BENJI One-shots

campfire comfort

They all sat around the campfire, it felt just like when months before they had say here together as nothing but ordinary kids, strangers and now they sat together as a team, a family.

It hadn't been long since they got Ben back after what happened with the monorail, everyone needed cheering up so Darius decided to tell another scary story and they could eat dinner around the fire.

Ben was no where near as clingy as he had been before they lost him so he simply sat next to Kenji, no grabbing his arm. Kenji felt that need for the familiar comfort of arms wrapped around him, it was the closest thing he'd had to a hug in probably years and only then it was a maid or some staff in his house. He sat close to Ben, close enough to just reach out and- no he couldn't, it wouldn't be right. Bumpy sat on the other side of Ben, pushing him further towards Kenji so they sat with their legs and arms against eachother.

"What about the pteranadons?" Someone mentioned when Darius skipped quickly through a part of his story. "Uh I-" Darius went to reply. "Oh oh so sorry Ben I didn't think!" They hastily apologised after realising that specific dinosaur was left out for a reason. Ben just smiled weakly at them saying "Its okay I'm fine.".

Kenji rested his hand on top of Ben's on the other boys lap, he didn't dare look at Ben in fear of rejection so he simply went back to watching Darius. The only thing that made him look beside him was when he felt Ben rest his head on Kenji's upper arm. It felt like a dream as he looked into those beautiful pools of green and blue that looked back up at him with a small, hopeful smile. All he could do was smile back.

No one mentioned anything when Kenji reached across his own chest to run his fingers through the other boys hair that stuck up at every angle.
No one said anything when they got up and walked back to their tree house holding hands.
And there was only those few cheerful giggles and loving smiles when they slept right next to eachother, Kenji holding on to Ben's arm like he was his only chance of survival, like if he let go he'd lose his Ben again.