Thanks to all the reviews, got a new chapter up finally woo woo
Eridan Ampora hadn't known what to expect, following the girls down the street, but it certainly wasn't following them back through a maze of back alleys to an unmarked door.
"This place is called Signless." Roxy whispered into his ear. She went up to the door and knocked a light rhythm with both of her hands.
The door opened to reveal a short, angry looking man with messy black hair. Once again, Eridan could feel bass resonating through his body. He wondered if it was something that he'd have to get used to. He wasn't sure he was okay with that.
"Jesus Roxy it's not even dark yet." Said the angry little man. Troll. Eridan thought.
"Aw, Karkey, but I have a virgin with me!" She fell dramatically on Jane, who rolled her eyes and smiled.
"Jesus fuck alright fine get your asses in here." The man stepped back and opened the door fully. Eridan was then exposed to the smoke and multi-colored lights of the club inside. "And don't ever call me Karkey again. It makes me want to lynch myself with my own intestines."
"Yeah, yeah," Roxy waved a hand at him and he shook his head. "Is Dave here tonight, Karkat?" She said with a hard T at the end of his name.
"Yeah that asshat will be up at the tales in less than an hour." Karkat shut the door behind them. "So are you gonna give a name to this prick or what?" Said Karkat, gesturing at Eridan.
"Right. This is our new employee, Eridan. Eridan," She nodded at Karkat. "Karkat. Karkat," She nodded at Eridan. "Eridan."
"Great, our next pair of douche legs to get themselves sea worthy at Signless" Eridan didn't really appreciate the fact that Karkat was being so rude, but it just seemed like an aspect of his personality, so he would probably have to deal with it. He doubted that the evening could turn out any weirder.
Roxy sashayed off. To get some drinks, Eridan assumed.
"Got my table Karkat?" Asked Jane.
"Yeah, yeah, you got your fucking table. All you nerds have all your tables open all the damn time whenever you're not here. Dave keeps it that way for reasons unknown. Fucking reserved not open to the public tables in a secret fucking club like some stupid fucking conspiracy or some shit." Jane let out a small laugh.
"Take us there oh mighty door knight!" Jane leaned on him and held the back of her hand on her forehead, and with the other, she fanned herself.
"Oh my fucking god." Karkat walked on, ignoring Jane. He led them to a rounded booth that was just outside the dance floor.
All at once, Karkat left them at the table, Roxy returned with a tray of drinks and a blond guy wearing sunglasses heaved himself up from the dance floor and flopped over what appeared to be turntables.
"Alright I brought twelve tequila shots. Four for each of us." Eridan raised an eyebrow at her. "Sit down mister. And don't question the master of the drinks. I also have a surprise drink for all of us. See if you can guess what it is."
It was a Friday. He had nowhere to be tomorrow. So he figured, fuck it. He'd get hammered and see how the night went. He remembered the taste of tequila in the back of his throat. Then vodka. Then Bacardi. He remembered dancing and he remembered lips on his. He remembered stripping like he had never stripped in his life.
Then, everything went dark.
Sollux Captor had had a long week. His best friend was across the world and kept little contact with him. Undercover missions like the one she had take time and a lot of skill. He couldn't contact her unless she contacted him first. Being knee deep in decrypting old files was a lot of work though. With all the external hard drives as work, he really didn't want his new assignment to arrive today. But he did. Sollux didn't really get a good look at him, he was too busy getting work done to worry about the new guy. Sollux was sure he got all the info he needed. Sollux would be glad to not have to see him again until after Feferi got back. Suddenly, the day was over, the sun was setting, and Drik was in Sollux's office.
"How much more do you have left to do?" Asked Dirk, leaning on the door frame.
"A shit ton." Sollux replied.
"It's Friday, dickwad."
"Yeah, so?"
"So let's go get hammered. I'm supposed to meet Roxy, Jane and Jake at Signless tonight." Dirk said, looking up at the ceiling.
"So take the strong brothers." Sollux retorted.
"They already left, and you could use a break." Seeing Karkat might do him some good. They had always been friends and Karkat had helped him through some hard times back in college.
"How sweet."
"No problem honey, I take pride in the care I take of my wives."
"Oh my god, princess, shit your yammering trap. I'll meet you outside in ten minutes."
"I await your return to the outside world." Came from the shop as Dirk disappeared.
Sollux started shutting down his system, and threw away the trash on his desk. He flipped off the lights to his office and shut down the shop. As he went up in the elevator, he tried to remember what the new guy had looked like. His name was Ampora. And he seemed like a pretentious douche.
The store was shut down as well. The only person likely to still be in the building now was Aranea. Sollux didn't know or care a lot about Aranea. And personally he didn't like her all that much. He went out the back, since the sliding doors were locked. He found Dirk leaning against the brick across form the back door.
"Alright, let's go."
The drinks had lowered his stress level. And seeing Karkat for the first time in moths outside of chatting online was refreshing. But as he sat at the table, drinking with Jane, Roxy, Dirk and Jake, he felt like he was intruding. Roxy got up to go to the dance floor and Sollux's eyes started to wander.
He noticed someone on the dance floor dancing. Someone hot. Someone who had walked into his shop today with a purple streak in his hair. The colored hair was a ballsy move. Sollux would give him that. For their line of work. Sollux wondered what had been his specialty in training.
But hot damn could he dance. In the corner of his eye, Sollux noticed Dirk and Jake making out. He found that he didn't give a shit. He was too preoccupied with watching this guy dance. What was his name? Ampora? That was his last name. First name? Eridan. Oh, the things Eridan was doing. Oh yeah, he could work with that.
Dirk must've noticed his staring.
"Listen, we're gonna split. Good luck getting that tonight." Dirk nodded towards the dance floor.
"Fuck off." Sollux replied.
"I intended to." Retorted Dirk, getting up and dragging Jake towards the door.
Sollux din't know where Jane had gone but he couldn't find Roxy on the dance floor, so he assumed they were gone as well.
Sollux knew he couldn't dance, so getting up and joining Eridan on the dance floor seemed hopeless. He downed the rest of whatever the bottle that Roxy ordered when he got here and waited for Eridan to exhaust himself dancing.
Dave hopped back over the turntables and walked to the table. He slid in next to Sollux.
"Where you been? Haven't seen you in forever."
"Busy as shit Dave, where do you think I've been?"
Dave raised his arms in surrender. "Hey man, just wondering. It's been ages since I've seen you in here."
"Yeah well if that's-" Sollux pointed to Eridan, still dancing, on the dance floor. How could he still be dancing? "-going to become a regular thing, I might become a regular thing too."
"Ah, I see. Well, I hope you get lucky tonight then." Dave got up. "I'm heading upstairs though. Got some business, to take care of." Dave nodded at Sollux before heading off."
Eridan had finally returned to the table. He seemed to not care about the absence of people that he came here with. Sollux now realized that they had left him responsible for Eridan. Yet, he couldn't bring himself to be angry about it. He'd make sure Eridan got home. Or, well, maybe he'd get home with Sollux.
"When did you get here?" Eridan stated. He leaned over the table. His breath smelled like some sort of fruity drink. Sollux wanted to taste it.
"Where'd you learn how to dance like that?" Eridan's eyes seemed a dark purple in the light. Sollux loved it.
"Natural born talent." Eridan smirked.
"You'll have to teach me then." Sollux replied, getting closer to Eridan's face.
"How about you come back with me and I will." Sollux leaned into Eridan's mouth. He tasted like fruit and rum. Eridan slipped his tongue into Sollux's mouth and lowered himself onto Sollux's lap.
Sollux didn't know how long they sat there for, but he started to get really into it. They needed to get out of this place. Sollux needed Eridan as soon as possible. Ripping his mouth away from Eridan's neck, he managed to get out the words "We should leave."
"Mmm, yeah." Came Eridan's response.
"Let's go, come on."
Eridan got up off of Sollux, grabbing his hand and leading him out of the club back into the alleyways. Once they were outside, the chill of the night air biting into Sollux's skin did little more than make him more exited.
Eridan shoved Sollux against the bricks, attacking his jawline and neck with kisses.
"Eridan," A gasp. "We have to make it back."
"Right. Right." Eridan took his hand and allowed Sollux to lead him through the alleys and to an apartment building. Once they were through the lobby and in the elevator, they were on each other again.
Next chapter will be only the smut huzzah!