Chapter One

Blood Red Eyes

Karkat Vantas / Dave Strider

Rated: T

Dave entered the room and glanced around. Rose had left her book open and she and Kanaya had snuck off somewhere. They seemed to be doing that a lot lately. Figures. Karkat had stuck around and was facing away from the door, fidgeting with something.

"Yo, nubs," Dave called. Karkat cried out, throwing whatever he was messing with under his pillow. "Seen Terezi or the mayor?"

"No! And don't fuckin' sneak up on people like that! What do you want Terezi and the mayor for?"

"Uh, I don't know, I'm like the secretary of Can Town or some shit. Mayorally appointed."

"Is mayorally even a word?" Dave shrugged and pointed at the pillow.

"What were you messing with?"

"Nothing. It's none of your business. Go away." Dave stepped closer and Karkat jumped onto the pillow. Dave gave him a look that could be read from behind his glasses. Are we going to go through this every time? "It's my shit and I deserve some privacy!"

"Yeah right." Dave threw him out of the way and reached under the pillow and pulled out a book. "Oh, it's one of your romfics? That's nothing new." He grimaced at the cover. "With your weird three-way troll relationships. What's the title?"

"It's 'Douchebags With Sunglasses Give the Troll Back His Book'."

"Sounds like fiction to me," Dave grinned.

"Give it back!"

"Why? I'm sure it's steamy, but that's not so bad." He flipped it open. "Whoa, hey, you grafitti'd all over in it. Wait." Karkat lunged and Dave sidestepped without looking away from the book. "You replaced some of the names with, what, names of people we know? The first chapter is about Rose and John?" He glanced at the troll. "What kind of shit is this?"

"It's nothing!"

"Jeez, something I'd expect more out of Nepeta. Huh. You got most of the human anatomy right. Except it ain't called a 'bulge' to us." He chuckled and Karkat lunged again. "Why are you so insistent? What's in this thing that I can't read?" He began flipping through pages. "Terezi and Vriska, Kanaya and Rose and John... Squarewave and Maplehoof? You're fuckin' sick, man."

"GIVE IT-"

"Oh. OH. Now I see why you didn't want me reading. 'Dave's lips caressed the troll's neck as his hands made his way to his waist. "Oh gog, Karkat," he said and'-"

"STOP READING MY SHIT!" Karkat managed to connect a successful tackle and knock Dave to the ground.

"Agh, fuck!" Karkat knocked Dave's glasses to the ground and pinned him by his shoulders. The two froze, both locked onto each other's blood red eyes.

"Y-your eyes..." Karkat muttered.

"So are yours," Dave replied. The two were silent for a moment. Upon later recollection, each would blame each other, but slowly, the two leaned in and kissed softly. After a few moments, Karkat pulled back.

"I- I don't- what are we-?"

"Sloppy human-troll makeouts," Dave replied, pulling him back into the kiss. Karkat resisted for a brief moment before returning the kiss, more passionately this time, Karkat's hands resting on Dave's shoulders as Dave's moved to Karkat's hips.

"Oh, gog, Karkat," Dave grinned.

"Fuck you, Strider," Karkat panted, kissing harder. Dave rolled so that he had Karkat pinned as his lips moved down the troll's neck. Karkat looked away, flushing and gritting his teeth in the terrible realization of just how badly he wanted the thing he tried to prevent so often.

Finally, Dave stopped and chuckled, shaking his head and putting on his glasses.

"What? Why'd you stop?"

"An audience." Karkat froze and turned to see Kanaya frozen in place, eyes wide, Rose grinning, and Terezi sniffing and licking the air desperately to see what had taken place.

"What? What is it, what are we looking at?" Terezi demanded. "I smell Dave and Karkat."

"Oh, nothing, Terezi," Rose chuckled. "Don't worry about it."

"Kanaya, what is it?" the blind troll begged.

"I don't- What-?" Rose just laughed, leading the two towards the exit.

"Hurry up, if you would," Rose told them, "I need to work on our biography and this is the best room to write in." She held up a green tome labeled R.L. and left the room.

"What just happened?" Karkat demanded.

"Shut up," Dave replied, silencing him with another kiss. "She told us to hurry up. Let's get to it, then."

Author's Note: And that's chapter one. :3 That means we're one two-hundred-and-fifty-thirds through the challenge. Whee! Remember to review and leave suggestions for the next chapter, or simply to beg me to write more of this one. I'll continue any one-shot you like enough.
Also, I'll update rather sporadically, sometimes updating daily, sometimes three times a day, sometimes once a week. Never know, busy guy. :D