❄ sixth reminder

[echidna]

[ 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?

Comments

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[sighing]

Believe it or not, I'm not here to tell you who you can't get involved with.

He says he's sorry for the things that happened, but that doesn't change them and it doesn't mean I trust him. Moirallegience is complicated and a huge commitment, and I don't want to see you getting hurt over someone who doesn't deserve your time.

[echidna]

[ She looks up at him, still biting at her lip but trying to smile, or at least not an expression that is totally awkward and conflicted. ]

I think... I don't really know what I think. I don't know everything there is to know about moirails, or if humans and trolls can even do that; but if it's something that's really important and something I can do, I want to try.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

What if he killed someone really important to you? Like...Dave or something. How would you feel about him then?

[echidna]

I don't know. [ It's not something she really wants to think about. She looks away, rubs her arm uneasily. ] I killed Gamzee, how do you feel about me?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

That's different. That wasn't really you.

He killed you and Terezi and he meant to do it. And I don't care. No, I mean, of course I care, but it doesn't change anything for me. And that's kind of majorly fucked up of me but I think that's maybe also how things have to be for it to work.

[echidna]

Then maybe it's the same for Eridan.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Is it? That's what I'm asking.

[echidna]

[ It takes her a minute to answer, but when she does it sound confident, a lot more confident than she actually feels. ]

Yes, it is.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Fine.

If that's how it is, I won't stop you even though I think you're making a fucking huge mistake.

[echidna]

Are you mad at me?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

No.

I just wish you weren't doing this. I hate him.

[echidna]

I'm sorry... I think this is really important.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Anyone knows he needs someone to keep him in line. I just don't see why it has to be you.

[echidna]

If we really are...moirails, then it just has to be me, right? Is that how it works?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's how it works. If you really are moirails. Which isn't that easy to know.

[echidna]

How do you know? I mean, with you and Gamzee...

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I don't. It's not like I have or can ask him how he feels about it. He'd probably agree, but that's because he's an idiot.

[echidna]

You don't know that, he could agree because he feels the same way.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I guess, even though as far as he knows he doesn't even need a moirail.

[echidna]

I think that you should!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Well, I think only one of us at a time needs to be diving head first into ill thought out pale commitments with dangerous psychopaths.

[echidna]

Oh, hehe, touche.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter anyway.

[echidna]

What doesn't matter?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Whether or not he knows. Or whether this is actually a thing. I don't know.