#lee!sapnap4K

[covenofwives]

based around the idea I had and absolutely canon fact that HD's helper hands sometimes act out without HD even realising. 4K doesn't mind but it's hard to get anything done when he's being teased and tickled all day

[godsiblingaskblog]

Out of curiosity for the handsome god 4K, do you ever tease the others for being so much… shorter than you? No offense to the others, of course :)

[aninklingof]

XD getting revenge >:D

Your XD and 4K ficlet absolutely melted me so

XD and 4K with 20- “Either I’m really funny or you’re really ticklish”

you can choose who gets to be the lee/ler :D

from this prompt list!

20. “Either Im really funny or you’re really ticklish”

takes place after this 😈🫠

Though XD was still giggling through their jagged breathing, they were not about to let this opportunity pass. After being thoroughly wrecked by the Nether God, they saw the opening to tackle 4K onto his back, a startled squeal spilling into the air in a piercing tone.

“L-Let’s talk about thihis, XD,” 4K started, breaking out into high pitched giggles as XD brought all four hands up and began wiggling their fingers, taunting the trapped God underneath him. “N-Nohoho! XD d-dohon’t!”

“Wow 4K! Either I’m really funny, or you’re really ticklish,” the deity smirked, slowly descending their hands down until they were mere inches from 4K’s ribs before stopping there, their hands hovering menacingly. “Why don’t we find out, hm?”

“What?! X-XD? No…no no nohohOHOHO!”

The pleads fell on deaf ears as XD suddenly dropped their hands down, the two upper digging into the God’s middle ribs on either side as his lower two hands found their way to 4K’s hips.

The cackles that the tickles were producing from 4K were enough to make XD not want to stop for a long time. And so it was decided, they simply would never stop. 😵‍💫

[sleepy--anon]

Warm Afternoons

Reblog first, like after

Tooth rotting fluff and really brief gentle tickles

(HD = he/they 4K = he/him with a tad of ✨️they✨️)

HD wasn't entirely used to the whole couple thing. It's not like they'd ever been in a relationship before, they were gods. He loved 4K, don't get that twisted, he adored his now boyfriend, they're just adjusting.

"I can practically hear you thinking, what's going on?" 4K's voice broke through his mind palace, bringing them back to reality.

"Just how I wanna tell George, Sapnap knows but I don't think George will believe it unless he hears it from me."

"To be fair, I didn't tell Sap, he figured it out and I just didn't deny it. Don't think about it too much, just kinda tell him, yknow? When you guys are hanging out just drop something he can't deny in casual conversation. Like refer to me as your boyfriend or reference a date of ours. That's how I told XD." HD listened intently, they'd never vocally admit it but they loved hearing him talk. Their brain short circuited when a warm kiss was pressed against his temple, his cheeks flushing a soft sunset color.

"You're so pretty" He complimented genuinely, the two were just cuddling in HD's blanket nest, not doing anything in particular, just enjoying each other's company and occasionally talking about random things.

"You annoy me..." HD turned away from 4K, trying their best to hide their growing blush.

"You and I both know that's not the case right now~" 4K purred, pulling HD so their back was against his chest, holding them securely as they half heartedly tried to wiggle out.

"Yknow, you should really get used to ne clinging to you like this, you signed on when you claimed the boyfriend title, this is your norm now. HD really didn't mind it at all, he just played it like he did for their pride. They couldn't help but melt slightly from the gentle kisses being trailed around his jaw, cheek, and part of their forehead. 4K new him well, trailing the kisses down their shoulder to their bicep. Chuckling as they flinched and twitched at his breath.

"Arms to~?" He dragged his nails from their inner wrist up to their bicep, loving the muffled squeaks and giggles in one of the many pillows. One of HD's helper hands popped in and lightly swatted the mischievous hand.

"Nohoho, too cozy..." HD whined, similar to a child who wants to watch more TV before bed.

"So you're asking me to stop are you~?" 4K worded carefully, he always did. HD slowly shook their head, the lingering helper hand moving 4K's hand to his back before poofing away. 4K obliged without the extra teasing he'd normally do, he was enjoying the warm, cozy atmosphere as well. He let his claws wonder around the length of their back, occasionally scratching at the back of his neck. He smothered their giggly face with kisses just light enough to tickle just a little bit.

(The ending is really bad I'm sorry, I'm like falling asleep but I needed to get this out while I still thought about it)

[fluffallamaful]

Bro, wake up brain has returned, could you imagine Dream’s reaction to seeing 4K absolutely take apart XD

🥺🥺 sleeepppyytyyyyyyy

@covenofwives look look look

ok yes especially if we’re talking about specifically coven’s au, where dream has only recently found out that XD is ticklish (from george). it would be such a shock for him to see just how hopeless his all-powerful brother’s fight is against 4K’s.

like for him to see XD beg and plead and laugh so helplessly. for him to see how ruthless 4K is (i’ve realised that this hc is even more epic if dream has only just recently met 4K, or if he at least hasn’t been tickled by him before).

also if 4K starts comparing the two while dream is watching. like if he starts wondering allowed if dream would also be this ticklish in ‘this spot’. “Dream are your armpits this ticklish?” kinda thing. i adore that they’re both so embarrassed to be compared to each other, and i adore that 4K would be so fast to pick up on this

i adore this image so much 🥺 like so so much with dream all blushy and gobsmacked watching his brother be tickles to pieces like AHHH 😭

[z-0-l-3-3]

The God's Realm

Warning:cursing,extremely platonic,this is a tickle fic so leave if u dont like it.

Characters:DreamXD, georgeHD,Sapnap4k, dream,george,sapnap

summary:DreamXD has trusted his brother alongside with george and sapnap that he will allow them to see his realm secretly but then gets caught by his other friends sapnap4k and georgeHD and seems like there has been a chnage of events..

"DREAM!!! COME BACK!!"george shouted for his friend to stop running from him,followed by another shout "DREAM!! COME ON STOP RUNNING!!"sapnap insisted.

While they were running they saw dream bump into DreamXD,and ofcourse they apologized and saw there was a portal infront of XD.

"XD?,what kind of portal is that?"asked while by dream as the other two tilted their heads dream following not long after.

The portal was a shiny blue color it wasnt a nether or end portal so the trio were confused XD didnt know if they could trust them enough not to tell anyone about this.

After a little while XD answered their question "its a portal to the godly realm where some of the gods go for a break".

the three were wide-eyes and XD also saw alot of amazement in their eyes,he think they are gonna ask if they can go with him so he think just in case they ask him.

And to his suspicion they did ask him so XD still thought abit more,and after a while he said yes but they need to stay close to him at all cost.

the trio were happy and smiling like little children and XD also smilled a little behind the mask of his.

When the trio settled down XD spoke up "its time to go just stay behind me,ok?"the trio nodded and hopped into the portal after XD hopped in.

All four of them in the godly realm the trio were so amazed and XD let them stay still to admire abit and then decided to move on and show them his house.

they were amazed the tree's were so fresh and green some lighting as well the sky was clear and the ground also was so pure.

"come,ill show you guys the house i live in with dream when he was small like around 5 years old"XD spoke up while he said to break their staring of amazement.

They followed XD and dream doesnt even remember this place at all like no memories or anything.

"Dream,you were here before why dont u remember?"george asked looking to dream by his side while still following XD to their house.

"I dont really know george,maybe just because i was so young i dont remember anything"dream answered george's question.

dream soon asked "sapnap,why you so quite man?"sapnap flicked his head to dream and george soon turns to also look at sapnap.

Sapnap was about to answer but they heard running footsteps from behind XD also heard it and turned around then said "boys behind me right now"XD voice was sharp.

Following XD's command they got behind then the trio gave a suprised yelp which made XD flinch and then turned to them and saw then getting lifted by some floating helper hands(?).

XD immediently recognized who they belong to "HD,put the mortals down right now." he spoke a bit strict but still calm.

the trio were confused and stil recovering by the sudden grab of them before one of them speak the helper hands clampped their mouth but not reaching the nose so they could breath.

They saw a figure go closer to XD he was short and almost looked like george.

HD spoke up "you do know mortals arent allowed here and its for gods only."he flicked XD's masked it lifted a little but XD shifted the position of the mask.

Ok ok guys quick explanation XD and Dream can see behind the mask because they have small holes allowing them to see in minecraft world but irl dream's mask is pitch black when u wear it ok ok im done now continue.

"yes,yes i do know but i trust them enough to not tell any other mortal."XD spoke up to HD.

HD sighed but decided to let the mortals go as soon as he did they immediently rushed behind XD.

George was still proccessing '𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦' george thought to himself.

Dream and sapnap thought the same on he almost look like george but he doesnt,"oh yeah!,GeorgeHD meet sapnap,dream and george and sapnap,dream,george meet GeorgeHD!"XD introduced.

HD gave a rather mean look at the three mortals XD did notice so he gave a little nudge on HD meaning to stop scaring them.

"uhm,uh hello George HD? Uhh c-can you tell me why do you l-look like me?"george spoke up amd thought '𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘶𝘩𝘩'george thought

dream and sapnap exchanged looks dream decided to ask "XD explain why he looks like george"dream gave a serious look on XD but he didnt see it cuz of the mask but XD felt the look.

"He is my friend he is also a god but i wish i can give the answer why they look alike but i dont know that info sorry."XD answered dream.

"But i do have another friend that looks like sapnap his name is sapnap4k but i do not know where he is at this time" XD continued and admitted.

HD sighed at XD "4k is at his house right now if u want u can introduce the mortals to him then after that they can go back" HD said.

"Oh wait that reminds me i havent showed my house also i almost forgot i can do this!"XD said at soon as he said 'this' a 'pop' has been heard and faster than a blink of an eye they were infront of XD's house.

the house was made of some glow stone for lighting and the main house was made of stone bricks and for the windows are just some purple ones.

"and here we are my house!"XD joyfully said to the four.

HD already knows so hes not suprised at all,when he turns his glance on the three they were amazed on how well built it was.

"wow,i dont even remember living here"dream spoke,HD didnt also remember dream being here so it was very confusing.

XD left with a 'pop' and came back with another 'pop' but when he came back he had another person with him.

and this time it almost looked like sapnap,XD spoke and said "and this is my other friend named sapnap4k"XD introduced.

Sapnap4k was confused but when he saw the mortals he pointed an accusing finger at XD "XD,you do know mortals are not allowed here!"he scolded.

"Yes i know,but i trust them to not tell anyone about this place and also please do not shout"XD defended calmly.

"welp,4k met them so time for them to go back!"HD spoke.

"No i didnt say i agree for them to go back after 4K meets them."XD said.

'𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)'Dream thought .

"I- Wh- XD!the heck XD!".

"To be fair he didnt say that he agrees for us to come back when we meet sapnap4k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"sapnap spoke pointing to HD.

"lets go inside maybe play some truth or dare!"XD insisted.

"ugh,fine but this is the only time im letting mortals here the next time im kicking their asses out of here."sapnap4k insisted.

"Seems,fair dont u agree XD?"HD continued.

"ok,fine i wont allow them next time"XD rolled eyes and looked at the three mortals and gave 'im sorry' look.

and the trio gave back an 'its alright' look at XD.

"And here we are im gonna go get us some snacks you guys can start without me for a bit."XD said and left the living room for the kitchen.

"Ok!,guys lets sit at the probably move this table to the corner so we could sit like a circle"dream insisted and moved the table at the corner.

all of them sat down like a circle dream was next to HD on the left side and sapnap was on the other side,4K was next to sapnap and george was next to 4k.

"ok guess ill start,GeorgeHD truth or dare?"dream spoke.

"ill pick truth,and just call me HD and call Sapnap4k just 4k for short."HD answered.

"All right,how does XD treat you?a-as a friend you know"dream said.

"He treats me fine,same with 4k if your gonna ask soon."HD spoke and now sitting criss cross position.

"uhm my turn i guess,uh mortal sapnap truth or dare?"HD asked turning his head to sapnap.

"no need to call us with 'mortal'just say our normal names and i pick dare".sapnap said with his face like: ( ˘ ³˘).

"Uhm ok also what with the face and your dare is tell me one of your friend's most embarassing secret."HD said now smirking.

Sapnap thought for a bit but when he turned his head to dream he got an idea "dream is insanely adorobly ticklish"sapnap admitted smirking at how he saw dreams ear become red.

"that ihis not true sapnap!"dream defended '𝘍𝘜𝘊𝘒 𝘍𝘜𝘊𝘒 𝘍𝘜𝘊𝘒 𝘍𝘜𝘊𝘒 𝘚𝘈𝘗𝘕𝘈𝘗 𝘞𝘏𝘠 𝘋𝘐𝘋 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘜𝘎𝘏𝘏-'.dream thought to himself.

"Mhm,if its not true was that a giggle i just heard"sapnap now standing up going closer to dream.

"SAPNAP YOU BETTER NOT GET CLOSE TO ME!"dream pointed an accusing finger at sapnap who was getting closer even if he is shuffling to the wall.

"ooooh~dreamlee is gonna get wrecked~"george teased smirking at how they were fighting to pin each other down.

Before dream could even defend sapnap pounced on him and sapnap quickly scribbling his sides earning a yelp from dream.

"Nohoho!sahapnahahap st-AHAHAP!" Dream was already giggling up a storm and his giggles turn into laughter as sapnap put his hands inside dreams not tucked in hoodie now tickling the exposed stomach.

"Well,guess the dare was also a truth"HD said smirking at the two.

"SAHAPNAHAHAP STOHOP PLEHEHEASE!"dream said with watery eyes (already)a blush reaching his ears and a smile thats long (btw sapnap removed his mask).

"Ok,ok fine cutie"sapnap stopped and backed off rubbing dream on the tummy to lessen the ghost tickles.

When sapnap moved to sit next to george now he tackled the two and looked both at them with playful but vengeful eyes (❍ᴥ❍ʋ).

"Hey!,what did i do?!"george spoke to dream.

"First of all you did not help me second of all you teased me so now your apart of my revenge!"dream said he was pinning them both down and now was using one of his hands and pinching sapnaps lower ribs then used his other one to scribble on georges sides.

Both of the men immediently giggled out a storm with dream teasing them it was worst.

"Hmm,whos the lee now george oh! And whos the cutie now sapnap?~"dream teased to both of them.

He decided to raise this up an octave and went for their hip bones both men almost screamed that would break the glass.

"DREHEHEAM IM SOHOHORRY STAHAHAP"sapnap managed to laugh out.

Dream let go of sapnap but not george "hey george you think you owe me an apology?~".

"OKAHAHAHAY OK IHIM SO-SOHOHORY TOHOHOO NOHOW STAHAHAP PLEHEHEASE!"george laughed out and dream got off and stopped.

"And there you go!" Sapnap was about to say something but got interrupted by a *ahem* from the kitchen.

everyone turned to look who it is it was XD was he watching them this whole time?.

They almost forgot that 4k and HD were also here and three of them blushed a light red color that reached the tips of their ears.

"Well that was quite a show,also why did u come up for that dare HD?"XD said walking back to the kitchen to get the snack that he prepared.

"uhh i dunno just came up to my mind thats all-"HD answered.

"hey dream,i have a secret about HD come ill whisper it to you"XD said while placing the snacks on the table at the corner.

HD tilted his head while dream head over to XD when XD was done whispering it to him he saw dream smirking and was growing suspicous on what XD had told him.

"Hey HD can u close your eyes for a bit?"dream asked while heading over to HD who still has a tilted head,he knelt down behind HD and waited for him to close his eyes.

"uhm,ok fine i guess"HD responded then closed his eyes still confused on what gonna happen.

everyone was staring at HD and dream XD was also smirking while staring dream raised his hands and made contanct with HD's ribs and HD immediently caught up on what XD had told his little brother.

"Wait-!" Before HD could even protest dream had start scribbling on his upper ribs down to his sides dream repeated this motion and HD was gonna lay on his stomach when he did dream got access to his back ribs and had start scribbling there left HD a giggly mess.

"Gahahaha! Ihis thihihis whahat you tohold hid ehehex dehe?!"HD managed to giggle out while attempting a death stare but failed with his wobbly smile and a pink flush on his face.

"Maybe i did,maybe i didnt" XD said while smirking and getting close to the two.

"dohohont evehen gehet clohose to mehe duhumb mahasked idihiot yohour brotheher is ahalso a duhumb idihiot lihihike y-HOHOHOU!".HD said that making the brothers do a dramatic gasp.

Dream didnt wanna do mercy anymore and he dug in the hollows of HD's under arms and XD went behind dream and squezing behind HD's thighs making him laugh with a few snorts.

"FUHUHUHUCK YOHOHOHOU BIHIHIHITCHEHES!"HD scolded in laughter and he wheeze for about 5 seconds which turned into silent laughter after.

"Now,now thats mean you want us to stop right?"XD said calmly like hes not tickling the fuck out of HD.

"maybe if he said an apology to us we will stop."dream continued and turned his head to XD who was now squeezing behind his knee caps.

"Hmm yeah what do you say HD? Or is it that you dont want to stop since you LoVe this so much?~"XD teased and switched to lightly scribbling his thighs and dream went on and gently scratching his sides.

"Ok ihim sohohoryy nohohow stohop plehease"HD giggled out in relief when the two got off him and still giggly from the left over tingles.

"You good HD?" XD said while rubbing the left over tingles and dream following him.

"no but i will be after this!"HD pounced on XD and XD knew this was his revenge.

XD tried to play dumb "HD what are you doing and why did you pounce on me?".

"Dont even try playing dumb XD you already know whats coming"he said with a wink and didnt wanna wait longer and pinching,scribbling you name it on XD stomach and sides.

he would also go pinch his ribs which made hum flinch everytime he did this randomly to keep him guessing.

"HeheHEY HD!Whahay ahare YOHohou gohohoing FOHor me ahand not DREheam?!" XD complained.

"as you know he already has been tickled and you told him to go for me so for now he is spared but not you."HD explained.

"Welp since you made me laugh hard time to make YOU laugh hard"he dug in to the pits on XD upper set and for the lower set well he is just sitting on them.

"NOHOHAHAHAHA NOHOT THEHEHEHERE HD STOHOHAH*snort*!"XD's laughter raised an octave and snorted which made HD stop for a bit and XD was in wide eyes and a deep blush realising he had just snort.

"Pfft- YOU SNOHORT?!" HD bursted out laughing and everyone else in the room except him.

"I think i can have mercy on you now" HD got off of XD and let him breathe.

"shush its not like im the only one who snorts when tickled hard"XD got up and turned his head to 4k who was sitting very quitetly.

"You know...there is someone in the room who hasnt been tickled yet"XD looked got up and started to walk towards 4k.

"HEY! HEY NO DONT GET CLOSE FUCKER!"4K cussed pointing an accusing finger at XD.

everyone else in the room got up and started walking towards XD with wiggling figers in the air.

"WAIT!- NOHOHO STOHAHAHAP I WAHASNT SUPPUHOHOHOSE TO BEHE NOHOTICED!"4K laughed out as 5 lers had tickled him.

Welp this was gonna be a very long day wonder how long they will last.

UGH FINALLY THIS TOOK ME 3 DAYS TO FINISH AHHH THIS IS LONG 😭.

But anyways hope yall enjoy this shitty fic that i dont think yall will like 💀.

Oh and fun fact dream only lived there for a bit so they dont remember dream beind there except XD.

[wishitweresummer]

Love thissss 😵‍💫😵‍💫

4 - The Heart Grows Fonder

The date is approaching for HD's time away from the mountain, and he's shocked to learn that he feels...sad to leave. For two weeks he'll be travelling alone, and he'll miss 4K. But it seems 4K will miss him too.

Sorry this was late tumblr would not let me post anything for days but it seems to be fixed now. Anyway, here is my favourite chapter so far. Please enjoy.

The closer and closer the date came for HD’s time away, the more nervous he became. He had only been with 4K for such a short while, but he was already adjusted to life on the mountain. He could say he and the demon were friends, or at least they were heading towards it. Really, it was hard to put a name to a relationship that began with a deal to be tickled for eternity. But HD thought – hoped – that their time together was making them closer.

4K never seemed to notice the time approaching, or he never showed that he did. It was hard to tell the mood of the demon sometimes. In the quiet moments, HD couldn’t tell if he was just enjoying the comfortable silence or he was restless. When he’d tease and smile at HD, he couldn’t be sure if it was just the demons usual flirting to make him blush or if 4K actually meant those words.

Even the tickling HD had become accustom to. He would absolutely not admit that he liked it but it was a sort of settled in routine for the two. HD was getting enough questions answered to get an idea on demonology.

He had asked what the signs were for a demon taking territory and his payment for the answer of ‘none’ was to have 4K kneeling on his arms raised above his head, and his armpits and ribs absolutely wrecked.

He had asked if there was any reasons for demons to attack humans. The answer was complicated because of course it would be different for every demon. Some demons avoided humans to live undetected while others could despise having to share the world with mortals and do something about it. They were similar to fae in a sense where if a human trespassed or took something from a demon, they would be haunted until the item was returned, or the mortal made up for it in some other way.

HD’s payment for that answer were to be tickled with feathers. All different kinds of terrible feathers. 4K had came up to him excited to show them off. Some were long, fluffy and light, others short and firm and a few others in a mix or in-between. They had solved the rope issue by using silk to tie HD’s hands together, so the fae found himself with his arms tied behind his back, at the mercy of those feathers.

4K loved exploring HD’s tickle spots with each feather, seeing which ones would make him laugh and giggle and snort. They did not tickle as badly as the brushes. The worst one of them all was the stiff white feather that 4K brought to his feet. He pulled back HD’s toes, flicking it just at the very top of the ball of his foot and watched with a grin as HD struggled and laughed and pleaded.

All of his spots were mapped out and noted on, with each kind of feather. Also turns out his chest was ticklish. A new fun discovery 4K absolutely enjoyed giving quick tickles to during the day.

Still in all the tickling sessions, HD had never uttered the safeword. He couldn’t even remember a time he was close to saying it, though when he was pushed to the edge of his sanity with tickles he couldn’t remember much. He’d pondered if that was a bad thing to let himself get to that point, but quickly disagreed with himself. He was never uncomfortable and he never felt weird or bad when he’d regain his senses again or woke up. He just felt that warm soft feeling that wanted to be coddled and taken care of which 4K was always happy to do.

In their head, HD knew they should keep some sense of distance between themselves and 4K but that was sort of hard to do. They had so willingly agreed to be his tickle toy, it was hard to not form a bond.

But bonds are dangerous for faes. HD reminded themselves.

Fae’s are creatures of feelings. They want comfort, safety and merriment. They seek out companionship of others. They would love hard and when the love wasn’t returned, or betrayed, they’d destroy.

HD was confident in himself he wouldn’t succumb to the excuses his kin had. All of his actions would be his own, not blamed on his nature. He was friends with 4K, and while it might not have been what others could consider a friendship, it didn’t matter because it worked for them. He had agreed to be with 4K for eternity, but eternity was a long long time. In the worrying nights HD couldn’t help but wonder if 4K would ever grow bored of him. He was bound to the deal as well but 4K could just as easily ask for the deal to be broken. HD surprised himself as his concern wasn’t for if 4K would go after someone else. His concern was in his sadness from losing 4K. He’d miss the demon.

They were just thoughts of “what-ifs” that did nothing but make HD worry. If 4K got bored or wanted the deal broken in the future, that was for them to deal with in the future. They were not the same fae and demon they were the night they met. They’d grown close and they could talk things out. HD was sure of it.

Instead of focusing on useless what-ifs, HD busied himself packing for his time away. He never needed a lot when travelling before and he wouldn’t need anything more now. Clothes and a map really, which he was looking over now.

HD lay on his front, over the moss bed in his thicket. The map of the land lay in front of him, marked in ways only he knew. Towns, cities and villages marked down that he had visited before. The circled ones were marking fae activity. Either a group or one lone fae was active but not yet causing trouble. Just causing fear. The places with a single strike through them were fae marked, were the activity was strong but HD had dealt with it to drive them out.

Now he’d need to expand his marking method. He had demons he could look out for now, though even with 4K’s information he wasn’t confident if he could really take one on or drive out out. Still, having the knowledge for it already helped out more than enough.

He was trying to plan out his travels for the two weeks when the thicket bush rustled and 4K was leaning down, looking through.

“I knew you’d be out here.” 4K said as he laid down.

“There’s not many places for me to go.” HD pointed out, but he was smiling as 4K shuffled in. “And I thought you knew everything going on, on the mountain.”

“If it’s something new on the mountain.” 4K corrected and settled in. He was crawled in to his waist, his head close to HD’s. “You are a regular on this mountain now.”

HD’s heart warmed to the words. He distracted himself with looking over the map again, which 4K was also interested in.

“What’s all this?” He asked. “Are these places you’re planning to go?”

“No, not exactly.” HD shook his head. “At least not in these two weeks. These are places of interest. I’ve already been to the places marked, but some I will go back to.”

“You’re quite the traveller.” 4K commented, his eyes never leaving the map. He was looking over each mark like he was studying them.

“I used to travel before I settled here.” HD pointed out. “Though settling is quite nice. A home to nest in is comforting.”

4K hummed in thought. His eyes flicked over the map but his attention seemed to drift off.

“What?” HD asked.

“I’m...going to miss you.” The demon admitted and looked up to HD. “And not just for tickling you. I’m going to miss you.”

If HD’s heart had warmed from 4K’s words before, now it was on fire. It thumped so loudly in his chest he was sure 4K could hear it. “I won’t be gone for long.”

“Two weeks will seem like a lifetime without you.” 4K sighed. He sunk his head down to rest in his folded arms. “Though I suppose, I can use all that time to plan all the tickles you’ll be getting when you get home.”

That thought had crossed 4K’s mind as well. Two weeks for 4K to plan, for his mind to run wild with a ll kinds of ideas. And HD would be stuck with two weeks of imagining all the ways he’d be getting wrecked when he get home.

“The time will fly by.” HD quickly excused. “You won’t even know I’m gone.”

“Of course I will! Who am I going to talk with over breakfast? Who’s humming am I going to listen to while you read?”

“I hum when I read?”

“Yes. The softest hums when you read. My favourite thing to listen to.”

The flutter in HD’s heart only settled as he forced himself to focus on 4K’s words.

“I mean, next to your laughs of course.”

“You’ve survived without me before. You will again.”

“It won’t be as fun…”

The conversation felt too close and HD quickly came up with the excuse he needed to pack. He asked 4K if he could take some of the bandages and ointment on his travels for a just in case and luckily 4K offered to help him pack the last of his stuff, leading them both to shuffle out of the thicket.

HD honestly expected he’d be tickled the night before he left. He expected 4K to come at him, asking him to get a question ready and he’d be wrecked. But that moment never came. They ate dinner together, HD assuring 4K he could be home in the two week time frame and 4K reminded him about the extension to the deal. They went to bed separately and in the morning HD was off.

He had done well to ignore the pang of loneliness in his heart on his last night, but now it would be a challenge. HD only hoped he could keep himself busy to ignore it.

And busy he was.

HD planned for his first week to check up on the villages he had been to before. He had warned them of fae activity, giving them iron and telling them to avoid the forests close to them. Especially the large lake. It seemed in his absence the fae grew bolder, and the villagers ignored his warnings. Each night human after human walked to the forest and only half of them were found alive. Babbling horrors but alive.

Somehow that was HD’s fault. Somehow the humans blamed him for not dealing with their problem. Somehow no matter how much HD helped and kept them safe for as long as he could, one wrong move on their part and he was just like all the other fae.

A huge part of HD wanted to leave them to their fate, but his hate for his own kin outweighed his pettiness. It helped when he drowned out the villagers yelling, instead imaging he was relaying the story to 4K. They had never spoken much on 4K’s opinion of humans, and HD had not even tried to ask why 4K was doing what he did, but he could guess from the few conversations he had he wasn’t fond of them. He could imagine 4K scoffing over the humans blame and cursing them. HD knew the demon would absolutely be trying to talk him out of walking into the woods at night and helping these people, but HD would persist and push on. He could not let a fae’s actions go unpunished.

The walk through the forest was made much harder by the iron HD carried out with him. It was heavy and even wrapped in two layers of thick cloth, he could still feel it burning his hands ever so slightly. It was nothing like the warmth of 4K. This heat stung, like tiny bites against his skin.

The lake was not hard to find as a clearly well used path had been worn into the forest floor, bringing HD to the lake’s edge. It was sad how beautiful the lake was. The trees thinned out the closer it got to the lakes edge. The patches of grass were long and soft and the water was so still and calm. So inviting. The only thing ruining it was the smell. The rotten smell of death hung over the water, clinging to it.

How many humans had this fae taken? How many bodies were still drowning down at the bottom of the lake?

The smell was going to make him throw up, so HD quickly tried to untie the cloth for the iron. He tried to imagine the pond on the mountain. How calm it was. How it smelt so sweet. He would be back there soon, away from this horror. But something pulled HD out of those thoughts. A voice. A raspy, dead voice.

“Kin killer…”

Somehow having the fae know him made HD feel better. The could skip all the boring ‘why’ and ‘how’.

“Heard you were dead.” The fae continued. HD looked around, finally spotting them. They were perched on a branch on a tree around HD’s right. The tree was close to the water’s edge, the branch low. Their skin was the colour of swamp water, a murky green. Their hair was like grass water, slimy looking and wet. They looked completely drenched, like they’d just come out the water. Their hair covered most of their body and hung over the branch. Their eyes were pure black and looking dead at HD.

“Well I’m not.” HD spoke carefully. He could fight, but he never liked to. It was a risk he’d rather not take. He very slowly moved his arm holding the iron, trying to keep it out of view. He studied the fae a little more. A water nymph perhaps? Or some sort of selkie? “Which Court do you belong to?”

“It doesn’t matter.” The fae’s voice warbled angrily. “Are you here for the humans?”

“If you mean the ones you’ve no doubt drowned. No. If you mean I’m here on behalf of the humans...maybe.”

The fae hissed, climbing onto another branch of the tree as if to come closer. “Kin killer… Human lover! Have you no shame for what you do?!”

“You’re killing humans.” HD said calmly. His hand out of sight was trying to untie the cloth slowly, but it was hard when the iron was burning his skin and shaking his bones. “This is their world.”

“It was ours!” It almost sounded like the fae was weeping. Maybe they were. Their face was already wet it was hard to tell if it was from tears or water. “This place was ours! We had dances here. Parties. Then humans came and took it. They trampled all of our rings. They dumped their filth into the water. Ruined it!”

“We already have a world. We have our forests. Our lakes and ponds more beautiful than anything here. You came to their land.”

It was no use trying to talk sense into them but it kept him distracted long enough. HD had almost undone the cloths. He’d have to move fast and throw the iron in before it could burn him too badly.

The water fae sniffed. HD first thought it was in some sort of huff, until they did it again. And then again. HD worried they had smelt the iron, until they spoke. “You stink…”

He was relieved, though insulted. It was a common thing he was told. “Yes. Being around humans would—”

“No. Demon. You stink of demons.”

HD froze. It was unexpected and yet seemed to obvious. HD had been around 4K so often he never noticed the demon scent anymore. Of course it would be his own now.

“Do you love humans so much you’d protect them from even demons?” Their voice a mix between a taunting hiss and a genuine question. “Or…do you hate your kin so much you’d jump into a demon’s bed?”

He took in a sharp breath through his nose, which probably gave the fae their answer. Or what they believed was the answer. HD felt it rather pointless if he tried to explain himself and how could it really be explained.

‘No, I’m not sleeping with a demon. But I did make a deal with one to be his tickle toy to learn more about them.’

“Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!” The fae sneered. “How many of us have you killed with no remorse, while the humans kill and take our land! How many demons have you lain with to spite us!”

That irked HD more than the fae thinking he and 4K were sleeping together. “I don’t do anything for you!” HD hissed back. He felt the last tie of the cloth pull free. The iron almost fell out of it, but he caught it with his hand. Only one cloth lay between him and the iron. It burned only for a second because in the next second HD used all his strength and threw it into the lake. As soon as the iron touched it, the water bubbled like a boiling cauldron and the iron sank down to the bottom.

The shriek from the fae almost deafened HD. It shook the birds from the trees and probably woke up the village, if they weren’t awake already. The fae crawled to the end of a branch to pounce but they weren’t going for HD. Instead they pounced out the tree and crashed into the water. Their body disappeared into the bubbling water and HD was too stunned to move. He had not expected it and couldn’t imagine a scenario in which they lived from it.

The water bubbled over, simmering as though the entire lake was about to burst and then the water calmed. The bubbling all dispersed at once, leaving the waters calm and still again. The smell of death was gone, leaving behind a rich earthly scent. HD knew then the fae was dead. Perhaps they could have crossed over to the Otherworld but if they had they’d be on the edge of death and most likely wouldn’t have survived.

There was no way the fae would have left peacefully with the lake’s connection destroyed. It was best this way, HD convinced himself. Though he had already made the choice not to return to the village. They could live in fear for a bit until they were brave enough to investigate. That would be his revenge.

HD walked passed the lake and deeper into the forest. He walked until the sky was just about to burst with the morning sunrise and then he found a bed of grass to settle in under a tree and slept.

The start of his week had already soured HD’s mood for the rest of it. He visited the other villages marked on his map but he kept his distance this time and tried to sneak in to pick up gossip or anyone talking about fae activity. Nothing as bad as the first village. It would need looked into later but it seems people here were keeping themselves safer.

His first week passed by and HD had so far killed one fae and warned off three others. He knew the warned off faes would be back later but he had done his part for now. HD forced himself not to care for now. However, he did learn that the rumour had spread around that he was dead. Apparently a three week absence was enough for the faes to assume he was gone for good. That put a small dent in the power he once had. Before the faes feared him for daring to kill one of their own, but now they assumed he had some kind of weakness. HD convinced himself it didn’t matter. The news of the fae he killed would reach the others soon and he’d be treated cautiously again.

For the second week, HD put 4K’s information to good use. He had a few hidden spots around the place, just outside of towns or deep in marshes. The one was hidden under a pile of rocks by a stony hill. Spare clothes, some money he had ‘just happened’ to come into possession of and importantly of all his grass cloak.

It was one of HD’s most prized possession, even though it absolutely gave away he was a fae. Sometimes he could pass himself off as just a traveller, but people were more suspicious. He had hidden it before going to the town under the mountain to give him the best chance and it was too far out to retrieve before.

It was like a comfort blanket to put it on again. Cool but warming. His tension for the week before was already melting off his shoulders, and HD was off to make a plan.

There were a few shops HD knew of that could sell him what he needed. Magic shops with talismans, trinkets and crystals that could ward of evil. With the money he collected, HD had enough for a few talisman papers. There was a book on different demons and the blessing that could ward them off, which HD got as well. The last one HD didn’t think he’d be able to get for a while, but his search through the shops were lucky.

An obsidian dagger. It was small, the blade probably only a bit bigger than his hand, but it curved slightly at the top. Small white runes were carved into the blade, some HD knew as protection and he had to assume it did more damage. It took the remainder of HD’s money he had, but he purchased the blade and a small sheath for it.

It was a lot more than HD expected to get but it helped jump-start his plans. He could expand beyond keeping faes away from humans, and keep demons away as well. Though he had a feeling driving off a demon would be harder than a fae.

Faes used tricks and deals to work around fighting. They’d charm or placate their targets. Demons seemed to go for the straightforward battles. At least 4K did…in a sense. In their first meeting 4K had tried to go straight for him, and it was only with HD’s bluff they got into the deal. He imagined other demons would be similar. Though their methods would involve something a bit rough than tickling.

But still, this week was a success. Now HD wouldn’t feel so helpless, coming across a cursed town he knew wasn’t from a fae. He didn’t have all the knowledge, but he would be prepared. He could help.

Not that they will ever thank you for it.

HD shook off the dark thoughts. This was a positive week. They had saved humans. They’d found an obsidian dagger. They got their grass cloak back.

They were lonely…

Work could keep them busy with planning and occupying their mind, but when they laid down to sleep and their mind wandered. They missed the mountain. It had become their home and comfort. While they settled under an old tree, wrapped in their cloak, they imagined their thicket bed, warm and cosy. They thought of the beautiful pond, a clear reflection of the night sky. And they thought of 4K.

Never had HD imagined he would be friends with the demon when he made the deal but it was hard not to like 4K. His warmth and endless positivity were infectious. He was also kind, and soft when he needed; even though his body was pure muscle.

HD didn’t know if it was blessing or pure luck the demon he was bond to was 4K, but he was thankful for it either way.

Sleep was slowly pulling HD’s eyes closed, but with the last of his energy he reached out to the bond around his heart. He could feel the knot woven around it. It gave him a sense of comfort knowing it was always there. And yet as he shut his eyes to sleep, he could feel the knot again.

A soft tug on the bond. Not like something trying to undo it, but instead like a gentle pull as though softly reaching out.

“I… Can feel that.”

4K’s words rang in his head when HD had first reach out to the bond. 4K could feel whenever HD touched upon it...so HD could feel whenever 4K reached back.

His heart warmed and he gently reached out again. After a few seconds he felt the tug again on his bond again, and HD was practically giggling into his arm. Giddy with glee.

4K was thinking of him. Enough that he responded to the touch upon his own heart. Enough to tell HD that he was always there.

HD didn’t think he could sleep, excitedly thinking of returning home – his real and true home – but his thoughts of the mountain lulled and calmed him enough that he finally fell to a restful sleep.

It came upon the last day of the two weeks away. HD had already made his way back to the mountain, after finishing up some last minute things. He couldn’t find any signs of demon activity but he had some places to keep an eye on for next time.

As soon as the mountain came into view, HD’s heart fluttered and they quickened his steps. The deal was to allow him two weeks from the mountain, and he wasn’t going to risk breaking it by setting foot on the path up. Instead he kept to the dirt path around the mountain for now. There was a rocky slope just off the path behind the mountain. It was hard to spot with the mossy forest floor covering over majority of the stone, but HD carefully slipped down it till he was under a small overhang of stone. It shadowed over the cluster of rocks and kept them out of sight. Perfect for hiding his things.

He had a box for the talisman papers which he also wrapped up in a thick piece of cloth. Along with his blade and the book on demons. He had spent a second considering taking the book with him to read, but quickly decided against it. He wasn’t going to risk breaking the deal and since the book was literally telling him how to harm demons he wasn’t going to chance it. Instead he wrapped up his stuff and placed the rocks back around it. A few ferns grew close by which HD moved just ever so slightly and the spot was out of sight. Perfect.

It was late afternoon and HD found a tree root to rest under just a little ways off the path. His plan was to sleep now, wake up close to midnight and as soon as the new day hit he’d return to the mountain as soon as he could. It had taken him only a couple of hours to reach the top the first climb, now it felt like he could sprint up there in seconds.

HD didn’t know how he was suppose to fall asleep. His giddiness from a few nights ago felt like nothing to to excitement of today. Sleep felt like it would never come, yet as HD opened his eyes, blinking a few times, the night had come. The moon was high in the sky and a new day had started.

It was past midnight.

HD nearly tripped over himself when he got up and quickly set off for the mountain path. He could not wait to crawl up into his thicket bed and listen to the crash of the waterfall. He couldn’t wait to get back to the cave again, and see what more goods 4K had managed to swipe from the humans.

He couldn’t wait to see 4K again.

The closer the top of the mountain approached, the more HD debated with himself over what to do. Every cell in his body wanted to run into the cave and wake 4K up, but a more sensible part of him reasoned that wouldn’t be fair. 4K would be sleeping since the demon was always an early riser. HD could wait by the pond and surprise him in the morning.

Yet when HD came upon the picturesque scene of his home, he couldn’t help himself. The pond was perfectly still, reflecting the night sky. The waterfall looked almost glowing with the moons light. A wash of joy overcame him and HD decided he couldn’t wait.

So he wouldn’t wake up 4K but right now he just had to be inside the cave. Being close to 4K would be good enough, and he’d be a nice surprise for the demon when he woke up.

HD carefully stepped past the waterfall, slipping into the cave. His eyes took a second to adjust, but it was a second too late to see the hand quickly reach out and grab his arm.

He was pulled further into the cave, but his steps didn’t stumble for long before arms wrapped around him and he was lifted up into the air. Before HD had even a moment to get a sense of his bearings he was being spun around like a sort of princess, while 4K’s voice squeaked happily.

“You’re back! You’re back!”

HD was giggling as he tried to speak, but it was hard not to. 4K’s voice was too joyful. “Stohop! You’re making me dizzyyyy…” His arms braced onto 4K’s shoulders as the demon still spun them around and around.

“But you’re back!” 4K squeaked with joy. He stopped his spinning slowly, grinning up to HD with soft eyes. “You can’t expect me not to be excited.”

HD’s heart fluttered, but he ignored it as he saw 4K’s attention draw to his cloak. “What’s this?”

“My cloak.” HD said almost proudly. A giggle still in his voice from the spin. “I left it behind before I came here. Picked it up.”

“It’s nice.” 4K complimented as one of his hands ran over the grass. “Soft.” He turned the grass inward, brushing it along HD’s arm and the fae giggle and pulled away. “Tickly.” 4K grinned.

“Wh-What are you doing up?” HD quickly asked to distract from the moment.

“You think I was gonna sleep when you’re coming home?” 4K almost scoffed. He gently lowered HD down, his hands still roaming over the grass cloak. “I nearly raced down that mountain as soon as you took your first step here.”

HD’s cheeks felt warm, and his head was floaty. 4K was an early riser, almost always rising with the sun. He’d always go to bed before HD, who preferred the night, but now he was keeping himself awake. Just for the chance that HD would have came back.

HD felt a rush of affection for the demon before him. He wanted to swept up in 4K’s arms again. He wanted to jump into 4K’s arms and never let go. But all of these wants fizzled out when 4K spoke. His hand came up to HD’s face and the fae leaned into the palm without thinking.

“Do you want to sleep?” 4K’s voice was soft and his thumb trailed just under his eyes. Gods his hands were so big and warm. “Are you tired?”

HD slowly shook his head. “I slept in the afternoon.” He half lied. But only because he couldn’t really know. He didn’t remember ever falling asleep but he was certainly not tired. “Are you tired?”

“Not at all.” 4K’s soft smile morphed into a grin. His head leaned just a little closer to HD, like he was whispering a secret. “Do you have a question ready?”

The words prickled over HD’s skin with a new kind of excitement as 4K quickly added.

“Don’t feel like you have to agree, especially if you’re tired from travelling here. If you’d rather chill I’m fine to do that as well. We can sit outside, and watch the-”

“I have a question.” HD quickly cut in. The tingles of excitement still ran through him; growing even more as 4K’s grin grew wider. Suddenly he was lifted up into 4K’s arms again. His time the demon’s arms were under his knees and back, lifting him like a sort of princess.

“4K!” HD squeaked and quickly wrapped his arms around 4K’s shoulders.

“You better ask your question now while you can.” 4K’s voice held a low growl. HD could feel the excitement radiate off him as he walked further into the cave. Past the kitchen and his old room. “In fact, I’ll let you have two. Because this will be intense.”

HD could feel his heart flutter with a warmth he was so unused to. It made him squirm a little which 4K probably took to be he was nervous as the hand on his back made a soothing motion. In truth he was nervous, but he was still swept up into feelings of affection he couldn’t concentrate.

It took HD a few moments to get the question right in his head.

“Are deals common with demons? Between other mythical creatures, or mortals?”

“No. At least not compared to faes.” 4K hummed, almost sounding actually thoughtful. “A lot of more peaceful and docile natured demons will just try to avoid mortals rather than strike a deal. Most demons probably don’t see worth in it, and the ones that do are probably in it more for their own gain.”

HD supposed that was the nature of all deals. Trying to make sure you had more than the person you made it with, or at least keep it even.

He never really had a second question to ask, but there was something like venom in his heart, ruining his warm, fuzzy mood. It struck just for a second, but HD knew what he wanted to ask.

“Have you ever made a deal like this with anyone before?”

4K’s steps halted for just a second. He paused mid-step before carrying on like nothing happened. Instead of facing forward, he turned his head to HD, and kept eye contact with the fae as he answered.

“No. You’re the only one I’ve made a deal with, little star.”

The venom in his heart fizzled out, and the warm fuzzy feeling came back tenfold. HD wanted to blush and hide away in 4K’s neck, but the demon took them into another cavern and his attention was taken away.

HD had never seen the cavern before, but then he’d never explored much of the cave from 4K’s warnings. The walls weren’t so rough as the others, and were smoothed out to almost look like a normal room. Lanterns hung from the ceiling, bathing the room in a soft orange glow. The cavern could almost be called nice, but HD’s attention was so fixed to the centre of the room.

There was only one thing in the room, and it sat so calmly against the stone floor. HD thought it was just a chair at first, and to be fair it was. A soft looking cushioned chair that had some...features. Past the cushion, the seat still stretched out, leading to rather ornate looking set of stocks. HD didn’t need to measure to know it was the perfect distance for his feet to be locked into. Quickly looking away, he saw the back of the chair was also much taller than needed. The top of it reached passed where HD’s head would sit, and each end stretched out slightly, with straps hanging off them.

It was quite clear what the chairs intention was for, and yet HD’s mind was racing with so many thoughts and questions. The only thing to come out of his mouth was. “When… Wh-Where did you get this?!”

“I made it.” 4K boasted proudly as he lowered HD down. HD never took his eyes off the chair, hardly noticing he was standing now. “Well… Okay I had some help.” 4K seemed huffy to admit it. “I had to get the stocks specially made. But the chair was all me.”

“You had someone make stocks for you!” It wasn’t a question at all but the absolute absurdity of it had HD reeling. So many scenarios played in his head.

“Of course. I wanted something perfectly made to make sure it wouldn’t hurt your ankles. Got it all perfectly made to your measurements.”

“When did you measure me?!” That HD had to ask because he would have absolutely remembered if 4K ever came at him with a measuring tape. Or, funnier to think, that 4K had somehow measured him while the fae was asleep. In the times between 4K’s early rising and HD snoozing until noon, he’d tried in vain to measure a sleeping, tossing and turning HD.

The thought was so funny HD gave a small snort of laughter.

“I didn’t have to measure you I can look at you, and know your height and measurements perfectly.” 4K’s voice dropped low, and he leaned in a little just so his lips were grazing over HD’s ear. “I know your body perfectly.”

HD wanted to rush as say that wasn’t true, but he thought better of it. He could only imagine the teasing questions 4K would have to follow that. “Is that a demon thing, or just a 4K thing?”

“That sounds like another question.” 4K’s voice rumbled, with a mixed up purr and growl. “You want to make this more intense than it already is?”

HD’s cheeks went red and his head was floaty but he was tethered to earth by 4K’s chuckle. “I think it’s just a me thing. Though I didn’t ask anyone.”

The attention came back to the chair, because how could it not. It was ominously waiting for use. HD hadn’t realised he stepped closer till he could see the details in the wood. Very fine details of flowering vines around the curved corners of the stocks. The insides where his ankles would sit were cushioned for comfort and – the most pressing detail of all – there were small ties just above the holes, which were no doubt perfect distance to keep his toes tied up.

“How… How-How the hell did you ask someone to make this?”

“There’s a nice little carpenter a few villages away. He didn’t ask too many questions either.” 4K mused like he was relaying some sort of fond memory. “I mean he could probably guess it was for some torture but he didn’t ask. I made myself look important enough that maybe he thought I was an interrogator for some royal.”

“How did you convince anyone you were human?” That also implied that 4K had been travelling. While HD had of course, he just assumed 4K was some sort of hermit, that all demons had to stay at their territory at all times.

“I can hide these very well.” 4K whipped his tail and pointed up to his horns. Even still, HD couldn’t believe anyone could look at 4K and think he was mortal. He was just so...otherworldly. “And I dressed up real nice.”

HD wondered what ‘dressed up nice’ meant to 4K. The most HD had seen him in was some casual robes or a thin top and shorts. It wouldn’t be unbelievable that 4K would have ‘found’ some nice or important looking clothes.

“You can still back out now.” 4K’s voice had dropped his playful lilt and he was looking at HD with a serious look. “I understand I sprung this on you. I was planning on waiting to talk to you about this and show you it in a gentler way so if you want to call it off now that’s fine.”

HD was so focused on the circumstances of 4K going through the trouble of making this thing he had not really considered how it would be used.  And it was absolutely going to be used on him. Maybe if not tonight, but for sure in the future.

“I’m fine…” HD said, tearing his eyes from the chair for a moment to look up at 4K. “I still want to.” HD meant it.

4K looked like he could burst with giddiness, but he was keeping himself in check as HD approached the chair. Very slowly he pulled himself up to sit on it. It really was made to his measurements. It was the perfect size to lock his ankles in place.

4K had opened the stocks and HD tested out the feel of the cushion before he allowed the demon to place them back down and lock them in place.

“I want you to use your safeword if it really gets too much.” 4K spoke seriously. “This will be intense.”

“You say that every time.” HD rolled his eyes. “I am aware I can use the safeword at each time.”

“And each time you never use it.”

“Isn’t that a good thing for you?”

4K looked up to HD after he was done checking the lock for the stocks. It was a simple latch that came over, connecting the top half to the bottom. Nothing complicated. “I don’t want you pushing yourself.” 4K softly admitted.

HD’s heart thumped. “I never am. I trust you.”

4K came to a full stop. His body froze, arm mid way pulled back and then he turned to HD with soft eyes and an almost lopsided smile.

“How do you do that?” He asked, and came up to HD’s side before the fae could answer. “Why is it whenever you’re tied up, that’s when you’re most honest?”

Goosebumps prickled all over HD’s skin. 4K suddenly felt too close and yet not close enough. Conflicting emotions raged in HD but he tried to focus on the words. Focus on speaking. “I tell you these things all the time.” He spoke slowly. “Without...b-being tied up.”

“No. You roll your eyes and wave it off while you say you understand.” 4K leaned in just a bit closer, leaning by HD’s legs. “But when you’re like this you let out soft words. Let things slip out you wouldn’t normally.”

Had he? HD had only been tied up a few times during their time together. A lot less than he thought but it seemed 4K much preferred wrestling and actually manhandling HD around. But there was something...intimate about letting himself be tied down. Letting himself submit. Maybe he had been a little softer in those moment because it was a soft thing.

4K took HD’s silence for panic. He placed a hand over the fae’s knee. Firm and grounding. “Want to stop?”

“No…” HD shook his head. If he was tickled, then he didn’t have to think. “I want to keep going.”

“So eager.” 4K’s voice so easily dropped back into a teasing purr and he moved himself off the chair. “You have been two weeks without being tickled, you must be going absolutely crazy.”

He took a step down, back to the stocks, and HD felt an almost impulsive urge, rush up his throat and out his mouth. The words were spoken before he even realised what he was saying. “Who says I’ve not been tickled?”

4K stopped mid-step. HD watched the words hit his brain. The muscles on his back tensed and he turned his head to look at HD over his shoulder. “Have you…?”

The demons orange eyes were inquisitive, but intense. Staring with curiosity and...anger?

Jealous. He’s jealous.

“Maybe.” HD shrugged. “You keep telling me I’m so irresistibly ticklish. Maybe someone else saw that too.”

4K’s jaw tightened. He swallowed slowly, his Adams apple bobbing as he gave a slow, dangerous grin. “I want a new rule.” He quickly stepped round to the end of the stocks, right by HD’s feet which suddenly felt more vulnerable. “No-one else gets to tickle you.”

“What if I don’t agree to that?” HD asked, trying his hardest not to curl his toes or bend his foot. He was not going to let 4K know how hard his heart was beating.

“Then I’ll just have to remind you how good I can tickle you. No-one else will ever compare.”

His left foot was grabbed and HD had no time to stop the whimper. 4K hadn’t started tickling, but he did slowly push HD’s big toe up and looped the small strap around it. Trapped. There was no time to get used to it as 4K moved onto the next toe. Eventually all five of his toes were tied up, his foot helplessly stretched out.

HD’s other foot tingled slightly, preparing for the same, but 4K actually stepped back and began walking around the side of the chair.

“Wha… Aren’t you going to tie the others?”

“It will be more maddening for you if one foot is so helplessly tied and the other free to struggle and shake as much as it wants. But it can’t do anything.” 4K flashed a grin to HD as he passed. “Just like when you were tied to the tree. Your free foot couldn’t do anything but stomp and shake.”

HD remembered that so vividly. The shiver ran through him while 4K positioned behind the chair and simply said “Arms.” and HD raised them without a fight. And then his arms were secured up as well. HD tugged on the straps just to confirm it. Trapped.

He knew the tickling would start then but 4K was deliberately keeping himself out of sight. Still stood behind the chair, the demon didn’t move and HD could feel himself start to wriggle. His nerves were failing him and it didn’t at all help when 4K came into view.

It was just his hands that HD could just make out. Lowering from above, getting closer and closer to his armpits.

“N-Nohoho!” The giggling started before 4K had even touched him. It was humiliating how much his body responded even without touch. Just knowing the tickling was coming, having the memory of it in his mind, was enough to make him laugh.

They reached HD’s armpits, and instead of the all out assault HD was expecting, 4K just stretched out his pointer finger on each hand, and tickled the armpits with one finger. Slowly dragging his claw up the hollow pit, reaching the top, and then going back down to repeat the same motion. Again and again.

“N-Naha-AHAHA! Noo-oohohoho! That-ngh! That-That tihickles! THAT TICKLES!”

His ankles and wrists were held in place, but it didn’t stop his waist wriggling from side to side, trying his hardest to pull away.

“Hmm… That won’t do.”

The tickling stopped then and HD barely had time to catch his breath before another strap was wrapped around his waist. He was pulled back against the chair, tightly bound. Trapped again.

“Much better.” 4K admired before his hands came around again. He ran his knuckles up and down HD’s ribs, watching with delight as the fae laughed and tried to howl out his pleas between them.

“THAHAT TICKLES! Tha-haha...o-ohohoho! That-That tickles so much! PLEASE! HA-NAAAAHAHAHAHA! PLEASE!”

4K’s hands travelled down. Skittering along HD’s sides. Thankfully they never stayed on the worst spot for long, moving quickly down to HD’s hips and kneading into the bones. HD swore his skin tingled more from his waist now locked in place. He could barely move his hips at all and even if he could, 4K was a master tickler by now. Knowing each way HD would move and follow it without mercy.

It took a moment for HD to realise the tickling had stopped. His chest heaved and laughter still teetered on while 4K came around to the end of the stocks again. HD curled one foot.

“You ready?” 4K’s voice rumbled in HD’s mind, pulling him from the brink of madness and into sense.

“Wh...For what?” HD gasped.

“The intense stuff. I told you it would be intense.”

4K leaned down, grabbing something from a pile beside the stocks HD hadn’t noticed. Though to be fair his whole attention couldn’t be on anything else but the chair. He could see a few of the brushes he’d been tickled with before, as well as the feathers and a small container HD hadn’t seen before.

It was the container 4K grabbed, bringing up and presenting it with a grin. “You know what this is?” He twisted the container around just a little.

HD shook his head. The container wasn’t too big, about the size of his palm and about an inch or two tall. It reminded HD of makeup compacts but he knew 4K wouldn’t have something as simple as makeup in there.

“Itching powder.” 4K finally revealed as he carefully lifted the lid.

The mention of the word made HD’s skin crawl, and his feet shook slightly in their holds. His left could do nothing but give a slight wriggle and his right cowered.

From what HD could see of the powder it was a deep orange colour. A bit of a darker shade than 4K’s eyes. Even the colour of the powder seemed like it would itch. That powder was going to itch. That powder was going to be put on HD’s feet.

It was the first time the safeword became a thought in HD’s head. It wasn’t on his tongue or caught in his throat. It remained in his mind, planted there as a reminder. A reassurance that no matter what, he had an out. Just one word and it would stop.

HD said nothing as 4K raised one of the round brushes that had attacked his armpits once before. The demon coated a lavish amount of the powder on the brush, wiggling it slightly in front of the fae as a taunt. HD giggled then, but the word never touched his tongue. It was kept, folded away in his head as 4K lowered the brush closer and close to his left foot and finally made contact.

The feeling was immediate on the first brush over. Tingly. Mind shatteringly tingly that spread over the entirety of HD’s foot with each swipe of the brush. It only took a few go overs before HD’s foot was covered, shaking in their bonds, unable to move or provide any relief from the unbearable itch.

“I-It-It...mmMMMMMM! ...Oh-ohohohoho! It’s so-It’s s-so i-itchyyyy….” HD gasped.

Itchy couldn’t even begin to describe what it felt like. The feeling of a thousand tiny feathers brushing over every inch of his foot. It was sometimes too light to be tickly, but it made his skin jump; and then other times it tickled so madly it was the only thing HD could think of. Rewriting his entire brain to only focus on his left foot.

The fact his right was itch free was somehow worse. It was free to move and shake but it did nothing to quell the tingling.

“I-I’ll… It-It tickles so...n-ngh! I’ll-I’ll die! It tickles!”

“How can it tickle? I’m not even touching you.”

4K pulled up another chair, settling by HD’s feet. Another thing HD just hadn’t noticed. He leaned down again, this time picking up one of the feathers. A long, stiff blue feather. HD recognised that feather as the one that had tortured his ribs before. Now it was waving ever so close to his tortured sole.

“Pleee...ehehase. Please not-not that! If-If you ti-ihickle me softly I’ll dieeeee…” His voice came out in whiny cries and HD couldn’t find any part of himself that cared in that moment.

“Well we won’t know till we try.”

The feather flicked over HD’s arch. It was barely touching his skin, like it was just testing out the waters and there was no words in any language that would ever describe how much it fucking tickled.

It didn’t feel like a laugh that tore out of their throat. It was more like a high pitch scream from deep within their chest. It hiccuped in their throat, coming out as a whine and then a deep hysterical laugh even as 4K pulled the feather back. It was like some cruel left over ripple effect. The tickly tingles still ran over their skin and their voice broken up by giggles and laughs.

“Ah...Ahahaha…! N-Noho! Not-Not thahat...ngh…!”

The feather returned, this time over the ball of his foot. 4K flipped the feather on it’s side so the edges ran along HD’s skin. Then he flicked the feather up so the soft edges got at all of the fae’s toes. 4K sawed the feather back and forth, up and down the length of HD’s toes; just lightly brushing over that spot where toes met his foot and HD was seeing stars.

“THEEEEEHEHERE! NOHOHOT THEEEHEHEHERE! EHEHE-AAAHAHAHAHA! PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEAAAAHAHAHAHAHASE! I’LL-I’LL DIEEEEE!”

“Well, you’ll die laughing.” 4K purred. In his mercy he did pull the feather away, bringing it back so just the tip of it licked over each of HD’s toes. “Is that not a good way to go?”

“NOHO! NOOHOHOHOHOHO! IT ITCHEEEEES! IT’S-IT’S TOO MAAAAAHAHAHAHA!”

4K dipped the feather between each of HD’s toes. Flicking just once and moving onto the next space.

“PLEHEHEASE PLEASE PLEASE! DOHON’T-DON’T TICKLE ME GENTLY!”

“No? How do you want me to tickle you?”

He pulled the feather back, letting HD have a moment to regain his senses. His chest heaved with each breath, his foot still maddeningly tingly.

“PLEASE! P-Plehease… Scratch… Scratch my f-foot. Please-Please. I-I’m begging yohou!”

“Is that all? Well of course.”

The elated hope that swelled in HD’s chest burst almost instantly as 4K did scratch over HD’s foot. The foot not covered in itching powder. He pushed back the free foot, scratching over the ball and down the arch while his thumb scratched along HD’s heel.

“EEEEEEEHEHE! PLEASE NO! PLEEHEEEEEEEEEASE!”

The feather returned again, slowly brushing up and down the length of his poor trapped foot. It could do nothing but shake in its hold, forever at the mercy of 4K and his terrible feather.

“NOT THAAAAAAAT! NOT THA – Ahaha… Not THAHAT ONE! I’M BEGGING YOU! I’M BEGGING YOU! PLEASE STOP!”

“Beg more…” 4K’s voice sounded lower, the purr mixing into a deep growl. “Tell me how much it tickles.”

“IT TICKLES!” There was no sense or logic to HD’s words. His one compreheniable thought was if he listened to 4K, the itching would stop. “IT TIHIHICKLES! I CA – AHAHAHAHA! I CAN’T THINK!”

“You can laugh.” 4K taunted, flicking the feather back and forth over HD’s itchy heel. His other hand scratching up and down his free foot.

HD couldn’t believe it could get worse, but somehow having his non itchy foot being scratched and tickled just made the itch more unbearable. It was a constant taunt to his other foot. Experiencing the sweet relief it could be having.

“PLEASE! MERCY! Oh-Ohohoaaahahaaha! St-OP! STOP! MAKE IT STOP!”

“Could anyone else ever tickle you like this?”

There was the growl again; the jealousy. HD’s head was too far up in orbit to pick up on it. The only two thoughts running through his mind were ‘IT TICKLES IT ITCHES’ and ‘Make 4K happy and he’ll stop the itching’.

“NOHOHO! NONONONO! NEVER!”

“Would you ever let anyone tickle you like this?”

“NO! NOHOHOHOHO!”

“So no-one tickled you while you were away?” The growl had lessened in his voice, taking on a more taunting lilt that HD couldn’t pick up on. His mind was too focused onto the feather not running up and down the length of his foot.

“NOOOOO! N-NO-ONE! NO-ONE! Ah...AAAHAHAHAHA! No-one could! I w-wohohouldn’t lehehet them! Just-JUAAHAHAHAHA! JUST YOU! ONLY YOOHOHOU!”

HD rambled, only half aware of the words he was really saying as the feather explored over every inch of his slender sole. It returned up to his toes, the spot that made the colours dance in his eyes and his laugh screech like he was being tortured. His voice had left him. All reasoning and senses beyond the feeling of his poor itching sole was gone. He was nothing but a true tickle toy in that moment. At the whims of 4K’s every demand as he orchestrated the laughter he wanted with that awful awful feather.

But there was some relief from the itching. Something in the words HD rambled out gave 4K mercy. He abandoned the feather with the other tools. HD only heard the slightly sounds of rummaging before 4K’s attention returned and HD screamed.

A hairbrush. A hairbrush that could almost cover the entirety of HD’s foot, raked mercilessly along the trapped sole. It tickled madly but it scratched that forever itch, swirling into a confusing sensation of relief and torture. It felt like he’d died, and gone to divine bliss all in one motion.

“EEHEHEEHEHEEEEEEE! IT’S TIHIHIHICKLING MEEEE! IT TIHIHICKLES! STOP TIIHICKLING MEEEEEE!”

“Doesn’t this feel good?” 4K had to raise his voice over HD’s screaming, but his words forever had a constant route, right to HD’s ears.

“Y-Y-YEEEEES YEHEHEHES! MY…! MY FOOOOOOT!”

“What about your foot?”

The brushing continued. Scrubbing away HD’s sanity again and again.

“IT TICKLES! IT TICKLE!”

“Huh… Why does it tickle?”

“YOU’RE TICKLING YOU’RE TICKLING! MY FEEEHEHEHEHEHET ARE SO TIHIHICKLISH! AAAAHAHAHAHAEEEHEHEHEHE! STOHOP! MAHAHAKE IT STOHOHOHOP! I’LL DO ANYTHIHIHIHING JUST STOOOOHOHOHOP!”

“Anything? Well… I want you to laugh.”

The brushing continued.

Minutes. Hours. HD couldn’t be sure. He’d never be free. He’d never know anything but this. The blissful torture of his itchy foot being scratched and tickled again and again.

Time pressed on. Their pleading and begging was mixed with praise and affirmations whenever the brush passed over a particularly itchy spot. Small flashes of relief from the itch kept them aware. Their body refused to let them pass out.

All the while 4K’s words continued.

“You beg me to scratch your foot and now you beg me to stop. You’ve giving me mixed messages here, little star. I should tickle this foot for eternity over that. I should do nothing but tickle this little foot right here. I wonder how long until you go mad. Until you can only think of tickles. Until you can think of nothing else but me tickling this little ticklish foot.”

HD couldn’t respond. He could only laugh, and howl, and scream.

The safeword had never been said, but the brush was finally pulled away from their feet. HD’s mind still scrambled for sense, as they continued breathlessly laughing. They could vaguely feel their toes loosen for their ties. The stretched and curled instinctively to the newfound freedom.

The small remnants of the itching powder over his left foot were calmed and wiped away with a cold wet rag. Even though the touch was firm and so soothing, HD couldn’t help but giggle hysterically to the softness.

Finally, his foot was free of the itch. It still lingered as a memory of course and HD’s foot would be twitching for a while, but his skin felt like it could breathe again.

The ties on his wrists were undone but his arms were caught before they could uselessly fall at his sides. 4K brought them down gently as he undone the strap around HD’s waist and gathered the fae up in his arms.

“You did so good.” His voice whispered so softly against HD’s ear. It flicked a little, but twitched to hear more. “You were amazing. Still never said the word that would make it all stop. You’re amazing.”

4K’s thumb swiped under his eye and down his cheek. HD could feel now they were stained with tears. Even as he tried to blink, his vision hazy, he could feel the last few teardrops slide down his cheek.

He was brought out of the room, though he could only tell because the orange glow of the lanterns had faded and the silver light of the moon took their place. HD thought they’d went outside, but he was lowered to the nest of furs that was 4K’s bed. He had no shame to cloud his wants and he nuzzled into them right away, drawing them up around himself as he felt another fur being pulled over him.

“So cute. You’re so cute.” 4K’s voice rumbled, and HD could vaguely feel a kiss press to the side of his head.

A warmth slid up behind HD and pushed against his back. Warm and firm but also softly comforting. It wrapped around his waist as well, pulling him tighter against the warmth on his back.

4K was holding him. Holding him so softly and affectionately that even in his blissed out state, HD swooned.

“Sleep, Starlight.” 4K purred and another kiss pressed to HD’s head. “Have the softest dreams.”

Like a command HD had no choice but to follow, he fell asleep into a blissful darkness.

It was still warm when HD woke up. He could feel the sun’s warmth creeping just ever closer over the opening through the top of the mountain. The furs were a mix of being wrapped around him and kicked away during the night.

The memories of last night came sweeping into HD all at once. It wouldn’t be one he could so easily shake off, even if he wasn’t lucid for all of it. It was a rather abrupt way to wake up. His cheeks were red and he giggled to the memory that felt just a little too real. Like he could still feel the tingling shocks of ticklishness coursing through him but...no, he could.

Something was tickling him.

It as just a light scratching on his sides, barely even a touch but it made HD squirm and giggle all the same. He blinked the last of the sleep from his eyes, coming fully into reality as he tried to inch just a little bit away and gather his surroundings. The warmth around him decided it did not like that very much and effortlessly pulled HD right back in, the tickling continued.

4K pressed up as close as he could against HD’s back. His arms wrapped around the fae’s waist with his hand lazily lounging by the fae’s sides. His fingers were twitching but the motion was too precise to be random. Yet even so, 4K was still deep asleep, snoring happily into HD’s hair while his claws brushed along the oversensitive skin.

“Eheheven in your sleep yohour a tickle fiend.” HD whisper giggled. He tried to move forward again and the grip was tightened. The snoring was broken up by a soft whine and the tickling just ever so slightly pressed in further, kneading a little into the soft sides. “H-Hehey! Stohop. Stop that.”

HD grabbed 4K’s hands and moved them off his waist. The demon disagreed with this move, grumbling sleepily but he settled again when HD turned around to face him and slowly drew him in. 4K shuffled forward, till his face leaned against HD’s chest and he sighed happily. HD kept the tickling hands far from his sides, instead placing them on his back so he could still be wrapped up in the demons arms. The scratching tickled a little, but it was more calming than tickling, so HD let himself relax.

Judging by the position of the sun above it was just coming to noon. HD still felt the tugs of sleepiness and it would have been so easy to slip right back into his peaceful slumber, but his attention was pulled to the demon curling up in his chest.

4K’s expressions were vastly different when he was asleep. His lips usually so stretched out into a grin were softly parted with his slow breaths. His intense eyebrows relaxed, smoothing out his face overall. HD had seen 4K asleep before, but he seemed so vulnerable and soft in this moment. A vast difference from the merciless tickler just a few hours ago.

“Of course I’d never let anyone else tickle me…” HD whispered to the top of 4K’s wild hair. His horns just poked out of the wild mane and HD gently ran his fingers over one of them. Smoother than what HD expected to feel. His other arm wrapped around 4K’s neck, cradling him into the fae’s chest. “You think I’d trust anyone like I do you?”

4K couldn’t hear the words. It was the equivalent of whispering them into a brick wall. Yet HD meant it. He had trust in 4K that he had never had with anyone else. Maybe long ago, the days before he was labelled ‘kin killer’ he had a couple friends he could trust, but never to the level he had with 4K. Never to the extend he would have willingly gone into a chair with straps on them.

HD could feel the knot around his heart shift with the beating of it. It wasn’t a strange pressure like before but it felt almost like a blossoming flower. A soft warmth growing from his chest, making his face red and his heart beat faster.

He had so willingly gone into the chair and let his feet be held in stocks for this demon. And he would probably do it again if the demon asked. This wasn’t just trust. This was affection.

A groan stopped HD’s thoughts wandering any further. Rather thankfully, though he pushed those thoughts and feelings aside for now as 4K awoke.

Usually 4K rose with the sun and he was always so annoyingly energetic. Now the demon seemed groggy. He whined and stretched his arms out. He pulled back from HD and rolled onto his back, landing in a spot of the bed where the sun beamed directly in and he groaned again as he threw his arm over his eyes.

“Too bright…”

HD opened his mouth to speak, but he watched instead as 4K lazily pulled up his other arm. He gave a lazy wave and the opening at the top slowly began to close. Like stone growing, the opening shrunk and shrunk till it was just a tiny sliver. Enough light was coming through to see, but the beam disturbing 4K was gone.

“Much better…” 4K sighed.

“This is-a…!” HD tried to speak, shocked to the sound of his own voice. HD already had a deep voice other didn’t expect, but now it was somehow deeper and gravelly. It didn’t hurt to speak but he could feel how rough his throat was with each word.

“Seems that little session did a number on your voice there.” 4K teased with a chuckle.

HD gave a slight smack to 4K’s arm. “No...wonder.” He said. His voice wasn’t sore, but it still felt weird to talk.

“Honestly surprised you have a voice at all after that. I do fully believe the town must have heard you screaming. If not, then the Gods must have.” 4K teased again, but his eyes were soft as he looked to HD. “How are you, by the way? Aside from the voice. All good?”

The hand that had waved the mountain closed now reached over to HD, softly rubbing over his arm. His skin prickled with goosebumps as he answered. “Y-Yes… why?”

4K rolled his shoulders in not quite a shrug. “Wanted to check in on you last night but you were kind of...far out, shall we say. And sleepy. Just wanted to make sure everything was good.”

“Is that because I never said the safeword?”

The sheepish smile told HD he’d hit the nail on his head.

“If I didn’t say the word, then it’s all good.” HD affirmed again. He tired not to sound annoyed, though really he couldn’t tell what his voice truly sounded like at the moment. 4K’s constant checking in was out of concern and HD appreciated it no matter how many times he had to assure him.

“I know you know that now. I just want to make sure it’s all good then. You were pretty out of it last night I couldn’t even be sure if you could have remembered the word.” 4K rolled onto his side facing HD. He propped himself up on his elbow, lazily leaning his head on his hand. “Maybe we should have another tell when you get like that...something physical – Ah! But you probably won’t remember the action either.”

While HD felt touched to the suggestion, he quickly cut into 4K’s wandering thoughts. “I don’t need anything else. The word is enough, I just...never felt like I needed to use it.”

4K raised an eyebrow. More curious than unbelievable. “Really?”

“Yes. It’s like…” HD stopped and pursed his lips as tried to find the right words. “Like… I know last night I was...w-well my mind was fried. But like I could still know it was there. Just a word that stops it all. I don’t think I see it as word at that point it’s like...It’s an off switch. That no matter how intense it gets I always have that out. That I know I can be pushed further because I have an out if I ever needed it. I guess that’s why I never use it because I know I can.”

He risked looking to 4K who just stared back at him, and HD’s words suddenly felt stupid in his gravelly throat. “Just forget it. That’s dumb.”

“No, it’s not dumb.” 4K quickly shook his head. “I get it. Well, I kind of get it. And whatever makes sense for you is fine with me. I just wanna make sure you’re all good with it. After I stop you’re always sort of spaced out, like it takes a bit for you to come back. Just wanna be sure there’s no bad thoughts after or anything uncomfortable.”

HD shook his head. “No it’s… It’s not like I pass out or anything but things feel sort of...fuzzier. I’m not all there but I slowly come around. And I never feel bad when I do I just feel...like soft? And I’m not worried about any time lost or when I wasn’t all there because I know you’re there. I’d be different if it wasn’t with you.”

HD risked a look over, to see 4K grinning like an idiot and expected some sort of taunting remark. Instead, 4K voice was surprisingly soft as he nodded. “Then we’re good.”

4K rolled over onto his back again, and stretched his arms up while HD’s thoughts wandered a little. “Just hypothetically…” He started. “If I did ever safeword...what would you do?”

“Well stop, of course.” 4K said like it was obvious and lowered his arms. He put one behind his head, the other lazy over his chest. “Then if you were tied or pinned I’d let you up. Then check-in. Like, did you safeword because it was too much, or did I trigger something, and we work from there.”

There was no need to ever worry, but HD was pleased to know his out was soft and comfortable.

“Ugh...hate waking up late.” 4K groaned and brought his hand up to wipe over his face.

“I was going to say. This is a little late for you.” HD pointed out.

“Well I was up late.” 4K chuckled. “Was tickling you for hours.”

“Hours?!” HD almost gasped. Of course he didn’t really have a concept of time as he was screaming.

“Well your foot needed attention. It was itchy. And you were begging me to scratch it. Had to do something.”

HD’s face flushed to the memory. They were sprinkled about little memories in his mind but he absolutely was begging for his foot to be scratched. More than once.

4K groaned again. His hand came up to wipe his face again, as though that could get rid of the fatigue. “Too tired. That’s it! Today is a bed day.”

“Bed day?” HD asked as 4K seemed to lounge himself further on the bed and taking up more space.

“Bed day.” 4K confirmed. “I’m not leaving this bed…” He hesitated a bit, his eyes flicking back and forth with some thought. “Well… Okay, I need to leave to get snacks and water and some stuff but after that, I am not moving.”

HD gave a half hearted scoff, but he could feel 4K’s tail tap lightly over his legs, and 4K looked at him again.

“You could join me… The bed is big enough for both of us to have a bed day if you want.”

It was a very tempting offer that HD was swayed to right away. “Oh, how could I refuse?” He slipped down to lie on the bed, ignoring the way 4K’s tail curled around his leg as he sank down. “A bed day sounds nice to rest my throat.”

“Perfect.” 4K’s voice purred and he quickly pushed himself up and off the bed.

HD fell back down into the furs and the demon returned less than a few minutes later with his promised items. He brought food and a jug of water for them, as well as some books and paper with sketching charcoal.

It was a perfect first day back on the mountain. Spent napping between eating and reading to pass the time. The two would talk in passing the time, or they’d share a book together before dozing off. HD would wake up wrapped in 4K’s arms, listening to the demon softly snoring and lulling him back to sleep.

There was no word to describe it other than bliss. It was like a missing piece of himself finally fit into place. The mountain was home. And 4K was a part of that.

[covenofwives]

Relaxing with the Gods: Blob Dolls

DreamXD wants to show of his wonderful creation and gifts to GeorgeHD and Sapnap4K. Blob dolls crafted to look like them. He's just forgot to tell them that when the dolls are tickled, so are they.

Surprise fic, sorry. I spent two days saying to myself 'I wish I could write this' before realising I could. Also another into the Relaxing with the Gods series.

It's a short one but I hope you enjoy~

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“There’s no way you made these! These are amazing!”

“I didn’t know you liked to craft things. They’re adorable, XD.”

DreamXD sat in GeorgeHD’s space in the Godly Realm, his chest puffed out and a proud smile over his lips as the two older Gods, GeorgeHD and Sapnap4K were looking over his creations and praising him.

It had taken a while for XD to make a blob doll of the two Gods. It was the first time he’d taken so long to craft a doll. He wanted it perfect to show off for his friends and it seemed he had made it so.

4K held the doll in his hand, keeping it carefully between his fingers. XD had made the God’s dolls slightly bigger than the ones he made for Dream or George, but they still looked tiny in 4K’s hands. 4K’s blob had two horns on the top of his head and a tail behind it. The Nether God was admiring the tail of the doll and grinning wildly.

HD’s doll was harder to design but XD thought he made it work, and from HD’s smile and coos it seemed he had. The two dot eyes on the doll were different colours, a yellow and a slightly off-white to match HD’s own. While the body was still all white, a few catches of the light would make the doll shimmer, similar to HD’s skin and his starry hair.

“I can’t believe you never told us you made dolls as a hobby.” HD commented. He was turning the doll in his hand, watching it shimmer and smiling as it did.

“Well… I don’t know about a hobby.” XD shrugged. “I do it on and off really.”

“You should make more! Look at these little guys.” 4K cooed. His finger was lifting the tail of the doll. “You even got my little fluffy tail end.”

“They’re very soft too.” HD added. While he held the doll in one hand, his other felt over the material of the doll. “What did you make them-”

HD’s words ended suddenly, like they caught in his throat with a gasp, and one of XD’s eyes focused over on him.

The doll was still held in HD’s hand, their other hand poised by the doll’s side. The God made slight twitch, as though something unexpected brushed along his side. XD had to bite his lip to hold back his smile. “What happened, HD?” He controlled his voice enough to ask.

“N-Nothing…” HD replied slowly. Their voice held just a little bit of a tell. A small breathy laugh under their words.

XD couldn’t hold back their smile. It worked.

“What’s wrong with you?” 4K raised his eyebrow, but while his focus was on HD, his finger was absent-mindedly making curls with the tail of his doll. He’d gotten to the end of the tail, attached to the doll, and his claw just caught onto the doll and swiped down the tail.

4K definitely felt it. XD could see the shiver travel up his spine, and his black tail whipped out behind him like it was trying to flick something away. He seemed to pause, unsure what had just happened but then his eyes widened.

“Did you get tickled?!” He asked HD excitedly.

“NO!” The older God snapped back. “It wasn’t…” He stopped mid-sentence and turned to XD, who just couldn’t keep the smile off his face. “XD. How did you-?”

HD’s words were cut off as he was tackled to the ground. For a big guy, 4K moved surprisingly fast. He was on top of HD in seconds and wrestling the doll out of the older God’s hands.

“NO!” HD screeched. “Get off me! STOP!”

In all of HD’s fairness he was doing well to keep it from 4K’s grasp, but all it took was one well placed jab right in HD’s outstretched ribs and the arm that held the doll fell easily into 4K’s hands.

As quick as 4K jumped him, he just as quickly jumped back, holding the doll in triumph for just a moment before he started tickling into the dolls side.

If XD had any doubt the dolls were working, now it was confirmed. HD switched from near lunging to 4K to crumbling on the ground, curling up and pleading through his sudden laughter.

“OHOHOHOHO GOHOHOHODS! F-F-FuhuhuHUHUHUCK! F-Fohohour KAAAAAHAHAY! S-S...STOHOHOHOP!”

“No way! It tickles you! XD actually made a doll that tickles people! No chance!” 4K almost bounced with his words. His tail wagged furiously as his claws skittered around the doll’s body, and he squealed with delight seeing HD react. The starry haired God twisted and turned as though the claws were on his own skin. His hands grasped at his sides, his ribs and his stomach but it could not stop the ghost tickles all over him.

HD had no rest from the onslaught of tickles from his poor doll. Finally 4K gave him a break, but only for a second as he stopped tickling the doll’s side and ran his claw over the bottom of it. The laughter became a high screech that fizzled out into little giggles. He curled his legs into himself, his hands trying to desperately cover over his feet for what little help it would do.

“Yohohou...stohohOHOP! Leave-Leave my fehehehehet alohohohone! EEP! G-Gehehet yohohour tahahail AWAY!”

Along with the claws skittering over the bottom of the doll, 4K brought his tail up and it’s fluffy end flicked over the doll’s side. “Do you feel my tail on your ribs? Or your sides?” 4K cooed. “While my nails tick-tick-tickle your feet.”

“S-SohoHOHOhop! Y-YoHoHOhOHOU!”

The tickling along his feet and the soft tickles were not enough keep HD helpless. While still kicking his feet and rubbing along his sides, an ephemeral hand popped up beside 4K. He was far too focused in tickling the doll and couldn’t stop the hand before it jabbed into his side and made a tickly beeline right for his ribs.

“NO!” 4K arched his back and turned and wriggled but the hand kept on it’s journey. It worked the Nether God down onto his side as it make it’s way for the ribs. 4K abandoned the doll to grab at the hand, or at least bat it away. Right as XD hoped.

When 4K jumped for HD’s doll he’d abandoned his own in his excitement, and XD quickly snatched it up and hid it away. Now HD’s doll was in his grasp as well.

The older Gods took a moment of calm, and to take in their situation. With the tickling stopped, HD called off the hand attacking 4K and both looked at each other with the same thought of ‘Who has the dolls?’ before looking over to XD. He now had both dolls in his hand. 4K in his right and HD in his left.

“X...XD…” HD’s voice came out carefully, like he was dealing with a dangerous wild animal.

“Don’t get any ideas…” 4K added.

Out the corner of XD’s vision he could see 4K tense, ready to pounce and he quickly struck first. His hands holding the dolls kneaded into their sides and his other hand tickled over the front of the dolls.

Both Gods were immediately floored.

“EHEX DEHEHEHE!” HD wheezed. He curled up and held onto his sides. “Whihihiy mehehehe agahahain!”

“Yohohohour dehehead, B-Blohohondie!” 4K tittered out between his giggles. He had fought the tickles more than HD had and XD worried he would reach him, but he crawled forward just a bit before falling and succumbing to the laughter. “Whehehen yohou stohohohop...yohohohour dehehead.”

Maybe he was. In fact, he definitely was. XD never doubted 4K’s taste for revenge, but he could fully say this was worth it, seeing the two Gods helplessly laughing and wiggling around to try and stop the ghostly tickles they were powerless to. Yes, this revenge just might kill him, but he’d revel in this moment for as long as he could.

[covenofwives]

3A on dreamXD 3C georgehd 4B sapnap4k

Plssss

thank you for the suggestions! these have been great in shaking off my art rust

here we have the precious babygirl happy and excited

here is HD about to go absolutely feral

this one i had trouble with because i first sketched 4K out to be injured but decided i wanted something better and I will always use an excuse to throw tickling in. So here 4K is in a rare moment of holding back his laughter. perhaps this was done when 4K was younger and wouldn't admit he loved tickling just yet or maybe it's an endurance training thing "I can hold my laughter bad longer than you can" thing

[covenofwives]

7, 11, 16, and 21 for my beloved 4D

Bless. You. For this. Sleepy.

This will be long but I don't care. 4D needed full attention. Thank you for being so patient with me and please enjoy three short fics of 4D goodness.

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“For the next hour, I’m yours.”

GeorgeHD’s eyebrow rose with an inquisitive look. He stared at his boyfriend, Sapnap4K, lounging over his lap.

It had been a day of dark clouded thoughts for GeorgeHD, which drew him to the Nether and into 4K’s arms. The two lounged on the bed and once they had spoken and cleared that it was just a minor off day for HD, 4K came out with that.

“I had thought our relationship meant you were already mine.” HD said.

“Yes, of course.” 4K nodded and turned himself on his side. “Buuuut… With this offer I’ll be yours to do anything for an hour.”

That seemed to hook HD interest, since his inquisitive look shot up to a surprised but delightful smile. “Anything?” He asked.

“Anything…” 4K offered and waggled his eyebrows, which made HD snort with a cute laugh.

The promise of anything filled HD’s head with many possibilities. And for an hour? Not wanting to waste any time HD got to work. With a smile, he tapped on 4K’s shoulder and lead him to sit up. HD himself shuffled up to lean back on the headboard and pulled 4K in for a kiss which the Nether God gladly gave.

The kiss deepened and 4K’s arms wrapped around HD’s waist to draw him in closer. Before 4K’s hands could wander any further, HD tapped on 4K’s shoulder and pulled back. The Nether God gave a dopey lovestruck smile, and HD made his first demand.

“I want your rib.”

It was delicious watching the kiss fuzz haze from 4K’s eyes suddenly clear up and blink away while his mind processed the words.

“Wh…Wh-Whahat?” 4K’s mouth fumbled the word as a nervous smile pulled at his lips.

“I want your rib.” HD repeated. “I want the rib.”

“N-Now th-ahat’s…”

HD smiled an evil smile they couldn’t help. 4K was pretty open about his love of tickling, in all forms. As much as he loved to dish out the tickling, he loved just as much getting it back and receiving the just revenge. But that’s only because people didn’t know the spot that drove him mad. The one spot that made him cry out in hysterics and fight to get away while his body would usually be so open and inviting for tickles. No-one knew that spot. Except for HD.

“You said anything.” HD reminded him. “So I’m cashing in that anything.”

“Well… Well I thought you’d want kisses! I can give you those…”

“You give me those all the time.” HD wrapped his arms around 4K’s neck, and watched the fight melt out of him with 4K’s sigh. “I want your rib. I want that one spot no-one else knows about.” HD couldn’t help taunt his love. “And you’re going to give it to me.”

4K was going to give it because 4K was kind and sweet and he loved HD more than any words could do justice; so when HD asked for the rib, he gave it.

Their position was changed now to 4K laying on the bed. He shrugged off his coat but puppy dog eyed his way to get HD keep his top on. That was fine with HD. However, when it came to keeping his arms up, 4K was having trouble. Whenever he’d so gently raise his arms up, they’d snap back down to his sides with a giggle.

“4Kaaaay~” HD sweetly sang from 4K’s side. One of his fingers played with the fringe of 4K’s hair and twirled around it ever so slightly. “I can’t get your rib if your arms keep blocking me.”

“I-ihi’m tryihihing!” 4K giggled and to his credit he really was. His arms tried to raise, only now his hands were protecting around his ribs, making his elbows awkwardly raise up instead. “Ihihit’s hahahahard!”

“I’ll help you.”

The white helper hands appeared on cue, softly lacing their fingers through 4K’s hands and effortlessly pulled his arms up over his head.

“Wahahait wahahait wahahait!” 4K giggled and wriggled out the squirming feeling brewing in his stomach.

HD positioned himself over 4K’s waist, straddling over him and leaning down. His smile was both parts taunting and kind. He brushed his fingers against 4K’s cheek while softly asking, “Is this okay?”

4K’s face was red and giggly but he nodded slowly.

“You can stop this at any time.” HD reminded him. “Whenever you want.”

“I know…” 4K purred and leaned into HD’s hand. Like a cat he rubbed his cheek against HD’s fingers and he whined when it was taken back.

“Now.” Softness dropped from HD’s voice and a teasy tone took it’s place. “Where is that rib?”

“N-Nohoho…” 4K shook his head as the giggles bubbled out of him. “You-You knohohow!”

“Do I?” HD sat back on 4K’s stomach. He hummed thoughtfully and tapped his chin. “Well I don’t remember.”

“Nohoho…”

“I’ll have to find it again.”

He latched onto the ribs just under 4K’s armpits and squeezed. 4K’s hips bucked and his legs kicked up while he threw his head back in a laugh. It was just the first two ribs getting tweaked and squeezed, until HD pulled back slightly and started running his knuckles up and down 4K’s higher ribs.

“NAAAHAahahaha! F-FuHUuhHUHUhuck! N-N-” 4K yelped and wriggled from side to side as much as his bindings would allow. His hands held tightly to the white helper hands in his. His body was acting on his own with the shocks of tickling energy coursing through him, but he wasn’t pulling his arms down.

“Hmmm, it’s not here clearly.” HD hummed over 4K’s laughter. “Oh where is it?”

“Shuhuhut-AAAHAHAHAHA! Shut-Shuhuht uhuhuhup!”

“You really want to start being mean to me now?” HD stopped the tickling then. “Right now?”

“N-Nohoho! Wa-Wait! Wait! I’m sohorry.” 4K babbled his pleas but he knew it was too late. HD got that evil look in his eye which meant only one thing was coming. “Oh n-nohoho…”

“Oh! I think I remember where your rib is!”

“Noohohoho! No no no y-yohou dohohon’t!”

“It’s right here!”

HD raised his hand, forming it into a claw shape before striking it down onto that rib. The very bottom rib on 4K’s right side. HD hand started vibrating, and 4K screamed.

It was a silent scream at first. 4K’s mouth opened and eyes squeezed shut as he arched his back as much as it would go. Laughter suddenly poured out of him mixed with his hysteric pleas and nonsensical babbling.

“HEHEHEHEHEDEHEHEHEHEHEEEE! PLEASE! PLEHEHEHEHEHEASE! NOT-NOHOHOT SOHOHOHO ROHOHOUGH! AAAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! PL-PLEHEHEHEHEASE MEHEHEHERCIHIHIHIY!”

HD pulled back and stopped, though he knew 4K was fine. If the Nether God really wanted it to stop he would have safeworded, or given his safeword for things to slow down. His pleading now was just to let out that frazzled energy coursing through his body.

4K panted with his arms stretched above his head. His face was red and sweaty, with parts of his hair sticking to his skin. His hands that had been holding so tightly onto the ephemeral hands holding him down were now limp and open.

“What will you ever do if anyone finds this rib?” HD chuckled above, and grinned when he watched 4K’s blush travel down his neck and over his chest and shoulders. He wiggled slightly and tried to bury his face into his arm, only managing to hide half of it.

“S-Stohohop…”

“The most feared tickle monster of the server, left a babbling mess by one little rib.” HD shuffled down to lean his chin over 4K’s chest. He couldn’t help but smile and giggle whenever 4K would peek out at him and then shut his eye again. “And it’s not even a well hidden rib! It’s not like one of the middle ones, it’s right at the end. So easy to find.”

“Nohohoho…”

HD chest warmed. Of course they’d never reveal the rib to anyone else. Seeing 4K so flustered was a rarity. Usually he was annoyingly open about his love for being tickled. He would use that to taunt his ler, always making them blush more than he was. But not with this rib. With this rib he was just as helpless and frazzled as he made his lees. It was a rare treat HD was absolutely going to horde for themselves.

“Hmm…” HD thought aloud. “How is that one little rib gonna be able to handle a nibbling?”

He could feel 4K freeze under him. Every nerve in 4K’s body tensed and he looked to HD. “Yohou-You wouldn’t…”

“Oh I wouldn’t?”

He pushed himself to sit up again and shuffled himself down. This time when HD leaned down, his head was at level with 4K’s rib. With that rib.

“W-Wait!” 4K gasped and wiggled his hips as some attempt to knock HD off. “Just-Just hold ohon…”

“You know the word to make me hold on.” HD cast their eyes down to the rib, just patiently waiting right under his lips. “You better say iiiit~”

HD gave time to wait for the response, though every cell in his body was wanting to chomp down on the rib right below him. His ears twitched to the little whines 4K gave, but the word to stop ever came. He pressed himself further into his arm, and bit his lip. HD took that as a sign to continue.

While the urge to nibble the rib was strong, HD was swept up in a surge of affection too. He didn’t want to be too mean right away. Instead of nibbling, HD pushed forward and pressed a soft kiss onto the rib.

4K’s skin jumped under HD’s lips and the Nether God fell into a flurry of giggles. He was already weak to tickly kisses, but over the rib it sent sparks all over his skin and he wiggled from side to side.

“Oh dear oh dear.” HD purred. “You’re already so sensitive there.”

“I-I knohohohow…” 4K giggled into his arm.

HD grinned. “You are screwed if this rib gets nibbled.”

“I knohohohow!” 4K yelped in a mix of frustration and excitement.

“How so unfortunate for you.” HD mocked sympathy but he couldn’t pull the grin off his face. “Are you ready?”

Another whine from 4K and his breathing quickened. He pushed his head back to the bed, uncontrollable giggles leaving him even though the rib was untouched. He gripped tight to the hands holding his and nodded. “Jus-Juhust doho i-it…”

Well, how could HD refuse such an offer? Trying to hold back his taunting giggles, but failing to do so, HD bared his fangs and pressed forward, nibbling onto the sensitive little rib.

The response was expected yet also still caught HD off guard. It skipped past the silent reaction to 4K screaming with laughter. He arched his back as much as it would go. He managed to pull enough strength up from his legs to kick and jostle HD enough that he was flung off. Even when the fangs weren’t on him any more he was still screaming.

“NOVA! NOHOHOVAHAHAHAH! STOHOHOHOP PLEHEHEHEASE!”

“I’ve stopped! I’ve stohohopped!” HD couldn’t help but giggle as he pushed himself to sit up. 4K strength was unexpected, throwing him further than he thought. Of course the bed was wide enough that he wasn’t hurt.

The hands laced in with 4K’s disappeared as well and when 4K noticed it he immediately pulled down his arms to cover his ribs, turning and curling on his side.

“Ohoho…m-man…” 4K still panted with his words. His hair had burst out of it’s ties with his struggling, flaring out all over the bed behind him and enfolding over him. He had immediately rubbed furiously over his rib. “Th-thahat was…f-fuck. I’ve n-never been ti-t…t-tickled like that before.”

HD tried his best to hide his proud smile and shuffled closer. He could gloat later about being the only one to drive 4K mad with tickles, right now he needed to be comforting. He moved himself up by the blackstone headboard of the bed to lean back on.

Despite the tickling to an inch of his life, 4K easily moved his head over to HD’s offered lap. Even with the ghostly tickles almost gone from his skin, he still felt giggly. He smiled sweetly as his cheeks were glowing a soft blush.

“Are you up for more tickles?” HD asked in a whisper.

Even the word made the Nether God giggle, and his legs had to fight against himself in wanting to curl up. “F-For soft tickles…”

“Soft tickles, of course.” HD nodded. “Can I tickle your tummy?”

It was a safe, comfort spot that didn’t dive 4K wild. It was comforting for HD as well. 4K’s stomach was addicting to tickle. He didn’t have defined muscles and his wispy hairs trailing down from his chest were soft to the touch. HD just touched his nail to the skin and 4K was giggling. When he got to give soft scritches, 4K was purring.

It was like sweet melodic music listening to 4K giggle and purr until his purring grew quiet and his giggling turned into light snores. 4K was out like a light and he looked far too peaceful to leave alone. While careful not to wake him up, HD shuffled out from under 4K’s head and lay beside him. He coaxed the Nether God to to turn over on his front, his head finding HD’s chest easily. 4K’s arms curled around HD’s body, settling himself in comfortably to the comfortable pillow of HD’s chest.

The dark thoughts that plagued HD’s mind were forgotten, and he followed after 4k, settling into a deep peaceful sleep with a comforting weight on his chest.

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“I can feel you staring…”

Sapnap4K blinked himself out of his almost trance. He was lain on his front, with his arms folded under his chin, on a massive bed with far too many pillows and silk blankets. A thick bed cover was half kicked off himself and lain neatly over GeorgeHD.

The covers only came up to the bottom of GeorgeHD’s chest. He lay on his back, eyes softly closed like he was the perfect picture of sleep, but his voice was alert without a hint of tiredness.

4K felt his cheeks flush from being caught, but then an easy smile came to him and he chuckled. “I was staring. I was...admiring.”

“You’ve been admiring for an hour.” HD spoke again and slightly shuffled. He stretched himself out, with his left arm up over his head until a satisfied sigh escaped him and he settled again. His left arm still over his head. “It’s not going anywhere.”

“I know…” 4K smiled wider with a giddy giggle in his throat. “It’s just...I like seeing it.”

HD’s right ear just peaked out from his locks of hair. At the top of the shell of his ear, just before it met to a point, a fire coloured earring sat perfectly in place, as it had been for the past four hours since 4K pierced it in.

Jewellery was a staple into daemon culture. It was a declaration to be shown off or an impressive feat to boast about; and the most personal effects were piercings. Pieces of jewellery forever part of a daemon’s skin.

There were two earrings on 4K’s left ear. One a bright red and yellow colour and the other a teal green; a piercing each for his brothers who were always in his heart. But his right ear had been bare until HD suggested otherwise.

4K’s heart could have jumped out of his chest when he saw HD with the jewels. Two small rectangular earrings the same shape as the ones for his brothers. One a dark blue with white speckles over it like a night sky, and the other a warm fire.

It was tradition, when the piercing was to represent a person, that it should be pierced into the daemon’s skin by that person. 4K had pierced both his brother’s ears as they had pierced his. But to ask something so personal from HD was a huge commitment, one he’d never put onto the Overworld God. But then HD had been the one to suggest it. Even after 4K explained what that would mean for his culture, HD still carefully lined up the night sky earring at the top of 4K’s ear, and pierced it in. 4K was marked forever by HD, and then 4K was allowed to do the same.

The fire jewel sat perfectly against HD’s pale skin. It was like a secret, nestled in among his starry hair. The same stars on my earring.

A deep blush spread from 4K’s face to his neck. It felt like it reached his heart, beating so fast in his chest. He unfolded one of his arms out from under him and reached out to the earring. His nail tapped onto the jewel, giddily smiling as the jewel flickered and danced in the light.

“Stohop!” HD giggled. He hunched his shoulders to rub at his ear, which moved his hair to cover over it. But just before the ear was hidden out of sight, 4K saw it.

It twitched. The pointed tip of HD’s ear gave a little flicker before hiding away in the starry hair. It was cute. Unbelievably cute, and 4K wasn’t letting it hide away.

“No no no…” 4K purred. “I gotta make sure the piercing is alright.”

“It’s fihihine! You knohow it ihihis!” HD’s shoulders hunched again. “Stohohohop!”

He shuffled and shrugged his shoulders but didn’t actually try to move away. His ears were utterly defenceless to 4K’s wiggling fingers. He tucked some of HD’s hair behind his ear, watching it flicker again and twitch, even without touching it.

“I never knew your ears were so cute, Starlight.” 4K cooed. His nail touched over the piercing again, softly moving it back and forward and watching the ear flick with it.

“Y-You sahaid you wehere chehecking my piercing…” HD snorted.

“I am! I can still comment how cute your ears are while making sure your piercing is fine.”

4K traced his nail down the shell of HD’s ear. He tickled behind his ear lobe and traced back up, this time having to keep track of the ear flicking. Unable to keep in his affection, 4K leaned in and pressed a kiss right on the ear.

“NAaahahAHAHA! S-StoHOhohOHOP!” HD started trying to get away then. They tried to curl up and roll away, if even they couldn’t get far with 4K’s arms around them.

The Nether God pulled HD into his chest, pressing kiss after kiss to the wiggly ear. HD’s sweet giggles reached up to squeaks and squealing the longer the kisses lasted. 4K could feel the ear twitch against his lips, trying to escape, which just made him want to kiss it more and more.

“LeheHEHEave mihiy ehears alohohohone!”

“You have hidden these perfectly tickly ears from me for so long. This cannot stand.”

“Ihihihi’ve nohohot yoHOHOohou I-ihihidihihiohot!”

HD’s laughter became breathy and soft, which 4K took as a sign to stop. He gave a last kiss to the tip of HD’s ear, and then another on HD’s neck before he let him go. HD shuffled away but only slightly. He was still in 4K’s arms, and he happily sighed and shuffled back into 4K’s chest.

“Had yohour fun?” HD asked. The leftover giggles from his tickling still mingled in their words.

“I was just making sure your piercing was sitting in right.” 4K defended himself, but his loopy smile betrayed him.

“Uh huh…” HD’s head rolled over to 4K’s shoulder and he peeked one eye open. “And what will be your next excuse to tickle me?”

4K’s smile widened, his cheeks burning again and he gave a loose shrug. “I’ll think of something.”

HD snorted out a laugh before turning over and wrapping his arms around 4K’s neck. He pulled himself in closer, resting comfortably under 4K’s chin. His hand under 4K’s neck stretched up and his fingers found 4K’s ear, and finally his earring. He hummed happily into 4K’s neck while his finger lightly fiddled with the jewel.

His fingers tickled over 4K’s ear, but it was a soft tickle. Comforting and warm. 4K purred to the feeling and settled in, falling into a soft sleep with his love in his arms.

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No-one dared to venture into GeorgeHD’s domain in the Godly Realm. Very few could even find it and even less would actually want to visit him. That left a lot of time for HD to sleep, probably more than he should have.

Sometimes he’d lay in a “between sleep” as he called it. A light doze where he was somewhat aware of his surroundings but not all there. It wasn’t a good state to be in, HD would admit. He disliked not knowing if he was truly awake or asleep and his time between sleep felt more like a dream than reality.

HD kept his mind occupied in the between sleeps as he was right now. He was turned over on his front with his arms folded under his head. There were a few pillows ahead of him and HD was trying to count all the colours in his head. It was doing well to bring him out of his daze but also lulling him enough to fall back asleep.

That should have been what happened until HD’s ear twitched to the sound of footsteps approaching. They were loud, obnoxious, and the voice that followed matched.

“Are you still asleep? Man you must have been out for…what? A month?”

HD stopped the groan bubbling in their throat and kept still. He was not in the mental state to deal with 4K’s energy. Instead he kept his head buried into his pillow, eyes shut and pretended to be asleep. While he did feel bad for ignoring the Nether God, HD promised himself he’d make it up to him sometime.

“Pretending to sleep, huh?”

HD’s eyebrow twitched with his annoyance but he controlled himself. 4K was bluffing. He’d think HD was still asleep and leave, or maybe he’d nap beside him. Either way HD would be left in peace.

“That’s fine.” 4K voice was dismissive, but HD’s hope he would leave was short lived. Instead he felt the God sit down in one quick movement, close by HD’s leg.

The blankets around HD’s leg were lifted, and the cool air hit HD’s skin. His leg twitched just ever so slightly but he could easily pass that off as something in his sleep. But it was harder to stop the urge to pull back his leg when 4K grabbed it.

The Nether God lifted HD’s leg just ever so slightly then placed it down over his lap. HD controlled the urge to curl in his toes but it was harder to keep still when 4K placed his nails onto HD’s soles and raked them up and down.

HD bit his arm to stop his laugh, but it didn’t stop the twitch in his shoulders. He could just about keep himself still enough that he could still be asleep. But 4K wasn’t buying it.

“You can stop pretending to be a asleep at any time.” 4K offered. “But until then, I get to play with your little foot here.”

HD couldn’t hold back the small snort. He managed to play it off into a breathy chuckle and he tried to twitch his foot away, but if he moved just a bit off, 4K pulled him back.

“Don’t like my nails, huh? What about this?”

4K’s tickling stopped and HD had to carefully let out his shaky breath. His skin jumped at the slightest breeze and he wanted nothing more than to turn over and roll out of 4K’s reach but he was determined. It no longer became about convincing 4K he was asleep, it was now a war of who could last the longest.

The time 4K took allowed HD to calm their nerves. They got their breathing under control and thought they were ready for 4K’s next attack, but they were sorely mistaken.

 It was a soft flutter along HD’s sole; starting from his heel and up to his toes. HD yipped, unprepared for the feeling. He was so sure it was a feather running along his foot, but he didn’t have time to think when his toes were attacked by the fluttered back and forth and HD fell into laughter.

“Stohohop! Stohop!”

“Oh! Awake now are you!”

“Ihihi wahahas t-trihihiying tohoho sleeeeehehehep!” HD half turned himself, looking over his shoulder. “Wh-Whahat…?!”

HD thought 4K somehow got himself a feather, but it felt too wispy for a regular feather. It turns out HD suspicion was right. It was 4K’s tail, happily flicking it’s fluffed tip back and forth over HD’s soles which were still held down.

“Gehet ohohohoff!” HD kicked his foot out of 4K’s hand and rolled away.

“You’re on mehe!” 4K giggled but he pulled his tail and hands away. “Stopped pretending to be asleep.”

“I was asleep!” HD snapped back, though he couldn’t help smiling still. His foot itched in a tickly way and he tried to chase the feeling away by rubbing it on the blankets. “I was… I was trying to. How did you know anyway?”

“Your realm, you idiot.” 4K chuckled. “When you’re asleep your cheeks and realm turn into a night sky. It was orange when I got here.”

HD felt his cheeks heat and the coloured stripes swirl a red of embarrassment. He felt stupid to forget and it didn’t help the realm started matching the colour of his cheeks. He gave a kick into 4K’s side as the Nether God started laughing.

“Shut it!” HD hissed, but his fight went out of him when 4K grabbed around his ankle and pulled him in. “NONO! WahaHAIT!”

HD curled himself up, with his arms by his chest, already in a defensive mode, but 4K’s hands never came down with wiggling fingers. Instead he fell down over HD’s body. His large coat wrapped around the two like a sort of blanket while he laid over HD. The smaller God squeaked when his arms came around him, only calming when he felt 4K’s chest rumble with his purr.

“So where you trying to sleep?” 4K’s voice rumbled by HD’s ear. “Or just avoiding me?”

“I wasn’t avoiding you.” HD quickly mended but he felt bad. He was technically trying to ignore 4K but it wasn’t from anything 4K had done. “I had just woken up…”

4K hummed and HD worried he had really upset the Nether God but 4K pressed a kiss to the top of HD’s head. “Do you wanna sleep now?”

“No…” HD shook his head. “I don’t mind talking…if-if you want to talk about anything.”

And 4K did talk. It was mundane talk about his day in the Nether, but it was just the right thing HD’s mind needed to settle. They moved position, laying on their sides and facing one another. 4K had his arms wrapped around HD while the smaller God was playing with some loose strands of 4K’s hair. It was peaceful. And it was perfect.

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4K perhaps had a problem realising how much was ‘too much’. In his head, 2 full 64 stacks of buckets of snow didn’t seem a lot. When he loaded the dispensers full of the buckets he didn’t think it would be too much. When the pressure place was activated and George’s cottage was absolutely packed with snow, he then realised how much was too much.

“What in the HELLS were you thinking!”

HD stood at the doorway of George’s cottage. Snow reached up to his hips which he struggled to kick through and get out. 4K stood just a bit away, sheepishly smiling as he realised his mistake.

It was just a harmless prank 4K had for George. A couple weeks ago George and Sapnap were scouting an area that was going to be used for a challenge between them and Dream. Sapnap4K followed out of curiosity. As usual the snow around 4K melted before he even touched it. When George noticed it somehow became the most interesting and funniest thing to him. He teased 4K over it, tossing snowballs at the Nether God and watching them melt before it even touched him.

4K just had the idea to give George so much snow if he was so fascinated by it. He just didn’t realise how much snow it all was. He was proud he’d managed to get so much in the buckets considering his predicament with heat. Once the prank was set up, 4K watched from afar but panicked when he saw HD go to the cottage instead. He didn’t make it in time to stop him entering and the snow exploded into the cottage.

“You! Have! Explaining! To do!” HD kicked out the snow and out of the cottage. He shook the snow off his legs and feet as much as he could as he stomped towards 4K.

“Now-Now! HD! L-Listen!” 4K raised his hands and took a few steps back. “It was j-just a prank, HD!”

“A prank?!” HD near screeched.

“I…may…have used a bit too much snow…” 4K’s eyes were darting around, trying to look for a way out. “But-But you set it off! So George didn’t get pranked!”

“No, but now his house is overrun with snow!” HD stopped a few feet away. “You better fix this!”

“Well…” 4K’s shoulders rolled with a half shrug. “I kind of can’t…”

“You’re gonna!” HD said, unmoving.

“But-But if I go near snow it’ll melt.” 4K signalled towards the cottage. “That’ll make it into water!”

“That’s a you problem.”

HD took a step forward again and 4K felt the pressure on his shoulders. The white helper hands of HD appeared by his side, all slowly approaching 4K.

“W-Wahait…” 4K took a step back. “Juhust wait aha minute HeheDehe…”

“You’re going to fix this.” With HD’s voice the hands moved closer and 4K panicked.

He tried to run but 4K didn’t even make it to a full turn before the hands were on him. They swarmed his limbs, dragging him down and holding him still while HD approached.

“HeheD! Plehease! Just w-wait a minute!”

“If the next words out of your mouth aren’t ‘I’m going to fix this’, then I don’t want to hear it.” HD said while he settled himself nicely right beside 4K. “And you’ve got very limited time to say it before you start screaming.”

Apparently to HD, limited time meant mere seconds. 4K tried to open his mouth and plead again, but his words were lost and instead sudden thunderous laughter took it’s place. The hands holding him down began tickling all at once. His armpits were drilled into, his sides squeezed and his thighs kneaded. 4K tried to struggle as much as he could, but the hands still holding him down were strong, and even the ones tickling him could still drive him insane and keep him down.

4K’s nerves were alight with ticklish electricity coursing through him. It was a perfect blissful torture. Allowing his head to be thrown back and laugh as hard as he could.

The tickling stopped only after a minute, though the ghostly tingles still lingered, giggling out of 4K’s lips.

“Ready to fix it?”

4K took a moment to gather his breath and blink through the tears. “N-Nooo…”

The hands started moving again, this time more than before. His tummy was attacked this time. One of the helper hands made a claw shape and settled in the centre of 4K’s tummy before it began vibrating. 4K wheezed and tried to turn himself over on his side but all he could really do was shake his hips side to side. HD quickly helped with that as he had two of his helper hands knead and drill their thumbs into his hip bones.

The edges of 4K’s vision faded. He couldn’t feel the grass under him or the wind blowing on his face. All he could feel were the tickling hands swarming his body.

Eventually the tickling stopped again, but it took longer for 4K to realise it this time. HD said nothing, just waiting for the taller God to calm down and catch his breath. Even when he had stopped laughing and was still catching his breath, 4K would still giggle every time. Even the hands just holding him down tickled. His skin felt overly sensitive and crying out for more. 4K wondered if he got HD so annoyed would the God just keep tickling him? Would he have the hands slip under 4K’s top to tickle right at his skin? Or maybe even pull off his boots and tickle his feet?

4K giggled just from the thought of it and his tail flicked ever so slightly behind him.

“Going to fix it?” HD asked again.

4K shook his head in response first before he half giggled out a “N-Noho.”

HD sighed through his nose and 4K prepared himself for the hands to move again. He closed his eyes, his body tensing up automatically in anticipation. But a few seconds had passed with nothing. Not even a twitch from the hands holding him down.

4K opened his eyes to see HD smiling down at him. A smile that was more taunting than serene.

“W-Wha…?” 4K started to ask, trying not to sound disappointed.

“Did you really think I was going to keep tickling you? When that’s obviously what you want?” HD huffed, like he’d been offended. “Really 4K? Do you think I’m so naive?”

“Wh-what do you mehean?” 4K tried to act innocent, though even he knew the jig was up.

“You really think I’d give you tickling as a punishment? When you are the most known tickle fiend ever? Did you think I was so careless?” HD shuffled himself up to sit by 4K’s head more. Gone was his anger from before and now there was only a calm, smug aura.

“Thehen why did you tickle me first?” 4K asked.

“Becuase I knew what you’d want.” HD leaned in, with an evil smile and soft eyes. One of his hands came to 4K’s cheek, caressing it so gently. “I knew you’d be in absolute bliss with those tickles that you’d want more. You’d beg for more. You’re even squirming for them now.”

4K’s cheeks blushed as he realised he had been caught. His sides, hips and arms were trying to move and provoke the hands holding him down to move and tickle him like he wanted. He stopped when he was called out, his blush burning on his face while HD just smiled down at him.

“I knew you’d never fix it if the punishment was tickling. Of course you wouldn’t. But if I gave you just a little taste of what you wanted and took it away, you’d do anything to get it again.”

“I-I…p-please. Please tickle me again!” Pride was not really an issue or concern with 4K but even he felt a flush of embarrassment being reduced to begging.

HD only smiled in response. Not taunting exactly but a look that said he had won. He had gotten 4K right where he wanted him. “Well if you want tickles again you better fix that mess you made.”

The stubborn part of 4K fought with his lee side, but it was hardly a battle. 4K bit his lips, whining out as a last protest of being caught before he nodded. “Fine. I will! I’ll fix it. Then afterwards…tickle me again?”

He was answered with a soft kiss on his lips and the helper hands disappeared from his body. 4K immediately sprang up and raced back to George’s house, with only one thought on his mind to drive him forward.

As 4K had assumed, cleaning up the prank was more of a hassle than setting it. The snow was already starting to melt by the time 4K got to the cottage and when he got close to it, it only melted faster. It was an absolute pain to clean up but eventually 4K did it. He got rid of the snow and dried any places he needed to before he quickly zipped back to HD’s side.

The Overworld God had said he’d meet 4K at his domain in the clouds and that’s where 4K found him. HD lounged back on his palace of cloudy pillows, with a lazy smile on his face as he awaited for 4K to arrive.

He already couldn’t control the wag in his tail or the thumping of his heart. “I-I fixed it! George’s cottage is fine again.”

“Yes you did.” HD nodded slowly.

4K had already thrown off his jacket and kicked off his boots before he climbed onto the bed. “Everything’s all back to normal. I did what you asked.”

“You did.” HD agreed as he opened his arms. 4K crawled in immediately. Leaning his chin over HD’s chest and looking up to him with his best puppy dog eyes.

“So-So can I be tickled again? Please?”

HD didn’t respond, but the hands materialised out of thin air again and all at once descended onto 4K’s body.

4K shrieked in absolute bliss.

[covenofwives]

Sleepovers Are Cool

Made for Sleepy's Ler!Sapnap week. Using day 6 soft/cuddles prompt.

Sleepsovers are a must for Sapnap and Sapnap4K. It's just a pain that Sapnap wakes up crushed under his brother's weight and has to persuade him to move.

Sorry this one took so long I just had to stare at it a while before posting.

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Sleepovers were a common occurrence between the brothers Sapnap and Sapnap4K. It was something that helped mend their relationship but it also became a great comfort to Sapnap. It was an almost childlike feeling of safety to wake up in 4K’s arms.

However there was a downside to everything and this was included. While 4K’s arms were strong and warm and safe...there was also no escaping them.

“Get...ooooff!”

“Nope!”

Sapnap grunted under the weight of his brother, trying and failing to wiggle out from under him. He had awoken to the Nether God’s arms wrapped tightly around his waist. He failed to pry the arms off himself and 4K – very much awake and amusingly watching – decided to roll over on top of Sapnap.

“4K!” Sapnap huffed. He had managed to turn himself over on his back before being crushed under 4K’s weight. “Get off!”

“My teddy bear is being so unruly.” 4K sighed. “It’s job is to stay there, and keep quiet.”

“4K!” Sapnap snapped, but it was no use. 4K’s weight seemed to compress down on him, pushing him further into the mattress. He growled in frustration and tried in vain to push off 4K’s shoulders and out from under him. Even if he got a little bit of a give, 4K’s hands would latch onto his sides and pull him back down.

One of 4K’s fingers pushed in a little firmer, sending a ticklish tingle up through Sapnap’s skin. He caught the giggle in his throat but it sparked an idea for escape.

Faking a sigh of defeat, Sapnap wormed his arms back down to his sides. He could feel 4K keep himself ready to stop any other escape attempt, but when Sapnap did nothing he relaxed. He melted over Sapnap and hummed happily in his win. Perfectly unaware.

He had to be quick with his attack, so wasting no time Sapnap dug his fingers into 4K’s side. Mixing between kneading and pinching into the soft skin.

4K yelped and jumped as Sapnap had hoped. He used the small window of escape to slip out from under 4K. He managed to get his legs around 4K’s waist and used the surprise to flip 4K on his side. Then his fingers were free to skitter and tickle up and down his brother’s side.

“SahaHAHAP!” 4K yipped. He flung his elbow out to try and knock Sapnap off, but it was easily pushed up. His arm stretched over his head as Sapnap held it down and kneaded up and down his ribs.

“Where’s your rib?! Where is it?! The one that drives you mad!” Sapnap demanded while his fingers tickled up and down 4K’s ribs. He wasn’t really trying to find it with how erratic his tickling was. Instead he focused on 4K’s exposed armpits when his brother squealed over the spot, drilling his thumbs in.

“SAAAHAHAHAPNAHAHAP! F-FuhuHUHUCK!” He made a weak attempt to roll over, which Sapnap allowed. He straddled over 4K’s legs instead, and kneaded up over his hips. “Nohohot the hihihihihihips!”

“Don’t even give me that ‘not the hips’!” Sapnap mocked. “Should have just let me up.”

“Yohohohour uhuhup nohohow!” 4K tittered into the back of his hand, barking out a laugh when Sapnap tickled his fingers to 4K’s belly and kneaded on both sides of it. “OKAHAY! StohoHOHOP!”

The laughter faded as Sapnap sat back and pulled away his hands. 4K was left, giggling over the ghostly tickles fading from his tummy. “Ihit is far...fahar too early for tickles there...”

“If you wanted to be tickled, you could have just asked for them.” Sapnap pointed out.

4K gave a sheepish smile. “I wanted cuddles. The tickles were just an added bonus.”

“Uh-huh. So you’d be absolutely fine if I went out for my morning jog and you’d be left here with no tickles?”

The smile faded just slightly and Sapnap could see the fight behind his brother’s eyes. “Well… I mean it’s a little too early for a jog wouldn’t you think?”

Sapnap gave a snort before climbing off 4K’s legs. Before he looked too panicked, Sapnap scooted himself up to the top of the bed, and sat beside 4K.

“If I give you your tickles,” Sapnap offered, “then you gotta join me on my jog.”

It just took one moment and a flick of 4K’s tail before he said: “Deal.”

“Alright. Where do you want tickled?”

“Armpits.” 4K answered almost instantly, and threw his arms up over his head.

“You’re only getting tickled for another few minutes.” Sapnap said as he reached over to 4K’s exposed pit. One hand gave wispy soft tickles into the skin while the other was playing with a loose strand of 4K’s hair. “I want to get going.”

“Juhuhust a fehew minuhuhutes…” 4K giggly agreed while his tail flicked happily. “Thehen after the jog, y-yohohou gehet tihihickles.”

Sapnap sputtered and protested that wasn’t the agreement, but he kept up his soft soft tickling and his own tail twitched happily behind him to the promise.

[covenofwives]

Relaxing with the Gods: Kneading

GeorgeHD is having trouble falling asleep, not at all helped by DreamXD's hands refusing to keep still while he sleeps. Sapnap4K is also no help at all but he's absolutely delighted to be there.

I was going to hold off posting for a while, but you're all adorably cute today so the fic goes up. Another for the RwtG series, lets go!

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When HD had slept alone, for years, with only his blankets and pillows he had been warm. Now, with two bedmates, HD knew that the time before hadn’t even been close to warm.

The God of the End, DreamXD, was pressed against HD’s back. His double set of arms were wrapped around HD’s waist and his head rested on the back of HD’s shoulder. His breathing was soft and every few minutes he’d give of a gentle snore.

The God of the Nether, Sapnap4K, was in front of HD, hugging around both him and XD (because he was stupidly big enough) and pulled HD into their chest. His heartbeat was strong and warm against HD’s ear and his breath would tickle the top of HD’s head every once in a while.

This was warmth. Shared between two of his closest friends in a moment of pure trust. This was the memory HD would think back to when he was alone and needed something to ground him. GeorgeHD, the missing-in-action God of the Overworld, felt himself very lucky.

While HD was usually the first one to fall asleep, this time it didn’t come so naturally to him. Every once in a while, XD would shuffle slightly. It wasn’t enough to bother HD at all, but when he shuffled, the younger God would move away from HD each time. His arms were still around HD and his head close enough that HD could feel his breath, but slowly and slowly he was moving further away.

It was a stupid thing to get hung up on, but HD couldn’t help it. XD moved further and further away from him and HD mind wouldn’t stop connecting the dots that probably weren’t there.

4K and XD becoming friends was unavoidable after they met. 4K liked the younger God and was curious about him and XD seemed hesitant at first but that was a short lived obstacle. He was enamoured with 4K just as quickly and with the Nether God’s annoyingly impressive skill for conversation, they became friends fast.

Even today, as HD and XD were hanging out and XD was filling HD in on some stuff on the Overworld, 4K showed up and XD’s eyes lit up with a new excitement. His smile was wider and he repeated his story to 4K with new vigour.

HD couldn’t be too mad at the younger God. His own friendship with 4K was fast growing as well and why shouldn’t it have been? 4K was kind, strong, brave, and selfless. And gorgeous. HD’s mind added unhelpfully. Yes, true, but that wasn’t the point.

The point was 4K and XD seemed destined to be friends, and that was great. But they could hang out anywhere at any time where as they had to visit HD personally. They could go on adventures and HD wouldn’t leave his colourful realm. They were learning and growing with one another. HD was being left behind…

The arms around HD suddenly closed more in on them, pulling them closer into 4K’s chest. The Nether God’s lips pressed to the top of HD’s head, too quick to be done in sleep and HD realised he was awake.

“I promise you, whatever you are thinking is not as bad as it seems.” 4K mumbled to the top of HD’s head. He pulled back slowly, letting out a gentle huff. “What’s wrong?”

“Why does anything need to be wrong?” HD said. He was embarrassed he was caught moping, but also kept his voice quiet to not wake XD behind him.

4K had his voice quiet too. A small whispered conversation between the Gods. “Because I can hear your thoughts. I know you. Your breathing gets short whenever you over think.”

HD was thankful his face was hidden so 4K couldn’t see his cheeks light up. Of course 4K would notice that. He was so observant and smart and altruistic and he’d give up his own sleep to make sure his friends slept soundly.

“So what’s wrong?” The Nether God prompted again when HD was silent. “It will make you feel better. I promise.”

Small fangs chewed on HD’s bottom lip, trying to find the words to speak. There was no use denying it, now he just had to word it in a way that didn’t make HD seem like a selfish idiot.

“Just having thoughts about…our friendship.”

He could feel 4K stiffen at that and tried to quickly carry on. “Well, not like…yours and ours. Like all of us. Me, you and XD. Specifically you and XD’s friendship.”

“Why? Is there something wrong with it?” 4K asked with no hint of judgement.

“No.” HD quickly answered and softly shrugged his shoulder to not dislodge XD. “I dunno…was jealous I guess.

“Jealous?” The word came out like it was last thing 4K expected to hear. He started shuffling himself down, to come face to face with HD, which did not help HD’s blush. “Jealous of what?” 4K’s eyes flick to HD’s blush and the colour of his cheeks. Clearly it was a good colour, because 4K grinned. “Naww, did you think I wouldn’t spend time with you anymore?”

4K tried to move in to cuddle, making HD groan as quietly as he could. “N-No! Shut up, idiot.” He bat 4K away, only because moving backwards was impossible. “I wasn’t jealous for you… I was jealous of you.”

It was always amusing to watch the tall imposing God of the Nether make such adorable reactions. His long eyelashes fluttered with his rapid blinks. “M-Me? Jealous of me?”

“Yes.” HD nodded. “I liked having XD around. He would always be by my side. He’s spent more time with you recently-And I’m not saying I want you to stop hanging out! I’m not. It’s just…different.”

“You miss him.” It wasn’t a question and 4K’s voice was even.

“Well…yeah. I don’t know.” HD carefully shrugged again. “He’s got such an infectious joy. It’s almost childish. Innocent in a way. Makes me want to protect him. To keep that joy safe.”

“Like a big brother.”

“Hmm…” HD hummed, not exactly in agreement but he wasn’t denying it. Maybe there was some truth to it. He worried about XD when he was gone and always wanted to hear what the younger God was up to, even if he never outwardly showed it. He’d fuss over XD when the younger God came to the colourful realm all dishevelled and hair a mess. He’d heal XD’s wounds and scold him for being so careless. HD supposed he was acting as an older brother, though HD never had a younger brother before to really know if that’s how they acted.

Or…had he? Surely not. That was something far too important to forget. He’d remember it…them. Right?

“I know what you mean.” 4K’s voice cut through the cloud of uncomfortable thoughts gathering in HD’s head and made the starry haired God focus. “XD is…different. They didn’t go what we went through. And hey, I’m still the life of the party of course but there is something oddly pure about them. Something you just want to nurture.”

“Yes…” HD agreed in a breath and XD moved again.

They shuffled again, slightly turning their side but HD reached back and stopped it this time.

He placed his hand carefully on XD’s side and with the softest force, pulled the blonde God more into him. He was really leading the sleeping God, but XD responded exactly how HD hoped. His chest touched HD’s back again and he let out a low whine before shuffling to fully press against HD’s back. His lower arms repositioned around HD’s waist, getting a tighter hold and he sighed happily.

“Naaww, see?” 4K cooed in his soft whisper voice. “He still needs his big brother GeorgeHD to cuddle to in his sleep. You have nothing to worry about.”

“Shut up, idiot.” HD huffs but he’s smiling and tilting his head down into his robes to hide it. “Go to sleep.”

“Hmm. I will. After you fall asleep.” 4K promised but closed his eyes.

HD’s heart warmed to 4K’s care, and it settled any lingering worries they had. Of course he had nothing to worry about. XD would never forget HD so quickly, and 4K would never let it happen either. HD was loved, and lucky and they settled down to let that thought lull him into a good sleep.

Or it would have been a good sleep, if the nails had not brushed against his side, sending up a shudder through his body and a yelp out of his mouth.

“What happened?!” 4K worried, his hands crowded at HD’s shoulders.

“Its…nothing. It’s fine…” HD said after gaining control of his voice. He was quiet again, to not wake XD, and 4K calmed as well. “XD’s…nails.”

“His nails?” 4K asked.

“Yes they just moved and-AAhaha!”

The coursing electricity came again. Striking through HD’s nerves and giggling out of his lips. XD’s hands moved again. His nails softly scratched along HD’s sides, tickling him, but unlike before it didn’t just stop with one scratch. XD’s palm pressed onto his sides, and his fingers stretched in and out slowly. His fingers pressed in to HD’s skin, kneading and tickling while his nails followed after, leaving a tickly trail behind.

“H-Hehe’s kneading me.”

“Kneading you?” 4K’s voice went higher with amusement, a playful smirk on his lips.

“Y-Yehesss…” It was harder and harder to keep his voice quiet. XD’s lower set of hands kneaded around HD’s sides. The top ones started to knead around his ribs. “Hehe’s tickling mehehe…” HD giggled helplessly.

“Is he still asleep?” 4K’s smile was taunting. “Oh my God he is. That’s like…the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. He’s tickling you in his sleep!”

The Nether God’s voice kept to a whisper volume but it didn’t stop his giddiness from dripping in every word. It worked up HD’s cheeks into a burning blush, and desperation in his plea. “H-Hehelp me! S-Stohop hihiHIhim!”

Every once in a while XD would knead into that spot right in the centre of HD’s side. That spot that drove every nerve in his body wild and told him to kick and claw and get away from whatever was causing this madness. But it was XD who was causing it. A sleeping XD and despite how maddening it was, HD didn’t want to disturb XD’s sleep. Having the blonde God wake up and realise what he was doing would be mortifying.

“What do you want me to do?” 4K asked, his voice completely playful which meant the question was half serious.

“Juhust move their aharmssss.” HD bit back the laugh that welled in his chest. He couldn’t help the giggling, but if he laughed and move too much it would wake XD. “Gehet them off mehe.”

“Hmm, but if I move them, they might wake up.” 4K’s smile turned into a grin as he got a wicked idea. HD opened his mouth to warn him against whatever idea he had, but at that moment XD’s upper hands kneaded into one of his lower ribs and all that came out was a surprised yelp. When his giggling calmed down, 4K already moved to put his plan into action.

He was closer now, pushed close to HD as his hand slipped under the starry haired God’s neck and reached XD. His nails lightly tickled under the End God’s chin, moving from the tip of his chin to the back of his jaw.

The response was a mix of purring and laughter. Soft breathy chuckles that melded into the purring and XD stretched his head up, leaning into the hand and allowing more space for the claws to get to. And the kneading increased.

HD bit his lips to stop the laugh pouncing out his throat. He nearly missed 4K teasingly asking: ‘did it work’. HD only spoke when he was sure he wouldn’t be howling with laughter. “N-Noho! You’re m-mahaking it wohohohorse.”

“Aw damn.” 4K sighed, not sorry at all. “Maybe if I tickle him, he’ll stop tickling you!”

HD had no time to hiss ‘no’ as XD’s nails grazed on that soft spot in the middle of their sides and they had to clamp their mouth shut. 4K took that time to stretch his other arm over HD and he began to skitter his fingers up and down XD’s side.

Whatever 4K plan was for “help” had the opposite effect. Instead of moving back from the tickles, the four arms around HD’s waist tightened, and XD pulled himself in closer against HD’s back. His hands didn’t stop their kneading , instead they tensed up so it was mostly his nails scraping against the soft sides. Which was the opposite of help.

Now it wasn’t just 4K’s coos from in front of him he dealt with, XD’s breathy laughter was behind him. The younger God’s giggling was warming the back of HD’s neck and tingling down his spine.

“F-Fohour kaaaahahay!”

“Is it working?!”

“N-Nohoho!”

 The sleeping God mumbled a laugh behind them again. His breath warmed against HD’s neck but there were words in his laughter this time.

“H… H-H… D-Dehehe…” XD chuckled against HD’s shoulder. HD froze. His cheeks burned red. “Th…thahahat ti-cklessss…”

Looking to 4K was a mistake. He was grinning so wide HD was surprised his face wasn’t splitting in two. “Sh-Shuhush!” HD tried to hide 4K’s face, but even with his hands somewhat covering over 4K’s face, he could see the smile reach into his orange eyes and he pushed through HD’s hands to uncover his face.

“How often are you tickling him, HD? The poor God’s having nightmares about it!” 4K teased in a sing-song voice.

“Sh-uhut yohour mohohouth!”

“I should be a little offended though. He doesn’t even recognise me tickling him.” His bottom lip jutted out in a huffy pout despite him still smiling. “I’ve got it!”

4K’s voice suddenly picked up, and even with his sides being attacked and XD giggling against his shoulder, HD worried the younger God was going to wake up. He couldn’t worry on that for long though as 4K had a suddenly pulled himself in closer.

It seemed impossible that 4K could get any closer, but he had snuggled his way forward. He pressed his face against HD’s neck. His lips were against HD’s skin. The scratchy ends of his beard tickled HD’s collarbones, made worse as 4K opened his mouth and pressed his fangs along the sensitive spot between HD’s neck and shoulder.

“F-Fohour KAHAY!” HD squealed, without care for XD’s sleeping anymore. His heart thundered against his chest, feeling like it was about to burst out. His breath caught in his throat and his cheeks burned as his thoughts ran wild. But his thought bubble was burst as soon as 4K’s fangs touched on his skin and started nibbling down HD’s shoulder.

“I can’t move him, cause he’ll wake up. But if you are wiggling around so much, you’ll move him off yourself!” 4K explained like it was an obvious solution.

“Y-Yohour juhust making s-stuhuff UP!”

4K’s fangs caught onto a sensitive spot at the front of HD’s neck and dove right back in after the giggling squeal told him he hit the right spot.

HD was just a few tickles away from full out thrashing. His thoughts to keep quiet and let XD sleep were wiped from his mind as he rolled, wriggled and squealed to 4K’s fangs dancing along his neck. He was sure his heartbeat could be heard as it thundered against his rib cage, but it silenced with a gasp and HD heard a groan behind him, and the hands kneading along his sides stilled for the moment.

“HD…?” XD’s voice slurred with sleep.

4K had stopped his tickling. His fangs stilled and he pulled back, watching HD with the widest grin as HD’s face was burning up to a deep red.

“Look who’s awake~” 4K spoke up before HD could calm his thoughts to. His voice was all soft with coos and purrs and his hand reached up to XD’s face, stroking over his cheek.

“Hmm…” XD’s mind was still foggy with sleep but he leaned over to the hand offering comfort. “W-Wha…”

“You were just so cute in your sleep, Blondie. Snuggling up to HD…”

“4K…” HD warned, his voice low

“Kneading into his sides.” 4K finished, grinning to HD’s warning.

“W-What? I was…” XD shook the last of sleep from his head. He looked down to his lower set of arms around HD’s waist, and his hands still very much half kneaded into HD’s sides.

It clicked all at once and XD’s face turned red.

“I-I’m so sorry!” XD stuttered and tried to unwrap his arms from HD. Before he could though his wrists were suddenly grabbed, and his arms pulled back around by 4K. “4K! What are…!”

“Don’t be sorry, it was absolutely adorable.” 4K purred. “And HD absolutely loved it, didn’t you HD?”

“4K!” HD snapped. “You are pushing it!”

“It is not my fault you two are simply too adorable.” 4K huffed, though his pout was very put on. He shuffled his way forward, snuggling under HD’s chin and deliberately ignoring HD’s growls. “I can’t help it if you two are the cutest things ever when being tickled.”

HD grunted, but his actions were limited with 4K snuggling in front of him and XD pulled against his back.

“I-I am sorry though…” XD spoke again, and even without looking HD could picture their soft apologetic expression.

“It’s alright…” HD mumbled. “It was…cute.”

“I knew it!” 4K squeaked, shaking HD with his excitement. “I knew you liked it!”

“4K!” HD warned again, though this time his voice was more exasperated than growly. “We are sleeping now.”

“I can’t help it, I’m all giddy over how cute you are!”

A flush of red washed over HD’s cheeks, but it faded fast with a sudden idea. “Oh…well, we can help you with that.”

4K’s eyebrow raised, his eyes flickering over HD’s cheeks, reading something in the colours and his curious expression morphed to a nervous smile. “H-Hehehe Dehehe…”

“XD.” HD spoke, completely ignoring 4K’s giggles. In one swift move he was out of 4K’s arms and suddenly settled in behind the Nether God. He was so quick XD was also stunned, looking at the space in front of himself before back up to HD. “Would you like some revenge?”

XD’s smile suddenly lit up while 4K stutted. “R-Revehenge?! I helped you both!”

“Oh so helpful you were.” HD whispered into 4K’s ear, watching it cutely twitch. “I seem to remember when I asked for help in getting XD off me, you instead tickled XD. Then you had the brilliant idea to tickle me as well.”

“I-I was hehelping get hihim off…” 4K squirmed between the two. He yelped when XD suddenly grabbed onot his sides. “E-Ehehex Deeee…”

“I thought I was being tickled in my dreams.” XD said, seemingly shaking the sleep fast when tickling 4K became an option. “Should have known it was you.”

4K snorted, just holding back a laugh. But it was a taunting laugh, not a nervous one. “Funny, cause you were mumbling HD’s name when you were tickl-EEEEEE!”

HD quickly dug into 4K’s bottom ribs. He kneaded and vibrated his fingers over the sensitive ribs as 4K roared with laughter.

“NAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HEHEHEHEHE DEHEHEHEHE! F-FuHUhuHUHUCK! Y-Yohohou wehehehent r-rihihi-AAAHAHAHAHA! EH-EHEHEX DEHEHEHE?!”

The younger God had blushed to 4K’s words but seeing the attack he quickly joined in, squeezing up and down 4K’s sides and overwhelming the Nether God with loud, boisterous laughter.

There was pleading between 4K’s laughter, but HD knew if he’d given the God even just a second more to talk, he’d probably be begging for more tickling. He was hardly fighting back, or wiggling away. Even as he raised an arm to cover his red face, he was leaving his armpit clearly open. Which HD still took of course.

The tickling didn’t last for long as all the Gods were tired; despite how fun it was to tickle the tickle-loving God. 4K turned onto his back, his two arms curled around the God’s as they snuggled into his sides. He fell asleep first, with a stupid happy smile on his face. XD fell asleep not long after. He apologised again and again to HD for tickling him, despite how many times HD told him it was fine. Eventually it took one of HD’s helper hands scratching over XD’s scalp to calm him and lure him back to sleep again.

It took a while longer for HD to sleep. He was in a loop of watching the two God’s sleep, his mind racing through a million sappy thoughts while his eyes wandered up to 4K snoring soundly. Eventually HD snuffled up to nuzzled his way under 4K’s chin, and he fell asleep when he felt a sleepy kiss pressed to the top of his head.

[godsiblingaskblog]

After reading the recent scenarios between 4K and HD, it made me genuinely curious.. How did HD find *the* rib spot on 4K originally?

[godsiblingaskblog]

So it seems reward tickles work really well on 4K ajfjfjdk but the real question is do they work on anyone else? >:3 and who is the most likely one to give them out? Anyone can answer :D

-emmadoodlewrites

[covenofwives]

Could you maybe possibly perhaps perchance draw more Lee! Dream? With evil sharp-nail belly tickles from one of the god sibs? 🥺🙏

how about...all of them?

[covenofwives]

Can you maybe do some nibbles with 4k and Xd :3