okay! you waited long enough! Sorry this took so long, but i was way occupied with stuff! Laugh and cry, bros. :o)
You fell asleep with an unlocked door ahead that night beside Dave and John. You were the last to fall asleep though because of your wondering thoughts. So you wake up rather tired.
You feel the bed shift and a small creak sound off afterwards. You barely open your eyes to see what was deterring your sleep. Dave was now facing you, eyes still shut, and half on sunglasses. You can't help but smile slightly at the sight of it, but also want to make sure the guy won't wake up to crushing his shades. So you gently push them back up his nose and over his eyes.
Just as you put your hand back beside your head and away from Dave's face, you see the sliver of his uncovered eyes open. You look over him for a split second to see that John wasn't there anymore on the other side. He must have gotten up early due to Dave's rolling if it was constant. Or perhaps you also do something rather tiresome in your sleep.
"G'd mrning…" Dave mumbles tiredly, barely moving his lips.
"Good morning…" You reply unsurely. Then you remembered last night's deal. You smile widely at the idea of another massive pancake on the counter. Dave raises his brows unsurely.
"What?" He asks curiously.
"So John and I had a moment of peace…"You began, but Dave's glare made you trail off.
Dave nodded slowly, signaling you to continue. "I know that's unbelievable, but we did have a small moment of not yelling and hitting. Back to the point, he promised he would help us make a round of pancakes."
Dave gasped with a small smile. He was adorable when he was pleased….he never looked that way before you slammed him with a door, though. He sits up immediately, kicking the pillows off the bed. You also slowly sat up, a little more at ease yet still excited. Dave leaps off the bed and dashes out to go find John as you watch contently.
You get up and leave the room and look to see all the trolls are still there, but they're all asleep and piled on top of each other on the couch. Dave was in the kitchen with John gathering bowls and supplies and talking quietly.
You wonder where Dirk is. You look at the clock. Twelve….Two…fleh…oh! It's eight twenty one in the morning. Dirk must still be asleep, you guess. You don't think humans go and work this early, so you assume he's still around.
You look at all your troll buddies. You take note of the two extra humans, also. Nepeta was curled up neatly in a ball, wrapped in Equius' muscular moist arms as they both lay on the floor under a small blanket. Nepeta fit perfectly, even her tail was able to stay under yet the blanket only covered Equius' torso. Kanaya was resting upright peacefully against the back of the couch with her hands folded on her stomach as Vriska lay sprawled out tiredly on her lap with her hair half braided. Rose sat next to them both, looking just as peaceful as Kanaya. Aradia was sitting in the middle of the couch with her legs pulled in, with Sollux and Tavros on either side of her resting their heads on her shoulders. Gamzee was upside down on the couch, shoved into the corner of the couch next to Tavros. Feferi was tucked beside Sollux, clinging to his arm as Terezi slept on the narrow arm of the furniture item with her arms tucked in. Eridan was tucked into a corner of the room, wrapped in his cape and head in between his tucked in knees, completely alone. Well, almost alone. Jade was sleeping beside him where she couldn't be seen. She probably lay down there after Eridan fell asleep, you guess.
The scene was memorable, but you doubt they would want to be left out on breakfast. Those things eat, right? If you do, they must also. Since you are the same species, you would consider your standards the same as theirs. You don't know about the humans, though. Those things are unpredictable.
"Good Morning!" You screech.
Everyone flinched and tumbled and yelped in surprise at the greeting. John and Dave looked back instantly having no idea what that was for. You notice everyone suddenly starts blabbing all at once annoyed, blaming you for their source of anger. Your small smile vanishes and you stand there completely lost in the sea of words being poured onto you.
"Shut up!" John bellowed, making the chatter cease. "He was just greeting you a good morning,"
"Also, we're making pancakes!" Dave said excitedly.
You'll never get tired of this kid's childish behavior, even if he is technically now mentally challenged. Everyone gets up and begins to waddle to the kitchen slowly. You stride ahead, fully awake and ready to make some pancakes with Dave, and maybe even John.
You step beside Dave, farthest from John and see what they've done. Only a small mix has been made in a dirty old green mixing bowl.
"So, you and John are okay now?" Dave asks.
"He could be worse," You shrug, still feeling kind of iffy about John. "We aren't fighting, so that's what counts."
"Yeah," John spoke up finally. "But I'm sorry you got hurt for that…"
"It's fine, dude. I understand." Dave nodded, putting his focus back on the pancake mix. He began to mix it better with a Wisk. You almost forgot about the oven, and looked for the correct button to press.
"It's that one, I presume." Kanaya stepped in, pointing to the left farthest knob.
You are about to reach for it when John slaps your hand, scolding you. "No, it's the right one."
You rub your slightly sore hand and try again. Dave shakes his head disapprovingly as another person comes in and intrudes. Eridan shoves his way through and looks at the oven before the bowl.
"What is that?" He asks revoltingly, pointing to the pancake mix.
"Pancake guts!" Dave says happily, lifting the bowl like a prize.
"It's not suited to be eaten, what else is there?" He asks ungratefully.
"I suggest you leave this confliction before you create it into a worse disaster," Kanaya says edgily.
"I'm just asking if I have to eat this glubbing trash," Eridan grimaces.
"Dude, just sit at the table and wait for it," John said, looking away from Dave. "We don't have to be nice to you,"
"You're being nice to me? I want to see what's not nice, if this is nice." Eridan sputters.
"Do we have to argue…?" You begin to whine.
Everyone suddenly turns and glares at you. You shrink back, a little intimidated but still stand by your request. A few more trolls trail in from hearing the noise. Rose also steps in.
"What's the situation here?" Rose asks, glancing at Kanaya.
"Eridan is being a drama queen," You answer for Kanaya.
"I am not!" Eridan defends. "I just don't want to be sick,"
"Everyone simply gets sick from hearing your voice, Ampora." Sollux speaks up. "Just can it and sit at the table."
Nepeta giggled at the joke from behind. Eridan simply shot her a murderous look before looking back at his attacker.
"You're so mean; you're nice to everyone but me." Eridan complains.
"Yes," Sollux shrugs casually.
"You admit it? Why are you rude to only me?" Eridan snaps.
"Because you deserve it," Sollux replies with a small smile. Nepeta giggled again from behind rather amused.
"Anyways," You interrupt before Eridan can self destruct. "If you're so picky, how about you just do the pancakes yourself?"
"Because….Because uh…" Eridan stammered.
"Let's just all do it together," Dave suggests. "It wouldn't be fun if only one person did all the work."
Everyone casually mumbles in agreement. Nepeta slips her way through and steps behind you to hug you around your waist playfully. You look back and give a weak smile. You still don't know why she's no wonderfully happy around you.
"I missed you, Karkitty!" She purred, letting go. "I wanted to help beclaws pancakes sound like fun!"
You let her step beside you and you look at the heated up oven. John was messing with the knobs as Dave watched curiously. Dave reached a hand forward towards the growing tiny electric blue flame, but John slapped his hand. Dave shrunk back and rubbed his hand as John continued to steady the flame. John eventually noticed Dave's pain and sighed tiredly before raising his own hand hesitantly towards his mouth. He kissed his own fingers than put them on Dave's hurt hand. Dave gave a confused and bewildered look at the get well hand smooch as John went back to cooking.
Nepeta gave a small satisfied squeal. You roll your eyes and get back to the cooking. You grab the green bowl of 'pancake guts' and pour it onto the pan just as John sets it down. The mix grows larger and John looks up worriedly.
"Isn't it going to overfill?" He asks.
"Nope," You respond.
Dave suddenly snatches another pan, turns on the oven and gets his second bowl of pancake mix at the ready. He begins to pour it and John steps over to help. Nepeta watches the growing pancake curiously as you set the empty bowl down.
Nepeta hurriedly takes the bowl and begins to make more pancake mix as she looks at the instructions on the box. Equius walks over and begins to assist her. Equius sets the pancake box aside and begins to firmly mix the bowl with the Wisk as Nepeta observes patiently. Eridan picks up the abandoned pancake mix box and looks at it uninterested as he reads it. Sollux casually walks by and snatches the box out of his hands. This made the bratty sea dweller run over to complain and attempt to snatch it back. Aradia and Feferi are already over with them to witness. They notice the pantry and walk in it to see what it beholds, leaving the door only a crack open so they can still see the fight.
Aradia and Feferi are over in the pantry with a creaked open door browsing the food and observing as Sollux dashes away with the pancake mix still in its box. Eridan is not close at all, about five or eight feet away. Sollux glances back, still running. Aradia and Feferi had gotten a snack to go along with their breakfast, and opened the pantry door right on time for Sollux to slam into it and fall to the floor with a thud. Aradia and Feferi gasped in shock at the loud thud as Eridan came to a stop bursting out in laughter.
Rose and Jade begin to help John and Dave cook as Kanaya attempts to auspisticize with Eridan and Sollux. Gamzee and Tavros are not even cooking; they're trying to fit inside the fridge. Tavros was in upside down and sideways with a horn still sticking out as Gamzee only managed to get his head in the bottom shelf. Terezi was at the fridge door, getting ready to slam it into Gamzee when she got the chance. Vriska was close by, barely stifling her laughter.
"Bro, it's cold up in here-"
WHAM!
Vriska burst into her familiar loud and obnoxious laughter, completely cutting off the shrieks and honks and even Terezi's twisted cackling. You stand there speechless, yet amused slightly as Gamzee tackles his predators to the ground in revenge for him and Tavros.
You had nowhere to go, thanks to loneliness accompanying you. But it's not half bad seeing all this, it's pretty amusing. You notice that Kanaya calmed down Sollux and Eridan and got Aradia and Feferi to go and set up the table. John, Rose, Jade, and Dave were putting pancakes larger than their own heads onto a single small plate in a single stack. Nepeta was taking big steps, attempting to mimic Equius behind his back while carrying an armful of syrup bottles. You decide to help also, by getting as many chairs as possible.
After about ten minutes, you managed to retrieve ten chairs huddled around the living room. You had a hunch that a few people could sit and eat on the couch without messing things up. Equius dragged in a table earlier, and set it in the middle of it all decorated with plates that Aradia and Feferi managed to find. In the center of its glory, was a huge pile of syrup bottles on behalf of Nepeta's deeds. At the moment, Dave was carrying in the pancakes as everyone sat down and waited.
Dave set the plate of food down on the table, looking proud of his work. He plops right next to you on the sofa and you hand him a plate and fork. He picks up the fork curiously and is letting it drift closer to his eyes.
You instantly swerve the fork down with a hand to his plate. Dave was going to keep his eyeballs today. Dave smiles naively at you as you sigh with small relief. Suddenly, a pancake the size of a bucket plops down onto your plate. You look up and see Nepeta is glady serving the pancakes. She tosses one onto Dave's plate also, getting a smile in reward from him.
Nepeta serves the pancakes before sitting next to you with her own food. She grabs a syrup bottle and pours the entire thing on her pancake before digging in. Dave looked at the table, seeing all the flavors of syrup, jam and even sprinkles given. He looked amazed and in shock all at once.
"Which one are you going to pick?" You ask, reaching for the strawberry jam.
Dave blinks as if he is still processing it all. He suddenly gives a small nod in approval to himself. "I want...all the flavors."
The gooey slab of jam hanging off the butter knife plopped loudly onto the dish as soon as he said that. Your mouth dropped. That's so genius. You suddenly seize all the jars of jam you can with your arms at the same time as Dave. You both open all the jars and pour them onto your own pancakes as well as each other's excitedly. Then you got to the syrup.
You both put mild drizzles of syrup on it, since it would drown out the jam's true rainbow flavor. You both set the syrup down by the empty jam jars and gazed at the last ingredient. Sprinkles.
You seize the rainbow sprinkles as Dave grabs the red and green. You both take off the tiny lids and dump the sprinkles mercilessly onto the pancake.
"Taste the rainbow!" Dave exclaims.
You have no idea what that means, but you love it. You both toss the empty sprinkle containers aside and dig into your beautiful creation. You take your first bite courageously and truly taste the rainbow. Every flavor of fruity jam has joined the allience of sugary light syrup and rainbow sprinkle madness. You feel your teeth pinch with sugar overload. You love the feeling of the sugar buzz through your tingling jaws.
"So when is Karkitty going back home?" Nepeta suddenly asks.
You choked on your rainbow goodness hearing this. Home? No no, this is home. You arn't going anywhere. You look up at Nepeta with an unbelieving glare. She responds with a confused wide eyed expression and shrug. You swallow to clear your throat and mouth to speak.
"Nepeta, this is my home." You say.
"No, it's Dave's home. Dirk said you were staying for awhile, not forefur." She corrects.
"I'm not going anywhere, i have nowhere to go," You conclude, stuffing another piece of pancake into your mouth.
"KK, you've got a home. You just don't remember it." Sollux joins in.
"Probably because its not that memorable, just let me be." You say around your food.
"We just re-did it, you'll love it once you see it again." Nepeta reassures sweetly.
"What she said," Sollux shrugs.
"No! I'm not leaving!" You refuse.
"Karkat, they are both correct." Kanaya nods.
"I don't care, let me wrong and with Dave and John!" You retort bitterly.
"Karkat can't leave, how will i make pancakes?" Dave asks, missing the point.
"Yeah!" You raise your brows. "John, back me up."
The room went quiet. You could almost hear the faint crickets chirping on que outside. You look back at John, sitting in his chair on the opposite side of the couch, picking at the remains of his food.
"John?" You remind him with an eye brow raise.
"It wouldn't be terrible if you went home, Karkat." John sighs.
"But we made up! We're cool now! Don't you want to see me?" You whine.
"No, we didn't." John looks up, putting his fork down. "I'm doing this for Dave, we got to do the best for you too, though."
"For me?" You scoff in disbelief. "I want to stay here, and you're making me miserable for my benefit? What about Dave, you want to make him happy but me leaving won't do the trick!"
"Karkat, you don't understand!" John raises his voice frustrated. "Without you here, none of this would have ever happened. You need to stay away from innocent people."
"Innocent?" You snarl. "Innocent?! YOU are not in that group, John! If anyone here is innocent it's me, i have no clue what is going on, not to mention i'm the one who came to see Dave before you did after his accident!"
"Karkat, you are the reason we all died back in Sburb." John hisses. "I watched all of my friends die because of your horrible self."
"I don't even know what you're talking about!" You strain your aching throat, wanting to cry.
"Karkat, you're going back to that shack you call home! You are leaving, and I am staying to make sure you never hurt anyone again!" John says back so sourly even Eridan was impressed.
You go silent. You can't believe this. John was faking it. You can do nothing but glare at him through your tearing eyes. John gets up and simply leaves the room, abandoning his plate and leftovers.
"John...what happened to you?" You utter.
He used to be your friend.