He woke up before her, and she was curled up against him breathing softly onto his chest. A huge smile came to his face when he remembered what had happened the night before. He pulled her closer and pressed his face into her hair, kissing her lightly. She sighed sweetly and snuggled against him, her face resting at the base of his neck, and he felt his heart speed up slightly.

He gently pushed her soft, dark hair away and touched her cheek, running his fingers up and down the side of her face and neck slowly. She tipped her head a bit, exposing more of her skin to him, and a smile crept to her lips. He quickly wiped the stupid grin off his face, sporting a significantly cooler nonchalant grin when she opened her eyes. Her smile widened as she looked at him. She put her hands behind his neck to pull his face to hers and she nuzzled his cheek sweetly and enthusiastically, giggling all the while. His heart was racing again, but he kept his face straight. He had to be cool.

"Mornin' to you too, Harley." He was working hard to keep the tone of his voice even despite the fact that he was the happiest he had been in he didn't know how long. She smiled in response and pressed her forehead to his. He could not help himself. He brought his face forward and kissed her lightly on the lips. When he pulled back, she was staring at him and her cheeks were flushed. He felt his heart thumping hard in his chest as they looked at each other, searching each other's faces, and then almost simultaneously they pressed hard against each other, a deep and passionate kiss. Their tongues twined between their mouths and Jade was moaning softly against him, sending shivers through his body.

He kissed her harder then, laying on his back and pulling her on top of him, hands running down her back and through her hair, occasionally finding her own hands as they explored one another. Her hands were against his shoulders, running down his arms and back up again. When she moved her hands to touch his collarbone he gasped audibly at the sensation that ran through him. She pulled back to look at him, then, and despite his carefully controlled expression, he felt a deep blush come to his face.

A smile was spread across her beautiful face, her hands still resting at the nape of his neck, obviously thoroughly enjoying his reaction. He pushed himself upright and pressed his face to hers, kissing her hard and deep, the blood in his face hot as she continued to move her fingers over his neck and chest. She was sitting in his lap, her legs wrapped around his waist while his hands rested against her hips, tracing the edges of her skin that peeked out beneath her top. He pulled away from her mouth to move his face to her neck. He nipped and kissed at her gently, and when he heard her moaning and breathing heavily at that he pressed his mouth down and sucked, running his tongue along her skin as he did so. She gasped and pressed her fingers into his skin. "God, Dave…"

The effect was immediate. He could feel the heat rising in him at the sound of her whispering his name, and his erection pressed against the soft cloth of his pants. He was not sure if he should pull away from her, it was the last thing he wanted. He wanted to be closer, to feel her against his bare skin, to make her say his name again. Before he could make up his mind, he felt her press against him, and a wave of pleasure and excitement ran through his body, making his face flush and his breath hitch. He heard her take a sharp breath and pull back away. Shit shit shit. He pulled his face away from her neck and pulled back enough to look into her eyes. She looked scared and flushed, and she was avoiding his gaze. He took both of his hands and put them gently against her face, running his thumbs along her warm cheeks. He looked at her intently and waited for her to look back patiently. When she finally did raise her vivid green eyes to him, there was a little smile on her face. "Sorry. I'm sorry," she said softly.

He shook his head immediately at that and pulled her face to his and placed a kiss on her forehead. He did not know how to say what he was feeling. He was a master wordsmith but when it came to something like this he was completely lost. He could not tell her, but he could show her. He kissed her nose, and her eyes, and her cheeks. All light and sweet and innocent, meant to comfort her, meant to let her know that he did not care. That it was okay. That he had never meant to do anything that would make her uncomfortable. All he wanted to do was have her close, make her happy, and keep her safe. She was smiling again, and he grinned back at her and placed one last small kiss on her mouth.

He put his arms around her, pulling her down onto the bed with him, his face pressed against hers. She turned her face to his and nuzzled her nose to his, a huge grin back on her face. That smile was going to be the end of him, he was convinced of that. As they cuddled, they began to talk. First tentatively, both still worked up from the events of the past 24 hours, but soon they were laughing and joking, perfectly comfortable and happy with one another. They had been talking for a good while before there was a knock on the door and Dave raised his head and faced the sound. "Sup?"

"Dave, it is Rose. May I come in?" Jade rolled off the bed as soon as she heard Rose's voice outside the door. Dave was impressed with how strangely graceful she went about it, landing on the floor almost silently and curling up in her makeshift bed of blankets as if she had been sleeping there the whole night. He grinned at her and turned his face back to the door.

"Yeah, sure." Rose walked in and glanced at Jade curled up on the floor. Jade grinned up at her and sat up.

"Mornin' Rose!"

"Good morning, Jade. Did you sleep well? That does not look comfortable."

"I slept fine!" she said with a huge smile on her face. "It's not close to as bad as it looks."

"I will take your word on that." She smiled back at her. "Anyway, I do have an important reason for coming here. Before I explain, I wanted to ask if you were feeling better." She directed the inquiry in Dave's direction.

"Nothing can keep a Strider down for long. You should know this by now, LaLonde."

"I suppose with all the excitement it slipped my mind. Forgive me." Her tone, as per usual when talking with her brother, was dripping with sarcasm.

"Apology accepted. So what's up?"

"I encountered a dream bubble last night and met up with someone I did not expect. It was one of the players from this new session. Her name is Roxy." She paused for a moment and continued. "She is my mom, or I suppose in this universe I am hers. It is very complicated and strange. She told me that her group has been waiting for our arrival for some time, and she gave me instructions for how to contact them, this eventually leading to a meeting in person if all goes well."

"Good, I'm ready to get all this shit taken care of. What exactly is the plan here?"

"For now, there is no true plan. We have to contact them directly first and we will be able to work out the details from there. There is no easy way to steer this meteor, so for now we will just have to keep drifting. Though we are safely within their session, it seems that their planets are still a good ways away from our position."

"That does not really seem to provide us a lot of options besides to sit our asses around hoping that Noir won't ambush us in our sleep."

"That is certainly the way it looks at the moment."

"Awesome. I'll get right to work on doing fuck all."

"I simply cannot properly express the relief I feel knowing that you are so invested in this, Strider."

"It's what I do. So how do we contact our mysterious ecto-relatives?"

"Easy. By using Pesterchum." Dave just stared at her for a moment, face expressionless.

"You have got to be kidding me about this. I had figured it would be something way more convoluted. Complexity of a fucking god-like magnitude."

"I am deeply sorry that you are disappointed."

"Nah. All that shit sounds hells of difficult anyway." He stood up from his bed, looking around.

Jade had stayed silent through the exchange, smiling at the verbal games the siblings liked to play with one another. She was secretly happy that they would have to spend more time drifting now that they were all back together again. Now that she and Dave were together again. Her heart sped a little just thinking about it. The boy that she had never been able to let go of wanted her the same way she had wanted him. She remembered with a blush just how much he had seemed to want her this morning. She had liked it, really liked it, and she wanted him to want her in that way, but she had not been prepared for his body's physical reaction. She had never even kissed anyone before Dave. She had absolutely no idea what to do past that. It made her feel terribly self-conscious.

"Earth to Harley." Dave was crouched in front of her waving his hand in front of her face. She stared up at him wordless, eyes wide and blushing deeply. "What's up?" his voice was tinged with concern. He reached forward as if to touch her face, but she stood up before he could.

"I want to wash up; Rose is there a shower that I can use?"

"Yes of course, follow me."

Dave stared at her back as the two girls left the room, suddenly wondering how he had fucked up, and how badly.

The updates might slow down a wee bit, meaning I will probably only update once a day instead of multiple times a day. I'm having fun with this and so I will probably keep writing pretty quickly, but I'm trying to handle this plot business as delicately as I can. I feel like if I don't tread carefully, it could get way too stupid and complicated. I am leaving a lot of it to the imagination, and I am in no way going to try to write my own ending to Homestuck, more out of respect to the canonical events of the comic than anything else. You can all safely assume that everything that happened in the comic as far as Intermission 2 of Act 6 is unchanged (besides the addition of certain events frog-ways).

Anyway... synonyms for penis.

That is all.

-CS