the thing is it's monstrously unfair to poor tavros, yeah, so sorry about that guy, motherfucking victim or something, it's unfair to him but mostly unfair to the rest of his beautiful friends. they don't know the truth like they think he's a big joke, oh yeah, that's our gamzee, coming in to school hours late totally baked, crazy motherfucker prolly killed half his brain cells by now, pretty chill dude though if you wanna drop some rhymes. yeah they think that's their gamzee but that's the gamzee he's made them, and it's not like they're not nice people who deserve to know the truth, but he just can't tell them. it kind of hurts when he's hanging out with a sweetie like nepeta or a champ like terezi and they're so rocking being themselves that he wishes he could do that too. but then he remembers that it's a fucking marigold he's even got any friends in the first place, and if he has to impose on tavros, yeah, he will. even though he has to fake it extra hard around him. that's the gamzee he wants to be, anyway, so if he practices a lot and believes it in his special place, well then, wish upon a star, it's just gotta come true. (but faeries are not CLAP CLAP CLAP HONK CLAP)
he's strolling down the street now and thinks he'll call up his good buddy karkat.
"honk," he says, which is his usual greeting, and he hears all sorts of crap coming from the other end. finally he gets karkat's voice, even more strident than normal.
"oh my god i am not in the mood for your clowny bullshit eridan just flipped his shit and tried to rape feferi well he attacked sollux and kanaya too, there's medics and police everywhere and i think they want to get my witness account, could you have possibly picked a better time to harass me?"
"i'll pick you up at the station when you're done," gamzee says, and hangs up.
karkat is pretty quiet when gamzee greets him with a "hop on in, best friend," and whoa, he must really be in shock. gamzee is cool with that, though, and keeps the silence party all rockin inside the car as he drives them up to the lookout point so's they can get some stargazing introflection on.
"well, here we are," gamzee announces, and karkat should really notice the depraved slide in his voice that the phone didn't pick up, but he's been sitting on something during the ride and now he turns to gamzee and kinda lets it blurt out:
"all i can think of is all those times eridan wanted to talk to me and i brushed him off like an idiot and now all this shit's happened and what if it's all my fault?" got the major motherfucking anguish on here but gamzee just replies "fuck if i care" and jumps him.
the first move he gets in is a crazy hard smack across karkat's face that feels pretty damn good and also kind of rattles karkat which is sort of unnecessary at this point but hey. it does start the mood off right and soon karkat is clawing at him and screeching which means he's got his capslock back and abandoned as the place may be he's gonna be in serious trouble if it doesn't stop so he shoves his hand into karkat's mouth. okay, maybe that wasn't the smartest move because whoa, fangs like a barracuda, but it does shut him up, or at least muffle him a lot. now he's only got one hand to do the rest of the subjugglating but he manages eventually, with his advantage in size and not being freaking the fuck out. he gets karkat's arms all twisted up behind him with some bandanas that smell like smoke and keeps his weight against karkat's body to subdue his thrashing and kicking. they're pressed together and stilled, breathing after the exertion as karkat's teeth grind a steady fuck you, fuck you into his hand. gamzee thinks about raping karkat like this and skims a finger along the waistband of his pants thoughtfully. he's pretty wound up, yeah, but that's more screaming and blood than he's really in the mood for right now. he rustles up some more shit from the detritus on the floor of his car and gets a more proper gag in, or at least one that doesn't require his active participation, as well as some ties for karkat's legs in case he decides he wants to kick the window in or something. karkat gives him the mad dirty glares as he's settling him in but gamzee doesn't mind, just licks blood off karkat's cheek and belts him in. there's only really one place they can go now, after all.
