This fic isn’t as long as my usual ones, and I wrote it before work so I couldn’t edit it as much as I’d like to
Volt centric, he finds you in the bar in the night and helps you regulate when you’re overwhelmed
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It’s late when you stumble to the closet and push the glasses onto your face without thinking. The Breaker Box is empty when you enter quietly but you aren’t surprised about that since most of the objects are sleeping including your boys you assume. You didn’t know what you were gonna do when you got here. Go up and sneak into their bed and attempt to sleep there. Time with them is usually enough to make your thoughts quiet down enough to sleep a few hours.
One of the creaky steps took you out of your thoughts as someone came down. It’s Volt, the lights flick on with a flick of his wrist and he squints at the sudden too bright lighting and with another wave of his hand half of them go out again leaving you in the dimly lit and far too quiet club.
“Darling what..” he rubs the remains of sleep from his eyes.
“Sorry I don’t know why I came.” You speak softly looking down at the slippers you put on when you left your room. “I’m sorry.” You step back to leave but gentle hands reach your waist and pull you in close.
“What is it my dear?” Volt pulls you into his chest his arm wrapped around to cradle your head, sliver fingers running through your hair. He moves toward a seat with you but you shake your head.
"No I need to wiggle." Your voice is muffled in his shirt and he attempts to pull away presumably to give you more room to move freely but when he steps away you follow his step to stay close. Volt shakes his head slowly but pulls you right back into him nonetheless. His hands rest loosely around you giving you room to breathe or pull away if you feel the need while you stood there.
“My clothes were overwhelming. And my blanket was suffocating me.” You mumble. Volt make a sound that you feel in his chest.
“I’ll have to have a chat with them tomorrow about that then.” He says scratching loosely at your scalp. “Would you like to borrow some clothes that may feel better?” Part of you wonders if he has a solution to everything.
He leads you upstairs pulls out a shirt from Eddies side of their dresser and a pair of sleep pants from his own. He has you sit down and you look at him confused. He shakes his head, giving no other explanation as he lifts your shirt up and takes it off before quickly slipping the other one over your head. Once it’s settled he hands you the sleep pants and goes to get a brush from the bathroom. Gentle hands run over your head as a brush follows.
The bristles are harder than you're used to with your own brush, and Volt is gentle not to brush too hard. Once he's done he sets the brush back down somewhere and kneels in front of you so he's at your level. "Hi sweetheart." he says cupping your cheeks with both hands.
"Hi honey."
After a few seconds you wriggle in your seat and he stifles a laugh so he won't wake Eddie sleeping just a few feet away.
"Still need to wiggle?" He asks and you nod. He stands and pulls you up and into him. It's cute, you think, how he always seems to need to be close, whether its to you or Eddie. The two of you head back downstairs and he flicks the same dim lighting back on. You feel better in your skin now than you have all day.
He twirls you once, then twice before you bringing you back into him. He does this a few more times before you fall into a rhythm. You can finally breathe.
Once you start yawning, looking a little more tired, and he eventually guides you back up the stairs. Once in the room you settle between him and Eddie. Volt pull you into his chest, then pulls the blanket so it’s covering Eddie as well, since he’d kicked it off of him at some point that night.
“Thank you for dancing with me livewire.” He says kissing the top of your head. You beam up at him.
“Thank you for helping me.” You whisper and he kisses you again.
You always sleep better in their bed. And tonight is no different. In the morning you’ll wake up to Eddie also having glued himself to you in the night and try to slip out from between the two, but you’ll get pulled back into your spot. That’s alright, you can always sleep a little longer between them anyway.
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