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💤sleepover (oneshot)

this story takes place in an au where the science team + reader escaped black mesa and are now living normal lives with normal jobs (while succesfully avoiding the authorities! they did wipe out the entire us army after all)

gordon works in a coffee shop, tommy is a veterinarian, benrey is a twitch streamer and lives in tommy's basement, dr. coomer and bubby are married and both work as chemistry teachers at some random high school lol. idk what the reader does, you guys decide :)

this information is totally irrelevant to the story i just felt like sharing it :D

description: the science team has a sleepover at gordon's house. warning! gay things happen!

gender neutral reader, 2nd pov

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poke.

poke poke.

...poke.

alright this was starting to get annoying. you turned to your right, glaring at the person attacking you with pokes. of course he was grinning like the little shit he is. "benrey. stop it." you said in annoyance.

you were currently lying on the cold floor of gordon's apartment, body snug in an old sleeping bag that totally failed at keeping you warm. to your right lies benrey, who's only wearing some random pajamas that he probably stole from gordon, no sleeping bag or blanket or anything.

he's still wearing his security guard helmet though. you learned pretty quickly that benrey enjoys wearing it all the time. you've never seen him take it off actually. you're cool with that tho. it suits him! very benrey-like.

your glare softened at the sight of benrey only lying in oversized pajamas. he.. probably wasn't human, but you still didn't want him to catch a cold. he was your friend! "dude, aren't you cold?" you slipped one hand from your sleeping bag and tucked a strand of benrey's hair away from his eyes. "you should get a blanket or something, i dunno. stop poking me, by the way."

poke.

sigh. how childish.

how did you even end up like this, you ask? well, someone from the science team (cough cough- bubby) decided it would be funny to have a sleepover at gordon's house (without his permission or knowledge, of course). you were totally coming too, but you still felt bad for gordon, so you made him some cookies as compensation. fortunately, those cookies made gordon refrain from throwing everyone from the same window that you guys snuck in through. yay! you don't blame him for freaking out so much though. you would also get pretty scared if a group of 5 people randomly snuck into your apartment through a bathroom window at 10 pm, haha.

however, gordon realized that even if he got your wonderful cookies, he was still going to suffer the night. oh well! at least you apologized for intruding. he searched through his house for some sleeping bags and blankets, and thankfully there was enough for everyone. benrey, coomer and bubby each got a sleeping bag, tommy got a comically large one because he's the tallest, gordon took some old blanket and you got (allegedly) the best sleeping bag that gordon owns. it was your favorite color, and yeah, it was comfy, but it wasn't thick enough to keep you warm for the whole night.

well, at least you had something unlike benrey, but looking at him now, you doubted he felt cold. where even is his sleeping bag..?