#veth and jester just annoy the fuck out of beau while she tries to hit on yasha

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Veth and Jess crash Beau and Yasha’s (homoerotic) sparring match

#beauyasha #beauregard lionett #yasha nydoorin #jester lavorre #veth brenatto #critical role fanart #my art #this is what i imagine its always like when they divide up the rooms by gender #veth and jester just annoy the fuck out of beau while she tries to hit on yasha #meanwhile yasha is just vibing :) happy to be surrounded by friends

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Febuwhump Day 8

AO3

Todays prompt is “Hey, hey, this is no time to sleep”

Once again it is Widofjord, I won’t apologize.  I don’t really know what this one is, but enjoy?😅

TW’s:  

Major Character Injury

Brief Descriptions of Injury

Temporary Character Death

"Stay with me Caleb, c’mon now”

Caleb had been slowly growing heavier as they had stumbled through the woods, and while Fjord was trying his best to support him... they wouldn’t be able to keep this up much longer.  

“I am- I am sorry Fjord” Caleb gasped “I am afraid that... I don’t think I can continue on, you should-”

“If you say ‘leave me behind’ one more time I swear Cay-”

They stumbled, and Fjord finally had to admit they couldn’t make it to the road.  He tugged Caleb towards a ring of close growing trees, managing to settle them on the mossy ground in the middle.  He leaned up against a larger trunk, pulling Caleb close and pressing a hand to the gash across his thigh.  He tried not to wince at the sheer amount of blood covering his skin, and applied pressure as well as he could manage without hurting him.  Calebs head dropped against his shoulder, and Fjord watched his eyes droop dangerously.

“Hey, hey, this is no time to sleep”

Calebs eyes fluttered slightly, and he looked up at Fjord apologetically.

“I do not think I have much control over that at the moment”  

“Bullshit” he took Calebs hand in his free one “keep up that stubborn streak for me Widogast”  

That drew a small chuckle, which turned into a rough cough and a small trickle of blood out the corner of Calebs mouth.  

“I- I will try mein Freund, but I can make no promises”

They were silent then, as Fjord tried to think of something, anything they could do to get out of this alive.  He couldn’t message the others, and Caleb was in no shape to do so either.  They had no potions, no healing magic, and no clerics.  

By all accounts, they were royally fucked.  

And now Caleb was shivering, a sharp tremor that started at his shoulders and worked its way down his spine.  Fjord held on, babbling to Caleb about nothing, just trying to fill the silence while he tried to work out how long they had.  Caleb’s leg was bleeding profusely, Fjord was fairly sure the blade had managed to hit the artery.  It had been nearly a half hour now, and he could feel Caleb fading.  

He was just so pale.  

“Fjord?! Fjord we lost sight of you, are you still in the woods?  Are you okay? We are okay, sore but not dead or anything!”  

Fjord felt his shoulders slump in relief as Jester's voice filled his head.  The others were okay, and now they had a way out of this mess.  

“Jes, thank fuck, we’re stuck in the woods, Caleb isn’t doing well, we need help asap.  Can you locate object on us? Please it’s really-”

He felt the spell fizzle out and cursed under his breath, the word limit had to be the most annoying spell restriction he had ever encountered.  

“You got cut off, but we’re on the way!  Tell Caleb we’ll be there soon to fix him right up!  We’re not too far now!”

He smiled for what felt like the first time in days and let the spell fizzle, there wasn’t anything else he needed to say at this point.  He looked down at Caleb, grinning.

“Hear that Cay?  The others are on the way, we’ll be all sorted in no time”

Caleb didn’t respond, he was so white now that the blood and dirt almost looked fake.  His breathing had gone shallow enough that Fjord had to actively search for signs of it now.  

“Hey, Caleb, you gotta stay awake for me okay?” he struggled to keep the panic from his voice “tell me- tell me about that spell you were working on the other day, talk to me Cay”  

“I... Es tut mir so leid, Schatz. I am sorry”

Calebs voice was hardly audible, barely more than a breath in the quiet woods.  Fjord watched in horror as Caleb’s eyes closed again, one painfully slow breath, another... and then nothing.  The entirety of Caleb’s weight settled into Fjord’s lap, and the hand in his went limp.  

“Cay?  Caleb?  C’mon Cay you gotta wake up, you can’t go like this!  We have- we have too much left to do.  The others are on the way, Cay, just a little longer”  

Caleb, for all Fjords pleading, did not wake up.  Something in Fjord snapped then, though he didn’t recognize it as such, and his pleading turned back to quiet stories.  If he just kept talking, eventually Caleb would respond, he could never help himself.  He might hold out for a while, but if Fjord just kept up a stream of increasingly ridiculous nonsense... Caleb was too clever, he couldn’t resist sharing knowledge.  He was still talking when the others came crashing through the trees towards them.  

“Fjord!  We’re- oh”

Fjord heard Jester's voice but didn’t see much of a point in responding.  He hadn’t gotten Caleb to talk yet.  He didn’t look up until a tanned hand came into his field of vision, resting lightly on his wrist where he held Calebs hand.  Beau’s expression was a mix of sadness and worry, and Fjord didn’t have it in him to comfort her.  

“Let’s... let’s get him back to the inn yeah?  We can go looking for diamonds and he can wake up somewhere comfy?”  

She reached for Caleb, clearly aiming to lift him from Fjord's lap, and he growled.  He wouldn’t let anyone take Caleb, not now- not if he could help it.  Her hand snapped back, and she looked towards the others in clear concern.  Fjord didn’t care.  

“Fjord...”  

“Let me”

Beau moved away as Veth knelt next to them, her small brown hands pushing Caleb’s hair back out of his face.  

“Look big guy, I know we don’t always see eye to eye... but that’s my boy you’ve got there”  

He glared, Caleb was his, even if they hadn’t exactly talked about it yet.  But she ignored his expression, her eyes lingering on Caleb’s face

“You’ve done a great job looking out for him, I can’t thank you enough for that, but now we need to get him somewhere warm so when he wakes up, he can stay safe for a while”

Fjord thought it over, searching her expression as she finally turned to look at him, and nodded.  Veth drove him up the wall sometimes, but there was no doubt in his mind that she wanted the best for Caleb.  So, he stood with Caleb cradled in his arms, and followed her out of the woods.

#febuwhump2021 #febuwhumpday8 #major character injury #temporary character death