A/N: Oh my Gog thank you for the reviews! I woke up and I had emails and I was SO excited! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
I did write another chapter because people asked me to. I'm not sure how much I like this one but what evs. Please review and tell me what you think, what you like, what I need to work on, etcetera. I think there will be another chapter after this? Maybe two? Three if my brain likes me.
Disclaimer: I forgot this on the first chapter but I don't own any original Homestuck Characters or Homestuck in general (I be no Hussie). I DO own Lizy, Eron, Ryan, Josh, and Mags.
Chapter Two: Baby Brothers
Lizy found herself sitting in the very living room she arrived in. The girl sat on the couch on the left while her parents sat on the couch to the right, looking awkward and nervous. This amused her to no end. Her dad, Dave Strider, looked nervous. If she was anything like her brother she would burst into a fit of giggles but no, she was trained from birth to be a Strider and God damn it! She was one!
After a moment of this awkward silence Jade finally spoke. "So… I guess the obvious question is how you got here." Lizy almost laughed. Almost. Wasn't her 'Witch of Time' God Tier a fairly big give away to the fact that she could, indeed, time travel? Still, she answered for her mother's sake.
"Well, I, being the embodiment of all that is time and swag, can travel through said time." That may have been a slight over exaggeration but Lizy didn't care. In her mind she was the embodiment of time and swag.
Dave answered this time. "Don't you need time tables or some shit? You get screwed in the process without them." Her father looked skeptical. Of course he would know more about being a Hero of Time than her mother.
""No, because I'm fucking epic. Some of us are cool enough to not need them." The blonde girl said, letting haughtiness leak into her voice. There was an irritated twitch to Dave's lip but he said nothing more. Jade, seeing this, held her husband's hand in her own.
"So, um, I… How…I mean, you and Camer-" Jade started but Dave cut her off.
"You aren't ectobabies. Why the hell are you in The Game?" Jade nodded next to him, her eyes begging her to spill.
Now Lizy was faced with a choice. She could lie and cover up the truth or she could let her parents blame themselves for the mess they were in. The truth was that this was no original game session she was playing. The truth was that this was a revival of some sort of her parent's game, taking its revenge out on the offspring of its original players. (Well, Josh and Mags weren't offspring of the original players, but they were best friends with people who were.) Knowing her parents they would blame themselves. Why should they have to worry about it sixteen years before it happened? They shouldn't.
"We…Don't exactly know. It all just sort of happened, I guess." Lizy didn't feel any regret about the lie. Why should she? She just saved her parent's over a decade of self blame (and her presence gifted them with over a decade of concern for their kids that they knew were destined for The Game).
Her parents seemed to buy it and moved on to diffrent questions. Things like 'Is Cameron safe?', 'Do John and Rose know what's going on?', 'Did me or Bro teach you how to use that katana?', and etcetera, etcetera. This went on for a good hour. Lizy explained her cousin, Ryan, who was not born yet in her parents' time. She told them about her friends Joshua Harkson and Magnolia Louis, the two other players. She rambled on for a little bit about the obnoxious trolls that wouldn't stop pestering her (how they were contacting her when she was in some unknown universe was beyond her).
The conversation was eerily relaxing and familiar. All was calm and well until a cry was heard from upstairs. Jade was up in a flash and quickly stepping up the stairs to the source of the wailing. Lizy looked after her, a bit of fear washing over. Was that her crying? Was she listening to herself scream? She and Dave sat silent for an entire minute, waiting for Jade to return. She did, and when her silhouette appeared at the top of the stairs a body was cradled in her arms. Lizy felt herself stiffen as her mother descended the stairs.
"Cameron is just being fussy again." Jade said to Dave. These words seemed to calm Lizy down. This wasn't her, it was just Eron. Her stupid, goofy, twin brother, Eron. A small smile grazed her lips as Jade sat back down on the couch, next to Dave. The girl's eyes never left her brother. He looked… Cute?
Jade seemed to notice her stare and stood up. Lizy's eyes flickered up to look at Jade as the woman walked to her. "Hold your arms out." She said quietly and Lizy quickly did as she was told. Her mother carefully set the baby boy in her arms and backed away. Lizy looked down at the baby resting in her arms. The transfer seemed to have surprised him and he sat silent for a moment, his green eyes looking up at Lizy. They looked at brilliant as they always did, their color an exact copy of their mother's eyes. The boy then started to whimper quietly, not liking the stranger he was being held by. The blonde girl gasped quietly as she began to gingerly rock her brother.
"Shh… Come on, Eron. It's just me, Lizy." the teen whispered to the child. Her rocking seemed to sooth the baby's whimpers. After a minute of this Lizy brought her face close to Eron's and said quietly, "Now, when do you stop being cute and just become annoying?" Her parents laughed quietly at this.
Lizy looked up at her parents after another minute and cuddling her brother and asked, "So what were we talking about again?"
A/N: Thank you for reading! Please let me know what you think!
XOXO,
Zy
