Chapter 5

"HAHA! Hey! Hey, Gamzee! *hic* Come... Come over here and look at this!" Vriska laughed, stumbling over several empty bottles of beer.

Gamzee walked over to Vriska, who was standing next to Eridan and Feferi.

"Vvri." Eridan sighed. "You're drunk again. Go lie dowwn or somethin."

"You can't tell me what to do!" Vriska yelled.

"What's up, sis?" Gamzee asked.

"Look at these two, just look at them for a sec."

Gamzee took a long stare at Eridan and Feferi.

"Alright, what about them motherfuckers?"

Vriska leaned over to half whisper into Gamzee's ear.

"Don't they look like they were ment for each other?"

"WWHAT?" Eridan yelled.

"What the hell, Vriska!" Feferi raged.

"Nah, bro!" Gamzee laughed. "It's true what sis says!"

"Please stop this foolishness." Equius said.

"Hey." Vriska hiccuped. "Hey, you two should, like... kiss or somethin..."

"What?" Feferi yelled. "No! I'm not kissing him!"

"And I'm not kissin her!" Eridan added.

"Gamzee," Vriska giggled and began to push on Eridan towards Feferi. "Help me out here..."

"Sure thing." Gamzee started pushing on Feferi.

"Ugh!" Eridan groaned. "Stop it, Vvri!"

"Gamzee!" Feferi clenched her teeth together. "Let go!"

Feferi and Eridan pushed back on each other to keep them away from one another.

"Please, stop!" Equius begged, trying to stop Vriska from further pushing Eridan.

"Shud up, Equius!" Vriska snapped. "Atleast help us out here!"

"N-no! I refuse!"

Vriska, letting on hand off Eridan's back, shoved Equius toward Eridan. Equius fell back, bumping Eridan.

Eridan flew forward, falling on top of Feferi.

So, both trolls lay on the ground, one on top of another, their lips locked in a kiss.

"Alright, bro!" Gamzee cheered.

"AHH!" Feferi and Eridan screamed. Eridan pushed himself off of Feferi and she squirmed out from under him.

"Haha!" Vriska laughed. "Thanks, Equius!"

"Uh..." Equius began sweating. "I was not... oh, I need a towel." He ran upstairs to go grab a clean towel from the bathroom.

"DO NOT MAKE ME DO THAT AGAIN!" Eridan screamed, wipping his mouth with his sleave.

"I WOULD HAVE RATHERED KISSED THE TOILET!" Feferi yelled, cleaning her lips with her hands.

"You guys liked it, so don't deny it." Vriska smiled, taking another jug of beer.

Sollux yawned. Even though he had been awake for three hours now and had four cups of coffee, he was still tired from the long night he was awake. He scratched his head. Being tired wasn't helping him come up with a plan to catch the robber group.

A knock came at his door. He looked up.

"Come in." He said loud enough for the person on the other side to hear.

Nepeta opened the door with her free hand. Her other hand carried a folder with a ton of paper inside.

"Oh, Thrg. Leijon."

"Please," Nepeta purred. "Just Nepeta is fine, Captain."

"Alright." Sollux yawned again. "Nepeta then. Have a theat."

She sat down in a chair across the desk from Sollux.

"Tho, you wanted to talk to me?"

"Oh!" Nepeta jumped, remembering why she came. "I wanted to help you on your... you know."

"I thee." Sollux closed his eyes. He sighed. "I need all the help I can get. Thith group ith almotht impothible to catch. Everytime I think I have them, they thlip from under my fingerth."

"Well sir, I have a plan fur you!"

Sollux opened his eyes to find that Nepeta had placed a map on top of his desk. On the map, there were several circles around it.

"You see sir, these circles are efury place that the group has robbed." She pointed at an uncircled spot. "This is one of the places they haven't robbed, and," She pointed to another uncircled spot, more closer to what he though was HQ. "This is another place. I understand why they didn't rob this one. It's too close to head quarters. But this one," She pointed back at the original uncircled spot. "I had to think a little harder."

"Why do you think?"

"Well, I thought that it was close to their base." Nepeta smiled.

"I thee..."

"Now, I think they would try and rob it before the one right next door to us. So, I set up a plan fur you!"

Sollux was liking her thinking. Without five days of sleep and only running on a dozen donuts and four cups of coffee, it was really good.

Nepeta pulled out another map, but this one was zoomed into the building she had talked about. It was pretty large; it also had a river next to it and a ten foot wall around the exterior. The road going to it ran right along the edges of the river.

"I've left the plan inside this folder." Nepeta dropped the foulder onto Sollux's desk. "You should read it sometime when your not so tired." She smiled.

"Thankth Thrg." Sollux thanked, examining the foulder. "Thith ith really helpful of you!"

Sollux opened up the foulder. Even though there were papers inside of it, on top of the stack sat a picture of Nepeta with another troll next to her.

"Ekk!" Nepeta squealed, blushing as she picked up the photo and placed it in her pocket. "S-sorry about that, Captain!"

"Who wath that?" Sollux asked.

"Oh, that's my moirail, Equius! He's just pawsitivly purrfect in efurry way!"

"Huh." Sollux sighed and drooped in his chair.

"Hey, listen to this, Captain." Nepeta encouraged. "Just because someone you love passes away doesn't mean it's the end of the world! I lost my first moirail in a car accident, and I was supurr depressed. A couple of days later, I met Equius! Mabye you'll meet somebody new!" Nepeta strolled out of Sollux's office.

Sollux looked at the papers in the foulder.

Hm, meet thomebody new? Mabye it will happen. Nepeta'th right, I can't thtop thulking in the patht!

After that, Sollux immidiatly got to work on reading Nepeta's plan.

Nepeta clenched the papers stuffed in her pocket.

Efurrything is going according to plan! She cheered to herself. Now all I have to do is tell the rest of the group and we'll be ready for the night to come!