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Mostly Harmless FST.
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SIDE A
1.
Connect by Claris
As I look back, I see my friends,
and before I realize it I’m tenderly surrounded by them.
In a world where everything was distorted,
I believed in one thing…that there was salvation.
i wish i could have all my favourite people together. i wish you all could meet each other, i bet it’d be interesting. we could have a movie night! i know you would all make fun of me for how much i like nick cage, like even more than you normally do. but it’d be worth it. you guys could tease me all you want if we could just have a night with all five of us together. just pizza and movies and no big worries.
it’s hard, growing up and having grown-up responsibilities and making big life-changing decisions. it’s hard, and nobody here understands. but i think if i could tell you everything, you would.
thanks for being a great friend.
2.
Horse With No Name by America
On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
“Oh man,” Dave drawled. “This is the best idea we have ever had. Three barely legal kids and a dog, gonna gallivant across the wild wild west, strike out on the lam with our fugitive bro as soon as we find him.” He shouldered his backpack and surveyed the expanse of land around them, confirming to see if Jade’s devildog had in fact dropped them off in the middle of bugfuck nowhere, or if there was any sign of civilization-even a road-within sight. Predictably, there was nothing but cacti and mesas as far as the eye could see.
3.
One Jump Ahead from Disney's Aladdin
One jump ahead of the slowpokes
One skip ahead of my doom
Next time gonna use a nom de plume
One jump ahead of the hitmen
One hit ahead of the flock
I think I'll take a stroll around the block
He still wasn’t sure if hitchhiking was illegal or not, though he was sure it was one of those things his dad had warned him about. Somehow his luck held, and they had yet to be brutally murdered. His thigh had been inappropriately fondled 2.5 times, however.
Besides the increase of ground they could cover, the other bonus that made hitchhiking worth the inappropriate thigh touching was that it interrupted their tracks, and thus prevented another episode of “When police dogs chase lanky science students and malnourished aliens!” John would subject his left thigh to all the creepy truckers this side of the Mason-Dixon line if it meant he didn’t have to lose his pants to a German Shepherd again.
4.
The Final Countdown
We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell?
All in all, he felt fairly foolish for thinking he could steal an alien so easily. Of course if he managed to erase his tracks, they wouldn’t even bother to follow him anymore. It was no wonder he’d been able to run without being caught so far. The investment in pursuing him had been shifted instead to moving forward to cut him off. He hadn't gotten away or evaded the last of the pursuit, not by any means-he'd just run into a trap. It was an easy prediction that he’d want to leave the state at the least, the country at the most-he wondered if every road leaving New Mexico was just as swarmed, and what airport security had to have been like for the week since they’d started to run.
As he imagined the shenanigans that would have resulted from trying to smuggle Karkat on a plane, John found himself giggling hysterically, the gallows’ laughter that could only come from staring down the end of the line, signaled by so many flashing red and blue lights. Sure, they could double back, keep running all around New Mexico, but if it came down to who could afford to keep on as they were the longest, John was pretty sure he and Karkat would die of exposure or malnutrition before the police were forced to stop lurking over every inch of the state border.
“We are fucked,” Karkat grumbled, tearing off a bite of Slim Jim and staring out the storefront window.
5.
Les Enfants Perdues by Angélique Kidjo
(The Lost Children)
Qui saura écouter l'appel
Des enfant perdus
Qui saura les approcher
Qui saura colorer le ciel
Des enfants perdus
(this is my amateur translation:)
(Who will listen to the cry
Of the lost children
Who will approach them
Who will colour the sky
Of the lost children)
you know
i'm glad we’re here together
i'm so grateful i got to meet you in person and see you face to face for the first time ever!
but i wish it could have been for a different reason!!!
still, i think
i know
everything is going to work out okay
just as soon as we find john :)
6.
If We Hold On Together by Diana Ross
Don't lose your way
With each passing day
You've come so far
Don't throw it away
“I gave up so much for you,” he whispered. “My future, my friends, my dad. And I didn’t regret it, even when we were hungry and tired and scared and lonely.” His voice shuddered and shattered; there was silence as he swallowed rapidly. Then, “I’d never regret it. Saving you.” He had one foot on the ground. “I was gonna teach you all kinds of words. Show you movies. Prank you, once we got somewhere safe. Bake a cake, even though dad’s are the very best.” Both feet under him now, wobbly but standing, hunched because the roof of the van was too low. He could see that Karkat’s carnivorous teeth were clenched, and his eyes were scrunched shut, squeezing tears out like juicing a grapefruit.
“I want to believe we can still make it.”
“Shut up!”
7.
You Were There from ICO
Am I forever dreaming
How to define the way I'm feeling
You were there
Countless visions they haunt me in my sleep
You were there
Though forgotten all promises we keep
“We’re safe,” he whispered, and hoped that he wasn't just offering Karkat reassuring lies. This time, when Jade made to approach them, the alien was silent, though he did not relax nor move from where he stood supporting John. Jade slowly knelt down next to the handcuffed pair, tentatively setting a hand on John’s shoulder, taking his injuries into account and restraining herself from hugging him close. “We’re gonna be okay," John promised, resolving to do what he had to make it true if necessary.
SIDE B
8.
Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine
And in the dark, I can hear your heart beat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped and I was in the darkness
So darkness I became
Most of John’s words at the end there in the police car had been just as incomprehensible to him, but the point had come through well enough. They’d come too far together for John to give him up now. The human was just that kind of idiot to hold out until the very end, just that kind of moron who didn’t know when to quit.
Only now he’d gone and passed out and left Karkat alone with-with-
Her small pink hands were on his shoulders, and he let himself be led away from the only thing he could stand on this awful planet.
9.
Stay by Aesma Daeva
Stay, time, awhile thy flying
Stay and pity me dying
For fate and friends have left me
And of comfort has bereft me
“You can have my luck,” Vriska says to John, caressing his pale pink face, tenderly kissing him, pressing her body against him while Karkat watches, can do nothing but watch, hanging limply in his metal restraints and feeling strangely bereft. She breathes good fortune into the human, “For all the good it’s done me.”
John clings to her and is left clutching ineffectually at air, surrounded by ten thousand rapidly fluttering blood-blue butterflies. Her glasses are perched on his nose. Karkat opens his mouth to scream and nothing comes out. He keeps trying until finally a voiceless cry tears itself from his throat, and he tries and tries again to yell to John, but the human doesn’t notice, doesn’t hear.
10.
We No Speak Americano by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP
Comme te po' capì chi te vò bene
si tu le parle 'mmiezzo americano?
Quando se fa l'ammore sotto 'a Luna
come te vene 'capa e di: "I love you!?"
(basic translation)
(How can you understand that I care about you
If you speak broken English?
When we make love beneath the moon
How are you capable of saying, “I love you!?”)
“Maybe he’s stupid.” Karkat rolled his shoulder to try to dislodge the girl, but had no luck. Her tenacity was another trait shared between her and John. He may as well settle in for the long haul.
“Maybe you’re stupid,” Jade replied immediately, knowing even as she said it that they would get nowhere this way. She chewed her bottom lip, wondering if it was even possible to get Karkat to open up. But what had caused him to clam up in the first place? She remembered when he and John had first arrived, how the troll placed himself between John and any potential threats, how he hadn’t wanted John to leave his sight. He was still tolerating John that first night of pizza and movies, but it seemed that after waking up screaming a second time in the Lalonde household, he’d decided that Jade’s, Rose’s, or even Dave’s company was preferable to John’s.
11.
Subhuman (Advice Remix) by The Pillows
I want to see you again someday.
So leave me alone. Away with you!
Everyone told me that I was wrong
I have nothing to do with it!
They gave me a lot of advice
I don't want to have anything to do with you!
“If you give up now,” she warned, “you invalidate everything he’s done for you. It will all have been for nothing. And,” here she smirked, narrowed eyes and dark satisfaction, “Jade will be angry with you as well.” It was equal parts threat and promise. She couldn’t see if Karkat’s eyes went wide under the dark glasses, but she did see his mouth tighten.
He might have stood at the door forever, frozen between fear of Jade’s retribution and terror of John’s affection, if John hadn’t made such a racket barreling down the stairs. As soon as they heard the stampede of teenage boy headed toward the living room, Karkat bolted. Rose watched her front door slam shut, and acknowledged that she was, truth be told, irritated to have her advice disregarded so thoroughly.
12.
Fireflies by Owl City
To ten million fireflies
I’m weird ‘cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said a farewell
But I’ll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
‘Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar
“Anyway, of course I didn’t want to kill you, you asshole!” Karkat opened his mouth to interject, but John rolled right over him, gesturing widely enough that Karkat had to jerk his head back to avoid being smacked in the teeth with his cast. “I care about you! Like, way more than I should for somebody who I only saw for the first time a month ago, and who I’ve only been able to get to know for two weeks of that, and who’s given me, like, a bloody nose every other day!” Karkat wanted to turn his head away at that, the pool of guilt in his stomach expanding to something a bit more like a sizeable lake, bubbling up his throat like nausea. “I’m so scared of losing you, Karkat, and I don’t get it, when Jade said you were leaving…”
Karkat pulled himself to sit cross legged, which freed his arms so that he could reach for John’s hand. Their palms slid comfortably together, fingers casually intertwining.
OMAKE!
13.
Alien Angel by 3
Are you an angel
Whose ship ran aground?
Can't get a grip
On this planet you've found
Never to look down
Trade in my halo
For feet on the ground
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SIDE A
1.
Connect by Claris
As I look back, I see my friends,
and before I realize it I’m tenderly surrounded by them.
In a world where everything was distorted,
I believed in one thing…that there was salvation.
i wish i could have all my favourite people together. i wish you all could meet each other, i bet it’d be interesting. we could have a movie night! i know you would all make fun of me for how much i like nick cage, like even more than you normally do. but it’d be worth it. you guys could tease me all you want if we could just have a night with all five of us together. just pizza and movies and no big worries.
it’s hard, growing up and having grown-up responsibilities and making big life-changing decisions. it’s hard, and nobody here understands. but i think if i could tell you everything, you would.
thanks for being a great friend.
2.
Horse With No Name by America
On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
“Oh man,” Dave drawled. “This is the best idea we have ever had. Three barely legal kids and a dog, gonna gallivant across the wild wild west, strike out on the lam with our fugitive bro as soon as we find him.” He shouldered his backpack and surveyed the expanse of land around them, confirming to see if Jade’s devildog had in fact dropped them off in the middle of bugfuck nowhere, or if there was any sign of civilization-even a road-within sight. Predictably, there was nothing but cacti and mesas as far as the eye could see.
3.
One Jump Ahead from Disney's Aladdin
One jump ahead of the slowpokes
One skip ahead of my doom
Next time gonna use a nom de plume
One jump ahead of the hitmen
One hit ahead of the flock
I think I'll take a stroll around the block
He still wasn’t sure if hitchhiking was illegal or not, though he was sure it was one of those things his dad had warned him about. Somehow his luck held, and they had yet to be brutally murdered. His thigh had been inappropriately fondled 2.5 times, however.
Besides the increase of ground they could cover, the other bonus that made hitchhiking worth the inappropriate thigh touching was that it interrupted their tracks, and thus prevented another episode of “When police dogs chase lanky science students and malnourished aliens!” John would subject his left thigh to all the creepy truckers this side of the Mason-Dixon line if it meant he didn’t have to lose his pants to a German Shepherd again.
4.
The Final Countdown
We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell?
All in all, he felt fairly foolish for thinking he could steal an alien so easily. Of course if he managed to erase his tracks, they wouldn’t even bother to follow him anymore. It was no wonder he’d been able to run without being caught so far. The investment in pursuing him had been shifted instead to moving forward to cut him off. He hadn't gotten away or evaded the last of the pursuit, not by any means-he'd just run into a trap. It was an easy prediction that he’d want to leave the state at the least, the country at the most-he wondered if every road leaving New Mexico was just as swarmed, and what airport security had to have been like for the week since they’d started to run.
As he imagined the shenanigans that would have resulted from trying to smuggle Karkat on a plane, John found himself giggling hysterically, the gallows’ laughter that could only come from staring down the end of the line, signaled by so many flashing red and blue lights. Sure, they could double back, keep running all around New Mexico, but if it came down to who could afford to keep on as they were the longest, John was pretty sure he and Karkat would die of exposure or malnutrition before the police were forced to stop lurking over every inch of the state border.
“We are fucked,” Karkat grumbled, tearing off a bite of Slim Jim and staring out the storefront window.
5.
Les Enfants Perdues by Angélique Kidjo
(The Lost Children)
Qui saura écouter l'appel
Des enfant perdus
Qui saura les approcher
Qui saura colorer le ciel
Des enfants perdus
(this is my amateur translation:)
(Who will listen to the cry
Of the lost children
Who will approach them
Who will colour the sky
Of the lost children)
you know
i'm glad we’re here together
i'm so grateful i got to meet you in person and see you face to face for the first time ever!
but i wish it could have been for a different reason!!!
still, i think
i know
everything is going to work out okay
just as soon as we find john :)
6.
If We Hold On Together by Diana Ross
Don't lose your way
With each passing day
You've come so far
Don't throw it away
“I gave up so much for you,” he whispered. “My future, my friends, my dad. And I didn’t regret it, even when we were hungry and tired and scared and lonely.” His voice shuddered and shattered; there was silence as he swallowed rapidly. Then, “I’d never regret it. Saving you.” He had one foot on the ground. “I was gonna teach you all kinds of words. Show you movies. Prank you, once we got somewhere safe. Bake a cake, even though dad’s are the very best.” Both feet under him now, wobbly but standing, hunched because the roof of the van was too low. He could see that Karkat’s carnivorous teeth were clenched, and his eyes were scrunched shut, squeezing tears out like juicing a grapefruit.
“I want to believe we can still make it.”
“Shut up!”
7.
You Were There from ICO
Am I forever dreaming
How to define the way I'm feeling
You were there
Countless visions they haunt me in my sleep
You were there
Though forgotten all promises we keep
“We’re safe,” he whispered, and hoped that he wasn't just offering Karkat reassuring lies. This time, when Jade made to approach them, the alien was silent, though he did not relax nor move from where he stood supporting John. Jade slowly knelt down next to the handcuffed pair, tentatively setting a hand on John’s shoulder, taking his injuries into account and restraining herself from hugging him close. “We’re gonna be okay," John promised, resolving to do what he had to make it true if necessary.
SIDE B
8.
Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine
And in the dark, I can hear your heart beat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped and I was in the darkness
So darkness I became
Most of John’s words at the end there in the police car had been just as incomprehensible to him, but the point had come through well enough. They’d come too far together for John to give him up now. The human was just that kind of idiot to hold out until the very end, just that kind of moron who didn’t know when to quit.
Only now he’d gone and passed out and left Karkat alone with-with-
Her small pink hands were on his shoulders, and he let himself be led away from the only thing he could stand on this awful planet.
9.
Stay by Aesma Daeva
Stay, time, awhile thy flying
Stay and pity me dying
For fate and friends have left me
And of comfort has bereft me
“You can have my luck,” Vriska says to John, caressing his pale pink face, tenderly kissing him, pressing her body against him while Karkat watches, can do nothing but watch, hanging limply in his metal restraints and feeling strangely bereft. She breathes good fortune into the human, “For all the good it’s done me.”
John clings to her and is left clutching ineffectually at air, surrounded by ten thousand rapidly fluttering blood-blue butterflies. Her glasses are perched on his nose. Karkat opens his mouth to scream and nothing comes out. He keeps trying until finally a voiceless cry tears itself from his throat, and he tries and tries again to yell to John, but the human doesn’t notice, doesn’t hear.
10.
We No Speak Americano by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP
Comme te po' capì chi te vò bene
si tu le parle 'mmiezzo americano?
Quando se fa l'ammore sotto 'a Luna
come te vene 'capa e di: "I love you!?"
(basic translation)
(How can you understand that I care about you
If you speak broken English?
When we make love beneath the moon
How are you capable of saying, “I love you!?”)
“Maybe he’s stupid.” Karkat rolled his shoulder to try to dislodge the girl, but had no luck. Her tenacity was another trait shared between her and John. He may as well settle in for the long haul.
“Maybe you’re stupid,” Jade replied immediately, knowing even as she said it that they would get nowhere this way. She chewed her bottom lip, wondering if it was even possible to get Karkat to open up. But what had caused him to clam up in the first place? She remembered when he and John had first arrived, how the troll placed himself between John and any potential threats, how he hadn’t wanted John to leave his sight. He was still tolerating John that first night of pizza and movies, but it seemed that after waking up screaming a second time in the Lalonde household, he’d decided that Jade’s, Rose’s, or even Dave’s company was preferable to John’s.
11.
Subhuman (Advice Remix) by The Pillows
I want to see you again someday.
So leave me alone. Away with you!
Everyone told me that I was wrong
I have nothing to do with it!
They gave me a lot of advice
I don't want to have anything to do with you!
“If you give up now,” she warned, “you invalidate everything he’s done for you. It will all have been for nothing. And,” here she smirked, narrowed eyes and dark satisfaction, “Jade will be angry with you as well.” It was equal parts threat and promise. She couldn’t see if Karkat’s eyes went wide under the dark glasses, but she did see his mouth tighten.
He might have stood at the door forever, frozen between fear of Jade’s retribution and terror of John’s affection, if John hadn’t made such a racket barreling down the stairs. As soon as they heard the stampede of teenage boy headed toward the living room, Karkat bolted. Rose watched her front door slam shut, and acknowledged that she was, truth be told, irritated to have her advice disregarded so thoroughly.
12.
Fireflies by Owl City
To ten million fireflies
I’m weird ‘cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said a farewell
But I’ll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
‘Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar
“Anyway, of course I didn’t want to kill you, you asshole!” Karkat opened his mouth to interject, but John rolled right over him, gesturing widely enough that Karkat had to jerk his head back to avoid being smacked in the teeth with his cast. “I care about you! Like, way more than I should for somebody who I only saw for the first time a month ago, and who I’ve only been able to get to know for two weeks of that, and who’s given me, like, a bloody nose every other day!” Karkat wanted to turn his head away at that, the pool of guilt in his stomach expanding to something a bit more like a sizeable lake, bubbling up his throat like nausea. “I’m so scared of losing you, Karkat, and I don’t get it, when Jade said you were leaving…”
Karkat pulled himself to sit cross legged, which freed his arms so that he could reach for John’s hand. Their palms slid comfortably together, fingers casually intertwining.
OMAKE!
13.
Alien Angel by 3
Are you an angel
Whose ship ran aground?
Can't get a grip
On this planet you've found
Never to look down
Trade in my halo
For feet on the ground