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( 2235 stevens road; locked to bang shishigami and neophyte redglare )

[After having spent the better part of the week as a drone, Terezi Pyrope finally wakes up. She wakes up from her nightmares to a sharp gasp and an unfamiliar-smelling bedroom. She nearly falls off of her bed in an attempt to regain her bearings as she tries to pull everything

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school combo x3???

[miraculls]

[Gamzee's always gone out of his way to be as nice to his droned friends as he is to his real friends - partly because he can't remember half the time who's been droned and who hasn't - so he actually notices when she doesn't show up at the loser table like usual. Which means that when he sees her walking away from him at some point in the hallways, he instantly beams and tries to catch up to her amidst lots of honking so they can engage in their daily gossip (well, so she can engage her in her daily gossip while he falls asleep).]

Terezi! Chica, hold up.

baby baby baby

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[Terezi hears that voice and simply picks up the pace, clutching her books to her chest and trying to lose herself in the crowd of other students. Maybe he'll forget that she's there if she moves quick enough.]

[miraculls]

[Oh...evidently she didn't hear him? Luckily, Gamzee's in possession of a pair of ridiculously long legs, so it doesn't take him too much effort to match her speed. He also pulls out one of his louder horns and honks it happily, trying to get her attention.]

Yo, sister! Haha, where you all trying to be getting your bad self at so fast?

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[Where she'd normally laugh and try to grab at his horn to increase the noise, now she just goes still. Terezi can't go ignoring that, so she whips around on her heel abruptly, her cheeks flushed faintly teal, a very complicated expression on her face, and snaps at him.]

Now's not the time, Gamzee.

[miraculls]

[He pockets the horn, looking kind of surprised.]

Soooooooooorry. Something wrong, sis?

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[She feels like she could cry, standing there and smelling that sharp grape jelly scent of his, a scent that'd been cut right through with peanut butter and sweat and sea salt and cameowmile tea and raspberry. He'd worn their blood like warpaint and all she could do was just stand there, all of her worst fears revealed and confirmed in one swift, painful jab to her heart.

The Gamzee who stands before her now doesn't even seem like the same person who Karkat had just calmed down in the Veil, and she doesn't know how to feel.]

I'm not in the mood to deal with [you] this right now.

[miraculls]

Uhhhh...deal with what?

[He glances around, squinting for whatever it is that's gotten Terezi so annoyed, then shrugs and tries to throw his arm around her shoulder in friendly hug.] Shit, you know I all be hating to see my wicked sister down. Wanna go jam about it?

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[She goes completely stiff under the hug; her mouth twists in a little scowl, and she ducks her head, and she even quivers a little before trying to push him away.

This Gamzee is the one she likes so much, the one she sees like a brother: sweet and innocent and so good-natured, and yet...]

Eheh. I'm sorry. I can't. Not today.

[miraculls]

[He's a bit puzzled by how uncomfortable she seems - out of all the trolls, Terezi's the only one as unaware of personal space as he is - but lets go obligingly.]

Aight. Whenever you want though, you can hit a brother up. You know I got your exoskeleton on whatever you're all needing.

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[Oh, that's too much. The anger and frustration and confusion begins to boil over.]

...Gamzee.

[Don't cry don't cry don't cry- oh welp there it goes.]

[miraculls]

[Well, if she didn't want a full-body hug from an occasionally homicidal and always idiotic clown before, too bad because now she's getting one.]

Fuck, chica, what's wrong?

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[Despite herself, she presses her forehead against her chest, and she just hasn't got the heart to tell him the truth. She can't bring herself to tell him why just being near him now is making her want to clutch her head and scream. Not when he's almost happy here.

Ignorance really is bliss.]

I'll be fine. [She squeezes her eyes shut tight.] You idiot... It'll be okay. [He's got Karkat, right? Karkat can help him if it ever comes to that again. She finally gets it. Karkat has been in pale love with Gamzee for ages, and all her return had done was just confirm to her what she'd known for months here in Mayfield.]