Hermitcraft one-shots 2: Electric boogaloo

The past is never really forgotten

It was a wonderful day on the Hermitcraft server, season seven had just started and everyone was happily enjoying the new world. Today in particular was wonderful in particular because Xisuma was going to show Grian, his boyfriend of a year, all around his base. And then he was teaching the dirty blond the more complicated potion recipes, for better or worse was yet to be decided.

Grian would also be teaching him some stuff, like some old tricks from the earlier updates that still work, and the best would be Grian talking about his life in EVO. Not only would that give him more insight of his boyfriend, but he'd also learn about the earlier updates from someone who lived through them.

X hummed as he waited next to the nether portal on the treetops, expecting Grian to come through that. But if the growing shape in the distance was anything to go by, seems like that wasn't the case. He braced himself, moving so that his back would hit the portals frame instead of him tumbling off. And just in time too, because as soon as he was safely positioned Grian came crashing into him.

Now, normally Grian would wrap his legs around Xisuma's midsection and hold on, but X thought that was boring so he decided to spice things up. So as soon as Grian was in his arms he swung the builder into a bridal hold. There was not any form of protest, except maybe Grian's squeak of surprise, from either party. Mostly because Grian liked being held and cared for, but also because X was strong enough to hold Grian for what feels like forever (fit dude, can totally cosplay slightly less bulky Doom dude flawlessly). But anyone can do that to be honest, Grian has hollow bones, plus he's small.

"Hi Sweetheart, I hope the flight here wasn't too bad?" Smiled X, said smile hidden by his helmet.

Grian grinned up at him with slightly flushed cheeks, most likely from flying here. "Hi to you too Honey. And it was actually really nice, you didn't make it the perfect type of sunny just for me did you?" His tone was teasing, as Xisuma had changed the weather before when he knew the dirty blond was going out for a quick fly around, but there was an underlying tone of curiosity.

Xisuma chuckled. "No, not this time. The weather simply loves you."

The dirty blond grinned up at him, slight sharp teeth glinting in the sunlight. "Well today it does, not so much yesterday. Bummer that we're working inside for the most part today."

"We could stay outside if you really want to." Offered X, not really caring about getting anything done as he cared about spending time with his boyfriend.

"Nah, let's save that for another sunny day." Smiled Grian.

The two then made their way to the bee farm, X eager to show off what he'd made. And he was happy when Grian eagerly looked around, flying carefully around the redstone so as to not disturb it. He watched as bees left their hives and buzzed around their roses. Grian giggled as the bee underneath where he was standing buzzed up at him, gently butting the glass.

Xisuma watched fondly as his winged boyfriend did his best to pet the bee through the glass, failing but somehow getting the bee happy still. "Hey love, want to help me refile the glass bottles?"

"Sure!" Chriped Grian, jumping off the glass caged holding the bee and gliding down to X.

X handed him a few bottles and directed him towards the left side, he himself would do the right side.

Everything was going well, the two restocking silently with the occasional question about the redstone from Grian, but then a loud shattering sound echoed around the building. X of course quickly headed over to Grian, as he was the one who had dropped the glass. And his heart broke as he saw Grian.

The builder was kneeling in the glass, crying hysterically. This of course made Xisuma panic, because just how hurt was Grian to be crying so much?

"Grian? Are you alright?" Asked X softly, moving to kneel next to Grian but stopped when he saw the shorter flinch away. "Grian? What's wrong?"

"I didn't mean to drop it." Whispered Grian, looking up at nothing with hazy eyes. "Please don't hurt me."

Anger bubbled up inside of X, how could he have forgotten about what Sam had done to his sweetheart. He pushed the rage down and went instead to wrap Grian gently in his arms, petting his hair to calm the dirty blond down. "Shhh, I won't hurt you Grian, I promise. Sam's not here, just me, Xisuma. I'm here. He can't hurt you anymore, you're safe."

Grian slowly stopped crying, X's soothing words bringing him back. "X?"

Oh how Xisuam hated that tone. He hated how unsure and scared Grian sounded, like anything he did would be answered by violence.

The admin pulled away one hand and raised it, and cursed Sam in every way he could when Grian flinched, to reach up and pull off his helmet. It came off with a faint click, letting his brown curly hair set in a small ponytail out.

He tilted Grian's head up so X's could look him in the eyes. Watery violet met a sad emerald. "See Sweetheart? It's just me, no need to worry. And I'm not mad you dropped the bottles, I've done the same before."

Grian had calmed down by now and was burrowing his face in X's chest. "I'm sorry."

"Hey." Admonished Xisuma gently. "It's not your fault. Not for dropping the bottles or for reacting like that, neither of them are your faults. And I'm not mad about either, not now and not ever. Got that?"

"Yeah." Mumbled Grian, snuggling closer. "Can we still continue as planned? I was really excited about today."

"If that's what you want, then I don't see why we shouldn't." Smiled Xisuma, running his hand through Grian's hair.

And so the two went on as planned, Xisuma keeping his helmet off at Grian's request. And if you forget the morning incident, the day was magnificent. Grian memorized the healing potions for the most part, only mixing them up from time to time, and he most of the ingredients and how you got them/made them down. And X learnt about the old updates, about how there were literally no animals anywhere near the original chunks for a good while because one of the worlds jumps. And somewhere along the lines they moved onto the tales of squiddy, and after that X got into the squither (or however you spell it) and the shenanigans of previous seasons.

So all in all it was a lovely day.

And if Keralis took a bunch of pictures of them cuddling in their sleep, with Xisuma's helmet still off, then who am I to say? 

<Second one-shot! And I'm so happy you all already love this book, it mean so much! This was based on a prompt I saw a while ago, and I just had to make it. Now I'm off to work on New dawn, I've kept everyone waiting on that for long enough already. 

Stay safe and have a wonderful time everyone!>