#borrower!karl

"Sapnap, c'mere!" The ravenette yelled in excitement, the shorter was practically bouncing off the walls as Sapnap entered the room. The brunette scoffed as he playfully rolled his eyes as he waited for the other to speak. A mischievous(and overly proud) grin was placed on the shorters face as he began to speak.

"I got a new job for us~" He grinned widely as he brought out a poster, "They're showcasing the Dumontè Crystal in this museum. That crystal is worth a lot. If we can figure out a way to steal it and sell it without it having to trace it back to us, we'll be set for life!"

Sapnap chuckled as he took the poster from the shorters hands and began examining it, "Yo we could certainly pull this off." Before Sapnap could praise Quackity on his findings a rather loud and exaggerated sigh came from beside them.

"No chance you guys can even get close to getting that."

Karl

Karl was a borrower they picked up a while back, the criminal duo never understood having borrowers as pets or food—Neither of them wanting to eat anything alive—so when they found the tiny brunette on one of their little escapades, they decided to just bring him along with them.

Now the borrower was sitting on their countertop, eating large amounts of sweets. As he continued to degrade their chances of ever pulling off the mission.

"Even if I joined you guys on this mission again, their security in protecting that crystal is like top tier!" Karl said as he waved his hands around, "I've heard of their security measures, apparently people died, trying to get in." He explained as he grabbed a handful of cotton candy. The two humans were taken aback at the borrower's knowledge of the topic.

Quackity grinned as he leaned against the counter, "Seems like you know alot about this thing, I'm sure we'll get it if you come with us-" The shorter brunette rolled his eyes as he stared at the ravenette. "I literally just said it wouldn't work." As the words left his mouth, Sapnap butted in the conversation. "Karl, I bet those other thieves that tried stealing it were uninformed. And plus, we all know you're gonna join for the thrill anyway."

The tiny chuckled as he agreed, "Fine, I'll help you idiots-" Quackity and Sapnap let out a short 'whoop' as they high-fived each other. Then Sapnap scooped up the borrower, and they headed to their room to begin their plan.

The trio worked on their scheme the entire night until they all passed out at sunrise. Even if the two humans were tired as hell, neither got a wink of sleep.

(Why does this tiny have to sleepwalk!?)

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A few weeks have passed since they started planning, weeks of preparation and thinking of every possible outcome that would come from their actions—they even have time to make an entirely new fit for Karl, which the borrower greatly appreciated—After months of Karl living with the two criminals, he certainly picked up a few tricks.

The trio worked during the weeks of their planning, each working to perfect their respective roles for the mission—albeit with a few mishaps, they all deemed themselves ready.

The day arrived when they would pull off their heist. It was the day the crystal was showcasing, and there definitely will be more security, but on the other hand, more distractions. The trio stood a good distance away from the event as they went over their plan.

"Okay so- once I and Karl sneak in and disable the cameras, you and I go and snatch it," Quackity affirmed as he wrapped his hand around the borrower and hoisted him up to his pocket. Sapnap gave the shorter a nod as he watched the duo hop down to the next building.

The ravenette and brunette both carefully neared the building—albeit Quackity did most of the work—a sea of people assisted them in blending in, of course giving a bit of struggle, Quackity maneuvered through the crowd eventually reaching a backdoor.

It was Karl's turn to weigh in. The borrower slid down under the door, climbing his way to unlock the door. The borrower mustered up his strength and began to turn the lock. Immediately, the door was flung open, the tiny almost flying off if it wasn't for his grip on the handle.

"Oh shit- sorry." Quackity sputtered out as he grabbed the borrower and abruptly shut the door. The duo began to navigate their way through the building. Hiding away from security that was guarding the parameters.

Quackity was able to snag the keys—which were properly labeled—from one of the passing guards. He browsed through the keys. Once he picked the right one, he clicked open the door, and they both sneaked in.

Weirdly enough, there was no guard in the security room. The raven-haired male got to work as he hacked the systems. He replayed the security tape so they wouldn't be spotted as they slyly sneaked around the facility. As Quackity typed the last bit of code, he grabbed his comms and messaged Sapnap.

"Okay, Karl, from here on out, it'll be me and Sap." The taller grinned as he placed Karl in his pocket, the borrower crouched and waited for further news.

Every noise outside the pocket was muffled, it oddly soothed him, just enough that he didn't even realize he fell asleep. The last sounds he heard were the vague voices of Sapnap and Quackity.

He jolted awake once he felt the pocket jostled, he immediately panicked as he was violently thrown around the minimal space. He could hear a faint voice call out 'sorry', followed with a few hushed curses and screams. He thrashed around his arms, desperate to grab onto something to keep himself stable. He grabbed a handful of the fabric.

The borrower was clearly still shaking, hr held his ground as he felt everything come to a stop albeit with a bit of shuffling about. Light peeked in as the pocket was opened, Karl jumped to poke his head out.

"Karl, you okay?" Sapnap spoke as he gripped the steering wheel. The borrower climbed out of the patch and turned his head to the taller ravenette. "Y-Yeah? Just a lil dizzy." He chuckled. The brunette turned his head to look at the crystal in Quackity's palm.

"Woah- that looks so cool!" Karl stares, mesmerized at the crystal. "So, how do you plan on selling it?" He asks curiously, Sapnap hummed as he gave an answer. "I got this buddy of mine. He's the top mafia boss in probably the whole world, and he's willing to pay a pretty penny to get his hands on it." He grinned as Karl gave him a noise of approval. "However, he's currently out of country, and considering this crystal is one of a kind, he wants to see it firsthand, so we'll have to keep it for the time being."

The road was no longer smooth, it was a telltale sign they were nearing their cabin, the borrower almost fell over, yet he caught himself. As the car began pulling up to the driveway Sapnap scooped up the borrower and placed him on his shoulder(truth be told Karl was way too comfortable in letting them drag him around.)

The three let out a sigh of relief as they stepped into their humble abode. Quackity instantly went to place the crystal in a secure place, which was oddly enough an intricately designed box. The ravenette cautiously dropped the crystal in the cushioned box.

The trio decided to head to bed, not even bothering to wash up. The velvety dark skies overlooked the forest as the moon glowed, bright and powerful. As the three slept soundly that night, something was askew with the presence of such a mythical crystal in an untamed area.

Hidden within the box, the crystal shimmered and glowed. It began to vibrantly shake as smoke was emitting from it. None of the residents were aware of the matter; as they preferred to collect their well-earned sleep.

They subtly inhaled the fumes, unaware that they even did so. It was only till the very next morning when they all startled awake and screamed in unison.

"What the h-"

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There weren't many borrowers in the smp, not that Karl knew of at least. He had met one when L'manburg was still standing, but since then he's only seen those big things. Streamers they called themselves, Karl had gotten into the habit of watching them more than he really needed to. One that particularly interested him was an avian hybrid named Quackity. Karl was sitting on top of a chest watching Quackity pace around his office shuffling papers in his hands. The borrower couldn't really explain why he enjoyed watching this streamer. Maybe it was the little jokes he'd make that always got a laugh out of Karl, or how he rambled on about the most random of things, or maybe it was that fluttering Karl felt in his stomach when he could see Quackity's smile. Karl shook those thoughts from his head, he had already borrowed what he needed from the chests, he needed to get back home. As Karl stood to leave a loud screech rang out causing the borrower to jump and lose his balance, sending him falling off of the chest he was on. Karl braced himself for a harsh impact but was surprised when he landed in something softer, cloth, Karl looked up to find himself in the hood of Quackity's coat. "What the fuck was that?!" Quackity exclaimed, Karl ducked down thinking he was caught when he heard the door swing open. "Quackity you'll never believe what I found!" A second voice called out "Was it that weird ass screaming??? That scared the shit out of me! What the fuck did you find?" Karl felt the giant hybrid's footsteps swaying his coat hood "So I was out mining when I see this weird moss, I go to investigate, my vision goes dark, and I hear this!" Karl covered his ears as the screech sounded a second time, much louder than before. "Yeah that doesn't tell me what it is," Quackity said "and honestly we should talk about this new find later, Foolish, I need to get home before I lose my mind," the second streamer, Foolish, laughed at the comment "This Kinoko deal is really getting to you, isn't it. Well, you go rest, Quackity, I'll finish up as much paperwork I can, see you soon?"  Quackity let out a relieved sigh "Thanks Foolish, I'll see you soon," Karl felt the avian begin walking again and ducked further into the hood in an attempt to stay hidden as Quackity walked past the other streamer and out of the office. Karl was about to jump out and escape when he felt his world quickly shift as the casino owner pulled his hood up over his head, spilling the borrower over his shoulder. "The fuck was tha- ah!"Quackity exclaimed, staring at the borrower, both of them frozen in place. Karl broke the silence first "HEY HOT STUFF COME HERE OFTEN" he blurted out, cringing as he realized what he just said. But to his surprise, Quackity laughed, a soft but genuine laugh that didn't seem to come from nerves or awkwardness, Karl felt his cheeks heat up noticing that this streamer looked really cute when he laughed. He was about to follow up his panicked flirting when Quackity sighed "I'm leaving," he said, cupping his hand around Karl and swiftly yet carefully setting him on the ground "I've dealt with enough I'm not going any crazier until Monday." He said, walking towards the exit of the building. Karl stood there, dumbfounded as he watched Quackity leave, it took Karl much longer than it should've to go back to his home in the walls. And much longer than that to get any sleep that night.

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Luck seemed to have never been on Karl's side. When he was little, his parents decided to leave him to his own devices and left, leaving the little 4-year-old borrower alone.

A few days later, he was found by a colony of borrowers who lived in the same building. They decided to take care of him since he was still a child but when he was 15 years old, they kicked him out of the colony.

They said that he was no good at being a borrower and that he was just a little scum who didn't know how to borrow properly. He ended up spending five years living alone in another part of that same building, eventually having to leave after being seen by one of the human residents. He found a house but only lived there for about three years.

He was seen again by the human of the house and had no choice but to have to leave again. That was how he ended up in the situation he found himself in.

Karl was running in an alley trying to avoid a rat that had decided to attack him. The rat managed to knock him down, placing its paws on his chest with its claws digging into him.

Karl let out a small cry of pain, causing the animal to sink its claws deeper into his chest. He nearly passed out from the pain when he heard. “”Hey!” "Get out of here! You can hunt other things!” two different voices that made the rat run away leaving Karl lying there.

He looked up for a moment seeing two humans staring at him. Karl began to shake with fear, he had been told many horrible things that humans did to borrowers like him. "Hey... you're going to be fine, we're not going to hurt you." The one with the blue beanie said softly, as he slowly crouched down next to Karl.

Karl let out a small yelp of fear as the other human fell beside the one in the blue beanie. "We can see that he's so scared... I'm going to see if changing the size relaxes him." commented the dark-haired man in the white bandana. 'Resize? What did he mean?' he thought, confused by the human's words. Suddenly the black-haired human shrunk to the size of the borrower.

Karl was puzzled by what he saw. Until a few seconds ago the dark-haired man was the size of a human and now he was about Karl's height. "H-how did you do that?" he asked, less afraid now as one of the humans was no longer looming over him. "It's an ability I have from birth, I can change size whenever I want." he answered as he approached the injured borrower.

"But now let's focus on you, are you okay?" Karl nodded softly, directing his gaze at the human in the blue beanie. "Don't worry about Quackity, he won't hurt you." "You're sure?" Karl asked, doubting the dark-haired man's words a little.

"Completely. By the way, I'm Sapnap and this is my fiancé Quackity, what about you? What's your name? Sapnap said, unable to bear the excitement of meeting a borrower. “M-My name is Karl…” he replied feeling a bit dizzy, passing out soon after. Sapnap tried to pick Karl up but failed. Quackity giggled reaching up to the two tinies.

“Sapnap, do you mind if I store you both? I have no pockets and you are probably too tired to change sizes again.” Quackity said, bringing the little ones closer to his face. Sapnap nodded, stretching a little. "Yeah, I don't mind and if at any time he wakes up I will try my best to calm him down."

Quackity nodded and gently opened his mouth, slowly tilting his hand so that both tinies slipped inside. Once they were in his mouth, he slowly closed it, beginning to lick them both.

Once they were completely covered in saliva, he leaned his head back and gently swallowed Karl first. He could feel Sapnap fighting his tongue and he smacked Sapnap across the face with it, chuckling.

Finally Quackity pushed Sapnap to the back of his mouth and swallowed him. He couldn't help but purr as he felt him squirm down his throat, entering the storage soon after. "Make yourself comfortable Sap, it will take a while to get back home." he said with a small purr as Sapnap gave him a confirming pat.

The three borrowers had never considered themselves at much risk in their current home. Most borrowers tended to live in homes where there were few people and easy things to steal, but these three lived in a store. None would attempt to live in a place with so many humans and so many places that were just straight up hard to get around without being seen. But then again, most borrowers didn’t live in groups of three, and almost none got along as well as Karl, Quackity, and Sapnap did. Scaling shelves and quickly snatching things before someone saw became a lot easier when you had one boyfriend to help pull you up a shelf while the other distracted a human from turning your way. It became an art to the three fiancé’s, and they were content to live like that.

Until Sapnap slept in one day, and Karl and Quackity wanted to go borrowing quickly before he woke up.

It had been a simple plan, they only wanted to grab a small pack of thin mints and be on their way, but they weren’t careful enough. It had been the three of them for so long that Karl and Quackity didn’t know what to do without Sapnap helping them. And unfortunately for them, it was always Sapnap’s job to distract the humans away from them, and now that they didn’t have him with them, they were seen fairly quickly.

Which led to their current situation: stuck in a human’s zippered coat pocket as said human quickly tried to check out their groceries so they could take what they had caught home for further investigation. The tinies clung to each other, both shaking in fear as Karl quietly sobbed and Quackity screamed curses in Spanish as he kicked the zipper in a weak attempt to reopen the entrance. Soon, though, they felt themselves moving, as well as hearing the light ding of the door as it was opened and the human walked out of the store and began to mutter to himself quietly about what he had found and about how “small and fragile they were” and “how did they even survive in the store” and “are there more” and probably most concerning “I should probably get a cage or something to keep them in...”

They felt their hearts break: they’d never be able to go home. They’d never see Sapnap again and he’d have no idea what happened to them. They’d become meager pets to this human and never be treated as people again. They were so lost in thought that they didn’t even notice when the person stopped walking. They heard him speak again, this time considerably louder, so the borrowers assumed the human must be talking to someone.

“Hello?”

All of a sudden they were falling. They couldn’t stop the scared strangled yell that they both let out at the feeling of the world shifting around them as the human hit the ground.

“Hey, what gives man?!” They heard the human shout. They didn’t hear a response from the other person the human was talking to before they began to be shaken roughly in the pocket, grabbing each other in a futile attempt to stop smacking into the walls. The human who’s pocket they were in seemed to fight back until a loud slap was heard from above and the fighting ceased. Karl and Quackity squeezed their eyes shut as the pocket began to open and the other human took them out. This human grabbed them significantly gentler than the other had done before, setting them on what they presumed to be his other hand and opening his palms, leaving them to sit on their own free will as they felt themselves be slowly lowered as he sat down.

“Are you both ok?” They heard the human ask quietly, the voice broken and laced with concern. Karl’s eyes shot open hearing the voice. Quackity instinctively relaxed hearing it, the positive memories of it soothing him and making him laugh coming into his head, though he still kept his eyes shut. There was no way, it just wasn’t possible. His brain must’ve been tricking him to sooth his broken heart, trying to make him feel safe when he wasn’t. It wasn’t until he heard Karl crying that he opened his eyes.

Above him was Sapnap, staring at him with tears forming in his eyes. Giant. He sat cross legged against a wall, holding his two fiancé’s at roughly eye level. Out of the corner of his eye Quackity could see Karl looking back up to their now giant fiancé, tears streaming down his face with his hands over his mouth.

Taking the time to look around, Quackity saw that they were in an alley, and the human who had kidnapped them was lying on the ground unconscious with what looked like a broken nose. One quick look to Sapnap’s bloodied knuckles confirmed Q’s suspicion that he did it, and in turn was the one that saved him and Karl from whatever fate they would have met with that human.

Sapnap didn’t rush them, he let his boyfriends try to think through what was happening on their own pace. He hated that he had to show them like this. He knew they were scared of humans, all borrowers were. Hell, even Sapnap was scared of humans, though the fear dwindled when he was the same size as them, but as a child he was still taught the “humans are bad and will kill you” lessons, same as all borrowers. Which is why it was so hard for him to accept that he was a sizeshifter. And now he was here, having woken up alone, left to find his boyfriends (begrudgingly at human height to make the job a bit easier), seen someone at the self checkout with something squirming and yelling “fuck you” in Spanish in his pocket and had figured it out pretty quickly after that. And worse yet, both Quackity and Karl had undoubtedly felt the man get beat up, and they must’ve known it was Sapnap, they weren’t idiots. He just hoped that this wouldn’t scare them away. He didn’t know what he’d do without them...

“Sapnap?” Karl asked quietly, breaking the awkward tension and Sapnap’s train of thought. The now human sized borrower didn’t know how to answer, so he just smiled and nodded slightly. Karl immediately began crying again in tears of joy as he hugged Sapnaps thumb, making the sizeshifter chuckle and smile wider.

Quackity had finally managed to get over himself once he saw Karl hug the giants thumb and he heard Sapnap’s laugh.

“Wait wait wait-“ Quackity laughed slightly in anxiety trying to piece together the situation “It’s actually you. Why..Why are you huge? What the actual fuck happened to you?!”

Sapnap looked from Karl to Quackity, who stood up and made direct eye contact, trying to act braver than he really felt. Sapnap pretended not to notice how rigid Quackity stood and how scared he clearly was. So far, even with Quackity being a bit on edge, he was still talking to him, so this was already a better response than he expected from the two. He finally got to tell them everything. Explaining what a sizeshifter was was a bit difficult, but both of his fiancé’s payed attention as he spoke, their fear dwindled farther the longer he spoke. Karl and Quackity both knew they were safe; they were with Sapnap after all. They knew he loved them.

“...I’m sorry for not telling you sooner. I didn’t want you to be afraid of me.” Sapnap admitted, head hung low in shame.

“Why would we be afraid of you?” Quackity asked.

“Yeah, you’re you, size doesn’t change that.” Karl agreed.

Sapnap looked back up to his fiancé’s, who both sat on his hands with smiling. He stared in shock for a minute before laughing to himself.

“Thanks. That means a lot to me, guys. I was honestly afraid you were gonna break up with me...” he trailed off, desperately trying not to make eye contact.

“Aw, why would we do that?” Karl said, waking up to Sapnap and giving him a tiny kiss on the nose, to which Sapnap responded by laughing and kissing Karl, his lips covering the borrowers chest as Karl let out a playful yell of disgust and Quackity laughed at him.

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