Rocket laid in his bed on his side as Groot curled up into his chest; he's been trying to sleep for about three hours now even though he felt exhausted. He was seriously thinking about asking Mantis for help because he was tired of this, for the past several nights it's been like this. Lay awake for hours without little to no sleep, decide to get up early, work on some weapons, and then for the rest of the day feel exhausted until finally heading to bed and sleeping for about an hour. Rocket groaned and rolled onto his back, he just wanted to sleep but no amount of sleeping pills where helping him with it.

He kept thinking of things that might have been the cause of his insomnia. He knew that the thought of his nightmares of course kept him up but it's never been this bad, he hasn't been eating or drinking anything weird, and he hasn't been stressing about anything that he could think of. He frowned, that was a lie, the whole thing with Vox has been driving him nuts. He knew he had to send her back to the Nova Corp, for the money, for the 'justice', but it just didn't feel right for some reason. He shook his head trying to get the thoughts out, 'Vox is a criminal and this is what she gets, but what will happen to you if she leaves, you'll be the last of your kind once again.'

Rocket sat up when he heard a gently knock at the door, he stood up and walked over to open the door. He looked puzzled as he saw who knocked, there Vixen stood with her head down with a look of anger and shame plastered onto her face.

"I had a nightmare," she mumbles without looking up at him, "Is it alright if I stay here for the night, I-I don't want to be alone."

Rocket starred down at her, she was so much smaller than him, so much more innocent and childlike in appearance compared to him. Her bent back large ears and oversized white shirt that Gamora gave her for a nightgown was not helping. Vixen's eyes turned up to his and she looked like a dog getting scolded for something bad they did, she looked sad and truly alone, something Rocket knew all too well.

He sighed and stood back to let her enter, "Yeah I guess."

She said a soft 'thanks' before entering and making over to his bed, she saw Groot lying there and took a step back, "I can sleep on the floor."

"No, no, it's fine," Rocket spoke softly as he gently pushed Groot closer to the wall and then climbed in next to him.

Vixen followed Rocket's approach and was soon lying down next to him, their backs turned to each other with a small gap in between them. Vixen curled up into a ball and laid as far from Rocket as possible, knowing of how awkward the situation was and wanted to give both of them as much space as possible.

"You don't have to hug the edge you know," Rocket mumbled causing her to freeze.

"I just wanted to give you some space y'know."

Rocket chuckled, "I sleep with Groot, trust me my personal was thrown out the window a long time ago."

"So why don't you like it when people get close to you?"

Rocket was quite for a moment, "When people touch me I feel like I'm being treated like a pet."

Vixen rolled over to face him, "So why don't you care when I get close to you?"

Rocket groaned and rolled over as well to face her, "Why do you care so much?"

She shrugged, "I'm just curious, Mantis told me-"

"Oh god," he groaned, "Don't bring Mantis into this."

"Mantis told me that you have nightmares and yet you won't let her help, if they're that bad then why-"

"Because I don't want her to feel what I felt," he hissed, "I wouldn't wish that shit on anyone, would you?"

Vixen frowned and looked away from Rocket, they sat there in silence for a moment before she spoke back up with a sigh, "I have a tendency to push people away because if something happened to me then they wouldn't care and it wouldn't hurt them or me, do you do that?"

Rocket was silent before looking back down at her, "My best friends a tree."

Vixen nodded before getting a look of sadness, "Ink helped me sleep at night, he would comfort me whenever I had a nightmare or was sad. I was so miserable when I first met him, I was so alone. My creator wanted to control me and favored my sister because she listened to him more than me, I ran away because I couldn't stand his bullshit anymore. After years of being alone and drowning my sorrows in booze I finally met Ink and he always saw the positives in everything, he always saw the positives in me. I never understood how he could've, if you think I'm a bitch now you should've seen me when I first met him and yet he stood by my side through everything."

Rocket eyed her, "So are you two?-"

"No we're not a couple he's just my best friend, besides he's already 'married' to another shape shifter."

"Were you upset when it happened?"

She shook her head, "I wasn't upset because he was married, I was jealous because I wish I had what he did. I know I'm a criminal and because of all the shit I've done I probably will never get this but, I've always felt like it's my purpose to have children and to restart my species. I want to be the mother I never had and want to keep someone safe even if it means I gotta die in the process," Vixen slowly looked back up at Rocket, "Have you ever had a wife or kids?"

Rocket's eyes widened before taking a deep breath, "No kids, but there was someone who I saw as a wife, never got to ask her before she," he paused, "Before she ended up like everyone in our species."

Vixen's eyes narrowed, "I'm sorry, w-what was she like?"

He was silent before a small smile crossed his lips, "She was amazing, she was kind to everyone and always would put people before herself. She was so stubborn though, you would tell her to do one thing and if she didn't like it she would do whatever she could to make to change your mind, she would always act tougher then she actually was, something I think she got from me. She was so selfless to the point that that was what ended up taking her away."

"I'm sorry, Rocket," she whispered.

He nodded as he whipped the tears away that were forming in his eyes, "Nothing I can do about it now."

"This is probably a dumb question but if you could bring her back, would you?"

"Even though I want to so badly I probably wouldn't, she'd kill me if I did."

Vixen gave him a puzzled look, "What, why?"

Rocket looked down at her before clearing his throat and rolling back over, "I don't want to talk about this anymore, goodnight Vox."

She gave a nod before rolling back over, "Goodnight Rocky."