I have no explanation for this, other than the petstuck fairy has hit me hard ;w; Enjoy! :3 edit: had to switch this to second person rather than third, gah DX it's not as good as the original but it'll work!

Scritch scritch scritch.

Eridan Ampora woke up to the sound of scratching. He groaned and turned about in his silky, giant-ass royal purple bed to see that it was nearly one o'clock in the morning. Oh good god. One. In. The. Goddamn. Morning. This was bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. He rolled over and was just drifting off again-only to hear that noise and jolt back into consciousness.

Scritch scritch scritch.

Whatever the hell that was was gonna pay for interrupting his beauty sleep.

It was gonna pay.

He groaned again and reluctantly got up, pulling his robe over his sea-horse patterned boxers, and tromped down the stairs, a scowl on his face. The noise was much louder here and he pinpointed the source-it was something at the door.

Scritch scritch scritch.

"Calm dow-wn, w-will you! I'm comin'!" His voice wavered in its weird way it did whenever there was a 'w' in a word. He also pronounced his 'v's as 'w's. He didn't know why he sounded like that, but he guessed it was genetic or something, because he couldn't control it at all. With a huff he pulled the door open. "W-Who the hell are you and w-what do you w-want, it's the middle of the night and I w-was Sleepin'-" Eridan cut off when he saw his midnight visitor.

It was a troll.

A troll.

Those adorable little things people were obsessing over.

It was on his doorstep.

The little thing had two tails, a blue one and a red one. Its eyes were blue and red too, much to Eridan's surprise. Its clothes were much too big for it, they were hanging off its skinny frame and it looked like it tripped over them on its way because it was covered in mud and water from the rain. It had yellow ears and-holy shit, were those bruises? Oh good god, it was covered in mustard-colored bruises. This pitiful thing hurt his chest to look at.

He slammed the door shut and leaned against it.

Oh good god, you can't raise a troll, you can't let that filthy scrap of shit into your pristine house, it'll get dirt all over the place! No, no, no, no, no! You're not going to open that door, no no no, you're not going to open it-

Eridan hear sniffling, and his heart shattered.

Oh god, Eridan, you ass, you made it cry. Do you have no soul? He hesitated, then reluctantly got off the door and turned around to face it.

No, Eridan.

No.

Don't you dare open that door Eridan.

Just turn around and go back to bed. Right now.

No, no, don't do it, don't.

Don't. You. Dare.

He opened the door.

You moron.

Why would you do that.

It was cowering and shaking and soaking wet and sobbing quietly-Why the hell did you shut the door on this poor little guy? You heartless bastard. "Okay, okay, calm dow-wn. It's okay. Shhh. You can come in." He soothed, trying to stop the poor thing's sniffling. Last chance Ampora, turn around and leave while you still have a chance, don't pick that thing up-very carefully he picked it up.

Why would you do that.

Its crying immediately stopped. Eridan grimaced, feeling mud and water getting all over the front of his robe. There went seventy-five dollar's worth of silk. Oh well. Its tiny needle-like claws gripped the fabric, and it hid its face in the crook of Eridan's neck, and it was whimpering "Thank you, thank you," over and over again, and the human's heart was breaking, it was broken, it was shattered beyond repair. "Just shh. Please, you're breakin' my heart here. It's nothin'."

"Okay," It whispered. Eridan felt something rumbling against his chest, and it took him a moment to realize it was purring. Freaking purring. The splinters of his heart that still remained turned into nothing but super-tiny-micro-atoms. Oh my god, Eridan, you are truly pathetic, you know that?

"You're gonna need a bath..." He mumbled to his visitor. It looked up at him with those eyes, those beautiful mismatched eyes, and nodded ever-so-slightly, though Eridan could tell it really didn't want a bath, and he have no idea how to give it one, anyways. "You know-w w-what? You can take one tomorrow-w. You hungry or anythin'?"

It nodded immediately. Eridan sighed a little, Jesus he was tired, but he had to get some food into this little skeleton. He set it down on the counter and retrieved a bowl from his cupboard, filled it with water and handed it to it, and it licked up every drop. "W-What're you hungry for?"

"Anything."

Anything? Eridan blinked, then shrugged, and poured the little guy a bowl of cereal, which it ate dry with his bare paws. When it finished it smiled at the teenager; the micro-atoms left of Eridan's heart melted into too tiny to exist pieces. "W-Well, w-we better get to bed, than, I'm getting' tired." He told it, and it nodded and held its paws out, clearly meaning 'up'. Eridan picked it up obediently and it cuddled against his chest and Ampora's throat constricted and good fucking god this thing was just too adorable for words.

"You'we got a name, little guy?" He asked it, carrying it up the stairs towards his room. Fuck it, it could sleep with him tonight, no matter how dirty it was.

"I'm 'Tholluk'th. Who're you?" Oh god even the way he talked was adorable. So goddamn adorable. "I'm Eridan Ampora, nice ta' meet cha. You can just sleep w-with me tonight, but w-we'll hawe to find you a bed in the morning."

"Eri-Eri...Eri-goddamnit." The troll growled a little and huffed in frustration. "ED. There." He looked up at Eridan triumphantly, and the rich pretty boy couldn't help but smile. "I'm guessin' that fork in your tongue makes it hard to say certain things?" He nodded, grimacing. Eridan set him down on the bed when he got back to his room and shed his robe-fuck it, thing was ruined anyways. He climbed back in bed and Sollux immediately tucked himself under his arm. "Night ED." He said softly, before slipping off to sleep in minutes. Eridan laughed a little and pull him against his chest. Such a cutie...it's too late for you, Eridan. You love him already. "Night, Sol." His last thought before he drifted off as well was-

Oh god, Eridan, why did you shut the door.