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Red Guy walked down the hallway late at night, he woke up what felt like a few hours ago, and couldn't get back to sleep.

It was mainly because he didn't see Duck in the room, and he wanted to wait for him to come back to finally rest again, only because he just wanted to know he was okay, without having to get up.

The thing that made him get up was the annoyed groans of what sounded like Duck trying to do something in the kitchen, and after a while of hearing the man suffer from whatever he was attempting, Red Guy finally decided to go see what on earth was going on.

"Duck?" Red Guy called out, walking into the kitchen and seeing his boyfriend beside the fridge with something in his hand.

Duck got startled a bit, before looking at Red Guy and relaxing.

"Oh- its you. The other one. Why are you awake?"

"I couldn't sleep to what sounded like you dying."

"I-I'm not dying again, Harry. I just was hungry, and when I looked in the cupboard, the only thing I saw was the family sized Chuddle Dollups, and I thought back to the time we had those twins talk to us, and we realized that family came in all shapes and sizes. I thought that meant I could open the packet by myself, but apparently I can't."

Red Guy just laughed and walked up to him, holding the opposite end of the packet to where he was, as the two opened the packet together.

"We're family. You should of just asked me to help you instead of suffering out here in the cold for 20 minutes."

Duck blushed in embarrassment and mumbled something under his breath.

"I didn't want to wake you up." He stated proudly. Red Guy laughed.

The two sat down and shared the snack.

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"This feels so...strange" Duck said after sitting in silence with Red Guy for some time.

"How come? There's nothing...too unusual happening." 

"That's what it is! There's no weird people coming in and teaching us about something stupid like- Oh I don't know..... eating food at 3am and why it will wreck our sleep schedules!" Duck abruptly replied.

"It doesn't matter if we can't sleep for a day or two after this." His boyfriend replied quietly. Duck didn't say anything so Red continued. 

"I'd much rather be awake and....talking with you." 

"That's very sweet for you to say."

"I've said it before."

The two smiled. Red Guy moved the string out of his face to quickly kiss Duck's cheek, which caused him to laugh quietly to himself.

Then, the two heard their floorboards creak, and Yellow Guy appeared in the doorway.

"What are you doing here?" Duck asked the small child.

Yellow Guy jumped and got scared, and then decided to explain himself.

"Um...I was...I-I just... I wanted some..um...food."

"Oh. We have some Chuddle Dollops here."

"Thank...y-you." 

He walked over and sat on his chair, taking some of the Dollops as well. 

The three wouldn't need to worry about ruining their internal sleep clocks, because they all fell asleep, knowing everyone was safe, and that they wouldn't need to worry about making breakfast the next morning.