Chapter 9
I don't own Homestuck, just this plot.
Thanks for the review MimiKeehl-Jeevas
"I wonder why my mom isn't home yet," Karkat asks, he has a towel on his head because he just got out of the shower.
"Maybe they are on a date?" Dave says.
"Date?"
"Yeah, wait you have never heard of a date?!"
"So what?"
"Well it is when two people do things together when they really like each other."
"Like us?" Karkat asks, "We hang out all the time and we don't hate each other."
"But we aren't dating," Dave says, "we aren't a couple or anything," he says looking away.
"Ok, so we hang out and your brother and my mom date?"
"Yeah I guess," he says.
"OK," he says, "why the fuck are you blushing?"
"No reason," he says, "I should go home," Dave puts on his shades and leaves.
"Later," Karkat says.
"See ya tonight Karkles," Dave closes the door.
Karkat walks into his room and puts on some makeup that makes him look a human skin tone, he puts on his costume, "hn, so this is how I will fucking look tonight?" He takes a picture then gets on his laptop.
- terminallyCapricious [TG] is trolling carcinoGeneticist [CG]
[TG] HeLlO My bRoThEr.
[CG] HELLO GAMZEE, WHAT DO YOU WANT TODAY?
[TG] I WaNt tO KnOw wHy yOu aRe wEaRiNg tHaT CoStUmE.
[CG] IT IS FOR HALLOWEEN. I A GOING AS A DEMON, SINCE YOU CAN SEE ME THEN YOU MUST HAVE SEEN STRIDER.
[TG] YeAh mOtHeRfUcKeR, hE Is fLuShEd fOr YoU.
[CG] FLUSHED? IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN HE HAS A CRUSH ON ME OR SOMETHING, OR IS THAT FOR A DIFFERENT VERSION OF YOUR MESSE UP FOUR PART FUCKING LOVE SQUARE?
[TG] YoU WeRe rIgHt tHe fIrSt tImE.
[CG] OK, ANYTHING ELSE?
[TG] NoPe, HoNk. : O )
[CG] ):B
[TG] YoU DiD OnE! (O:
[CG] SHUT UP. ):B. BYE!
- carcinoGeneticist [CG] blocks terminallyCapricious [TG]
Karkat closes his laptop, "ugh, talking to him always makes me so fucking pissed!" Cooler Than Me starts to play from Karkat's phone, "Gog Strider, you just left," he picks it up, "hello?" He is washing the make-up off.
"Unlock the door and let me back in, I will not go back to my house ever again," Dave says.
Karkat opens the door, "what happen?"
Dave walks in then looks at Karkat, "why are you in your costume?"
"I was bored," he says and they walk to the kitchen, "catch," he throws him an apple juice, "now tell me what you saw."
"Ok," they sit in the living room, "I saw them kissing."
"What?"
"I know!"
"Why the fuck is that such a big deal?"
"Dude, if they get married then I will be your uncle or something!"
"Not by blood so it doesn't fucking matter," Karkat says, "stop shitting bricks and drink the A.J."
Dave smiles, "no need to tell me twice," he finishes it.
"Do you still have your costume?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Change," he says.
"Why?"
"Just fucking do it," he says with a grin.
"Fine," Dave changes in the bathroom, "I can't get the fucking wings on!"
"Come out and I will help," Dave walks out and Karkat puts his wings on him.
"So what now?"
"This," Karkat pulls out his sickles, "kneel angel boy."
"So the demon thinks he can order me around?" Dave pulls out his sword, "try and make me."
"Fake weapons," Karkat mutters and Dave switches out his sword for a plastic one, "then I will have to take your wings and make you a human beast."
"Ha!" Dave charges at him and Karkat blocks him, "is that the best you got demon? I will send you back to where you came from!" Dave swings his sword at Karkat and he smacks it out of Dave's hands.
"So little angel," Karkat kicks it away and holds the fake sickles to Dave's neck, "what will you do now?"
"Damn it," he hisses, "Karkles this isn't fun anymore."
Karkat raises his eyebrow, "well little angel," he lets him go, "I guess you are now my servant."
"What?"
"I spared your life so now you have to obey me."
"Says who?"
"Me," Karkat holds the fake sickle to his neck again, "got it?"
"Yeah," Dave pushes the sickle away then Karkat start to laugh.
"Why are you so fucking serious, it is just a game," he puts his fake sickles in his Sylladex, "chill."
"What?!" He asks irritated, Karkat is the only person in the world that can make him drop his cool kid act. "You are the one who made up this stupid fucking game!"
"What is wrong with you?"
"You didn't stop it when it stopped being funny!" Dave says.
"Sorry, I didn't fucking know it made you shit bricks from discomfort."
"Enough with the shitting bricks thing!"
"Fine," Karkat says, "you need to take a fucking chill pill Strider," he throws him some apple juice, "drink it and chill."
"I will not 'chill' who taught you that word anyway?"
"You," he says and drinks a soda, "why are you so pissed today?"
"I am not pissed," he says, "damn it where are my shades?!" He looks around.
Karkat sighs when he picks them up and Dave is still looking for them, "hey dumb ass, look at me," he puts them on.
"What Karkles?" Dave doesn't.
"Just look," he says.
Dave looks at him, "my shades!"
"I just found them," he says with the same smirk Dave does when he knows something.
"Give," he says.
"Why?" HE asks, "you look better with them off."
Dave blushes, "what?"
"I like being able to see your eyes, they are nice," Karkat says, "oh fuck did I just say something wrong? Why is your face red, are you sick?!"
"N-no," Dave looks away, damn it Karkles! Why did you have to phrase it like that?!
"Are you fucking sure," Karkat puts his hand on Dave's forehead, "oh I know what is wrong now!"
Dave is shocked, no don't say it!
He runs into the kitchen then hands him more A.J. "you are still thirsty," he says.
OH thank God he is stupid sometimes! "Y-yeah," he takes it.
"It's not like what Gamzee said about you liking me is true or anything."
Dave spits out his juice, "he said what now?!"
"He said you like me a lot," Karkat says, "but not like bros, like, like like me."
"That is stupid," Dave says drinking his apple juice, thank God he is really dumb when it comes to people liking him. He can spot anyone else but not when it comes to himself.
"Yeah," Karkat says, "it isn't like I would like you back like that anyway," I wonder when he will figure out I like him like that? Knowing him I will have to just tell him, but not now, maybe some fucking other time when he isn't shitting bricks.
"Yeah, we are bros Karkles not lovers."
Karkat sticks out his tongue, "gross Strider, I think I need to go and fucking puck."
"Maybe you are the one who is sick," Dave says and takes the shades from him, "Karkles do you ever fucking sleep when I don't make you?"
"Shut up," he says and walks into his room.
"Hey," when Dave walks in Karkat has already changed.
"What?" He hangs his costume in his closet.
"Never mind," Dave changes, "that is better."
"Well we are going to be wearing this all night tonight," Karkat says.
"I know," he says with a sigh, "I hate the wings."
"You look good in them," Karkat says, "like I look good with horns."
Dave looks at him, "Karkles."
"Yeah?"
"Shut up," Dave says.
"What did I say?"
"Shoosh," he covers Karkat's mouth and petting his head, "shoosh."
Karkat sits on his bed very relaxed as Dave, shooshes him, he starts to purr. Karkat notices and runs away from him, "don't do that!"
"What, you looked really relaxed," Dave says.
"Yeah, too relaxed! I don't want to go to fucking sleep!"
"Why do you hate sleep?"
"For good reasons."
"Dude, if you have nightmares or something…"
"No, I don't want to go back to that place!" He snaps then covers his mouth, "shit!"
"What place Karkles?"
"You aren't awake yet, I can't tell you," Karkat says, "Gog damn it Jade I hate you!"
"Why does this have to do with Jade?"
"She is the one who told me I shouldn't go right out and tell you everything. But haven't you ever wondered why she is always fucking asleep?"
"Well, no, I am too worried about you not sleeping."
Karkat sighs, "Until you wake up then I won't tell you."
"Wake up where?"
"Your fucking dream self, when you wake up there then I will take to you about why I don't sleep as much as I should."
Dave sighs, "so how do you wake up this 'dream self'?"
"How the fuck should I know, all I know is I woke up there and now every time I sleep I go to that place."
"The place got a name?"
"Prospit," Karkat says, "go ask Jade about it. Besides you aren't here, I have looked and all I have found is Jade and John, who is still sleeping like you."
"Well where am I then?"
"Derse."
"Derse? Why am I there?"
"You don't make your bed," Karkat says, "if you did then you would have been on Prospit like me."
Dave is silent, "so I am on a different planet because I don't know how to make a bed."
"Yep," Karkat says, "well that is how I think it works."
"What has Jade told you then?"
"Nothing," he hisses, "nothing, the only way I can talk to the real Jade is if I go to sleep and that isn't happening."
"You don't like Prospit or something?"
"I don't, every time I go there someone bugs me or Jade drags me around to meet several stupid ass people."
"That is Jade, so you have met her?"
"Yeah, several times, she thinks I am a grouchy fucker. But we are still friends, I think."
Dave sighs, "never mind, just drop the topic and pick a new one."
"Ok," he says, "hey we need to go," he grabs his costume.
"Why?" Dave looks at the clock.
"We are going to miss all the Trick or Treating! I am not missing out on free candy."
"Ok, ok," Dave and Karkat change in different rooms.
"Hurry up fuck ass!" Karkat screams at him.
"Shit the wings are stuck!" Dave walks out to Karkat and the wings are stuck on his head.
"How did you manage to do that?"
"Shut up and help me," Dave says. Karkat fixes him.
"'Here," he hands him a white pillow case, "I get the black one."
"Bring trash bags," Dave says, "we are going to get a lot of candy."
"Fine," He grabs all of the trash bags and puts them in his Sylladex.
"Ok now we can go," they leave.
"What took you two?" Kanri asks standing with Bro, she is gray and has long horns that circle around themselves once then goes straight up. She has on a black shirt with a white Scorpio sign on it.
"We got help up by Dave's wings," Karkat says, "He can't get them on by himself."
"Good job," Kanri says.
Dave is wearing his shades, "let's go and get some candy," he pulls Karkat away.
"Hey," he hisses.
Karkat is glad he brought the trash bags now because Dave was right, they ended up using three each, "this will last us for weeks," Karkat says.
"Weeks?! Dude this will last us a year!" Dave says.
"Follow me," Karkat takes him to the roof of his house, "look up."
"Whoa, nice view," the look up at the stars.
"That is Aquarius, there is Scorpio, over there is Cancer, and that one is Capricorn."
"How do you know that?" Dave asks.
"I sit out here every summer at night and learn the name of each star and constellation."
"Wow, what is that?"
"Pisces," he says, "and that is Oran's Belt."
"Is there anything you don't know right now?"
"Yeah, I don't know a lot of fucking things."
"Like?" Dave asks wanting to see his answer, he takes off his shades.
"When the world will end, why I am awake on Prospit, how did this universe start, who made it? Why am I different from everyone, why do people have to judge others like they do?"
"That is a lot of questions."
"I still have a fucking truck load to say," he says, "but the answer won't make any differences."
"Why the fuck not?!"
"No one would believe me besides you, mom, and Bro. Beside who else would I want to tell, John would think I am quoting a movie or something, Rose will try to put me in another therapy session because to her I have 'issues', and Jade. Oh Gog, then there is Jade, she will believe every word I say but then make me think of a thousand new questions to replace them, she even knows some of the answers but refuses to tell me."
"What does she know?"
"More than she will let on, Prospit lets her see parts of the future. Another reason I hate it there."
"Why, knowing the future is cool. SO if something bad is going to happen, then you can change it."
"I tried that," he says, "it happen the exact same as when I watched it."
"What was it?"
"Nothing," he says, "just fucking drop it."
"Fine," he says and they go back to looking at the stars.
Hope you liked it, review if you did. And here ends the Halloween part because I love Halloween.
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