Terezi walked through the transportalizer to the roof, but when she got there it seemed empty. Slowly she walked over toward the railing; for some reason she thought he might actually be there waiting for her… but she supposed she should have known better.
Suddenly she heard someone clear their throat from behind her. She turned around and sitting against the wall with his arms crossed, glaring at the ground, was Karkat. She managed a smile, and slowly walked back over, sitting next to him.
They sat there in silence for a while before either of them spoke.
"You know…" Karkat began quietly, "I don't even really care that you said I didn't have any Morials besides Gamzee…"
She just smiled, "Oh really?"
"Yeah… I…" He said, pausing to deliberating with himself, before he sighed, "I just wanted to apologize… I know it's a really human thing to do… but… I didn't mean what I said… I was just… just angry!" he said, turning to look at her, "You are so much more than a blind girl… besides the fact that you don't even function like you're blind because you have the best nose ever. Even better than one of those stupid barking paw beasts the earth humans have!" He said teasingly, he raised his hand to touch her shoulder comfortingly so she would know he was kidding, but then he decided against it and put it back on the floor, looking away.
He bit his lip, he knew he was going to regret what he was about to tell her, but he didn't care.
"Terezi… I… I want you to know… that no matter what, even if you don't want me to, I will always be your Morial… at least from my perspective, or maybe even just your friend at the very least… and if Dave being your Matesprite ever gets tiring… don't think that… that he's the only one who would want to be your Matesprite…" He said trying to accentuate the importance of what he was trying to tell her.
He saw her grin like something was funny and he figured he had just humiliated himself yet again, so to try to hide his shame he covered his face with his hands.
"I'm sorry, Karkat, I didn't mean to smile…" She said, gently as she tried to pull his hands away, "I just thought it was funny!" she explained, smirking, "What makes you think Dave is my Matesprite?"
He looked at her, "Ugh… Terezi, you don't have to lie to me… I saw you! And… I guess… I've accepted it now…" He said sadly, "Well, not really accepted it, more… decided not to cut him to pieces and bury them randomly throughout the meteor, but only because it would make you unhappy… and… he would come back and kill me… but same thing…" he said, chuckling.
She smiled, gently brushing the hair out of his eyes, "You know… I should probably be really angry that you even considered murdering my friend in a human jealous rage, but it's kinda…" she paused trying to find a good enough adjective, "Adorabloodthirsty…" She said giggiling.
He laughed, "I can't believe you remembered that stupid word…" He muttered.
"Well it fits." She assured him.
He just smiled, that was one of the few fond memories he had of the game, it was still very early on, and the humans weren't even an idea yet. Everyone was still alive and the Bard of Rage still had enough slime to last an eternity… Ah yes… the good old days…
"Karkat…" She started again, "You still haven't told me why you think Dave is my matesprite…"
"Well… I wasn't spying on you or anything…" He assured her, "But I kind of saw you and Dave when you were playing with your dumb stuffed scalemates… and you kind of…"
Suddenly she started laughing, "You know I see by smell and taste though!" She said teasingly, "Just because I lick someone doesn't mean I want to be their matesprite! Is that really why you freaked out at Kanaya?"
He was silent, processing how close to being Egbert level he was.
She laughed again, leaning against his shoulder, "You're so adorabloodthirsty when you're human jealous…" she mused before she quickly leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, making him blush, "And also… Let the record show… Dave only let me lick him because I told him I had no idea what he looked like, but it still made him really uncomfortable." She assured him.
"Good…" He said begrudgingly, before he smiled. He almost wished he could have seen the awkward look on his face when Terezi licked him…
Suddenly she licked his cheek before he even realized it.
"I'm sorry…" She said almost shyly, "…I could smell you blushing… and I really like candy red…"
He just sighed, putting his arm around her, "Yeah… I know…"
She giggled, slowly reaching up and gently kissing him on the lips.
"That was for apologizing… and also because you didn't freak out for once…" She said teasingly but he was too shocked (-content-) to reply.