Chapter 5: the Romantic's Stability.
"Alright, Stampy, what's up?" Stacy asks once they're safely out of earshot of Jesse.
"I think we should do it." Stampy closes his eyes and prepares himself for a berating.
"WHAT!?" Stacy reacts.
"Not because I WANT to...!" Stampy explains "it's just... self-preservation."
"Self-preservation!?" Stacy repeats in disbelief "for all we know, JESSE COULD BE THE KILLER."
"..." Stampy frowns.
"She probably is, actually! she doesn't seem the least bit scared, she's been wandering more than anyone, she's the only person here who keeps trying to isolate people, and she seems pretty confident about what the killer has planned!" Stacy reasons "under no circumstances, can we become isolated from the others with only Jesse or her friends, okay?"
"B-but..." Stampy's on the verge of tears "if... she isn't the killer... then we could be safe with her until morning... while DAN gets slaughtered! so we're safe, the killer is caught, Dan's put in the ground, and I will FINALLY become the #1 Minecraft YouTuber of the world!"
"OR, we both die!" Stacy grinds her teeth with frustration.
"...true." Stampy slowly nods "alright, baby, we'll take our chances with the whole rest of the group."
"Good." Stacy nods, "thank you." she pecks Stampy on the cheek "I'll make sure we survive, okay?"
"Ohhhh, alright..." Stampy isn't very confident about their chances, but it's their best bet so he tries to suck it up "it's just... this isn't like any danger we've faced before, I know how to handle mobs and monsters, even griefers, but a cold and calculated killer... EEEGHUGHUGH, just thinking about it gives me the shivvies."
"Don't worry." Stacy comforts him "everytime you start to feel helpless, just remember: we have the skillset to get through anything. I have battle prowess, quick-thinking, and street smarts. You have doctorate degrees in Crafting and Building, a practical encyclopedia of minecraft knowledge and experience saved up in your head, and YOU, Stampy, are the greatest Redstone Engineer who has ever lived. Together, we are an unstoppable force."
"Uh, I... I suppose... we kind of are." Stampy realizes that everything Stacy just listed down was true, "but... that still doesn't mean any significant number of our skills will come into play here, heck, if you weren't with me I very well could have just wandered off to get murdered by Jesse, and while you managed to counteract that decision in time with the unstoppable duo thing and all, if the killer does have a plan to shake up the situation, then who knows what will happen then? If you get killed, or separated from me, then what if I make another stupid mistake, one that you can't stop? If things go really, really bad, then there's probably not that much we can even really do, there's just too much guess work, even if you and me were the two most brilliant, amazing people to ever live, Stacy, we could still die here tonight, no matter how many chances we were given to protect ourselves and get through it okay!"
"CALM." Stacy orders, pulling him into a hug "yes, even if we were the very best, that wouldn't guarantee our safety, but it helps, it doesn't matter that we can't be 100% safe, what matters is that we get it as close to that as possible. Breathe, Stampy, I need you to stay level-headed. We do our best, I'll fight for us and keep you from making dumb decisions, you can use your vast knowledge to cover my back when I don't know what I'm up against, and hopefully you can build or engineer our way out of traps or something. We play to our strengths and desperately cling to each other, if we wind up separated then we'll regroup somehow, and don't even consider the possibility of death, WE, ARE NOT, DYING. Neither of us, understand?" she hopes this snaps him out of panic mode.
"O...okay..." Stampy stifles the urge to cry and scream and freak out, "th-thank you, Stacy... I needed that..."
"And I need YOU, Stampy." Stacy informs him, her words stern and a little desperate "you're far from helpless, don't forget it."
Silence.
"So, are we just going to tell Jesse 'no'?" Stampy wonders, "and try to avoid her?"
"In... in a second..." Stacy answers, her voice was weak.
"Stacy!?" Stampy's eyes widen in concern, "are you alright!?"
Stampy realizes that Stacy's eyes are tightly shut and brimmed with tears, the hug intensifies to way past the point of comfortability.
"I can't..." Stacy hushes, "I can't... live... without you... again..." now that Stampy's breakdown was over, Stacy's mental barriers collapse and she teeters on the edge of falling into one herself.
At seeing her like this, and hearing those words, and feeling the crushing sensation of Stacy's arms around him, Stampy does what any other overly sensitive, anxiety driven, kitty youtuber would do, and bursts into tears, trying his best not to let the noise of his distraught wailing get to the point of attracting the attention of the entire room.
"NO, no, no, no!" Stacy immediately snaps back to herself, she loosens her grip on Stampy and looks him directly in the eyes "we don't have time to fall into all this again, come on, we're tough, we can handle it." she wipes away first her own tears, and then Stampy's.
"I... I was okay... before you started... crying before me." Stampy can't believe Stacy broke into tears first, even though it was WAY more controlled, "I... I just had... trouble seeing you so... so... broken down..."
"It's because I love you, Stampy." Stacy explains, "I love you so, so much... but we need less emotion and more rationality right now, so I'll suppress my feelings and focus on the task in front of us, you should do the same." she breaks up their hug and straightens her shirt and sash "don't worry, it won't happen again."
"Alright..." Stampy nods, choking down his tears, "don't feel bad though, please, I... I was already pretty much about to cry anyway..."
"I'm fine." Stacy assures him, glancing back towards their... pursuer "we should probably go give Jesse our answer now."
"Do you wanna do it?" Stampy really doesn't wanna.
"No." Stacy replies, sighing "but I will..."
"Thank you!" Stampy is forever in Stacy's dept.
Stacy nods once in acknowledgement that she owns Stampy for eternity, and leads him back so they can face Jesse.
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