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Characters: Terezi Pyrope and you!
Setting: The spring floor!
Format: Action
Summary: Terezi is trying to relax after chocolate shenanigans!
Warnings: Hopefully none????


[So, apparently both of Terezi's quadrants had decided it was the perfect time to go insane last week. Things seemed to have calmed down now, but she still wasn't completely positive, so she'd snuck off to the spring floor and plopped down underneath a tree. Sollux was safe, at least, and she hadn't bothered to go check on her matesprit for obvious reasons. There's still a pretty decent gash on her cheek from their last encounter.

It had certainly been the Tower. No other explanation made sense, but that didn't mean she wasn't still shaken up about the whole thing. At least this floor seems quiet for now.]

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[caliginous]

[There's a long pause of silence.]

Yeah. Hey.

[Smooth, Karkat.]

[scalemate]

[Well, okay, if he's acting awkward, maybe he's back to normal.]

You're not going to try to strangle me again, are you?

[caliginous]

About that.

[He forces himself to walk into the room, holding his hands up to show that he's disarmed.]

I don't know what came over me.

[scalemate]

[She hugs her knees to her chest and tilts her head, waiting for further explanation.]

[caliginous]

Yeah. That's it.

[Karkat stopped a few feet away to stare down at her. He's still not really sure what happened.]

I'm sorry.

[scalemate]

[She makes a face, considering this.]

Everyone was acting weird.

[caliginous]

Couldn't argue with you. Didn't feel weird, at the time.

[Felt pretty liberating actually, to be free from his usual doubts and his very few inhibitions, but he's ashamed to admit that.]

[scalemate]

[Now she's just frowning at him as she flops back against the tree.]

Obviously!

[caliginous]

[That snaps him out of his train of thought. Right. She's the victim here. Focus, Karkat.]

Well. Uh. Maybe...

[Drawing a blank, give him a second.]

I can make it up to you?

[scalemate]

[She tilts her head, smiling a little.]

Maaaybe.

[caliginous]

[He comically tilts his head in the opposite direction.]

Maybe.

[scalemate]

[She giggles, scooting over and patting the grass beside her.]

It's okay. I forgive you.

[caliginous]

Seriously though.

[He sits down a bit awkwardly beside her, rubbing the back of his head.]

Are you feeling alright?

[scalemate]

[She nods.]

My cheek kind of hurts!

[She's teasing, though.]

What happened to your face?

[caliginous]

[He reaches up and puts his hand to it, seeking to pull the pain from it before she can protest.]

Do you really want to know?

[scalemate]

[She can still protest after.]

I was just kidding!

[But now she's looking at him curiously.]

I asked, didn't I?

[caliginous]

[He doesn't take his hand away until he starts talking, because hoo-boy, talk about awkward.]

Whatever was going on, you weren't the only victim. Can we leave it at that?

[scalemate]

[Should she judge him...]

Tell me.

[caliginous]

I'd rather not.

[She probably should, and Karkat is pretty sure she will.]

[scalemate]

[WHATEVER. She's too tired to argue. So she'll judge him for something else, instead.]

I can't believe you tried to use your stupid powers on me.

[caliginous]

[Oh fuck, oh no, oh fuck, oh no]

What--no. I didn't--

[Wait. Yes he did. He remembers. But he hadn't really had control of himself. But he'll just keep denying it.]

[scalemate]

[Wait what.]

Yes, you did. You used your Thief powers on me and tried to do your mind control thing, too!

[caliginous]

[Yeah, he can't look at her after that, so he adverts his eyes and lets his hand fall.

After all, he hadn't really been thinking clearly, and he still wasn't entirely certain as to what had caused it, so until he knew...he really had no argument.]

[scalemate]

[That wasn't... Exactly her intention. She takes his hand as he pulls it away.]

It's okay.

[caliginous]

No, its not.

[He lets her take his hand, but he continues to keep from looking at her. And after a moment or two, he'll try and tug his hand back.]