♋ PCG 13

[crusthatecean]

[Action, 1338 Benny Road; Thursday afternoon]

[Well, Karkat intended to go to the Post Office as soon as the zombie threat was finished. But early the next morning, he was forced to go to school instead, so it's not until afterward that he's able to make it.

Finally, he manages to make it back to his hive with an unwieldy recuperacoon, only to be greeted by Jade's drone, even though she was fine just earlier that day. Between being stuck as a human again and finding out about that, he's in a bad mood, so he'll just be sitting on the couch channel flipping next to the recuperacoon and judging everything on TV.]

[Phone]

Guess what? I'm human again. Karkat, really? You're human? Wow, I didn't recognize you at all! How'd that happen? When are you going back to normal? What do you look like now? Wait, we've never met, but you're were a species other than human in the first place?

There, that's all out of the way. We can now returned to your regularly scheduled not giving a shit about this. Anyone who does decide to bother me about this subject will be ignored in the iciest fashion possible.

In much more important but equally beyond our ability to do anything about news, Harley is apparently panscrubbed. No, I don't know why or how long she'll be gone for.

((OOC: Karkat is human again, and will be until I say otherwise even if I use his troll icons. He looks pretty much the same only not grey with horns and with browner hair and brown eyes. Not red like in the icons, yeah.))

Comments

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I am not. Let's just fucking go.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

You are too! I can smell it.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Your sniffnode must be broken.

[Getting his coat and opening the door.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[I am going to say there is a vaguely awkward walk and then skip ahead to the diner. she finds seating by the window.]

Wanna read the menu, or can I lick it?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[...Taking the menu]

It's all hamburgers and grilled cheeses and shaken milk and human carbonated beverages.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[tries to lick it anyway...]

We can get one of everything!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you had a job and money. Congratulations on that, I'm still fucking broke.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

What job?

[sets down drone-mom's wallet. a lusus is supposed to provide for its charge, and this is providing!!! right?

not that the woman knows Terezi is just making off with her money.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[siiiiigh

He has been known to borrow from his drone lusii too, but he makes responsible purchases with the money. He can't just think of himself; he has a family to provide for, damn it!]

Okay, well, if you're paying, then order whatever you want.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[WHAT IS BEING RESPONSIBLE

ok she's blind she's got all the excuses]

So if I'm paying that makes it a date!

[what is this line of logic

just go with it]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[No.]

On a human date, the man pays. Also, ordering a shitton of grilled cheeses is not a good human date.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[why do you hold everything up to your dumb romcom movie standards Karkat WHY]

...

That is so fucking complicated! If you are such an expert, why don't you... [hnrrrrgh she puffs her cheeks out and looks away.] Why don't you take me on one someday?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[He's a little awkward but not much; he's sort of surprised she would want to do that, but he would be happy to.]

We can go on one this weekend if you aren't busy.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

I'm not busy. [oh wait she said that too fast-] Not too busy. [yeah so cool. way cool. good job playing that one off, TZ. so smooth. the fact that Karkat has agreed is a little exciting; she's usually failed at getting her intentions across clearly to him before, and often got frustrated when her plans fell through.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to compete with your date to lick every shampoo bottle in the grossery.

Fine, then. We can go on an actual human date on Saturday.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

I did that last weekend. [she is probably not joking, but she seems pretty thrilled that they have a real date arranged. she is the one going on a date. it is her. also him.]

Anything else I should know about human date rituals?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Not really. It seems that in a male and female pairing, the man does everything, which is sort of weird. But there are other things about it that I like.

I'll just come by your hive in the evening. Humans usually dress differently but that's stupid and we don't have to do that.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

Dress differently? [Terezi seems bewildered, but she's intrigued. she leans in close.] No! Tell me. Tell me!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay, like on the bowling night. They made me wear a jacket and a neck strangulation device and they made Harley wear a dress and shoes with points on the heels. I think it's because masochism is an important part of human mating.

[He suddenly stops, thinking about the stupid bowling night that was the cause of so many problems.]

Fuck. Actually, I have to tell you something about the bullshit bowl-o-rama thing. You're going to think I'm a shithead for it.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, oh! Yeah, I had a dress on too. [the food arrives, and Terezi begins stuffing her face. she goes through an interesting process with the eating; she sniffs at it first, licks it, then maybe switches to something else or just eats it. the whole thing is pretty gross.

she looks up, fries stuff in her mouth.]

Yeah?

[she hasn't heard a thing about what happened with Karkat and Jade. Jade never told her. she's somewhat concerned that he's going to bring up her kiss with Gamzee again.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Wow. Okay. I'm going to sound like such a hypocrite on this one, but at least hear me out. I just don't want it to be one of those things that comes up later and it seems like there was a big secret when there wasn't.

But anyway, during the bowling thing, Jade kind of got a little drunk on human intoxificants because apparently everyone was making terrible choices that night, and after she got drunk, she tried to kiss me.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[Terezi freezes. she's trying to hear him out, but that... well.]

She tried to do what?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

...Yeah. But, you know, I know you wouldn't have kissed him if you weren't drinking that stuff. It's the same with her, she really didn't mean anything by it.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

Did she try, or did she actually- [Terezi sputters, sitting up straighter.] Wait, 'it's the same'? How is it the same? You were so mad at me but the whole time you knew you had let Jade kiss you?

[she's not angry at him, but she does look pretty upset, although she is trying not to let it show.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I didn't let her. That's exactly the point! She kissed me and I pushed her off right away and said I didn't want to kiss her.

I know I'm not completely blameless and yeah, it wasn't fair of me to be so angry and never mention that, but don't being kissed by someone and actually kissing someone back seem like two different things to you?