Chapter 10: Your feathers are my happy place
After the incident at the arcade Mordecai and Rigby headed back to the park only having killed an hour playing games, and about an hour with the whole demon thing. Thankfully the walk lasted at least thirty minutes so they had successfully killed three hours of their day. They didn't really know what else to do for the day but they now knew that they could do anything and it would all be amazing because they were together. As they reached the steps to the park house they looked between each other then at the house. Rigby grabbed Mordecai's hand and the blue-jay held onto it. They stared at the door for a few minutes thinking what to do, if they should go tell Benson or just wait and keep everything a secret. They thought at least their boss should know of their new development. They started up the stairs before hearing their boss's voice behind them.
"Mordecai.. Rigby?" He asked confused some and then smiled shaking his head. "I guess I always knew you slackers would do something like this. Making my life even harder huh, can't just stick to slacking normally, now I'm going to have to break up french kissing too!" Benson ranted looking at the two who had let go of each other and was looking quite a bit nervous and embarrassed. Benson put his hand on his forehead rubbing it for a second before glancing back towards the cart that was now parked by the house. "You guys don't need my opinion I'm sure, but be gay if you want just try to keep it clean when you are working."
Mordecai let out a sigh of relief as Benson spoke of his acceptance of their new relationship. He was kind of concerned that he would have flipped out on them thinking it was gross or something but to find out that he was going to be fine with it sure took some weight off of his shoulders. "I.. Thank you Benson.." He said stuttering some before looking down at the raccoon that was making a slight puffy face towards Benson. Rigby really wasn't just going to chill with Benson's acceptance, no he had to be a turd and get mad. Mordecai moved to cover Rigby's mouth but his hand was stopped as Rigby pushed it away and spoke.
"Hey we aren't slackers Benson!" Rigby protested moving his hand away from Mordecai's wrist and moving it across his chest, crossing his other arm over it. He could hear Benson grumbling as he started up the steps, Rigby backed off some and put his hands up. "Heh, just kidding Benson Burner!" Rigby said watching Benson walk past the two and into the house. Benson Burner? Nice nickname you goof. After mentally scolding himself he glanced up at Mordecai who motioned with his head towards Benson who had once again started to speak. Rigby sighed as he listened just wanting to hang out with his boyfriend.
"You guys should know not everyone here is going to approve, and if there happens to be any drama it's not my concern so I won't be able to get involved." He motioned for the two to follow him into the house, walking over and sitting on the couch having them sit beside him. He grumbled a little before looking at the two trying to think of anything else he really could say. He knew Fives hated gays, being he came earlier to him in the day to try and get rid of Don from the park. "I already know that Fives don't like homosexuals, he was throwing a fit today over your little brother. So, just try and keep it under wraps when he is near. Also, if you ever need to talk about anything like this I may be mean to you sometimes, though you deserve it, come talk to me if you need to get anything of your chests." Mordecai and Rigby nodded in unison before Rigby thought to add some more to the conversation.
"Your only okay with this because of Pops right? I mean come on your so old school how could you be open minded?" Mordecai tapped him on the shoulder to shut him up; he stopped speaking and then looked down some, feeling a little bit shamed. His ears perked up as he heard Mordecai clear his throat.
"Well what Rigby was trying to say it wasn't something we expected from you, being you aren't from the new generation?" He said running his feathered hand on the side of his neck laughing awkwardly. Mordecai didn't want to get Benson mad when all he was doing was being nice, but Rigby was right it wasn't expected for him to be so supportive. He glanced down at Rigby and rubbed the raccoons shoulder before glancing up at Benson who started to laugh some.
"It's alright guys, I understand I'm older then you guys but believe me, I have an open mind, and it has to do with more then having been around Pops for half your life. Think about it guys I'm a talking gumball machine, you got to get used to being around people who aren't what people call normal. Plus even if you two are slackers, you're still my friends." He said smiling some and looking at the two whom both smiled. He then stood up off of the couch and stretched his arms out some.
"You know Benson." As Rigby spoke he stood up and walked over towards Benson. "You are our friend too, we appreciate... Your help but you don't have to worry about us too much Mordecai is a butt whooper, and I'm a face kicker." He grinned as he spoke hmming a few times before he heard Mordecai start hmming too. Benson just shook his head and laughed some at their expressions. Rigby did a few karate chops in front of him and between Benson. "Plus we have death kwon dou on our side, so yeah don't worry Benson. Also what are you still doing here... isn't it late enough for you to get home?"
Benson crossed his arms looking at Rigby and then at Mordecai. "Sadly no, I don't get to just leave willy nilly I have paper work to do." Mordecai and Rigby both let out annoyed sigh, it was sometime in the afternoon at this point; why couldn't Benson go home so they could cause some kind of havoc. "I'll be up in my office you two, no breaking anything alright. Also remember to keep your gayness to yourself; you don't want some of the people here finding out about you two." With this Benson went to the stairs and started up them.
"Thank you, Benson." Both of the boys said in unison and Benson just nodded continuing up the stairs. Rigby glanced over towards Mordecai and then got back onto the couch looking at the T.V. laying his head down on Mordecai's lap looking up at his beak. Rigby poked it with one of his claws and laughed some.
"Hey Mordecai... I'm allowed to lay on you right?" Rigby wasn't sure if he was pushing any boundaries or not by being on Mordecai. He didn't want to make his new found boyfriend to be awkward, or to feel odd. Rigby just knew he had a lot of feelings stored away and he wanted to release them all over Mordecai. He wanted to lie on his legs and sleep, lay beside him in bed and cuddle, kiss, and other perverted things that Rigby wouldn't do with Mordecai just yet. He felt a finger brush through his head fur and took it as an ok that Mordecai didn't mind it any. He let out a soft purring noise before he heard Mordecai laugh. "What?" Rigby asked putting his paws behind his head to support himself some.
"Dude you are so cute... I mean you know cute for a guy." Mordecai still felt a little awkward with being gay but he had to come to terms with it somehow, he knew his feelings for Rigby were true and he really did love the little bugger even if he always got them in trouble. He rubbed his hand onto Rigby's stomach running small circles on it smiling some. Rigby's fur was quite thick, and it was extremely soft, when clean anyways, he dragged the bottom of his fingers against Rigby's skin running down to his belly button and sticking a finger into it causing Rigby to let out a soft moan. Mordecai's eyes widened and he blushed profusely looking down at the raccoon.
"Dude, if you keep doing that I'm going to have to jump on you and bite you." Rigby grinned wide this not being a threat but more of a kinky perversion. He felt Mordecai's fingers move back up to his chest and stopped lying still onto him. Rigby grinned even more letting out a few hmms as Mordecai stopped teasing him. He felt a little sad that Mordecai stopped but he understood that he might have stepped over his boundaries with the comment. He let out a slightly awkward sigh, and to think he thought he was always the more girly one out of the two. He looked over towards the T.V. then back up at Mordecai who was just sitting there, silent his hand still on the raccoon's chest. Rigby wasn't sure if they were having a moment or not but, he knew being on Mordecai was enough to keep him content for the time being. He just stared up at the bottom of the blue jay's black beak. "Mordecai?" Rigby was a little concerned at how silent his blue-jay had gotten.
Mordecai had been sitting there in silence thinking about how Rigby was on him and how close he felt with Rigby like they were meant to be. Why didn't I realize earlier that he and I were going to be so close? I mean if I had known earlier in life I would of understood what I had told myself in the no rules domain... I said hold onto him while I still had him... I don't understand what he meant by the while I still had him; Rigby and I, will be together forever, right? Mordecai's thoughts were interrupted by his name being spoken. He looked down at Rigby to see concern on the small raccoon's face. He couldn't help but smile and lean down kissing the raccoon on his lips. As he broke the kiss he softly grasped at Rigby's stomach. "You know dude, we are supposed to be being careful laying on me isn't careful dude." Mordecai said not trying to be rude and break the mood but they should at least try to be careful the last thing they really needed was to get caught by Fives and have him flipping out on them. He felt the weight of the raccoon lifted off of his leg as Rigby sat up. "Sorry babe." He said awkwardly as he looked towards the T.V. then the time, he wished it would just get a little later so he wouldn't have to worry about anyone walking in on them. Mordecai stood up off of the couch and went towards the T.V. before feeling a smack below his tail feathers. He blushed and glanced back at Rigby who was making the cockiest grin ever. "Dude, you're asking for it." He turned away from Rigby again this time, not getting smacked on the rear; he walked towards the T.V. and went to turn it on before seeing there was a scary movie on top of the VCR. Someone must have forgotten it or something; they hadn't rented a movie in quite some time. He looked back towards Rigby who was staring at him and most likely his rear end, being he had been facing away. "Dude, Stop being a pervert." He rolled his eyes and then turned back to the movie, that's what they would do watch a scary movie to make Rigby pay for being a little turd.
"I'm sorry it's just your body is so fine." Rigby said grinning even more he was cocky when he felt comfortable with a situation and now, he felt extremely comfortable with Mordecai, or well was getting there. He still didn't want to push too many boundaries but he wanted to see what he could do without really getting Mordecai angry with him. He stood up from the couch as he heard the kitchen door open and close. He walked over to the end table and used it to look into the kitchen. He saw Skips pulling out a screw driver and fixing one of the cupboards. I wonder how Skips would feel about this? He looked over at Mordecai as he came over to check on what Rigby was looking at. Rigby looked back towards Skips who turned and saw the two looking at him.
"Can I help you fellas?" Skips asked looking at the blue jay and raccoon that scrambled to their feet and walked out into the kitchen as too not be super weird. Skips just looked at the two suspiciously trying to figure out what they were up to. "Did you guys let lose some kind of demon that wants to consume the world?" Skips hoped they hadn't caused any more trouble, the robots were bad enough the other day the last thing Skips needed on his plate was getting rid of some demon. He continued to look between the two as they just stood there glancing between each other as if they had some kind of secret they were keeping from Skips. He crossed his arms and then looked at them thinking maybe he could intimidate them into speaking.
"Well we kind of did... but we fixed that already." Rigby said cockily shrugging his copper brown shoulders. He felt Mordecai push him some and then glanced over towards the blue-jay who had his hand on his forehead. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. Rigby felt a little silly but he just was being truthful he didn't think he had to keep it a secret being they solved it on their own. Skips shook his head at Rigby and Mordecai before huffing.
He cleared his throat while speaking. "You know you two should be more careful, one of these days you're not going to be able to fix your mess." Skips, who was very knowledgeable, so he hoped that his advice would sink into the two, he didn't want them to end up doing something that would ruin their lives. Skips had always just been a kind of guide for everyone at the park but for some reason Mordecai and Rigby never truly took his advice.
Rigby felt for some reason that maybe what Skips was saying should be listened to, he now had a real reason to be alive, he had to keep himself safe for Mordecai and he had to keep Mordecai safe for himself. He crossed his arms looking back up towards Mordecai who seemed to be in thought. His stare then moved back onto Skips who had turned back to fixing the cupboard for the moment. I wonder if he knows that I and Mordecai am a thing, he is pretty smart. Rigby walked over towards skips and jumped up onto the counter looking at him. "So what do you think of Pops, I mean you know he is gay. What's your opinion on him?" Rigby thought he was being pretty sly asking how Skips felt about gay people this way. The raccoon glanced back over towards Mordecai who walked over near him looking at Skips waiting for an answer. Rigby could see that Skips was really thinking pretty hard. He moved his paws into his lap and crossed his fingers hoping that Skips would be accepting it would be nice to have the mentor of the park being accepting. you know... I'm pretty sure he likes Pops... I mean he is really defensive about him... this was a silly questions. Rigby thought smiling some to himself he felt kind of dumb asking this question but the fact that Skips was taking so long to answer made him question it some.
Skips looked over towards Rigby and Mordecai raising an eyebrow before speaking. "Do you guys really think I'm dumb enough not to notice things? I'm fine with you two being with each other. It's kind of like a puzzle. You fit together perfectly; you Rigby tend to mess things up while Mordecai fixes them, a perfect fit." Skips laughed some putting his screwdriver back into his tool belt and opening and closing the cupboard some seeing it was fixed now. He then looked back towards Mordecai and Rigby who were both smiling some at him. "What?!" Skips asked before the two had pretty much tackle hugged him. Skips shook his head patting them on their backs. The two let go, Rigby falling to the ground after hugging him, causing Skips and Mordecai to heartily laugh. Skips gaze went to the living room then back towards the two seeing that no one was around other then them. "So what exactly happened with the demon if you don't mind me asking?" Skips was a bit curious, and felt like this might had been the cause for them to fully develop love for one another.
Mordecai put his feathered hand and tried to think some on what had actually happened when the whole demon thing happened. "In all honesty I don't know what happened. I guess I was frozen then awoke to the demon sucking the arcade into the ground and Rigby was frozen, so yeah... I broke him outta the ice and then kissed him. Heh, that's when the demon was sucked back under the ground and everything, was fixed. Other then that I don't know what had happened." Mordecai glanced down at Rigby who cleared his throat.
"Well, what happened is we made some kind of signal on the air hockey board and then I guess the demon doesn't like people kissing or something, the warlock didn't really explain what was going on other then I couldn't kiss Mordecai. He had frozen Mordecai and I had to try and free Mordecai and defeat the warlock all by myself. I guess what I did worked since we are all here, but I don't remember seeing the warlock after I had gotten unfrozen." Rigby had actually been wondering what had happened to the warlock after he had came back too, but there was really no evidence that he could remember leading to what happened to the warlock. He truly didn't remember too much about the warlock other then he was pretty evil. He heard Skips gasp; Rigby raised his eyebrow wondering what had gotten the yeti startled.
"A demon and a warlock working together, the only case I've ever heard of that before was between the warlock Enoil and Hyrokkin, they are pretty powerful. Hyrokkin is the demon of loathing, that might be why you two kissing vanquished him for the time being, but its just so weird that Enoil is here in town, the last I heard was he was in a different state trying to work on his dark arts or something, rumor also says he took in an apprentice or something too." Skips looked at Rigby; worry was all over his face. "You're lucky you guys had kissed otherwise things would be very bad." Skips looked over towards Mordecai he put his hand on his chin trying to think up anything else he could on the evil duo but he was drawing a blank. "Well, actually there isn't even any detail on how he looks or if it's a he. Just always wears a black cloak and is always masked in dark shadows." Rigby ears popped up at this.
"Hey that's what the guy I dealt with looked like kind of, I didn't really get a good look at him but I do know he had a male like voice!" Rigby explained excitedly thinking that they had actually stopped a warlock who had some sort of extreme power especially if Skips thought he was strong. Rigby glanced up towards Mordecai who grabbed one of his ears and played with it some. "Yeah, so um.., will we have problems with him later?" Rigby moved his gaze back onto Skips while his ear was being fiddled with.
"Not that I can think of, I mean as long as you don't go making anything that can summon up that demon again you should be fine. Though he might have a small grudge on you guys, just be careful alright?" Skips looked up at Mordecai, he knew Rigby thought he was tough and all but, Mordecai was really the one who would protect Rigby in any situation. Mordecai gave Skips a nod this brought a sense of calm over Skips; he trusted that Mordecai wouldn't let anything happen to himself and Rigby.
"Yeah we will be more careful with what we do Skips, right Rigby?" Mordecai glanced down towards Rigby and felt him nod; he pulled his hand off of Rigby's ear and then looked back at Skips. "Hey if you find anything else out, from these rumors let us know ok." Mordecai was a little suspicious about how he was hearing these 'rumors' but he wasn't going to dwell on it. He didn't have anything else to think about but, he knew that sometimes trying to figure out stuff about Skips could be dangerous to them and to Skips. Skips nodded at him and then skipped over towards the living room. Mordecai and Rigby followed behind him as he went to the staircase.
"I'll see you fellas later. Benson needed to speak with me." As he spoke he started up the stairs. The blue-jay's and raccoon's gaze stayed on him until he left their sight. They looked at the clock it was starting to get a little later; time sadly wasn't flying past fast enough.
"So want to just chill and watch some T.V. for right now and then when it's just us watch a scary movie dude?" Mordecai jumped over the couch and landed on a fluffy pillow the remote flopping into the air. Mordecai grabbed it mid flight and then turned to Rigby who walked over and sat by him. Rigby leaned into the couch and placed his hand by Mordecai. Mordecai placed his hand on Rigby's hand and grinned.
Hours passed as it started to finally get dark outside, the weather wasn't too bad just a little chilly. The house wasn't particularly silent that late afternoon the T.V. blaring, and Rigby plus Mordecai laughing at the stupid jokes on the show that they were watching. As the episode came to a finish Rigby wiped his hands under his eyes getting the tears away from them from laughing so hard.
"Dude! That was hilarious, that dad pretending to know girl talk but in all honesty just ending up embarrassing himself and his daughter! God, Dads can be a little dull right?!" Rigby said starting to laugh once more, not being able to control his own laughter. Mordecai just shook his head and then turned the VCR on.
"Rigby it wasn't that funny." Mordecai stood up as he spoke and walked over to the T.V. getting ready to place the movie in when he heard footsteps coming down the stairs, Benson and Skips were coming down softly conversing with each other making it impossible for Mordecai to listen in from where he was. He looked at Rigby who had stood up and looked at Benson and Skips.
"And that's what I want you to do tomorrow Skips." Benson finished his sentence and glanced over at Mordecai and Rigby who were staring at the two of them. God had those two become nosey about every little thing going on now a days or what. Benson continued down the steps until his foot landed on the woodened living room floor. Mordecai had gone back to putting the movie into the VCR but Rigby was still looking and him and skips. "What now?" Benson asked his gumballs getting a little red; he was tired and ready to go home at this point.
Rigby gulped some well, he didn't feel like Benson was in a good mood any more, and that might have been why Skips had gone up there. "Um, how are things with Audrey?" Rigby asked with a small sense of curiosity he knew that killed cats, but he was a raccoon what did he have to worry about. He really hadn't seen Audrey around that much and the last he really heard about her was when Benson had talked to her on the phone about some party. He wondered if he should ask about the party too but felt like maybe asking too many questions at that point wasn't the best idea. He yawned and covered his mouth even he was starting to get a little tired.
Benson looked at Rigby raising one of his eyebrows why was Rigby trying to pry into his personal life. "Things are going well actually, the party the other night was good and we both enjoyed it." Benson grumbled some looking at the small raccoon and then raised an eyebrow. "Why do you ask?" He asked this with a rude tone in his voice. He felt like maybe Rigby thought he and Skips had been up to something that they shouldn't have been doing up in his office. Him and Skips together bah, that's preposterous.
Rigby sat back down on the couch as he spoke. "I was just trying to make conversation, sorry Benson." He was a little peeved that Benson had gotten such a hard on over him asking about Audrey he was just trying to show curiosity. Something must be happening that is bad to have Benson in such a bad mood. He looked at Mordecai who seemed to still be working on setting up the VCR it sure did take that blue-jay a long time to do simple things sometimes. "So um Benson... What's gotten you in such a tizzy?" As he asked this he turned his head so he was looking back at Benson and Skips as they had continued towards the door. The gumball machines gumballs turned a bright crimson. Oh crap what did I get myself into this time?
Benson took in a deep breathe trying to keep his cool as Rigby asked him about his temper. "I just got word that I have to leave this park for a week soon... Something for Mr. Mallard, Who's going to run this park properly while I'm gone!? It's all going to go to hell!" Benson's gumballs turned a bright red again. He was trembling some from the anger, trying to control it. Skips put a hand on his shoulder and then spoke his tough and influential words.
"Benson calm down its going to be alright, I'll watch over the park while your gone, you need not worry alright? Just head home and get some rest you don't leave right away anyways. You can always make a plan ahead of time for what we are all going to have to do while you're gone." Skips took his hand off of Benson as the gumball machine seemed to cool down. He always knew he was good with words in most situations, so hopefully Benson would take it to heart. Benson turned towards Skips and then nodded, Skips then knew he was right, and that maybe Benson would actually be able to get some sleep for that night. "As for you two, you have work tomorrow you know, you guys shouldn't stay up all night." Skips was trying to show that he was on top of things.
Rigby groaned and then looked away from the two. "Yeah we get it, work tomorrow you guys can go now." He waved his hand as if to dismiss the two, he laughed some as Mordecai turned and gave him a dirty glare. Rigby shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't care he wasn't afraid of Benson and Skips.
"What he means Skips is that we will be heading to bed soon, no need to worry about us alright! Have a good night you two." He said with a smile grabbing the remote for the T.V. and walking over by Rigby, sitting down beside him. Benson and Skips said their good byes before heading to the door and leaving. The house was completely silent once more other then the sound of Rigby and Mordecai breathing. They both blushed looking over at each other; they weren't too sure what to say. Mordecai lifted the remote up and turned on the television, the movie started up within moments of him turning the T.V. on, Zombies are us, looked like it would be something about zombies in a kid store or something. Mordecai felt Rigby lean against him; Mordecai smiled and put his arm around Rigby's shoulder pulling him closer into him.
Rigby felt himself pulled against Mordecai and blushed some snuggling his head into the blue feathers on Mordo's side. He looked at the movie as the title screen had finally disappeared and the movie was actually starting, something with a kid inside a mall. Rigby tried to focus on the movie some but his mind had already wandered to the blue jay that was sitting beside him. He moved his brown hand and placed it on Mordecai's skinny grey legs. He giggled to himself some at Mordecai's gasp; it must not have been what Mordecai had been expecting him to do. Rigby then looked back up to the movie at the worst possible time as a zombie jumped on one of the parents biting into them, the blood was quite graphic. Rigby screeched and turned into Mordecai hiding his head in his side. "You chose a scary movie?!" Rigby's complaints were muffled by Mordecai's feathers.
Mordecai laughed some squeezing Rigby a little tighter and rubbing the raccoon's sides. "Oh come on it's just a zombie movie! We already killed zombies before remember?" Rigby shivered some in his arms Mordecai couldn't help but laugh more to himself before moving his other arm over and picking Rigby up placing him on his lap and making the raccoon face him. Mordecai looked into the raccoons eyes and smiled. "You know, you're so tough, until it comes to actually scary situations you know it's really cute." Mordecai felt a soft punch in his shoulder and then laughed even more. Mordecai wrapped his arms around Rigby and pulled him against his chest. He rubbed his hands up and down the raccoons back laying his beak on top of Rigby's head.
Rigby closed his eyes as he was held against Mordecai's chest letting out a soft purring noise. "Your arms... have always been my happy place you know... I just have never been able to actually... be held by you romantically." Rigby felt a little stiff about this, feeling as if he might ruin their moment by saying that but he knew that he just had to get it off of his mind. "Your arms are my castle and your soul is my sky." Rigby said this while placing his ear near Mordecai's heart hearing it beat slowly. He felt the hands on him grip tighter and then felt something wet hit the top of his head. His ears drooped some, he felt as if maybe he had said something wrong. "M-Mordecai... are you alright?" Rigby asked trying to look up at him but being pinned under the blue-jays beak.
Mordecai sniffed some moving a hand from Rigby's back to wipe his eyes trying to clear his throat as tears rolled down his face. He gulped swallowing down the lump in his throat as he tried to hold back from crying as he spoke to Rigby. "I-I just... why did I let you, my best friend, suffer so much... I should have been here for you... I should have realized my feelings..."
Rigby stopped Mordecai as he spoke. "What matters Mordecai is that your mine now and nothing will change it. I promise!" Rigby said this as tough as he could, he then heard a laugh muffled by the sounds of sniffles coming from Mordecai. He grinned he had at least got a laugh out of the blue-jay which was definitely what he was trying to achieve. He felt Mordecai's other hand being placed back onto his back bringing a smile to the raccoons face. Rigby moved his hands so he was tickling Mordecai, getting even more laughs out of the large avian. "Now stop crying you turd and watch the scary movie you wanted to put on so bad!"
Mordecai squirmed some as he was being tickled a smile coming to his face and his tears drying up, Rigby somehow always knew what to say to him when he was upset and he was extremely lucky for that fact. He was lucky that he had actually gotten to know Rigby, and that Rigby had a crush on him. The raccoon actually made him feel pretty good about himself, like he was important. Margaret never seemed to really give two thoughts to what Mordecai liked and what Mordecai didn't like. He was a bit worried about Margaret knowing but, he couldn't be bothered to really find a way to stop her, if she let everyone know then she did and that was fine because he was happy with Rigby. He looked back up to the movie his hands still planted hard against Rigby's back as zombies were storming the toy store and eating everybody. I wouldn't let anything happen to Rigby, I'd give up my life to stop him from getting hurt. Mordecai knew that was a bit cheesy, so he was just going to keep that in his mind, he didn't want to embarrass himself to Rigby. Things had gotten pretty much quiet other then the movie playing, the sound of flesh being ripped from body and all that. He sighed smiling and watching the movie his arms still around the little raccoon, though Rigby hadn't really moved too much. Mordecai yawned as the movie continued most movies put him to sleep either way too dull or too stupid and unbelievable. He actually liked the movie he had watched the night before, even if he had to pay for it. He leaned his head off of Rigby's and closed his eyes some then re-opened them trying to stay awake. He moved his hands off of Rigby and watched as the raccoon fell sideways off of Mordecai and onto the couch out cold. Mordecai chuckled; something must have put the raccoon to sleep. He stood up turning the television off and shutting off the VCR. He took the movie out and carefully placed it back into the holder. He turned over to Rigby as he heard a soft snore, Mordecai shook his head, and Rigby had always said that he never snored. He walked over to Rigby's side and picked him up cradle style like the night before. He smiled; this might end up being a ritual for the two, always carrying to tired out raccoon to their room. As he starred at Rigby in his arms he saw the raccoons eyes open. "Did I wake you love?" Mordecai asked trying to be a little romantic.
Rigby yawned and stretched his arms out as he looked up at Mordecai. "Heh, I guess you did. Hey how was the movie?" He asked groggily his voice a little raspy. Last thing he could remember was the beats of Mordecai's heart its soothing tune putting him to sleep, he could fall asleep to that every night, it was like a lullaby. He could only hope that he could continue to listen to that beat for the rest of his life, he didn't want to not hear it. He rolled down in Mordecai's arms so he was against his chest and his ear propped back against Mordecai's heart. "Hey, dude I love you." Rigby said softly looking up at Mordecai who smiled and leaned down kissing him on the forehead.
"Hey dude, I love you too." Mordecai chuckled a little Rigby wasn't ooh too romantically inclined all the time but he still felt like the raccoon was trying. Mordecai started towards the stairs as he heard a soft snore come from Rigby, he glanced downwards to see that the raccoon had once again fallen to sleep. Mordecai laughed, he thought he was a heavy sleeper. He started up the stairs each step creaking as he continued up them before he heard a soft whisper from on top of them.
"Mordecai?" Pops was standing on top of the steps looking down in the almost complete darkness. He couldn't help but think that Mordecai was holding onto Rigby because who else was that small. As Mordecai continued up the stairs Pops let out a happy giggle seeing Rigby in the blue-jays arms. "Ahah! So you listened to my advice?" He said in his normal peppy tone.
Mordecai raised a feathered hand near his mouth using his pointer finger to shush Pops some. "Yeah, I did, he helped me find my true heart though." He said smiling some before Pops let out a very gay laugh. The lollipop man was definitely happy too see the news of Rigby and Mordecai being a couple now. Mordecai felt a tad bit of awkwardness as he and Pops stood for a few moments in complete silence. "Um so yeah, I better get my raccoon to bed." He said laughing awkwardly and walking past Pops. Pops laughed and then continued down the stairs, Mordecai couldn't believe how often that lollipop man was up at night. Like he was a night timer, or something, vampire maybe? Mordecai continued to their room pushing the door open with his back and then closing it with his foot as he walked towards his bed. He placed Rigby down and then turned away before stretching his back cracking. He felt pressure on his back as he was being hugged by Rigby. Mordecai laughed some turning into the hug and facing Rigby. He blushed brightly after realizing that Rigby's face was now in his waist. Rigby let go, a cherry blush covering most of his face. "S-Sorry dude..." Mordecai stuttered as he spoke feeling odd about putting his crotch into Rigby's face.
Rigby laughed some rubbing his hand against his face brushing it off. "Heh don't worry dude, it happens, I'm short remember that next time… of course my face was just above your tail feathers.. Remind me not to hug you unless you know it next time." Rigby said finishing brushing his face off and jumping on to the side of the bed. Mordecai sat beside him; both of them were still red faced. Rigby turned towards Mordecai and then grinned feeling an odd burst of energy flow over him. "Hey, Mordo." Mordecai turned to face Rigby as the raccoon jumped onto him making Mordecai fall sideways against the bed Rigby on top of him. Rigby smiled down at Mordecai before leaning in and kissing his beak. "So... how... are you with us so far?" He asked sitting on Mordecai's chest after kissing him. He wanted to see if Mordecai was really enjoying them being together for the first day as a couple.
Mordecai leaned up some and kissed Rigby's stomach smiling wide. "Dude, this has been one of the best days ever, other then you know... the demon and all... but I'm glad it came out and gave me the courage... to express my love for you." He said laying back down and looking up at Rigby, he remembered back to when they were wrestling. Just the way they were kind of reminded him of it, they were just more or less reversed. To think he didn't realize then that Rigby liked him, he remembered a small poke on his rump that day, before Pops pulled him off. Then Rigby showing so much care making sure he was okay. Mordecai's smile widened, he couldn't believe he hadn't put it all together.
"Earth to Mordecai, earth to Mordecai, come in Mordecai." Rigby said waving his arms around trying to once again get his love's attention. He continued to wave his arms back and forth until he finally got a response outta Mordecai.
"Sorry dude, I was just thinking about back when we were into really, real wrestling." Mordecai then remembered the outfit Rigby had worn, the black underwear and the cape, the raccoon had to be so extremely cute then. Of course Rigby was pretty darn cute all the time, no matter what he was wearing or doing. "Shouldn't we be hitting the hay? I mean you fell asleep during the movie dude and we have to get up early for work tomorrow." Mordecai said before he heard a protesting sigh come from the raccoon. Rigby gave Mordecai a look as if to say that he didn't want to. Mordecai chuckled some to himself before poking Rigby in the side and making the raccoon fall off of him and onto the bed. "It's your own fault if your tired tomorrow then dude, but I'm hitting the hay." Mordecai pushed the covers from underneath him and then pulled them over top of him. He looked over at Rigby and smiled some. "Night Hun."
Rigby blushed and then crawled over towards Mordecai getting behind him making sure he was facing towards him as he got under the blankets. "I guess since you won't stay up with me." He said his voice filled with a little annoyance. He quickly changed his mood though as he wrapped his arms around Mordecai and hugged into the blue-jays back. He ground his face delicately into the blue feathers on Mordecai's back trying to savor the feeling of his love against his face. He continued to hold onto Mordecai until his arms started to go numb. He moved them a bit so they stopped feeling weird but kept them around Mordecai for the most part. He started to hear snores and figured that his love had finally fallen asleep, heh, they both snored it was cute. Rigby closed his eyes the warmth radiating off his new sleeping partner was making him extremely tired. He kissed the back of Mordecai's neck and then snuggled his head onto Mordecai's neck. The raccoons mind slowly drifted away from reality. His dreams quickly invaded his mind bringing the raccoon into a field.
"Rigby? Rigby?!" Mordecai's voice echoed through the space surrounding the raccoon's body. Rigby glanced around in his dream; there was only gray fog, or what seemed like gray fog surrounding him. He felt as if he couldn't move, he tried to move his head but it was stiff, he couldn't turn it any. Though he couldn't turn his head he could see there was a tree, he could see up the trunk to the leaves, he must have been lying against it or below it maybe. Rigby tried to speak but nothing other then a small squeak left his mouth, though he heard the echo of his name once more this time it sounded like it was closer. Rigby could feel some sense of power coming to his limbs as he started to move them, but an odd sense of pain came through his body a numbing feeling. He wasn't exactly sure what was going on, or why he was dreaming these things. He tried to wake himself to no avail, he felt as if this wasn't some normal dream. He moved his arms some and lifted himself up now leaning against the tree. He had originally been lying at the base of it. He started to look around, the gray fog seeming to disappear all he could see was blackness and spots of bright red on the horizon. The sound of crumbling ground and explosions came from every direction, the sound of screams piercing his eardrums. An overwhelming dread started to fill Rigby as he continued to sit there, practically helpless, his body once again fighting against every attempt to move. Rigby could only listen to the sounds that surrounded him. As he listened his name once more was echoed through the darkness as a blue figure appeared covered in what seemed like ash. Rigby tried to smile but his muscles wouldn't allow it.
"M-Mordecai?" Rigby asked to the figure, the blue figure got closer and bent down on one knee.
"Rest now Rigby." As the words entered the little raccoons ears everything went black, he awoke startled and yelling waking Mordecai up.
"Rigby, Rigby what's wrong." Mordecai turned to face the raccoon who was shaking and sweating beside him. Mordecai pulled the raccoon against him rubbing his hand down the raccoons back. "It's alright I got you." He could hear sniffles coming from the raccoon he sighed he wondered what had happened. Mordecai continued to try to calm down Rigby holding onto him tightly and trying his best to make sure Rigby was in his happy place. He could sense that Rigby was starting to calm down some and pulled him away from his chest to look into Rigby's eyes. "Talk to me Hun." Mordecai whispered this to Rigby; he was extremely worried about his raccoon.
"I... I don't know.. I just feel overwhelmed... like something bad is going to happen..." Rigby said his voice cloaked with sadness. He felt like he was being overpowered by an odd sense of darkness and dread. He sighed and then leaned back into Mordecai's chest holding tight against him. "I love you Mordecai…" He spoke in hushed tones; feeling as if he said this too loudly something or someone would take Mordecai away from him. He just felt completely surrounded by a dark feeling like something... or someone was watching him. He pulled away from Mordecai and looked up at him right into his eyes. He gulped trying to keep himself from sobbing, he didn't know why but he felt as if he was going to be torn away from Mordecai somehow. ".. Mordecai... Please promise never to leave my side." He said softly before Mordecai put one of his blue feathered hands against his lips.
"Shush Rigby; I will never leave your side. You mean a lot too me you know, I won't let anything come to happen to you, I promise you." Mordecai said smiling wide at his love kissing the raccoons head. Rigby started to sob as he looked at Mordecai. Mordecai didn't understand why the raccoon was crying until he heard Rigby softly speak into his chest.
"I'm not afraid of you leaving my side... I'm afraid I'm going to leave yours... you can't protect me from everything." Rigby's voice was coated in fear, he was afraid, terrified but he couldn't figure out why, it was as if all these feelings were coming out of nowhere. He felt himself being pressed even harder into Mordecai's chest hearing him start to cry too.
"Shut up dude! Don't talk like that ok! We are going to live a full and happy life you hear me?!" Mordecai couldn't help but understand what was going on; Rigby had some dream about either Mordecai or himself dying. He couldn't understand what was bringing on their nightmares but he had to figure out how to fix it seeing Rigby so hurt so sad it freaked Mordecai out. He continued holding Rigby against him tears continuing out of his eyes. What Rigby had said scared him, why would he say something like that what was going through Rigby's head? Mordecai continued holding Rigby against him trying to cease Rigby's crying. The two sat there for an hour holding each other tight before Rigby had finally fallen back to sleep eyes red and fur soaked from his tears.
Mordecai moved Rigby off of him and laid him softly on a pillow covering him up and getting out of bed walking over to the window and looking out of it into the darkness. He took in a deep breathe staring at the darkness as if he saw something in it. I need to get Rigby's mind off of being sad... there must have been something that had gotten him in such a mood... maybe the movie? Mordecai sighed turning away from the window and looking at Rigby as he lay motionless in the bed. The blue-jay rubbed his eyes, them a bit sore from crying himself, he got too wrapped up in the emotions, and he has to be tough for Rigby. No matter what he had to be there for his beloved. Mordecai looked up at the door as he saw some kind of shadow move on the other side of it. "Pops?" Mordecai asked to the door, he waited a few minutes and heard no response. He walked over to the door and opened it looking up and down the desolate hallway. He stepped out into the hallway and started towards the stairs, he was pretty sure that was the way the shadow had been heading.
"Did you see that too?" The voice made Mordecai jump and quickly turn to see Pops in his nightwear and holding a candle. Pops seemed to be frightened, like he had seen a ghost, Mordecai knew better then to believe a ghost was flying around their house.
"Yeah go back to bed Pops I'll check it out ok." He spoke calmly to the lollipop man who nodded and turned back towards his room. Mordecai turned back to the stairs and started down them before hearing the door in the kitchen slam shut. He gritted his teeth and then ran down the stairs and turned to the kitchen looking at the door. "Muscleman? Fives? Not cool stop this or I'm going to hit you with something." Mordecai grabbed an umbrella from by the cupboard and started towards the kitchen. As he got through the threshold he turned the light on and looked about the kitchen. He didn't see anyone, so whoever it was must have been leaving the house. Mordecai slowly crept towards the door looking out into the darkness, he couldn't see any movement. "Creepy..." He said to himself turning from the door and going back to the kitchen light. He flipped it off and started to the stairs tossing the umbrella back into the pot he had gotten it from.
As he continued up the stairs he heard some kind of rustling coming from his and Rigby's room. He sped up his steps running to their room and knocking the door wide open glancing about the room, Rigby was still lying on the bed and the window was still closed. He took in a deep breathe closing the door and locking it behind him. He was really starting to lose his mind.
"Did you see anything?" Mordecai looked over to the corner of their room to see Pops sitting in the darkness. Mordecai laughed some and then walked over to Pops picking him up from the ground and going back to the door.
"Its all good Pops, don't worry there was nothing in the house I guess we were just seeing things." He tried to convince himself and Pops that was all that was going on but he felt as if someone had been watching them. What if Enoil was after them? "Now seriously go to bed Pops." He unlocked the door and let Pops go back to his room, this time he waited to make sure that was where Pops was heading before closing the door and locking it. He walked back over to the bed and laid down turning towards Rigby who wasn't snoring but breathing heavily. He was glad he wasn't sweating any more; he must have been having a good dream at that point. Mordecai let out a relieved sigh as he put his arms around Rigby and pulled him against him nuzzling his beak into the hair on Rigby's head. He closed his eyes and listened to the raccoon's breathing, it was a lot calmer then it had been before. He hoped that Rigby would just forget about everything tomorrow, so they could just have another happy day. He continued to lie there just letting his mind wander some.
As Mordecai fell back to sleep he remembered that they had to work the next day, great... just great.