I- I'm bored, okay? Also i think it really would be funny if Seek just got really sleep deprived one day and was like "hey, Curi, Screech likes you right? Yeah can you take care of him for a day? I got about 5 minutes of sleep yesterday, goodbye" and now poor Curious is left with a loud, chaotic child jumping around their room-

     Forgot to mention that this was a request from @CS_writes_fanfics so yeah- enjoy this oneshot? Maybe? Hopefully.

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     "Where are we going?" Screech was bobbing behind a very tired Seek, almost bumping into every wall he saw. "Are we gonna go visit the Rooms?"

     Seek didn't reply, rubbing his eye with a hand and just beckoning Screech to follow. "Oh, okay, then!"

     The pair made their way across the Hotel- eventually, they ended up in the electrical room. Seek felt around the area- eventually, he found a lever that opened a section on the wall. "C'mon," he muttered.

     "Why are we going back to our own rooms?"

     Seek just shrugged, trudging over through the doorway with Screech close at his heels. The door shut behind them, encasing the hallway with a blank darkness for a second until the lights slowly turned on with a dim glow. Seek started walking down the hallway with Screech literally rolling through behind him, until they got to the door to Curious's room.

     "Are we gonna say hi? I wanna say hi!" Screech bounced up to Seek's shoulder, rocking around and trying to get a good standpoint. He drew in a breath, barely giving Seek enough time to cover his ears before-

     "HIII, CURIOUS!!!"

     "Next time, don't do that right next to my ear," Seek grumbled as the door creaked open. Screech just stifled a laugh in response, going over to bug Curious instead.

     "Did you need something?" Curious asked, looking a little shaken from Screech's loud greeting. "You look... tired."

     "Oh, of course I'm tired," Seek muttered. "I got about 3 seconds of sleep yesterday because Screech wanted me to find a way to the nearest Walmart without getting caught."

     Curious managed a small grimace. "Well, no wonder," they replied. "I'll take care of him for a while."

     "Thanks," Seek said with a yawn before promptly dissipating through the floor.

     Screech waved goodbye as the top of Seek's head melted away, turning to Curious with a bright smile afterwards.

     "Do you have anything fun to do?" Curious jumped a little as Screech brushed past his foot and started spinning around behind him. "I don't know where Seek went but I guess you're stuck with me now!"

     "Uhh..." Curious didn't really know how to deal with kids. "Yay?"

     "Yay!" Screech replied happily. "But what do you usually do in your free time? I don't exactly see you around when we're all playing together... Even Guiding shows up every now and then- and they're always worrying about one thing or another. Oh, do you guys spend your time together? That would explain it!"

     "Sometimes we'll hang out," Curious said after a while of thinking. "But I'm usually reading in the Library."

     "Oh..." Screech sounded a little disappointed. "Does Guiding follow you to the Library, then?"

     "Not really," Curious replied. "But what is it with you and trying to find out how much time I spend with Guiding?"

     Screech's face instantly went to a surprised expression, seemingly pausing for a second before going back to normal. "No- no reason!"

     "Alright, then," Curious said, sitting on the floor to somewhat meet Screech's eye level. "What do you usually do in your free time?"

     "I like drawing! And sometimes I follow Seek when he's talking to Figure, and when the group gathers together in the lobby I'll go there and ring the front desk bell... and other times I'll hide in corners and scare Guiding when they come along! I got really good at that- oh, and, sometimes I'll follow Rush and Ambush and Dupe when they go burn up things..."

     Curious honestly felt like Guiding was just pretending to be scared by this tiny child, but they also felt like that wasn't something you said to a tiny child.

     "...and Uno! And we fight over the Xbox a lot but I always get a turn either way, and that's about it," Screech was waving his tentacles in the air, having finished reciting his college essay.

     "Okay..." Curious couldn't keep track of anything Screech had said except for "drawing," "arson," and something that they assumed was called "Uno"? Narrowing down the choices to what sounded like the most sane idea, drawing seemed like a good thing to do to pass the time until someone came back to get Screech again.

      Turns out, Curious didn't really have to ask about anything, as his thought process was interrupted by a small "can I braid your hair? I learned that from Guiding, apparently they used to have a little sister!"

     "Uh- sure," Curious mumbled, suddenly aware of how long their hair had gotten. "Go ahead."

     They got another "yay!" from Screech, who rolled over and seemed to be tugging at their hair now. For a while, it was just a peaceful quietness- it was better than the usual chaos that ensued whenever Screech was around, and Curious usually experienced that first hand.

     "I'm done!" Screech exclaimed (quite loudly) after a while. "Do you have any mirrors? Lemme see... oh, I can ask Guiding for one! Be right back, bye!"

     "Wa-" Curious started, but Screech was already zooming down the hallway with a "whee!"

     Well, that's not good, they thought as they stood up to look down the hallway- only to be met with a dark blue figure shining and aquamarine glow.

     "I happened to be passing through," Guiding filled in as they were dragged into the room by an overexcited Screech. "What did he- oh, I see."

     "What did he do?" Curious asked as Guiding conjured a handheld mirror out of nowhere. "Oh."

     Screech seemed to have put some of his hair up into tiny braids scattered around. Most of it was still down, but some of his thin locks had been braided together- overall, it was a nice surprise.

     "You really got good at that, Screech!" Guiding bent down to give Screech a pat on the head, earning a happy little squeak from the small entity.

     "Thaaank youu!" Screech exclaimed before running out of the room- presumably to use his newfound bragging rights with Dupe, Rush, Ambush, and Hide.

     "Well, I'm keeping this," Curious said after a while.

     "In order to not disappoint Screech, or because you actually like it?"

     "All of the above."

     Guiding smiled, sitting down on the floor with Curious. "Well, that figures."

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     Wow when did I get so bad at writing all of a sudden