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[cuttlefishcull]

who ; OPEN (to those who know of Striderhaus location at least?)
what ; Everything is terrible and there are no miracles. Also Dave is moneybags and moving stuff.
where ; The Strider Hotel
when ; today; aka after the clusterfuck that was Jack's arrival
warning(s) ; smuppets and inevitable angst

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IN THE SMUPPETPILE

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Sollux had set up a whole pile of these...weird puppet things he'd found in the closet, comfy and with room for two, if a bit weird to have plush knobs and soft rumps poking at your body. Currently he was reclining atop it, waiting for Feferi. Or maybe he'd get to see someone else, who knew.

pffff

[cuttlefishcull]

Feferi has to pause when she sees the pile- that... that is basically the silliest thing she had ever seen. It's kind of great. She grins as she walks over, still looking a little tired from all the feelings and emotions that had been going on. So many of them, all of them really. They needed to take a break here or something.

"Sollux!" She just plops onto the pile next to him, smiling over. "Wow, ok this is pretty much way more comfortable than the horns." She glances at one of the voluptuous rumps. "... humans are so weird."

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"Hey FF." Sollux can't help smiling a little, rolling over onto his side and ever-so-tentatively putting an arm around her waist to pull her a little closer. It was okay, right? They're matesprits. Matesprits do shit like this.

He leans in to rest his forehead against hers, their horns making a little "clack" sound as they budge up against each other. "I have the betht ideath, obviouthly, even if I'm not contethting that humanth are really fucking weird. ...Tho. Wanna glub at me?"

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She smiles when he pulls her a bit closer, scooting just a bit closer herself and resting a hand on his chest. This... was very nice. Like the horn pile, only now she could get close without too much embarrassment on his part.

She laughs a little, closing her eyes for a few moments. "Yeah, I do." She says, another long pause before she speaks again. "I don't think I've ever been scared like this before. I just- it's all kind of scary, isn't it?"

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"It ith," Sollux replies slowly. "It'th really fucking thcary. I don't know how we're thuppothed to handle it, to be honetht."

He rubs her back in an attempt to console and reassure both of them. She's here now, so real, he doesn't want to think about her lying cold and dead and never moving again -

"I'm not going to let him touch you. I underethtimated him. It wath my fault. I thouldn't have and I won't let it happen again." His hands fisted a little in the fabric of her shirt. "I can't."

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"Me neither." Feferi says quietly. "They always... they told me what should happen or how it should, never... not something like this."

She wasn't surprised she died, it was something that had always been floating just below the surface of that pool of prophecy but by Eridan? Sollux hurt like that? She just didn't know anymore.

"Sollux... don't blame yourself, ok?" She says, clutching his shirt back. "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you Mister Hero, just-" She rests her forehead fully against his. "I'm so glad you're here."

AFTER FEFERI'S THREAD

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Dave hasn't been having the best of days (hell, not that you could blame him), but truth be told shit hadn't been going too badly. He's been packing, and that's enough to distract him from thinking too much about yesterday, but his thoughts still go back to the video feed when he's not keeping himself moving fast enough.

So he's carrying a box full of his own swag (stuff he's taking from his old room, stuff that wouldn't just fit into the sylladex) to the living room when he notices the slightly cracked door. He reaches over, cracking it open further with his shoe, and peers in.

And stares.

And stares.

Finally, he finds his voice. "Okay, look, not really my place to ask here, but what the fuck."

How interesting - his previous thought processes have completely vanished.

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Oh hey, it's Dave. Hello, Dave. Sollux sits up in the smuppet pile, shrugging slightly.

"Back in the Veil, we got in the habit of making pileth of thingth and lying in them to thleep or think or glub about feelingth. FF needed a glub, and I found thethe thingth in a clothet, tho I figured I'd uthe them. No one theemed to be uthing them, tho it'th okay, right?"

Sollux kind of hopes he didn't commit some hideous human offense unknowingly. He's actually been enjoying living in Strider house.

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Hello to you too, Sollux. Dave just keeps staring, at a loss for words for a few moments - he and his girlfriend were glubbing? On Bro's goddamn sex puppets?

But that's beside the point. Dave finally sighs, shaking his head and just staying right the fuck where he is. "Yeah, should be fine. Wasn't really looking forward to packing them anyway." They probably are pretty comfortable, in a fleshy felt way he's really not happy he just thought about.

"Get everything sorted out with her?"