A/N: As the summary says, this is a collection of side stories to go alongside Waiting for the End. All of the players are alive and In Between is just going to snapshot some of their interactions post Sburb/Sgrub from the Aug'12 hiatus.

Here is a quick summary of each chapter. The Roxy/Sollux(/AR) relationship persists throughout and those chapters are marked with a part number. Mature means that the chapter will contain sexual content.

1 Aradia (Quiet Thoughts and Retribution) Reflection

2 Roxy/Sollux (coded part 1) first kiss

3 Eridan/Feferi (Beach) flushed, mature

4 Roxy/AR (chat client part 2) roxy tells AR about sollux

5 Jade/Karkat (i have you) flushed

6 Dirk/AR (hardwired part 3) dirk builds AR a chassis

7 Jane/Gamzee (taste test) flushed, mature

8 Roxy/Sollux (cybertronic part 4) flushed, mature

9 Vriska/Terezi (a flushed black) mature

10 Dirk/Jake (Adventure) flushed, mature

11 Roxy/AR (software part 5) AR's confession

12 Gamzee/Karkat (Pale date) pale

13 Dad (Father's day) Reflection

14 Tavros, Aradia (Page of Spades) pitch and ashen

15 Sollux/AR/Roxy (shorting out) confrontation

16 Equius, Nepeta (Blind Date) pale and flushed

17 Dirk/Jake (Movies and Unfortunate Phone Calls) flushed, mature

18 Sollux/AR (crossing wires) pitch

19 Karkat/Jade (insomnia) flushed, mature

20 Rose/Kanaya (Kanaya: Dress the Rose) flushed, mature

21 Roxy/Sollux/AR (circuits and code) flushed, pitch, mature

22 Dave/John (epilogue) flushed, mature

Perspectives and Characters at the top of each chapter.

(Aradia's Point of View)

We are all alive.

We all made it out of the game and we are all here alive again. Everyone, well, a lot of us are smiling. Everyone is still slightly exhausted. Being dead does take a toll on you. I should know. But when you get that second chance... it's incredible. You get to look at everything in a new light and just smile at it.

Once you have died, you can't help but be a little more appreciative of what you have.

Karkat was worried when he woke up that everyone would try killing each other again, but that didn't happen. I mean the ones who hadn't finished the game had been here for a little while already before the rest showed up. There was a truce already established. When it came to the grudges of who killed who, we agreed upon two simple rules. One, no more killing. Two, you get one shot so make it count.

Tavros went first. Vriska was kinda smug about it since obviously he wasn't the revenge type and apparently they spent a lot of time together in the dream bubbles. We were all surprised, with her being the most I think, when he punched her square in the face hard enough to knock her out cold. There was a stunned silence and then a lot cheering for Tavros. He's such a cute sweetheart. It took a while for Vriska to come back around.

Feferi went next, approaching Eridan with a straight face. Her punch to his guts left him gasping for air like a fish out of water. Took him a while to recover from that as well. After that though, Feferi was a cheerful thing to everyone, including Eridan.

Terezi took Vriska's punch to the jaw like a champ, though Vriska surprised everyone there by following up with a vicious kiss. Gamzee was getting a little jealous with how black it was getting before the kiss sorta dissolved into tears and mushy sentiments. Everyone politely ignored them at that point.

No one knew whether or not to give Sollux a shot at Eridan because technically he didn't die (again) from the white science. The argument was rendered short when after a crackle of psionics and a sharp yelp from Eridan, Sollux merely grinned and said that they were now even. Eridan wasn't hurt as much as he had been startled, though we all enjoyed a laugh at his frazzled new look before he managed to find a mirror.

We decided that the feud between Vriska and I had been settled in game when I had beaten her to a bloody blue pulp.

Eridan was next, facing off with Kanaya. We all knew what his scars were which bring back vivid images for whoever was alive for that event. We all thought he was going to do something very dramatic because this was Eridan. When doesn't he do something dramatic? And I suppose in a way it was, but not at all in the way we all believed. Instead of attacking Kanaya in any sort of manner, he hugged her. He thanked her for not letting him go through with his plans of switching sides. Apparently he met another Eridan in a doomed timeline that had. We don't have those details however but it apparently changed him dramatically.

Gamzee's facial scars hadn't come through the regeneration as they hadn't been fatal in any way. Nepeta's retribution was an attack with her claws to redo those marks much to Karkat's... displeasure. And yes, that is a vast understatement. Dave had to physically restrain him from attacking Nepeta and then he passed out from a combination of an excess of yelling which caused a lack of oxygen and a reaction from seeing Gamzee's blood. Gamzee accepted it rather well actually.

He wasn't as accepting when it came to Equius' turn. Equius refused to hurt him as he was still a 'highblood' despite the fact that this new world obviously didn't keep the same values as Alternia. Gamzee insisted on making it up to Equius which just make him more nervous and sweaty and gross (and to think that I kissed him (then again I was a blue blooded robot at the time)). None of us know how it turned out because we all went to bed before they had finished arguing.

But we are all alive. We all get our second chances. And I think that everyone will use theirs wisely.