In Love With Rest Itself (OxO // Closed // Mature // Stalkers Welcome)

(As for right now, she’s stopped them from bleeding out)

”He would,” she answered as another cloud of smoke appeared. This time, instead of a menacing and perhaps fearsome figure, the person who walked out was a young-looking, light blonde boy, with low to no energy remaining in his eyes it seems. Or maybe it’s because he was tired as given by the yawn he gave after walking through the portal.
”Now, here’s the deal,” the goddess of death figure turned back ”He will be here to provide you comfort the best he can, you… well, you just have to try to live happily with him and I know that it’s hard, but please do try,” the female figurine stated.

The female figure nodded to his words, exchanging looks with the new boyish figure who nodded in return.
”No need to think about that just yet,” the female figure stated before standing up and completely disappearing.

The boyish figure sat in front of Cas, rocking back and forth a bit before extending out his hand.
”Hi… what’s your name?” he asked, tilting his head slightly. His eyes were sparkling, even if it didn’t have irises. His skin was healthily toned, even if it was sheer cold.

The boyish figure turned to Nix, only to find that his magic indeed worked since, one, Nix seemed to have just phased through him and two, he didn’t seem to notice the figure’s existence.
”Hypnos,” he answered, smiling brightly at the scene in front of him and sitting patiently for Cas to calm down.
”You have a really cute name, Cas,” he added before returning to his silence, letting him enjoy the moment before any further questions were to be asked.

Hypnos turned to the boy, smiling.
”Unlike most people dealing with the same problem, you have a chance. We, who are working with fate, want you to take it,” he answered calmly. Noticing how Cas’ grip has tightened around Nix, the god’s personification reached his hand out to touch him. Despite being nonexistent in the real world, Hypnos provided a warm, delicate touch on Cas’ hand.

Hypnos looked at the stitches, slowing moving his hand to touch them. He closed his eyes for a bit as the stitches had, somehow, pieced themselves together. Soon, the boyish figure would open his eyes and give Cas a rather friendly grin with his mouth opening just slightly.
”Better?” he asked.

The boyish figure smiled lightly when the last of his words came out.
”I can help you with the clothes, don’t worry,” he mentioned, looking down at the pool of blood. It wasn’t a nice sight to be sure but it wasn’t like he hadn’t seen such things before. He had many times in the past.

”Ah, no worries. I’m more than just a human but that’s not important… and don’t feel bad about me being here, I wanted to be here,” the boyish figure claimed with a bright smile as his eyes were closed. He slowly stood up and looked around. A small grin forming on his lips. He was going to have to get used to this new environment.

(Ah yes… I thought I’d replied…)

Without hesitation it seemed, Hypnos bent down to pick up the cat.
”It isn’t about difficult. It’s that I want to do this job. I’m not the protagonist here after all,” he smiled a bit, looking at the black cat he had in his hands. He’d sensed something from the cat, knowing somewhat that the creature wasn’t exactly what it seemed to be.

”Ah! I see…” Hypnos cried out before he looked straight into the cat’s eyes.
”He has quite beautiful eyes…” Eventually, the boyish figure would let the cat down and let him roam around.
He returned his attention to Cas, looking at him up and down.
”Let’s get you cleaned up first, shall we? You might want to change clothes…”

Hypnos stayed outside, knowing well that privacy was privacy. He looked around the room, gravitating around to see Cas’ likes and dislikes as they are. This, as his sister has said, was going to be a hard job for him. Nevertheless, it wasn’t like he rejected the job. He knew it was hard and challenging, that was why he accepted it and wanted to give it a try.

Hypnos, upon seeing Cas walk out of his room, walked up to him. There were no hints towards what he wanted to do and what he did was sure to surprise Cas. Getting close enough to the boy, Hypnos wrapped his arms around him.
”Life’s been rough… hasn’t it…?” he asked softly as he hugged the boy. Somehow, from the brother of the goddess of death, there was warmth. A genuine warmth.

Hypnos moved one of his hands upwards, having it hold Cas’ neck up. He patted Cas’ back, smiling softly.
”The storm will pass… I promise…” the boyish figure had said, gently patting the human’s back and cherishing with his hair a tiny bit just because he wanted to.

A sudden silence claimed the boy. Maybe it was because Hypnos was holding onto his own tears as well. The fact that Cas needed love from people as much as he did, made him mentally tear up. However, it wasn’t important how Hypnos felt. As long as Cas was letting out his burdens and was happy, he couldn’t care less.
After a short moment…
”You needed this… didn’t you, hm?” he asked, retracting his head to look at Cas. He gave a warm smile before cupping Cas’ cheek with his right hand as his thumb wiped away the tears. No other words were said, Hypnos had returned to the hugging position he was in earlier.

”No… don’t worry. Please feel free to cry on my shoulders until you feel better…” Hypnos replied quietly. It was almost as if he didn’t want to make too much noise. Well, perhaps that was the reason as Nix, the cat, was still circling around him and if loud noises were made, it wouldn’t end so well on either side.
”Go on…”

”I know. Please enjoy it while it lasts,” Hypnos replied to Cas’ claim. Of course, he believed him. Humans were an interesting bunch after all. However much it is that they love someone, eventually they would disappear without a map telling where they had gone. Affection… didn’t truly exist in the same way bodies and objects do.