❄ 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

[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.

[echidna]

How can you say that, Mr Romantic? If everything you've told me about it is true, then it matters a lot!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Don't give me that.

Look, I don't need it to be an actual thing. I just don't want to let him down again, and if he ever knows he needs me, then it means I probably did. So there's that.

[echidna]

I don't think that's true.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Oh, Harley doesn't think it's true. Everything I believe must be wrong.

[echidna]

Wow Karkat, I can tell you are using sarcasm to show you are taking me very seriously right now!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Fuck you.

I'm terrible at this. I cause enough damage on my own, I have no idea how I'm supposed to go around stopping anyone else from ruining everything when that's basically all I do.

[echidna]

You are not terrible at this! Okay, sure that thing with Terezi was kind of, well... you know, but that worked out okay right? And I know you are sort of the troll leader but that doesn't mean you have to be in charge of stopping things from being ruined.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I'm not sort of the troll leader, I am the troll leader. What the fuck is my job if it isn't to make everything turn out all right?

You don't understand at all.

[echidna]

I think there is something you don't understand, and that is the fact that even if you are the leader it doesn't mean you are suddenly in control of the whole world and everything that happens. A leader is supposed to guide people but you can't actually force them to do anything, so when someone does something stupid that doesn't suddenly make it your fault!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

There's more to it than that. This isn't just some whim I had when I woke up one night to try to corral a bunch of demented hoofbeasts. This is literally the entire reason I exist, so yes, I should be in control of everything that happens, but I am just not good enough.

[echidna]

You are perfectly good enough. We are all your friends, and everyone likes you and thinks you are a good leader. The only one who doesn't think so is you, and that's really stupid.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

You have no idea what you're talking about. If I told you everything you'd agree with me.

[echidna]

Then tell me, and we'll see if you're right.