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The constant ringing of his phone had awoken itrapped from his slumber. After a rough night at the new casino that opened, his eyes were heavy from exhaustion.
Opening his eyes to a bright ceiling, itrapped flipped the covers off to find his cellular device. Searching under the covers, under his pillow, itrapped found the phone buzzing against the floor. Picking it up to reveal the caller, itrapped sighed as he had seen Chance's photo and caller ID. “What could he possibly want at this point in the day..”
Reluctantly itrapped accepted the call before hearing Chance happily laugh.
“Hey, sleeping beauty! Didn't think you were going to answer the phone!”
Itrapped grit his teeth with the sound of Chance's voice blaring through his phone's speaker, “Yeah, that would be because I was asleep, Chance.”
“Ah, that's okay! You need your beauty sleep. Anyways! I was wondering if you would want to come over tonight annnnnddd build legos?”
Itrapped swore he could almost hear Chance's ecstatic breathing from the other side of the phone. “Sorry, Chance. I'm really busy today.”
“Please? It would be fun! I'll have snacks, movies, it's gonna be so much fun! A 2,000 count Lego set, doesn't that sound fun?”
“I…” ITrapped sighed as he weighed his options. His lies couldn't save him this time. He got too close to lose Chance just now. He needed the Casino's fortune and the local gambler was the key he needed to get into the vault.
A part of itrapped weighed him down though. As much as he desired to use Chance for financial gain, he couldn't help but feel a sickening foundress growing for the gambler. The two had spent a lot of time together in the last few years and it almost made him feel…bad?
“Itrapped? Buddy?”
He had no choice now. That stupid smile and charm had driven itrapped away from his goal. He had to stick to the plan and tonight would leave an opening for him to strike. One last memory before…
“Itrapped! Are you falling asleep again?”
“No…yeah, i'll come tonight. Legos and shenanigans, sounds absolutely fun!” Itrapped set the phone down onto the pillow as Chance screamed in excitement. Getting his clothes ready, itrapped smiled at himself in the mirror as Chance's joy filled the room. He wishes he could enjoy the sound of his laughter everyday.
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Arriving at Chance's casino, itrapped shut the car door before approaching the dimly lit entrance way. Usually the music and sounds of people wasting their hard earned cash could be heard outside of the building but tonight was different. Chance really wanted it to just be him and his best - totally not crushed on - friend.
Before itrapped could even ring the security bell, Chance swung the door open with a wide grin on his face. Itrapped smiled a little bit and covered his smirk as he viewed Chance in a black nightcap with a ridiculous shirt with some motif about gambling instead of sleeping. Itrapped scoffed playfully till he had seen the risk taker dawning a pair of white boxers with little red hearts on them.
Itrapped looked away as a faint dusting cover his ears at the sight of Chance In such a ridiculous manner.
“Oh I never thought that you'd get here, sweetcheeks! I've missed you so much-”
“It's been 2 days since we gambled together.”
“Pish Posh! Now get in here so we can begin building this awesome set I have for us!”
Before itrapped could react, Chance had already had a grip on his blue sleeve and dragging him towards the elevator going up to the hotels. The sound of his coin echoed with the giggles as Chance bounced with joy Itrapped just smiled, falling deep into the black abyss of Chance's stupid shades, who even wore them indoors anyway?
Arriving at the room, itrapped kicked off his shoes and sat down on the bed as Chance turned on the Raggedy Ann movie. How weird was this guy?
Chance sat on the ground as he pulled out a box from underneath the bed and smirked, flipping his coin he caught it before setting It on the nightstand.
Chance looked up at itrapped from the bed with an innocent tone, “What are you doing, bud?”
Itrapped looked away and shrugged, “sitting on your bed? Did you not want me to? I'm so-” a dull pain ache in itrapped's ass as he opened his eyes to see he was now sitting on the floor with Chance. Pushing his crown back up on his head, he groaned.
“What was that for?!” Itrapped grabbed onto Chance’s shirt. He could sense the amusement in Chance's presence.
“Can't play with legos if you ain't on the floor where the legos are!”
“I suppose. I guess we should proceed now, yes? What set did you- oh my god..” itrapped slapped his face as he realized Chance picked out a complicated casino lego set. “Out of EVERYTHING you could have picked…you chose…this?”
Pouring out the pieces, the gambler watched as his friend cringed at the sound of legos being sloppily put onto the floor in front of them. “Of course!”
Itrapped grimaced as he picked up one of the smaller pieces in his hands and examined it. This was going to be a long night, why did he do this to himself?
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After some time, itrapped checked on Chance's progress only for his jaw to drop. Chance was humming to themself as they built a little bunny out of the casino pieces. As itrapped yelled for Chance's attention, the gambler dropped their bunny and watched it shatter.
“Guess I got distracted, hehe!” The gambler smiled before standing up and stretching while letting out an obnoxiously loud yawn. “Perhaps it's better if we continue this in the morning?”
Itrapped sighed and shrugged as he stood up as well. “That sounds fine with me. I don't have matters to attend to tomorrow anyway so that's okay.”
Chance slowly wrapped his arms around itrapped and gave the hacker a tender hug while resting his head onitrappeds's chest. “That's really awesome to hear, I love spending time with you.
Itrapped really hoped that Chance couldn't hear his heartbeat pounding because it certainly was now. The hacker couldn't help but to hug back and even plant a kiss on Chance's scalp, hoping he would but maybe wouldn't notice.
“Let's get to bed now, okay? I'm going to go get my pajamas on.” itrapped looked at the mess of legos on the floor before grabbing a handful of spare clothes. “Do you want me to sleep on the floor or in one of the guest rooms?”
“My bed! Don't keep me waiting, sugar tits!” Chance laughed hard before flopping himself onto the bed as itrapped felt his face get hot before looking down at his chest.
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Standing in the bathroom, itrapped frowned at himself as the blood ran to his head. Chance had him in his spell again. He couldn't lie to himself any longer, he wanted Chance, but he knew this never could be. Chance deserved better, but he needed to use chance to get what he deserved. Darkheart manifested into his hands as he shook with internal anger at himself.
He couldn't help but feel that guilt again, he felt the shame churn his stomach as he had seen Chance fast asleep on his back on the bed with the corner of the other side pulled back for itrapped.
The gambler snored lightly as itrapped climbed the bed to straddle Chance's abdomen. Itrapped stared deep at the gambler's sleeping expression as he lifted the black blade to Chance’s throat. Pushing their head back softly, itrapped could hear nothing now but his own breathing and his heart begging for a break. Right now, right here he could get the fortune for years he had been looking for.
The blade began to pressed deeper into the gamblers neck before itrapped stopped as he watched Chance’s face change from peaceful to disturbed. He began to cry in their sleep, their hands weakly trying to grab onto something, loosely fidgeting with itrapped’s sweater in their slumber.
“I-itrapped h-help…”
The hacker stopped as he heard the words spill out of chance's unfiltered mouth. His eyes welled up with tears of anger, hate, and shame as he threw the sword out of the way. Before it made contact, it dissipated into ash. Chance was now peaceful again with a slight gash into his neck. itrapped heaved quietly as tears dropped down onto chance's stupid gambling night shirt. He couldn't do it. He wouldn't do it.
His thoughts were silenced as a sleepy gambler pulled him all the way down onto Chance's chest. Itrapped cried softly as Chance's warm embrace brought the hacker to sleep.