Hunting for a way home - Shalnark x Reader

Chapter 38 - We are, In for an interesting evening.

Warning- Torture involved in this Chapter.

This was the most relaxed you'd ever been. Someone had driven you guys but you didn't really give a shit, you'd taken the best little nap on the ride back to the hotel room.

You felt extremely awake after Shalnark laid you down on the hotel bed and bundled you up. But you decided to keep your mouth and eyes mostly closed.

He seemed to be stressed out and for some reason looking at you seemed to stress you out more.

You might have cared why he was acting so weird if you didn't currently feel so damn good.

With a big bottle of water and a bag of candy he'd picked up from the store. You felt all you needed was water, sweets, and warmth.

With Shalnark acting so weird you were sure he wouldn't cuddle so you slapped the bed and moments later you were rewarded.

Aster was now on the bed you'd been placed on and whined as she laid her head against your stomach staring at your face.

You had your eyes slit open to look at her and just smiled completely blissed out running your hand through her fur.

Shalnark had put on a cartoon and you happily listened to it not wanting to open your eyes. You occasionally felt his eyes on you but as to not upset him further you didn't acknowledge it.

A knock on the door had an eye opening to examine it, the head resting on your stomach turned and growled low.

Shalnark was up and across the room peeking out the eye hole before swinging the door wide. Both eyes popped wide in confusion as Phinks and Feitan were revealed on the other side of the door.

Both men looked over to you, pleasantly you waved, smiling big.

"Well shit if I'd have known we were having a party, I'd have kept my boogie shoes on." You looked down to your sock covered feet and sighed contentedly before flexing your toes.

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When Phinks parked the car in the lot, he spotted the SUV they'd been driving with the woman staring blankly out the driver seat. Feitan and himself got out and headed over to the room Shalnark said they'd be in.

Moments after he knocked the door opened. Shalnark may have been smiling but his smile had even Phinks feeling tense.

Shifting his attention to Y/N bundled in blankets on the bed he had to suppress a laugh. Her being high as a kite wasn't funny, it was just he was taken aback by how the two people before him had seemingly switched personalities.

The time he'd spent with her, he'd come to realize she was more reserved in her laughs and smiles.

She typically held an intensity that reminded him vaguely of Feitan but she was undoubtedly warmer but usually never to this extent. Because here she was grinning from ear to ear, happier than he'd ever seen.

"Well shit if I'd have known we were having a party, i'd have kept my boogie shoes on." When she looked at her sock covered feet and flexed them back and forth he really had to stop himself from laughing.

With Shalnarks current attitude he wasn't about to do anything to set him off.

Feitan looked up to Shalnark. "Ready to go?" Phinks saw her attention shift from her socks to them curious.

"We're going somewhere?" Her tone held an edge of excitement, but he caught Shalnark stiffen. Shalnark was smiling pleasantly when he turned his head to face her though.

"Fei needed help with a little something, so Phinks came here to keep you company." Her eyes narrowed and he caught that. She turned her head coldly to the face away from him muttering something low under her breath that frankly none of them caught.