Author Notes:

This is just a chapter from Dave's POV, sort of give you an idea of how he feels during the first few weeks of being in college and everything with his friends. Hints of Johnkat every so often, for anyone who wanted it.

Review Response:

Salomon Grundy - Thanks for the review! I always find it convenient when people have a switch in POV, that's why I usually like writing based off of roleplays!

Squeaks - Yeah Sollux just can't handle Dave right now, but its fine! Here's a chapter with some Johnkat for ya!

Dave was not used to rooming with someone that was actually around. He was used to have a place all to himself, not having to deal with trying to be quiet or keeping to himself. When he lived with Bro it was like he just had an entire house to himself, but now he had to share a small ass room with someone who was just always there. It was more uncomfortable than everything, especially with the bad start they had, due to Dave being a bit of an idiot the moment they met.

Eventually Dave had gotten someone to help him with his stuff, that someone being his best bud John, who just so happened to be going to the same college as him. Though due to getting his stuff the room was more cramped than ever.

The turntables and music equipment itself took up a lot of space, but so did Sollux's computer equipment, a bunch of laptops, ones that he was fixing, getting bugs out of, inserting viruses into.

Despite the lack of space that they had, Dave found it easier to give Sollux a little more space, staying on his side of the room with his turntables, headphones on as his hands flew over everything, doing their magic. It was a way for Dave to have some peace, to just relax after classes. Sometimes he would just not come back till late, getting a coffee with his best bud and talk for hours. Though no matter what time he came back, the other would still be wide awake, tapping away on his computers. Some days he never even saw him leave the room.

"It's ridiculous Egbert, I don't sleep a lot as it is, and he's up for all hours of the night tapping away on his computer." Dave grumbled, taking a sip of his coffee and placing it back down onto the table. John looked a bit concerned, though Dave couldn't understand why.

"Well is it just sleep? Have you seen him eat or anything?" John asked him a little slowly, giving Dave a weird look. He knew why the other was concerned, obviously if someone wasn't eating or sleeping enough it would not be good in the long run, though Dave didn't know what the other did when he wasn't there. If he went to classes then surely he got something to eat every so often.

"Well I mean, I've never really seen him eat around me but I'm never there enough to actually see. Dude, he's not my problem, so I don't see what the big deal is. I just want him to turn off the computer at some point so I can get some beauty sleep. You can't get all the boys when you have bags under your eyes, John. Doesn't happen that way."

John groaned and hid his face in his hands, peeking up at Dave through his fingers mumbling, "sometimes I can't tell if you're serious about the boys thing. I mean it's not a big deal if you are into guys or anything, but you really confused me when you talk like that sometimes. I mean, weren't you like with my sister at some point, doesn't that mean you're not a homosexual?"

Staring at him incredulously from behind his shades Dave slowly reached for his cup again to take another sip before letting out a long sigh. "I don't see why my answer would matter. I mean, there's you who said you weren't a homosexual and then suddenly you're dating your room mate the third day you were here." At what he said a pout came to John's face and he ran a finger around the rim of the coffee cup, blushing a bright red.

"T-That's not important. Fine, I won't ask. But I'm still suspicious! I will find out Dave!"

"Find out what?"

John jumped and looked up to see Karkat standing there, glaring at Dave. Ever since they met they hadn't got along, and Dave didn't think they ever would. Karkat was fun to mess with thought, that was for sure. Though John would always get upset if Dave did anything, since he didn't want to ruin his relationship or something like that. Not like that would happen, the troll had given up any other quadrants for John, having just a matesprit, which was shocking enough for a troll to do.

"Oh nothing, Dave just doesn't know what to do about his room mate. Apparently he's not sleeping or eating."

"Sounds like someone I know." Karkat mumbled as he slid into the booth beside John, linking their hands together as he did so. "My moirail is like that, the fuckass is up all night, used to keep me awake for hours on end, I had to force him to get him some shut eye and practically shove things down his protein chute to get him to eat." Dave shuddered inwardly at this. If it came down to it he would help his room mate, its not like he would just let the guy sort of just pass out and shrivel up on the ground.

Of course he would help him out of being a decent fucking human being. Though considering he was still alive and kicking obviously the troll was doing something right in his day to day activities. They had been rooming together for weeks and not once had Sollux even faltered in his typing, and when he left the room he was perfectly steady on his feet. One could only assume that there was absolutely nothing wrong, and there most likely wasn't a reason to worry at all.

Dave then took a moment to examine the two across from him. John was smiling all derpy like at Karkat, while Karkat was leaning over and saying something to him that made John make a very strange face, as if he was sort of grossed out. A little squeak of, 'Karkat'! was heard before the troll was smacked on the back of the head lightly, jokingly.

So how did Karkat have a moirail like that?

Dave faintly wondered what he could have been like. Was he anything like Sollux, was Karkat kept up for hours on end with some guy's bright ass computer making even the backs of his eyelids bright. It was miserable sometimes.

"I should probably get going." Dave spoke up suddenly, snapping out of his moment of thoughts, sliding out of the booth and grabbing his cup. "I need get back to my dorm and try and get some sleep. Lord knows I need it before I start talking about weird shit and pretending to be a princess."

Nodding to the two who barely noticed him leave, he turned to leave. It was going to be a long walk back to the campus from the Starbucks, but he was ready for the walk. It would give him time to think about things, and also to relax. Maybe he could find a nice bench to pass out on or something in the park. Then again the idea of waking up to some hobo freaking out because Dave was in his 'bed' did not sound so relaxing.

He started out thinking about his friend John and the troll that he was with. From what John said, Karkat had a habit of yelling at him a lot, and even though a lot of the time it may just be a fit, it seemed to hurt John. Even if John wouldn't say it did, it was more obvious than anything. That made Dave mad a bit, that his friend would just let someone yell at him. But at the same time Dave noticed that Karkat was very affectionate towards John. He seemed to treat him as if he was a fragile glass or something, as if he was afraid to even hug him to hard.

Dave supposed he was okay with that, its not like he yelled all the time, and he was nice enough to John. His bud deserved something good, he was a good guy. A little derpy, but he always cared for his friends and the people closest to them. Hell even if it was someone he didn't know.

Maybe I should do that. He thought, shoving his hands in his pockets as he walked, the chill of the night air making him shiver slightly. Even though he didn't really know his room mate he could have been nicer when he met him, or maybe he could have at least tried to find out more about him rather than just ignoring the fact that they shared a room, occasionally sharing a glare across the room from one another. Even if Sollux couldn't see his eyes its like he could feel the glare.

Sometimes though he could see Sollux looking up things on his computer such as bees, which Dave found a little interesting. It's not like he was eavesdropping or anything but he left his laptop open all the time. His background on his main computer was bees, there were little bees flying around the screen. It was the most interesting thing Dave had ever seen. Sometimes he even found himself looking up things about bees, hell, one night he had a strange dream about Sollux himself dressed up like a bee. It was a little odd to say the least but its not like it was anything Dave should be worried about.

When he looked up bees he found that there were many different types of them that could even relate to Sollux himself. Such as a semisocial bee. They were "sisters" though in this case he would just include Sollux and whoever that person was he always talked to on trollian. He had just that, Dave had never seen him around campus talking to anyone, and it was hard to tell if he really had any friends other than that person.

While he had been lost in his strange bee thoughts he finally made it back to campus, reaching into his pocket and pulling out his key as he walked towards his dorm. Standing in front of it he let out a long sigh, looking down at the key in his hand as he held it near the key hole. Just a few hours of sleep, its all I want. He thought as he stuck the key in and unlocked the door, slowly opening it and peeking in.

The first thing he saw came as a bit of a shock to him, and Dave walked in a bit cautiously. Sollux was sleeping in his chair in front of the desk, his head sort of leaning forward limply. "Hey man, are you actually sleeping or are you just pulling my leg or something. Cause that would not be cool." When there was no reply, not even a stir he noticed that he was breathing a bit shallowly. That, was not normal at all.

Walking over to him he leaned his head back, holding it up right and looking at him. His cheeks were more sunken in than usual and his eyes had dark circles underneath them. What John had worried about earlier was actually happening, and it was freaking Dave out a bit.

Grabbing his shoulder he started shaking him lightly, "Captor, hey man wake up. You need to eat or something, come on wake up. Crack open those eyes for just a moment so I can stuff you like a turkey and put you to bed. You've got to wake up first, come on."

Please wake up.

Author Note:

Thank you for reading!