4 days was how long Meta Knight has been awake, possibly even longer than that. He couldn't be sure about that at the moment though.

Currently he was in the kitchen of castle Dedede drinking his 4th cup of coffee in the past hour while seemingly staring through the coffee pot leaning against the counter for support.

Meta blinked a couple of times, once again starting to become aware of where he was. Once he has achieved that goal he and started the task of finishing off his heavily sweetened coffee and starting on a new cup. He would honestly gag at how sweet and how bitter it was if he was actually well rested and awake, be alas, he was not.

After about 20 minutes of standing around in the kitchen Meta Knight had decided to start the hard task of walking all the way back to his flat and finish the pile of paperwork that had been on his desk for a while. As soon as Meta had turned towards the door and started to slowly walk and stumble towards the door.

While slowly leaving the room Meta had bumped into something extremely soft and warm and had nearly fallen onto his bottom in a daze but had been caught by the thing he had run into on accident.

"M-my apologies", Meta had said with a suppressed yawn in between his sentence.

The round knight looked up at his obstacle as well as his savior only to realize that it was Dedede with a slightly concerned look with a soft smile on his face.

"It's alright Meta Knight," Dedede said softly, "are you feeling alright though? You normally notice when I'm in a room.", He added with concern, having noticed dull Metas' usually bright Amber eyes were.

The round knight had flinched when he finally processed what the king had asked him.

"I-I'm fine, just a-a bit tired," The orb obviously lied.

Dededes' eyebrows raised and his mouth went into a flat line, one of the most sceptical and disappointed looks he had ever made.

"Meta, that's a lie. We both know this," the penguin had started while meta decided to avoid eye contact with the bird, "also, when was the last time you slept eh?" The king finally finished with his brows still raised and his paws on his hips.

"Uhh, I believe it was, around, four days ago," he said with a slight slur and some uncertainty.

Meta had taken a minute to answer but when he did Dedede was extremely disappointed.

"By the stars meta," Dedede mumbled to himself while leaning down to start to pick Meta Knight up.

"Up we go!" The king had said out loud once he picked meta up and held him in a hugging position.

Meta gave a weak hiss similar to that of a cat and started to feebly struggle out of his boyfriend's arms.

"P-Put me down!", He barely shouted with a yawn that was forced back.

Dedede looked down at his small little boyfriend with a grin, "No can do mety! I gotta get you to bed." The king added much to metas' displeasure.

"I'm fine," meta said with a yawn," I dun need to sleep yet." Meta added while starting to slur more audibility from his drowsiness with starting to snuggle into the king's fluff and robe.

"Uh huh, sure ya don't." Dedede replied with a fond smile and started to pet meta knight so he was more cozy.

"Mmmmmmmm" was all meta replied with while using all his energy not to pass out right then and there.

After a bit of walking around throughout the castle Dedede had made it to his bedroom with the drowsy knight still fighting sleep in his arms. The penguin opened the door and walked through, closing the door behind him. He walked towards the bed and set his little knight onto the bed. Once he had the barely conscious puffball sitting up comfortably he started to remove the armour and the mask from the orb's body.

While Dedede was getting the armour off Meta knight had jolted in realisation that he had been moved from the kitchen and that he was now missing some armour thanks to his boyfriend.

"Mmmmmmm," Meta knight groaned in exhaustion.

Dedede had given a small start to the sudden noise from the knight but didn't react or stop his goal of making Meta comfortable at all.

Once Meta had been put into one of Dedede's old sweaters and the bird himself had changed into his pajamas the two (Dedede laying Meta under the covers) had gotten comfortable in the bed and were now snuggling together with Meta weakly gripping his paws on the blanket and Dedede giving Meta some pets in the spot between his bat wings.

After a little bit the two had eventually fell asleep snuggling.

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