Sleep token oneshots

Bound (pt. 2)

After waking up confused at whose bed I was in at 2am, I look around squinting due to the dark. I realize I'm in vessels bed but I'm alone. Weird. I slowly drag myself out of it, and make my way out of the room, seeing vessel sound asleep, on the couch. I sigh, feeling bad that I fell asleep, and that he felt he had to sleep on the couch. I kneel down beside the couch "vessel...vessel you need to go sleep in your own bed. This couch isn't good for you..." I whisper beside his ear. I watch his eyes flutter open and find me in the dark. "What?" He asks with a tired voice. "I said you need to go sleep in your own bed. This couch isn't good for you and you're performing today. I don't want you in pain while you do that." I whisper gently. "Oh...I'm fine here just go back to bed. You've been sleeping on this for weeks it won't hurt for me to sleep here one night." He says turning his head so I get a full view of his face. "Vessel in the best way possible if you don't not get off this couch and go to your bed I will somehow get you off of it myself." I say in a motherly tone. "Have fun trying." He says giving me a cheeky smile. I groan quietly. Suddenly I come up with an idea. There's no way two people could fit on the couch so I'll just smoosh him off the couch with my own body. I sigh before standing up and placing my body laying down in a small crook between him and the back cushions of the couch. He laughs into the pillow. "You think you can push me off the couch?" He says with a smile. "Well I tried. Now I'm stuck." I say slowly realizing there's no way I could move or get loose from this position unless he got up. "Shit." I whisper to myself. He laughs at my response before turning his body around to face mine and puts him arm over me and his head onto my chest. "What are you doing?" I ask confused and flustered. "Trying to sleep, what are you doing?" He asks smartly. "You're never gonna give up are you?" I ask shaking my head. "Nope." He says simply as he nuzzles more into me. Finally I sigh giving up and I bring my arm up from under his head and let my hand fall into his hair, scratching his scalp softly. "You win I guess" I say looking anywhere but his face.

*the next morning*

I wake up hearing heavy footsteps all around me. slowly I open my eyes seeing the boys all walking around the bus and grabbing things they would need for the show. I see vessel walk into the room , his eyes on me. "hey you might wanna start getting ready, we perform in like 4 hours." he says tiredly, acting like we totally didn't sleep together last night. that hurts a little. ill just ignore it though, me sleeping on the already horrible couch with him last night probably didn't help how bad he was gonna feel this morning. I sigh getting up and going to where my suitcase lays beside the door. I open it grabbing a shirt with the boys logo on it and my leather jacket they had customized for me like they had theirs. I grab a pair of my cargo pants and head to the small bathroom to put my clothes on for the day. after getting dressed I brush my hair and do my makeup. I walk out of the bathroom and shove my dirty clothes into a separate part of my bag. vessel and the rest of the boys are sitting on the couch behind me, masks off and messing around on their phones. vessel looks up at me for a split second but immediately realizes that I notice and he looks away, back at his phone. I sigh walking over to the couch and sitting next to IV. I start scrolling and after a few minutes we all perk up at the sound of a knock on the door. since I was the closest to the door I push myself off the couch with a sigh and walk over, and open the door seeing the manager of the venue looks up at me. "we're ready for you guys whenever you guys are." he says shoving his fists in his pockets. I nod looking back at the guys to see if they're ready. they all nod grabbing their masks from beside them and sliding the over their heads. I make my way down the buses steps and stopping when I get to the bottom to wait for the boys to get down before I go anywhere. I wait for vessel, whos comes down last and I walk beside him but not alarmingly close. "you ready?" I ask quietly trying to make small talk like he did this morning. he sighs and nods. he's a little off. maybe his just nervous. ill ask him after the show. after walking for about 5 minutes we get to the back of the stage and go up the stairs, and into a small room so that they can get dressed into their cloaks and body paint. Vessel and the boys remove their shirts while I sit down on the couch to scroll on my phone unless one of them needed my help, like they usually do. after a couple of minutes IV asks me to help him paint his back. I throw my phone down on the couch and grab the tub of body paint from him. he turns around giving me access to his back. I start to rub in the black body paint over his shoulder blades and I instantly feel eyes burning into the back of my head. I look over my shoulder seeing vessel side eyeing me and after I look he rolls his eyes looking back to his own hands to paint them. I furrow my eyebrows confused on why hes acting like this today. I shake my head and turn back to IV to paint his back. after finishing I set the paint down on a small desk IV was standing infront of. I walk over to vessel silently and stand beside him while he avoids eye contact with me. I stare at him waiting for him to tell me why hes acting like this. "vessel." I say softly and quiet enough so the rest of the members don't hear me. "what" he says under his breath, still not paying attention to me. "did I do something or are you just pissed at something else" I ask quietly leaning down slightly. "something else" he says, obviously lying. I push my lips into a straight line disappointed that he doesn't trust me enough to tell me hes mad at me. I sigh nodding and accepting for now that hes not ready to talk "alright. we'll talk after the show...do you need help?" I say lowly, while watching him try to stretch his arm above his head and behind his head to get his paint on his back. "please." he says quietly, handing me the paint and letting out what seemed like a sigh of relief when I started spreading the paint on his back. I help the rest of the members after vessel paint their back, but not without vessel eyeing me. the stage manager knocks on the door telling us we've got like 2 minutes left until we have to start the show. all the boys put on the shirt or jacket they're performing in. vessel puts on his robe as usual. after our two minutes are up I grab my camera bag and we start to head into the back of the stage. I head down a separate hallway as the boys so I can get below the stage and next to the barrier to get the pictures. I open the door that goes outside and all I see are fans screaming and pointing to the stage where vessel and the boys are already set up, vessel is bowing on his knees in the very center of the stage with his head bowed and the beginning of Take Me Back To Eden playing. I stand directly infront of him and get a picture of his pose.