The Monster's inside us all.
A/N: God I feel awful. I won't be updating for a couple of days; my head is throbbing with pain, my stomach feels like shit, and my nose is plugged and I can't unplug it. Halloween was fun though and I had a good time so it was all worth it. I may or may not have eaten an entire bag of candy and my body hates suger… ughhh ill try to get this up soon but if I don't I might be dead…
"Kk. Kk, get up." Sollux whispered as he shook me harder; I groaned out and I chucked whatever was next to me, which was a pillow, at him; Sollux growled as he snatched the pillow from me and struck me hard in the face.
"Lazthy dubath, I thaid get the fuck up!" Sollux growled in my ear sending shivers down my back. I grumbled and mumbled a few curses at him and whined. Fuck him! I'm fucking hibernating for the rest of winter. I had barely got any sleep last night and he had the nerve to pull this crap? Apart from having insomnia there were these weird clicking sounds that kept me awake at night and scared me shitless; I had even tried waking up Sollux but all he did was roll over on top of me while he slept, Nepeta even got squished a little bit. Speaking of Nepeta…. I squinted my eyes from the sun as Sollux moved away from my side and saw her hugging Crabdad as the lazy douche bag snored and huffed. Well that was good; Crabdad was outside my door last night barking like a madman and the little bastard had the nerve to start howling and even started to growl all weird like… or at least I think that was Crabdad.
"Sollux let me sleep, I'm tired.." I mumbled lazily. Although that didn't stop Sollux from punching me.
"Ouch you cunt sniffer."
"I thaid Get. Up. There'th thomething you need to thee right now." I groaned loudly but got up. My red eyes had bags under them from the usual lack of sleep I got and my ash brown hair was messed up from the constant tossing and turning I did. I fallowed Sollux as he hurriedly went down stairs stomping down the stairs like I usually did when someone tried to get me up; I just wanted sleep, was that to fucking much to ask for?
We reached the living room and I made sure to 'accidentally' push dumb nuts out of the way. What I saw though… kind of crept me out.
"Thee. I told you doucthe." Oh my god…. What the hell was this?
Out in the living room we had this weird looking fireplace that my mother had placed our family pictures on like for instance one when I was five and I had seen my first firework show on fourth of July or like the one my father took when we first brought Nepeta home, the day I had finally became an older brother. They were missing… all of our families pictures were missing out of the frames and the only one that still here had marks on them. It had a circle over my face and big x's on the rest of my family and tis one ha Terezi in it so Terezi had her face...Bitten… Out.
"Alright ha-ha, where did you put the rest of my pictures Sollux? I know you didn't like Terezi that much but that didn't mean you had to do this. I have to say this is extremely low even for a fuckwad as retarded as you doucheknot." I glared at him. What a complete Asshat; this was just fucked up of him to do this.
"You athhole it wathnt me! I was cooking breakfatht and I found them like thith. Why would I mesth with your thupid pictureth ayway'th?" Sollux rolled his eyes as he ran a hand through his disheveled hair.
"I'm serious Sollux where are the rest?"
"I don't fucking know!" Sollux lisped out.
"But- never mind fuckass just... hide these from Nep. She's freaked out enough as it is…" I sat on one of my father's favorite chairs. The house was pretty huge to say in the least. I guess having a father who ran a church and a mother who owned animal shelters and vet clinics across the state helped; just what the fuck did this anyways.
I was asleep, Sollux said he didn't do it, and I doubt Nep sleep walked only to beat the shit out of pictures. Sollux and I put the pictures into a box I got from the basement and put them away somewhere she couldn't find them. My god what the fuck is wrong with people… the security system was armed so no one snuck in and even if someone got past the damn thing Crabdad was large enough to maul them, but why was I circled. A shiver ran down my spine and I stopped myself before my brain could go deeper into thought. God as much as I hate to admit... I'm so fucking terrified.
Sollux grabbed my hand and led me into the kitchen and I avoided looking at the fireplace and fallowed behind him as he wrapped an arm around my waist. When we entered the kitchen the powerful aroma of bacon and eggs hit my nose and I smiled, fuck I loved bacon; just like any average teenager I guess. Sollux smiled and kisses my forehead as I passed the plates out on the table.
"Are you okay? You look a little pale..." I nodded but didn't speak, I just didn't ant to think about that.
"I'll go wake up Nep. You just do what ever I guess." I hurried up the stairs as I reached the stair case and I paused as I heard Nepeta scream, without a second thought I ran to the door and burst into the room to see Crabdad licking Nepeta's face while she tried to move her face to the side and tried to hug him. I let out a breath I hadn't realize I had been holding as Nepeta looked to me. I made sure a realistic smile spread across my face as I motioned my head to the hall way.
"Breakfast is ready Nep, hurry up before it gets cold." Nepeta instantly stood up and ran down stairs Crabdad close on her tail, I stood there and just stared at the wall then slowly closed the door and headed downstairs to join them.
Nepeta sat at the table smiling as she ate her breakfast while my dog pawed at her leg trying to get her to fall for his cute fluffy face so he could have some. I ruffled my dog's fur and he looked at me with hopeful wide eyes and I took some of my bacon and threw it on the floor for him to chow down on. He gobbled it up and instantly licked his lips and looked to me for more. I shook my head at him, damn mutt should eat is own food. Sollux sat down next to me and looked to Nepeta.
"You know what I wath thinking we thould do today Catnip?" Uh that stupid nickname he made for her again… Nepeta looked to him in curiosity and he smirked back at her.
"I wath thinking we thould go to the movieth later and then maybe before I have to go until next week we could go to that rethtraunt I took you guyth out to latht time, you know the one you loved?" I played with my food and unconsciously smiled, no matter how much I would verbally deny it, I loved this side of Sollux. He could be cold, mean, and rude, blue Sollux, or he could be flirty, funny, and sweet, red Sollux; it came with the bipolar package that was simply him. I watched Nepeta squeal as she nodded really fast jumping and bouncing around in her seat as she just couldn't contain her excitement.
"YES YES YES!" Nepeta chanted happily and Sollux grinned.
"Okay… but firtht, you have to get your brother to give me a kith." Nepeta looked to him with her head tilted.
"But Karkitten has cooties… why would you want something as gross as that?" Nepeta made a rotten face as she looked between me and the asshole next to me. Sollux nodded.
"But if he gives me a kisth ill even get you all the icthe cthream you're tiny little thomach can eat." Sollux smiled at her as she looked to me and pouted with a pleading expression. I growled and frowned at both of them.
"Aright Alright! Just stop with the stupid face!" I growled out as I leaned over, Nepeta shielded her eyes quickly, and gave Sollux a quick peck on the lips to which he tried to deepen; I pushed him away lightly and glared at him only for him to look at me with a smug look.
"You can look now retard."
Sollux licked his lips and smiled.
"Cherries... I like it."
…
The move we had decided to watch was a Romance-comedy that still played in theaters much to my surprise. It was a pretty good movie called 'The Proposal' it starred Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, and even Betty white. I remember the first time I had watched it I was almost pissing myself laughing when the wood scene came up but I of course covered Nep's ears, although the movie would've been better if Sollux hadn't been groping me the entire fucking time; so after the movie we all headed to an old pizza place that had this weird amusement park inside of it. Sollux and I just went on a couple of ride's and waited on Nepeta as she went on some, Sollux even won me this stuffed dog that oddly looked a lot like Crabdad.
I looked to Sollux as we walked through the rides and stands hand in hand with Nepeta clutching her toy cat as we went. We were heading home from a long fun filled yet tiring day; Nepeta was rubbing her tired eyes as she yawned while I rested my head on Sollux's shoulder. When we reached the car the weather had gone from slightly chilly to full blown freezing and I blushed a light red as Sollux offered me his jacket; we quickly got the fuck out of there as fast as we could. Sollux drove to my house and we parked my car in the garage and got out quickly. Sollux carried Nepeta and I shuffled my way into the house only to collapse on the couch.
"You look ethauthted Kk…" Sollux smiled as he sat down next to me.
"So do you lispy…." I threw his jacket at him and smiled slightly.
Sollux caught his jacket before it hit his face and put it on slowly. His dad would be here soon so we had better make this quick.
"Are you alright thtaying here alone?" Sollux pulled me close.
"Yeah... I was just... freaked out a little bit okay..." I nuzzled his neck as he rubbed my back.
"I think I thould thtay-"I cut him off quickly before he got to finish his sentence.
"Well be fine... you have stuff to do tomorrow anyways, besides my parents will be back on Monday. I think I can handle it by now..." He bit his lip but nodded.
"If anything happenth I want you to call me and I'll be here ath fatht ath I can alright?" I nodded and he kissed my lips softy. I was the one to deepen the kiss this time and he generously allowed me to slip my tongue in, our tongue's danced together erotically as I wrapped my arms around his neck. I was about to make further contact when I heard loud growls coming from behind us. I turned slowly as me and Sollux broke apart, Sollux looked up, we both looked at Crabdad who was snarling presenting his intimidating fangs to us as his form became tense and more on edge as if he were preparing to attack, foam and saliva dripped from his mouth as his fur began to fluff up.
"Crabdad?"
I looked at the usually lovable well tempered dog with surprise and a slight horrified look on my face as the dog backed up as I untangled myself from Sollux's hold to go and try to pet him. His growling reached new heights as I stepped forward and I stopped; he barked loudly before running out of the room as fast as he could. I looked to Sollux weirdly who only shrugged and we were both startled as we heard loud honking, Sollux sighed and collected his stuff. His dad was here.
"Ill see you later..." Sollux kissed me quickly before going out the door and shutting it leaving me lone by the door way. I turned on the security system before going to Nep's room and scooping her up into my arms; I didn't trust her sleeping alone for tonight.
As we got to my room I slipped Nepeta in then turned off the light; God I was so exhausted I swore I fell asleep before hitting my comfortable bed.
…..
The next day was like any other get up, take a shower, and eat breakfast; Minus the whole texting with Sollux thing. It was about twelve when I had received a text from my father and as usual skipped the usual essay long text until I saw one particular part.
'Until this Friday, I apologies for the inconvenience this has probably caused you my dear son but something has come up unexpectedly and your mother and I must attend to it ASAP.'
Are you fucking kidding me? What was so important that you had to leaving your fucking kids at home for? I growled to my self as I angrily scrolled down on my phone. Over here everything was going bat shit insane while they were over there being 'good followers of the Lord', No, fuck that. Nepeta was having nightmares at night and Crabdad seemed to be acting different lately, it seems like he became even more territorial and violent over night. He snapped at you twice this morning and almost attacked Nep when she tried to play with him. I had to call the security company that sold us this piece of sit so they can come and take a look at our set up because it keeps on turning off by itself at night, and I still have no fuckingclue where the rest of the fucking pictures are!
I growled to myself as I threw my phone down as Nepeta came into the living room yawning. God you could tell she hadn't got much sleep last night since she had woken up every hour screaming about something trying to eat her. Maybe I should've agreed to Sollux staying here but It was too late now... he was probably half way across the state now anyways; he had to go visit a few relatives that included his dying grandmother.
I looked at the time and sighed, might as well call that company... I dialed the number and sighed as a receptionist picked up.
"This is System Tec inc. My name is Amelia how may I help you?" I grumbled but responded.
"I was wondering if I could get somebody to come out to take a look out at our system..." I growled out not caring if the girl was polite or not.
"I can't seem to find anything w-vrong w-vith it. Everything seems to be going just fine. W-vhat did you say was w-vrong with it again?" I looked at Cronus as he went through the system wiring then closed it.
"It keeps turning off by itself at night." I taped my foot impatiently.
"W-vell it looks fine to me." Cronus looked at me weird and I glared at him.
"Well I'm not fucking imagining it!.Just look at it more!" I yelled out, being sleep deprived was getting to me ad making my mood go sour.
"Look Karkat, it's an old version. I can hook you up w-vith something better if you'd like…" I nodded.
"Do whatever you like just as long as it stops doing that." Cronus nodded then headed out to his truck. When he came back in I saw some cameras and I raised an eyebrow. Is this just some ploy to get to spy on me?
"The new-vest model comes w-vith surveillance. It's a guaranteed w-vin for you and the little one and I swear if this doesn't w-vork you will get your money back before you know it. Now, w-vho going to be paying for this thing?" Eh his weird speech impediment annoyed me as much as his younger brother's.
"Just install the damn thing. You can charge it under the Vantas account." I sat down and sighed, leaning back on the comfortable leather couch. Cronus just shook his head and went on to work.
Maybe I could get some sleep now.
It was probably about five in the afternoon when he finally finished and we were in my dads study as he turned his computer on.
"You see? Now-v you have cameras all over the house hold. You can sw-vitch from Nepeta's room to your room and even to the kitchen if you w-vanted too. I even got some in the living room and at all the exits and entrances and there is some in the attic and basement, but don't w-vorry I didn't put any in the bathroom."
I nodded slowly this was pretty cool, I could see one even set up out side of the front and backyard…
"That's pretty sick…" I admitted and Cronus leaned back with a smile.
"I thought so chief." Cronus got up to leave but before he left he looked to me. "Tell Kankri I said hi."
"Sure." No.
He left with out another word and I sat down in my dad's chair. Oh yes. I grinned.
Try and fuck with this house hold now.
And now... for some damn rest.