"WHAT THE HELL IT'S FREAKIN' ANTI."
"BRO WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US HE LOOKED LIKE AN AWESOME DEMON BRO."
"...Jack, what. The fuck."
Jack turned to Andy with a slightly apologetic smile, noticing his twin seemed to be holding back laughter. He then turned back to his friends with a roll of his eyes. Mark looked stricken, his face almost as pale as Jack's skin, an amazing feat, really. Felix's eyes were practically bugging out of his head, a smile stretching across his face and a slight fear hidden in his eyes. Though, Jack could only recognize that from playing horror games with him, without recording. Robin looked... strangely calm. Then again, it also appeared he wasn't totally breathing.
"Hey, Robin, you okay man?" he asked, putting his hand on his friend's shoulder. Robin jerked, facing him, before blushing and nodding. Mark turned to look and made a faux pout, crossing his arms. Felix did a similar thing, but more dramatic, holding his chest as if he'd been hit and making a pretend offended noise.
"Jack! We thought you loved us! Don't you care about our feelings?" Felix got out, ignoring Andy for a moment. He groaned and flopped onto Mark, who was not expecting Felix to suddenly be on top of him and groaned too, falling to the floor.
"Feeeeeeliiiixxx, what have I told you about letting gravity take over without warning?" Mark said in a silly, mom-iplier disappointed voice. Felix just chuckled and batted his eyelashes.
"So sorry, Marki-mom," Felix said, as always being the Queen of sarcasm. Jack turned toward the mirror when he heard a joyous laughter, smiling when he saw Andy doubled over himself, ears red and face hidden by his hands as he laughed. He figured Andy didn't have much to laugh at while being wherever he was when not talking to Jack. And Jack hadn't been the funniest person to be around the last few days they'd known each other, even if it felt like forever.
Mark, Felix, and Robin looked a little perturbed by it, though. Robin seemed to be inching closer to the door while Mark and Felix were giving Andy wary glances. Jack sighed fondly, his friends had played way too many horror games. He stepped closer to them, getting in behind all three and pushing them closer to the mirror, chuckling at their little squeals of fear.
"Come on, guys. This is my proof, Andy's real. I'm not crazy," he said, "And ya'll better not say mean shite, or I'll kill ya meself."
"...Jack, he literally looks like a demon. No offense, uh, dude, but..." Mark trailed off and looked at Felix for backup. Felix shrugged his shoulders, a forced blank look on his face, though mirth was dancing in his eyes. Jack rolled his eyes, Andy had that fake offended look on his face, a hand coming up to his chest in a similar manner to Felix a few moments before.
"Why, I've never heard of such a preposterous idea in my life! Me! Demonic-looking? Nevah!" Andy chuckled again, his mismatched eyes closing once more as he laughed. Jack snorted a bit and Mark just... he looked like he both wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, his face looking hilarious as it seemed to war over laughter and fear.
After a while of laughing and being stared at by Jack's closest friends, the two brothers fell silent, smiles still etched on their faces as they looked from each other to the group in the bathroom, then back to each other.
"So..." Jack started, "In all honesty and seriousness, this is Andy. Andy, these are my friends, Felix, Mark, and Robin," he said, pointing to each guy in turn, "Be nice," he demanded from both sides before stepping back and leaning against the wall.
"So... uh..." Mark said, shuffling forward as he seemed to be concentrating on what to say. Jack smiled at his friend, who nodded in return, "So... you're his brother?"
"Yup."
"And you're twins?"
"Mhm."
"And you're alien to earth?"
"Well, to us- me really- you're the alien, but generally yeah"
"Okay... and why are we here?"
"To help keep Sean sane and confident in stuff, and I was told by a certain someone that you, Mark, are an engineer who could help with repairing the ship. Mostly because said 'certain someone' knows jack shit about engineering, never mind trying to understand blueprints," Andy said with a smile, Mark blushed and looked away, embarrassed and humbled knowing Jack had talked so highly of him.
"Ja-aaack, why would you tell hiiiimmmmmm..." he whined. Jack rolled his eyes and made a motion with his hands to tell Mark to stop being a little baby and converse with Andy. He then turned slightly and did the same to Felix and Robin. Mark stood there pouting and Felix decided it was his turn.
"So. You're this Andy character, huh?" Felix said, inching closer to the mirror, his hands folding behind his back as he leaned toward the mirror a bit. Andy seemed to back away as Felix loomed by the mirror, even Mark and Robin looked intimidated by his professionalism, "Let me get this straight. You want us to believe you're his... twin? That you're here solely for peaceful purposes? You don't want anything... nasty, to happen, correct? You just want to go home?"
Felix's voice held an air of dignity and knowledge. As if he'd asked these questions many times before. He seemed to know exactly what he was doing, and how to do it. Felix's back straightened as he pulled away at Andy's cautious nod. His face remained blank and controlled, and even though he was in a baggy, pastel pink sweater and ripped jeans, he looked powerful.
"What, no words? You scared, glitch bitch?" Andy frowned and shook his head, his heterochromatic eyes glinting in the bathroom light. Felix smirked, "Oh, someones scared. What, you afraid I'm gonna hurt you? Or take your precious brother away?"
Jack was frowning now too, though it wasn't for the same reasons. He could hear a slight teasing tone in Felix's voice but... he also sounded vaguely serious. What's up with the Swedish meatball? he questioned to himself, watching with wary eyes. Andy seemed to straighten and seemed to start some sort of staring contest with Felix, it was almost as if they were battling with their eyes.
Then, Felix stood down, a confused and almost defeated look was in Andy's eyes. The air in the room turned back to the strange-happy-not-tense-as-balls aura it had before Felix stepped in. Said Swede chuckled as he took a step back, turning to wink at Jack quickly before pressing himself casually against the wall.
"I like him," was all Felix said, an approving tone to his voice and a smile on his face. Andy sent him a confused glance but Jack just shrugged. He had no idea what just happened, and it appeared neither Mark nor Robin did either. Mark was staring at Felix strangely, and Robin took the silence as his cue to speak.
"So... we're here to make Jack feel better? And help with stuff?" he asked, "And who's this... Doctor you were talking about?" Leave it to Robin to be the one asking responsible questions and not going over stuff already explained or doing intimidating weirdness. Jack nodded but left it to Andy to answer as he wished, as the question was directed to him.
"Yes, you're here to help. And the doctor we were talking about, I assume Sean has already mentioned him, considering he's toting about the book he received. Doctor O'Daniels is an older man, apparently, he used to work with some sort of Alien communications, was one of a group of scientists or something that was contacted by Bossatronians."
"You sound like you don't believe it," Mark pointed out, Robin nodding along as Felix eyed Andy up strangely. Andy just shrugged, though he did seem a bit perturbed by Felix, who still hadn't fully gone back to his happy-go-lucky feel from when they first started talking with him.
"I have never found any records of it in the mainframe. Like, none. And I like to think I've done my research on my home, seeing as I've had twenty something years to do it, and nothing else," he said, his face carefully blank. Jack also noticed he seemed to be cautiously looking over to Felix every now and then, before focusing back in on Robin and Mark.
"Okay..." Jack said, breaking the awkward silence that had settled as no one knew what to say. Andy was starting to glitch more and more in the mirror, and Jack really didn't want what happened last time to happen again, "Why don't we talk more tomorrow? Andy's getting worn out from being visible to you guys, and we've told you three a lot today. So, why don't you three go get settled, Felix and Robin you both know where the spare rooms are, Mark I'll take you to the room you're using. Before anyone asks questions I'm sleeping on the couch, cause it's a pull-out. And none of you are allowed to argue with me because my mind is not being changed."
Mark's shoulders visibly slumped as he said that, but a fond roll of his eyes and a small smile told Jack he was partially expecting him to say that. He then ushered his friends out of the bathroom, turning quickly to wave Andy 'bye for now' before leading Mark to his bedroom. He went into the room with Mark only to give a brief description of where he wasn't allowed to snoop, and to grab some extra blankets and pillows from his closet to sleep with.
Once all of them were settled and Jack's bed had been made, he ordered pizza. Though he made sure to get from two different places. The first place he ordered a pineapple, corn and bacon pizza*, which he planned would arrive first. And then he'd let Mark's (and either of the other two) 'saving grace' of pizza arrive from the other place in the form of bacon, pepperoni, and olives*.
He couldn't help but laugh at Mark's face when the first pizza arrived. The pure horrified disgust at the pineapple on the pizza completely genuine and hilarious. He also laughed at Mark's completely-relieved-but-trying-to-hide-it face when the other pizza arrived minutes later.
It may have been strange getting pizza from two different places, but damn it was worth it to see Mark's reactions. After dinner, the four boys sat down on Jack's pull out 'nest' (which they started calling it after finding the pull-out couch covered in pillows and blankets (in which they all cuddled up in)) and set up some Disney movies (because everybody loves Disney).
And soon enough all four boys were laying on each other and pillows and blankets and were curled into a massive snoring heap as Disney played quietly in the background.
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*both of those pizzas are good, don't pizza discriminate (pineapple BELONGS on pizza btw)