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WHO: trollhouse, open
WHAT: Karkat grouches back into the game
WHERE: trollhouse
WHEN: Sunday evening
WARNINGS: copious 13 year old swearing & references to insect reproduction
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WHAT: Karkat grouches back into the game
WHERE: trollhouse
WHEN: Sunday evening
WARNINGS: copious 13 year old swearing & references to insect reproduction
( yep )
[People were clinging to him most of the night, and he's only just broken away under the vague pretense of feeding himself when he hears a familiar yelling.]
[Wait.]
[What.]
[No way.]
[He stumbles out of the kitchen and sees Karkat by the door.]
KK...?!
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[He spends an intense few seconds trying to contain himself then fails completely.]
[Trying not to get all teary eyed he throws himself at Karkat's body and kind of awkwardly HUGS THE SHIT OUT OF HIM.]
Just...just shut up and take this, okay.
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[god]
[what the fuck]
[Karkat sort of freezes up and stares at him]
What the -
Was it seriously that hard for you to live without me for a couple of weeks, Sollux, because if it was then I think we need to talk about -
[wait no]
[no, actually]
[they don't need to talk about feelings at all]
[abort abort abort]
... Uh ...
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We probably do, but whatever.
[He stares at him for a second, and then forces himself to move along.]
Every...everybody's fine, as far as I know. I mean. Living here. No one living here is dead.
But... [Well, this is going to come up eventually.] TZ ported out too. Right after you did.
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[well]
[that last point is kind of more important than the rest of it, for now.]
[his face falls in frankly kind of a pathetic way and he opens his mouth to start to say something and then kind of fails? like his lower lip just sort of wobbles uselessly for a moment]
[eventually he manages:] ... But. She'll come back. She has to.
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[Sollux looks away, uselessly rubbing his shoulder. He kind of nods.]
Well...you did.
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[but.]
[just sort of ... deflates completely.]
... Fuck.
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[He stares at this floor. This is hard to deal with.]
When you were both gone, I just kind of...
[He wipes at his eyes with the palm of his hand.]
Look. She came back. FF came back when she left. So did Kanaya. And you.
It...it'll be okay.
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[he doesn't sound tremendously convinced, and he can't quite manage to look at Sollux.]
[he kind of wants to say what if she doesn't but there doesn't seem to be much point, so he just wraps his arms around himself and stares at the floor]
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Look, just...you're back and that's the first step and...we needed you here, okay.
[Bit less awkward than saying I needed you here which is true but perhaps a bit more feelingsy than Karkat is ready for.]
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... Yeah, it's honestly pretty embarrassing how terrible you all are at keeping your shit together.
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[Here's hoping Karkat doesn't bother reading the backlog on the network because holy shit.]
You don't know the half of it.
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[-that he immediately tries to cover up under a veil of uncertain curiosity, whoops.]
So...you really don't remember any of it, huh?
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Not as much as you guys do.
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