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❄ sixth reminder

[ morning ; 1338 benny road ]

[ Jade can't help but feel something is wrong this morning when she wakes up. She feels like she's missed something, almost like she's been asleep for a long time. She stumbles out of bed, feeling a little fuzzy, noticing the changes to her room. The window's been repaired, there's a backpack that she didn't have before with half finished homework on the desk. She doesn't really start to feel concerned until she looks at the calendar on her wall, which has been flipped over to October.

That can't be right.

She grabs it from the wall, bursts out into the hallway still in her nightgown and clutching it to her chest. ]

Karkat? Gamzee?

[ phone ]

Hi Mayfield! Long time no talk! Or maybe we did talk, but it wasn't me me, it was creepy drone me. I'm not really sure what happened, I can't remember anything since, hmmm, a couple weeks ago, I think, after the zombies. I don't remember going home, or being here, nothing! It's kind of scary, but I'm glad that I was a normal creepy drone and not a murderous creepy drone. I really hope that doesn't happen to me again. Have you ever had something like that happen to you? Not even just droning but, I don't know, something reeeeally creepy where you almost... don't exist. It's kind of scary.

Oh, and apparently I'm a girl scout now, hehe.

[ afternoon ; your front door ]

[ There is some pretty persistent knocking at your front door right now. If and when you get around to answering it, you will find Jade on your doorstep, wagon stacked high with boxes of cookies behind her. She is looking particularly adorable right now, all dressed up in a girl scout's uniform. ]

Hi!! Do you like cookies?

[ phone; fail filter to eridan ]

Eridan? Hi, um... how are you?

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Yes I'm back! [ It's kind of hard not to laugh, so she doesn't even bother trying not to. It's loud, light and relieved as she returns the squeeze. She waits until the laughter has died down before she speaks again, and it's in a bit of a whisper. ] I could never forget you.

[He laughs with her, no less relieved and joyful to have her back.]

S'what I told best friend, but you know how he motherfuckin' is. I couldn't ever be forgetting you either, hivesis.

Good. [ Jade pulls back from the hug a little, looks up to him and smiles shyly. ] Um, Gamzee, I sort of wanted to talk to you about something... hehe, maybe we could have a feelings jam?

'Course, you know I'm always down for that! [His face falls.] But those undead motherfuckers all what wrecked my horn pile. Took me a while to buy all those starmonkey horns, too...

[utmost tragedy utmost tragedy]

Oh no! [ Is she secretly relieved? Maybe. ] I'm sure we could find a good substitute for your horn pile, blankets and pillows are pretty nice.

Haha, I guess. Just don't really feel like a proper feelings jam without some honking all up in there. [He holds out his hand to her.] Your respiteblock or mine?

How about yours?

[ She feels weirdly creeped out by her own room right now. She takes his hand, tugs him back towards his room. ]

[Once they're there, he plops down on the bed and holds his arm out, making room for Jade to snuggle into.]

So what're you wanting to all be getting off your sternum bone, chica?

[ There's a little hesitation before she cozies up beside him, curling up comfortably against him. ]

Oh, nothing special really, just...feelings, stuff like that.

[He laughs a little, propping his head comfortably against her shoulder.]

Well, I'm real motherfuckin' glad that you're all back with us now.

[ cuddles ;w; ]

I'm really glad to be back. [ Even though she wasn't exactly aware of the fact that she was gone, she feels a strange sort of ache as a result of it. ] And now I really want to tell you something.

What is it? My auricular sponge clots are all open, honk!

Okay... [ deep breath!! you can do it Jade! ] I wanted to say that I really liked you, um [ okay maybe she should put this in word he'll (hopefully?) understand. ] in kind of a flushed way?

[wow

that...had not been what he had been expecting

at all]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[give him a few seconds while he tries to reboot please]

[ Nooooo Jade takes that to be a very bad sign.

So the natural response is to abscond. Abscond like the wind. ]

Well, okay, I guess that's everything, bye!

[ abscond abscond abscond abscond abscond

oh god this is not working she has managed to fall out of bed and that is about it. ]

No, wait--

[Grabs her wrist to keep her from absconding!

Winds up getting pulled off the bed with her and tumbles down onto the floor.]

[ At this point she really has no choice but to wait. Maybe if she stares at the floor and doesn't move it will be like she isn't here. ]

[The sad thing is if these were any other circumstances, this would probably work on Gamzee. But no, he is actually going to stay focused for this conversation! He can do it, he can!]

Hahaha, okay, shit. Don't go anywhere, okay? I ain't gonna bite or nothing. [He sits up and rubs his head, making sure to keep a firm grip on her wrist.] So how long has this all been going on?

[ Nooo there are so many shiny things that could be distracting him right now of all the times for him to be focused.

Jade sighs quietly, realizing her playing possum idea isn't going to work. She pushes herself up into a sitting position, cross legged on the floor. She plays with her hands and stares down into her lap, waiting to find her voice again. When she finally does it's a wavery sort of whisper. ]

Um, I don't know, for a couple of weeks? From before I got droned, I mean.

[Okay. This is...this is...this is definitely something he needs to run to Karkat for advice about. Sadly, he has no convenient telepathic power he can use, so he is stuck trying to muddle through this on his own. He sidles a little closer to her.]

So how do you know when you're all flushed for a motherfucker? Because I really do like you a whole lot, hivesis.

[ Jade's face burns with embarrassment, so she just keeps staring down at her lap even when he moves closer to her. ]

You do? [ It's a little squeaky, and she glances over at him briefly before glancing away again. ] I think it's something you just know, or feel, I'm not that good with this stuff.

Haha, I ain't real good at figuring this kind of shit out either. But a brother's gotta follow what his heart up and tells him to, you know? And what mine's all saying right now is...[he smiles a little shyly and moves his hand from her wrist to cover her own] I wouldn't mind trying to figure it out with you.

[ Jade's grinning now, biting her lower lip to keep said smile from looking too huge and doofy. She turns her hand over and threads her fingers with his. ]

I would really like that.

[He grins, leans down to kiss her...

...and then jerks back, looking frantic.]

Oh, fuck.

What about Tavbro.

[ wh- oh, faked out. and the way he jerked away is not doing her confidence any favors right now. ]

Oh, um, [ and she doesn't even know about the making out incident. ] I don't know.

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