Hermitcraft, Empires Smp & Life Series One-shots

Just Jokes? [HC 8/YHS] (Hurt/comfort) {Grian}

Look, I know a lot of the recent chapters have been yhs Grian angst, but I've been really enjoying writing that lately. Plus, I have only got one request so far, and that was YHS grian, so yeahhhh.

Anyways, it does end happy, so that's good! Just a bit of sad Grian for you

TW

Panic attack

Mention of Sam

Mention of knife/sword

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"What's going on, guys?" Impulse wandered over to the chaotic mass of hermits. "Impy!" Tango jumped into the brunette's arms, "Hi! We were just playing a game." "Oh? What game?" Impulse raised an eyebrow. Zedaph butted in, also now hugging onto Impulse from behind, "Seeing if we could scare the other hermits. Nobody has been able to scare Grian!"

The three of them glanced over to Scar complaining that he couldn't scare Grian, while laying on said person's lap. "Scar, you have to get up for us to be able to continue the game, y'know?" Grian pointed out, chuckling at the cat loving hermit sighing dramatically before sitting up. "Boo!" Ren yelled, jumping at Grian from behind. "When I'm expecting people to try to scare me, I don't even get surprised!" Grian bragged.

"Eh, I'll join you guys." Impulse told them, joining the full group, Zed and Tango still clinging onto him. "Impulse, you should try to scare Grian!" Mumbo suggested.

Grian glanced around at his friends. He was honestly proud. Proud that he wasn't getting scared, or even really surprised. All his true fears were not common fears, so nobody had used them thankfully.

"I had an idea of what to do, but I'm unsure of what to say to go along with it..." Impulse mumbled, chatting quietly with Tango for a moment, before standing. He walked up to Grian, Grian glancing from his spot on the ground. Impulse paused for a moment, before looking back to Tango. "How am I supposed to be intimidating..?" "Like... Uh... Use a demanding, angry voice!" Tango told him, "Those always scare me." "Alright." Impulse turned back to Grian, taking a deep breath as he let his face fall cold.

God, nobody would have ever thought that Impulse could look angry. Impulse took out his sword, swinging it to be in front of Grian's neck. Grian's breath hitched for a second, just trying to convince himself he wasn't scared. He wasn't. He was tough. "What is your name!?" Impulse asked, his voice not exactly angry, but louder than normal, and demanding.

Name...

"But guess what... I'm not Taurtis..."

"What was that!? Yuki, get the knife!"

The cold metal was pushed against his skin, digging into his already scarred skin. Her crazy eyes stared into his, just crazy. She was crazy. Crazy in love, but also just insane. The small boy repeated the name. "I'm Taurtis, I'm Taurtis, I'm Taurtis!"

"I- I'm Taurtis, I'm Taurtis, I'm Taurtis... Taurtis... I'm Taurtis!" Grian etched back on the ground, getting as far as he could from the blade that was so close to his neck. Tears threatened to fall, pricking at his eyes. He raised his arms, protecting him, "I- I'm sorry!"

A sound of the sword clanking to the ground was heard, "G-Gri-"

Grian's arms shakily fell to his sides. Impulse stood there. Not Sam. Not Yuki. His friends were all staring at him with worried looks. "Grian- I-" Impulse was about to apologize, before he got pushed slightly. Grian's eyes drifted to the worried girl now in front of him, before she hugged him tightly. "I don't know what happened with you and Taurtis before, but you are safe now." "P-pearl..." Grian buried his head into her shoulder, just crying. "Shhhh... It's alright. Your sister is here now!" Pearl held the small boy close.

"I- I'm sorry, Grian..." Impulse mumbled, dipping his head slightly. "I-it's fine... You didn't know..." Grian muttered. "Gman, do you need anything..?" Scar asked. With a short, hurt chuckle, Grian told him, "I don't think so... Just... Just cuddles."

With that, Grian felt multiple more pairs of arms hug onto him. Glancing around, there was the boatem crew. Him, Scar, Mumbo, Pearl, and Impulse.

"I know it's currently a boatem cuddle pile, but I want cuddles too..." Tango complained. With a laugh, Impulse looked to Grian, "Shall we just make it a hermit cuddle pile?" "Fine by me." Grian smiled sadly. With that, Tango and Zedaph rushed over, cuddling in. "Tango, wait for us!" Bdubs mentioned, grabbing Keralis' hand.

"Come on, Doc, we can't be the only group that is left out." Ren mentioned. "Fine, Fine." Doc smirked, the two of them snuggling in. The last few hermits joined in, while Xisuma went to go get blankets so they weren't cold.

"Thank you, Dadsuma..." Grian mumbled, a fuzzy blanket getting tossed on him. With a laugh, Xisuma finally took a seat with the large group of hermits.

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