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"I have to go!! My patrol is in 15 Minutes!!" Mint protested as the borrower continued to hang from his panties, pouting at him. Mint had been experiencing one of the busiest months of his life. Hopper wasn't exactly privy to the details--something about a rift to the feywild tearing or something--because when Mint finally returned home from his missions in the dead of night, the paladin would immediately pass out as he'd soon be forced to leave his home in a matter of hours.

This left Hopper, understandably, upset. Not necessarily because Hopper was left alone for days and days with little contact from Mint whatsoever, but watching the paladin run himself ragged was hard to sit by and observe. Hopper knew he couldn't stop Mint from performing his duties, but at the very least he wanted to be there to comfort him, if only slightly. 

Thus led to this morning's debacle. As Mint rolled out of bed around 4 in the morning or so, Hopper was awake and waiting for him. He demanded Mint take him on today's patrol, to which Mint immediately scoffed at, brushing him aside. He was used to these sorts of requests from Hopper, and knew he'd drop it relatively quickly. 

However this morning was different. As Mint reached for his underwear, Hopper grabbed the other end, pulling at it and insisting Mint take him along with him. Mint lifted his panties into the air with Hopper still clinging to them, before giving them a light shake and causing Hopper to fall back onto the bed. Trying to quickly get back on track, Mint hiked his underwear up his legs and around his waist, before walking to his dresser and rummaging through it.

While distracted, Hopper quickly scaled the dresser with ease and leapt from one of its knobs, gripping the waistband of Mint's panties and causing them to slide down from around his shaft and hang midway down to his balls. Thus we enter the scene above.

Hopper was quickly snatched up by Mint, the paladin now growing annoyed with him as Hopper's antics continued. "The hell is wrong with you today?! I don't have time for this, so drop it, Hopper." Mint demanded as he tossed the borrower over to his bed once more, quickly grabbing a tunic from his dresser and slipping it on. 

Hopper's cheeks puffed in anger as Mint continued to ignore his pleas, the paladin bending down and pulling up his stockings. Hopper took a running start and leapt off of Mint's bed and straight into the paladin's tights as he tugged them up around his butt. He jumped in surprise as he felt an unexpected passenger within, quickly reaching down the back and yanking the borrower out.

"Enough, Hopper!!!" Mint shouted, glaring at the little borrower in his hand. "I don't have time to play with you, I can't just take a day off cuz you're horny or whatever!! I have to do my job!" He snapped, causing Hopper's own face to grow red with both embarrassment and anger.

"That's not what this is about at all!!" Hopper protested. "I just wanna be there for you!! Look at you!!" He yelled back, Mint's brow furrowing in confusion and annoyance. "You're getting no sleep, you're barely eating, you're burning yourself out!! If you're not gonna take a break, I wanna at least be able to be there for you!!"

Mint sneered at the sentiment, turning his face away as his cheeks flushed red and he placed Hopper on the dresser. "I don't need the comfort, what I need is to get to my job already." Mint brushed the borrower's concerns off, moving back to his bed and pulling on his boots.

"Why won't you let me help you!?" Hopper shouted from the dresser, Mint bristling at his wording and glaring at him, causing Hopper's heart to stop momentarily. The borrower immediately grew anxious in his posture, hugging himself as his body turned away from Mint's gaze.

"I don't need your help--or anyone's help. Just drop it." Mint huffed as he pulled his other boot on and stood up from his bed. "I'll see you tonight." Mint finished as he grabbed his scythe and quickly stormed out of the room, leaving the borrower alone once more.

Hopper slumped to the floor as he clenched his hands, his face flushed in frustration as he tried to hold back tears. Another day all alone. He could only hope that Mint would come back okay, and this would all end sooner rather than later.....