It seems like it's been forever since this meteor departed. Trolls and humans cohabitating on the seemingly large rock, but it slowly started to seem way smaller than it really was for Karkat. Having to be with the same persons every day of his life, people he didn't actually chose to be stuck with, was starting to get the best of him. Of course, he had always seemed angry at everyone, losing his calm over nothing, so to people who didn't really knew him so well, it didn't really seem like anything changed. But he knew he was getting worst; he could barely stand his own self whenever he would start speaking and that surely meant something. He was missing his old solitude, his computer, even his messy hive and his lusus. Drifting for what seemed to be forever on a large rock waiting for it to crash somewhere, wherever that somewhere is, was quickly getting old.
gallowsCalibrato [GC] began trolling carcinoGeneticist [CG]
GC: H3Y K4RK4T, YOU'R3 SP4C1NG OUT 4G41N, SN4P OUT OF 1T!
CG: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT TEREZI?
GC: WOO, SOM3ON3 1S 1N 4 B4D MOOD 4G41N…
CG: YEAH WHAT THE FUCK ELSE IS NEW?
GC: 1 JUST W4NT3D TO G3T YOU OUT OF YOUR TR4NC3 B3FOR3 YOU ST4RT DROOL1NG 4LL OV3R YOUR K34BO4RD…
GC: YOU LOOK T1R3D, M4YB3 YOU SHOULD TRY TO SL33P 4 L1TTL3.
GC: K4RK4T?
CG: DAMN IT TEREZI, CAN'T YOU FUCKING GET THE HINT WHEN SOMEONE IS QUITE OBVIOUSLY IGNORING THE SHIT OUT OF YOU?
GC: …
CG: I'M OUT OF HERE, IF ANYONE'S LOOKING FOR ME; TELL THEM TO GO LOOK ON THE OTHER FUCKING SIDE OF THE GOD DAMN UNIVERSE.
carcinoGeneticist [CG] ceased trolling gallowsCalibrato [GC]
Karkat had been sitting in the big library with his husktop on his knees staring at the screen for a long moment before Terezi started to talk to him and he was perfectly fine by himself, now the other troll just made him snap back to reality again and he was, as usual, quite annoyed by it. He flipped the screen shut quite violently, thinking he might even have broken the screen in doing so, but he didn't want to let anyone see that he actually gave a damn. The red blooded troll stood up and stormed out of the room and stomped his way to the place he decided to keep for his own a little while after they got stuck on this rock; his 'personal room'. Terezi shook her head a little as he walked out and sighed a bit once his sweet scent was out of reach of her sensitive nose.
The cancer huffed loudly in annoyance as he locked himself up yet again and sighed a little lifting the screen to see if it was broken; luckily for him it was not. He knew he was starting to lack social interaction but he was not about to let anyone know that. He mumbled to himself a little, as if speaking to himself would help his social issues, but as expected it did not; he just felt like telling himself to shut the fuck up. "Maybe Terezi is right. I need some rest…" He quietly admitted and looked over at the thing the humans called a bed. Karkat was not much of a sleeper even in a comfy recuperacoon, but the… 'bed'… he didn't think he could get a good rest on that thing; every time he tried he passed out on top of it only to wake up a little more than a day later with swore muscles and fool mood. He didn't have a choice though; he walked over to the bed lifted his shirt over his head to throw it on the other end of the bed and took his gray pants off throwing them along with the shirt, climbing on top of the soft mattress in his boxer short and wrapped the heavy blanket over his thin frame.
Like every other time Karkat tried to sleep in an actual bed, he was so exhausted it didn't take him more than a minute before he was completely out, breathing heavily, his face buried in the warmth of the blanket. And he simply slept, for hours, empty sleep with barely a glimpse of a dream, until he was in his hive again. 'Another dream bubble…' he thought, though no one warned him about it this time; then again, he seemed to be the only one around, maybe they didn't see it coming and since the others were probably awake, he would have been the only one sucked in it.
"Damn it, can't I fucking sleep in peace." He said to himself, suddenly happy that no one was around since he was only in his boxer still.
"Well that theemth like a perfectly peathfull dream bubble KK, don't know why you're complaiiniing…" A way too familiar voice along with a just as familiar lisp, was heard from behind him; this lisp, it could only be Sollux.
Karkat only ended up facepalming once he heard his friend; last thing he wanted was to have to deal with people at this point. But deep inside, he felt happy to hear this annoying lisp again; it had been way too long, almost two sweeps now.
"Are you responsible for it fuckass?" Karkat simply asked, perfectly hiding the little happiness he had to see his friend again as he turned to face the Gemini.
"Nah, ii wath jutht tiierd and fell athleep, that'th the wonderth of dream bubbleth…" Sollux simply said as he sat on the chair in front of the computer, though keeping his attention to his friend.
"Hmph. First time you actually put your attention on me when you're right next to a computer, asshole." Karkat said softly, knowing he didn't have to feel ashamed from being barely dressed since Sollux was still obviously blind, his empty eye sockets 'looking' in his general direction. Somehow, his teeth seem to be slowly growing back again, already looking way more menacing than his own teeth.
"Yeah, that'th pretty much all ii have to do lately, might ath well thpend a little time with you KK…" He said softly smiling a little, hoping he could still argue on a regular basis with his best friend about everything and nothing.
"Tell me about it." Karkat said as he walked over to the desk to sit on it, remembering it could support his weight pretty well before, but soon moved away when the desk made a threatening creaking sound; the red blooded troll had grew up a little without him even noticing. The thought of growing up a little while he was away from Sollux made him smile a little and he stood up and pulled the gemini's wrist to make him stand up.
"What are you doiing KK?" Sollux asked raising an eye brow.
"I want to see if I'm finally taller than you fucker." He simply said as his friend stood next to him and he moved closer to put his hand on top of his head to compare with Sollux's height.
The yellow blooded troll would have rolled his eyes if he still had some but he simply chuckled a little and smirked at his friend; Karkat's voice seemed to come from higher than before that was one thing sure. "Tho, you actually can grow up piip-thqueak…" He said softly, his hand accidentally brushing over the warm skin of Karkat's side; that's when he froze a little. "…KK, are you weariing any clotheth?" He asked keeping his hands to himself again.
Karkat felt his face flush a little as he moved away. "I… I'm wearing boxers you perv."
"What are you doing naked KK?" Sollux said a little too loud.
"Hey asshole, my hive, my dream bubble, my rules! Why are YOU still dressed?" He spat back at the hacker before really realising what he just said, making Sollux's face cover up with a faint taint of yellow.
"I… No fair iif you can thee me naked and ii can't." Was the only thing the other troll managed to say.
"You're a perv Captor!" Karkat spat out again.
"ii'm not! And who the fuck thaid thith wath your dream bubble?" Sollux asked, trying to change the topic of their conversation.
"Well it's my hive so, I guess it's my dream bubble…" The red blooded troll said as he walked back to lean against the desk again.
"Whatever… Letth not argue now KK, we'll have plenty of time for that once we meet again later." Sollux said as a matter of fact.
"Agreed…" Karkat said softly. "You getting used to being blind? Must suck to be in your pants asshole…" Karkat said softly before chuckling a little.
"Maybe you'd liike to get in my pantth, iidiiot…" Sollux shot back chuckling a little.
"Hmph… You only got to my dream bubble to perv on me or what?" the cancer started again.
"I did not. Thtop attackiing me for no reathon KK…" Sollux simply said.
Karkat could only smile a little again; he knew Sollux couln't see it.
"You know Sol… I kind of miss you in a sense…" Karkat caught himself saying and soon regretted opening his loud mouth.
"ii mithth you too KK…" The Gemini said softly with a smile that Karkat could see. As weird as it felt, Karkat was happy to hear that coming from his best friend's mouth. And that's when it struck him; Sollux was the first one in a little while now to make him smile and laugh, even if it was at himself and how pathetic he was to say out loud that he missed him, but then again, Sollux said it back so he guessed he might not be so pathetic.
"Say… You really believe we'll see each other again?" Karkat asked, not sure if he should feel ashamed of asking that too. The other troll got the slight disappointment in his friend's voice and turned his head toward him again as if he could see.
"Of courthe KK…" Sollux said, trying to sound optimistic. "What'th the problem though, don't you liike your traveliing partners?"
"Fuck no. They're all a bunch of ass holes, each and every single one of them." The red blooded troll said suddenly feeling annoyed by the simple thought of being around them for one more day.
"Come on KK, to you everyone iith an ass hole…" Sollux said chuckling a little.
"No… well.. Ok, yes… But… You're not as much of an ass hole as they can be…" Karkat said, and Sollux knew this was, in a sense, a compliment coming from Karkat.
"Well thankth morron…" He said softly as he got closer to Karkat and hugged him; he almost forgot that his friend was almost naked, and he smiled a little at the warm reminder over his own shirt.
"Y-you're welcome, I guess…" He said as he rested his head over the other troll's shoulder, slightly dizzied by the sleepy state he was in since his real self was sleeping.
Karkat didn't know exactly what the deal with dream bubbles was, but he felt like this was relaxing him more than all those empty dreams he had in the last sweep, or maybe it was finally seeing a face he didn't completely hate. Without realising it, he closed his eyes and seemed to cling a little to Sollux, but the Gemini didn't seem to try and push him away.
"KK, ii thhould have liithtened to you and stay wiith you when the meteor thtarted to move…" Sollux finally said after a short moment of complete silence.
"You don't say…" The cancer said with a hint of sarcasm.
"No, ii'm theriouth… ii… ii'm happy you ended up iin my dream bubble… or ii ended up iin yourth, whatever…" The yellow blood said softly as he buried his face into the crook of Karkat's neck as if he was trying to hide something.
"…Sol… What's going on? Something's on your mind?" Karkat seemed slightly surprised by the other's action and it kind of worried him even if it was just a little.
"Yeth… A lot of thiingth are on my miind…" He vaguely replied, not letting go of the still slightly shorter troll.
"Well fuckass, tell me. I'm all ears, and got nothing else to do until I'm pulled back to reality…" The red blood said as he tried to move away from the now awkward hug they were in, only to get Sollux now clinging to him and pulled him back close again.
"ii… ii'm gessing, siinthe you're stiill ath cranky about everyone, that Terezi didn't make her move on you yet?" The taller troll asked against the warm skin of his friend's neck.
"Her move on me? Come on man, Terezi and I is old news, she's over me and I don't like her that way." Karkat said as he tried again to get Sollux face out so he could look at him and also a little afraid that he would bite him, you never know with his moodswings.
"Good… Karkat, ii… Would you be angry at me iif ii told you that ii… How do the humanth thay that again… Love you?" Sollux finally managed to say, feeling like a complete idiot in front of his best friend, hoping that Karkat wouldn't throw their friendship away if he was not interested in having him as a matesprite.
Karkat's eyes widened a little and he froze, not even sure he remembered how to use oxygen and his lungs together properly anymore. He managed to untangle himself from Sollux's embrace and tried to look at him for any sign of obvious lies.
"Don't you fucking make fun of me Captor, it's not fucking funny!" He started before seeing the dead serious face of his friend. "You… You're not shitting me, are you?" He asked again, both hands still on each of the gemini's shoulders.
"I'm not Karkat… tho… Would you?" Sollux asked again, wanting to see the other's face again for any (way too familiar) signs of anger.
"Let me correct something here; you, Sollux Captor, are the worst ass hole I know." Karkat finally said a little colder than he really wanted it to appear as he backed off.
Sollux lips twitched a little and he tried to smile to hide his disappointment; when he looked back at the taller troll, Karkat felt his heart squeeze tightly in his chest and try to force its way through his throat. 'Great job Vantas, coming from the expert in troll romance…' Karkat thought to himself, inwardly facepalming multiple times. He never really ever thought someone would ever feel red for him and in a sense he was being an ass hole to everyone on purpose to keep everyone else away from him, but this soon ended up being a really bad habit of his.
"…Telling me this, in a dream bubble when you fucking know perfectly well that we won't see each other in like… Fuck it ass hole, we might not even see each other again! What the fuck are you thinking? You think just telling me this will make everything better and we'll get the fucking happy ending that I, on my part, was not even supposed to get in the first place? Best fucking faith I can get is having some idiot culling me for my freaky red blood… You're an asshole Captor; you are a fucking cruel asshole!" The red blooded troll started to explain in a voice that was a little under yelling, but still really loud and angry.
"KK… That'th ecthactly why ii wanted to tell you now; thiince we might never thee each other agaiin, ii wanted you to know… Now pleathe KK, thtop fliippiing your thhiit at me for telliing you… ii know iit wath a thtupiid quethtiion to even athk iif you'd be angry cauthe obviiouthly you alwayth are…" the Gemini said as he got a little closer to Karkat. "ii guethth what ii really meant iith; do you piity me ath well? For what iit'th worth, do you thiink we could be matethrpiites thomeday?" He finished as he stopped when he heard Karkat backing off and hitting the desk behind him. A soft yellowish blush was covering his cheeks.
Those words really did reach Karkat, Sollux knew exactly how to make him doubt himself, and he also was the best at it. Both of Karkat's hand moved up and he covered his face with them, even though the yellow blood couldn't see him, he still didn't know what to do with his hands. He took a deep breath, not even sure if it was the real Sollux standing in front of him or if he was just simply part of his dream; maybe he was making that up, but he didn't know how to see if it was the real him or not. As sad as it was, he liked to think that it was all his imagination, this way he wouldn't have embarrassed himself in front of his friend.
"You are a complete idiot for getting me into this…" Karkat said softly, a tone that Sollux rarely heard coming from the other troll. The cancer looked up at the gemini's face and got slightly closer, one of his hands gripping the other's shirt as if he would get away and the other rested on Sollux's cheek as he leaned closer and presser their lips together for a short moment. "This as better not be the last fucking time I see you're ugly face, Captor." He said just as softly against those gray lips.
"ii'll make thhure to get to you agaiin someday KK… ii promiithe…" Sollux said softly and moved close again, letting his arms wrap around Karkat's mid-section, pushing him up against the desk again as he tried to kiss him.
"Hey fuck ass, don't take advantage of this!" The red blooded troll said, pressing his hand against Sollux's face to stop the kiss.
"But KK…" Sollux almost wined as he tried to get passed the hand pressing against his face.
"Alright, alright fuck face! You better keep this off your mind when you jerk off at night thou-" The other troll tried to say, but was cut by the Gemini's lips against his again. The kiss was a little longer and was not a one side kiss and Karkat jumped a little when he felt the other's teeth harassing his bottom lip and the hands slowly moving down his back.
"You're obviously taking advantage of that, fucker…" He said softly as he pulled away.
"Don't blame me for doiing tho, iit miight take a long tiime before ii thee you agaiin…" Sollux explained with a grin on his face.
"Well it's not fair if you're the only one taking advantage of this." Karkat said as he let his hands tug at the other's shirt.
"Don't act liike you don't enjoy iit at leatht a little." The yellow blood said as he let his hands move to the other's lower back. Karkat breathed in deeply, the air filling his lungs so slowly made a sound that resembled a purr and didn't say anything to oppose the hand running over his back. But Sollux's hand stopped moving; since he couldn't see Karkat's expression, he had mistaken the purr like sound for a growl. "Really? Growliing at your own matethpriite?" The Gemini asked, not taking his hands off Karkat just yet.
"I was not growling you fucking morron." The young troll spate out, blushing bright red through his gray skin at this point.
"…A purr than?" Sollux asked teasingly as he let his hands caress the other's bareback again.
"Shut up Captor!" Karkat ordered as he glared at the other's empty eye sockets again as if the other troll could see him.
"Alright then, iif you don't want me touching you, ii won't…" The yellow blood said with a sigh as he let his hands slip off Karkat's warm skin and sat down on the chair next to him.
Now there was no mistaking it, Karkat did growl a little, making his lover chuckle softly. As many romcoms as he watched in his life, he didn't quit know what to do, or what to say at times like this. So he took a deep breath and walked over to Sollux and decided to shut up and swallow his pride for once in his life and sat down on the other troll's lap.
"Sorry Sollux… I guess… What I really want to say is thank you for trying to make this work even though we're so far away…" He finally said looking down at his bare knees, suddenly feeling stupid for apologizing, but also stupid for rejecting something he always wanted to have.
"It'th fiine KK…" The Gemini said softly as he let a hand reach out for Karkat's hand and held it for a moment. "We don't have to conthiider each other ath matethrpiite untiil we're together agaiin iif you don't want to." He finished. The red blooded troll looked over at the other and frowned a little.
"When did I accept to be your matesprite fuckass…?" He said a little coldly again before smiling and leaning toward Sollux to steal a kiss again. "No one would believe me even if I said so anyways… But I don't mind considering we are, even if you stayed behind like a fucking coward, leaving me face my faith all by myself… Come to think of it, you're a fucking sad excuse of a matesprite Captor." Karkat said with the hint of a smile in his tone.
"thhut up aththhole, you're obviiouthly doing perfectly fiine on your own…" Sollux answered and chuckled a little as he pulled him against his chest and hugged him, letting his hands run over the warm skin again getting dangerously low on the red blood's stomach.
Karkat felt his skin tingle a little under the light touch but he didn't say anything, either too afraid to lose that soft touch, or to sound like a prude virgin (which he kind of was) if he protested. Instead he decided to give it a try and let one hand slip right under the yellow blooded troll's shirt, letting his fingers map the skin over the other troll's bones; Sollux was too skinny for his own good.
"Aren't you cold?" Sollux asked softly, feeling the heated skin.
"No… I'm wrapped up in a heavy blanket back in 'reality' whatever reality is now." He simply answered letting his other hand move up to caress the other's hair a little, passing right over a set of horns obviously sharper than his.
"No faiir… ii thhould be all wrapped up iin that blanket wiith you…" Sollux said softly, his head leaning a little into the touch, trying to get the other's fingers to caress his horns.
Karkat got the hint and let his fingers gently move along the smaller horn, pressing a little at the base and smiled to himself. The Gemini smiled too and felt a light tingle run from the top of his head, where the horns were, to the back of his neck.
"You are such an ass Captor…" Karkat said softly as the other troll's hand ran over his bare chest, making him shiver.
"ii don't care being an athth iif you take iit liike thith every tiime…" The yellow blood said, letting his hand caress the warm chest and leaned closer to nip at the red blood's neck.
"Fuck you Sollux! Fuck you... very fucking much…" The cancer whispered, his voice trailing off a little.
The slightly taller troll didn't answer this, he knew he didn't have to, and that would probably make Karkat swear more and more if he tried and say something smart. Instead he let both hands move around Karkat's waist and pulled him close against his chest and kept on abusing his neck for a moment, licking and biting every now and then.
They both soon started to enjoy it a little too much, both panting a little and Karkat moaning soft insult and swears, and soon, the feeling slowly left him; he moved his head back and looked at Sollux who seemed to start to get slightly blurry, his hair slowly slipping out of his grasp.
"theemth liike thomeone iith wakiing you up… thorry KK, we'll have to continue thiith thome other tiime…" The Gemini whispered softly, his hand gently going over Karkat's usual angered face before he was taken out of his slumber.
"Fuck, fuck, FUCK!" Karkat almost yelled as his eyes opened, staring at the blond human next to him that had obviously shaken him out of his sleep. "WHAT THE FUCK STRIDER! CAN'T I FUCKING GET A MOMENT OF REST WITHOUT ANY OF YOU ASSHOLES WAKING ME UP?" He then yelled.
"Well, Terezi was worried about you since you didn't come out of your room for hours now and asked me to keep an eye on you… Looked like you were having a nightmare or something so I decided to wake you up… Don't I get a thank you for taking you out of a nightmare?"
"Fuck no asshole… Fuck you, fuck Terezi, fuck this fucking meteor and… Get the fuck out of my fucking room!" He said angrily, doing his very best to keep from punching the other out of his room again and violently pulled on his blanket as he rolled on his side and buried his face under it, hoping the other would get the hint and fuck off.
"Gee, fine… Fuck you too." Dave said as he finally stood and walked to the door to go and tell Terezi that the red blood seemed pretty fine to him, same as always.
Once he heard the door close, Karkat sighed loudly, now feeling way too pissed to manage to fall asleep again, and the dream bubble he was in a moment ago was probably already gone by this time. He let his hands run over his face and his eye widened a little when he felt the rather large bite mark when one of his hand trailed off to his neck and smiled again to himself; seemed like it was true after all. "Asshole…" He whispered softly to himself knowing that there was no way he could face anyone in that state seeing how the Gemini worked him up. He decided that staying in his bed for a little while and get this pressure in his boxers dealt with would be a much better idea.