unrecked | cloud ☁️

[His hand lowers. He opens his mouth, then closes it.]

No... I... It's fine. I don't know if that... would count in breaking the adjusted contract. Don't... worry about it. She'll be okay. They'll know what to do if she's missing and not...

[Dead.]

... Think you're more worried than I am right now, Jay.

[ he's still holding onto his arm as he peers up at him ]

... It'll be alright.

I'm... fine.

[IS HE? He drops his forehead down directly on one of Cloud's shoulders. Goodbye forever. He's astral projecting because things are going from zero to sixty straight to hell.]

I'm fine.

[ oof. he raises his free hand to pat jason's back ]

Sure. [ he sounds so dubious. ] How'd you even last this many weeks without telling anyone?

[ it's wry, in a "you look like a ball of extreme stress please" ]

[This is why he's so off-orbit now is because he's held it in for so long!!]

By very slowly losing my grasp on sanity instead of letting it go all at once.

Sounds like that was a shit idea.

[ he hesitates and then turns his head to kiss the side of jason's ]

... She was well enough to call a meeting to show her tape. It'll be alright.

Was a shit idea.

[Wow, he will agree... but only because it's Cloud. Who he would also tell it's a shit idea to if the roles were reversed.]

I know. I never wanted to put the girls in, and both times I did--goddammit.

[It's not angry, just TIRED at himself. He doesn't lift his head but does bump it gently against Cloud's.]

[ this is what your misogyny gets you, todd. jason does the head bump and cloud moves his hand to pet his head instead of leaving it on his bed. still hesitant but god look at all this touching progress. incredible. ]

Yeah. Your luck's shittier than mine. [ and that is saying something!! ]

[STOP. Help him. He never asked for this... Also wow, Cloud is just giving him so much affection when he has no mood to tease the shit out of him for it.

Dryly:] Thanks a lot. [A pause.] "Babe."

[Okay maybe a little teasing, but not about the physical affection.]

[ PLEASE he's flustered and looking away, mumbling ]

Shut up. Was a task. [ he reported it so he can say it now!!! ]

[Hehe. This gets him to lift his head and glance at Cloud. There is, like, the tiniest smirk on his face.]

You can call me babe if you want.

[ shaking his head looking like he wants to die why are you LIKE THIS jason ]

I'm not calling you babe. [ even just saying it in that context makes him want to die ]

[It's making him feel better! Funny how Cloud always manages it with the stupidity between them.]

I'll settle with Jay then.

[ jason's like yeah. be a snarky bitch! i love it! ]

You'd better, because I'm not doing more nicknames than that, Jay. [ we're all ignoring that he started doing it because jason literally went :D!!!! when he did it as an exhausted idiot once ]

[He does. Unfortunately. Yeah.]

Jay is enough.

[HE DOESN’T MEAN FOR THIS TO SOUND NEARLY AS POIGNANT AND SOFT AS IT DOES, but whatever. He just meant he is fine with Jay and that’s it. He doesn’t need anything fancy.]

[ he doesn't mean it to sound poignant and soft but it Does and cloud is flustered. ]

... Good to know.

[ his solution to fluster is to kiss jason so he can't be teased. it only works 25% of the time but he's trying ]

[This is one of those 25% of times because it shuts Jason up, though maybe that’s also because he has been about to vibrate out of his skin since Lup and the others got back.

He deflates!! He hates it but he deflates and kisses Cloud back.]

[ this only teaches him to do it more. it's a cycle.

he's cupping jason's face gently and keeping the kiss soft, but also on this side of long. one might even call it.......... tender.

horrible. gay. ]

[This is the most tender and gay thing imaginable. He likes it okay, but it makes his stomach feel hot and tight.

Thank God they aren’t sharing a mind palace, or Cloud would have gotten the fact he thinks he doesn’t deserve anything like this. Anything soft.

He decides to kiss Cloud back a little more fervently because that’s who he is as a person.]

[ who he is as a person is a dumbass. i mean, cloud kisses back with that same fervor because he is ALSO stupid, but if he knew Jason was being a dumbass he wouldn't!!

its fine he also pulls away first because they are still somewhat public and that gives him hives ]

... Alright, drawing the line at making out in hallways.

[ pda.... No!! ]

[Irritatingly, he gets the worst mischievous smirk on him.]

You not into being a bad boy, Cloud?

[He purposefully gives Cloud another good kiss, if short. Then he keeps pecking kisses, then he starts pecking kisses obnoxiously all over Cloud’s face. PDA!]

[ he foolishly lets the first kiss happen, and then makes a disgruntled cat noise as his face scrunches up under the attention ]

It's not about being a bad boy--stop, no one needs to see this.

[ FLUSTERED AND FROWNING and shoving his hand in Jason's face. no!!! ]

[Soooo funny. Easy to bully. Successful.

It makes him chuckle even if it’s weak, but he does stop trying to be annoying with the kisses. Instead, he kind of butts Cloud’s hand with his face before pulling away.]

…I know.

[A kind of tacked on thing for Cloud saying thing’s be fine.]

[ freed of kisses he kind of gets what Jason means, so. he peers at him as if to make sure he's telling the truth ]

... Alright. [ squeezes his arm a bit ] You good to go?

[ or does he still need like. five minutes to chill before pretending he is not burying people with a group ]

[Thanks for not letting him shoot into space, yeah. He nods.]

Yeah. I’m good. […] For now.

[Joking!]

Let’s check on Lup before she phases through the wall after us.

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