That bloody promise

Chapter 8 - a promise is a promise

It has been a few days now, in which both Eclipse and the twins silently agreed to not share a single word about the recently past events. Actually, more then a silent agreement we could say they straight up had the same idea: faking it never even happened, returning to their daily mocking, fighting and annoying each other, or better, Bloodmoon taking advantage of their golden child privileges and annoying the heck out of Eclipse, who was stuck just enduring the pain and limiting himself to some occasional sassy comebacks, not having the blessing and protection over Killcode that they held. In these few days Eclipse was finally able to almost finish Solar Flare, having to do only a few more things that for once he was gonna deal with at his own, slower pace. On the other hand the bloody twins continued practicing blood magic under Killcode's supervision, not really making any actual progress, well yes, they did manage to cast the spell, just not easily or effectively, but still, they were having fun.

Right now Bloodmoon was laying on the floor of the training room, a cheep, brown blanked covering them from below the torso to above the ankles, taking a nap. Killcode was sitting next to them, observing them rest. It happened so frequently just that singular day, that he thought he was almost getting used to having his kids sleep during practice, but it wasn't necessarily a good thing. Killcode was starting to get a bit worried about their loss of energy. It has been now three days in a row that Bloodmoon had a rough time starting the morning, and even then, when they were in their full forces, he noticed they lasted for only so much time before passing out, with very little warning too to the point that the tall animatronic even though about getting them checked from Eclipse, in case of malfunctions or something. Still, he sighed and covered their eyes with the nightcap, fixed the blanket on them and blew out some candles, keeping a few lit up nonetheless. Killcode left the room, closing the door behind him and quietly walking away. He needed to clear his mind and take a walk. Keeping his head low and eyes closed, resting, he autopiloted through the base, step by step, only to at some point rise his head and notice to his surprise he was in front of Eclipse's room, standing still. He blinked in confusion, then looked around and ultimately at the door before him. Killcode heard some rustling noises coming from inside that sounded like sheets. Well it was still fairly early in the morning... for Eclipse's standards... and since he was at a good point with Solar Flare he would expect his son to sleep in a bit more then usual, which annoyed him to a certain degree, but after all it was fair, so Killcode let it slide. The standing animatronic unfroze and raised his hand to knock on the metal door, but realized if he was going to knock he would 100% wake Eclipse up, who, for all he knew, might have been awake or really still sleeping. 

Trying to be as quiet as possible he opened the door and walked in to an organized-unorganized dimly lit room and the orangish animatronic laying on the bed, flat on his 'stomach' with the sheets all messy and barely covering till just below his upper back, overall looking in the process of waking up already. "Mmmh..." Eclipse lamented, at which Killcode couldn't help but crack a smile. He turned on a small light far away from the half awake animatronic, so it wouldn't bother him too much, then walked to the bed and sat on its edge, immediately sinking in the mattress with his immense weight. He relaxed and rested his elbows on his knees, turning to the other to talk. "Good morning Eclipse" the laying animatronic moved slightly, making some rustly sounds, then mumbled some lazy "...Mmh..." response in a sleepy, early-morning raspy voice. Eclipse raised his head a little, rubbed a hand on his face, not waking him up in the slightest, so he pretty much gave up on the spot and let his head fall back on the pillow, burying his face in it. Killcode chuckled the tiniest bit, playfully smirking at him. "Having a hard time waking up?" Muffled from the pillow, he heard a tired  and slurred "Y don say..."  For once the sass wasn't taken personally on Killcode's end and he actually found it relatively funny, enough to even crack a half hearted joke, which for such a serious person was quite a lot. "You may have developed from my code, but that surely you did not take that from me" he lightly nudged his shoulder, hinting to how differently they suffered the start of the day, with Killcode being the early bird type and Eclipse being some kind of perpetually tired pigeon. Of course Eclipse was too tired and his mind too foggy to reply or put up with anything right now, so he simply kept silent, unburying his face from the pillow. He sighed and after a few seconds mumbled "What do you want?" thinking he was needed for a duty of some sort. Killcode shook his head and reassured him "I was taking a walk and heard you were awakening" Eclipse looked at the taller animatronic perplexed, his sleepy eyes squinting "...riiight..." the sun animatronic let his head rest on his arms, back on the pillow again, the two robots still looking at each other, an awkward but weirdly relaxed silence filling the room, in a way that they both had no idea what to say, but just staring at each other didn't feel too uncomfortable either. Killcode attempted to start a conversation but blocked himself, again, not knowing what to say, instead, his hand reached for Eclipse's uncovered back. He looked at his own hand, hesitating a first, but ultimately placed it on his son, looking back at him. They stared into each other's eyes for a few seconds, both apparently calm while Eclipse was actually shocked and Killcode was desperately trying to understand if what he was doing was fine with his child. Feeling Killcode's warm hand on his back, Eclipse relaxed and closed his eyes, breaking eye contact, and letting his head rest on his crossed arms on the pillow.