!"
"That's right! And it's my- I mean, our mission to figure out what's going on with Purps!"
"Uh, question, Red? Was this really 'Emergency Meeting' worthy?" Black groaned, resting their head on the table.
"Well- yes, I-.. Let's just get to the discussion!" Red said, Pointing and someone random to start it off, and that was Yellow. "Do you have anything to start us off with?"
"Jeez, me? I mean aright then.. So, Purple Hasn't been here for lunch yesterday AND today! There's GOT to be somethin' off.." Yellow said first, Cyan going next. "Oh, I know.. Whenever I walk past Security I can sense the bad vibes radiating off that room..." Cyan said, continuing with: "The vibes get worse around that area everyday.. What if Purple's locked themselves up in there?"
"Your 'vibes' stuff isn't real Cyan, and I wouldn't blame them for locking themselves up in there, all of you are annoying as hell." Black said, Cyan shrinking down in their seat sadly.
"Hey, hey! lets keep to the topic alright? So, Black? you got anything?" Red asked.
"Fuck off."
"OK then! Brown?" Red chuckled, turning to look over at brown.
Brown shrugged. "Nothing."
"I got something!!" Lime yelled as they got up and put one foot on the table.
"Lime, sit back down.. Anyone else? We all know Lime's crazy" Black said, looking down at their painted nails, bored as hell.
"No. Let Lime speak." Blue said sternly, almost everyone agreeing once it was BLUE who said it. Crazy how everyone listens to you once your hot..
Lime sat back down and cleared their throat. "I was crawling through the vents, when I opened a vent to the Security room.. Purple was in there! BUT! They were flippin' though the cameras all paranoid and stuff! Only stoppin' a few times to look very closely at the cams before fippin' through then again! They're spying on us! we shouldn't trust them-"
"Lime, they are not spying on us, Purps wouldn't do that.. But now we know that Purps is in the Security room!" Red said happily, like their concern for Purple wasn't eating them alive.
"It doesn't hurt you guys to listen to Lime once and a while.." Blue mumbled.
Red then pointed over to Green, White, and Orange. "do you three have anything?" White shook their head no before taking a sip of wine they somehow got on the ship with them, Orange shrugged, and Green shook their head no, but way after the others did.
Red sighed, happy with the info they got but still not satisfied.. "alright well.. Crew, meeting dismissed.. I'll go check on them later in the afternoon."
Red walked up the Security that night, the plan being to try and get Purple out of Security or get into Security. Once Red got there, they waited for the cameras light to turn red so they knew Purple was watching. When the light turned on, Red started talking.
"Purple.." Red started with their name, trying to think of something else to say so they didn't sound stupid or something.
"What do you want?" Purple said, their tone tired but stern.
"What's going on with you? mostly everyone on this ship is worried about you!" Red said, trying to keep calm and not freak out from worry.
"I don't know, just- just go-"
"Purple I'm not going away this time! I'm staying here until you let me in there!" Red said, glancing up at the camera before looking back at the door.
"are you really that pushy?! Red you know, it's-.. I.." Purple stopped and groaned out of annoyance. "I don't know!"
"Purple, please.. I don't know what's going on but I want my crew to be at their best at all times.. maybe I can.. help..?" they suggested, wanting to help so badly but they couldn't say that.
"Red, seriously! I'm fine!"
"You haven't eaten ANYTHING for the past two or three days! You're NOT fine!" Red yelled, gesturing stuff with their hands, which was probably pointless.
"Red there's something in the ship with us! It roams the fucking halls 24/7! I'm not going out there!" Purple yelled back, their head starting to hurt after all this talking..
".. What are you talking about?" Red asked, looking around before pinching the bridge of their nose. "Purple if this thing roams the halls 24/7, then wouldn't one of our other crewmates have already noticed it and reported it to me or the rest of us?"
"Red I-.. I don't know what's going on anymore.." Purple then got up from their chair with a sigh. "Is this pointless? Am I fearing fucking nothing!?"
"Purple, I can assure you there is nothing abnormal on this ship. Now please, can you come out of there..?" Red was so close to begging Purple to come out at this point.
Purple muttered something before wobbling over to the button to open the door. They then stumbled, their vision going blurry and staticky, but they managed to hit the button before it got worse. Red saw the door open and lit up, but that crumbled quickly once they saw Purple's condition, and how they almost fell on top of them.
"Purple!? Woah there-!" Red reached their arms out just incase Purple fell, but Purple caught themselves on the doorframe just in time. "Jeez.. Uhm, do you wanna.. Go see if they have any pizza left in the kitchen..?"
"Ya, ya.. I probably need some food.." Purple said, pushing themselves off the wall, and taking their first steps outside of Security in a few days.
Red watched Purple walk carefully, their arms still hovering close to the other. Purple looked everywhere as they went up to the Cafeteria, checking every turn and corner of Upper Engine before continuing to the kitchen with Red. When they got to the Cafeteria, Red walked up to the Kitchen window, which was blocked off with metal since they closed it for the night, and knocked on it. Red was sure the two crewmates that worked there were cleaning up, so they would be still there, right?
Yellow angerly opened the metal partition as Brown was in the background cleaning dishes. "What do ya want Red-? I told you to stop- wh- Purple! Purple your-" Yellow then saw how exhausted Purple looked. "-oh. Jeez what happened?"
"Uhh, well they were in the Security room- but whatever! Do you have any leftover pizza I could give Purps here?" Red said, wrapping an arm around Purple, and surprisingly Purple didn't push Red away or struggle out of it.
"Damn! I was savin' some for me and Crust.." Yellow then turned over to Brown. "Hey Crust! Could I give Purple here your slices?"
Brown sighed. "Cheesy, give them yours. I'll give you some of mine tomorrow if you do."
Yellow thought of it for a few seconds before looking back at Red. "I guess I could give you my pieces.." Yellow said, grabbing a paper plate with four slices of pizza on it and handing it over to Red. "Now scram! Me and Crust here still got cleaning to do!" Yellow said with a chuckle, waving as Red and Purple walked away.
"thanks Yellow!" Red yelled back just before they closed the metal partition.
Red opened the door to their room, letting go of Purple as they placed the plate of pizza on the bedside table. Purple fell onto Red's bed and grabbed the plate of Pizza, eating quickly. Red took off their own hat, placing it on a hook by the door before sitting beside Purple.
Red thought of what happened to Purple to make them act like this all of a sudden.. Two days ago was the last time they saw Purple before all this, and they were acting pretty weirdly. The shaking, and why were they just standing there? Did they see something? Red couldn't figure it out fully yet, so maybe they should just ask Purple.. well, when they're fully awake in the morning..
After Purple ate all the pizza, Red gave them some water and Purple gulped that down pretty quickly too.
"Take it easy Purps, your going to throw up if you drink that fast.." Red said, chuckling slightly. Purple placed the empty plate and bottle down before sighing "I'll be fine, Red. You don't have to baby me.."
Red the grabbed Purple's shoulders and turned Purple to look at them. "Well maybe I have to! You couldn't take care of yourself properly for three days! Sorry, but look, I don't know what's going on with you, so maybe you can tell me in the morning or something, but I really want to help." Red then chuckled softly. "It is my job as captain to make sure everyone's feeling alright.. Which includes you.."
When did Red get so serious!? Purple was confused for sure, but honestly they liked see Red all worried about them.. It felt nice to feel like you weren't a burden or something. Purple felt themselves relax a bit, shoulders loosening up as Red's hands rested on top of them. Red brought their hand up to Purple's face and cupped their cheek, Purple leaning their face to rest on Red's hand. Red inched their body forward, slowly moving closer to the other. Red removed their other hand from Purple's shoulder and lowered it down to grab Purple's hand, interlocking both their fingers.
Purple watched as Red awkwardly inched their face closer to the other, eyes darting down to Purple's lips before looking back at their eyes. Purple nodded, silently telling Red they were ok with this. Red moved closer how slow they were moving almost killing Purple.
"Damnit, you're too slow with this." Purple said, before quickly pulling Red up to their face and kissing them. Red Froze, then melted into that kiss, lowering Purple down onto the bed so they were both laying down, kissing. Purple wrapped their arms around Red's waist as Red Moved a hand to Purple's hair, playing with it softly.
Purple broke off the kiss and rested their head onto the pillow. "I could fall asleep like this.." they said, Red chuckling slightly. "Me too, Purps.."