I will be starting off my 'Twelve days of Oneshots' with my classic Solkat , because I have written them rather recently and I have a good idea in my head.
If you guys aren't familiar with me, I'm going to be posting Christmas One shot every day until Christmas (from this point on). I have only five prompts at the moment so if you'd like to sumbit anymore, I would be more than happy to listen! (and don't worry about pairings already being suggested, I have two DaveJohn requests right now that I will be writing). (And they don't just have to be Homestuck, I'm familiar with quite a few fandoms I'd like to think so you could request something and I could see if I could make a oneshot based off of it :) )
Hope you enjoy it and I will (most likely) see you guys tomorrow with the next installment!
"No KK you're doing it all wrong!"
"Shut up Captor! It's fine!"
Sollux sighs and takes the wooden spoon forcefully from Karkats hand, licking the uncooked batter before grimacing.
"It tastes like death," he reports. Karkat glares at him as he snatches the spoon from the Gemini's hand.
"Not my fault! You're the one that decided it'd be a good idea to make 'Christmas Cookies'," He growls, his pointed teeth clacking on the wood as he tastes it for himself. He tried to conceal the look of disgust that flashes across his face, but his matesprit was quick to catch it.
"See! And if I remember it right, you were the one that wanted to make them and just made me go get the ingredients from the store," Sollux smiles smugly, earning a small slap on the arm.
"Whatever Captor, how the fuck do we make these taste better anyway? It doesn't say anything in the instructions..." Karkat sighs as he looks over the piece of paper he had quickly scrawled instructions on once he learned about these so-called cookies. He thought it would be something fun and romantic that he could do but at the moment he was failing at every turn.
"Uh, how about adding some of this stuff? Vanilla Extract...it smells good anyway!" Sollux offers, holding up the small bottle. Karkat sets down the paper and takes the bottle, sniffing it cautiously before nodding, beginning to look a bit less frustrated.
"Sure, wait...nah, fuck it, how much of this delicious smelling shit should we add?" He takes one of the many measuring supplies he had borrowed from Kanaya and picks the one labeled '1/4 c'.
"This seems good." Sollux doesn't make any protests as he watches Karkat use basically the entire bottle and dump it into the dry doughy material in their mixing bowl. They had already added the white powdery substance called flour, which they found out by trial and error that it was very messy and not as easily measured as it would seem. Sollux uses his pinkie to slide a lock of stray hair behind his ear as he glances at the instructions, along with hastily pasted pictures of what the dough should look like beside it.
He returns his gaze to Karkat, smiling a bit as he watches the troll struggle with mixing the new substance in before he looks around the kitchen. It was a complete disaster. This was their second attempt at baking: the first ended in a burned batch of cookies and they were hoping this batch would turn out better. The lights strewn across the entryway to their small living space was probably the most festive thing they had done besides putting up a small tree. Although, the tree was only put up because Karkat refused to not put one up.
Despite the trolls appearance, he was getting quite into this 'holiday spirit' thing.
(Although he wouldn't display it to anyone else beside Sollux, and possibly Kanaya.)
"Dammit, ok, fuck it, these are going in the oven as a gogdamned slab of whatever the nookwhiffing fuck this is called." Karkat rages as he slams the bowl onto the counter.
"Now KK, lets at least *try* to cut them into shapes!" Sollux chides with a mocking smile, taking a handful of the doughy material and beginning to mold it in his hands. He can feel Karkat watching him before the smaller troll sighs and grabs a chunk of his own, also taking some of the cookie cutters they had purchased and began laying them out on the a cooking pan. Their small oven beeped a few times and Karkat growls at it as he places more cookies on the pan.
(Small time lapse)
As they wait for the cookies to hopefully not burn, Karkat inspects the decimated kitchen with a small scowl.
"We should probably clean while we're waiting," He sighs, almost resigned to his fate of having to clean with little to no assistance from Sollux.
"Or, we could make the icing for the cookies!" Sollux says hopefully, also not up for cleaning up the mess they made. A glance from the smaller troll earns a small smale, and Karkat gives one in return.
"Why not, it'll be easier to just clean up the mess as a whole, I have a feeling we're going to make the kitchen a mess again," Karkat snorts as he grabs some smaller bowls and the boxes of food colouring.
"What colours should we make?" he asks as he dumps the bottles onto their flour-covered counter. Sollux immediately snatches up the yellow, red and blue, earning a small chuckle from Karkat.
"Those aren't even Christmas colours you idiiot."
Sollux sticks out his forked tongue at Karkat with grin, "I don't care and you know it." He begins to mix the colours seperately, adn Karkat watches him for a bit, smiling when he sees the taller troll stick out his tongue in the cute way he does when he's concentrating really hard. He would've watched longer, if the oven hadn't beeped again, signalling that the cookies should be done.
"Don't let them burn this time," Sollux says as he glances sideways at Karkat, knowing full well that the smaller troll had been watching him. Karkat huffs and moves to remove the cookies.
"I wasn't the one that let them burn, you had set the heat on too high!" He retorts he examines the unrecognizable blobs. He grimaces but sets them on the counter, not wanting to risk burning them (again).
"Move the icing too the table, then we can start decorating them." Karkat orders, taking the cookies from where they had been cooling and setting them on the small amount of space on the table that wasn't cluttered with computer parts and movie cases.
"Uh, should we just use our fingers?" Sollux asks as he realizes they didn't have anything to assist inputting the icing on.
"Why not! I'm sure these will taste horrible anyway, although I guess we aren't supposed to eat all of them anyway. Something about a human tradition." Karkat rolls his eyes, getting a cookie and inspecting the colour choices before picking blue. Getting a (unnecessarily large) glob of the substance and slathers it over the cookie. He licks his fingers clean and shrugs.
"Not too horrible, messy, but it tastes good," he sets the cookie on a plate before grabbing another one. Soon enough they had decorated a majority of the cookies, but as Sollux was decorating with red icing, he sends a look to Karkat before taking some of the icing he had on his finger and taps the smaller trolls nose with it.
Karkat jumps, startled, and glares wiping it off with his palm. "What was that for Captor?" he growls. Sollux shrugs,
"Red looks good on you KK," a lopsided smile crosses his face as Karkat immediately blushes bright red. Scowling, Karkat grabs the yellow icing and smears a large portion onto Sollux's cheek. The Gemini looks a bit shocked as he licks a bit of it from the corner of his mouth.
"Hey now! I only tapped your nose!" he protests as Karkat sits back smugly, crossing his arms.
"So, as if you weren't going to do more." He snorts, then pales a bit as Sollux grabs some of the red icing and puts a large amount on his palm before slapping it against Karkats cheek. He hears a shout of indignation, but quickly begins running around the room as Karkat follows with a handful of icing in retaliation. The taller troll laughs as Karkat yells more, but then stops when he realizes he's cornered.
Karkat doesn't ignore the opportunity and covers Sollux's mouth with his icing covered hand.
"I think I win," he grins, showing off his pointed teeth. Sollux smiles and grabs Karkat's wrists, twisting around so that Karkat is the one cornered. He lands a few quick kisses on the trolls cheeks before kissing him gently, licking a bit of the icing off the both of their lips.
"Hm, now, I think I won," he comments once he pulls away. He hears Karkat snort, but isn't surprised when the smaller troll gives him another quick kiss before walking over to the table.
"We did make an even bigger mess, didn't we," Karkat chuckles, attempting to get some of the icing off his face and hands.
"I say we should wait till tomorrow to clean it KK," Sollux jokes, walking up behind Karkat and hugging him around the waist. He gets a small laugh in response.
"Tomorrow's Christmas bee-brain, we won't be doing shit tomorrow."
"Hm, guess you're right," Sollux says in exasperated disappointment.
"Well I mean," Karkat begins, "I guess we don't have to clean it *now*, but we need to clean up sometime," he corrects, tilting his head back to look at Sollux, his horns not quite hititng the taller trolls chest.
"Yay! Now we can just sit around and do nothing right KK? Until after Christmas?" Sollux says excitedly, beginning to feel the sugary effects of the icing.
Karkat glances at their kitchen clock, then gives a sort of strangled laugh, "It's 12:48 am Sollux, on December 25, we've been making cookies for over three hours and it's already Christmas," He twists around to hug Sollux in return.
"Guess we can't exactly do the 'cookies for Santie Clause or whatever the humans call it can we," Sollux says in mock sadness, then pulls away from Karkat to walk over to the measly plate of sloppily iced cookies. He takes a hesitant bite before immediately throwing the cookie back down onto the plate.
"Ok, so he wouldn't/shouldn't eat them anyway," He shudders, walking back over to Karkat and wrapping an arm around his waist.
"It was a stupid idea anyway, they weren't very sweet at all were they," Karkat sighs in defeat and tried to get more of the icing off his face.
Sollux leans down closer to Karkat's ear and smiles, "I think you're sweeter anyway," He stage whispers and gives the troll a quick kiss as he sees Karkat blush happily.
"Yeah yeah, Merry-Human-Christmas to you too," Karkat murmurs, returning the kiss before dragging Sollux into the living room, where their small tree was lit.
"How about we just go to sleep now, there's no point in staying up anyway." Karkat says with a shrug, gathering a few blankets and making a small pile. He purrs happily as Sollux curls up close to him.
"Merry-human-Christmas KK."
AN: a short note
So the oneshots in this will be completely unrelated, they re trolls in this one, but the next solkat I do will most likely be humanstuck. I'll probably give an explanation in all the AN's at the end of each oneshot, so if you don't understand the storys you ca just look back on this.
I will say I'm a bit rusty on fluff and all that, but I hope you guys like it well enough, and that it wasn't terribly awkward.
Also, if I might end up including my non-Homestuck stories in this as well, or not, I haven't decided yet.
I hope you guys are feelin the mood! Stay tuned for the next one shot :)
-Levy
~Disclaimer, I own nothing in these stories except for the plot~