Not an actual episode, but I wanted this in here. This would take place two days after the glow cloud incident so chronologically this makes sense. It's a bit fluffy, but it's also meant to develop Carlos as a character so I'm sorry, but deal.

Carlos woke up with a yawn and a stretch. He went and changed from his pajama lab coat into clothes and a daywear lab coat. He went and brushed his teeth and yanked the knots out of his hair. Looking the mirror though, he saw something odd.

A little red dot.

It was there, a little red dot sticker, right on the tip of his nose. Then he remembered. It was Dot Day, a little Night Vale holiday where you put red dots on what you like and blue on what you don't. Somebody actually liked him. That was weird. Growing up, he had always been picked on, being that he was the geeky science boy. Not even his own parents had liked him much, given that they had abandoned him.

He looked at in the mirror, and though the name on the dot was backwards, he could tell what it said.

So instead of going downstairs into his lab, as usual, Carlos walked right out the front doors and to the radio station.

He walked past the front desk and to the door where he knew was the entrance to Cecil's studio. Carlos opened the door and found Cecil setting up for the show. "Hey Cecil," he said.

Cecil stumbled and dropped some papers. He turned around, smoothing his hair. "Hi Carlos."

"I noticed the dot that you left on my face."

Cecil was bright red. He couldn't seem to speak,"I-uh-er-"

Carlos took one of his city-granted ration of red dots and stuck it right on Cecil's nose. "No one has ever told me that they liked me before. Thanks for being such a good friend."

"Yeah. A friend. Yeah." Cecil finally noticed the papers that he dropped and went down to pick them up.

"Well I suppose I better get going," said Carlos. "Happy Dot Day, Cecil."

"Happy Dot Day, Carlos."