Close to You - Sportarobbie

Chapter 3 - Waffles

Breakfast was awkward, Sportacus kept on asking Robbie questions about his mood and why he felt he needed to lie. LIKE PISS OFF SPORTACUS I DON'T KNOW! He'd also been trying to persuade him to go to the hospital or at least the doctors, but after Robbie started trying to persuade him to go too, he dropped the subject.

'Wait, is the mayor missing too?' Sportacus worried as the town hall appeared to be completely deserted.

'No, he's just hiding from Bessie, stop worrying so much.' Robbie snickered.

'Like you can talk! We should split up though, we'll be able to clear more area than if we stay together.'

Robbie took the eastern side and Sport took the Western side and the beach. Robbie was worried that Sportaworry would carry on jumping to stupid conclusions. But he tried to focus on finding the kids, he didn't really want to though because Sportacus spent more time with him when they weren't around.

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'STEPHANIE, PIXEL, STINGY, ZIGGY, TRIXIE, MABYE MAYOR MEANSWELL!' Sportacus' voice started going, he'd been shouting for hours now and his voice wasn't the only thing that was going, so was his hope. 'Please, come back, I'm so sorry.' For once in his life he was walking, this way he could get a better look around. He saw a bench and went to sit on it, so he could sob for a while.

Robbie had checked and rechecked his area, so he was looking for Sportacus and saw that he was sitting on one of the benches. 'Sitting still huh Sportacus? Are you feeling okay?' He joked aloud, but when he got closer he realised that he shouldn't have been joking. 'Woah, Sport it's okay, we'll find them soon. I promise.' Did he just call Sportacus 'Sport'? Shit, well he was more worried about cheering him up right now, so he didn't really notice.

'This is all my fault Robbie, I didn't save them; I'm a fake hero.'

'Maybe they didn't need saving? I mean your crystal goes off when people are in trouble, so maybe they aren't in any trouble.' Why was Sportacus blaming himself for this? It's not his one and only purpose to keep them safe.

'I guess, I'm just worried about them. What if they aren't in trouble now but they get into some later?'

'I think you're catastrophizing Sportaanxiety. Anyway, if that does happen you'll know, and we can deal with it then.' Robbie looked around for a second, it was already getting dark. 'I should probably go back home, I'm famished.'

'Yeah I forgot to have lunch, I'll go home as well to have a snack.' Sportacus looked around to see where his airship was, but it wasn't anywhere.

Robbie saw the panicked look in the hero's eyes and realised why, his airship was missing! God please just let something good happen today ☹! 'Do you want to sleep over at mine tonight?' Was there anywhere for Robbie to sleep if he did? No, but Robbie was the least important person out of the both of them (he was of course the one who had decided this).

Sport thought about how much his neck hurt from sleeping on Robbie's couch, but he did need somewhere to sleep, and it was nearing 8 o'clock so he had to make his mind up quick. 'Yeah sure, that's really nice of you Robbie.' They made their way to his Robbie's lair and Sportaobservant quickly noticed that something was missing, 'Don't you have a bed Robbie?'

Robbie looked away from Sportacus sheepishly, 'I never really got around to getting one.'

Sport showed a grimace but didn't bother to lecture Robbie; that was the last thing he needed from the hero.

Robbie realised that Sportaparent was holding back his moaning, so quickly snuck in before Sportacus gave in and lectured him for an hour, 'You can sleep on the couch again and I'll sleep on my chair, if that's okay with you.'