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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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[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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[She laughs anyway, but it's more contented than mocking.]

It's okay. I forgive you.

[She's certainly not going to apologize, even if she hadn't really been the most mature about the whole thing either.]

So you're not mad at me?

[shoosh]

[ her apology isn't what he's after in doing this; that would just be conceited and selfish and in actuality she's done fuck all to apologize for. he'd earned her immaturity. ]

Why the fuck would I be mad at you?

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[She shrugs a little.]

You were.

[shoosh]

[ he almost tells her it was past karkat he was mad at, but he's not ready for a drubbing just yet. ]

I was never mad at you, you just got in the obsidian crossfire of two selfish shits who had no business getting our hate on in the first place [ ... ] Me and myself, obviously. Not me and... [ vague... handgestures... fuck what do you call your own doppelganger this is dumb. ]

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[She pulls away slightly to shoot him a grin.]

Jegus, remind me never to do that again.

[shoosh]

[ it's a massive weight off his shoulders but he's still going to pretend to be grumpy because that's his thing. ]

You're not the first victim who's been lost to Karkat Ostracization Syndrome. There's no cure and it's terminal.

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[Eyeroll!]

You should really stop it.

[shoosh]

It's an addiction. I need my perpetual douchebag fix.

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[She gives him a look and decides to drop it. She's not really interested in starting another argument.]

Were you waiting for me?

[shoosh]

[ fuck ]

I was on my way to do important leaderly things. What with being the leader and everything. Just passing by. Coincidence. Should have made me the Knight of Timing.

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[She laughs, stepping on his toes.]

You are such a disgusting liar!

[shoosh]

[ shoves her away fuck that hug was entirely too long ]

I only deal in truths. Doesn't get any truer than Karkat Vantas. Fuck that Knight of Timing thing, I'm the Knight of Truth.

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[WOW RUDE. She steps back, and that manic giggling doesn't stop.]

Nope! Maybe you are the Knight of Sappiness.