A/N- Gotta go Fast~[quick update]
The drive to Sollux's was rather short and when the car slowed to a stop as it pulled into the drive way of a house Eridan perked up and peered at the house before them. It wasn't very big though it was a double story with a classic white exterior with black window frames, though the outside looked slightly worn down and the white paint was slightly dirty. The grass looked as if it hadn't been cut for a while and two bikes and a couple of skateboards were spread around the front lawn. Overall the front yard looked messy but nice as Eridan stepped out of Mituna's car and stared at the house it looked more homey than it did intimidating, Mituna grinned as he rolled the small bag towards the kid as he handed it to him.
"It'th not much but it'th home." Mituna smiled out as he approached the front door up the crooked pathway and opened the security door, in which had a large dint in it that made Eridan feel slightly un safe as Mituna opened the second inner door and stepped into the house, holding the door open for Eridan. The inside of the house smelt lovely, like home cooked meals and a hint of roses as Eridan stepped in, Mituna removed his shoes and hung up his keys on the hook by the door before he called out into the house.
"Mum I'm Home!" Eridan removed his shoes as well and decided that following Mituna would be the best idea as he scanned the house, just left of the door was the living room in which was tidy with a large TV and various games and DVD's spread out on the stand with a small shelf of other DVD's by it. The couch looked nice and soft as did the off-white carpet, and a large computer sat off to the side of the lounge sweet. They then passed a set of stairs in which noises could be heard coming from upstairs, but the boys continued to the kitchen, this was where the good smell was coming from. Eridan scanned the room around him, they had nice furniture and although it was a small room it was made out to be bigger, the bench was a nice black fill and the walls where white again though the thing that completed the room was the beautiful lady that turned to face them.
She had long black hair that curled slightly at the ends and bright blue eyes that shone at the sight of her son. Her skin was vibrant and had some light colour two it and red lips that were curved into a grin, she wore a nicely fitting black shirt with a long black skirt that flowed like her hair when she turned, and a white apron that completed the motherly vibe she released as her blue orbs glanced at Eridan.
"Oh hello, Tuna who is this?" She asked as she left the various pans and pots she was cooking with to gently step over to inspect the younger male, Eridans mind froze as he took a step back as she froze in response though her smile remained.
"Thith ith Eridan mum, hith thollux'th friend and if it'th okay he will be thaying the night." Mituna confirmed as her smile grew though her eyes never left him.
"Nice to meet you Eridan my name is Christina, though you can call my Chrissy or Chris I don't mind!" she had a lot of energy and seemed nice and quirky, the complete opposite of Sollux and Mituna. Eridan couldn't help but like her as she smiled and pulled herself back away from him with a nod.
"He's an absolute cutie! Of course he can stay, anyone who is a friend of my bubby can stay here" she smiled out as Eridan frowned and sunk into the warmth of his scarf, but he wasn't a friend of Sollux. Mituna gave her a nod though before he could speak Christiana cut in once more,
"Wait if he came in your car Mituna, does his father know where he is?" Eridan frowned as Mituna cleared his throat and glanced between his mother and Eridan before placing a hand on Eridans shoulder.
"Why don't you head upthair'th, thollux'th room ith jutht up the thair'th to the right, you will know it when you thee it." Eridan simply nodded slowly as he turned on his feet and began to abscond towards the stairs he had seen earlier without another word, knowing that Mituna was going to be talking about him to his mother. He didn't want to think about his father so he focused on finding Sollux's room as he scaled the cream-carpet stair case as the upper level of the house was revealed. It had white walls though there were various items of boys clothing and shelves covered with games and dvds and boxes of various things Eridan couldn't make out.
As he turned to the right he spotted what Mituna had said "he couldn't miss" on the door closest to the stair case a large yellow bumble bee sticker, the edges were torn and it looked as if someone had tried to remove it but they had given up, instead a set of angry eyebrows had been drawn above the eyes. Eridan chuckled at the demonic bee as he approached the door, the sound of tapping was followed by a chuckle and an angry growl as Eridan reached out to the door handle and twisted slowly and pushed it open as he stared at the insides of the room.
Skating posters covered the pastel yellow walls along with a few game posters that Eridan recognised. The room wasn't large as the big bed which currently had some solid blue and red bed sheets with matching pillows and a small man sitting on it, in which Eridan recognised as Karkat. Though his eyes shifted to the boy sitting at his desk who was covered in wires and Eridan spotted a laptop under the keyboard of the black sleek looking system as the boy frantically typing at the keyboard stopped and tapped pause as his glass-covered eyes faced Eridan and his happy expression dropped.
"Oh, Eridan? What the HELL are you doing in my houthe?!" Sollux called out seeming a little panicky as if Eridan had just broke in after stalking him as Eridan opened his mouth to talk but another voice cut in.
"Hipster? Whats he doing here Sollux? Karkat called as he paused his game of Mario-kart and glared at Eridan as well. Eridan went to say something again as a large figure spoke from behind him.
"More like what are you doing here Karkat?" Mituna spat out as Karkat smiled at the sight of the older male who was like an older brother to him as well.
"Anyway'th you little thit'th Eridan ith thtaying over tonight, tho deal with it." Mituna smiled out as he placed his hand gently on Eridans back and pushed him closer into the room as Sollux sighed and returned to his online RPG.
"Fine put your thit in the corner, right thide of the bed ith mine and entertain yourthelf." Sollux mumbled out as Eridan took a few steps into the room as Mituna waited at the doorframe to make sure Sollux and Karkat weren't going to be two rude.
"You aththhole'th be nice now if I hear any bad feedback I'll be sure to take my thpare graphic'th card from you thollux, and Karkat…" Mituna locked eyes with the other male who still watched Mituna with a large grin.
"I'll jutht kick your athth." Mituna smirked out before turning on his feet and closing over the angry bumble bee door.
The room fell silent for a second before the room filled with the sound of video games once again, Eridan felt as if he didn't exists in the room as the other kids continued to play. He took a seat on the end of the bed and decided that the best option would be to play a game on his laptop as well. As he got it out and opened the laptop that was on standby and stared at his musky background of a camera and frowned, he didn't know Sollux's WIFI password and he doubted that Sollux would give it to him. Eridan didn't want to look like a fool for getting out his laptop and not using it so instead he opened his steam account in offline mode and began to play Super Meat Boy.
The room was mostly filled with game themes, clicking and tapping and the occasional Karkat spazzing followed by Sollux laughing and telling him how much he sucked at Mario-kart. Eridan though felt completely left out as he had sunken into the left side of the bed and had been stuck on this level for quite some time. It wasn't like he wanted to be noticed because he knew that he wasn't really welcome here but some kind of recognition would be nice. Though when it happened Eridan froze, Sollux paused his game and un-healthily cracked his fingers as he span his large computer chair around, stretched and locked eyes with Eridan behind his shades.
"Hey fithh-fathe what are you even doing?" He asked bluntly as Eridan peered down at his game before peering back up at Sollux. Before he could respond Sollux sighed and stood as he walked over to Eridans spot on the bed and stood next to him before peering over at his computer with a risen eyebrow.
"Thuper Meat Boy? Oh I hate thith level." Sollux frowned out as Eridan nodded, not sure how to respond to Sollux as Sollux sighed.
"Look I'm jutht going to athk, can I, uh." Sollux glanced at the computer in Eridans lap then back at Eridan as Eridan tilted his head, what did he want?
"Look hipster he wants to fuck about with your PC, he does that." Karkat cut in without taking his eyes off donkey kong who was currently cutting him off. Eridan simply nodded as he sat up and went to give his precious laptop over to Sollux but hesitated,
"You not goin' to, ruin it and stuff?" Eridan questioned nervously as Sollux rolled his eyes and took the laptop off the smaller male and took it over to his desk.
"Who know'th I might even upgrade it" Sollux smirked out as Eridan nodded, now he had nothing to do, though at least Sollux wasn't angry with him anymore? Eridan decided on playing with his phone, wreck-it-ralph wasn't the greatest app he had but he could at least try and beat King-candy. Though the more he played the more bored he got, there was only a certain amount of times that he could lose before he became frustrated. Sollux had been tapping on his computer for ages now and he had no idea what he was doing but he seemed pretty content and Karkat was about ready to kick Mario-kart out the window but he instead glared and yelled at the characters. Eridan thought about leaving the crowded room and finding Mituna and seeing if he would take him back home or something anything but sitting here awkwardly, that was until something bumped his leg and he peered at his foot where a controller sat.
"Hurry up and select your character, I need someone to kick Donkey Kongs ass." Karkat grumbled as Eridan couldn't help but let a little grin slip onto his lips as he selected Luigi.
"Are you fucking serious, Hey Sollux looks like Someone else likes Luigi." Karkat smirked out as Sollux's eyes actually drifted up from Eridans laptop for a second before he went back to typing. Karkat selected toad and started up the cup.
"You better watch out Hipster, I'm pretty fucking good at thi—" Eridan slammed the accelerator button and Luigi got an extra starting boost and Karkat growled as Toad bluntly started. Eridan didn't bother to tell Karkat he was pretty good at Mario Kart himself, instead focused on winning.
Win he did, four cups and two battler royals later and Karkat was yet to beat him and was fuming, Eridan could practically see the steam coming off the boy as Eridan slammed him with a red-shell and bumped him off the road as Karkat looked from his position on the bed and growled as he turned to Eridan.
"Fuck you ERIDAN" Karkat growled as he practically jumped on Eridan, this surprised Eridan so much he let out a yelp. He managed to pause the game and drop the controller on the bed as Karkat punched him in the shoulder as he pushed Eridan back onto the bed. Eridan wasn't sure what was going on but he found himself laughing at Karkat's attempts to beat him up, his punches were nothing though karkat grabbed a pillow off the bed and shoved the fluffy red object over Eridans face. Eridan wasn't sure if he was scared or happy that karkat was trying to kill him as his chuckles were muffled into the pillow, he couldn't believe that Karkat was reacting in such extremes due to a game.
"SHUT UP YOU STUPID HIPSTER!" Karkat called though sounded somewhat embarrassed that he had lost to Eridan. Eridan's chuckles ceased as a thought came to mind as he struggled slightly under the pillow though didn't really try to pry the small boy off him. After mumbling into the pillow and pretending to struggle he went limp under Karkat and closed his eyes as Karkat continued for a moment before stopping for a moment and staring at the pillow.
"Eridan?" he questioned as he removed the pillow and stared at Eridan whose head titled to the side limply and Karkat froze and tapped his chest.
"Eridan..?" He asked trying not to strain his voice as he stared at the limp hipster before sitting up and leaning forward to tap him again before Eridan quickly sat up.
"HAH!" he called as Karkat's eyes widened and he lent back a bit to quickly and fell backwards, in which caused him to fall from the bed and onto the floor where he hit his head on the carpet, Eridan chuckled and sat up to check if he was okay as Sollux's laughter broke out from behind the computer and Karkat rubbed his head.
"Asshole.." Karkat smirked out as the laughter ceased slightly, Karkat sat up and Eridan let out a few chuckles, liking the feeling that he was starting to get along with karkat.
"Oh thit KK it'th like quarter to thix, your mother'th going to kill you!" Sollux mumbled out as Karkat practically jumped to his feet forgetting everything that had just happened and grabbed his backpack from the bed, though Eridan frowned.
"You not staying ov-ver?" He questioned as Karkat huffed and shook his head as he jumped about the room avoiding the cords.
"Not today I promised my mum I would be home before six, shit, See you Captor, Hipster." He called as He quickly opened and closed Sollux's door and his footsteps could be heard thumping down the stairs.
Sollux's room fell silent as Eridan fixed up his glasses before fixing his hair and scarf, he didn't know if he should go back to Mariokart or play with his phone or even ask Sollux for his laptop back. Though before he could move his Laptop was turned and placed on his lap as Sollux slipped onto the bed next to him and pointed to the screen.
"You computer wath full of uthelethth crap tho I uninthalled them, altho I upgraded some of you programth, overall your computer'th pretty good." Sollux nodded to himself as he re-tracked his hand and Stared at Eridan for a second, Eridan glanced up at him and his eyes locked with Sollux's eyes. He could almost make out the colour of his eyes but one seemed odd, though Eridan snapped out of it and realised what Sollux was waiting for as he nodded.
"Uh, Thanks Sollux" Eridan answered as Sollux stood and huffed down into his chair again and spun towards his desk and pulled himself into the desk.
"Altho I thaw you had thith game, do you have an account?" Sollux questioned as Eridan nodded slowly and scrolled through his games and double clicked the icon of the badass looking dragon as the game started up.
"What'th your thcreen name?" Sollux asked as he opened a new search tab in the game, as Eridan sighed and stared down his old avatar, this game was super popular at his old school and he had beaten the omega dragon at least six times due to people requesting his high level character to join him to defeat it because they were too weak.
"It's CailgulasAquarium" Eridan watched Sollux's bigger screen search for a moment before his username appeared on the screen and Sollux clicked it as his avatar appeared.
"CailgulathAqurium a level- what are you theriouth?! You're a level ninety!?" Sollux turned to Eridan, he shrugged as Sollux sent him a questionnaire request and Eridan excepted, only realising he was connected to Sollux's WIFI.
"You the Prince of the Oceans? How the hell did you manage to get that title?!" Sollux seemed confused he had never met someone better then himself at video games.
"Oh I have beaten the game about ten times and I picked the water title and since I was already a prince of all the lands this title kind of just stayed with me." He smiled out as he entered the game as he started to remember the controls of the game.
"You're a level seventy mage? That's pretty good Sollux." Eridan mumbled out as he tried out his spells and soon recalled every single hotkey he had set. Sollux's character appeared next to Eridans, the pop up appeared on Eridans computer telling him his quest friend was in the same realm as him. Eridan took this time to stare at Sollux's mage who had grey skin like his character and wore a green over robe and pants, he didn't have a weapon present as his states said he was a high-level telepathic user. The characters eyes were covered by some oval sun glasses, Eridan could tell that he was an evil character because four small horns had sprung from his black shaggy hair and pointy teeth. Eridan couldn't talk, his character had two horns and fins with its grey skin and glasses that matched his, a purple cape flying behind him with black armour coating his chest and striped pants with light armour over his legs. He was a sea-dweller and Sollux's was a land dweller meaning Eridan's got a boost in water though Sollux got a boost in ground magic, they were complete opposites nearly.
"Tho are we jutht thtand here all day or do you want to help me out with my current quetht, your character will be utheful becuathe it'th a water level in the land of wrath and angelth."
"Oh that's my fav-vourite land!" Eridan cheered out as he fast travelled there taking Sollux with him as Sollux walked over to the master of the land and listened to his shitty reason in why he had to save his treasure that was in the sunken ship.
"Really I prefer the land of Brianth and fire, much cooler and I get an EXP bonuth for killing people there because it'th my hatch zone." Sollux mumbled out as Eridan and his character began to zap and fire at the flying white demons in the sky.
"Mines this land" Eridan mumbled out as he became fixated on killing the angels in the land, though he peered over at Sollux clicking away as a grin slipped onto his lips, maybe Sollux didn't hate him.
The two just reached the sunken ship of Dualscar and were versing the ghost of Dualscar when Sollux's name was called from downstairs, Eridan peered up at Sollux then back at the game. Five minutes later the voice rang again, Sollux gave an attempted grunt as he continued hiding behind Eridans character while he re-charged. The final voice was heard when the door bust open and Christina was there, she didn't look happy, but before she could say anything dualscar exploded into a pile of purple goop and the treasure was retrieved.
"YETHH!" Sollux smiled out as he spun around he faced his mother who was at the door glaring at him, Sollux sat up and cleared his throat.
"Hey mum."
"Don't you hey mum me! I have been calling you for ten minutes mister!" She growled out as Sollux didn't respond instead waited for her to continue.
"Dinner is ready, come and get it." She grumbled out as Eridan saved his progress and quit the game as Sollux did the same before standing and stretching until a bad sounding crack popped from his back and he sighed.
"Come on Fish-face." Sollux called as he exited his room and Eridan trailed behind with a small grin as Sollux thumped downstairs and into the kitchen where the smell of a freshly cooked meal lingered and Eridan got excited, he hadn't smelt anything that good since, his dad.
"I made chicken parmigiana with a nice salad and fries." Sollux floated over and looked at the plates before carefully scanning for the one with the least amount of salad. Though as his eyes set on the perfect plate with barely any salad, a hand swooped past him and grasped it, claiming the plate for themselves.
"Hey that'th mine! You thaw that I wath going to grab it!" Sollux huffed out as Mituna was revealed to have claimed the plate and was currently fishing out a knife and fork set for himself.
"Thorry little bro firtht come firtht therve." Sollux pouted as Christina stepped in with a huff,
"Boy's calm down it's just a plate and besides, it's guest's pick first anyway smarty." She said giving Mituna a nudge as he didn't release ownership of the plate as Eridan peered at the similar plates and took the one closest to him.
"thee he didn't want it anyway!" Mituna teased out once more before making his way into the lounge room as Sollux snatched up a plate and a knife and fork for himself before muttering and joining his older brother in the lounge room. Eridan guessed that the family ate together in front of the TV, despite having a perfectly good dining table in the kitchen.
"Thank you Christina, it looks amazing" Eridan chimed out as he grabbed the plate and approached the same cupboard that the Captor brothers had to retrieve his knife and fork as Christina's face lit up.
"Anytime sweetie it's my pleasure!" She smiled, this made Eridan's heart skip a beat as he stared at her for a moment before he could feel his cheeks heating up. He hadn't had the pleasure of having a mother growing up, since his Mother had got sick after his birth and passed on, he didn't know a warmth of this kind.
"Uh.. I .. hmm thanks…" Eridan managed to get out before looking down at his food and hurrying out of the kitchen and into the lounge room. Sollux was on one side of the couch whilst Mituna was on the other, they weren't talking instead they were picking away at their food like they didn't have much to say.
Eridan was quick to pass by Sollux as to not block his view of the TV for too long and took the seat in between them silently, they didn't react. He began to pick at his food, it was amazing, the best food he had had since, well for a long time, it warmed his body and his stomach happily accepted it.
The sound of the TV and plate clattering filled the room as Eridan found himself smiling, the Captors household was extremely welcoming, Well Christina and Mituna were, as for Sollux Eridan couldn't put his finger on what but it seemed that something was stopping him from coming out of his shell.
"What are you smiling at fish-face?" Sollux questioned as Eridan realised that he had been staring at Sollux and peered back at his meal.
What was it?