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It was thundering outside, the rain sounding like firecrackers as it hit the wet dirt. Egg and Wemmbu sat huddled in a hole on the side of the mountain in clown pierces prison. The fire they started occasional crackled, breaking the silence that surrounded them. Smoke from the fire lazily drifts into the hole in the ceiling, something they made to make sure the smoke wouldn't suffocate them.
Egg was freezing, as usual, and had his hands practically in the fire, knees close to his chest while he sits on a log overgrown with moss. He can't help but wonder about how old it is. Probably very much by the amount of rings circled. Damn they're really out here chopping down ancient artifacts of nature.
He glances towards wemmbu, who has his gaze fixed towards the fire, practically glaring at it, like it was the thing that trapped them in here.
Egg rubs his eye with a sort of daze that presents itself when you don’t rest for 2 days, which is his indication it's time to finally sleep while the alliance lasts. He stretches his shoulder and, ouch, his corset really dug into him in this position. And while he just wanted to get in the bed and sleep, Wemmbu was still glowering at the fire and well, that’s his best friend, so he has to do something.
He sits back down next to Wemmbu, much closer than his previous position and props his eye in his hands and elbows on his lap. He only gets a glance in response.
“So why are we staring at the fire like it put us in prison?” he starts, his voice smooth and unbothered as it always sounds. Wemmbu chuckles in response as his gaze softens, but still doesn't turn to face him.
Egg waits for a response, not pressuring him as he presumably finds some bullshit answer to say.
“Its nothing,” Wemmbus mumbles, and egg notices how his fidgeting with his cape only increases.
“Okay.” Egg shrugs, turning to look at the fire.
A beat passes.
“Okay like how are you not bothered,” Wemmbu blurts. Yep, there it is.
“Well cause mainly cause I know you're gonna come up with some genius plan to escape, and also like theres a D1 fishing lake—“ Egg responds, waving his hand around but is interrupted.
“What? No I'm not talking about here. I mean kinda am, but in general. Like how you got kidnapped before at Zams,” wemmbu says with a strain in his voice that isn't normally there. Egg looks back at Wemmbu to see his eyes now slightly scrunched, still facing the fire.
He blinks and then suddenly is brought back to echoes of loud ringing around him and his freshly ironed suit being drenched. He wonders too why it didn’t bother that much, excluding the occasional nightmare. Probably because—
“I dunno. Maybe because I knew you were coming to get me,” he says truthfully, one of his arms settling next to him on the log. “Oh and the knowledge that zams kingdom was about to be blown up into like, genuine smithereens. That helped,” he adds pleasantly. wemmbu giggle a little louder than he had before, his hair bobbing up and down alongside him.
“I mean yeah but like...” Wemmbus voice trails off as his expression hardens again “You know it'll happen again ” he says, almost like whatever he's talking about already did, and egg is unsure.
“What will?” Egg asks, confused. he notices their shadows shifting in sync with the fire as it dances up and down.
“You getting kidnapped.” Wemmbu replies, his mouth flattening into a line as his eyes scrunch.
“I mean, you'll come and get me right?”
But Wemmbus eyes only scrunch further “But what if I can't. What if, one day it's something so insane, so impossible, so hopeless that—” Wemmbu squeezes his eyes shut, and Egg would think he's in genuine pain with the way his eyebrows are knitting together if he didn’t know better “—that I can't really…” Wemmbu voice cracks, and he doesn't bother finishing what he was going to say, letting egg fill in the blank.
“well I'm—“ Egg tries but is immediately interrupted. Again.
“You need to go get away from me,” Wemmbu says so certainly that egg is left stunned.
“I'm serious Egg, when we get out of here you need to go somewhere far far away, without me, ” he says frantically, eyes wide with panic. his words speeding up the more he talks, “I'm talking like 5-10k, no, million blocks away from spawn. it won't be so bad, you can live out your fisher life in peace. Away from spawn and away from m—“ Wemmbu stops when Eggs puts his hand over his mouth, and finally turns his head around to face him for the first time.
“Look bro, first things first, we're sticking together, no matter what,” Egg says, and he can feel Wemmbu trying to speak so he just clamps down firmer. “Uh uh uh, I said no matter what, which includes whatever you're about to speak yo,” he states noticing how wemmbus eyebrows are still drawn together. He doesn't try to move eggs hand.
“Okay, I'm gonna be honest. You're probably right, I'm probably getting my ass caged up again, maybe a hundred times more, maybe a thousand—“ he notices Wemmbus eyebrows knitting together tighter “—but honestly? I don’t care. I don’t care how impossible of like a situation we are in, because don’t you think it's worth it dude? To fight for us? For each other?” he sees Wemmbu's eyebrow go up in what he can only imagine to be shock.
“Like I'm being deadass. The entire server could be on our ass and I still wouldn’t regret ever logging on because guess who's running away from them next to me. And like you can be all ‘ohh we're so doomed we will never be free.’ but it's worth it. For as long as we fight for each other, no matter the situation, no matter the prison, it'll always be worth it cause in the end we're always back together again,” he finishes, and he and Wemmbu both stare at each other in silence for a while, before wemmbu shifts, twisting his body to fully face Egg, and—
—ew what the fuck. Egg pulls back his hand like he burned it. In typical Wemmbu fashion, he had disgustingly licked his hand.
“Dude are we serious,” Egg hisses, his eyebrow curving downwards as he grips his wrist.
Wemmbu annoyingly laughs, and laughs, curling over as he places his arms on his stomach. Egg uses every inch of his self-restraint not to join him so he doesn't encourage bad behavior, but can't stop the small slip of of his eye curving slightly upwards.
“Dude do you know the amount of germs on my hand? Actually you probably gave me some more from your mouth—“ Egg is interrupted as Wemmbu lunges at him in a tight embrace. His face buried in eggs shoulder and his arms wrapping tightly around eggs torso. His ribs would be squeezing if he had any.
”Okay,” Wemmbu says softly, the warmth of his breath seeping into eggs tux, “We’ll stay together.”
Egg slowly lowers his arms to hug back, and takes this opportunity to wipe his hand on Wemmbus cape.
Wemmbu looks up as he feels egg hand. “Darlight buddy.” and at that they both devolve into laughter, Wemmbus loud laughs complimenting eggchans giggles as the smoke from the fire slowly continues to rise.
Wemmbu stands infront of flames base, his cape swaying behind him. He was right, egg had been kidnapped many many more times time after that conversation. They both lost themselves in search for power for a while, but they made it out, together. And then Egg had been kidnapped some more but then they finally, finally found peace. they were doing so well, before blue trims showed up.
Wemmbus grip tightens around his orbital as he thinks back to how he tried to play him like he was stupid, then he finds out flames was involved again and Wemmbus heart had dropped in disappointment. Because Flame? Doesn't he understand? He has his own chungy too. So how could he?
But he shouldn’t be surprised considering Flame and Eggs history the brief moments they’ve had together... He almost tells egg to tell Flame and everyone else they aren't friends anymore, and that they'll never see each other again but—
— dances near his hands as he hears his best friends thinly veiled concern in his voice, while he stubbornly refuses to look at—
—on his mouth forcing to shut up as he yaps on and on but wemmbu got the general picture and feels his chest swell up in something that feels like—
Wemmbu smiles as he thinks back to a time where he watched smoke slowly curl up in front of him and shakes his head. He rolls his shoulders, cracks his knuckles and lets his mouth split open into a grin. Then he struts towards Flame's base with a confidence that wasn't there before.
He has to get his Egg back again, and that’s okay. cause he'll do it as many times as he needs to.
For them.