DISCLAIMER! I (unfortunately) don't own Homestuck!

"ALICE!?"

"Eridan! What are you doing here?!" She half yelled trying to cover her naked form with JJ's shirt she had grabbed off the ground.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" Yelled Eridan.

"HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN HERE?! WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE?!"

"Eridan calm do-"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME THINK!"

JJ dragged Eridan to the kitchen and left Alice standing there horrified.

"You know her JJ?!"

"No, she came knocking on the door last night saying she couldn't drive home and this was the closest place to stay, I was too tired to question anything and before I knew it she had my dick I her hand and I wasn't thinking straight Eridan."

"Um..Yeah ok, she can be like that sometimes." Eridan was calming down when they heard a voice coming from the other room, she was on the phone.

"You have to kick her out JJ and fast."

"Yeah I'm working on it but she doesn't want to leave."

"Think about Chess."

"What's Chess got to do with this?"

"She's the reason Chess moved out of our house."

"Oh."

"Yeah.."

With that, JJ started to walk around gathering his clothes, he had his read and black checked boxers on, his pure black skinny jeans covered most of them, his back vans with blood red laces on his feet and the last item of clothing he needed was his shirt.

"I need that." JJ said gesturing to the black slipknot band shirt she currently wore to protect herself.

"You know you don't really want me to take it off in front of him." She smiled playfully and ran her fingers down his toned chest. He grabbed her wrist as it got to the edge of his jeans.

"My shirt." He said and whisked it off her and onto himself, she stood there naked and in mild shock as James (JJ) started to walk away. She grabbed his hand and held it dangerously close to her sweet spots and side stepped to be in front of him.

"C'mon pleease, I don't want him to see me like this." Her voice was so fake, JJ saw straight through her act and her fake tears. James simply looked her up and down, his face shifted expressions.

"Excuse me, I want breakfast and you're ruining my appetite with that ugly body of yours."

"HOW DARE YOU!" Screeched Alice as she swiped at his face. James's head whipped to the side as 3 lines ran down his cheek, droplets of blood seeped out.

"Bad move." Said Eridan and Alice turned to glare at him.

"What gives you the right to say that to me-" Alice was cut off as a hand shot out and gripped her neck.

"How DARE you." James stated clearly, his eyes had gone from a soft, bright green to a deep, dangerous red. He was PISSED.

"James, put her down. Eridan said, stepping in, he placed a hand on JJ's shoulder.

"Why should I?!" He was filled with rage and bitterness.

"Cause you would regret it afterwards."

Eridan's words seem to make sense to JJ because he dropped her and went to the kitchen.

"Get out." Said Eridan handing her a shirt.

She put it on and ran out.

Eridan stared wide eyed as he watched the car Alice had left in, it was all so twisted. Eridan was dialling Gamzee's number. It was continuously ringing before he picked up.

"Hey Gam, I havve some newws for you."

"Hey, motherfucker, whats up?"

"It's….. it's about Alice." He whispered.

"I'm listening."

"Gam, she was here. She was here and she slept with JJ and then she was sweet talking on the phone and she was perfectly fine. I also saw who picked her up.."

"Who was it Eridan!"

"It was the guy from her nightmares.. It didn't make sense at first but then I started thinking about what she was saying in a different less….. innocent way.." Said Eridan.

All that was heard after that was beeping, indicating that Gamzee had hung up. He was mad. Eridan sighed as he fell face first onto the lounge. He felt a stinging sensation in his nose but ignored it. He got up after some time and wondered between food and a shower, he opted for the shower. He wondered upstairs to the bathroom and to the shower. He turned on the tap and started to strip himself of his clothing. He got in under the water and shifted slightly as the hot water hit his back. He grabbed the soap and started to scrub himself. He let his mind wonder to Sollux. He missed him, was he ok? How was he holding up? Should I ring him? All these thoughts ran through his head as his hair flopped down onto his face. He got out of the shower and went to his room. He pulled out a pair of white skinny jeans and pulled them over his light mauve boxers then pulled out a wash-dyed blue shirt with random chibi anime characters on it and threw it over his head. He went back to the bathroom and fixed his hair. A butler knocked on the door and it swung open, the older man looked slightly concerned for a second before Eridan spoke.

"My mistake, I left it open, come in."

'Must have walked in one of James's night-time activities.' Thought Eridan as he made his way into the room.

"I'll clean the bathroom if you're done." He stated.

"Yeah, I'm finished thank you," Eridan bowed. "Umm, I don't mean to be rude but I'd like to know more about the maids and butlers in this house if that's ok, it's nothing personal, I'm just a bit antsy about who will be coming in here."

"There are no maids in this house sir and the only person in your room will be myself. Also another thing I think you should know because you seem a little fussy, no offence intended, is that the miss and master's only have men who are over the age of 40 employed as they are more experienced and master Phillip and his Queen aren't very trusting people, they trust each other completely and everyone in this house a little but they do not trust others easily."

"Yes, I was aware of their trust issues and I don't blame them after what they've been through but thank you for the information, it helps greatly." The man started to walk toward the bathroom when Eridan stopped him.

"By the way, I am quite fussy, you're a very good judge of character sir, I'm impressed."

"If I wasn't, I would have stopped Master James from doing to that vile girl what he did earlier." He said as he smirked. "By the way, Master Matthew will be back later today."

"Thank you."

Eridan then wondered down stairs to meet JJ who had eaten breakfast and showered.

"Hey, you want to come to the shops?" Asked James as he pulled on his black combat boots.

He had on black skinny jeans and a 'Baby Metal' black band shirt on. His black silk boxers hung over the edge of his pants and he obviously didn't care at all.

"So, did you knoww mattheww wwas coming home today?" Asked Eridan as they made their way to the door. JJ stopped dead in his tracks as Eridan said this. He spun on his heels to face Eridan.

"What did you just say?" James glared at Eridan almost as badly as he had glared at Alice.

Eridan walked calmly along the dirty pavement as he listened to JJ's tantrum. James's walking was unfounded as he stomped around, his frustrated steps matching his body language perfectly as he flailed his arms in the air, shouting and growling. People walking passed stared in a mix of curiosity and horror at his cussing and rage. Eridan started growing agitated and finally snapped.

"JJ! Enough! Matthew's coming back this afternoon and there is nothing you can do about it, GET. OVER IT! You love him, why are you so worried about him coming back?

James blinked a few times then looked away.

"…."

"Wwhat?"

"Hedoesntlovemeback."

"JJ, I can't hear you when you mumble."

"I SAID HE DOESN'T LOVE ME BACK! What's the point of being excited if he doesn't love me back?!"

"JJ…"

"Don't even Eridan, he's got a girlfriend now. He's not gay and he doesn't care about me so why bother. Why do you think I fuck all those girls?"

James shrugged and went back to walking. Just as they walked into the shop, 2 extremely familiar faces could be seen walking into the third isle.

The first was tall, about 6'4 and dressed in all black, eyeliner perfect to the end, piercings proudly worn all over the face from ears to eyebrows to lip and tongue even nose. Raven black shoulder length hair, half of which covered their face. Emo looking, to put it basically.

The second, shorter than the first by a whole foot, he stood at about 5'2, the same as Chess. Hip-long blond hair that curled into ringlets at the bottom but was straight at the top, in contrast to the dark clothes of the other, Pastel colours were present, pinks and blues with a little purple was worn.

Ash and Mary.

Ash turned his head slightly to notice Eridan and James in the doorway, heading towards them.

"Hey." He said with a slight nod of his head.

"I don't think I'll ever get used to how deep your voice is." Said James, shaking his head as his fist collided with ash's in a soft fist-bump.

"HEY! ERI! Long time, no see, how you been?!" Exclaimed Mary, jumping around, blond hair jumping as well.

"Hey Mar, Wwhat's up? You look more like a girl evvry time I see you."

"Shut the fuck up Eri-Gay, we can't all have the 'oh so wonderful' "Man" physic that you have." Said Mary as he poked his tongue out at Eridan.

"Please stop making altercations to my name Mary-pansy, it's impolite" Groaned Eridan with a smirk.

"Anyway! I can't believe you didn't tell us Mathew was coming back! I can't believe you!" scolded Mary. It was directed at James.

'This will be interesting.' Thought Eridan as JJ's face turned sour.

"I didn't even fucking know till this morning! Yelled James, loud enough to catch the ears of a few kids.

"He said a bad word! Mr! Mr! You said bad words! Imma go tell manager!" A little girl gasped.

"Yeah, get manager!" A little boy said, as they ran towards the office.

A moment later a bigger lady came out, she looked to be about 50-55ish everyone called her granny. Granny walked up to the group the two snickering children behind her.

"James, please watch the language, you kids know I don't mind you hanging around the store but the language."

"Yes Granny."

"Good."

The plump women walked back to her office, the two kids in tow, their short attention spans already occupied by something else.