Awkward. Weird. Wrong. Can't be real.

The thoughts flash through [Name]'s head. She can feel the trolls looking at her with curios eyes, but she ignores them and hurries into her bathroom to change to other, less awkward, clothes. She ends up putting on a T-shirt with a picture of Eridan on it, she simply doesn't have any clothes that doesn't have anything to do with homestuck. To that she wears her favorite, dark green jeans and mismatching socks. [Name] brushes through her hair quickly, but decides against putting on makeup. She doesn't even really know why she's getting dressed for this. It would've been easier to just switch to another shirt.

After one quick glance in the mirror, deciding that she looks good enough for whatever reason she would need to look good, she walks back to her bedroom. The trolls are sitting in her bed talking to each other. But when they see that she's gotten back, they fall silent.

"Could you tell, us where we, uh, are?" Tavros asks.

"In my bedroom, fucknut, I've already said that", [Name] answers. "And in case you're going to ask this too, no, I don't know why you're here nor how you could get back. Damnit, I don't even know where you came from!"

"The afterlife", Gamzee says in a really creepy sounding way.

"You know... I used to wish you guys would come here", [Name] begins. "But now that it has happened, it just feels so weird."

"WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW WHO YOU EVEN ARE", Karkat says angrily.

"Oh, my name's [First name] [Last name]", she introduces herself. The she squeaks in surprise when someone touches her hair. She turns to see Gamzee standing beside her, his hand in her hair. She backs away a few steps and gives him a questioning look.

[Name] is about to ask if they maybe know how to get back to where they came from, because really, she'd rather have them back where they belong since this is just too weird, when the sound of a door opening lets her know that her parents have returned home.

"Oh fuck!" [Name] exclaims. "Quickly, hide in the closet!" she then hides under the sheets in her bed, pretending to sleep. Her parents soon come to check on her, as she knew they would. When they don't notice anything that is off, they close the door to her bedroom again and then leave. [Name] gets out of her bed again and opens her closet. Only to reveal... no one. It's empty. Where did they go..?


Terezi is the one most interested in hearing what Karkat, Gamzee and Tavros are telling. No one else is really paying any attention. They can only guess that their deaths are part of a doomed timeline, and the trolls somehow visited a person that has nothing to do with them. But when Gamzee mentions that the girl had a T-shirt with a picture of Eridan on it, the seadweller jumps in surprise and seems to be very happy about that.

"I wwant to meet that girl", he says.

"Becauthe th'he'th the firtht one that theemth to not hate you?" Sollux questions.

"WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW WHAT HAPPENED SO HOW WOULD YOU POSSIBLY MEET HER AGAIN?" Karkat asks.

"I think I know what happened", Aradia says silently. "The girl wished to see you between the two years, so she was allowed to do so until someone that belongs to her world saw her."

"So the next time, this will happen, is, uh, in a year?" Tavros asks.

"Time doesn't flow the same in her universe as in ours", Aradia answers with a smile.

"Tho thome of uth might thee her?" Sollux asks.

"That sounds interesting!" Terezi says. "I want to come next time."


And from that then... [Name] would every year be visited by twelve gray skinned persons...


A/N: hope you liked it? If you did, n also if you didn't, you might like my other reader insert: Saved From Suicide.