The Sleep Cycle
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When you're stranded alone on an island, you learn to be self-sufficient.
That doesn't mean that sometimes you don't need help.
(or, Jake has a panic attack for the first time. Dirk helps.)
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- Part 1 of The Sleep Cycle
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Bad days. You're not necessarily used to them, but you can handle them when they do happen. You are somewhat less good at handling your friends' bad days, but fuck if you don't try anyway.
Bad nights, however? Especially of the achingly familiar kind? They prove to be a significantly more intense challenge.
(A remix of callmearcturus' "this is how it works, it feels a little worse" wherein Jake has his first panic attack, and Dirk helps him through it. From Dirk's POV.)
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- Part 2 of The Sleep Cycle
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It's not all that often you get quite this sleep-deprived, but those times you do can make your already shitty life into something near hellish. You don't know how to ask for help, but once in a blue moon, the help gets offered anyway. And you're just too tired to bother pushing him away.
(Jake helps Dirk get some sleep as best he can when they're so far away from each other.)
(Features art!)
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- Part 3 of The Sleep Cycle
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Things are looking up. You and your friends are finally together, in the flesh! Even better, you and Dirk have managed to get past everything standing in your way and are officially an item. Even though you left behind almost all of your possessions when you entered the game, it's worth it, in your opinion. After years of wistful longing, you can actually have everything you want.
Well...almost everything. A major snag in that brilliant plan reveals itself. In reality, the things you want don't just materialize because you want them. And when it comes to Dirk, there are almost always more obstacles to power through.
(Dirk lets Jake sleep in his bed since Jake doesn't have one. Jake gets his hopes up for something more, but instead is forced to puzzle out why Dirk never joins him. Jake is not very patient.)
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- Part 4 of The Sleep Cycle
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When your life was uprooted and you and your friends were transported into the game, literally everything was new. Your surroundings were new, your goals were new, and so were most of your relationships seemingly newly reborn. Like dating Jake. An actual, honest-to-god romantic relationship. You had no fucking idea what you were doing. Cohabitation, romance, and, well...sex.
Just because it was all new and unfamiliar and kind of awkward didn't really curb either of your enthusiasm to try, though. (At least, at first.) And despite the awkwardness, those first few attempts at intimacy with the boy you'd been in love with practically your whole life end up as some of your fondest memories.
(AKA: Dirk and Jake try oral for the very first time.)
--Changed from a potential multi-chapter that never came to be into a oneshot.--
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- Part 5 of The Sleep Cycle