♋ PCG 10; backdated to Thursday

[crusthatecean]

[Action; Outside 1338 Benny Road!]

[Early Thursday morning, there's a strange sight out on Benny Road. A terrifying crab monster appears to be menacing a young troll lad! Karkat is trying to fend off the crab monster with a garden tool and appears to mostly be managing it, but the monster won't stop trying to grab him with its claws.]

[Action; 1338 Benny Road; Later]

[Later that day, in a house that smells horribly of fish but is much cleaner than usual, Karkat is sitting on the couch watching TV. The crab monster is lurking behind the house, occasionally growling until Karkat feeds him some fish from a can.]

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[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[she nods and murmurs darkly.] Like what we're all doing here on the human planet.

[she puts her hands on top of his, gently.] But I almost think we're... safer here than we were before.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yeah. For all the fucked up stuff this place pulls, everyone always comes back from the dead.

Anyway, Gamzee seems fine for now as a human. If he becomes a troll again, though, I'll take care of it.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

How are you going to take care of it?

[but that has her thinking about Vriska. what if she gets her god tier powers back...? what then?]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I'll figure out a way to get my claws on some sopor. I think that might be enough.

If not, well...I don't know. But I'll figure something out.

[He'd like to think he'd make the same decision she was making; that if he had to kill Gamzee to save the others, he would.

But he's not sure, if it came down to it, he'd be able to do something like that. Not to Gamzee.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[she nods; she won't ask him to explain more than that, because she thinks she already knows what's going through his head.]

I know you will.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Whatever happens, he's my responsibility.

[He sighs.]

This is such a fucking mess. Aren't you glad we have to talk through all of this awful shit?

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

Glad? Hehe... [a pause.] Well, I'm... glad you listened. [it's been weighing heavily on her shoulders ever since she got here.] And I'm here to listen to everything you have to say, too. I'll even save my judgements and nooses for later.

Even if it is pretty awful shit.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Well, at least it's out of the way. I don't think there's anything else from my timeline that needs to be talked about.

[Yes, Karkat, nothing has gone left unsaid between them at all.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[yes, nothing at all.

they are terrible at this.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Still holding on to her...

Okay so now how to transition this trainwreck back to the original objective. He wishes he were maybe a little bit cooler or maybe a little less of the kind of person where romantic moments so easily turn into discussing which of your friends are on murderous rampages at the moment.

Awkward.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[it's hard.

being a troll and one of the last surviving members of your species and all of your friends are dying. it's hard and only other trolls understand.

Terezi sort of wishes Karkat were a little cooler too but that's in general, not just right now.

she will wait a little bit before she decides to make the first move like the girl in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, but she doesn't really want to do the losing part.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Okay. Well. Doing this.

Hitch taught him that the secret of a good kiss is to go 90% of the way and then hold, so he's doing that.

Except she's blind so she can't see what she's doing aside from the fact that he is suddenly very up in her space and yet not kissing her.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[y...yeah...

well she can sense that he's pretty close because she can feel the heat coming off of his skin, so she just kind of.

waits there.

waiting for it to happen.



come on Karkat be all cool for once.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[But Hitch said...to wait until she comes the other 10%...How could Hitch be wrong aside from that being the whole point of the movie?

Okay, this is stupid. Closing the gap the rest of the way.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[wow Karkat............

okay yeah she'll just lean in a little too, put her arms over his shoulders, and yes finally the makeout is happening.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Yes too cool, too cool.

He's not pushing this too fast, just slowly kissing her and holding her close and other such descriptions of thirteen year old makeouts.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[yes this is totally great, she is just going to sit herself on his lap and mack on him







is that the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs

not that Terezi notices, she's kind of distracted right now.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[No, Karkat doesn't notice either. He's depending on you to be the one with attentive hearing, sheesh.]

1/3

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[o-oh... well no she is not noticing

sorry......................]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[...and she definitely doesn't notice, as they carry on, the door opening



or her male human lusus standing there...]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[P...pulling away oh god

At least he's just a drone.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[she almost falls off the bed.........

meanwhile the drone father is looking rather incensed!]

[Terezi recognizes the voice and sighs.] I still don't know what a daughter is and why I am one.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Terezi, tell him he needs to do your laundry.

[Still hasn't figured out the drone gender politics here.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[o-oh...

the drone reacts with typical increased annoyance! also now he is hovering intimidatingly in the wholesome way only a good 50s father could do.]



[Terezi bursts out laughing.] Rascal, ahahaha!