The Day After(Story Post)Dusty woke up feeling gross and groggy. His tongue tasted like alcohol, and
The Day After(Story Post)Dusty woke up feeling gross and groggy. His tongue tasted like alcohol, and he didn’t feel rested at all. Grey wasn’t trying to poke him awake like he often did around five in the morning, so he assumed it was not yet time to get up and he made an attempt to catch more sleep.“Oh, you’re awake.”A familiar but unexpected voice startled him, and his eyes flew open. After a few seconds adjusting, his eyes focused on the smiling figure looming over him.“Good morning,” Yori said cheerfully.“Yori? What are you…” Dusty sat up and looked around, his heart immediately sinking to the pit of his stomach.He wasn’t in his own bed. Instead, Dante was fast asleep to one side of him, and Ruben’s body was snuggled up against him on the other side. Yori was sitting crisscross apple sauce on Dusty’s legs. He was wearing no more than a long open dress shirt and boxers, his pregnant belly largely on display in his lap.“No, no, no…” Dusty’s heart raced as he took in the reality of the situation. “Get off me, right now!”Yori blinked in surprise then slid off of Dusty so he could get up.Dusty got himself out from under the sheets, and realizing that he himself was completely nude, started looking around the room for his clothes. “This isn’t happening… This isn’t happening…”Yori sat on the edge of the bed. “Are you okay?”Dusty glared at Yori and trembled. “No, I’m not okay!” he whispered angrily, trying not to wake the others. “I just woke up in my ex’s bed with him and his husbands! How could this happen?!”Yori shrugged. “You all got really drunk last night. Like, really really drunk.”“Oh fuck… So did we… Did we?” Dusty dared to asked.“Did you what?” Yori asked.Dusty groaned. “Did we…sleep together last night?”Yori shook his head. “Nope.”Dusty breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh, thank fuck…”“I had to sleep in the kids’ room because you, Dante, and Ruben took up too much space having sex,” Yori said.Dusty felt his knees weaken and stumbled against a wall. “Oh no. No, no, no, no, no… This can’t happen…”Yori just watched him. “You’re done in the bed, right? I can get in?”Dusty looked at Yori. “Y-Yeah… Oh shit… Yori, I’m so sorry…”“Why?”“You had to sleep in the kids’ room on your wedding night… I’m sorry… That’s all my fault.”“Oh, that’s okay. I blame Lino. He got everyone really drunk. Well, not everyone… Syd, Köbi, and Dante’s parents left before the drinking games started. And Nathan didn’t drink either, so he was able to take Dax home. But everyone else is really really drunk.”Dusty started to remember now. Syd had even offered him a ride. He should’ve gone…“Where’s Grey?” Dusty asked.“Kidd’s room,” Yori said.“With the triplets and you?”“Oh, no. No space. Kidd’s room. Captain Kidd.”“Oh… Gotcha…”A groan from the bed made Dusty’s entire body tense up.Ruben sat up slowly, rubbing his face, then he turned, and his eyes rested on the demon. It took him a moment, but then his brain seemed to process the naked demon standing in his marital bedroom. “…Dusty?”Dusty panicked and grabbed the nearest item of clothing from the floor, held it front of his genitals before bolting out the door. To his chagrin, he realised he had only walked into their ensuite and trapped himself. Regardless, he locked the door and put on the boxers he’d picked up, not really thinking about the fact that as a demon he could just smooth everything down there…Before he could think of a plan of escape, there came a knock on the door.“Dusty…” Ruben’s voice could be heard. “If you’re still in there, don’t teleport away.”Dusty started sweating. Teleport? he thought to himself. I’m too fucking hungover to teleport…“Please let me in…” Ruben begged. “I don’t feel good…”Dusty took a moment to understand what he meant. Hesitantly, he opened the door.Ruben, also nude, hobbled inside and collapsed over the toilet, bringing up his dinner.This was an opening for Dusty. He could go grab Grey and teleport the fuck out of here.But he was frozen in place, staring at his ex’s partner bent over the porcelain bowl. He was naked and vulnerable. And Dusty was pretty sure he was wearing Ruben’s boxers…Dusty stepped back out to the bedroom and tried to stay calm as he started gathering his own clothes. Yori was still sitting there on the bed watching him, stroking his stomach in circles. They didn’t say a word to each other over the sounds of Ruben being sick in the toilet.Finally, Dusty got his outfit back together and then tossed Ruben’s boxers in a laundry hamper, assuming he had a fresh pair somewhere in a dresser drawer.Fully dressed, Dusty made for the door.“Dusty, wait!” Ruben called back to the demon, apparently done in the bathroom. He caught up to him with a towel around his waist and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Let’s talk about this…”“Let’s not!” Dusty said, backing up into the hallway. “I just want to get my son and go.”Ruben sighed, stepping out into the hall and closing the door behind him.“I just want to apologise,” Ruben said. “For all of this.”“Apologise? To me?” Dusty shook his head in bewilderment. “Ruben, it was your wedding night! Yours and Dante’s and Yori’s… I shouldn’t have even been there!”“Relax.” Ruben rubbed his forehead. “It’s not your fault… I think Lino knew you felt uncomfortable being there last night and he wanted to help you loosen up. But Lino is Lino, and he doesn’t understand when he’s going too far. You were roped into something you shouldn’t have… I’m sorry. And you don’t need to worry about us. Yori literally doesn’t care at all and Dante… I’ll deal with Dante. It’s okay.”“No, it’s not okay!” Dusty whimpered. “I…I don’t know what happened. I didn’t have control. The last time I… The last time I let my emotions take over… I…I had Grey.”Ruben blanched as the realisation set in. “…Well, shit. Uh…” He rubbed the back of his neck. “I mean, these aren’t the same circumstances, so…”“Yeah, they’re not the same! This is much worse than a fucking kiss!” Dusty spat, beginning to raise his voice.“Whoa! Relax, Dusty… Do you want to wake Dante?” Ruben took the demon’s face in his hands and looked at him seriously. “This was an accident. It happened and there’s no point wallowing in what we shouldn’t or should have done. Whatever consequences there are, we’ll figure it out, okay? Just relax.”Dusty looked up into Ruben’s face, his head shaking with tears forming. “I need to go. I just want to go home with my son.”Ruben nodded, releasing him. “Alright… I won’t keep you.”“Not a soul hears about this.”“Okay. Just…message me if you need anything.”Dusty chose not to answer that. He spun around and headed off to look for the door to Lino’s side of the house. A thousand emotions were swirling around in his stomach and he too felt like he might be sick. But what was that with Ruben? What was up with him?Dusty found Kidd’s room and quietly peeked in, just in case the children were asleep.Kidd was up playing a Gameboy and Grey was watching them play from their lap. When the door creaked open, they both looked up at Dusty.“Daddy!” Grey said, waving his chubby fingers in Dusty’s direction.Dusty smiled to him, coming over to pick him up. “Hey, we gotta go home, buddy. Say goodbye to Kidd.”“Bye-bye,” Grey said, waving to Kidd.“Bye,” Kidd said, waving back.“Thank you for watching him,” Dusty said.“See ya,” Kidd said before returning to his game.Dusty held Grey against his chest, did his best to clear his mind, and disappeared. -- source link
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