Coruscation

Gifts and the Ocean

Wachowski slowly awoke, the warmth of his bed and the Master Emerald making him drowsy. With the arms that cradled him only holding tighter each time he struggled in place to wake himself up. Sunshine from the window slowly crept into the room, making it harder to convince himself to open his eyes. Through his blurry thoughts, Wachowski thought about the weird dream he had; a cool world filled with knights and magic that then turned into a nightmare as an indescribable pain that rebounded inside his body constantly. That woke him up faster, as he cracked open his eyes not being met with the red fur of his older brother, snuggling him in his sleep, like he assumed. Whoever was holding him was bigger than Knuckles but smaller than Tom.

Being met with a stranger's arms, Wachowski panicked and tried to push away only to get tangled within his blankets. All of the movement made the arms hold onto him tighter, and Wachowski's chest was constricted between the well-known stranger and the Master Emerald's diamond-cut shape. Wachowski only struggled harder, limbs still asleep were nearly useless against the bigger figure.

With all of the noise and movement, the person using him as a plushie finally started to wake up with a groan, loosening their grasp on Wachowski. The kid used his legs to push himself away, but before he could get a good view as to who this person was, the push was too strong, and he yelped as he fell off of the bed. Landing on the floor helped wake his brain up fully, the ceiling of the room finally going noticed.

"This isn't my room!" He heard another sound from the other person waking up, looking more off to his right to where the sunlight was creeping in. The room should have been something new, and not familiar. His thoughts of panic were soon filled with sadness and dread as a question rang through the air.

"Wachowski?" The voice was rough but he knew exactly who it was, the dream finally being put together as reality. Wachowski heard slow shuffling before Lancelot stuck his head over the side of the bed.

"You alright?" Lancelot asked, yawning when he stepped off of the bed.

"I'm fine." Wachowski tried to get out of the blanket, but he was stuck. Lancelot watched silently, trying to understand what the younger hog was doing. After a few more seconds Wachowski gave up and looked at the black and red hedgehog, "A little help?"

"Oh! How'd you get stuck?" Lancelot, now fully lucid, straightened himself and started to untangle the smaller hog.

"I don't know," Lancelot found a proper corner to start peeling the blanket off the kid. "I probably did it in my sleep or something." Wachowski waited as patiently as he could while Lancelot rolled him out, freeing the Master Emerald from being practically glued to his chest for the whole night.

"Thank you," Wachowski pushed himself up.

"Any time." Lancelot walked over to the window and checked where the sun was. "I was hoping to be awake hours ago. It's going to be past noon if we don't get moving here soon." He walked over to the cabinet and pulled out the fruits that he put away the other night.

"Would you like to eat the apples or the bananas later?" Lancelot looked back to Wachowski, who was getting a drink from the faucet.

"Apples later please." He turned the faucet off, grabbed his shoes from where he kicked them off, sat at the table with the Master Emerald, and put them on.

Lancelot brought all of the fruits and sat them on the table, passing a couple of the bananas over to the kid. Taking a couple as well he ate them as he grabbed his armor from where he had lazily put them down. Wachowski happily ate the fruit, humming as the warmth of the sunlight from the window hit his back.

Once Sir Lancelot was done putting on all of his armor he grabbed Arondight and set it onto his hip, ready to leave. He looked at Wachowski finishing up his fruit, comparing the buzzing ball of energy the kid was right now to just how exhausted he was the night before. Lancelot was happier that the kid was doing better, but he had to make sure.