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nightmare (neteyam x ao'nung)

(idea from @avatarloaksullyjake ,
thank you so much !! 🫶)

neteyam lays under a teal coloured, slightly marble skinned boy snoring and drooling all over his chest. it rises and lowers in a rapid pace, in sync with his heavy breathing. neteyam grabs onto the mat under him with all his knuckles whitening from the force, his face turned up into a scared and panicked expression as he whines out in his sleep.

"no, ao'nung!.." he tosses around for a bit, then suddenly jolting awake and looking around frantically in the dark room while panting heavily, droplets of sweat formed near his hairline starting to make their way down across his forehead and temples.

he's in ao'nungs room, a small part of the boy's familys marui sectioned off with a simple but quite thoroughly un see through wall. he and the chiefs son had gone fishing earlier that evening and neteyam had gotten a permission to stay and sleep over afterwards.

the night had ran smoothly. after some chatting, just hanging around and..well, other stuff they had fallen asleep together and that's when the nightmares had started for the blue skinned boy.

neteyam pretty quickly notices ao'nung sleeping like a baby slightly on top of him, his head on his chest and upper body laying over his. one of the boy's arms is flung sloppily over neteyams side, having been laying on his ribcage at some point of the night but then fallen down.

a deep relieved sigh escapes neteyams mouth and his grip on the mat loosens as he cups ao'nung sleepy face for a little while before wrapping his arm around his side. "ao'nung.." he whispers, getting just a loud snory snort back.

neteyam tries again anxiously, pushing gently at the boy's side to try and wake him up. after a few more tries, he pulls his hand quickly away when ao'nung suddenly swats at the air.

"go away mom" he hears him groan, snuggling his cheek against neteyams warm cozy chest. ao'nung wraps his arm tigher around the boy under him, pulling himself closer and laying his leg in the slot in between neteyams.

the boy under him gulps. "please nung.." he whispers and pushes him again, finally seeing ao'nung cracking his eyes open a little.

"teyam? what?..." he squints at neteyam, confused and slightly annoyed at this rude interruption of sleep. ao'nung lets out a sleepy yawn, pulling his hand back and rubbing his stinging eyes as he tries to focus them on the boy under him.

"i had a bad dream..can you hold me?" neteyam asks quietly, he too rubbing his eyes but with the intention of stopping the salty tears from running down along his cheeks.

ao'nung doesn't seem to notice this in the dark however and just groans a little at his request, moving reluctantly from on top of the boy to lay on his side and opening his arms tiredly. he closes his eyes and pulls neteyam against him when the boy turns to him and curls up in his arms.

he then sighs, smacking his lips and placing his chin to lay gently on top of neteyams head as the boy buries his face into the crook of his neck. after a bit of peaceful silence, ao'nung having his arms around neteyam and caressing his back comfortingly, he hears a soft sniffle from the boy just as he's about to fall back asleep. this grabs the teal boys attention and he listens closely, hearing it again.

"baby?" he lifts his brow skeptically, leaning slowly back to look at neteyams tearful expression. he notices the wet streaks running down the boy's face, along with his abnormally puffy eyes from the crying.

"it's okay, i'm okay. you can just go back to sleep, i'm sorry i waked you up.." neteyam sniffles, trying to sound confident despite his shaky voice.

ao'nung looks at him worriedly, his mood now completely different from just mere moments ago as he runs his thumb lightly on neteyams cheeks to wipe off his tears.