Fully finishing this chapter I suspect will take awhile (don't ask how long, because I can never guess), so in the meantime, here's what I got down so far. Enjoy! (I'm not using the Author's Notes box for this because anything I type in there doesn't show up; I don't know if anyone else has that problem when and if they work on their stories on an iPhone.)
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Okay, almost an hour later and Sil was still asleep. He had begun snoring again about a minute after I said how much time he had left to catch up on sleep, and it had continued ever since. I couldn't blame him though; after what happened last night, it didn't surprise me that he wanted to catch up on lost sleep time. I would've woken him up twenty minutes ago if he didn't look so contented.
I wondered if he was dreaming, and if so, what about.
"I take it he had a nightmare last night?"
I looked up to see Raven walk in, still looking partially asleep.
"Yeah." I filled him in. "I've had at least a few myself, but that was the first time I comforted someone else about it."
The black bat pony smiled as he walked over.
"Well it looks like you did a great job." He said. "It's been awhile since the last time I saw him sleep this heavily."
I glanced down at the colt that slept in my lap.
"Well I was going to start figuring out breakfast at 7:30, but this has been making it hard." I said back. "I don't think I can get up without waking him."
Raven raised a forehoof to his muzzle in thought.
"... I think I know how to solve this." He spoke after mulling it over. "But from my experience there's a 50-50 chance of it actually working."
"Never hurts to try, though." I pointed out, receiving a nod in return.
"Hey little bro." Raven spoke softly while giving Sil a few gentle nudges. "You need to wake up."
Shifting slightly, the blue colt yawned sleepily and slowly opened one eye, which focused on his older brother.
"You just need to move and then you can go right back to sleep." Raven continued in the same soft volume. "Zach needs to make breakfast."
Sil's open eye drifted back closed.
"But I'm comfortable here..." He murmured.
Raven looked at me as if to say "any other ideas?"
"... I understand that, but you still need to move." I said softly, only for the colt to mumble sleepily and wrap his forelegs around my right arm, clearly not intent on letting me go.
I looked at Raven to say "what now?"
He paused, before a sly smile appeared on his muzzle. Gently climbing onto the couch, he leaned in close to me and whispered:
"Pyra and I have a last resort method of getting him up; I can do it myself, but you're more than welcome to join in."
My curiosity piqued as the black bat pony moved a forehoof over his brother's exposed left side, hovering a couple of inches below the base of his wings, just below the point the edges stopped covering his back. He winked at me before digging his hoof into Sil's side and wiggling it wildly, causing the blue colt to burst into a fit of uncontrollable giggling.
I admit, at the time, I had no idea he had ticklish sides.
"C-cut tha-at out-t!" Sil managed to say despite his giggling.
"Not until you get up, buddy!" Raven replied with a grin on his face.
Surprisingly managing to keep his forelegs wrapped firmly around my arm, Sil rolled onto his left side in an attempt to curb the tickles, only to expose his right side. Unable to stop myself from grinning at the sight, I joined in, turning the colt's giggles into full-blown laughter.
"O-kay-y!" He said after a few seconds of futilely attempting to push us away. "I'll-l m-o-ove!"
Both Raven and I stopped, letting the blue colt stretch himself out before he moved off my lap and laid back down in front of his smiling brother while closing his eyes once again.
"So is there anything in particular you'd like me to make?" I asked Raven.
"If you have the ingredients and it's not too much trouble, some blueberry pancakes would be nice." The black bat pony said while laying down and draping a wing over his brother's back.
"Comin' right up." I replied while entering the kitchen.