♋ 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

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

Nope.

So you can answer the question now.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

She's fine.

Beyond that, I don't tell strangers personal things about my friends when I have absolutely no idea why they are asking or what their relationship is.

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

I'm the Doctor.

And she's my friend. I quite like her, she's brilliant.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

All right.

If you're worried about her, don't you think you should ask her yourself how she's doing? Or is the issue that you don't think she'll tell you?

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

Well, when something goes wrong, people... and Trolls too, have this tendency to just bottle everything up inside and insist that they're fine when anyone asks, when clearly they're not at all fine.

Can't imagine why.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I can't either.

It's not as thought anyone should be allowed to have some semblance of privacy in which to feel what they feel without assholes butting in with their unasked for two caegars on all of it.

No, sorry. I'm not here to cater to your own personal need to be involved in what's going on with her regardless of whether it's what she would want.

But since you're so insistent, I don't have a problem telling you that the situation at our hive quickly dissolved into a bloody senseless mess, as it so often does when you put too many of our species together in an enclosed space, but Terezi isn't really someone who has difficulty coping when everything goes shithive.

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

...Well, can't say I'm pleased to hear, but that certainly explains a lot.

I'd ask if you're alright because that's probably the polite thing to do, but the answer is quite obvious.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

What is that supposed to mean.

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

That you're not alright and that's probably why you went to the Post Office.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I was asking what you meant about Terezi.

But so far all of your guesses about why I went to the Post Office have been wrong, if you're keeping score.

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

It explains why I haven't seen her about and about lately.

Care to share?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

No.

I gave you that this wasn't a random change, and I did in fact make a trade. That's really not something I'd like getting around, by the way.

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a bit too late for that. Probably shouldn't have made a call at all if that's what you wanted.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Most of my friends are fucking idiots, they won't connect the dots. The ones that will know what I was really trading for anyway.

But it's fucking important this doesn't get out to the wrong person, so if you actually give a shit about this whole let's talk about feelings and aren't just satisfying your own ego because you want to be needed, which, by the way, I don't buy for a second, then you can start by humoring me on this one.

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

Cross my hearts. Won't tell a soul.

Though, I wouldn't trust the Post Man.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[He's quiet, and there's a tension in his voice suddenly.]

Why? What does he do?

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

He's definitely not on our side, that's for sure. And while he hasn't been hostile towards us in awhile, he certainly has been in the past.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

But what does that mean about the items you receive there. I know he's done things before, but are the regains he gives safe to use and do they do what they're intended to do.

[coolbowtie.livejournal.com]

...Well, as far as I know he's never done anything to taint them. Maybe because he can't or it's not worth it.

It's what you lose that can be dangerous, as you can't control it sometimes and he grabs what he likes from you.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I knew about that. What the fuck ever. I never asked for him to make me human again, but it's not the worst thing that could happen.

What I traded for wasn't for me, so I need to know that it won't fucking explode or something.