FORGOTTEN

SOLLUX: BABYSIT

BY unnoticedTurmoil

You had a new-found respect for the indigo blood. You've only been taking care of kk for a week and you're already tired of it. The way he doesn't respond. The way he doesn't care. The way he just sits there. Its unnerving. You had been kk's best friend before the INCIDENT. The juggalo idiot had immediately gone sober as soon as he found out, becoming aggressive and really protective of kk. The dumbest of you all had turned out to be the best in a crisis. Who knew? Actually none of you did. You all thought that if anything really happened kk would step up. Then the INCIDENT happened. And although gz had become angry and unpredictable to the rest of you, he had always been strangely careful with kk, even before the INCIDENT. His disappearance was the first thing you think he's noticed since It and it had pretty much shattered whatever was left of what the formerly loud troll used to be. No one had heard kk utter a word since. Not that he had talked much after the INCIDENT. That's what they were calling it now. the INCIDENT and the ACCIDENT. Karkat and Gamzee. Nobody was even looking for the clown. Although you suspect kk might have tried. The HIVE-WALL DIGITAL COMUNICTIONS DEVICE rang.

'hello?'

's0llux!'

'hii aa. happy aniiver2ary.'

'thank y0u s0llux. Y0u t00.' You feel a tug on your shirt and look down to see kk with your shirt hem between his thumb and forefinger, holding a plate in his other hand. He must be hungry. So far that had been your first goal as his keeper: to fatten him up. He had been too skinny.

'2orry aa, kk ii2 hungry.'

'0k s0llux, call me later?'

'yeah aa.'

'and tell Karkat I said hi.'

'kk.' You say looking him in the eye. 'aradiia 2ay2 hii.' You talk to him as you talk to Mituna. Slow enough to make sure he understands, but not slow enough to make him sound stupid. kk just looks at you. sigh.

'he 2aiid hii.'

'liar. It'll be 0k s0llux.'

'diid the gho2t2 tell you that?' you sneer. You don't mean it, you're just being worn a little thin right now.

'I'll talk t0 y0u later s0llux.'

'ii'm 2orry aa.'

'I kn0w. it's 0k.' she hangs up. sigh. kk tugs on your shirt again. Sigh.