Mindcrack Oneshots

Stormy (Setho)

This is in memory of Etho, may his place in Mindcrack fanfiction be remembered and upheld.

Etho trudged through the damp grass, uprooting the tiny blossoms he passed. The sun has finally come out after a long night of storms, spring air clear and sharp. It would be a happy day for most, spent dancing around the blooming fields of sunflowers and repairing the wear on the gravel paths from heavy snowfall that spring.

But for Etho, the light breeze didn't make his heart open up and soar, it made him sick with despair. It wasn't his fault he felt this way, nor was it really anyone elses. He had mutually made the agreement with Guude on purely legal terms. He really wasn't that interested in the group that much anymore, having been bored for the last few months.

Knowing this, one might think he simply wouldn't care, wouldn't feel gut wrenching regret. Yet he did. He did because after packing away his belongings, and shutting down his booths and shops, he remembered one person he still had to tell about him leaving the town. Seth. Just the thought of Seth made his heart burn in useless fury, depression simply melting the angst away into a dull throbbing in his chest.

He was aproaching the center of the town, head hanging down, when a crack of lightning snapped him out of his deep throughts. The roar of thunder got his feet moving faster. He hated storms.

Rain came out of nowhere, drenching all around and on the man, sending him in a frenzied panic for cover. The nearest open building was the dark oak tower about a hundred blocks away. He didn't think about the owner, or who he would find inside the place, just alleviating the terror the storm was causing him.

He yanked open the sturdy door, dashing inside, just barely slamming the door behind him. Whipping around, he collapsed on the one person he was actively trying to avoid. Of course, it was Seth, the one man that could make him feel this awful, this antsy.

"Whoa Etho, calm down there buddy, it looks like you've just seen a ghost." Seth stared at his paled, drenched, panting friend with concern in his deep cocoa colored eyes.

"The s-storm." Etho was shivering rom the cold and the small amount of space between them. The Redstone expert mouthed a small 'oh' and tugged the man up into his quarters so he could get some dry clothes and sit by the flames carefully living in the fireplace Bdubs had just installed, the last fireplace he would install.

Etho finally got changed and Seth walked back in the room with a mug of warm milk for the blanketed man. Etho' heart jumped a little at the kind geusture, the corners of his lips tugged upwards, uncovered from his usual head wrap. This was the only chance he would get to tell Seth his feelings, it was quite literally now or never.

"Seth?" It was barely a whisper as he struggled to get the syllables out in the right order.

"Yes Etho?" The man set down the mug and waited for Etho to continue with intruige.

"This is my only chance I have left to tell you something I should have a long time ago. I love you Seth, I really do. I made the wrong choice of leaving, but I had get that off my chest before I leave you forever." Etho looked down at his clasped hands on top of the red duvet, ashamed and nervous for his reaction.

And then, the unexpected happens as Seth leaned in and kissed his own crush before it was too late.

(End note: sorry if this is kinda a downer but it's raining here and I had to get out my sadness about the mindcrack thing so yeah. Also I feel like only Etho will be missed in the shipping community, even though the Salad plans to keep him on. Do you guys feel the same? Anyways, prompts/Requests are still open, blah blah blah *comments about shitty weather* blah blah blah *good way of saying thank you for the support on this book* blah blah, love all you peeps from the Mindcrack fandom!)