♋ PCG 9

[crusthatecean]

[Action; 1338 Benny Road]

[Karkat took his turn with the milk on the first day, to bring Jade back from kill drone state. He's been dealing with the after effects of the nasty poison that was inside ever since.

But today it was his turn again. He had been too sick the day before to prevent Jade from drinking her share, but this evening he prevented that from happening again by just refusing to go to sleep. Once he heard the milk delivery in the morning, he dragged his ass down to the front door to drink the bottle.

His housemates will find him still downstairs, holding the empty bottle of milk. He has the TV turned on to some infomercial for a groundbreaking new blender, and he's watching in fascination and horror.]

[Phone]

[Karkat's voice sounds hoarse and urgent when he picks up the phone to call Mayfield later that day.]

Okay.

Don't look now.

But the horrorterrors are right behind you.

Oh fuck! You unbelievable dumbass, I told you not to look!

[Action; Around Mayfield]

[Shortly after the phone call, Karkat wanders outside for a little bit, not really paying attention to where he's walking. He's carrying a paper towel roll curved in a way that looks vaguely like a sickle, and is swiping it randomly at the air from time to time.]

[Phone; Later]

[Much, much later that night, an extremely tired but lucid sounding Karkat makes a phone call once again.]

Wow. Uh.

So, I'm sure Jade and Gamzee didn't let me make any phone calls or anything earlier, right?

Just making sure about that.

Comments

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[>implying Terezi will be the one crying]

No, I didn't mean my tears.

[leeeeeans on him] I meant someone else's tears! Some crankynubs I know. He might be in the room right now, I'm not sure! I can't see.

Anyway, it's your choice. Since you're a connoisseur of these things and all.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to cry. Except for at some of them but I dare anyone not to cry at those ones, and I am refusing to be embarrassed about that. Show some respect for fucking cinematic masterpieces.

Just tell me if you want sad or heartwarming or funny.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[she finally has pupils and irises to roll her eyes with, so she does. feels good, man.]

Okay, I'm showing respect for the fuckingest cinematic masterpieces! This is my respect face. [it is a shit-eating grin like the rest of her faces.]

Okay. Sad and heartwarming.

[just to listen to you cry.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay, fine. I'll get something. Wait here, I'll be right back.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[and she waits!

okay she might be gnawing on the pillow again by the time he gets back.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[He'll come back in a little while with his computer, which he has to set up. Still, she'll be able to tell from the cursing as he tries to get it to work that he's back.

Finally, he'll sit down next to her to turn on the movie he decided to show her, which happens to be troll The Notebook.]

Okay. Are you ready? Because this one is a classic. It is just so good that you probably won't even be able to comprehend it. It eats heartwarming for breakfast and shits nothing but tragedy for days afterward.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[th...the Notebook... noooo that one has never failed to make anyone cry, ever, not in any universe or of any species!!

EVERYONE ALWAYS CRIES DURING THE NOTEBOOK.]

I'm completely intrigued! But suddenly glad I can't smell it. Will I need many absorbent things for my non-functioning eyes, or will this pillow do?

[it is a facetious question, one she expects Karkat will answer seriously.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Yes, exactly. The saddest movie ever made by any society. The best thing about it is how it's not manipulative and stupid at all.

He places a box of tissues in front of them on the coffee table with a dramatic slam mostly for her benefit. He is always prepared before watching this film.]

There. I don't know if those will be enough absorption papers, but we'll just see. I guess no one cares if you ruin a pillow for the sake of a timeless love story.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[clutches her pillow tightly in a mock display of tension. even though she is not really nervous! oh Terezi you are not prepared.]

Oh, that's really considerate of you! I will be sure to remember that in the face of a timeless love story, property damage is acceptable.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay. Shhh.

It's starting.

[watching so intently]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[shuts up and listens

listens very closely





as the movie goes on, she may... be getting... a little... just a little... bit emotional-

no she must fight it!!!!

...but this is just so sad and romantic augh no Terezi it's just one of Karkat's stupid movies againOH GOD TROLL NOAH CAME BACK FOR TROLL ALLIE DIDN'T HE

her lower lip trembles. BUT JUST A LITTLE.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[That's okay, he doesn't notice because he is fucking sobbing and using up all the tissues. All of them.

It's just so beautiful.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[...buries her face in the pillow

she doesn't want him to see her face twitch slightly as if she is feeling emotion wait
is he sobbing.

yes he is sobbing.



PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER TEREZI

IS THIS ANY WAY FOR A LEGISLACERATOR TO BEHAVE]

Karkat?

[p...pats him on the back gently

it's gonna be okayFUCK TROLL ALLIE'S READING HIS LETTER but Terezi tells herself that she's got to keep her poker face on, patting Karkat's back reassuringly. or (unsure)ly.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, he's not paying attention to anything she's doing. He's not really the best person to watch movies with, especially ones he really likes.

But it's just so sad, especially since he knows how it ends since he's watched it hundreds of times.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[she's about to comfort him more except there's a particularly silent scene so Terezi basically just ruins the entire moment.]

Wait! What's going on? It went all quiet. Karkat, what's happening! Describe it to me!

[pokes him repeatedly come on]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

He...

[He's kind of choking on his words because of how beautiful this scene is.]

He built her a room...with a canvas...Terezi he built her a painting room just like he promised!

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[long

pause.

Terezi clutches tightly at Karkat's arm, leaning against him. her expression is clearly emotional. this plot revelation has touched her deeply. she makes a sound like a sniffle, maybe.]









Did he make sure to give her some chalk to make art with too?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Her comment on chalk makes him suddenly aware that she's sniffling, and he's almost never felt so flushed for her than he does at the revelation that she actually likes this movie. He turns to look at her through the movie magic induced tears and comes to a startling conclusion:

Their love is just like Noah and Allie's.

It's all been so obvious. And he's sure it's not just that he's being carried away by powerful cinematic emotion even if this is pretty similar to that unfortunate time he watched troll Good Luck Chuck with Gamzee. No, she likes to paint with chalk and their blood might keep them apart but he would definitely build her a house if it was to win her away from a smarmy cool kid fiancee or something like that.

He is absolutely certain about this, they will die and become birds together through the power of love. She's probably thinking the same thing right now.

He cups her chin with his hands and kisses her passionately and also wetly because he's still kind of crying.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[Terezi is thinking that chalk would make a pretty great gift! If she were feeling all tired and weary and also walking around apparently wearing a blanket (not that she can see this particular detail about troll Allie), she would be totally happy to be given a room full of chalk and delicious vanilla white walls to paint upon.

But the truth is that this is what has made her emotional, not any particular plot revelation or the gale force strength of Noah and Allie's love. The movie does not touch her and dissolve her into a blubbering mess. She is actually pretty confused over why Noah and Allie didn't develop a kismessitude, but she has been sniffling because art is just such a great thing to give someone and also because she doesn't want Karkat to feel like much of a dumbass (even though she doubts he feels any shame over, well. Shaming himself).

But the feel of Karkat's lips on her own overwhelms any flushed thoughts she is having about jpeg artifacts and ushers them away like birds on the wind, flying into the sunset. No actually though, Terezi makes a sound of shock and kind of just freezes in place in a likely unappealing and not romantic at all manner.

But he tastes like tears and it is deliciously salty and wow she has never wanted cherry cough syrup more than she does right now.

Oh, and Karkat actually kissing her is kind of nice, too, even though a part of her realizes that it is because his emotional state has been worked up into a weepy sappy salty froth by the events of the movie.

You could almost call this makeout... sloppy.

Terezi is not going to let this opportunity pass her by because she has been waiting for this forever, so she leans in while she can, before Karkat inevitably comes to his senses once the movie ends and decides that this will never be spoken of again. She puts her arms around his neck and kisses him back sweetly. He is allowed to pretend that their love is just like a movie if it lets this last for a bit, ok.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Oh man part of him is a little surprised that this is actually going down, because things have been kind of awkward with them for a while now. But the other part of him is not surprised because this is how these things are supposed to go, it's just real life that gets awkward but that's no match for romance. If he was watching a movie of his life his commentary would be nothing but 'kiss her, you fool' although he would probably have turned it off by now because the protagonist is just too unlikable.

But he's wanted to kiss her again for a long time now and if it takes the Notebook to accomplish that, then that is just another way that this movie is the best movie ever except maybe for Hitch.

He kind of wants to keep watching it, except he knows how it ends so he can pretend for a bit that he doesn't know that she's making her choice and instead kiss this actual girl who he maybe likes even more than Ryan Gosling.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[Yes, later she will totally thank troll Ryan Gosling for his magnificent acting and manly aura, along with his delicately discriminating choice of movie roles, picking only those worthy of the calibre of his acting. Truly, The Notebook is a rare treat, a treasure the likes of which will probably never occur again. Never in such a beautifully orchestrated sappy mess, anyway.

...Actually she's not thinking of any of those things, but if she cared about Ryan Gosling or this movie, she totally would.

In fact, the only thing she's really thinking of is Karkat and how much she had missed him. Not just when they'd been separated and wondering where the other was, but even when they'd been together lately, too. She had missed him, never fond of how awkward things had become, even though she always did her best to keep teasing him about it. And she knows he must have missed her, too, and maybe that's the part that makes her feel so elated- that nothing has really changed.

She is missing a whole bunch of the movie right now but who cares. Terezi certainly doesn't! No she's not breaking this off do you dare to even try her???? She has earned this ok, terrible movie enabling it or not. Her only regret is that she can't actually smell his cherry cough syrup blood.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[He's missed her, too. He never knows what to do with her when she's there, he just gets angry or embarrassed and acts like an asshole, but when she's not there he always regrets that so much. He's just afraid of not being good enough. Just like Noah was. Yes, he's still thinking of the movie, too.

But not much. Not enough to consider stopping when it will probably take him another series of disasters, separations, and soppy love stories to give him the nerve to kiss her again.]

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[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[

I mean damn it Karkat why is this all so sad but true.

SIGH]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[Oh well she will keep with this while she can, because half the awkward is her own fault anyway for generally being terrible at things that involve actual feelings and don't involve pretend dragon roleplay and trolling.

One day they will probably be a little more mature than thoh who am I kidding.

She kicks the pillow onto the floor and settles on his lap so that even if he pulls away she'll get to trap him here and I don't know lick his face or something, just like in The Notebook, in a scene that never happened but could have happened if troll Allie was blind and also had a dragon lusus. An entire world of possibilities. These tears will go to good use.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Okay, he'll pretend that someone licking his tears away is a turn on and not just kind of horribly uncomfortable, but he's not planning on going anywhere, so I guess it's okay. He just wraps his arms around her waist and there are only so many things I can write about kissing, but they sure are kissing.]