(A/N: Sorry about the title's...idiocy? It has just about no relation to the story, but my only other idea was "I'm BOARD of eating po-tato salad". Yes. With the hyphen in "po-tato". I just made them speak in typing quirks. We're just going to pretend like Mituna and Sollux aren't related. Okay? *slightly threatening smile* Okay? Gooood.)
"H0LY 2HI7! 7H15 15 4M4Z1NG!" Mituna was flying through the air on his skateboard, hooting and smiling, adding more momentum to his journey each time his skateboard hit the inviting curve of the half pipe sitting conspicuously on the ground. While Sollux would have been perfectly content with a lonely day sulking at home, his usual routine was interrupted by a visit from a very excited Mituna and a very…normal…Dave. Somehow Dave had found time in his busy schedule of being awesome to visit Alternia and to help Mituna build a halfpipe. Dave had left only minutes after the construction was finished, probably due to the stress of working with the bipolar Mituna for the better part of a day, and disappeared without either Sollux or Mituna noticing. "Probably to go be with John." Sollux snickered when they simultaneously noticed Dave's absence. Sollux didn't even know why HE had to come, as he hadn't been involved in the construction at all. He was just forced to sit and watch. But Mituna was skating on clouds and was happier than Sollux had ever seen either of his personalities, so Sollux felt warmth in his heart-organ too. Sollux's feet dangled off the top of the half pipe and he leaned back on his hands. A breeze ruffled his hair and tickled his horns as he let the moon shed green-tinted light on his face and he closed his eyes, feeling strangely worn-out, even though he hadn't done all that much. Another breeze startled him into opening his eyes again. This time the cause was Mituna on his skateboard. The whirring wheels sounded like they were right next to Sollux's head (which was pretty much true) and he jumped a little bit, falling sideways. Once he realized he hadn't gotten run over, his eyes flew to Mituna. He had taken flight right beside where Sollux was sitting and was rapidly ascending, starting to fall again soon after as gravity decided his fun was over. From where he was, Sollux saw Mituna perfectly silhouetted against Alternia's lime-green moon. He felt a pang of amazement as Mituna turned gracefully in midair, a slender hand with its delicate fingers reaching out for his skateboard and tucking it under one arm. His legs unfurled and then tensed again, greeting the ground with a perfect absorption of landing force. For some strange reason (perhaps a combination of all the pleasant things around him or his mood, or perhaps something else...something more that was coloring his vision...) Mituna seemed absolutely beautiful, a creature of flawless, fluid motion and pure light. He'd never seen his Dancestor this way before and though a helmet obscured most of his expression, merely the broad grin on the troll's face was enough to tell Sollux that Mituna was happy. Happier than Sollux had ever seen him before.
Mituna plopped down beside Sollux, breathing slightly faster as he came down off his adrenaline high. "WH3W!" he released a breath, "7H47 W45 3XH1L4R471NG!" He smiled, falling backwards and letting his skateboard roll a few feet away. They sat close enough together that their thighs were touching and the soft fabric of Mituna's jumpsuit felt cool even through Sollux's jeans. Mituna seemed peaceful and he laid back, exalting the sky with wide open arms,. Then just as suddenly his angry side showed its head and he yanked on Sollux's arm. Sollux violently fell over, banging his head on the wood platform. Just as abruptly as it came, the outburst was gone and Mituna was relaxed as if nothing had transpired. "H4V3 Y0U 3V3R R34LLY 570PP3D 4ND JU57 L00K3D 47 0UR M00N5?", sighed Mituna dreamily. Almost unconsciously, his hand slipped into Sollux's. "17 MU57 533M K1ND4 S7UP1D 70 50M30N3 45 C00L A5 Y0U, 8U7 1 L1K3 M0M3N75 L1K3 7H15..." Sollux's grip tightened around Mituna's hand and he noticed he could faintly feel his Dancestor's honeygolden blood coursing and flowing in its eternal busy dance through his veins.
Mituna felt Sollux's hand clench and he realized that he and Sollux were holding hands. He quickly extricated his hand and fumbled for his skateboard, stammering a long line of words rendered incoherent by his speech quirk and current nerve. Propelled by an errant, flailing hand, Mituna's skateboard plummeted off the edge and shattered on the ground. Twenty feet below, splinters flew in all directions. Sollux unwittingly flinched a little bit, expecting Mituna's alter-ego to fly into a rage at the destruction of his most precious belonging, but was soon springing over to the back of the half-pipe. Apparently Mituna had attempted to follow his wheels to the ground below, but Sollux grasped his hand before he could. "AAAH! MIITUNA! WHAT DO YOU THIINK YOU'RE DOIING? ARE YOU TRYING TWO DIE?!" Sollux first stood up off his knees and then straightened his back, grunting as hoisted Mituna back to safety and to his embrace. Sollux set him down, but Mituna's knees buckled and he crumpled forward into Sollux's arms again. From beneath the dual-shaded visor tears dripped down onto Sollux's chest. They seemed to burn his skin through his shirt, the implication of Mituna's sorrow transforming them into something caustic. "22h...22hhh..." he tightened his grasp around Mituna's shaking shoulders. but spontaneously the tremors changed to those of rage and hurt of a brighter flame. Mituna began pounding on Sollux's chest with his fists, causing a pitifully small amount of damage. "G37 0FF M3! G0 4W4Y Y0U P13C3 0F 5H17! L37 G000!" he wailed, "FUCK Y0U!" But Sollux stilled his movement, sinking to the floor and holding Mituna's arms until the screams wavered and melted down to gentle moans occasionally laced with profanity. The angry side of Mituna hadn't left yet, but he had calmed. Or broken, Sollux wasn't he did know was that this was a day of firsts for himself and Mituna. He'd seen Mituna's high and, now, his low; the furious Mituna was quietly sobbing in his arms, who knew what came next? "Miituna..." Sollux loosened his grip, pushing Mituna just far enough away so that he could look Mituna in the...place where, theoretically, his eyes should be...(though he'd never actually seen them..)
"IIt's okay...How about we go two the 2tore twogether and get you a new 2kateboard?"
Mituna snuffled a bit, which was oddly endearing. "8U7..." he coughed rather weakly, then cleared his throat, "8U7 7H3N 17 W0ULDN'7 83 TH3 54M3..." Sollux, who at the present was feeling that irritable sort of mix between tired and being forced to deal with something, just rocked slowly back and forth with Mituna. His think-pan was being assaulted by shooting pains and he was trying not to be stabbed in the eye by the lengthier of Mituna's horns. The sun was starting to show its ugly face above the Alternian horizon, so Sollux stood up with Mituna and made sure he would stay up this time. They descended the ladder on the side of the half-pipe and stood over what was left of Mituna's skateboard. Sollux knelt down, careful not to lodge any splinters in his fingers as he sifted through the wreckage. "Thii2 make2 much more 2en2e..." he sighed, clearing the rubble away to make visible a medium-sized, very pointy rock, exactly where the skateboard had landed. He was pretty certain that Mituna was crying again, but that he justdidn't want let Sollux see this time. "We're cuttiing iit kiinda clo2e for tiime here...my place ii2 clo2er, do you want to come and 2tay? Iit'2 really not 2afe to be out thii2 late..." Only half of the idea was presented out of actual concern for the creatures that prowled about in the daytime; he really didn't want to leave Mituna when he was like this. Mituna nodded silently and followed Sollux as he walked away.
