Yes, that's right, Day 3 of the OTP Challenge has been completed!

There is another drabble for all of you lovely Erikars and I hope all of you enjoy it; I certainly had fun writing it despite any complaining I may or may not have done.

Prompt for today is Gaming/Watching A Movie. Typically a harmless prompt but…

Well, find out for yourselves. Only things I shall note before you embark on reading this drabble is that it is from Eridan's point of view and good luck.

Movie night; everything was fully set up, now you would wait a while before actually starting.

It had been a long standing tradition between you and Kar, even before the two of you became a "thing." You would both hang out at least once a week, ignore everyone else and watch a movie. No matter how busy either of you got. Sometimes you got to choose, sometimes he got to choose. It used to swap off to make things fair enough. Now you mainly chose the movies.

If you were to be entirely truthful, when Kar chose the movie, you sometimes paid more attention to his reactions than the actual film itself. He would get so emotional over the damn things, and it seemed almost childish to you, though it was extremely cute. Afterwards, he would try to play it off like nothing had happened and he hadn't burst into tears when, predictably, one of the protagonists fucked it up; pretend that if he had already seen it, he didn't mouth along with the lines he knew by heart; act as if he hadn't gone through a huge emotional rollercoaster as if he was actually there and knew the characters involved.

It was endearing and one of the things you loved about Karkat.

You tried hard not to think about how you had died and your matesprit was still alive; or, on the possibility that he was among the dead as well, you couldn't find him.

Some nights you waited hours before starting up the movies that you picked; ones that you knew he'd like, hoping that maybe this would be the time when he showed up and you could be together again.

It hadn't happened yet. The Karkats you had met up til now weren't yours; that mattered to you. It had to be the one from your timeline that had your scarf or it wasn't right.

Sometimes you wondered why you still bothered with this stupid tradition; it obviously wasn't the same without Kar, and it brought your pain back to the surface. Like pouring salt in a wound; it never allowed it to heal properly, but you weren't sure if it could be fixed anyway.

You gave up quickly on the idea of him coming this time around and started watching the film alone; you felt bitter and awful as the characters were introduced and the plot rolled along. Why did fictional characters get to be happy and with the troll they pitied and you COULDN'T?

You just couldn't ever win! With Feferi, you lost her as a moirail and couldn't get her to pity you! Vris dumped your sorry ass because you bored her. You had finally found fucking happiness with Kar and then the fucking session screwed everything up! It wasn't fair; the afterlife was supposed to be better!

Anger got the better of you, and you didn't even realize Ahab's Crosshairs was in your hands until your TV was wrecked. Tears were streaming down your face, emotions high as a mixture of loneliness and rage washed over you.

The prince of hope was in pieces, and his knight wasn't around to fix it this time around.

Nights passed since then, if time really made any fucking sense in these dream bubbles. You had tried to regain your composure and not fall to pieces again in that time. So far, you felt that you were doing a pretty good job.

Some of the other trolls tried talking to you, but you were more snippish and awful than usual so they quickly left. Good. You didn't want to deal with them.

So, it came as a surprise when someone knocked on the door of your hive; at first you ignored it but then a way-too-fucking-happy voice yelled from outside, "Eridan, I know you're in there! I found somefin that you lost and he reely, reely wants to talk to you!"

You didn't really pay too much attention to her wording, but got up to answer the door; knowing Fef, she wasn't going to leave since she knew you were "sulking" as she would put it.

As you opened the door, you started talking, "Fef, I'm not in the 'glubbing' mood for thi-"

You lost the ability to breathe or even speak the moment you noticed the troll next to her. He was staring right back at you, seeming just as shocked; his now blood color filled eyes wide. This one was definitely the one from your timeline; he had your scarf and Feferi wouldn't have made the mistake of bringing you a Karkat from a different timeline. She knew you too well.

Though, somehow you had forgotten that Feferi was there until she spoke up again, "Cod, guys, stop staring at each other pike fish out of water and hug or somefin."

Deciding that Fef's idea was the best course of action, you embraced the shorter troll, holding him as close as possible as if he might disappear on you. He was apparently just as emotionally overwhelmed as you were, because you could feel your shirt getting wet as he buried his face against your chest.