Bench trio- a dsmp vigilante au

The meeting pt 2

Quackity pov~

Portal was definitely panicking.

While it wasn't super clear, I could tell.

This wasn't going to end well.

I stood up and grabbed their wrist, pulling them down so I could mumble in their ear, "you need a few minutes?" They hastily nodded and so i looked at the confused heroes,

"This Syndicate member will talk later, bye!" With that I walked out of the room, still holding Portals wrist, well the black arm guard that was on their wrist.

I walked straight to one off the adjacent living rooms the hero common room floor, as it was dubbed, offered and let go. Portal immediately sat down with their back against the wall and their knees against their chest, they looked down at the floor with wide eyes and their hands were shaking. 

I quickly walked closer and crouched down infrount of them only to hear that their breathing had sped up and had become ragged.

Shit.

They were having a panic attack.

Sapnap pov~

After Quackity had clearly noticed something we hadn't, I almost immediately got up to follow him and Portal, Karl hot on my tail even if he didn't know where I was going or what I was doing.

It took us about five minutes to track them down, but I heard muffled gasps and soothing mumbles coming from one of the smaller living rooms. so we both immediately burst through the door, if Quackity had decided to fuck the new hero, he should have chosen a different time and place.

Instead we were greeted with a much different scene.

Portal was sat up against the wall, clearly struggling to breath and he was shaking violently. Quackity was kneeling infrount of him and trying to calm him down, reaching over and placing Portals hand over his heart,

"Feel the rise and fall of my chest ok? Can you try and follow my breathing? Feel my heart beat and try and get yours to follow if you can." He calmly spoke, all of his attention of the hero who was clearly having a panic attack. Neither of them had noticed us yet so we just watched as Quackity slowly calmed down Portal.

A pool of sadness and longing pooled inside my chest. I missed Quackity and I still loved him. I didn't want to have to chose between him or Karl, I wanted to keep dating them both, but Karl couldn't stand Quackity so I had to chose. I also severely regret not taking Q seriously when he was concerned about Karls memory, because while the other heroes might believe his story, I knew he had lost all good memories of Quackity, but I couldn't do anything  about it.

My attention was diverted when Karl walked over to the duo and tapped Quackity on the shoulder, causing him to violently flinch and fall to the side as he practically lerched out of his skin, his wings going all spiky as he prepared to launch them at us until he saw who we were. Karl ignored him and instead spoke directly at Portal, but I walked straight to Quackity and picked him up and back onto his feet.

The duck hero still looked quite shaken up for some reason, so I decided to start a conversation, "hey Quackity, long time no see?" I face palmed. 

That was the worse start in the history of mankind, but it made Q chuckle, 

"Saw you in the hero room, but I was honestly completely unaware that you had followed us." He gave me a small smile, but it quickly fell when he looked at Portal and Karl. I looked down and fidgeted with my hands, 

"Look Alex, I- I've got to get something off my chest that I've been meaning to tell you for a while." i started, making Quackity cock his head and nudge me with one of his wings, "I- I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry Alex, I shouldn't have completely left you, I know that Karls completely forgotten who you are and I'm sorry for not taking you seriously when you brought his memory up. I'm sorry for not defending you and I'm sorry for ghosting you. I- I still love you Alexis." I whispered the ending, and reached out to stroke one of Quackitys wings.

Normally Avians and Elytrains and anyone with wings love it when people stoke their wings, Phil practically melts whenever someone does it to him. Quackity however is different. I don't know why but he petrified of anyone touching his wings, he also very rarely stretches them or uses them. The only time I'd seen him properly fly was the night I first met him, it was also when Nihachu came up with the idea that we should give him an internship to become a hero. 

If anyone touches his wings, he immediately gets the fuck out of whatever room he was in, we never knew why, but Karl and I once followed him and found that he was having a panic attack. And he told us that whenever anyone touches his wings, it often triggers a panic attack. He let Karl and I touch his wings after he told us this, but he still wouldn't stretch them for us and would still look extremely scared or panicked whenever we would do it, but he wouldn't run.

So when I gently caressed the edge of his wing, he immediately tensed and closed his eyes for a few seconds before opening them, and I could tell he was fighting his fear and panic. Yet he didn't run away or move his wing away from my hand, so I continued to gently stoke his wing.

We stayed like that for a few minutes until Karl spoke, "we should probably get back to the meeting guys, we've been gone for about 20 minutes now." I sighed and removed my hand from Quackitys wing, immediately missing the softness of his feathers and the warmth of his body.

Portal shakily stood up and held our their hands for us, indicating that they would teleport us back to the common room. One by one we grabbed their hands or arm and a second later, we were right up front of the heroes, practically crashing into the other Syndicate members.