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Suho woke up to what felt like moths in his mouth. Which. Okay. Rude. He also woke up feeling fuzzy. His whole body felt like it was made of lead. Or he was suspended in fucking lime jello. Honestly, whichever was more probable… He felt like he'd been asleep forever- oh shit he didn't miss work did he? Wait, no. He was in a different world now. Right, he was Lloyd Frontera!
Fuck did he miss work?
No, no, he had been in Cremo? Maybe? Doing something with a mermaid? Something about a lobster?
Lloyd groaned and a soft gasp came from somewhere next to him.
“Lloyd..?”
Lloyd smiled happily. Good. Javier was here.
He opened his eyes and reeled back and hissed, “Holy cow Javier what the hell happened to you last night? You look like shit, and that's saying something considering your main character beauty and your protagonist's complexion! Seriously you're almost as ugly as I- wha- why are you making that face- Javier?”
Lloyd panicked and, just maybe, allowed the hooligan persona to drop.
Javier choked out a sigh as his hand came to cover his eyes, “Young master… excuse my behavior…”
Lloyd gave Javier a suspicious look, “What? Why are you looking at me like that? Weirdo.”
Javier sighed, “Do you really not know?”
He gave his knight a cocky grin.
Javier continued, “We were fighting the Gigatitan, I became indisposed and you finished it off. You've been in a coma for a month now.”
Lloyd laughed thus startling Javier, “That's all? You had acted like someone died or something-”
“You did.” Javier cut Lloyd off.
He played dumb, “Uh, I'm clearly alive?”
His knight, for once, looked almost… scared.
“You died.” Javier said with such seriousness that Lloyd could barely bare to hear it.
Javier continued, “Your heart was stopped and you weren't breathing when I found you. The doctor doesn't know how you managed to pull through.”
Lloyd nodded, “It'll take a lot more to kill the great Lloyd Frontera!”
Javier glared, “No. Stop treating this like your life is worthless, like it's okay if you die. It's not. I- We were so close to losing you.”
He squinted at Javier, “You were gonna say ‘I', not ‘we'.”
His knight shot him a scathing look, “Now is not the time to-”
“You were worried about me.” Lloyd declared victoriously as a devilish grin wormed it's way onto his face.
Javier fumed and Lloyd noted with curiosity that his knight's ears were tinged with pink and Javier’s cheeks were also flushed in a rosey color and that was a blush if Lloyd had ever saw one and-
Oh.
Javier had been worried about him.
Lloyd found himself blushing, “I- I didn't know that you cared. I'm not really worthy of your care. I-”
“Lloyd.” Javier said softly.
Just Javier saying his name had heat rising to his face. Imagine if Javier had said- nope. No. Not right now. Lloyd looked to Javier. Javier looked back.
“You're worthy of love. You're worth so much more than what you think you are.” Javier said in a matter of fact tone that had him truly believing it.
Javier smirked, “You're still ugly though.”
Lloyd erupted in threats of pay-docking, swindling, and heavy labor. Javier snidely continued to insult him through a not-so-thin veil of compliments.
All was right in the world.