They decided to bed down for the day... night... whatever it was in the hallway. After fighting off mobs, falling from the sky, and arresting Aiden, they really needed a break.
Jesse was duly impressed- Petra had made a small fire just by putting some blaze rods in a little pile and snapping her fingers. Being friends with a Blaze hybrid certainly made camping much easier.
Not that they needed it- Petra made a nice heater without the fire. And the hallway was plenty lit up with all the portals.
Lukas was asleep already. Probably it didn't help that Jesse had started petting him after Petra had made the fire, making the ocelot hybrid curl up against Jesse's leg while sleeping. She was still petting him with her lower arms, liking the feel of his soft hair under her hands. He was purring like a carburetor, tail and ears twitching happily.
Ivor shook his head from where he was sitting and trying to make some new potions, hands busy with the ingredients. "Honestly, he never fell asleep when anyone else was petting him. What makes you so different?" he joked, before dropping one of the empty potion bottles he was juggling.
Jesse stuck her tongue out playfully at her mentor. "What? Jealous?" she teased, her middle arms catching the bottle and handing it back to him as she went on petting Lukas.
Petra was eating some bread that she had toasted over the small fire. I say toasted, I mean burned to a crisp. Petra loved burned food more than anyone Jesse knew. It was odd how Petra could toast an apple- an apple- and eat it as happily as if it were a piece of burned toast. Jesse never understood Petra's eating habits.
Petra noticed Jesse looking, and held it out, still eating. "Want one?"
Jesse chuckled, lower arms petting Lukas as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of toast she'd saved from that morning, upper arms combing through her hair. It was still damp. "Nah, I'm good."
"Suit yourself."
Ivor pulled out a bottle of something dark blue, and Petra arched her eyebrow. "Potion of Night Vision?" she asked.
"No, energy drink." Ivor took a sip and went back to brewing his potions. He glanced up from his potion, as he carefully added glistering melon to the liquid already in the potion bottle. "You know, you liked being petted, too," he said, and it took Jesse a couple of seconds to realize he was looking at her.
"Oh. Yeah. I mean, I remembered a while ago, but... you know, no one ever petted me except for you," Jesse said, shrugging casually.
Petra put away her burned bread, gold eyes sparkling with excitement. "Ooh, Jesse likes being petted? Lemme try!" and the Blaze hybrid practically ran over to where Jesse was sitting.
Ivor smirked in amusement.
Jesse looked at Petra with bemused eyes as Petra plopped down next to her and started patting her back lightly. The bemusement slowly turned to a dreamy sort of look. "Oh, that feels..." a soft purr as her lower arms continued stroking Lukas's hair instinctively. Jesse was getting very good at multitasking. "... that feels nice," she said, dreamily.
Petra grinned at Ivor, the first smile she'd sent his way in a long time. "Heh, you weren't kidding, Ivor."
Jesse was starting to purr a little bit now, but it was the spider version of a purr- meaning her chest vibrated slightly as a soft humming came out of her mouth. It was kind of soothing. Like a lullaby, actually. A bizarre,
Ivor took his eyes from the sight of the three hybrids sitting together in a little clump and went back to brewing potions of healing, potions of fire resistance (the hybrids went through so many of these in one day just because of Petra's tendency to get overexcited), potions of Swiftness...
It was only when he heard nothing for a good long time, except for some soft humming, that he lifted his eyes from the brewing stand.
Jesse had slumped over Lukas sleepily, her lower arms resting on his back nicely as she rested her head on his back, upper arms draped over her sides. Petra was lying on the ground a little behind her, hand also resting on Jesse's back as she breathed in and out. The fire had also dimmed a bit, to the point where they were just embers that glowed in sync with Petra's even breathing. Ivor hadn't noticed because of the portals giving off light.
He shook his head, dark blue eyes softening. If Jesse had seen, she would've teased him, and if Petra had seen him, she would've cracked some joke, gold eyes still a bit hard when she looked at him, or if Lukas had spotted that, he would've just patted the older male nicely on the back, a small smirk twitching on his lips that was barely noticeable but still there.
Good thing they were asleep, right?
Ivor moved more quietly, making sure not to clink the bottles together as he put them away, eyes flicking up to the small pile of hybrids in front of him every couple of minutes to check if he'd woken one up.
Finally, the brewing station that he'd made was cleaned up, and he approached the hybrids, carefully moving some hair out of Jesse's face with a small smile.
Jesse stirred a bit, hands twitching, before a small smile came over her face. He smiled slightly with a shake of the head, leaned against the wall near their heads, and closed his eyes.
Not too long later, he drifted off as well.
'Morning' came. After a quick breakfast of rather burned bread (courtesy of Petra), the four of them were poking through the hallway, hazarding guesses as to which portal lead back home.
"Hmm, what about this one?" Ivor called out.
Jesse trotted over to look at the one Ivor was pointing out. Olive green swirled inside a doorway made of two rings of gold.
Jesse looked at Petra to see what she thought about the whole thing. Petra squinted. "Mmm, maybe... what do you think, Lukas?"
Lukas's nose twitched, and he put his hands on his hips, looking a little disconcerted. "I can't smell anything. If it's a Nether portal, it smells like... burning. Fire, wood smoke... and if it's an End portal I can smell this sickly sweet smell. But I can't smell anything with these portals, except I think I'm catching a faint whiff here and there. It seems like night air. Maybe some rotten flesh. Nothing out of the ordinary."
"Good enough for me," Jesse shrugged, and she took a deep breath before pushing her way into the portal, the 'beads' moving aside to let her inside.
A/N: Aww fluff xD Just a fluffy filler for you guys.
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