Dirk opened the door maybe an hour later, Jake following him in the steps inside.
Dave laid on Jons bed still, clinging tightly to himself, Desperate for his friends arms around him.
Dirk took a seat on the floor, Jake sat in John's desk chair, they both gave eachother a quick glance before looking back down at Dave on the bed.
"I wonder what he's dreaming about"Jake said softly,
Dirk shrugged. "He's hurting... and he will be, for a long time"
[ -]
"Dave!"
"John?"
"Dave! Over here~!"
John stood there before him, waving at him from the distance. Dave blinked his eyes a few minutes, letting them adjust behind his glasses.
John stood before him, standing there in on the sidewalk, across a street from him...
"Dave! I made it Dave! Come over here!"
Dave took off across the street, running straight for the waving kid, but just as he reached his arms for him, 3 steps away, he felt his feet dig into the gravel, his arms grabbed air when the form vanished ...
"
NO! NO! JOHN! COME BACK!"
Something held him back, no, held him 'down' he was being forced to stay there in that spot, his arms locked down against his chest, he couldn't move.
[-]
Dave's eyes snapped open, a hand over his mouth was stopping his screaming, arms were locked around his form, holding his arms against his chest, , one hand around his mouth, one helping hold him down against the bed./
The screaming continued until the voice silenced him in a minute.
"Calm. Down..."
Dirks voice...
Jake and Dirk had been holding him down on the bed, his eyes narrowed until his screaming turned into a violent hiss, threatening them both until they let go.
"What the fuck!?" Dave growled, eyeing them both .
"You were screaming and beating the fucking wall to death"Dirk said firmly, glaring at him probably behind his shades.
"Wha-"
"You fell asleep and were having a night terror"Jake explained through Dave's confusion. "We had to hold you down or else my parents would've come up here and made things worse"He said calmly.
Dave sighed , letting out a few shaky deep breaths, tilting his head back, eyes closed, leaning back against the wall.
"How long have I been out?"He asked softly .
"Little over an hour"Dirk said "We're gonna go out through the woods and check out the traps... You wanna go?"
The traps... Yeah , Jake was an avid hunter, and ever since coming home from his year in wild side in Africa. He was obsessive over the style of hunting and had set up traps with Dirk, and he checked them every day.
Dave nodded slowly "You guys head out there, i'll find you.."He said softly .
The woods... After a few minutes of waking up and throwing his shoes on, he was out in them. Wild , Free and happy...
John had thing for nature even before Jake left... whenever Dave had come over, John had dragged him through the woods , running through the trees like Jake's wild naturistic side, John was always ahead of him.
John often complained about the 'Free world' being on the other side of the creek that divided his family's acres for the free woods.
They always sat on the banks, looking across, seeing nothing but the feilds and trees...
Even with the frost on the ground Dave let that memory flow through his brain, he headed for the banks of the creek, he'd not bothered to go find Jake and Dirk, but he was sitting there on the edge of the banks, the sun had started setting right over the edge of the 'FreeWorld'
Was John there?
This was his first time sitting there alone, and he missed the hand holding his, and he missed nature babbling from his nerd.
"John..."He whispered softly...
"Jooooohhnn?~"
Dave nearly toppled off the banks, that voice scared the shit out of him, coming out of no where. A gloved hand grabbed his shoulder, hauling him back by his coat away from the bank, dropping him down on his back.
Dave was staring up at a hooded cloak. His shades hid the persons face more than the hood did.
"Terezi! YOU FUCKING GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK! "
Terezi. Fucking Terezi.
Terezi was one of the trolls that had bothered to still talk to him after their adventures in their relm. She had chosen to stay over in the 'human' world.
Her. Karkat and Sollux had stayed.
The trolls normally wore the cloaks, black gloves, and long pants and shirts, makeup and much more to conceal their identities from the humans.
Terezi had been one of his friends in their 'fight' and she'd stayed behind to learn more about the human world.
Karkat had stayed cause of Terezi, thinking he should make sure she didn't mess things up and was normally found at his host home, on the computer, talking to his boyfriend back in the troll world.
And Sollux just stayed cause he was sick of listening to his ex's whining in the troll world, nothing worse than a fish running around spreading relm had been their new Start.
They'd exchanged almost, after alot of convincing to Roxie. She'd let Rose go and stay for a year with her girlfriend in the troll world, Kanaya.
And Jade had gone to keep Rose in line.
3 trolls in the human world
2 humans in the troll world.
Simple right?
Nope...
Its hard getting them back and forth, but luckily, they had gotten everyone together for their plan,
But enough of that.
Terezi was staring down at him with that fucking creepy grin He had no time to talk about 'why' and 'how' things had turned out.
"Welllllllllllll Aren't you gonna talk?~"
God he hated that loud whiny voice ..
"There's nothing to say!"He spat, sitting up straight. God.. he could barely handle her being here, and his hatred had even more of a fact of growing .
"Well you were talking about nerdy boy to the air, so somethings obviously on your brainnn~ "
Luckily for his brain she didn't giggle again.
Terezi... plain and simple, had hated John and Dave's relationship... simple, as , that.
And it wasn't gonna help if she started picking at the situation.
"Not talking?~ Not fair! I came alll the way tracking you and you won't even talk to me?~ I found alot of stuff in the 'downtown?' section . Aren't you interested?"
God he didn't fucking care what she found, or probably stole, even when she held out the half soaked black backpack from her cloak.
"What is drenching the backpack?" He mumbled.
" Stuff I found on the ground~ well if your un-interested, I'm going back to Jane's house,I have some new stuff to have her read to me! "
Even when she walked away giggling ,the little laugh was something... weird... off for once... well more off than normal.
But fuck it, she left him alone, and that was fine.
She was going back to her 'host' family in this relm, aka Jane's place.
And she went off to probably read something stupid ...
Dave looked up from his laying position past the branches, looking up at the skies, watching the darkened clouds .
"A message... something..." He mumbled softly, another fucking hallmark moment thought out in his head...
Fuck it, it sounded happy , and he wanted to be happy right now.
But something kept nudging at his brain...
What was so special about Terezi needing something read?...
