AC: :33 – Youre welcome!
AC: :33 – :oo
CG: WHAT NOW
AC: :33 – I have an idea! :DD
CG: OH NO
AC: :33 – Oh yes!
CG: ALRIGHT LETS HEAR IT
CG: WHAT IS THIS UNDOUBTABLY SHITTY IDEA HAVE YOU COME UP WITH NOW
AC: :33 – You should come over and roleplay with me!
AC: :33 – That will keep your mind off of things! :DD
CG: NO
CG: THAT IS THE WORST IDEA I HAVE EVER HEARD IN THE ENTIRETY OF MY EXISTANCE
AC: :33 – Come on!
AC: :33 – It will be fun!
CG: ABSOLUTELY NOT
AC: :33 – Purrlease?
CG: NO
AC: :33 – Yes!
CG: NO
AC: :33 – Yes!
CG: NO
AC: :33 – Yes!
CG: NO WE ARE NOT STARTING THIS WHOLE YES NO BULLSHIT
AC: :33 – Purrlease? Purrety purrlease?
CG: IF I AGREE TO THIS SHITTY PLAN WILL YOU STOP ANNOYING ME
AC: :33 – Maybe :PP
CG: FINE ILL DO IT
AC: :33 – Really? :oo
CG: YES NOW HURRY UP AND TELL ME WHAT I HAVE TO DO BEFORE I COME TO MY SENSES AND CHANGE MY MIND
AC: :33 – Meet me at my hive and I will explain everything :DD
CG: FINE
CG: SEE YOU THERE I GUESS
carcinoGeneticist [CG] ceased pestering arsenicCatnip [AC]
Nepeta looked up from the screen, speechless. Awestruck. Karkat Vantas, the troll she had been crushing on for her whole life, had just accepted her invitation (with some purrsuasion) to come to her hive and roleplay. It was a dream come true. A miracle. Hurriedly she stood up and began straightening up her art supplies, which were scattered haphazardly around the room. Sure, their organization made perfect sense to her, but anyone else would see it as a complete disaster. As she cleaned, she wondered what the next few hours would look like. Karkat would come (He was purrobably walking over right now! Clean faster!) and she would greet him at the outer door and lead him to her room. Once there, she would casually show him her shipping wall (Though, not my OTP of course, that will remain hidden behind the crates. Speaking of, better make puurtain that you can't see it through the gaps!) and see what he thought of them (Oh, but what if he doesn't like them? No, he will like them, I'm pawsitive!). Then, they would sit down and she would explain to him how to roleplay. They would figure out a scenario and characters and then the real fun would begin.
Nepeta allowed her mind to wander as she envisioned the different outcomes. What kind of roleplay would ensue? Would it be action/adventure? Or maybe some kind of AU? Or maybe they would do a role-reversal like she and Equius often did…. Equius! She had completely forgotten! Panicked, she bolted to the door and poked her head out. Amid the piles of machinery strewn about the floor, sitting at his desk tinkering with some odds and ends, sat her moirail. If he were to get to the door first, or even find out that Karkat was coming over… She shuddered at the thought. But how was she supposed to get him away from their shared hive for a few hours? As she was thinking, he stood and walked over.
"Nepeta, I'm leaving for a few hours to look for more parts. Please do not leave the hive, it's very dangerous."
"Okay!" she replied. What a stroke of luck! Now, with Equius busy and away for the next few hours, everything would go according to plan. Incredulous at her good fortune, Nepeta returned to her cleaning, confident that everything would be perfect.
Karkat, however, was feeling quite differently. He leaned back in his chair and looked up at the ceiling above. What was he thinking? Accepting Nepeta's invitation to roleplay? What, was he going to start a shipping wall too? He sighed. This was a great plan to stop thinking about Terezi. Doing the thing that she too had pestered him about. Though, he was quite certain that Nepeta, at least, wouldn't want to roleplay court scenes and their various cases all day long. He logged out of pesterchum and turned off his computer. After one swift glance around his hive, he set off toward Nepeta and Equius's shared hive.
He walked down the corridor to the transportalizer pads and stepped onto the one that would take him to the closest pad to his destination. There was an odd sensation of being pulled apart and put back together before he stood on an identical pad in another part of the meteor. He set off down a similar corridor and almost ran into Equius as he turned a corner, not paying attention.
"What are you doing here, lowblood," Equius asked, surprised.
"I'm walking. What else would I be doing," Karkat answered, annoyed, "And how can you call me 'lowblood' if you don't even know what my blood color is?"
Equius looked startled for a moment; perhaps he was considering what would happen if he were actually a higher blood than he was. "I-I wouldn't know I suppose. Your refusal to tell anyone is quite frustrating."
It was true. He hadn't told anyone what his blood color truly was, and only Terezi knew because she could smell it. Terezi again. Would he never stop thinking about her? "Well, I haven't got all day. Are you going to let me through or what?"
Flustered, Equius moved out of the way. Karkat could hear him mumbling to himself about blood color as he passed. Karkat continued to the end of the corridor, where the familiar set of doors lined up in front of him. He walked by the room he had been in just days ago with Terezi, where she had licked the walls of Nepeta's gallery. The first in the line of events leading to what he was doing now: Going to a cat troll's hive to roleplay in a feeble attempt to keep his mind off of her. It all seemed pretty stupid.
He walked to the last door, raised his fist, and knocked.
If you're reading this, thank you! Especially if you've been around here for a few updates! I know I'm certainly not the fastest author out there, so I appreciate your patience. I promise, there will be KatNep fluff at some point. I know it's been pretty lacking (I mean, they're not even together yet! What kind of KatNep fic is this?), but I ask as always for your understanding and patience with me. Thanks for reading, and as always I love reviews, criticism, praise, anything you want to give me!