Hey.
I think you forgot a couple of things.
And by a couple of things, I mean Kanaya, Sollux, and Karkat's common sense.
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His feet seemed to get heavier the further up the stairs he got, and his arms were glad to settle Karkat in the one surprisingly comfy-looking chair.

The alien mumbled something under his breath that John couldn't hear and lolled his head over to the arm of the chair, hiding his eyes in his forearm.

John sighed and plopped himself down on the floor ( Read more... )

Tiffany was surprisingly good at keeping her eyes on the road for her otherwise incredibly irresponsible driving habits, and Dave felt safe turning around to check on John once they were out of city limits.

"Is he asleep?"

"Yeah."

She sighed. "Okay good." They were driving through the relative wilderness now, trying to avoid the cops that were ( Read more... )

The wind rang before it came into the room, whistling from outside as it tore against the tiny windows. Gamzee stopped hitting him regardless, looking up at the source of the noise and letting his hand unball, resting it almost softly on John's shirt and letting the skinned knuckles bleed on John's sweatshirt.

Then it broke through the windows.

The ( Read more... )

What had been winding and confusing during the day only got worse at night, but Sollux thankfully seemed to have the floorplan memorized. But John couldn't help noticing all the similarities to days gone by - Terezi leading despite not knowing where she was going, and turning around every couple steps to get directions from Sollux, who rolled his ( Read more... )

When John finally managed to shove Dave off of him, he started explaining. Well, trying to explain. The words came slowly at parts, and he was pretty sure about half of what he was saying didn't make any sense in the first place, but he still tried to explain the best he could.

"So you're saying," Dave paused, sitting in the windowsill like this ( Read more... )

Karkat didn't respond. Not that John thought he would respond, but he had been slightly hopeful for a minute there.

But his mouth had suddenly decided to stop operating as well, and so he knelt there, giving a desperate look to closed eyes, before his body started moving on its own again and wrapped Karkat up in a hug. His mouth found it ( Read more... )

There was a silence that wasn't exactly awkward but dared to border on it before Sollux cleared his throat.

"Tho."

"So."

"You and Thrider need to get him out of here. They're gonna kill him if he thayth."

"We assumed as such." John was almost surprised at how confident he sounded.

"Then I'll let you in when you get back here tonight." Sollux turned ( Read more... )

It was approximately no time at all before Dave pulled John's hand off of the glass.

"What in the hell are you doing."

"Telling him we're here."

"And telling everyone who's monitoring him that something suddenly happened because some idiot who wasn't invited ran his hands over the glass."

As if on cue, a pair of footsteps started running over their ( Read more... )

He could smell them.

People young and old, men and women and a select few whose heartbeats were so utterly normal he couldn't tell what gender they were, They were close outside, and the idea that he'd been put on display, while not unfamiliar, still nagged at his brain and took a cheese grater to his patience.

But part of the humiliation was the ( Read more... )