[SIDESTORY] Morbit Oneshots

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Midnight Toast - 2021
BaftComorant, Crankshaft Rafflesian
CW: None
Two Supernatural Rabbits have a heart to heart about past days.


 

Spice: Targe went up ahead to handle some stuff with the van, finished packing up everything. The bunch of you are doing alright?

 

Jam: Yeah, mostly.

 

Spice: Ah, she tuckered out. 

 

Jam: Yeah, whole thing was a little too much for her, I think. Doesn't really do the big social setting stuff like this.

 

Spice: Poor thing. 

 

Jam: She'll be fine though, I think she had fun. Really appreciate you two inviting us out here, haven't done a big city festival in a long time, especially one with a proper witch meetup.

 

Spice: Surprised by how hard you went in on it, just needed a couple extra hands with the booth and then you came full outfit with guns blazing. You really make that outfit yourself?

 

Jam: Dotty gave us some help but yeah, Lex and I managed to scrape something together last second.

 

Spice: No kidding, gave you two days. Hope you weren't busting your ass for this.

 

Jam: Only a bit, we didn't have time to do a real dye job unfortunately so we had to go out with our hair all natural. Would've really brought the look together to splash some color..

 

Spice: Don't think anyone noticed, you uh... kinda helped us sell a lot of stuff today actually? We never get that much attention at these things.

 

Jam: Guessing that means you got another opportunity down the line?

 

Spice: I mean if you want, you're already a part of the staff at our little mall setup so....

 

Jam: Then you know where to call. 

 

Spice: Honestly though I should've expected that much, the customers love the two of you. 

 

Jam: Do they?

 

Spice: Yeah actually, the online reviews of the place bring you up a good bit. The rabbit in the swirly shades! They're so helpful and nice! They're so fun to talk to! It's good stuff. Lex’s been good since she jumped in too, people love the sweet clumsy rat who suplexed a shoplifter.

 

Jam: Really still appreciate that you came in clutch with the job offer.

Spice: You did me a favor honestly. I like working with people I know I can trust if I can and you really came through too. Hella scary when you’re going from selling stuff online to setting up an actual physical storefront.

Jam: I do my best. 

 

Spice: The two of you do good, it’s why we brought you along.  High key you were kinda popping off hard. Shit with the sign was nuts, they came running to our booth.

 

Jam: They got so hyped over the sign. Glad Lex tagged in to help me do that.

 

Spice: I swear to god I've never seen people so enamored with someone spinning cardboard before.

 

Jam: Then Dotty came in with the worm and, and...

 

Spice: That audience went apeshit! They fucking loved the worm!

 

Jam: You know some of them tried to give me their number after that?

 

Spice: You serious? 

 

Jam: I am! Funniest thing I've seen. 

 

Spice: No idea how you managed to keep that energy going the whole time.

 

Jam: The audience fuels me, they love a confident rabbit and their lucky oversized worm on a string. Wallet is stuffed with flirtations. 

 

Spice: You took people's numbers?!

 

Jam: Course I did, wallet's stuffed. 

 

Spice: You're... you're not gonna call them back right?

 

Jam: Nah, it's pretty great though. 

 

Jam: Gotta say while not having Lex around the past months was hard, one of the nicer things was catching up with you though.

 

Spice: Yeah... honestly kinda surprised you're still not pissed at me though.

 

Jam: I mean it was on me too, you know? I just... I dunno. 

 

Spice: Yeah... 

 

Jam: Like, Lex would just go into these depressive slumps and I'd have to take over from there, you know? Most people in the circle didn't seem to notice though.

 

Spice: To be fair you and Lex were kind of in the background for a good while. Ya'll were so quiet. 

 

Jam: Yeah but like.. you managed to catch on that I wasn't Lex right?

 

Spice: Yeah.

 

Jam: And... you weren't weird about it. You were really cool and... I guess my first real friend. 

 

Spice: That just makes me feel worse about it. 

 

Jam: Don't beat yourself up over it, I was pretty damn shitty about it. I dunno...

 

Jam: Lex kinda blacked out for a couple of weeks and I got stupid really fast. Asked you out even though you were clearly still recovering from kind of a rough place with Targe and...

 

Spice: I mean I took the offer. Hell I feel like I did you more dirty than anything you know?

 

Jam: You weren't doing great....

 

Spice: Yeah. And I kinda used you as a bandage when you really deserved better you know? I liked you but not in the same way I was and still am with Targe. 

 

Jam: I just wanted to spend more time and really... I dunno, keep a friend in my life I guess. Didn't think about you or if Lex would've been okay with this sort of thing you know? Hell I kinda was assuming a lot like...

 

Spice: Assuming?

 

Jam: I don't think I ever really straight up told you that I wasn't Lex you know?

 

Spice: I mean... I knew.

 

Jam: Yeah but at the most we kinda just vagued through it and you had figured it out you know?

 

Spice: You’d ask me stuff that pretty much confirmed it. "If I wasn't who I said I was, would you be mad?"

 

Jam: I was scared as hell. You looked me dead in the eye and went "Yes." before doing a flip. 

 

Spice: That sounds like young me...

 

Jam: I was crying! That was the hardest question I'd asked and you just did a you! Laughed so hard I couldn't breath!

 

Spice: Almost died too!

 

Jam: You did! We were right next to the stairs!

 

Spice: You almost died!

 

Jam: Fucking tried to take me with you!

 

Spice: Accident, swear on my life.

 

Jam: Gay bunny bitch. 

 

Spice: WHOOOOOA! When did you get a mouth like that?

 

Jam: Dotty. 

 

Spice: ...Really?

 

He looks over at her sweet sleeping face leaned on your shoulder.

 

Jam: Swears like a sailor, you didn't know that?

 

Jam: She's so fucking cool.

 

Spice: Would've never thought it honestly, she seems so nice..

 

Jam: She is, she's just... a very distinct kind of sweet. 

 

Jam: Anyway though I dunno, it was nice to be accepted like that...

 

Spice: I mean, I still kinda ruined things in the end.

 

Jam: You were honest! You weren't clicking with the relationship and you wanted to just be friends and... I didn't really take it well at all. I handled it super poorly.

 

Spice: I mean it makes sense that you felt hurt after that...

 

Jam: I said some worrying ass shit and then ghosted you for the rest of college!

 

Jam: You came running over to our dorm asking if we were okay and... 

 

Jam: Lex just happened to be there and answered and wasn't doing all that great herself at the time...

 

Jam: And... you kinda just sat with her and comforted her through it even though you knew it wasn't me.

 

Spice: ......

 

Jam: Even when I went off the rails you still tried to take care of us. Hell that's how she became good friends with you and Targe.

 

Jam: You both took care of her, makes me happy you know?

 

Jam: Kid had just gone through some personal loss stuff, fell off with a bunch of her high school friends, and what she had left just... moved all the way to the other side of the region.

 

Spice: Yeah well... I dunno. I just hurt you a lot and hoped that you still just.. I dunno. I wanted to still be friends.

 

Jam: I mean I... I was just kinda nasty for a bit. One day I had to sub in for Lex and you managed to catch on. Tried to talk to me, apologize and just... 

 

Jam: I played dumb, acted like I had no idea what you were talking about and insisted it was just Lex, kinda just puposfully made you feel weird and awkward.

 

Spice: Yeah.. that really hurt a lot in that moment. Tried to tell myself that maybe I did make a mistake but uh... Lex didn't remember a lick of that when I talked to her the day after. Cut kinda deep no lie.

 

Jam: Poor thing had to deal with the aftermath of my shit too, she REALLY didn't deserve that.

 

Jam: I guess just... being rejected like that made me worry it was over. When relationships fell off for us in high school we just never really talked to that person again you know?

 

Jam: We never go back to being friends the way we used to... 

 

Jam: I didn't want to be alone again.Looking back I assumed a ton and made it so much worse...

 

Spice: I mean I wouldn't sweat it like that you know? Good amount of blame is on me too and really.. We were all kinda dumbass teens. Just barely out of high school and figuring things out and neither of us were really in the best mental space.

 

Spice: And at the end of the day I think we're better friends than we were back then. 

 

Spice: You're a good person at heart, a good person who was going through a lot emotionally at the time. 

 

Spice: I dunno, just... 

 

Spice: Don't beat yourself up so hard. 

 

Jam: I usually don't but it's really hard not to on this one. 

 

Jam: But you're right honestly. Been enough since then that we can kinda bury it behind.

 

Spice looks over at Dotty.

 

Spice: Can't believe she managed to sleep through that..

 

Jam: She works pretty hard, she deserves it. 

 

Spice: Gonna feel bad waking her up when Targe comes back with the van.

 

Jam: We can carry her. 

 

Spice: She's a head taller than you and almost three times as heavy.

 

Jam: Lex can help me.

 

Spice: Does it work like that? 

 

Jam: Maybe, Lex is pretty buff when she wants to be. Honestly I should let her back soon anyway, getting pretty tired after all that.

 

Spice: Ah right, you don't last too long on your own huh?

 

Jam: Nope, I already pushed myself way too hard today. That said I'll stick around until Targe shows up, let things settle down before throwing her back to the front. Cool with that?

 

Spice: Yeah. Appreciate this talk, think we both needed that.

 

Jam: Think so too, got a lot of weight off my shoulders after that, you know?

 

Jam: I'm finally free.