I realized that I only posted this on Wattpad for the LiveScream, and I decided to not be lazy and post this here. I did this with Kat, who is used to writing the Creatures, but I'm not, so, ya know. I still like writing Seamus, cause he's just an adorable little sarcastic man.
... I'm gonna go back to my Team Crafted and Co. one-shots now. I have a few ideas I want to finish.
It was night, but not too late. Ten PM, usually too early for the Creatures to head to bed. But, as luck would have it, they had been messing around all day, and Dan insisted an early night.
So, there Seamus was, lying in his bed, eyes open and searching his dark room. He couldn't sleep. Not with Jordan watching him from the desk chair next to his bed. With a blink, Jordan was gone, and there was only an empty chair.
Illusions, a thing that Seamus lived with. He knew that if one of his frie- boyfriends, was acting strange, it probably wasn't them. Seamus had schizophrenia, and he hadn't told anyone that he lived with.
Seamus sighed and got up as Jordan reappeared, this time weaving his hand through the blonde's short hair, itching his scalp. He waved away the imaginary hand and went to his kitchen, hoping a drink of water would make the illusions go away long enough for him to sleep.
It didn't, Nick had appeared sitting on the counter, holding Ze's helmet and sobbing. Strange, usually illusions weren't as detailed as humans. Yet again, his boyfriends always roamed his subconscious.
He tried his hardest to ignore Nick's loud sobbing, grabbing a cup and going to his sink. Illusion-Nick placed his head of hair on Seamus's shoulder when he realized that he was being ignored.
There was an unearthly screech, and Seamus turned around to see a clicker from The Last of Us. Seamus yelped at the too close infected, and it tried to take a bite out of the blonde's neck. Seamus felt the pain of his jugular being ripped out momentarily, then the illusion dissipated.
The blonde groaned, water having spilled onto his shoes. He had dropped the cup in surprise. Seamus slammed the cup onto his counter, almost taking a towel from a floating Mario before reaching to grab a different one. The Mario illusion shrugged, then disappeared.
After Seamus cleaned up the water, he jogged back to his room and put a scarf around his neck. If anything, if was just for his own mental health.
Maybe he should watch tv. The illusions couldn't bother him if Seamus was staring at his screen.
So, the television was turned on. Not long after, hideous sounds came from all around him, some beckoning him to do something, others just screeching or crying.
Television is a failure. Great. There was a Dex sitting next to him, holding two controllers and Smash Bros. Seamus ignored him and went back to his room, deciding to play some easy Shovel Knight.
As he expected, that didn't work either. An image of a dead Aleks had frightened him away. Seamus stumbled to the living room and curled up on the couch. Eventually, he had to cover his ears with a pillow.
Fingers pulled at the pillow, voices calling his name. Telling him to play with them. Seamus shut his eyes, even though it was already dark from his face being squashed against his legs. His brain somehow picked out James' voice, and felt his cold fingers trailing softly against his ear. It almost soothed Seamus. Almost.
"Stop it!" Seamus yelled aloud, about done with the insanity.
The fingers moved away from his ear, having heard his plea. Seamus was surprised it had worked, since it usually didn't.
"S-stop pretending to be them," he whimpered softly.
The voices started up again, louder this time, and Seamus started to sob. It was too much stress. They were making him go crazy, if he wasn't already.
"S-Seamus, wake up! C'mon, for me," Dex's voice pleaded. "Guys, come here!"
Seamus snapped up, seeing everyone sprinting towards him and Dex. Kevin, Dan, Aleks, Jordan, and James. They all looked worried. Worried for him. Unlike the illusions. Seamus allowed himself to breath, not even realizing his lungs were struggling for the element.
"Stop it! Go away, leave me be for one fucking night," Seamus sobbed.
"Seamus? It's us." Dan said, gently placing a hand on the blonde's shoulder. "It's your friends."
"No you're not!"
Dan moved out of the way as James asked him to move over. "Seamus, what's wrong. You can tell us. You can tell your boyfriends." James said, his voice gently.
"But you're not! You're going to disappear or turn into a monster. Please please please stop it!"
"Seamus, you sound insane right now." Kevin offered. Dex punched him in the arm.
"I AM, okay? Are you fucking happy?" Seamus screamed.
"No, because that doesn't explain anything!" Dex screamed, thus getting himself yelled at by everyone.
"I have schizophrenia!"
Everyone was silent. They let the new information sink in, and once it did, they all started speaking at once. Trying to say sorry, yelling at him for not saying anything further, anything like that.
"Stop it! I don't have any fucking proof that you're real!" Seamus exclaimed.
"Seamus." Jordan said, his voice cold. "Would we be this worried if we were fake? Wouldn't we have disappeared by now if we weren't your real boyfriends?"
"Sometimes?" Seamus asked. "Maybe?"
"No, because we're real." Dex said, both of his hand in his pockets. Seamus stared at him, and they maintained eye contact for a while.
"Maybe. But how do I know that?" Seamus asked wearily.
James grabbed one of the blonde's hands. "Do my hands feel real to you?"
Seamus looked up at James' face and forced himself to look away. "I don't know anymore."
Someone from behind tilted his chin away from the others. It was another James. "Seamus, don't listen to them… We're the real ones." James smiled.
"I really hope so," Seamus smiled weakly..
"Seamus, where are you looking?" Dan asked, looking around to the back of the couch. There wasn't anything there.
"I see, James Wilson Junior standing right there," Sea replied. "Tell me I'm wrong, please, because he's crying."
"He's not real." James said, not comfortable with Seamus thinking the illusion was real and he was fake. "I'm real Seamus. Please."
"I'm trying. Alright? I'm trying really hard to be sane right now."
"We can tell that." Kevin offered. His voice was soft, and Seamus barely heard it.
"Listen. For me, anything I can imagine can be used against me. I don't know what to believe," Seamus said as he stood up. He walked towards Aleks, or possibly a fake Aleks. "I don't know anymore."
Aleks was about to say something, about to put his hand on Seamus's shoulder, but he was cut off by the blonde himself as he stepped away so that Aleks couldn't touch him from where he stood. "No, just listen to me for a moment. You don't know what it's like unless you're in my shoes."
"I'm sure we don't. But why has it happened just now?" Kevin asked.
"What do you mean? Why has what happened? My hallucinations? Because they've been going on forever. You just couldn't tell." Seamus spit out through gritted teeth.
"Ah- no! Seamus, I was thinking logistically. Like, why haven't you seen multiple of us before? Is it something to do with how tired you are? Or insomnia, or time of day? I'm just curious," Kevin assured.
"Oh. That. I-I-I don't know." Seamus looked to the ground in shame. "Maybe."
"That's interesting. Anyway Seamus, it's like, one. Should we put pillows on the ground and have a huge fuckin' slumber party? It'd work," Aleks suggested.
"I-I guess?" Seamus stood up. "Would you be able to handle me though? The hallucinations get pretty bad.."
"Yeah, of course," Aleks said, grabbing a firm, assuring hold on Seamus' upper arm. "Guys, pillows and bears?"
Everyone said yeah and ran to get the bears, while Aleks rolled his eyes and got the pillows with Seamus. The blonde watched Aleks from the corner of his eye, watching him just in case. Little did he know, Aleks was doing the same.
"So, any reason why you didn't tell us?" Aleks asked quietly.
"Just…" Seamus thought for a moment. Should he tell him the real reason? Yeah, they already knew a lot, so might as well just give up everything… "Trust issues. I've had a bad time with people before."
"We understand. I mean yeah, Dex and James will whine about it, but they understand too," Aleks smiled softly as he laid out a rough square of couch cushions.
"Right." The others got back, bears being flung around as they all tried to hit each other with the stuffed animals.
Jordan squeaked when Dan nailed him in the face. Dex snuck up behind Jordan while he was down and bit the taller's ear lightly. "Dex Pranks!" Dex announced.
Aleks laughed and grabbed two pillows, waiting for Seamus to follow his lead. "Come on Seamus! Let's make this.. Uh… Aleks and Seamus Pranks!"
"Creativity is great with this one," Seamus snarled, but grabbed a pillow anyway and cuffed Kevin over the head.
"Ay, there's the Seamus we all know and love! It's Seamus!" Aleks started, but there was no one else to back up his reference, since none of the guys watched that series, and Seamus hated that part.
"None of you watch my shit but Aleks?* SSoHD is the true ship here," Seamus scowled while taking down Dan with a swing of his pillow.
"But Seamus!" Everyone chorused out at once. Well, everyone but Aleks, who had forgotten about the bear/pillow war, and was smiling like a drunk man. He had dropped his pillows, leaving him defenseless
"Fuck all of you," Seamus spat jokingly. "I'm going to cuddle with Aleks."
As he said that, everyone looked to each other, nodding before charging at Aleks, who scrambled to grab his pillows. The Russian didn't grab them fast enough because he was soon on the ground, getting pummeled by bears. "Seamus!" He called. "Help!" All the Irish did was laugh as he watched the scene.
"Oi, look. Our favorite Irish is alone," Dex smirked.
Seamus snapped out of his laughing trance, and booked it down the hall past the offices. "Dex, fuck you!" He called back, earning a laugh out of the Brit. He opened the extra door they had to the hall outside, and slammed it.
Seamus turned around to see a detailed hallucination of Mr. Meowgi bloody and sprawled across the hall floor. At that, Seamus turned on his heel, opened the door, and closed it again, running into Dex. "On second thought, I'd rather cuddle."
"Oi, look who loves this hunk of a British man." Dex smirked, and Seamus frowned, gently shoving Dex as if it was a joke.
"So, wanna cuddle back with the boys or... Just with me, right now?" Dex asked. He had a certain expression about his face, hopeful, but understanding.
"How about we have a cuddle session with everyone?" Seamus asked, forcing a smile to his lips.
"What's wrong Sea?" Dex asked. "I'm European too, you can trust me."
"There's nothing wrong, I just… think it would be better with everyone."
Dex smirked and walked with Seamus back to the rest of the group, all of which were covered in bears in an attempt to hide. It didn't work very well.
"Hm. I wonder where the others went." Seamus said, his voice stiff with sarcasm. Dex laughed.
Dex stood up on the couch and jumped off, landing on top of a "hidden" body. A short scream erupted, followed by Aleks grabbing Dex in a headlock.
"You fucker!" Aleks yelled while Dex laughed, not even bothering to try and get out. A few of the others laughed, wiggling out from under the bears.
"Aw darn, it didn't work?" Jordan asked, pouting as he propped up his head.
"Yeah," Seamus rolled his eyes, "I wonder why."
Kevin was about to say something, when he broke into a yawn. The others followed him, the yawn contagious throughout the room. "So, shall we go to sleep?" Kevin said, yawning once again.
"I agree with that plan." Aleks said, falling over on the floor and covering himself with the bear again to stay warm. Seamus and Dex joined the pile, sharing a bear with one of the others. Seamus stayed awake for a few more minutes, just waiting for something to appear and ruin the night even more. Nothing happened.
Maybe this wouldn't be as bad as Seamus thought it would be.
*I believe Kat forgot that Aleks was apart of that series. XD