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With her op jinki I can imagine how physically taxing it must be for her to constantly use her hands to help so many people DAILY and the strain/numbness her jinki must cause on her joints/muscles (bc no way electricity passing through your body borderline 24/7 isn’t going to do smth physically like working out too much) If she didn’t have August she’d prob be running on fumes more.

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But obv August can’t be there for her all the time so on nights where it’s jankshia hang out sessions they’d notice something is off with her. Seeing how fatigued she’s been lately, wincing a lot when her hands cramp up, and just generally being a lot more quiet than she usually is with them.

With Zanka I think he starts to help her not by hovering, but checking in on her when he can and making sure she’s actually eating something substantial + cursing out Telling people to give her a break if they’re giving her a hard time for not healing them faster cause I feel the fandom forgets there’s a whole variety of people in the cleaners, it’s a community and not all of them have great personalities.

While with Jabber it gets more complicated with him being a raider yk it’s easier with Janka to go out see each other bc of their respective roles but Eishia’s responsibilities makes it look weird if she’s out in uniform without anyone with her bc of her being too crucial to the cleaners. But if there’s a will there’s a way with Jabber like throwing rocks at her window like a dork to pull her away from her working on charts/studying some nights for them to go out. Then again with Eishia being one of the most important players in the cleaners during daytime I like to think he’d spend a lot of their time in her room on days off going back and forth about venoms and poisons, man-made and abt the creatures on the ground.

I do also like to think Zanka knows how to hit certain pressure points to relieve stress so he’d sit in front of her in bed to massage her hands during a late night slumber party (after they trap her into their plan + he’s given this treatment to Jabber too after much convincing) while also kissing the inside of both her palms with whispered praises towards her and to Type: Heal. Telling her how much of a backbone she is for the cleaners and how she works so hard for them that it’s only right he gives back that effort with appreciation 10 fold. (Yes I’m a “yearner/secretly physically affectionate when brought out of him” Zanka believer.)

Let him lean into Eishia and nuzzle into her neck where Type: Heal is still wrapped around and thank them both for taking such good care of him and Jabber before trailing light kisses up her neck to her cheek where he can feel how hot her face is from all the praise and affection.

Meanwhile Jabber is sitting behind her, slipping his hands up her shirt to rub his thumbs lightly against her sides affectionately. Moving up slowly just barely underneath her chest and more on her ribcage before going right back to her waist. Lightly biting at her ears as she tries to lean away from Zanka to get a quick breather not only because of how hot she’s getting but from struggling to really accept his words.

But this only gave Jabber more leeway to nibble on the other side of her neck where Zanka isn’t giving light kisses. Also giving Type: Heal some attention by lightly letting his teeth graze over the cord, sending a shiver running down her spine as she sharply inhaled. With her free hand that’s not in Zanka’s grasp immediately slapping onto his wrist as she grips it shakily. Not to stop him but to ground herself, even if it’s hopeless.

Jabber would be uncharacteristically silent only because he’s letting Zanka speak what they both feel towards her as he’s not the soft type with his words or feelings. But he likes hearing the sound of Zanka’s voice speaking in a low tone. Especially when he watches the effect it has on their little healer as she’s now starting to squirm a bit. Making him only hold her a little tighter with Mankira pressing into her sides as he watches Zanka follow after Eishia to press his lips against hers in a slow kiss.

He’d feel how fast her heart’s fluttering beneath her ribs with his hands as the kiss grew deeper as Zanka bit her bottom lip causing her to gasp into his mouth, his hands still continuing to massage her hand up to her elbow. Although, Jabber really couldn’t resist his namesake to whisper into her ear about her reactions, from how her hands are trembling to how attractive she looks kissing Mr Bad Attitude. Borderline teasing her about how much of an effect their bad boy has on her, but also how much the both of them are effecting him too. Thoroughly embarrassing her further, yet his words still sent shivers down her spine.

This would continue for a while until Eishia’s completely melted into a puddle of mushy feelings, making Zanka pull back as she whispered both their names in a heavy daze. Moving the hand gripping onto Jabber’s wrist to go up and instead hold onto his neck as he’s currently starting to leave proper hickeys on her own. Getting ahead of himself after hearing his name in her breathless state along with her tilting her head more to the side to give him room. But Zanka would end up having to pull hard on his ear to reel him back as the raider whined, not from the pain, but from being interrupted.

“Zankaaa- why’d ya do that! Things were finally picking up. ”

Zanka in response would roll his eyes before speaking through gritted teeth.

“We can’t do much else tonight dummy, did ya forget? Me an' her got shit ta do tomorrow.”

Jabber smacked his teeth, “That’s some bullshit. Don’t act like you’re not giddy either, your face is redder than hers.”

True. But Zanka also pointed out Jabbers red face too and soon they both started to bicker and push each others shoulders before Eishia clumsily smacked both her hands onto of their faces. Stopping them from turning their scuffle into a whole wrestle match as she looked as them with the patience of a saint. Still frazzled but focused enough to pause their shenanigans.

“I-If you guys fight someone will hear! I’m sorry Jabber, maybe next time…”

His shoulders sagged as he started to pout some more, but before he could complain again Zanka moved his hand still pinching Jabbers ear to grab his chin. Leaning over Eishia to give him a quick kiss, not rough like the usual one’s, but something sweet. Which caught the raider completely off guard before Zanka pushed both him and an amused Eishia down playfully into his pillows. Rolling over onto Jabbers other side since it’s his turn to be in the middle this sleepover.

“I swear I feel like I’m the bad guy sometimes even though I’m keeping us on track. You both get so easily carried away.”

“Oh suuure like 2 weeks ago you weren’t trynna rationalize staying a couple more hours in my hideout—”

I don’t think Zanka would be aware of her situation too because well him and Jabber ain’t exactly the emotional talkative type and he’s also the type to be stuck in his own head and she wouldn’t want to bother anyone with this anyway even if it feels like nails are scratching at her insides.

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It wouldn’t be until Jabber actually sneaks to her room late at night, not the one in HQ but where she lives with her grandma and brother, is when she’s genuinely confused. Usually all three are together in Zanka’s room until she has to leave early for work, so why is Jabber here? Un-injured too. (Also how did he even find where she lived in the first place—) Jabber being Jabber would walk in like he owns the place, already dressed in comfortable clothing as he left his lantern and bag that he brought with him on her nightside table and tell her it’s “Sleepover time!!” Pulling her away from her desk full of notes and different textbooks about poison and medicine. She’d protest a little, still dazed from the scare he gave her sneaking through her window along with her tiredness kicking in from studying so late. Until they both tumbled into her bed after his knees hit the side of it is when she’d prop herself up off his chest, straddling him to look down at him and his cheeky expression and ask;

“Wh-what are you doing here? Don’t you want to be at HQ? Zanka’s there—”

At that her mouth shuts abruptly. Jabber’s face would go from looking playful to amused watching her face turn red and bashfully look away. “Zanka said he’s currently getting ready to go on a boring mission. Place is in the north ward so they’re heading out early- hmm actually, late. Depending on how you look it!”

“Anyways, I asked about you and he said you’re staying here tonight so why not hang with you! I always have my one on one time with him when we fight, I can’t just neglect my girl either.”

My girl…My girl.

It’s as if her insecurities still whispering in her ears immediately fell silent as she looked back into his knowing eyes, always so perceptive. She could feel her whole body heat up at the claim in his voice, admiring the way his long locs splayed out across her sheets. He’s too beautiful for her to just stay leaning over him as she let out a shaky breath and lowered herself down closer to his face.

At this Jabber would go a little rigid especially with the undeniable affection in her gaze that he’s still weirded out by. But at her hesitance to close the distance he’d trail his hand up her back over the soft fabric of her night clothes to cup the back of her head. Watching her tremble slightly as he ran his fingers through her hair before pulling her down for a chaste kiss. Originally wanting to go her pace but it was actually Eishia who grew more confident and tilted her head to deepen the kiss, much to Jabbers surprise.

He could feel himself shiver at the gentle touch of her hands coming up to cup his face before the kiss grew more hungry. Something more in his lane which is what immediately had Jabber abruptly sitting up and pulling her away by the shoulders. His face unusually red as he breathed heavily with a wobbly smile. He looks like he got electrocuted while Eishia stared at him flustered, growing a little self conscience until he started to laugh.

“O-K. We gotta sleep now. If we don’t we’ll both be late, you’re getting me too excited Doc!” He whined, hugging her before wriggling them both around wildly as she giggled into his shoulder. He turned to pull out his long bonnet from his bag laying on her nightstand to put on with some help from Eishia to fit all his locs in quickly before arranging them to be tucked into bed finally getting comfortable.

“Jabber?”

“Hm?”

“…Thanks, for seeing me and everything.”

“It’s cool baby, tomorrow night I’ll let you in on my newest concoction for Zan Zan but you’ll have to figure out what’s in it!~”

One way is him knowing they like her and simply has a chat one on one saying he has trust in Eishia’s choice in love and he’s not going to go crazy (esp after the watered down explanation of how these three got together and her own confession on how she loves them both deeply) but if they ever hurt her in anyway he’s not going to let that slide. He sees the effect they have on her confidence and while he might not completely be on board there’s no way he’s going to break his baby sister’s heart like that.

Another thing, I don’t think Eishia would even LET him try and fist fight these two dorks or say anything genuinely offensive because she’ll be upset with August about that and I like to think that’d be the first time for Jabber and Zanka to see Eishia genuinely mad. She’d stand between them and August and tell him off because with family it’s a lot easier to express yourself and while Eishia’s family is loud and very opposite personalities to her they aren’t toxic (cough cough Nijikus) so she’s able to speak up just never needed to until now bc it’s not for her behalf but for people she genuinely loves so it’s especially striking.