Entrapdak - Because You Caught Me

Feelings

Hordak stayed for a while, watching her. Her chest rose and fall with each breath, and it almost didn't seem like she was the same person as the energetic chatterbox scientist, and yet... how could it not?

'Humans look different when they sleep.' He thought. 'Much more peaceful.'

He didn't need sleep.

He didn't need to eat, or even breathe. He wouldn't want to try even if he could.

There were only a few things he did that made himself seem more human; he gave himself a name, he-

No, he didn't. Emotions were useless, confusing and messy things, always getting in the way of things that were more important.

Even if he did experience them, he would never express it.

'So why,' he asks himself, 'does she make me feel... warm.'

Safe? Sometimes even appreciated. How could someone like her be so perfect when he was so flawed?

He sighed and moved his hand out of her loosened grasp, but didn't get up from where he was sat.

Hordak still had a few things to figure out, and 11 o'clock at night perhaps wasn't the best time.

The idea of attempting to sleep briefly crossed his mind, but he quickly dismissed it. Now was not the time for nightmares.

He turned to face away from her, closing his eyes and trying to focus on anything other than the faint ringing in his ears.

Perhaps he'd figure this all out one day...