I'll always remember you… Aradia smiled at him, her white teeth flashing in the fiery background. She gave his hand one last squeeze, before letting go and allowing herself to be pulled into the fiery explosion that was engulfing everything behind them. "NO!" Sollux screamed, running forward in a desperate attempt to grab her hand again, but to no avail. Tears streamed down the mustard-blood's face as he was forced to watch the flames tear his love apart, burning up her god tier wings and scorching her grey skin. "ARADIA!" He screamed, over and over, in vain attempt that his words might somehow bring her back. Aradia's screams could be heard as the last of what remained of her was eating by the fire. The great flame started to ascend on Sollux…

Sollux woke up with a in a cold sweat, jolting awake in his Recuperacoon and sending slime flying. Tears streamed down his face. "justh a dream, justh a dream." He reminded himself, rocking back and forth in attempt to calm himself down. He sat there for a minute, quietly sobbing, waiting for himself to stop.

Sollux ran his hands over his face, letting loose a shuddering sigh as he pulled himself out of his Recuperacoon and drying himself off with a near-by towel. He shoved his glasses onto his face and pulled on his shirt.

This recent nightmare was only one of many he had been lately about Aradia dying. Ever since she had ascended to God Tier and left to explore the Dream Bubbles, he had been having these nightmares. Different, multiple nightmares involving different scenarios where he had to watch her die, helpless. Of course she wasn't dead at the moment, but he couldn't help but worry that she could be, or that she would be in danger. To be honest with himself he wasn't sure why he was experiencing these nightmares, as he knew god tiers were and could be extremely hard to kill.

Still, he couldn't help but worry greatly about her.

Yawning, Sollux pulled on his black & white sneakers and trotted downstairs. The others seemed to be nowhere around, probably off looking up ways to kill Lord English or something. Sollux sighed and wandered into the Library, expecting to see Rose reading her books, Dave practicing his terrible raps, and Karkat bitching at everyone over pretty much nothing. But none of them were there.

Reality and memory hit Sollux: They were all dead. Gone, killed by Jack Noir, whom had found his way onto the meteor and killed them all. Sollux had been lucky enough to escape, but the others had not been fated so well. He was alone.

Captor choked back the overwhelming emotions that everyone was gone, that he was all alone. The worse part of it all was that it didn't even happen very long ago. Everything was still in place, as if they had only stopped to take a break. Dave's laptop sat opened on the table, Rose's books and chemistry set was still set up in a neat circle around her workspace. Even the Shipping Page Karkat and Dave had drawn all over was still there, along with the red crayon. Sollux felt a single tear roll down his cheek. He sniffed and wiped it away, hurrying pass everything and making his way into the Health RespiteBlock to put on the coffee. A large whole gaped in the Health RespiteBlock's wall. The hole where Jack Noir had burst through, and started the massacre of his friends. Sollux shuddered, wincing, and turned away, quickly pouring himself a cup of the shitty coffee. Everywhere he turned, there was reminders of what had happened. The mustard-blood turned away and wandered down the hall into a separate private room, with a glass wall that looked out into the endless depths of space. Sollux sat down quietly in his favorite chair that faced the window, and sipped his drink, losing himself in his thoughts. He had found himself doing this often since everyone had passed away, there being nobody to talk to anymore. It was the same routine every day; he would wake up from his nightmare, hurry past the bad memories, retrieve some coffee then sit in this same spot to think.

To think about everything that happened, everyone that had died. All the good memories and the bad memories, and how everything seemed to be moving so fast yet so slow at the same time. What would John and Jade think when they met back up with them, and found out everyone was dead? That is, if they were still alive. For all Sollux knew the two may be dead as well, slain down by Jack Noir and slowly bleeding to death.

He tried not to think of that, and sipped at his coffee. The light, steady and soft pounding of a meteor storm started tapping on the window. Sollux watched with sightless, half-dead eyes, in a sort of transfixed state, almost. Meteor storms had been common rather lately, signaling he was traveling through a wide storm.

4 Hours later…

Sollux sat in the same place as before, unmoving, the remnants of his cup of coffee gone cold and sitting on the table next to him. The Meteor Storm had stopped, the steady beating rhythm replaced with the usual unsettling silence of space.

A faint, consistent tapping at the window suddenly started up.

Sollux didn't look up, lost in his thoughts. The tapping became more insistent, after a while turning into a full-fledged banging. Sollux was aroused from his thoughts, jumping up and looking around, straightening his goggles.

At the window, a slim, floating figure in a red outfit and hood with red wings, and long dark hair hovered.

Aradia smiled at Sollux and waved cheerfully, before gesturing for him to let her in.

Sollux stood there in awe and disbelief, then quickly stumbled to go open the back door and pull her in. Aradia took his outstretched hand and was pulled into the room, landing lightly on the soft carpet and padding in. "Why hello there!" she exclaimed, turning around and grinning at him as Sollux closed the door. Aradia stood up straight and looked around, dusting herself off a bit.

Sollux stood there, mouth slightly ajar, disbelieving. Aradia turned back to him, and frowned. "Sollux, are you al-"

Aradia was cut off as Sollux enveloped her in a massive hug, holding tight as if he never wanted to let go. Happy tears were starting to form at the corners of his eyes. Aradia blinked, the smiled and giggled, warmly returning the hug.

"I missed you so, so much, and I worried about you every waking hour." He whispered, hugging her tighter. Aradia offered another smile, pulling back to look at him.

"I missed you too, Sollux."

Aradia looked around again, parting from the hug and starting to casually walk through the rooms. Sollux followed closely behind.

"So, where is everyone? It seems pretty quiet in here." Aradia asked, stopping when she felt Sollux's hand on her shoulder. Sollux gently turned her around, and wordlessly led her to a chair in the room they were previously in. "I need to talk to you about that." He said quietly through his lisp. Aradia's face went dark and worried as she immediately sensing there was something wrong.

"Sollux? Sollux, what is it?"

Sollux didn't look at her. "Everyone is dead."