"Be Eridan Ampora"
Everything was so quiet. The other trolls had all wandered off with their moirails or their matesprits, talking about plans for the evening leaving Eridan alone at his computer. He looked at the offline statuses on his pesterchum and leaned on his hand letting out a sigh as he realized that once again he would be spending the evening alone, but what was he expecting? He was the troll that no one could love…or apparently even stand.
As strong and powerful as he normally felt, Eridan now felt equally low and depressed. He sat back in his chair and rubbed the palms of his hands against his pants. Looking around he sneered at the pile of horns Gamzee had left and stood up, deciding that remaining here really wasn't going to help anything.
It took only a few moments for Eridan to leave the command room and head into one of the corridors that the rooms branched off for, each marked for each troll with their individual symbols. For a moment, he stopped by a room and ran his fingertips over the fuchsia symbol. How many times had he stopped here and starred at Feferi's door, just wishing she would want to see him again and be his moirail again? It was far too often for Eridan to actually keep count. As soon as he thought about it, Eridan's heart seized up and a lump formed in his throat. Quickly he turned and rushed to his room so that there was no chance for someone to see his tears.
In his room finally he slammed the door and sat at his personal desk, leaning onto it as he let the tears fall. Sure, he seemed like an ass a lot and he had made some dumb choices to say the least, but was it really too much for someone to care about him? What Eridan failed to notice was that through slamming his door, it had actually had enough force to open a bit again, and at the moment, someone was peeking through the crack.
"Be Sollux Captor"
Sollux heard the door slam and stood to see who had slammed it before he really thought about it. When he spotted Ampora's door cracked open and he realized it had been Eridan who slammed the door, he seriously considered just going back to his room, that was until he heard the sound of someone crying, and it seriously sounded like that sound was also coming from Eridan's room.
A groan escaped the troll, but he still stepped forward and glanced in the high bloods room. Sure enough, there sat Eridan, leaning over his desk crying. Sure, he might not like the guy, but he couldn't just leave him there to cry by himself. Debating on what to do, Sollux finally just stepped closer and knocked on the door once before he pushed it open and walked into the room, looking around briefly before he finally looked at Eridan. The sound of the knock had startled Eridan and he had turned quickly, sniffling and wiping his eyes in hope that Sollux wouldn't notice his moment of weakness. "2top your actiing, Ampora. iit'2 two late. ii already 2aw that you were cryiing." He said calmly leaning on Eridan's door, this time closing it properly, never looking away from the high blood.
"Be Eridan Ampora"
Sollux walking into his room was the last thing that Eridan had been expecting, after all Sollux was the troll that hated him most, but there he stood just looking at him as if he was expecting an explanation, "so wwhat if I wwas? I mean, I do have feelings and no one to talk to so sometimes I just…wwhat does it matter to you anywway?" he demanded, rubbing his eyes once more and then standing, turning his back to Sollux as he walked to his bookshelf, trying to look like he didn't care about the other troll.
As he traced the spines of the books, he listened to the sounds of Sollux shifting and then a coupld of steps before he felt a hand touch his shoulder and turn him around so they were facing each other again, "ii miight not liike you very much, but ii would hate to thiink you felt liike there wa2 no one you could at lea2t cry two." Sollux mumbled before he awkwardly hugged Eridan, a move neither had ever expected to happen.
It was not that Eridan didn't like the hug, it was that he hadn't seen it coming. Very slowly Eridan raised his arms and hugged the low blooded troll, leaning his head forward so that his forehead rested on Sollux's shoulder. He bit his lip and took a deep breath before he spoke again, "uh…thanks sol. I knoww wwe don't really get along, but this means a lot to me." He admitted quietly, almost starting to cry again, but he managed to keep the tears down as Sollux's hand rubbed his back.
"Be Sollux Captor"
As much as Sollux disliked the troll he was holding, he couldn't help but feel bad for him and maybe even want to make him smile and happy again… Sollux took a moment to think things over before he pulled away from Eridan and looked at the other troll, reading his expression before he did something he had never thought he would do – he kissed Eridan. It felt weird to kiss Eridan, but somehow it also felt okay.
It was easy to feel Eridan tense up in the kiss, but Sollux maintained the kiss, finally feeling Eridan relax into the kiss, one of Eridan's hands even sliding up Sollux's back to rest on the side of his neck as the kiss broke and the two just stared at each other for a moment, "wwhat wwas that?" Eridan asked quietly, unsure of what to do or say after that.