AU, Trolls sometimes raise their descendants and the Alphas are some of those descendants. enjoy!
"Kurloz?"
"Mmmph."
"Kurloz wake up!" Kurloz opened his eyes to see Gamzee standing at he base of his recouprecoon, looking up at him.
"What is it?" Kurloz mumbled tiredly. The Troll hated to talk-he'd even added stitches to his makeup design to make a point of it-but Gamzee was only two and a half sweeps old and still learning sign language.
"Can I sleep with you?" the little troll asked.
"Can't you sleep in your own coon?"
"No I'll get nightmares!" he said. "Pleeease?"
Kurloz sighed and nodded, helping lift Gamzee-still clothed in a too-large shirt-into his coon, holding the boy against his chest. Gamzee nuzzled close, purring softly and closing his eyes.
"You gonna do this every time Father is gone for a few days, Little Clown?"
"Only sometimes..." he said, yawning. Gamzee drifted off, lulled to sleep by the sopor slime around him and Kurloz's gentle hold. But before he fell asleep he mumbled one more thing.
"Love you, Brother."
Kurloz rolled his eyes. "Yeah, Love you too, Little Clown. now sleep." And Gamzee did. And after a moment longer so did Kurloz.