Caught in the Middle (Ben X Reader)

Chapter 5

Ben rests his head on my shoulder from behind me as I was writing notes down from the screen in front of me. I was still figuring out the last few parts of the formula. I had it almost figured out so I was working extra hard recently in order to get it finished for Ben. With the recent events that happened between Ben and me, we were a lot closer. Ben wraps his arms around my waist tightly as I move to look through the data on the screen. 

"Stop moving so much" Ben growls at me. 

I roll my eyes. "If you're tired go lay down or something," I say to him. 

"Only if you lay down with me," Ben says to me.

I sigh "Ben I have to get this finished." I say to him. 

I feel Ben move one of his arms from around me. He moves slightly behind me before I feel his lips press against my shoulder. I turn around to see he has taken his mask of. 

"Put the mask back on," I say to him.

"I will if you come to lay down with me," Ben says as he quickly leans in kissing me. 

 "You're blackmailing me now?" I ask after Ben pulls away. I could see Ben's breathing start to labor slightly. "Ben come on put your mask back on." 

"Come lay down with me," Ben says slightly out of breath. 

"Okay fine," I say which gets Ben to finally put his mask back on. 

Once Ben takes a deep breath to breathe in the serum he pulls the mask away to kiss me again. I lean into the kiss slightly as I grab his hands. I pull out of the kiss and pull Ben over to the air mattress I had set up for Ben when he stayed the other night. I sit down on the air mattress before pulling Ben down next to me. Ben puts his mask on to take a few more breathes before taking it off again to kiss me. I smile slightly as I lean more into the kiss. Ben lays me down on the bed climbing over me slightly as he continues to kiss me. I wrap my arms around him gently as I pull him closer to me. Once I started to feel his breathing labor I shoved him off me playfully causing Ben to whine as he puts his mask back on.

"Listen if you didn't need the mask we could do this longer," I say to him.

"I know I know," Ben says to me as he lays down next to me. 

I roll onto my side setting my head on his shoulder gently. Ben's arms wrap around me tightly pulling me closer. I close my eyes as I start to relax eventually falling asleep in the safety of Ben's arms. 

I wake to the air mattress being empty and a blanket over my shoulders. I look around the room to see that I was completely alone. I slowly get up keeping the blanket around me. I slowly walk upstairs to the first floor of my house to see if maybe Ben had come upstairs for something but the whole upstairs portion of my house was empty. I scrunch my nose up slightly in confusion as normally Ben tells me when he leaves. 

I look over at the clock on the stove to see that it was almost 4 in the morning. I yawn as I walk over to make some coffee since I was already awake and I wasn't really planning on going back to sleep at this point. Once the coffee was made I grabbed a cup and headed back down to the basement. I sit down at the desk with the blanket still around me as I tiredly get back to work. 

I must have fallen back asleep as someone shook me awake. I jump up quickly look around only to see Ben standing there looking at me. I sigh in relief once I saw it was him. 

"Don't do that" I growl at him as I rub my face slightly. 

"Sorry. I brought you some fresh coffee" Ben says sitting the mug down near me on the desk. 

"Oh thank you," I say as I pick up the mug taking a sip of the coffee Ben brought me. "Where did you go?" 

"I had to go get a few things from the RV since I've been staying here," Ben says. 

I nod slightly. "And you did that in the middle of the night why?"

"Easier to travel without being seen" Ben explains as he wraps his arms around me tightly. 

"Makes sense," I say before yawning. I look down at the document in front of me. "Ben," I say quickly picking up the document. 

"What?" He asks looking at the document. 

I look at him smiling. "Someone how in my tired state I did it. I have the formula for the serum." 

Ben looks at the document before looking at me. "You, my love, are a fucking miracle," Ben says before he removes his mask to kiss me deeply. "How can I ever repay you?" Ben asks as he pulls away from the kiss sliding his mask on. 

"Don't leave me," I say to him.

"What?" He says looking at me

"You have the formula to the serum now... you have no use for me now," I say as look down.

Ben puts his hand under my chin and makes me look at him "Y/N I don't plan on leaving you. Over the past few weeks of us being around each other. I've found that I don't want to be away from you. I'm not ever going to leave you, okay?" 

I nod as I look up at him. Ben removes his mask once again to pull me into another deep kiss. A weight was lifted off my shoulders as Ben told me he was never gonna leave me. I found myself falling more and more for the Ben the longer I was around him.