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[seeingtwofold]

WHO: Sollux Captor and Karkat Vantas.
WHAT: BFFers reunite and discuss things too special for the network.
WHERE: Truth or Consequences. Sollux's motel room.
WHEN: At some point during the afternoon after this.
WARNINGS: Swearing. Trolls. Karkat.

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It turned out to be closer to fifteen minutes than ten, if only because Karkat didn't want to seem like he was in too much of a hurry. Admittedly, having been stuck here for two earth months, knowing that whatever chance there was that anybody he knew might still be alive was down exclusively to complicated interdimensional time paradoxes, was more than enough reason to be really, really glad to see his friend, but hell if he wanted to have to argue the point.

He gave the door handle a rattle when he reached room 102; when it didn't open, he thumped on the door perhaps a little harder than was necessary.

[seeingtwofold]

Maybe he'd been too busy staring out the window listessly, but Karkat's knock somehow managed to startle him. The difference between ten and fifteen minutes was mattering a hell of a lot more than it probably should have, and Sollux had already been well on his way to constructing an elaborate fantasy where their online encounter hadn't actually happened when solid physical evidence showed up.

He all but stumbled off the bed at the point, throwing the door open with much more than the unecessary amount of gusto. Then, of course, he found himself suddenly face to face with the friend in question and things got a lot more complicated.

He stared for a second, as if unsure of how to follow that act.

"Hey."

[hate_actually]

Karkat stared back.

It had been a long time since he'd so much as clapped eyes on another troll anywhere outside the grubby mirror in the motel bathroom. He knew that, but he hadn't expected to feel quite this relieved.

"... Hi."

His frown wavered a little.

"It's good to see you haven't died horribly, I guess."

[seeingtwofold]

Things really shouldn't have been so difficult. According to his personal timeline, he'd seen Karkat only a few hours previous, back in the Veil. But after having been pretty sure he was dead during that time, realizing that Karkat had been living with that same reality for the past two months was kind of killing him. It was all so depressing.

"Yeah," he replied, letting himself relax a little. "You too."

He moved out of the doorway, gesturing that Karkat should come in, and busying himself with figuring out what to do and say.

"Are you...okay?" Vague enough to work, maybe?