Eridan (spades)/(hearts) Karkat: AU where Eridan is Team Aqua and Karkat is Team Magma, and they meet at Mt. Chimney (special permission from prompter to switcheroo)

In the end, the only reason he stopped was because the Magma Grunt behind him twisted his ankle and fell, with a gut-wrenching yelp. So Karkat turned around, threw the lightweight magma-sucker over his shoulder, and booked it. "Sorry," he grunted, "but now is a bad time to be a clumsy fucker. Can't you see the fucking volcano is erupting?"

"Put me down, ya lout!" The red-clad moron screeched (right in his ear, too…ungrateful bastard) as he shoved a fist, hard, into Karkat's right kidney. A cry of "shit," and they both tumbled down a rocky incline. In a flurry of limbs, some of which made contact with Karkat's groin, solar plexus, and temple, the Aqua and Magma grunts found themselves bruised at a point close to the Lavaridge side of the Jagged Pass.

"Fuck," Karkat groaned, body in a state of intense discomfort. A mumbled noise of agreement came from the lava-licker, but considering whose fault it was they were in this state…well, Karkat couldn't find any sympathy in his heart. "We're going to get arrested now, I hope you know, you big cunt." He snarled, forcing through the pain to sit up.

He was going to strangle that little shit right here. Pouncing on his elemental enemy, he ripped the hood off the fucker's head.

"Eridan?"

"Karkat?"

Still straddling Eridan's chest, Karkat rocks backward so his weight rests on his heels. "You told me – you told me you couldn't catch the ferry from Mossdeep to Lilycove this weekend. WE CANCELLED A DATE BECAUSE OF THAT." Karkat suddenly screams, fists gripping onto Eridan's red hoodie. "Why would you do that to me, you asshole? Why would you ditch me for this?

"Am I not enough anymore? You have some Magma bitch on the side now?" Karkat removes himself from Eridan so fast that it's almost as if they were being magnetically repelled from each other. "How could I have been so stupid…?"

"It's not like that Kar," Eridan squeaks, voice higher pitched than normal from distress. "I just wanted…I wanted them, Magma I mean, to win. Then we could meet in the middle. We could just…walk to each other.

"I needed there to be more land, so we could walk around the world together."

"You moron," Karkat says, face still turned away but voice so much gentler than just previously. He turns back to Eridan, and leans down to cup the other's face in his hands. "You absolute, blessed, ignoramus. If Aqua wins there's more water, you idiot.

"And I've been saving up for a boat, just so you know. I was going to invite your stupid ass on a fucking cruise around the world. We were going to be the happiest damn couple out there."

Eridan beams at him before struggling out of his uniform hoodie, and launching upward to wrap his boyfriend in a hug. "Kar, let's go home. Either of our homes," he adds, when it looks like Karkat might open his mouth to speak.

Karkat shuts his mouth, and rips off the Aqua bandaa from his head. He looks down at the pants in disgust, before pulling a pair of scissors from a pouch at his sides to cut them down to shorts. Then a shy smile flashes across his face, only to be replaced by his normal frown.

"Okay, home then." He pecks a kiss onto Eridan's cheek, and flushes when Eridan's smile gets even bigger. "Oh shut up."