This oneshot is based off of one of tumblr user inthneedydo oncest headcanons under the pet names section, which I highly suggest reading in order to fully understand this fic better! Actually I would just read all of her oncest headcanons because they're all absolutely amazing!
I woke up slowly at first in the middle between conscience and sleep but, eventually faced the fact that I just couldn't sleep. I had momentarily forgot the other me was in the bed until he shifted slightly in his sleep. I tensed surprised he was there, I always thought this was a weird dream I would wake up from but when I woke up I would realize he was still there.
I laid there too nervous to move hoping sleep would over take me again but sadly wasn't given such luck. I felt the older man shift again in his sleep and suddenly felt the need to turn around. I was surprised to see that he was facing my way since usually we slept away from and as far away from each other as possible, though that still didn't get rid of the awkwardness between us. He had since stopped shifting and was now peaceful, there were no bug eyed glasses covering his eyes, over sized top hat, or flamboyant green suit to tell us apart. If we were to stand side by side at that moment and ask a random person off of the street to tell us apart they wouldn't have been able too, I don't even think I would be able to.
His eyelashes began to flutter and I held my breath not sure whether to turn away or feign sleep but, before I could decide I saw the slit of gray blue eyes. He opened his eyes slowly at first, shocked to catch me staring at him but, then his facial features relaxed, holding what I imagined was the same reaction as my face, awe.
There was an eerie silence that filled the room both of us wanting to turn away from each other but at the same time not being able too. We took in the familiar facial features we had come to love since we had realized we only had ourselves to rely on. The baby cheeks, long eyelashes, big gray blue eyes, button nose, everything I saw when I looked into that ever so familiar mirror was now breathing and in the flesh right next to me.
For the first time since I had arrived in his present and my future there was no awkwardness because why would you get awkward staring at yourself in a mirror? That is exactly how I saw the man lying next to me. A mirror. He was me and I was him. He remembered the same things I did, had the same birthmarks in the same place, even the exact number and place of freckles on his face. My breath hitched as I connected the dots. This man wasn't some completely different person he was me in every way possible yet had enough differences personality wise to feel like a different person. This excited me. He was me without being me, he had the quirks, likes, and dislikes that I had but, still had differences that left me wondering what he might do. I felt happier than I ever had since I arrived in the strange time line. A slow smile crept onto my face sleep beginning to cloud my brain once again.
"Goodnight Once-ler." I yawned, the last thing I saw was the small smile that spread across his face at the name I had finally accepted to call him.
