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Setting: Room 2-08, backdated to immediately after Ψiioniic's intro post thread with Mao
Format: Prose please, I suck at action tags
Summary: Signless is going to have a long, tough job to put his friend back together - AGAIN.
Warnings: probably lots of swearing, and mention of torture & abuse

Ψiioniic was still half doubled over in shock and pain as Signless hustled him into the room with their names on the door. 'Overlord' Mao was left out in the hall, and part of Ψiioniic's freak-out had a lot to do with the thought of potential punishments he might be suffering the next time he met the strange alien.

The rest of the freak-out was very much focused on the troll right in front of him. "You're dead," he gasped, choking on his tears. "You're dead, I thaw you die."

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"I'm absolutely fucking sure, because no matter what, I will not be obeying any bulgesucker who tries to say otherwise," he said in a hiss. "And I won't be letting you do it, either. Besides, while no one seems to know what the collars are for, I've been around this whole tower and no one's tried to give me an order yet. And everyone I've seen has one, nor have any of them acted like slaves. They're probably some kind of monitoring device, nothing more."

He nuzzled in a little. "So far as I know, you and I are the only two adult trolls in the tower, Psi."

"Yeah, I ran into a couple of kids," Ψiioniic agreed, and gave Signless a bewildered look. "SS, one of them wath me. Only, not me. He said he wath my Descendent. Is that really pothible?"

Sollux still bewildered him, rather thoroughly. He was a great deal like Ψiioniic's earliest memories of himself - the few he had left after all his conditioning, anyway. Sollux had a strength that Ψiioniic envied, and couldn't believe was actually his.

"Yeah, I think it's definitely possible, since I met Redglare's descendent. And some girl who talked about a pirate named Mindfang. They said my descendent is named Karkat." He paused, struggling against his own eagerness. Sounding like a wriggler opening presents on 12th Perigee's morning was definitely uncool. "So that means there's someone in this tower with my blood."

"Sollukth mentioned that, too," Ψiioniic agreed, catching the spirit of enthusiasm from his friend. "I want to meet him. From what the kids thaid, he sounds quite a bit like you."

He of all people knew just how much it would mean to the Signless not to be alone. For there to be another troll that shared his blood colour, however screwed up the mutation was, would literally mean the world to him.

One nice thing about having close friends was that you didn't have to say out loud the embarrassing things that were in your mind. They just knew. "Yeah, hopefully I'll find the wriggler sometime," he said as nonchalantly as he could manage. "Though he might punch me or something, who knows?"

"Oh, undoubtedly, if he'th really like you," Ψiioniic agreed with a soft chuckle. He was feeling more and more like his old self - being alone with Signless like this was truly giving him back his hope.

"Should I hold him back if I'm there, or jutht let him take the swing?" he asked, resting his head against Signless' shoulder. "Taking the shot would probably get you off on better footing with him... but he really might not pull it."

"Nah, let him get it out of his system," Signless said, his lips spreading in a broad, relieved grin. Psiioniic was really starting to sound like his old self. "I'm sure I can take him."

"If you say tho, I just hope you don't regret it," Ψiioniic dared to tease him gently. If he kept his eyes closed and didn't look at the room or the collars around their necks, he could almost pretend the last sweep had never happened. The two of them had spent plenty of days huddled together under scant shelter from the burning sunlight, talking softly into the late hours of the morning and teasing each other with the ease of best friends.

He'd missed those moments the most, during his time on the ship.

"But you have to promise to introduthe me to him, if I'm not there already," he said. "I really want to see thith 'second coming' of yours."

"I will," Signless promised, grinning. "Though I'm sure your fragile fucking mind won't be able to handle the sheer amount of pure badassery in one room, with us both there at the same time."

If he'd had time to miss those days, huddled together, he would have. He was just glad that Psiioniic seemed to be feeling so much better.

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"Yeah, yeah, I know, you're tho badass you overwhelm thmall wrigglers just with your existence," Ψiioniic snickered. Then he yawned, catching himself by surprise. "I'm exhauthted. Too many shocks in a short period," he murmured. "I almost don't even remember what it feels like to sleep."

As the Helmsman, of course, he'd never slept. There was no such escape for him, who had to run the ship at all times. But now that weariness was creeping over him, making his body feel heavy, he remembered the sensation of it.

"You know I am," Signless said, snickering in response. Then he sobered at the jaw-cracking yawn. "Why don't you go to sleep? I'll stick around," he murmured. "Just a second, though."

He began to untangle himself from Psiioniic, intending to get up and grab all the blankets and pillows from Psiioniic's bed. This sleeping rectangle he'd woken up on was soft and comfortable, but it was entirely too open for his taste. They needed a pile.

"No, what are you doing? Thtupid," Ψiioniic scolded him, clutching at him and tugging him back down again. Despite his best efforts to sound teasing, his voice wavered a little at the thought of losing contact. He wasn't anywhere near back to a hundred percent just yet. "You don't need to get up."

Red and blue light flickered in the room, melding into violet as he reached out with his powers and grabbed all the fabric pieces off the somnolence slab he'd first woken up on. Then he lifted them up long enough to strip the pieces off the slab they were currently lying on. With all of that piled on top of them, it started to feel a little more enclosed.

"I thuppose it would be rude to steal from the other two," he muttered, casting dark looks on the other two slabs. "I don't much like the idea of thleeping in the same room as strangerth, though."

Signless hadn't wanted to make Psiioniic use his powers for something so mundane, but he'd underestimated how much Psiioniic needed to hang onto him. He settled back down as he saw his eyes flash, settling in comfortably as blankets and pillows gathered around and on top of them. It wasn't a lot, but it was enough to cover them.

"Yeah, I guess it would be. Whoever they are will probably show up eventually," he said grudgingly. "I don't much like the idea, either, but if they do anything we can show those fuckasses who they're dealing with. Right?"

Ψiioniic had no qualms about using his powers for something so minor. Indeed, it was a nice change to use them for himself, and not for someone else. Not to mention that after the strain of moving the ship, this much hardly even registered as requiring effort.

"Yeah, we can do that," he agreed, stifling another yawn. "They'll never want to mess with uth again."

"That's right." He grinned and settled down a bit, wrapping more tightly around Psiioniic. "So go the fuck to sleep already." He didn't feel remotely tired, but that wasn't necessary uncommon for him. Hopefully once he'd relaxed for a while, he'd sleep, too.

"You can go when you need to, SS," Ψiioniic mumbled, already half asleep. "Don't feel like you need to thtay with me." Signless had never slept well or for long, and Ψiioniic didn't want him to feel like he was pinned down. "Just... until I fall... athleep, please..."

Not that the request meant much, when in the next moment he was already drifting off, content to be back in the place where he was meant to be - at the side of the Signless.

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