Can you believe this came to me in a dream?

This is... very new to me, I had only recently gotten into Homestuck (i.e. meaning that I FINALLY got around the reading the damn thing even though a friend of mine explained a lot of it to me and spoiled a lot, but I don't care) and I've taken a huge liking to Tavros, he's such a sweetie in my opinion and I could never hate a character like him.

Well, I really wanted to try my hand at Humanstuck fanfiction and I hope I'll do alright with this. It's all rather new to me so... yeah. Heh.

Summery: Tavros had always been a quiet boy and made friends carefully, but when a new student with wild hair and a crazy outlook on life decided to become his friend the moment he meets him, how can Tavros say no?

Pairings: Gamzee/Tavros, ummm... I do want Eridan/Feferi, Sollux/Feferi, and Sollux/Karkat in this as well, along with other side pairings but we just need to wait and see on that, my interests in the many pairings you can make in Homestuck is rather... difficult to completely pinpoint, all I know is that I really like Gamzee/Tavros and Eridan/Feferi the most.

Warnings: AU, Humanstuck, Schoolstuck, cussing, smoking (it's Gamzee, he needs to get stoned some how), possible sexual scenes, homosexuality, and other things, still working out the plot for all of this

I own nothing, if I owned Homestuck I'd be a guy with big lips and apparently be really good at drawing with MS Paint. But I'm RiYuYami, not Hussie so yeah. :\

Title is from a Death Cab for Cutie song, I just really liked how it sounded. It gives the story a bit of beat to it when I listen to it while I write.

On with the fic!

Title and Registration

Chapter one

The difficultness of getting down the halls in his chair has long since passed. People knew how to avoid being bumped by the bulky device that the small boy rolled around in. Tavros would apologize constantly, quietly, if he came close to hitting someone or almost running over their feet. He was forgiven or ignored, or, on occassion, he was bitched at.

It wasn't his fault, he didn't mean to use this chair. If it weren't for that even all those years ago, Tavros would have been able to walk down the halls with everyone else. But it didn't matter, the brunet boy with the mohawk style hair was doomed to live his life in this damn wheel chair and he couldn't do a single thing about it. I mean, it would be damn near impossible for him to walk like everyone else when he only had a paralyzed right leg and was missing half of his left leg up to the knee.

With a small sigh, he entered the classroom. Ah, science, he didn't need a special table in the back to sit at since he couldn't sit at a desk, he just sat at the lab tables already provided for the students. But, he sat alone. That was alright, Tavros was okay sitting by himself and doing his lab work alone, he got things done with ease and didn't have to worry about someone messing anything up.

Tavros glanced around and noticed John and Jade sitting at their seats, talking with Dave and Rose, who just walked in. He smiled and gave them a wave, to which they waved back, though Dave gave him a thumbs up. They were nice to him, they were friends, well, John was, since they lived close by on the same street.

The class started to fill up with the usual students, some people saying good morning to each others, others going to their seats to catch a few minutes of extra sleep, others to panic over getting the last of their forgotten homework down. But Tavros just sat there, quiet, reading the book he brought with him, a little book on facts, just something to read and to kill time before class.

The teacher entered moments later, alerting everyone to get ready for their lesson for the day. He glanced around, as if looking for someone and frowned before checking his watch. Who was the teacher waiting for, Tavros thought, tilting his head a little.

Well, the answer came with a loud bang of the door. Brown eyes glanced over and widened a little at the sight of the person standing in the door way.

There was a rather tall man there, about 6 feet tall, give or take a inches. He wore a big, black, purple striped hoodie, under it was a black shirt with what looked to be a sea-goat on it. His pants were horrible torn at the knees and covered in white, bleach spots kinda like polka-dots. He was grinning from ear to ear with what looked to be white and grey face paint on. His hair was a mess, it was everywhere and it almost looked like it was really dark shade of purple.

Basically, he looked like someone in a band or an crazy fool who just wears whatever he damn well wanted. Tavros was going with the latter on this one, especially since he notices that the guy was wearing two different pairs of shoes.

"Yo motherfuckers!" He shouted, his voice deep and a bit scratchy. The teacher did not look impressed at him, at all.

"Are you Gamzee Makara?"

"That's what it says on my boxers." The newcomer grinned.

The teacher sighed and told him to just go and find a seat so he could start class. The man, Gamzee just nodded, still grinning before glancing around the class, looking for an empty table. Suddenly his eyes focused right on Tavros, the only one who had a table with an empty chair. He smirked a bit and strutted over, plopping down in the chair next to the handicapped boy.

Tavros took this time to look at the new student better. He really was tall, which didn't help Tavros since he was a short boy, only about five foot one, and his chair made him seem shorter. There were four piercings in Gamzee's right ear, all purple, minus the last one, a ring on the top of his ear, that was silver. His hair really was a dark purple, it looked almost black.

His nails were painted black on one hand and indigo on the other. And he smelled kinda... funny, like the boy's bathroom when the stoner's went in there, but he also smelled like some kinda fruit soda too.

Suddenly indigo eyes focused right on Tavros, oh shit! He has been caught staring at the new guy! A blush crossed his cheeks at Gamzee stared at him for a moment before grinning. "Yo little bro, what's your motherfuckin' name?" He smiled brightly at Tavros.

The smaller boy blinked and stuttered a bit before clearing his throat. "Umm... I-I'm Tavros Nitram..." He spoke softly, both out of nervousness and because he didn't want to get in trouble with the teacher.

"I'm Gamzee Makara!" Gamzee grinned before looking at Tavros. "So, yo name is Tavros, huh? Makes me think of bulls."

"W-well... yes, my name does mean 'bull', not sure why my parents gave me that name but... uhh..." He glanced at the indigo-eyed man who seemed to be saying Tavros' name is different ways; slow, fast, long, short, as if he was trying out the many different ways you could say the word.

"Taaaaaavroooooossssss... I like it, I like yo name, wanna be mah best motherfuckin' friend?"

This caught the boy off guard and he blinked, confused. "W-what?"

"I said, do you wanna be mah best motherfuckin' friend?" The other grinned at him and Tavros couldn't help but nodded.

"Great! It's a miracle man, that we became friends so fast... like... it was meant to be, ya know Tavros? Tavbro... yeah! I'll call you Tavbro! Cause you're name is Tavros and you're now mah best bro!"

Tavros giggled a bit, smiling a little, this guy was batshit crazy or really stoned but he seemed really friendly and looked like he really wanted to be his friend, how could he say now. Suddenly the teacher's voice alerted them, telling them to settle down and pay attention to cell division.

"So when did you move here Gamzee?" Tavros asked as he wheeled himself down the hallway, Gamzee walking behind him.

The taller man thought for a moment. "Like... uhh... two weeks ago? I would have started school earlier but the movers took forever to get here and then mah dad shattered a window and we had to get the motherfucker replaced before the movers came. Big mess, not fun, ya know?"

"O-oh, I see. Well, did you get moved in?"

"Yep! Got all our shit in and set up! So where are we headed?"

"To the lunchroom. Hey, would you like to sit with my friends and I?" Tavros smiled up at the other who blinked and gave him another grin.

"Yeah! Sounds pretty fuckin' cool to meet your friends Tavbro!" He laughed and grabbed onto the chair, pushing it forward to find the lunchroom. Tavros gulped, not a big fan of having someone push him since he liked going at a steady pace, but Gamzee was new and didn't know so he'd let this slide. Sometimes Tavros was just too nice to people...

Going inside, Gamzee asked where his friends were and Tavros pointed to a table in the back where a small group was sitting, clinging tightly to the handles of the chair as he was pushed. They came to a stop and the people at the table turned. John and Jade were there, smiling, same with Terezi, a partially blind girl who didn't take shit from anyone (Which explained why no one picked on her). Equius, a rather strong student, gave him a slight nod before Nepeta plopped down on the buff student's lap.

"Hi Tavros~" Nepeta smiled and blinked, noticing Gamzee. "Oooh! Who is your fur-end~?"

"O-oh," Tavros smiled shyly, "this is Gamzee, he's new here."

"S'up motherfuckers, you guys are Tavbro's friends, right?" Gamzee chuckled, taking a seat in an empty chair next to Tavros and Equius.

"Well, yes, we are... and your language is... no offence, terrible." Equius frowned, speaking in his proper, difficult way.

Gamzee gave a snort before digging into his bag. "Eh, you'll get use to my fuckin' language, it's just the way I roll." He pulled out a bottle of Faygo and opened it, taking a swig of it. "Ah! Fuckin' miracle, that's what this is!"

Tavros gave a bit of a giggle again before settling down, pulling out his homemade lunch, not a fan of lunch from the school.

Terezi's glanced at Gamzee. "You smell like a stoner, is that what you are?"

The indigo-eyed man sipped his drink before chuckling, as if he wasn't offended by such a blunt question. "I could be, but I don't do it all the time, only when I need to... mellow out? Ya know? Gotta keep calm or I'll be full of rage."

"Just do what Equius does when he's all mad and stuff~!" Nepeta giggled. "He punches things! Sent a computer right out the window last year~!"

The large man she sat on blushed lightly, looking like he was starting to sweat. "Uhh... he did not need to know that Nepeta..."

"So Gamzee, are you enjoying being at the school so far?" John asked, poking at Jade to wake her up, her necrolapsy acting up again.

The dark-haired man shrugged. "Been pretty good, luckily I got Tavbro in all my classes! Hell, the little guy let's me sit with him and everything! Been telling me all about school and shit and what I need to know for the classes." He reached out and patted Tavros' head, loving the feeling of the soft, brown locks of the unstyled mohawk.

The blush came back to the handicapped boy's face, boy was Gamzee strange, having no problem touching and talking to someone he only just met that day. But maybe this was just how Gamzee worked, taking a strong liking the new people, though Tavros really hoped they could be friends, it felt nice to have Gamzee talk to him like this and touch his head, it was... different from how his other friends acted around him.

The rest of the day passed by with Gamzee being in almost all of Tavros' class, except that when Tavros had his language class, Gamzee was in music. That was alright, it gave Tavros a little alone time, he wasn't use to so much attention like this and he needed a little bit of space.

It was his last class and he knew that he might run into Gamzee again when he left the room. But he braced himself, because he was waiting for Gamzee to ask him the question he always dreaded, a question everyone asked him when they met him. It was bothersome and annoying and he always had the same answer: 'It was an accident and I really don't like talking about it, sorry...'

When the bell rang, Tavros made his way out after all the other students. He rolled his way to his locker, grabbed his stuff, and headed for the front door, where he spotted Gamzee, leaning against the wall, waiting for him. The clown-faced guy grinned and strolled over. "Ya enjoyed your class Tavbro?" He reached out and played with Tavros' hair again, chuckling a little before saying 'honk', which was rather weird, but it fit Gamzee.

Tavros smiled a little and nodded. "Y-yeah, did you enjoy your music class?"

"Fuck yeah!" He stood behind Tavros but didn't touch his chair this time as they made their way out of the building. Tavros headed for his bus, Gamzee still following behind.

"Umm... well, I need to catch my bus, so... I'll see you later then?" He smiled a little at the indigo-eyed man.

"Sure bro! Wait, here, take this." He pulled a crumpled sheet of paper from his pocket and handed it to Tavros. "Gotta go! See ya Tavbro!" He ruffled up the brown hair once more before rushing off towards the school's student parking lot. Tavros blinked and put the paper into his pocket and went to his bus, dealing with the process of getting on.

Once in, he blinked, frowning in confusion. Gamzee didn't ask him anything about him being handicapped, hell, he didn't really act like Tavros couldn't walk! That was a first. He then remembered the paper in his pocket and opened it up.

It was a ripped sheet of notebook paper with something written on it:

'HeY mY mOtHeRfUcKiN' bRo, HeRe Is My I.m. NaMe AnD pHoNe! DoN't Be AfRaId To CaLl Me TaVrOs!

- GaMzEe

HoNk! :O)'

Under the note, written in an odd font and in purple color pencil, was the I.M. username and number. Tavros smiled a little and gently folded the paper before putting it into his pocket, maybe tonight he could called Gamzee, get to know the guy a little better. He just wished that he could stop blushing around the guy.

TBC

Please give me a break, this is really all new to me when it comes to writing Homestuck...! *embarrassed beyond belief* I hope this is okay for a start, it will get a bit more complicated and I'm looking for a way to fit the other characters in, I kinda have an idea for some of the other trolls, but we'll wait and see.

Next chapter: Ummm... not sure yet, again, we'll wait and see

Please review~