Notes: AU, everyone is alive. Sollux-x-Karkat. This is the first fanfiction I have even gotten close to finishing, so I apologize if it sucks. And sorry this is kinda short. I promise to try and make the next chapter longer. I'd love it if you reviewed =: 3


Finally Together Again

It has been 2 sweeps since everyone played sburb. As expected, they lost. What they didn't expect was what happened after the game was reset. Instead of being sent back to their respective planets, with or without your memories, they all got sent to a Alternia-Earth hybrid planet.

It's weird, because any injuries that happened while playing the game were gone. Sollux was no longer blind and had his ridiculously over-sized fangs back. Tavros, Nepeta, Vriska, Equius, Eridan, and Feferi were no longer dead. Or they were all dead. No one was quite sure which it was. And those who had reached it, remained at god-tier level. All of this pissed Karkat off to no end. It wasn't that Karkat hadn't missed all of his friends, or was pissed about finally meeting the humans John and Jade. It was that he was forced to see them on a daily basis. Karkat was never the most social and having everyone so close all the time was making him angrier than usual. And everyone noticed.

"I fucking swear to gog, if I hear one more person ask me 'are you ok' I will rip their vocal cords out and shove them straight up their asses!" Sollux sighed.

'Poor John,' he though idly to himself. All the kid had done was ask if Karkat wanted to watch a movie, since he had seemed out of it. Shaking the thought from his head, Sollux went back to his codes. It was still all he ever did. But today the troll was distracted, and he couldn't understand why. He had his sight back, and the voices no longer plagued his mind. Sure his lisp was back, but he didn't really mind it too much. It was annoying at first, but he quickly adjusted to it, again, and it no longer bothered him. So if it wasn't that, then what was it? He didn't get much time to think before the crankier-than-hell troll stomped up to him.

"Hey fuckass!" Sollux nearly jumped from his chair.

"Jeguth KK. What the hell do you want?" Ok, maybe not the best thing to say, but he couldn't help it. He really wanted to know why he was distracted, and having Karkat distract him even more wasn't helping.

"Oh. I'm sorry," Karkat started, his voice already drenched in sarcasm, "I didn't mean to pull you from your ever-so-fucking-important thoughts. It's amazing how you even made time to reply to me, since you have so many other things that you just have to fucking do."

"Gog damnit KK, jutht thut up before you give me a fucking headache. What is it you wanted?" His tone was softer now. Trying to show Karkat he wanted to help.

"Tch. Whatever," he may have acted indifferent, but his tone had also become softer, if not by much. "I wanted to know if you wanted to watch a movie with me, that is, if you can taking a few fucking hours out of your oh so busy life of coding." And there was more sarcasm. Karkat can't being feeling that out of it if he can manage to keep up the insults.

"I thought that wath what John offered to do?" Sollux wondered why Karkat had declined John's movie invite.

"He wanted to watch a fucking Nic Cage movie." That's why.

"And what, you ekthpect me to want to thit through another thitty romcom with you?" Sollux smirked. It was always fun messing with Karkat.

"If you don't want to fucking watch a movie just fucking say so, you douchenozzle." His insults were tame. Something was definitely up.

"Calm down KK, I didn't thay no." His expression lightens slightly. "I'll head over to your room when I finith this code I'm working on." Karkat scowled. He knew it could be hours before Sollux finishes. Sollux however, saw the change in expression and quickyl addded, "Relakth, it thouldn't take me more than an hour."

"Tch, whatever." He walked away, presumably to pick out a movie and, hopefully, clean up his respite-block. Sollux had no intention of finishing that code, he was more busy trying to figure out what was wrong with Karkat. The only person who might know would be his morail, Gamzee.

-twinArmageddons [TA] began trolling terminallyCapricious [TC]-

TA: hey

TA: gamzee

TC: wHaT's Up BrO?

TA: do you know what2 wrong wiith kk

TA: he ha2nt been hiim2elf lately iim 2tartiing two get worriied

TC: YeAh MaN hE hAs BeEn OuT oF iT lAtElY

TC: i'M nOt MoThErFuCkInG sUrE iF i ShOuLd TeLl YoU

TC: kArBrO kInDa MaDe It A pOiNt ThAt If I tElL aNyOnE hE'lL rIp My MoThErFuCkInG hOrNs OfF aNd FeEd ThEm To Me

TA: well ii2 there anythiing ii need two be aware of iim goiing two watch 2ome moviie2 wiith hiim iin a biit and iid liike two know iif ii need two avoiid any 2ubject2

TA: or iif ii 2hould even go

TC: NaH bRo

TC: YoU nEeD tO Go

TC: JuSt Do WhAt YoUr ThInKpAn ThInKs Is AlRiGhT

TC: hOnK :O )

TA: um

TA: thank2 ii gue22

TA: i gue22 iill head over now

TC: cHeEr ThAt MoThErFuCkEr Up :O )

TC: He NeEdS iT

-terminallyCapricious [TC] ceased trolling twinArmageddons [TA]-

'Alrighty then, apparently something really is wrong with Karkat.' Sollux had been about 30 minutes since he and Karkat had spoken. 'Long enough.' Shutting down his computers, Sollux made his way to Karkat's respite-block. Hopefully this visit wouldn't turn into a raging nightmare.