Sadness Accidentally Found

Feferi had been spending more and more time on the surface with Gamzee. She would always make time for Eridan and Gl'bgolyb but Gamzee had become her main priority. Though she was spending a lot of time with him, and felt that she knew him better than she knew herself, she had still not met any of his friends. Not even his moirail, Karkat. It bothered Feferi that she didn't know such important trolls in her matesprit's life. Gamzee seemed to be perfectly happy to just spend time with her. He was constantly amazed by her: the life in her eyes, the joy in her smile, the way she made him feel. He was always happily surprised and she was so unpredictable. Of course, Feferi loved being with Gamzee. It was her favourite activity. She had been practicing walking on the land more, as well. It took some time, but now she was fairly adaptable to the dry land.

One day, when Feferi was staying over at Gamzee's hive, she brought up the issue of meeting the other trolls.
"I still haven't met your friends, Gamzee. Spending time with you is wonderful, but I feel like I'm missing out on a big part of your life." She said after getting comfortable in the horn pile.
"Well if meeting my bros is what you want to up and do then that's not a motherfucking problem, princess." He kissed her lightly which made her smile.
"I mean, I haven't even met your moirail yet!" She exclaimed. "What if that's the wrong way around and I've done everything wrong!?" She seemed genuinely upset about that thought. Gamzee took both of her hands.
"You didn't do a motherfucking thing wrong. All you've done is be a motherfucking miracle." He said, smiling at her with his goofy grin. She climbed over to him.
"Well, I am pretty miraculous." She said grinning.

The next night, Gamzee took Feferi out to meet his friends. They had all decided to gather at Terezi's hive as it had both protection from the sun (Terezi's lusus didn't want any more trolls to go blind) and a beautiful forest that was the complete opposite from anything Feferi had experienced before. Though Feferi could walk properly now, Gamzee still supported her in case she was to trip over herself again. In the water, Feferi was graceful and strong but up on land, she was clumsy and unbalanced. Gamzee could see that, and felt because she was helping him, it was only right that he help her.

The trip to Terezi's hive took a while, but they got there eventually. It was beautiful. The trees were tall and stretched into the sky. The pink leaves fluttered in the wind and crunched under Feferi's feet. She'd chose to wear her shoes for this particular outing. She chose well. If her feet had been bare, they would have gotten dirty very quickly. Feferi looked all around her in amazement. The forest was eons more beautiful than under the waves of the ocean. Gamzee watched her as she stared at this new experience. She looked so happy, so carefree. A faint smile found itself on Gamzee's face.

Feferi noticed Terezi right away; she was short, with hair that reached her shoulders and hid her blind eyes behind a set of red glasses. Gamzee had told Feferi what had happened. How Vriska had used her psychic abilities to control Tavros, who then used his psychic abilities to control Terezi's lusus who then controlled Terezi and made her look directly at the sunlight. It caused her to go blind and she and Vriska had never had their friendship completely fixed since then. Vriska wasn't coming to this particular get together. She was busy looking into her ancestor's background. Vriska had become almost obsessed with Marquise Spinneret Mindfang, looking through various journals and searching for buried treasure chests that may contain clues to the secrets of Mindfang's life. Vriska aspired to be like her ancestor. In her FLARPing times, she would always pillage and plunder, beat down and murder, just like a true pirate captain would.

Feferi was slightly relieved to not meet Vriska. She seemed rather intimidating. Tavros was also absent as he was helping Vriska track down as much history about the Ancestors as possible. Those that were there included Terezi, Karkat, Nepeta, Equius, Kanaya and Sollux. Terezi and Karkat were the only ones other than Feferi and Gamzee that were in a redrom relationship. Equius and Nepeta were close moirails and Gamzee had previously told Feferi that Nepeta was secretly flushed for Karkat but he sadly did not feel the same. That Nepeta was flushed for Karkat wasn't as secret as Nepeta would want. Equius had never been in a redrom or blackrom relationship and his flushed or otherwise feelings had always remained clouded in mystery. Sollux was, of course, in a kismesitude with Eridan. He had previously had a matesprit who, in another of Vriska's psychic revenge crimes, had died. Her name was Aradia Megido. She was a burgundy-blood, and loved exploring ruins. As revenge for Vriska breaking Tavros' legs, Aradia had sent ghosts to haunt Vriska. Vriska, in return, used her power to force Sollux to kill her. Sollux still hadn't quite gotten over it. Kanaya Maryam had never had a matesprit. She instead enjoyed being an auspistice to anyone who needed one. Though she had at one point had flushed feelings for Vriska, Vriska's interest in Tavros had sent her into a state of unwillingness to have a red or blackrom relationship. She spent most of her time creating outfits for her fellow trolls.

Feferi thought that they were all such nice trolls. They all cared deeply about one another and had great friendships together. They welcomed Feferi as not only a royal fuchsia-blood or even as Gamzee's matesprit but as one of their own; a shining new edition to their group. They accepted her for who she was and she was so grateful of that.

At one point, Kanaya had asked Feferi how she and Gamzee had met. Feferi replied with the tale of the slipped finger and the overly-happy greeting. They all laughed about it.
"…And I knew which spot on the beach to look because I had seen it before and it had Gamzee's butt print on it!" They laughed.
"Yeah, you sit there a lot, don't you Gamzee?" Asked Karkat.
"Hell yeah. It's the spot I get my motherfucking chill on." Gamzee replied.
"Why do you sit there so often?" Feferi wondered.
"Waiting on my lusus. He hasn't come back in a while. I motherfucking worry about him." Gamzee's eyes held a hint of sadness. "He just went out into the ocean and never came back." Feferi looked at her matesprit with sad eyes. Had she known that, she would have said something, offered to look around the ocean for him. Instead, she left it for another time when they were on their own.

But for that moment, she was enjoying herself. Watching the pink leaves rustle in the wind, surrounded by the new friends she had made.