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Sorry for being not updating in about a month D:
Just had a lot of things going on, namely moving to Melbourne, living alone, and starting my TAFE course. I'm not very use to the city life yet and still very unfamiliar of places but I'm still having fun! Met some awesome people who I can nerd with about Anime, Movies and shit B). Still kinda waiting for homesickness to kick in, but I'm starting to think that it might not even happen, probably because mum is constantly texting me (I love her but she's so overbearing...I think someone's developed empty nest syndrome)
Alright, that's enough of boring you with my life details
Chapter Twelve
"I'm sorry I had to push this onto you so suddenly, Aranea." Dirk said as he handed the cerulean blood Dave, while Karkat was clinging onto his neck, refusing to let go.
"It's perfectly fine, Dirk. It's very important to do well with your interview if you want to support yourself and the boys." Aranea said as she adjusted Dave in her arm. "Now remember to speak clearly, be confident and dress respectably. First impressions are everything when you're applying for a job."
Dirk let out a chuckle, "C'mon now, who do you think you are, my mother? Alright, Karkat, time to let go."
"NO!" the troll growled stubbornly as he clung tighter to his guardian; his tiny yellow claws were digging into the back of Dirk's neck, causing the older male to hiss.
"What's wrong with Karkat?"
"He was attacked by a bunch of teenage girls last week; nothing physical, just insulting him with racist comments. He's still pretty upset about it and he's been pretty clingy since."
"That's Terrible! The poor thing."
"If they weren't young girls, I probably would have thumped 'em" Dirk groaned as he attempted to pry his living necktie off him. "C'mon little man, I've gotta get going. It's not going to be too long."
"NO!"
Aranea sighed as she lifted her hand and tilted Karkat's head towards her. "Come on sweetie, time to let go and let big brother Dirk go to his interview." The cerulean blood then moved her hand above his head and began rubbing the tiny candy corn nubs. Grey eyes dilated to the point where the yellow sclera was almost gone, and the tiny body went limp; releasing Dirk from his grip.
"Gotta love that little trick."
"It is very useful, though it can also be bothersome," Aranea sighed with a rather discontent expression as she pulled Karkat out of Dirks arms. "Nothing's worse than hitting your horns on something."
Dirk smirked at the comment; knowing full well that a troll banging their horns hard on something is the equivalent to a guy getting kicked in the balls, or a girl going through her period. The human brought his attention to the watch on his wrist to see how much time he had for his interview.
"Shit. Alright I've gotta get going. Thanks a lot Aranea for looking after them for a bit, I already know you've got a few others to look after but it's greatly appreciated."
"It's fine Dirk, I've baby-sited 8 wrigglers at the same time with no difficulty, so 5 is no problem."
"If you're sure…fuck, alright I'm going. I'll call when I'm on my way back."
"Alright, good luck" Aranea chimed as she watched the male moved to the door of her hive and exited. Once Dirk was gone, the cerulean blood moved into the lounge room where three other tiny trolls were sitting inside a play pen and placed Dave and a still partly doped out Karkat inside before heading into the kitchen.
The three little trolls ceased their activities and looked at the two newcomers in interest. The two male trolls both just stared at Dave, while the female crawled over to the still disoriented Karkat. When Karkat was focused enough to realise what was going on, he jolted up and shifted away from the other infants.
Dave didn't seem to care what his adopted brother was doing, and was more focused on the other trolls, they seemed more interesting purely on the fact that they had bigger, fancier looking horns. One was a really chubby monster, with wild hair with wavy horns; the other had funny looking things sticking out from the sides of his face and had similar horns but much more jagged. The female troll, who was currently stalking Karkat, was behaving like a kitten; bright eyed and curious.
Karkat let out a growl, bearing his tiny teeth to look intimidating; the girl just responded with a plank expression before flashing off her fangs with a large smile. Karkat let out a squeal in fright, quickly crawling over to Dave for some form of protection, leaving the other two troll infants to giggle in amusement
It wasn't long that Aranea returned with five bottles of warm milk in her arms, which she places on the coffee table so she could pick up the tots from the pen and placed them on the couch where they sat and drink their beverages once handed to them. While all of the little wigglers complied with no problems; Dave was being much more difficult.
"Come on Dave, drink your milk."
"NO! APPA JU!" Dave shouted loudly, which startled the funny cheeked boy, instantly becoming teary eyed.
"Dave, please; you just upset Eridan." Aranea sighed as she tried again to get the blond to hold his bottle and drink, with no avail. With another sigh, the cerulean blood decided to leave Dave to his own devices for now and brought her attention to the now crying boy, Eridan.
While the babysitters back was turned, Dave scooted himself off the couch and began plodding his way around the house in search of his beloved yellow elixir. The three other trolls, being much more behaved, continued to drink their milk.
"Shhh Shhh Shhh, its okay Eridan, everything's okay." Aranea hummed as she rocked the diminutive sea dweller in her attempt to soothe the crying boy. It was no surprise that her method worked, as Eridan's crying ceased and was replaced with chirps as he tugged onto the blue bloods blouse.
With a small smile, Aranea placed Eridan back on the couch and handed the sea dweller his bottle before bringing his attention to the other trolls. The large wiggler, Gamzee, had nodded off at some point, while Karkat and the female, Nepeta, were still consuming their drink. From there, Aranea brought her attention to Dave an-
…Where was Dave?
As if on cue, there was a loud clatter coming from the kitchen; startled, Aranea quickly made her way to the kitchen to investigate, leaving the other tiny tots alone on the couch.
Karkat had finally finished his bottle, which was quickly abandoned on the side of the couch. The nubby horned troll searched around the room for something of interest, which was found on the coffee table. With some difficulty, Karkat managed to push himself off the couch, where he walked over to the table and picked up a book. Tilting his head slightly, Karkat plopped himself on the ground and began to bang it on the floor.
"Dave, you need to stop being so difficult." Aranea sighed as she carried the human, a bottle of apple juice in hand, which Dave was chugging down in haste. When she walked into the lounge room, the cerulean blood was surprised to see Karkat on the floor, playing around with a book in his tiny hands.
"What you got there, Karkat?" Aranea asked as she bent down for a better view of what book was in the mutant bloods clutches. Her expression quickly turned from curious, to shocked; her face turning blue in embarrassment as Karkat hugged her unread volume of 50 shades of grey. "K-Karkat, I think you should hand that over."
"NO!" Karkat snapped, hugging the book even tighter and tried to muster up the most intimidating glare he could make.
"It's just a boring book and I'm sure you won't li-"
"NOOOO!"
"Umm…H-how about I read a bit to you, will you give me the book then?" Aranea stammered, her blush deepening at how humiliating this situation is. Sure Karkat will forget about it the next day, nor will he understand, but it was still awkward reading a raunchy novel to an infant.
With a squeal, Karkat practically thrusted the book to his babysitter, who plucked the book from his little hands and picked him up. Placing herself on the couch, Karkat sat on her lap to get a better view; Nepeta grew curious and leaned on the older trolls knee, Eridan and Dave stayed perched where they were but were focused on the adult while Gamzee was basically dead to the world.
Oh how Aranea hopes that no one finds out about this.
Just to make things clear, I've never read and never plan to read 50 shades of grey. Namely because I don't read that crap, and due to Team 4star reading a sex scene from the book in their characters voiced at the 18+ panel at Manifest last year _ hilarious but scarring.
Now on an actual relate relatable topic, I'm expecting there to be two chapters left for this fic. Considering that this was meant to be just a oneshot, which got a really good response that encouraged me to continue, I think I did a decent job with pulling chapters out of my arse on a story that wasn't planned through (which is why there's probably a shitload of inconsistencies XD). I did say that I'd probably make a sequal, which I still might do (hoping I still have the motivation), So I'm gonna put a poll up as soon as I submit this, I imagine it'll focus more on Dave and Karkat, if you have any other ideas that's not on the poll or ideas for future chapters, feel free to message me ;)
I'm actually kinda excited that this'll be the first multi-chapter fic I've ever finished~ as long as I don't get boared and ditch it at the last minute XD don't worry guys, I'll try my best to finish this.