Jinxii slowly went down the stairs in her black pajamas, which consisted of black cloth shorts, and long-sleeve black shirt. She looked very unlike her normally hyperactive self. Her steps were slow, without their usual bounce. Her hair was in furious disarray, strands curving this way and that, twisting horns peeking through. The bright color of her horns, going from scarlet bottoms, to orange middle, to yellow tips, contrasted the dark mood surrounding her. She made her way to the dining room, a coffee packet in hand, where the morning chaos was already taking place. Everyone stopped what they were doing immediately when they saw the comically small troll walk through the dining room. Kaykay and Eilder stiffened when they saw her. They exchanged panicked looks. Sollux was the only one seemingly unfazed. "Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the recuperation pod!" Eilder quickly retaliated, slapping her hand over his mouth, but it was too late. Jinxii slowly lifted her head and stared directly at him. Her eyes had changed color. Her purple irises that were present the day before had been replaced with a demonic blood red. Her eyes were dark with disdain. After a couple seconds of looking at him, her eyes seemed to dilate, and recognition formed within her eyes, and her eyes changed color yet again, to a yellow color, and you could read fear on her face. She paled, and fell to the ground, racked with shivers. Kaykay practically leaped over the table, black braid flying. She tried to touch her, and when she did, Jinxii unraveled from the fetal position and scrambled up, a feral look in her eyes, and growled at Sollux, sharp vampire like canines showing. Kaykay grabbed Jinxii, as Eilder helped to get her inside the kitchen restraining her. The rest of the table was in shock, and broke out into hushed voices and gossip.
An hour later, Jinxii bounced out of the kitchen, short black hair flying behind her. She giggled as she ran. Kaykay and Eilder walked out slowly, exhausted. Only a couple people remained at the dining table. Karkat being one of them jumped up and scurried over to Kaykay.
"What was that?!" he whisper shouted, gesturing to the direction where Jinxii had sprinted off. Kaykay looked from side to side, to make sure nobody was listening, and said in a hushed voice, "Jinxii has some problems. She had a…..interesting past. Don't try and mention it to her, or she might have a similar reaction. Sollux looks like somebody…..special. It probably triggered something. As you might have noticed, coffee is quite like a drug, a soporific to our species. The caffeine makes her hyper. Without it, it causes problems. Don't worry about it. I have it under control. Satisfied?" He nodded slowly, taking it in. He knew Kaykay knew her from their failed game session of sgrub. He tried to talk about what happened to make them escape and join their game session, but she always changed the subject quickly, like "How's your blackrom romcom?" or "How is your Matespiritship novel?" The game session seemed to be taboo to her. He knew both Eilder and Jinxii were from that session, and something dramatic happened to interrupt it. He eventually just stopped asking. Oh well.
Dave listened to the gentle beautiful singing of Jinxii, thinking about how to remix it and make her talent better. Kanaya had told him they were much like morails. That was cool I guess. It had been a couple months since she had arrived. She settled quite nicely. But he thought that Karkat seemed to like the new troll quite a bit. He would've thought that Karkat would be repelled by her hyperactive demeanor, but it seemed quite the opposite. Jinxii would often ask Karkat to go "play " with her, and would do silly things like play hide and seek, or tag, and she seemed to like him enough to do that god forsaken tackle Dave, Karkat, Kaykay and Eilder had to brace themselves for every time she greeted him. He seemed to be a little gentler around her, instead of his usual crabby self. He still yelled quite a lot and said quite crude things like "IDIOT! WHY DID YOU HIDE IN THE FREEZER?!" or "WHY THE HECK MUST YOU TACKLE ME EVERY TIME?!" but that was normal. He couldn't blame Vantas. Strider didn't like Jinxii in that way, he felt more pale to her, but he did admit the little troll was quite cute with her large color changing eyes, huge smile, and small but curvy build that made her look like a little anime girl like from one of bro's weird animes that he likes so much. He sat back and listened to her song…
Jinxii was in a bright neatly furnished room. A mirror hung on the wall above her. She got up and looked around. She noticed that she had long black hair, like in the old days. She marveled at the soft silky beauty that used to be her hair. Jinxii looked in the mirror. A small little troll, identical to her banged her fists against the glass. The troll was same but different. Her eyes had a psychotic look, and her hair was choppy, like it had been lopped off diagonally. Her face was splattered in blood, dark blue blood, like him. Her clothes were ripped, torn at the sleeves, the room in the mirror had walls that were covered in multicolored blood; red, green, orange, and lots of dark blue. She growled at Jinxii. Suddenly the other Jinxii shot her hand through the mirror and grabbed her shirt collar. She jerked her through the mirror and drew her close to her, and a blade appeared in the short haired Jinxii's hand. She lopped off Jinxii's long hair and threw her to the ground. The psycho troll then jumped through the mirror. Jinxii scrambled up and rushed to the mirror. The other troll was wreaking havoc from hence she came. She banged on the glass to try to get her attention. The troll looked back and wiggled her fingers at her. She then left the room. Jinxii pressed her back to the wall and looked into the dark. She crept closer to the pitch black and looked into the dark. There, she saw the dead body of him.
A loud, long, high pitched screaming woke her up. She quickly closed her mouth when she realized it was her own. She slipped out of her silky bed, and put on little black bunny slippers to fit her tiny feet, and a plush pillow. She stealthily walked down the hallway and into the cancer twin's bedroom. She quietly set her pillow down and lay down at the feet of Karkat's and Kaykay's bed. Hopefully Karkat won't mind… I like him a lot, he makes me feel safe. She quickly fell asleep there, feeling relief from the fear of her nightmare….