Your name is Karkat Vantas and you've just found out the one who you thought was haunting you turned out to be your guardian angel. Cue flipping out now.
Your name is Sollux Captor and you've just been exposed to a very irritable, none too pleased human. Did you mention he was a pain in the ass who only seemed to ask questions? Because yeah, that's a thing here, and you're not the answering type of angel.
The day had been a bit more interesting than usual, that is to say a small amount of drama. He was used to the usual bantering between Karkat and Terezi, along with that of Gamzee and him... what he hadn't expected was for the idiot to make a chart, who even did that? Who tried to split up time with someone, specific dates, times, he even had one where Dave was supposed to take Terezi half the way, and Karkat had her the other half, Of all the dim-witted things Sollux had seen, this was by far the worst from Karkat.
He had to admit though that he felt almost bad for the guy, everyone he liked either hated him, wasn't into his sex, or just downright ignored his confession. Though he did see that most of it was Karkat's fault, how could someone push everyone away so easily, and not even realize how bad they were? Sure he seemed to realize he was an asshole, but he didn't see just how bad off he was, forcing his ex to hate him, and she wasn't even into the male he thought she was. Sweet, sweet karma, right?
In the end though, he saw Karkat run out of the building, completely disregarding the fact he originally planned to stay after. It was all really cliche to him as well, rain while a breakup happened? Lame. But he stood there watching Karkat sob silently on a bench, and eventually felt bad for him... So he perched himself on the back of the wooden bench, and spread all four of his wings as if to shield him from the rain, the problem was his wings were both transparent in this state, and intangible or metaphysical in other words. The droplets passed through his wings, and still landed on Karkat... But it was the thought that counted, right?
What Sollux didn't know though was that the rain actually reflected off of him, causing a rainbow effect. It made him have an outline of all colors, reds, blues, purples, greens... It wasn't something he ever knew could happen since he had never been close enough to Karkat in the rain like this for it to be seen, for him to be noticed. It wasn't something that had happened to any angel actually, and he soon found Karkat speaking to him, looking at him like he was insane.
"What the fuck are you?! Am I hallucinating, I can fucking see you! What is... Who are you?" The angel definitely was astonished by this, Karkat had all but jumped away from the bench after looking up at him. His brows furrowed in confusion, then he looked at his own wings, nothing out of the ordinary... But he was caught, so he hopped off of the bench, landing gracefully before he allowed himself to solidify. This of course only meant Karkat could see him now, even if his form was physical, and now wet... It was part of the rules of the heavens, unless fallen, only the one you're guarding can see you. That is to say, only Karkat could see Sollux, along with other angels, be them fallen or not.
"Am I dying? Are you here to kill me for my sins? I bet you are, I bet you're here to rip out my already dead heart just to spite me, then toss it into the river and carry me away to steal my soul, that's it, right? Right?"
This question made Sollux laugh, before he placed his hands on his hips, his brunette hair getting soaked in the rain, his clothes sticking to his body. This was the only downside to obtaining his physical form, he could feel the rain, and get cold just like anyone else. "Well, lovely meeting you too. The name'th Thollux Captor."
Karkat took a step back when the being spoke, looking around he saw no one else in sight... He almost wanted to scream, what was going on? Why was this thing, this person talking to him? How? Was it going to kill him, or just stand there laughing? Well all Karkat knew now was that he was angry. Angry at the fact this thing had been fucking with his stuff, and quite possibly his life. "I never asked for your damned name you lisping asshole, fucking angel whatever the hell you are thing... What even are you? A ghost? A demon? Answer me you miserable excuse for ectoplasm!"
"Wow. Rude. I'm not ectoplathm, I'm actually a being, or I should thay thelethtial being? Whichever workth. I can also get rid of this lisp when I please, only thing is I have to use my powers to alter my voice for you to hear it like it is, tho I will talk in my lithpy voithe, and fuck you."
"I'm the rude one? I'm the rude one?" He was seething at this point, face flushed from both the cold, crying, and this Thollukth person, who he assumed was actually Sollux. "I'm not the one who goes around moving peoples items, hiding them, and probably the cause for my whole shitty life!"
"Hey, hey!" He held his hands up defensively. "I didn't do anything that made your life any worthe, well athide from moving thingth on you. I'll admit that wath me. The thing ith though, I only did that out of boredom. I thaved your life more timeth than you can count thith patht year, tho fuck you. Altho no, I have not been guarding you your whole life, you had thome other athhhole do that, but they quit. Want to know why? You fucking annoyed them, influenthe doethn't work on you, and you're a pain in the athh to lithten to, hating everyone around you and yourthelf. Really it'th a wonder I didn't quit... Oh wait, I'm a mathochitht who happenth to enjoy the pain of lithtening to a teenager thquabble about uthlethh thingth. What hath happened to me? Oh yeah, I'm protecting your thorry athh."
"So I'm supposed to believe I'm being guarded by some ghost? Or maybe haunted is a better term? Guardian angel? What are you? I can't fucking tell because all I have to go by is you've apparently saved me a handful of times, and love to fuck around with my possessions. What kind of ghost codes? Fucking codes. Let alone on my computer? Do you have any sense? You seem to be lacking in it for some celestial being or deity, whatever you are. Shouldn't you have infinite knowledge or something? Like what the everloving fuck is going on? Why can I suddenly now see you, and why is it every time before, I'd see sparkles. Legit sparkles, it's like a fairy had a shit fest, and decided to leave sparking magical turds all over the place, but instead they're red and blue, like snow, then disappear moments after they're created! What the actual shit?" Karkat didn't seem very phased at all, merely interested, and still pissed.
Wow this kid asked a lot of questions... "What the fuck do you think I am, thome deity? I'm a fucking guardian angel, not an archangel, not God. My job ith to watch you athhhole. Jethuth Chritht you talk more than I thought you ever could. And the thparkth? That'th rethidue from when I uthe my powerth, or shift from phythical to metaphythical. Altho, I get bored. Do you know how boring it ith to watch a human do mundane thingth? Do you know how boring it ith to not even be able to thpeak to them? Fuck it'th like tearing your own hair out, I'd rather do that than nothing at all, at leatht I'd feel thomething." Well feel wasn't the correct term, he could in a sense understand pain, but the only time an angel could truly suffer was when their wings were injured, the only part of them that could ever hurt to the point where they'd go comatose for days, or weeks even. It was a healing process, but if their wings were ripped off? They'd be unconscious until the nerve damage was healed, and live the rest of their days with the fallen, even if they had never fell. But without wings, one was declared close to a mortal.
"So you basically watch me, all the time? Does this mean you've seen things? Have you just been floating around like, hey, let me watch this unsuspecting human as he touches himself in the shower? Yeah okay, that's not creepy at all." He grimaced a bit at the thought, was Sollux actually doing that? Seriously that'd put the angel up on the creepy scale, no it'd break the scale. "And how does one get bored when they can fly, and go to the pearly white gates of heaven whenever they damn well choose? Like hey, I don't need to watch this human go and do homework, he won't kill himself so why don't I just go ahead and fly up to my little castle of light and do something amusing in heaven while he's bored at his desk? You know that'd be so much more productive than this." He was moving his arms about as he spoke, and completely forgot it had been raining this whole time, and finally realized that none of it was falling on him anymore. Upon looking up, he saw something akin to a shield of red and blue floating over his head, blocking out the rain from hitting him, one was over the angel as well.
As if he sense his train of thought, Sollux piped up before the human could even spare a word. "It'th raining, cold, and I'm not in the mood to anthwer anything elthe. But yeth, that ith the power I am granted, I can levitate objectth, create barrierth with my powerth, uthe them to push thomething out of the way... All that fun thtuff, and much more. However, thith ith enough for one day, I'd rather jutht float away and dithappear, but thinthe you've theen me, I have no choithe but to thtick around like thith. Why? Well fuck you before you even athk that, I don't thee a need to tell you why, but mothtly there ith no point in continuing to be invithible when you'd motht likely shout for me to show mythelf any chanthe you had without looking like a complete tool, or lunatic. Which by the way, you are both." Of course Sollux was a rude angel, but not all of them were prim and proper. Actually it was a wonder he wasn't one of the fallen, but who ever said you had to be nice to the one you were guarding. All he had to do was guard Karkat, there was nothing about being civil in his contract! "Now shut up before I shut you up mythelf."
That definitely had shut Karkat up though, and he didn't want to know what would happen if he tried to again, but he did manage to grumble something under his breath as Sollux turned around to head back to his house, their house? He wasn't sure... But before the little shield of light disappeared, he reached his hand up above him, his fingertips gently caressing the smooth, silk-like underside of it. He assumed this was how it felt all around... But a second into touching it he jerked his hand back with a start, almost screaming at the feeling. It felt like his whole hand was jolted with electricity, and went completely numb. He couldn't feel it, at all! "What the fuck just happened? Did you just kill my arm? I swear to God I will fucking-Mmmpph..." He was abruptly cut off when the odd glow surrounded his mouth, forcibly shutting him up as it acted almost like duct tape.
"You shouldn't be touching thothe, well what I have around your mouth ith okay, it'th more like what I uthe to move objectth around and won't cauthe any harm... But the little shield? It'th a defenthe type of shield, if touched you could go numb, get a jolt, or even die. Well, you didn't actually uthe forthe on it... Tho all you got wath a thmall shock, your hand or arm will have feeling within a few minuteth... Fuck you humanth are weak, and thquishy." He gave a small chuckle and continued to walk. Karkat was behind him, following his lead and remaining silent. Well he had no choice, Sollux was forcing his mouth shut, and wouldn't allot him even a small retort. Ahh, what bliss it was to not have that rough voice sounding in his delicate ears. Speaking of which, now that Sollux was turned around, his ears were finally evident. They were almost elven, pointed and lowered to the side of his head... But they were moving too, twitching even. This of course caused Karkat to stare in wonder. Without the hair in the front blocking their view for the most part, it was interesting to see, and he wondered if Sollux had control over them or not...
After a few minutes of quietly walking, Karkat could move and feel his hand again, a small relief passing through him now that he knew what the angel said was true. But it did scare him a bit, if he could do that with just defensive skills, what was his offense like? That thought alone sent a cold shiver down his spine, and his pace quickened to keep up with him. He was just lucky no one else was in sight too, or it may have looked strange, heck it definitely was strange for no rain to be touching him.
Eventually they made it back to Karkat's house with no one seeing the odd display that was Sollux, and the lack of rain hitting either of them. Then again no one else could probably see the guardian, could they? Or maybe they did but surely Sollux would look normal to them? These were of course thoughts running through his mind as the door was opened for him, and he meandered into the warm, safe house. Or he thought it was safe until he noticed his father standing in a nearby hallway looking rather upset.
Well apparently his silent questions were answered as his father walked over to him, and backhanded him. This was never something he'd do around friends, or if anyone else was home... but the sheer force and the surprise of the assault forced Karkat to stumble backwards, Sollux catching his fall by placing his hands on his back and steadying. The angel gave him an apologetic look, as if saying this wasn't in his jurisdiction, and he couldn't do anything to help him besides catch his falls. Which was all he could do in this situation, to stop something physical between to people? That was a hard border to cross, there was only so much he could do without exposing himself, but he did at least remove the (as most angels called them.) psionics from his mouth, enabling him to speak again, which may have been a bad thing to do.
"What the fuck was that for?!" The Cancer all but screamed out, which earned him a cold glare from his father, and a fist to the gut... But it actually felt not so painful? That's when Karkat noticed Sollux had moved his hand to where the punch would have been, but it still had enough pressure on him to make him grunt out in pain. This was about all Sollux could do for him, lighten the blow while still having Karkat get hit...
"That." His father spat out. "Was for you not only coming in here soaking wet, but tracking mud on the floor, and missing dinner! Do you know how worried your mother was?" Of course his mother was in the next room, knitting a blanket for the local church to pawn off to some of the elderly, or poor. She always knew this happened, but never stopped it, and never enforced it either. Instead she often ignored it, pretending it never happened and often snuck Karkat food or gifts when she could.
"And that would be because I had fucking missed the bus and needed to walk home. On top of that it downpoured, so I had to wait it out, and that didn't even work since it got worse. You know dad, thanks for being understanding about all of this, maybe if you were actually my real father you'd give a shit, but nope! Only mom does!" He growled out, earning him a hand around his throat, squeezing almost painfully, causing the air to be blocked from his lungs, and fingers clawing desperately at the hand that was practically choking him. Only moments later he was thrown to the ground, his adoptive father seething to the core. Sollux had watched all of this with disgust, glaring at the man who would dare do this to the child he had to protect, and feeling worthless for not being able to do anything... But he did move close to Karkat protectively, wishing he could be seen by the father, or at least hurl him across the room... Heck, his psionics were sparking at this point, tendrils of red and blue surrounding his arms, and he had to quickly leave the vicinity before he did throw the older male across the room, and whispered a small sorry to Karkat as he did so. Speaking and the use of powers were the only things other mortals could see or hear from the angel, everything else was only for Karkat's eyes.
"Go to your room and don't expect any food for the day, or even tomorrow." He hissed out, the Cancer just curled up on the floor where he fell and nodded silently. If he could, he'd be attacking his dad and trying to gain some dignity back from such a display, especially since Sollux had just witnessed it all... then again, Sollux probably witnessed worse in his household, and simply forced himself up with the thought, and went to his room. Of course he was shaking, and was surprised he could make his way up the steps to get to his second floor room.
When he had made it there, he wasn't surprised to see Sollux sitting on his bed, eyes cast downwards, ashamed. He could have done something, anything... But all he managed to do was somewhat block one hit, he was useless. What kind of guardian failed this horribly at protecting the one they were assigned to? Sollux had those thoughts running through his head, feeling even more worthless with each one... When Karkat had entered the room, he looked up, his lips curved downwards into a frown.
"I'm thorry... I really... I can't prevent a phythical fight, it'th one of the wayth we're eathily found out..." If they were found out to, there was a possibility of being demoted, or even falling depending on what happened.
"Not your fault... I'm sure you'd have stopped a lot of them if everything you said is true... But I think now we should just not talk about this, and let me sleep..." It was an exhausting day, him and Terezi fighting, finding out he had a guardian angel who was a complete dick up until this point, getting (slightly) beaten up... Who wouldn't be utterly drained after something like that? Karkat sure was, so he stripped down to his boxers, removed his contacts, and pulled on a pair of pajama pants, followed by a T-shirt. Normally he'd sleep in just pajama pants, or boxers... But with Sollux there? He felt too self-conscious and decided against it, instead getting fully dressed to sleep. Was that weird? Probably a bit, but could anyone blame him? Certainly not.
Sollux on the other hand nodded, understanding completely why Karkat wouldn't want to talk about this, and just took to the couch to lay down on. It was a long day, and it would be a long lifetime for the angel, depending on how long Karkat lived. After all, he'd never been seen by anyone before... So this would be an all new experience for him, actually no one had ever even seen his powers when he used them before...
But for now, Sollux turned off the lights in the room with said powers, Karkat mumbling something akin to a thanks before passing out. The celestial being just nodded, and decided to rest while he could, for all he knew it'd be ages before he got any sleep himself.
A/N I seem to really be getting chapters out faster than I thought I would be. I might just type a few up and try to post weekly so I don't wind up getting too ahead of myself here. Hahaha, of course I will try to update weekly, maybe sooner or not, all depends on how much homework I have! But I'm glad people seem to be enjoying this story a lot, this was a bit of a mixed POV chapter, a lot will be like this one, but I might space the paragraphs out depending on how much one character is being in the pov of over another. We'll see.