Accidental Overdose

Feferi pressed the close button on Trollian. Goatdad and Gamzee had just been conversing: simple things like how Goatdad was doing and what Gamzee had been up to over the sweeps. Goatdad apologised to Gamzee for the lack of his presence. Gamzee had told him that it was 'motherfucking fine' yet Goatdad still felt he needed to do something to make up for his time away. He was going to live with Gamzee again as the experience of being shot with a spear had made him realise his mistake. He thought he was doing Gamzee a favour: teaching him how to fend for himself, but all he did was make him dependant on sopor slime and other trolls to take care of him. Feferi was happy to hear that. Goatdad knew his mistake and was prepared to face the problem that he had created. Feferi didn't like to think that Gamzee had a problem. She probably felt that she could fix him. But only Goatdad could fix that particular hole in his life.

After looking at his condition, Feferi believed Goatdad would need to stay in the hospital for a few days. The stitches were still healing, slowly but surely. He needed to rest. Feferi had already talked to him about what had happened to him. She decided not to get into an argument with him because any stress on his body could cause the stitches to open. He had told her about how he was just swimming about, minding his own business when suddenly, a strike of blue shot through the ocean and buried itself into his tail. He snapped it in half, not pulling it out because he was no fool, and found a safe place to wait for help. He knew something would pick up his high-caste blood and come looking for him. He then went onto thanking Feferi for helping him so quickly and for making sure he was alright. Feferi had told him repeatedly not to mention it, but he persevered in thanking her.

Seeing as Feferi already had evidence against Eridan, she didn't really need any more to confront him. Though she would have liked some more to back up her accusation, she would take what she got. Swimming over to Eridan's hive, the bag of blue spear shards that she had collected from Goatdad's surgery patted her leg gently with each stroke she made. She spied Eridan from one of the windows. Swimming into his hive she yelled as loud as she could:
"ERIDAN AMPORA GET YOUR GLUBBING BUTT DOWN HERE!" She watched him slowly come out from a room.
"Fef? What's up?" His voice was noticeably scared and well it should have been. Feferi was pissed as hell.
"Do you care to explain why I found THIS," She held up the bag in his face, "In MY MATESPRIT'S lusus?"
"Uh, well, you see…" He rubbed the back of his head. Feferi squinted her eyes at him.
"GO ON!" She moved her head forward until she was head-on with him.
"I was out one day lookin' for lusus for Gl'bgolyb to eat and I saw this real fast one so I decided to, y'know, kill it. But when I shot it, I realised that this wasn't your average low-blood lusus so I backed off. I realised it had the same blood as Gamzee so I didn't want to tell you in case you got mad at me. Ironic how that works, eh?" He laughed nervously. Feferi shook her head.
"Eridan you GLUBBING IDIOT! You should have told me! Then I would have solved the problem faster and PUMMELLED YOU TO THE GROUND!" At this point she had already started punching him on the arm.
"Geez, Fef, I'm sorry! I didn't know it was that goat guy. I just wanted to see if I could shoot it." Feferi rolled her eyes.
"That is SO like you. Here, your stupid spear got stuck in his tail." She handed over the bag forcefully. "Try to not shoot any glubbing lusus that goes faster than the average low-blood the next time you go hunting, okay?" She stormed out of the hive and left Eridan there feeling very guilty and looking it as well.

Feferi fumed in her hive. She furiously swept from room to room looking for something to calm her down. She looked at her sopor slime-filled pod and hesitated. Sopor slime seemed to calm Gamzee down. He always seemed happiest after eating a pie. And it did make her feel good the first time she had tried it. What was the harm?

She took out a finger and scooped up the green slime that filled her pod. She put it into her mouth and instantly felt a rush of warmth in her body. Another scoop made her feel almost giddy, and another made her forget that she ever had problems to begin with. Once she had started, she felt she couldn't stop. It was so good and just kept getting better. She began swirling in the room, the cuttlefish being bumped every now and then. She had never felt so relaxed and happy before. It was amazing. She continued spinning and dancing until she blacked out and fell into a deep sleep.

She woke to a view of cuttlefish and aquatic hoofbeasts looking over her in awe and worry. She smiled at them, why were they so worried about her? She slowly lifted herself off the ground and went to her desk to check her Trollian for messages, she was shocked by the amount of trolls that had been trolling her since the night before. Only it wasn't since just the night before. Feferi had been unconscious for two days. She had taken too much sopor slime and blacked out for two days. Two days. Most of the messages on Trollian were Eridan asking if she was okay or why she wasn't online. The rest were all similar messages from Gamzee. Feferi decided to talk to Gamzee first. She could let Eridan know she was okay in person.

Gamzee was relieved to know she was still alive and that she hadn't been seriously injured. Feferi told him about the sopor slime and Gamzee told her that when you hadn't taken sopor slime before, you should never take on more than your limit. Gamzee had, in fact, suffered that experience before and was very sympathetic. Feferi imagined Eridan would yell at her. It seemed all he ever did was yell at her. Gamzee asked her not to use sopor slime any more. He didn't want her to make the same mistakes as him and wanted her to be safe. She promised that the only use she would have for sopor slime would be for sleeping in. He thanked her and told her that he missed her kisses. She laughed and told him that she was seriously hungry so she was going to find food and talk to Eridan. After telling him that, she followed through on her words.

Feferi took a long time eating her food. Perhaps it was her sub-conscious putting off talking to Eridan. She really didn't want to face his disapproval again.