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The crashing noise startled the two alchemists, the next noise is a quiet “eek”. Quickly that confusion forms into concern as from then on Sucrose’s lab is silent, Albedo and Timaeus speed walk to the girl’s lab. Opening the door they’re welcomed with the sight of Sucrose sitting in a corner of the room, knees up and hands clinging to her ears, eyes scrunched closed. She’s crying and shaking, really, really bad. On the other side of the room is a mixture of chemicals foaming up on the ground, Albedo quickly looks to Timaeus and then to the mixture, silently asking for him to clean it. As Timaeus walks to the bottles on the ground, Albedo walks towards Sucrose.
“Sucrose, are you ok?” Albedo questions.
Sucrose doesn’t answer.
Albedo decides to step closer to the girl, slowly he arrives at her feet. Squatting down, Albedo taps on Sucrose’s shoulder, this gains a reaction from the girl, she flinches and uses her arms to cover her face and head
“No, no ‘m sorry, p’ease dont. ‘m really really sorry i didn’ mean to i p’omise. P’ease don’ hit me im sorry i really really am p’ease!!” Sucrose sobs out, her voice high pitched and laced with fear.
Her words are slurred, she’s absolutely horrified. This takes Albedo off guard, it takes about a second or two for her words to catch up with him.
“Hey, hey, no one’s gonna hurt you.” Albedo states, loud enough so she can hear but not so loud that it scares her further.
Sucrose flinches again as Albedo rests his hand on her knee but makes no move to scatter away. She slowly blinks open her eyes, slightly unwrapping her arms from around her head, instead choosing to hold them against her chest. Her shoulders hunched up next to her head, trying to curl in on herself.
“There you go, you’re ok Sweetheart. It’s just Timaeus and I here, no one else, no one's gonna hurt you.”
She’s still shaking an awful lot, slowly moving one of her hands to her mouth she starts to suck on her thumb. This seems to mildly calm her, as her shaking dulls. Albedo stays there, rubbing her knee with all the gentleness he can muster.
They stay like that for an hour, until Sucrose’s eyes start to flutter and her body softens.
“Hey hunny, how about we go have a nap, yea?” Albedo whispers.
Sucrose perks up at that, nodding her head Albedo takes that as a cue to stand up and lend his hand to the other. The younger tilts her head in confusion and stretches her free hand while making a ‘grabby motion’. Her other hand’s thumb still placed in her mouth.
“Huh? oh, you want me to carry you?” Albedo realises and asks.
And as Sucrose nods her head in confirmation, Albedo bends down to secure his hands underneath her armpits. Lifting her up to his hip, he places one of his forearms underneath her and wraps the other arm around her back, effectively holding her. Sucrose softly lays her head on the other's shoulder as he starts to walk out of her office and into his own.
Dragonspine is always relatively cold, Albedo often forgets this fact considering he doesn't feel the weather the same as humans do. Sucrose on the other hand, does feel the cold, she whines as she starts to shiver and Albedo realises how cold it must be for her. Finally at his office, he closes the door and walks to the lounge, picking up a pink, fluffy blanket. He remembers Klee brought it up to Dragonspine during a sleepover and left it here for him, saying;
“You get cold up here! bad bad!! Have my blankie!!”.
As Albedo sits on the lounge, he sits Sucrose on his lap and wraps the blanket around her. She slowly falls forward, her legs on either side of his own and her head on his shoulder. He Rubs her arms to try and warm her up more, this makes her giggle and snuggle her face into Albedo’s neck.
“What cha’ laughing at baby?” Albedo chuckles back.
“feels fuzzy.” Sucrose giggles. Bringing her thumb back into her mouth, Albedo stops her before she can.
“Hey Princess, why don't you have a paci instead of your thumb?”
“M’kay Papa!” He replaces her thumb with a pastel green pacifier. And as Sucrose leans against Albedo, with her eyes drooping and her breath steading, she feels safe. Nothing will hurt her, Papa will make sure of it.
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