Hermitcraft and Empires Oneshots

Pining (Scott)

This is an empires smp one shot with flashbacks to 3rd life. I know it's not hermitcraft, and I know I'm procrastinating finishing Kidnapped right now, but I'm not in the mood to write it and I'm not going to force myself. Anyway, onto the fic. Also, I got in the mood to write this after reading some of Hermitcraft_Queen 's ScottXJimmy oneshots, which were great btw. Also check out her Tangtho books. I've only read one so far, but it was great and I'm sure the other one is too.

Scott P.O.V.

I watched from a distance as Jimmy began another building on his empire. His building skills, while still not the best, had improved greatly since he had been on Empires SMP.

Sighing, I attempted to turn away before returning my gaze back to the codfather. It was almost as if an invisible line kept me focused on him. Of course, I knew what it was.

It was love. The love I had for Jimmy. It had first developed in 3rd life, the chaotic help hold that no one wanted to remember. Three members of that server had ended up in Empires when it was over, and none of them had talked much about what happened.

However, there were instances when a worried Lizzie would be panicking in chat while trying to comfort Joel after a nightmare, or Pix would worry when Jimmy occasionally had to cut collaborations short, and he recognized the tears as he walked away.

I hadn't been able to escape the emotional damage either, it had taken a tool on everyone. I could often be found wandering the ground of my empire at night after waking up from a nightmare, or watching Jimmy, in a constant state of pining.

You might ask why I didn't just to and talk to him. Why I had pretended we were at a disagreement, or why I sort of allied with Fwhip, his enemy. It was because I was scared.

This server wasn't going to be void of conflict either, and I worried for him. I didn't want to get close to him again, only to lose him when wars started breaking out.

I felt bad for Jimmy though. He seemed sad whenever he was alone, with a hunched back and defeated look. His eyes didn't have their old shine, that fire that I had fallen for not too long ago.

You have no idea how much I wanted to go and comfort him, but my fear always kept me back. I couldn't go through getting back what we had, only to lose it again if he were to die when a war broke out. We had respawn, but it wasn't always perfect. Sometimes people ended up on different servers.

It hurt my heart how everyone was kind of bullying Jimmy. First when Sausage had taken his disc, which caused the whole war between him and the wither rose alliance. Luckily he found some good allies and friends, between Pix, Joel and Lizzie.

And then again when Fwhip covered his mortal in stone, and then blowing up his empire when asked to remove it. Even though I was there I couldn't stop them. That didn't prevent me from trying, but I still felt guilty afterward for letting them destroy Jimmy's empire.

I did help Jimmy repair the damage and redecorate his portal with Gem and Joel, and it ended up looking pretty good. I got to see him genuinely happy when we were finished, which made it all worth it.

However, it did get difficult to shrug off his gaze, which landed on me more often than not. I pointedly ignored it, hoping it would go away soon enough. It did, but he was sad after that and the guilt returned knowing I was the one who made him sad.

Now, I was back in my empire after he had gone inside his house to sleep. I wandered aimlessly along the stone paths, not finding joy wandering my builds like I usually would.

I just wanted to be with Jimmy again. Like we were in 3rd life. Before the fighting broke out and I lost him, before our relationship was broken by the chaos around us and the death of my beloved.