A/N: I've been on a really long hiatus lately, and I'm sorry to say that I'm pretty sure I've given up on all of my other stories. I'm simply appalled at the fact that "holy shit I thought this was actually good." But yeah, that's kind of it for this meaningless author's note.

TW: Hallucination

It was so quiet… so, so quiet.

The silence was stifling, pushing against him at all sides, drowning him though he had gills. A shuddering breath, a shaky sigh. Eridan eyed the area around him as he steepled his fingers, leaning forwards as he stared at the empty seat in front of him. No- it… it wasn't empty. Someone was there. Sollux peered back at him listlessly, and Eridan could do little more than scowl. "Wwhy did it havve to be you, of all people? Wwhy is it YOU that came for me?" He didn't say anything in return. "Wwhere is evveryone? Wwhy are you here?" The lowblood remained silent, much to Eridan's displeasure. Why wasn't he talking?

Why wasn't he responding to him? Why wasn't Sollux speaking? Usually, he'd rear up in indignant fury, and they'd fight. Why was this time any different? "Sollux, speak to me…" His voice cracked, and he reached over to the psionic. "Please, just… talk to me, please!" Eridan had resorted to begging, pleading. He was desperate for contact at this point, even if it was from a lowblooded landweller. His hand phased through the other troll, and suddenly- his eyes were empty, becoming sockets. The glasses were gone, replaced by a headpiece. Mustard colored blood leaked out of the corner of Sollux's mouth, and Eridan recoiled.

"Y0u did this tw0 me…" Eridan's eyes widened, and he shook his head frantically trying to deny something that he already knew. He opened his mouth to say something, only to close it with a resounding click, which echoed about the room eerily. "N0b0dy will c0me f0r y0u, y0u kn0w that, right? Y0u're t00 hateful... N0 0ne even remembers y0u." No, Sollux was here for him. Sollux was here. He didn't care if it was him, he didn't care who it was at this point.

"But… you came for me, you came to take me back, right? You came here lookin for me, so you remembered me, right? Right?" Eridan could feel his sanity slipping. The goldblood didn't say anything, he didn't so much as speak to Eridan. His form flickered, and the violetblood could do little more than grasp at empty air. "No, you havve to stay! Don't leavve, don't leavve me alone again!" He cried out, clawing at the spot on the chair that Sollux used to be on. He was gone. Everyone was gone. Eridan sobbed, his face contorting into a melancholy, tortured expression. "No- please…" He slumped downwards, the wings on his back suddenly unbearably heavy. Eridan let out a choked sob, his forehead meeting the seat of the chair as he cried.

"Someone… Anyone….?"

A hand ran through his hair, one that had rings on it. No- no it… it didn't. It was not his hand it was not. He looked up, and Feferi flickered into his vision, running her hand through his hair comfortingly in the way that only moirails could.

"Feferi?"

"What is it, -Eridan?"

"Please don't leave me."

"I won't ever leave you."

"Thanks, Fef… I kneww I could count on you."

A lonely boy laughed, his own hand in his hair as he talked to someone that was not there. Tears cascaded down his face, though he sported a jovial smile.

The laughter bounded off the walls eerily, echoing around the chapel as someone talked to himself.

"Sol said that no one wwould come for me, can you believve that?"

"I knoww, I knoww. He's pretty stupid, isn't he?"

"Wwhy are you defendin him?"

"Besides the obvvious, Fef."

"...Wwhy do you evven like him, though?"

"Oh."

"No, it's alright. I'm alright."

"I'm jus happy that you're here f' me."