Layering

Date/Timing: March 2016
Setting: Jones-Lin suite, Jaeger Academy; Kodiak, USA
Come Day Four of Life with Novices, Jackson doesn't wake up to the sound of their alarm. 
Nooooooo, he wakes up to the sound of two novices shivering and humming happily.
"Th' fuck?"
""The post came,"" Chao coos.
Jackson rolls over, peers into the washroom. "'re you guys okay?"
"We're waaaarm," hums Feng.
At least Jackson /thinks the housecoat's Feng.
"We gotta run today?" yawns Logan.
"Fifteen minutes," says the housecoat.
Presumably there's a human in there.
"Loo's mine," mutters Logan, drops his sorry ass out of bed, scopes out the washroom, leans on a mound of jumpers, hops over the camp stove, and slams the door to the toilet.
When the Curtains finally show up at the running track, neither are wearing their robes.
"I feel naked," whines Feng in what must be three jumpers and four layers of trousers.
"We were not to wear our robes today," says Chao. "We are fine." 
"You sure don't look it," Logan points out.
Chao ignores him, doesn't look any better.
"I will still figure out the draping," promises Feng. "I see no reason why I cannot wear both."
When he does—near the end of classes—and when he notices how miserable the fucking blizzard outside's made Jackson, Feng sits down on the bunk so close beside him their shoulders brush, unpins his shawl, and drapes the cloth around Jackson's shoulders.
"This is really weird."
"I have heard 'weird' in cartoons," replies Feng, tugging the heavy wool free of crumples, "but the context was almost always different so I could never quite figure out what it meant."
He tucks the end into Jackson's blanket and burrows into his jumpers.
Jackson sighs, huddles closer, returns to his problem sets.
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