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Characters: Terezi and you!
Setting: Anywhere
Format: Action?
Summary: Terezi is pretty shaken up after being hanged. Hung? Whatever. Come cheer her up!
Warnings: Nope.


[Mercifully, the sleep paralysis doesn't come with nightmares this time. It does last much longer, though, and after about fifteen minutes, Terezi begins to panic and wonder if she's going to be stuck this way permanently. And then, suddenly, she can move again.

She can't handle the cramped quarters of the room, so she begins to wander the tower, absentmindedly touching her neck once in a while. It isn't sore, of course, and there are no marks, but she almost thinks it would make her feel better if there were. She's keeping her nose sniffing for a familiar face, because hey, who knew being hung could shake you up so much? The irony of the fact that she died the same way her ancestor did is also not lost on her.]

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[caliginous]

[True to his word, Karkat hasn't moved from his spot at the terminal, nor has he slept. Unlike usual, there are bags under his eyes, ruining the enter smooth image of his face. He looks far more worn than any real living being should, since the Tower wouldn't leave him at peace if he wasn't sleeping in his room.

But he doesn't care. Its not like they can really do much worse to him. He's lost both Kanaya and Terezi in the same night to horrible deaths that he couldn't do a fucking thing about. He's subsequently ignored everyone who has stumbled on him -- he's not even facing the hallway anymore.

Luckily, Karkat's eyes are dry. He's exhausted most of his emotion quota, and is left leaning against the terminal with half-lidded eyes. The metal feels cool against his skin. Its the only thing that reminds him that he's still awake and breathing.]

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[Relief floods through her when she spots Karkat from the stairwell, but of course, it's clear something is wrong. She really, really hopes nothing horrible happened to him, too.]

Karkat?

[caliginous]

[For the first time in hours, he moves to turn and look at the stairwell. Suddenly, he's very away of his breathing and heartbeat and it hurts because of how tired he's made himself.

Unlike the alpha Karkat, he had no reason to spent days without sleep. The only stretch of time he had avoided sleeping was during the hours they had played SGRUB.

He doesn't say anything -- he's too tired. Karkat stands and shuffles toward Terezi silently, promptly pulling her into a hug the second he can reach her.]

[scalemate]

[Oh, good, just what she needed. She hugs him back tightly, burying her face in his shoulder. It's pretty clear he did get into some sort of trouble, and she's not quite sure if it was linked to the fact that she died or not. She's going to be selfish for a while and not ask, though.]

[caliginous]

[That's fine, he really doesn't want to talk about it anyway. When she hugs him back, however, he clutches her tightly and buries his face in her hair. They can stay like this for a while.

He's really not planning on discussing it. She's the one who died, after all. But she's fine now. As long as he keeps reminding himself of that, he'll be ok.

Karkat's eyelids fall again in thought. He knows of a way he could make this easier, but he's not entirely certain how upset with him she'll be if he does it, and he's not entirely certain he can handle all of that emotion right now and still manage to keep a pokerface.]

[scalemate]

[Yep, probably not the best idea, considering what happened with the chocolates. She is totally content to just cling to him for a while, though.]

[verymuchalive]

[Dying and then waking up again is something Aradia's become used to, though the sleep paralysis part is new. Thus, once she's able to move again, she finds herself rather more concerned with the other players than herself.

She spots Terezi on one of the stairwells and heads over. She does remember seeing her friend within the group of players and she's glad the game appears to be over.

Of course, she doesn't know Terezi died yet]

Terezi! Is it over?

[scalemate]

[YES GOOD another awesome person. Terezi pauses, turning to face Aradia. Her characteristic grin is missing, though.]

I think so. It was only supposed to last until morning, right?

[verymuchalive]

I think so. I'm not really sure how these things are supposed to work.

[And then, looking closer]

Are you okay?

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I am fine! I found out how much I suck at hide and seek, though.

[ADMITTING IT WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT IT YEAHHH.]

[verymuchalive]

[Aradia smiles, figuring that making a slight joke of it might help]

You too, huh? Maybe it's just not a very troll-friendly game. I mean, hiding for that long never tends to work well for us.

[thekidsare0kay]

[Sollux doesn't want to leave his room. The sleep paralysis sucked hard, especially since it just gave him more time to relive his first second death ever - first in the tower - over and over and compare it in pain level to the first one.

Anyway, he was comfortable with staying in his room and sulking for the rest of the day, but after a while boredom and hunger force him out]

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[Unfortunately, Terezi had died after Sollux, so she'd been unlucky enough to watch him be killed. When she catches his scent, she is overwhelmed with relief. Of course she knew he would revive, but it's still incredibly horrible watching your moirail die that way. So of course she grins, catching up to him and hugging him tightly.]

[thekidsare0kay]

[He's embarrassed and huffs a bit as she hugs him, but turns and buries his face against her neck, hugging her back]

Did you get through it okay?

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Not really.

[She tightens her grip, sighing against him.]

Are you okay?

[thekidsare0kay]

...Not really. [He sighs and nuzzles her] I'll be okay, yeah. I mean, what'th a little death and torture, right? Are you okay?

[shoosh]

[ he's been pacing her hall for god only knows how long, having forgone sleep once again to wait for her. it would have probably been a better idea to wait directly outside her door and not completely miss her coming out, but that's kind of lame and then he'd have to tell her that he'd been waiting for her and fuck that's not his style. yeah hi terezi i was just circling this floor for some reason oh man your room is here what a coincidence!! 

smooth as fuck.

so he paces, wears a hole through the carpet and just feels ill in general with how much of a selfish cock he's been as he waits for her to get back. ]

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[She doesn't get back for a while, unfortunately, and when she catches his scent, she hesitates. He can't possibly be here to berate her again, can he? Ugh, this is not going to be fun.]

Hi.

[shoosh]

[ when she finally does he's in the middle of pacing the wrong way, facing in the opposite direction and would later insist that at the sound of her voice he did not, in fact, violently jump out of his skin. he does though, spins around like a deer in the headlights and yep, she's not slowly suffocating anymore.

the heavy feeling doesn't waver even as he crosses the handful of steps between them and he is caught between intense feelings of either throwing the fuck up or bursting into stupid cherry tears. he does neither of these things luckily, instead just stands there and traces every line of her alive face with his eyes; from the curve of her jaw to the unhappy line of her mouth. if any of what had happened happened anywhere other than here, his last words to her would have been "fuck you" and that feels worse than all his disgusting feelings combined.

it isn't until he's already wrapped his arms tight around her that he's even realized he's moved. ]

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[She tenses at first, more out of surprise than anything else. She was expecting... Something. Not this. Hugs aren't generally a Thing from Karkat, but there's that sudden rush of relief and she really doesn't care. She hugs him back, squeezing tight and sighing against him. She really had missed him, and she'd been pretty terrified that he really did hate her.]

[shoosh]

[ he'd been trying to hate her. he really, really had, but it was impossible when he had so many other things he hated more. so it'd just ended up being this big clusterfuck of feelings he wasn't ready to address which turned into more hatespirals and trying to convince himself that he really did hate her--

in any case, none of that worked out well and after watching aradia slowly age in front of him, by the time terezi died he was at no emotional capacity to hate anyone.

so he clings to her pathetically, tries not to cry because he knows she will fucking laugh and lets everything go. ]

Sorry for being a useless sack of bulgesucking sludge.

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[legislacerates]

[redglare has not had the best of...weeks...and terezi dying for the world to see was just icing on the shit cake, really. she's been all over the tower, pacing and interrogating people and generally being in a shitty mood.

ironically, she's been doing all this pacing with the specific purpose of burning time until terezi reappeared, but when she actually sees her walking down the hallway she freezes for a moment, unsure of what to do. fortunately that doesn't last too long.]

Terezi!

[that's probably more emotion in her voice than most people in the tower have heard before, even terezi, and it's mostly relief.]

<3333

[scalemate]

[Terezi is still slightly jumpy, and who could blame her? She does a very good job of looking unaffected when she realizes it's her ancestor calling for her, though, and even manages a pretty good grin.]

Hi!

[legislacerates]

[well, the grin is reassuring. smiling in the face of adversity--redglare is pleased that terezi has a grip on that technique.]

Hi. [an awkward beat.] I was hoping you would be around.

WOWWWW I DEFINITELY LOST THIS

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[She is pretty surprised by that response! Sure, they're ancestor and descendant, but Redglare can't care about her that much, can she?]

Why?