The Weight of Exhaustion

Chapter Ten: The Decision

This chapter was very awkward and odd for me to write, so I apologize if it feels off. The next chapter will make up for it. >;)

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Time watched as Lucas glanced around almost nervously, taking in everything in the room, as he shifted his weight slowly between his feet. His eyes darted from one thing in the room, to the next, taking everything in.

After everyone settled down, Lucas pretty much dropped the entire story on how he arrived, followed by Sabre catching him up on what all happened since he has been with the Steves. It seemed as if he, along with Light Steve, knew the most, since several times through the explanation, several Leaders would give exclamations of horror or shock at different parts that Time and Light already knew.

It was... a lot. Time would admit, even some parts he did not know. Several times Lucas would give muffled gasps, and a few times he stood up as if to hunt down whatever villain Sabre was talking about. Several times Lucas would hear a new part of the story, only to look at the Leaders with an expression on his face, seemingly asking, 'and where were you?'. He didn't ask the question, thankfully, but it was shot at them via facial expressions several times.

Sabre, who at first at first focused on the task of deflowering Lucas' hair, started to slowly bring up his shoulders to his ears, tucking his head down, fiddling with the edge of his hoodie. Several times Sabre would stop talking for brief moments, only to jump back into it, breezing over certain parts and definitely skipping over others. Especially once Sabre ended up getting to Rainbow's and Funny's death followed by his corruption. Sabre, who was seemingly fine talking about Nightmare Steve, Dark Steve, Ghost Steve, Faceless, The Great Library (The Leaders made a plan to soon see if there is anything there about Soulless, much to Lucas' confusion on who that was), Chaos Steve, Galaxy Steve (an awkward time to realize Time had yet given Lucas his name) followed by his and Elemental's creation, Void Steve, Rainbow's betrayal...

The closer Sabre got to his corruption, the quieter his voice got and the slower he talked. Time could tell Lucas knew something big was coming up. He kept on looking between Sabre, who was more focused on his hoodie than the occupants in the room, and to the Leaders, who kept avoiding eye contact.

Sabre reached his corruption, his voice becoming clipped and emotionless. There was surprise from all of them at Sabre stating that he managed to break free a few times only to quickly be dragged back under. Light Steve ended up picking up the story, glossing over several things until Sabre broke free. There was a brief pause, as if seeing if Sabre was going to pick the story back up. Sabre didn't pick up the story once more, instead allowing Light to finish it off.

By the time Sabre and Light was done, Lucas was pressed up against Sabre's side, one hand intertwined with Sabre's. A purple flower crown was still tangled in Lucas' hair, but he didn't seem bothered by the fact. The conversion afterwards was awkward and stilted, any positive emotion drowned out by the several revelations. A lot of the leaders looked uncomfortable about Sabre's timeline of him being here, Time not exempt from that. Time didn't realize how much he didn't know before his creation until today.

Even though it looked like several of them wanted to continue the conversation, it was already past noon, and Sabre looked ready to flee the room if the silence continued any longer. Probably the only reason he was still staying was because Lucas was right next to him. So, they called it a day, and each one went their own way. A meeting was set for tomorrow, the usual time to discuss things that still needed to be talked about.

So they all left, each one heading to their kingdom or town. Sabre, who clearly was not going to leave Lucas and vice versa, quickly dragged Lucas to their home.