Grian had been hanging around the cowmercial district for the entire day, going to and from shops and just looking. Okay maybe not all day, but most definitely towards the end of the day. You see Bdubs had gone to meet with his family for something so he'd been gone the entire day, and he was due back soon and Grian wanted to be there to greet him back. He even had it all planned, a picnicking basket in his inventory filled with all things good and coordinates for a nice place by a lake for them to enjoy a nice meal at. So when the portal activated with a

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following he flew over with a wide and excited smile, finally some down time with his boyfriend! But as he landed he instantly knew something was off just by the air around Bdubs, and the beat up and bloody face he was greeted with when the other looked at him was the real teller.

"Uh, hey Gri." Bdubs mumbled, refusing to make eye contact with the shorter man, "Before you say anything, can we uh, move into my office? I-I'd much prefer if no one else saw me like this."

Grian gave him a brisk nod before walking towards the Town Hall, gently taking the black haired man by the hand and dragging him along. Though he did have to wait for the other to unlock the door before continuing in. Grian's frown deepened when Bdubs didn't even try to fight him as he gently pushed the taller man into the armchair that had been moved into the office, not even a single complaint about how he refused to sit on the stiff seat.

The dirty blond gently tilted the brown eyed man's chin up, giving him a better angle to look over his face. It was as clear as the stars that Bdubs had been in a fight, a cut face, bruises, and bleeding, and that was just the damage he could see from just looking at the face. Grian gently wiped some blood from the corner of Bdubs face, fingers coming to caress his cheek gently afterwards. Bdubs breath hitched as his eyes met the violet eyes of his boyfriend, eyes which burned with barely kept at bay anger. And his tone reflected his eyes nearly perfectly.

"Who did this to you?"

"No-no one!" He stammers, begging with his eyes for Grian to drop it. But the look he got back told him it wouldn't be that easy, "Really doll, I mean it. I'm fine? See?"

"Were you attacked on your way back?" Wondered the sweater wearing man, a hand now running through the balack hair of the hurt man in front of him, "Or was it maybe to do with you going to see your family?" A flinch. Bingo.

"I see." Hummed Grian, "And your family just let this happen? Let you leave looking like this?"

"They didn't know, it happened just as I was leaving." Murmured Bdubs, burrowing his face in Grian's chest as he finally let everything set in, "I should have been more careful, but I wasn't expecting to be attacked so close to home. I still can't believe it, I knew he had a problem with me but this? I didn't think he would."

Grian kept running his hand through the others black hair, the other hand moving to gently rub Bdubs' back in soothing patterns. But his movements froze as he thought, truly thought, over what he'd just heard. Whoever attacked his boyfriend was three things: 1) A big douche, 2) A member of the Bdusb's family (be it marriage or whatever) and 3) Someone who didn't like Bdubs. And only one family member that he knew of, from the rare times he would be mentioned by a drunk Bdubs, was a brother-in-law he had. "It was Justin, wasn't it?"

And if him just freezing like a statue wasn't telling enough, the whispered "Yes" just confirmed it, literally.

Grian was about to growl about how he'd make him pay, but taking a look at the state his boyfriend was in he decided to keep it to himself, "Hey love, I prepared a picnic for us. You up for that? After you drink a regen potion of course."

"You prepared a picnic?" Bdubs wondered, eyes lighting up at the prospect.

"Of course I did silly!" Giggled the dirty blonde, taking out the basket just to prove his point. "I even found a nice lake to have it at."

"Then why are we still here?" Asked Bdubs, standing up with his warm brown eyes sparkling and a smile on his face, "Take us away to this place, I would really like to forget some stuff right now."

"I'll show you, as long as you take this first." Grian said with an amused smile as he handed over a potion of regeneration. "Then we can enjoy a picnic for as long as you'd like.

Bdusb quickly snatched up the potion, drinking it without hesitation. At Grian's bewildered look he just gave the other a lopsided grin with a, "I'm really looking forward to a nice picnic night, okay?" leaving his mouth at the un-asked question. That got him a fond shake of the head, and hand leading him out towards a boat that was docked by the district shore. After that it was just a 30 minute boat ride followed by a 10 minute walk before they reached the lake in question.

"It's beautiful!" Whispered Bdubs, look around at the fairy lights Grian had used to light up the area with sparkling eyes, "And the water! It's so calm and reflective! I can see the sky reflected in it." He turned to Grian with a loving smile, "Doll this is perfect!"

"I'm glad perfection can see perfection." Giggled Grian, red faintly dusting his cheeks as he set everything up, "Now you ready for some food or will you just look at the water all night?"

"Oh right!" Bdubs exclaimed with a laugh, moving away from the water and to the blanket Grian had set up under a tree, some of the food already placed out. He sat down with a smile, and eyes widening as he noticed one of the items, "Is that pita bread? Did you really prepare everything for it?"

"Yup!" Chirped Grian happily, taking out some at the last few items that he'd brought for the bread. "And I made sure to get all your favorites."

"You're the best!" Grinned the brown eyed man, hands already reaching for the bread and the container with chicken. Grian followed his example with a laugh, basking in happy feelings in the air. The rest of the nice was spent together and content, and sleeping long into the day after finally growing tired from being up.

But unbeknownst to most, Grian was not asleep for the same time as Bdubs. No, he was awake in the middle of the night and on a completely different server all together, one specific server at that. The main world.

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Gray-purple robes dragged on the pathed roads of a silent street, swirling galaxy like eyes trained straight ahead, only turning to look at door numbers from time to time. Finally the being stopped at an ordinary looking house, but it was after something - someone - in the house. It walked through the door like it wasn't even there and looked around. The inside showed the house to be well lived in, walls decorated with odd items, books, and pictures. The pictures mostly only had two people in them, a woman and a man, wife and husband. The beings eyes narrowed in on the man, the wing like ears in the sides of its head twitching as the reason it was here was brought to the forefront. So with silent footsteps it made its way through the house, quickly finding the bedroom. And sleeping on the bed as the man in the pictures, the target.

The man blearily blinked his eyes open, his own shivering having startled him awake, He tried to think of a reason for the sudden chill, they were still in the warm months after all, when he noticed it. Two pale purple swirling eyes looking at him unblinkingly, just watching him without fault.

"Who are you?! What are you doing in my house?!" He shouted at it, but it did nothing but narrow its eyes at him. "Look just leave, I won't even report it! Just leave."

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Justin." The being spoke, stepping closer from where it stood at the foot of the bed. Justin shivered as the thing grew closer, and even more at the use of his name, "How do you know who I am? And why are you after me? I haven't done anything!"

"You haven't?" The being purred, it was now close enough for Justin to see small stars appear and then fade on its skin, and it was also close enough for the cold to be completely immobilizing. Which meant that he could do nothing as it pulled out an arm from under its purple-gray robed and reached out for him, and even less when the black, clawed, hand at the end of said arm grabbed his face, not being gentle at all, and made him star into soulless light purple eyes, "Then surely you can tell me exactly what happened after your wife's family reunion? You know, just as people were leaving."

At first nothing came to Justin and he was about to call it to the being, when he suddenly thought of the specific wording it used, and then everything came crashing down.

It laughed as it noticed his now fearful expression, "Seems you finally figured out why I'm here." It then tightened its grip on his face, claws digging into his skin, "So tell me, Justin, how do you plead?"

"What is this? A fucking court case?" He wheezed, doing his best to ignore the stinging of his cheeks.

He cried out as they held on tighter, "Your being judged, so I suppose that this is indeed a court case."

"Fine! I'm guilty, happy now?" He growled, feeling his fingers twitching as they tried to ball themselves into a fist.

"No, not really." It said as it pulled its hand away, small specks of blood at the tips of the claws, "But I don't think he'd be too happy knowing that I killed you, so I'll stop at this." Justin was about to breathe a sigh of relief but a hand wrapping around his throat and slamming him down into the mattress (thank fuck it was a mattras and not the floor) and the being leaning in close, "You better stay the fuck away from him, I hear you hurt him again and I'll be sure to end you. And trust me, no matter how you try I will be the one with blood on my hands if it comes to that." And just like that it was gone, the only evidence it was ever there being the slowly forming bruises around Justin's neck and the wounds on his face.

Back in Hermitcraft Grian silently rejoined the world, the world still unaware he'd even left. He silently slipped into bed next to Bdubs, giggling softly as arms instantly wound around his midsection. And as he felt his eyes start to droop he couldn't help but feel satisfied and content, a night well spent in his mind.

<To those of you, which is all of you, I'm currently on vacation! So this is actually a pre written story! The same can kinda be said for the next one-shot, the first 1K was made at home and the rest will be made out here on my phone. So yeah! I'm proud of managing to do 2 1/2 stories (this is including TRMAS) in a 2 day span! Now, on to a drawing of Watcher Grian, our "mysterious" attacker in this story.

I'd also like to note that Justin is not an irl relative of Bdubs nor is this based off of anything irl, it's all just fiction and made up for the one-shot.

And that's all! So stay safe and have a wonderful time everyone! And goodnight/day from me too!>