So yeah I probably have no business writing something new but my hearts not really into Soul Eater at the moment. Also since reading HomeStuck, I have a new OTP JohnKat. All the fucking way. No A/N spoilers this time. Fem!John aka Joan. I hope you guys like this. No fucks are given about grammar, don't even bother.

I OWN NOTHING

I should have...

Chapter One- Told her it was going to be ok

"Here we are! You're new apartment!" Your best friend's cheerful voice only got a sad smile in return. It was spacious enough, and above a new age shop that your best friend Rose owned. Being in a small city's down town had some perks. The studio apartment was all you needed and could afford at the moment anyway. The reason you were moving in flooded your senses quickly making you cringe.

No self-loathing No self-loathing No self-loathing...

Shit...

God damn it you couldn't stop the tears and Rose's arms wrapped around you holding you and carding through the remnants of the once long hair you had butchered off yourself.

You were so lucky you had her in your life. Your family and the rest of your friends didn't understand your decision. Rose and your sister Jade were the only ones to have your back. Rose had even gotten the land lord to rent you the apartment above her shop for dirt cheap, since it had sat vacant for a while.

"The moving guys will be here soon..." She whispered, still holding and rocking you. "Do you need me to take care of it?"

You shake your head.

"I think I can please stay with me though."

"Of course..."

It was a long tedious process that Rose commandeered from you; though you were silently grateful for it. "Joan, you mind going and grabbing coffee next door? I'll pay you back later."

This you could do, this was easy and didn't involve looking at the sad scraps of your life. You push the money back and shake your head with a smile. "I got this, don't worry. What would you like?"

"That white chocolate latte, medium's fine."

"That 'twas very -punny-!"

You got a sigh and a little grin at the terribad joke.

You offered coffee to the two movers and they told you French vanilla iced coffees would be great.

The blue billboard read 'River Street Cafe', it looked cozy enough and there was a stage in the back where local bands would play. You began to think you might like this town.

===== Joan be the pissed off barista who hates this fucking place.

...

You are now Karkat Vantas and god damn it you hate this job. Too bad Gamzee's family owned it, and your best friend wouldn't appreciate it if you ruined things for his family on purpose. Accidents were excused however and you were considering having an 'accidental' slip of the lips if this bitchette didn't hurry her ass over to counter and just fucking order already. Fucking hell you could FEEL your eye twitching!

She was in front of you soon enough, and fucking hell it was impossible to have eyes that blue. If she didn't have ridiculous glasses on you would have thought they were contacts.

"Hi welcome to River Street, what can I get you?"

===== Karkat be the slightly off put but will still try to be polite Joan.

The guy at the counter is in a prissy mood, quick Joan use polite niceties while ordering!

You manage a fair attempt at a smile. "Hi there! Can I get two medium French vanilla iced coffees, one medium white chocolate latte, and Oh! A medium cup of the Prozac blend, please."

"21.87"

You pull out your card and he quickly swipes it before going off muttering to himself as he prepared the order.

You kind of space out again, thinking about everything that's happened the last year; a loud pissy 'ahem' gets your attention and you look up see him glaring at you.

"Took you long enough Space Cadet, here." He bit out as he pushed the drink carrier towards you. You blush furiously and push your glasses up your nose with your left hand.

"I-I'm sorry about that, thank you for your patience. And thank you the drinks look great."

Your failed attempt at perky niceties gets you a slightly guilty look and a muttered 'you're welcome' before you give a shy smile and head out the door.

====== Joan be the meddling coworker friend

You are now Sollux Captor

And your devious smile is directed at your longtime friend and coworker Karkat, who was blushing with a sappy look as the door chime rang and the girl with the soft smile and choppy black locks walked out of the edge of the windows view.

"Tho KK, who wath that?"

Almost instantly the love struck expression left and was replaced by irritation.

"How the fuck should I know?! I've never met her before in my life!"

You laugh past your friend's border line yelling; and grab one of his dimples making him smack your hand away.

"Tho...?"

"What?"

"You wrote thomething on her cup, what did you write? Trying to pick her up?" You snickered but KK's face fell a bit and he blushed some more. You leaned in because you had never heard him talk so softly.

"What?"

"She was trying so hard to smile and be nice but she looked so drained..."

You smirk. "Well thhe came here for caffeine."

He swats at you.

"No Fuckass, not like tired... Like so emotionally drained like if she had done time in Azkaban."

Your eyebrows go up and you look out the window she had just passed not too long ago.

"What did you write?"

"I wrote..."

===== Be the slightly stunned and micro cheered up caffeine consumer

You are now Joan, and this might have been the first real half smile you have had in over a year.

'You don't have to smile

- KK'

"Joan? What is it?" Rose looks intrigued as if she didn't foresee this happening in her cards.

The little quirk of your lips stays in place not looking up at your friend. "Nothing really just a nice note from the guy at the shop, KK I guess..."

You miss the quiet happiness and hint of hope in your friend's smile.

"Oh?"

You don't care that she's doing the psycho analysis thing again.

"He said I don't have to force a smile, pretty much..."

Rose smiles and squeezes your shoulder before leaving you alone in your new place.

It was so quiet...

*Several hours later*

========== Be the crabby guy that just got off work

You are Karkat Vantas and thank god you are out of that shit hole you call work. You lock up and open the door to the stairwell that led to your apartment above the shops.

As you pull the key out of your pocket you realize that you smell cookies baking in the apartment across the hall that you had thought to be unoccupied.

You weren't even thinking just compelled by curiosity when you knocked on the door. Almost immediately kicking yourself but were cut off when the door opened to the girl that you had met earlier at the shop, though her eyes were puffy and her shirt was covered in flour.

"Oh hello... KK...?"

You rubbed the back of your neck and tried not to blush.

"Well yeah, short for Karkat."

She quirks a corner of her mouth.

"My name's Joan, it's nice to formally meet you Karkat... You wanna come in I was making cookies?"

You give her a weary smile as you nodded and followed her inside.

"Excuse the mess I just got here earlier today."

"It's fine, not too bad for just getting here. I know when I moved across the hall it took me awhile to unpack."

You follow her to the kitchen and take a seat on the kitchen counter.

"I hope you don't mind they're gluten free."

You shrug, looking at the stack of DVD's sitting next to a laptop. "No that's cool. So what kind of movies do you like?"

She seemed to pause and drift off for a moment.

"Well... I used to like some pretty crappy movies when I was a kid but now a days, mostly anime and bad horror films. How about you?" She asked in return as she took a finished batch off the pan.

You fix her with an odd look contemplating weather to give her you full cinematic opinion, and decide to proceed with caution.

"As a baseless horror film goer, you would not understand the complexities of more romantically inclined movies."

Her eyes glazed. "RomComs? They're about as realistic as Peter Pan. They warp the mind's expectations of another person. We all can't be all together all the time and the way they gloss over the fact that women don't automatically become submissive just because you married them."

Her biting tone pissed you off yet intrigued you at the same time.

"Oh but those are for shitty writers, have you ever seen 'A walk to remember'? The Female lead, guides him to redemption and makes him a better man, and-"

"I've seen it, and I hate that it made me cry. I hate that her father domineered her life, I hate that she was so weak she couldn't… Never mind…"

Well shit, this was not going the way you planed. If you even had a plan; you kind of blindly waltz into a strange girl's apartment.

"I'm sorry; I haven't quite been myself lately." She sighed taking out an old cookie tin.

"If you want, you can come over one night for a movie night and I'll show you a few that I think you would be more interested in."

Her gaze was so cautious it caught your breath; she was looking for something there. Intention? Sincerity? 'I can't handle being hurt again' painted so clearly you just wanted to hold her, but you refrained.

"Sure I guess, maybe tomorrow night?" She whispered her buck teeth worrying at her bottom lip.

You gave her a rare soft grin. "Yeah that sounds good, would you like to come over to my place though? I noticed you don't really have much in the way of furniture."

She nods softly and holds out the tin she had put a majority of the cookies in, and you take it; the caring feeling imparted by from scratch goods touching your heart.

"Thank you, Joan."

"You're welcome Karkat, and … thank you for coming over, I'm already looking forward to tomorrow."

Your name is Karkat Vantas and as you walk into your own apartment and lock the door, you realize you are already fucking twiterpatted over the emotionally damaged girl across the hall.

"FUCK…."

Facepalm combo times two!

Well I hoped you enjoyed it! I'm already working on the next chapter, just trying to figure out how I want it to go. Any Michigan anime/HS fans I hope to see you all at this year's Youmacon, my best friend and I will be going. She'll be doing a LOL cosplay and I'm still in debate about which HomeStuck toon I will cosplay as, decisions decisions…. Till then R+R! Thank you

~Faun