“No….. I… I don’t want him to hate me….. everyone else does…..I’m sorry I hurt half…”
Jamie looks at him and sighs. “It’s ok…. I’ll punch ya later.” Nuzzles against Tullk.
Tullk made a slight face, not really agreeing with Half-nut’s
easy forgiveness. But contention – especially with Peter – wouldn’t do anyone
any good right then.“Quill… the only ones that hate you are the ones that are
upset you’re close to the Captain,” he explained. “The rest who been here a while
or are just too dumb to care about those things –“ he pointed toward Oblo “—don’t
really give a shit about it. Right now though you need to be supportin’ yer
captain. And that means tellin’ him when you have a problem with someone so he
can get rid of them – if his crew has problems with each other, it ain’t good
for business. And maybe eventually, when things calm down, you can tell him
what happened. And tell him why it went wrong. Got it?”He nods and jumps in the water and hugs them both. “Thanks. I’m really sorry. Half wasn’t my target. He never would be.” Half smiles snuggling against tullks chest. “Go in now kid. I’m trying to relax…. feel better knowing no one’s trying to kill me…”
Tullk nodded in agreement, shooing the boy off with his hand
as he held Half-nut a tad closer to himself.Half smiles kissing his chest lightly and yawns. “Love you Tullk. I think I’m finally going to be ok….. sorry I worried you….”
Tullk hummed. “You just get yourself feelin’ better all the
way, lad,” the older Ravager told him, and he smiled slightly.Smiles kissing at him along his neck and up his facectracing the tatoo then lightly in his lips.
Tullk relaxed into the kiss and held Half-nut close. He was
pretty sure that not much else could happen during shore leave.Purrs and kisses him running his hands over him then up through his hair. “Mhmmmm… you handsome ravager.”
“You little shit,” Tullk returned cheekily. He then reached
up to grip his hand and pull it down. “I told you to relax. An’ I don’t think
the Captain would appreciate much if we make another scene.”Pouts but snuggles up against him face pressed to his neck. “I’m gonna turn into a prune….. hehe…” Coughs a few times then settles.
“A healthier prune, I hope,” Tullk commented. He rubbed
Half-nut’s shoulder and pressed a kiss to the top of his head before shutting
his eyes again. A couple more days of this and hopefully Half-nut would be
feeling much better.Smiles relaxing eventually giving in and softly snores mumbling while sleeping doing his normal little twitches. A side effect from his head trauma years ago when he was shot in the head by a nova corpsman.
Few days later Yondu was assessing halfnuts health before they left to head to terra. “Well…. you look good as new. You’ll still take it easy for a few days but you look good to go. Now Tullk can fucking breathe and not worry every damn second.”
Half grins looking to Tullk. “Well he kn..kn knows I’m a bit.. me…me..messed up hehe.”
Tullk reached and squeezed Half-nut’s arm with a slight
smile.“Fit fer duty, sir?” Tullk asked him.
Half smiles and leans into him.
Yondu rolls his eyes. “Yeah he’s fit fer duty. Lets head out. .MOVE OUT BOYS!!!” They all head back to the eclector. Peter grins and jumps at half from behind hugging him then runs off to the ship.
Half blinks as he follows Tullk. Back on the eclector half was back in his proper place next to Tullk at the helm controls. “Fe..fe fe Feels god ya be ba back. Huh tullk.”
Tullk just nodded, working on his console. “Aye, lad. Let’s
keep it that way.” He glanced at the other, smiling. “Later… you n’ I are gonna
celebrate.”
Kraglin rolled his eyes from his own console. He didn’t want
to imagine that.
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