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Characters: Terezi Pyrope and AU!Karkat Vantas
Setting: Fourth floor
Format: Action
Summary: Karkat has a surprise for Terezi????
Warnings: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE SURPRISE IS


[Terezi has spent the entire day scouring the Tower for her Karkat, but to no avail. She hadn't really expected to find him after she discovered his name was no longer on the plaque outside his room, but she'd still hoped, just a little. She has no idea what happens when people disappear from the Tower if their worlds are really destroyed, and so she's more than a little bit worried.

But the other Karkat has a surprise for her! That should be a good distraction, right?]

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[caliginous]

[NOT THE HAAAAAAAAAAIR. He tenses in her arms and ducks his head a bit, but he doesn't let go of her.]

Kanaya.

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[She giggles, deciding to spare him for now.]

She's pretty smart!

[caliginous]

I don't know if I'd go that far.

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She got you to confess, didn't she?

[caliginous]

[Pause]

I fucking knew it! You--she set me up. I'm going to wring her neck.

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[She's giggling.]

It wasn't my idea at all! But who caaares?

[caliginous]

I do!

[He's mad and indignant, give him a minute.]

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[When is he not? She reaches up to poke at his nose. SO HELPFUL. Then she squirms away, taking both of his hands in hers gingerly and tugging him toward one of the couches. Why are they standing when there are a million chairs around, anyway?]

[caliginous]

[He lets himself get dragged grumpily, once again adopting that typical Karkat scowl. But once he sits, it fades a little, because damn these couches were comfortable.]

I can't even believe you two.

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[She scoots close to curl up against him.]

Good! Are you done whining now?

[caliginous]

Maybe.

[He looks like he had more to say or yammer about, but he stops when she curls herself against him.

Yeah, this is fine. He'll shut up for this.]

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Good.

[She's silent for a second, then decides maybe it's her turn to complain.]

Hey, Karkat?

[caliginous]

[That's not his arm around her shoulder, its a phantom. Or something.]

What?

[scalemate]

[Yeah okay. Just a ghost.]

What do you think happens to the people who are sent back?

[caliginous]

[...oh. He rubs the back of his head.]

...I don't know. I still don't buy that whole world being destroyed...thing.

[Except even as he says it, his tone drops slightly.]

Well. Not for you, anyway.

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[She frowns. There's... Not much she can say to that. It's pretty obvious his timeline is a doomed one. That doesn't make her feel any better, though.]

Our Veil wasn't much better than yours.

[caliginous]

We don't need to talk about that.

[Which is to say that he's dropping the subject.]

Enough people seem to come and go from different periods and points on their timelines. I ain't a hero of time, but that sounds pretty sketchy to me.

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[Nods!]

So... You think he'll be okay?

[caliginous]

He'll be fine.

[Ugh, he really doesn't want to talk about him.]

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[DEAL WITH IT.

He seems to have cheered her up, though, and she sits up to kiss him on the cheek.]

Thanks, Karkat.

[caliginous]

[Man, he could really get used to that. He sinks a little into the couch in relaxation.]

...yeah. Its fine.

But like I said, I ain't a hero of time, so maybe consulting one of them might give you better results.

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Maybe I will!

[Later. She's way too comfy to move right now.]

[caliginous]

Don't worry about it.

[Even as he says those words, they taste bitter on his tongue. Hypocritical. Every time Karkat came up in conversation, he could feel a sickening pit in his stomach. Couldn't help but feel that he was merely tiding her over until he came back.

And then he would wonder the same about himself, and nothing would make sense again. So instead, this time, he'd merely wrap an arm around her and stare thoughtfully ahead.]

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[She's going to keep worrying about it, but she can at least try not to show it.]

Sooo...

[She holds up her hand with the ring on it, wiggling her fingers.]

How'd you make this, anyway?

[caliginous]

[Seeing the ring on her finger lifts his spirits a little. The thumbs toward the door with his free hand.]

There's a workshop in the tower. It was nice enough to send me along with some of my supplies, so i didn't have to pilfer anyone else's precious gems or anything like that.

It kind of went hand-in-hand with my advisement schtick.