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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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[Like Karkat, he also thinks Jade's still droned. He doesn't really treat droned Jade any differently though, as he figures there's no reason to be any less friendly towards her.]

Yeah, hivesis? What's up?

Um- [ Unlike with Karkat, she doesn't bother trying to find out what's happened to her, she just goes right for the hugging. And what a hug it is. ] Hi.

[A little surprised, but hey. He's always down with hugging. Have a super tight clown hug in return.]

Hey yourself. Now what's this all motherfuckin' for?

I don't know. [ She's hugging plenty tight herself, with no signs of letting go. ] Because I want to.

[ She lets out a long, heavy sigh and rests her head against his shoulder. ]

I think something weird happened.

[That's cool, Gamzee's never the first one to break hugs anyway. He can do this all day.]

Yeah? What's that? You okay?

[ Then they very well could be here all day. ]

I'm not sure.

What happened? You can all what tell a brother, we'll help you get your groove back on with your own self.

I think I was dr- um, scrubbed. Panscrubbed. [ She sounds pretty miserable even talking about, though given her other experience with it that's not surprising. ] I've been acting weird the past couple weeks, right?

Yeah, you were. Wait, you mean you're back? [Whoops, this hug just got a lot tighter as Gamzee excitedly squeezes her close to him.] Shit, and you all what remember me too! Hahaha, I told best friend we just had to have some motherfuckin' faith, I knew you'd be coming back to us soon.

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.]

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