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[3rd person pov]

Parkers eyes widen when he saw who was at the door. It was Layla, except she looked a little odd.. he got small flashbacks to his dream when someone broke the silence.

"Nnnnnooope! Its me! Ian! I wanted to thank you for everything... and yeah, I know you told me to leave you alone so uhhh bye!!! See you uh, never!!" Parker grabs there wrist and they turn around to see his sad eyes. "Can we... talk for a bit..? Please..?" The shortest nodded and they both sat on the couch, Chester looking rather confused. "Huh? Whats going on dude?"

Parker puts his hand on Chester thigh for his own comfort and starts talking to Ian about the nightmare he had and got a not so simple answer. "Yeah well the nightmare you had mighttt be the symptoms of trauma and of me being in your body for so long.. I forgot to tell you that you do in fact have irreversible damage to your body that uhh will hinder your life for the time being.. uhh yeah." Ian grins nervously as Parkers eyes gave an angry look. "What.. you've got to be joking me.. what are the symptoms...?" The brunette said a little too calm for Ians liking.

"Well seeing that the tips of your fingers look blackish, I'd sayyyy uhhhh Impaired vision when fatigued, the urge to kill, desperate need of attention, and the ability to read minds to an extent.. so basically me!"

The tallest of the bunch gritted his teeth,, he was frustrated with himself because he felt so stupid that he even bothered to have even a little bit more faith in Them after what they've already did and also, this genuinely with affect him no matter how much he doesn't want it to. "Great.. Why does god hate me??" He throws his hands, stealing a quick glance at Chester who was spacing out so badly that his eyes wandered. "Weelllll uhh look at the time! looks like I gotta go!! Welp, have fun with your life!!! See ya!" And with that, the skin stealing bitch walked, or should I say ran, right out. Parker sighs, laying his head on the back of the couch. "What am I gonna do Chester? All I know right now is that we can't make videos while I'm in this state. Maybe I need to find a day job.." "huh? Oh uh yeah.." Parker raised an eyebrow at a severely confused Chester hoping to not get asked anything specific to prove that he wasn't paying attention but it was obvious that the other was not in the mood at this point.

The two sat there in the dark for a long while before Chester decided to look over. It was only for a short moment but he did manage to catch a glimpse at Parkers hands,, they were indeed turning black while still fading to a normal skin tone but that didn't help the chills that went up the lighter brunettes spine, he could only sigh and blame himself for Parkers mishaps.

"Hey Chester?" His best friend finally spoke up. "Yeah dude..?"

Parker sighs, resting his head on Chesters lap. "Mmhh I love you.. dude, I know I might seem mad all the time but I really do care.." was all he said before he passed out leaving Chester face red and now deep in thought of what exactly he meant by that.

"I love you too.."

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I just wanted to say that I'm extremely sorry for not posting sooner and that I am no longer in the fandom but I might (and take this with a grain of salt) still post because I feel good that people actually like my work so uhh if I do post then yippie