The Broken Observatory - Party Crashers AU

Hidden backstory?

  
Nick's POV.
I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall asleep again, so I got up, and looked around. Brent and Vernias were still sleeping, but Sophist was nowhere to be found.

It gave me a weird feeling, so I decided to get up from this "plant bed" and look for him.

I walked for a few seconds, and stopped when I noticed him sitting on the log. I felt like something was wrong, so I went towards him.
 
 
"You good?" - I started quietly, not wanting to be loud in the middle of the night.

Sophist looked like I caught him off guard, but he quickly got it back together.
"Yeah, I'm fine. What do you want." - he asked with an annoyed voice.

"No need to get so serious already." - I answered, not wanting to get into another stupid fight. - "I couldn't sleep, and you weren't around. I wanted to make sure you're okay."

"Well then, you know where I am now, you can fuck off."

I breathed in and out, trying to control myself.
"Sophist."

"What?" - he answered me, annoyed. - "Everyone thinks princes are so smart, yet you can't understand that I'm trying to be alone?"

I looked at him for a few seconds.
"Or am I really smart, and you can't understand I know something is wrong." - I said, fully aware of what I was saying. - "You've been alone your whole life, right? Now's your time to let your feelings out to someone."
 
 
Sophist looked really surprised when assumed his life and offered him letting out his hidden feelings. He looked at me for a while, probably still considering if he should tell me what's going on or not.

I went towards Sophist and sat next to him. I didn't expect him to talk, so I stayed silent about it.
 
 
"I doubt you'll tell your feelings to me, especially because of the fights we had. Just so you know, you're not alone." - I said and smiled to him, then looked down, to make it less awkward.
 
Sophist stayed silent. Soon enough, he started talking.
"You're right. I've been alone for the majority of my life."

I looked at him, listening to his talk.

"I haven't talked to people and honestly, you can see I'm terrible at it." - he continued, laughing a bit. - "You, Brent and Vernias are probably my first ever "friends", if I could call y'all that way."

I nodded.
"I see. Well, I haven't had any friends until now either, just living in the same castle with Brent. He's my brother, but I see him as my best friend." - I said, smiling. - "I'm not sure where this toxicity of mine came from, but I don't think it has hurt anyone yet."

"Yet." - he smiled.

I rolled my eyes, playfully.
"Yeah, yet." - I said, and for a second stayed silent. - "Also... Why don't you want us to call you "Noah"? Is there something wrong with it?"

Sophist smile seemed to fade a bit.
"Yeah, I don't like it." - he said. - "It gives me some unpleasant memories."

"Oh, I see. Sorry for bringing it up." - I said, feeling a bit bad.

"You're good." - he said and got up. - "Thanks for the talk, man."
   
   
After that, he went back towards the plant bed for him.

I knew he didn't tell me everything, but I thought that it wouldn't be a good idea to pressure him into telling me some of his private problems and life stories.

I nodded to him and smiled. I didn't really help many people in my life, so it felt relieving.

I then started to feel a bit lightheaded. I noticed I was glowing yellow a bit more than before. I figured it's probably because of using power for too long. I tried to brush it off, because I didn't want to wake anyone up, but my head started to hurt more each minute, and I was getting more and more tired.

It continued on like that for the next few minutes, when after a while I felt like I was losing consciousness...
  
  
  
A few hours later...
   
  
  
Brent's POV.
When I woke up due to some weird feeling on my back, I got up to look around me, and noticed I wasn't laying on the bed, but literally on the ground.

At first I was confused and thought that Nick did that on purpose to fuck around, but when I noticed that neither him, Vern nor Eevee were around, I decided to get up and look for them.

A few seconds after walking forward, I noticed Eevee standing next to the tree, looking at something. I came closer to him to see what he was looking at and noticed unconscious Nick laying on the ground next to a log, and Vern sitting next to him, looking like he was helping Nick.
  
  
I ran up to them, a bit surprised and worried.
"What happened here?!"

Vernias looked at me, a bit distraught.
"Nick passed out due to power overuse... I completely forgot to remind you two about it..." - he said, seemingly disappointed with himself.

"Is he- Is he okay..?" - I asked, worried.

"Yes, he will be okay. I healed him a bit, so he should wake up soon." - he said, trying to calm me down.

I felt a bit relieved at that.
"Okay, that's good..."
 
  
I sat on the log, deciding that I'll wait with Vernias for Nick to wake up, while Eevee was either checking up on us or just wandering around.
 
  
After a few minutes, Nick woke up.
"Ugh... Holy fucking shit, my head..." - he said, pressing his hand against his forehead.

I sighed in relief.
"Thank god you finally woke up, you had me worried..."

"Huh..? Was I not supposed to be-? What even happened?" - he asked, confused.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault, I forgot about the power overuse, that is what made you pass out..." - Vernias said, mad at himself.

"Oh- No, it's fine, you didn't do anything wrong. I'll be fine." - Nick said, trying to make us less worried.

"Want me to heal your head a bit?" - Vern asked.

"No no, it's pointless, don't waste your power on something like that, we'll need it more later on."

Vernias nodded and helped Nick get up.
"Well, if you say so."

A few seconds later, Sophist came.
"Oh, Nick woke up. That's nice then. Are you good to go?" - he looked at Nick.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." - Nick answered.

"Alright. Because we need to get going, I feel."

"You're right." - I answered. - "After all, we don't know how much time we have until the observatory loses it's own control."

"Exactly." - he agreed with me.

"Let's get going then." - Nick added as he got up with Vernias' help.
   
  
After that bit of talk, we decided that it's time to go. I was leading the way, as Vernias, Nick and Sophist were walking behind me.

Eevee was quiet for the most of the time, while Vern was constantly asking Nick if he feels okay, which he always answered that he is. It was funny to see and hear, though.