❄ 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]

You've been panscrubbed since the undead shit ended.

Wait, you actually remember being here before?

[echidna]

Of course I- panscrubbed? I was droned?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yes, if you have to use the stupid sounding term.

But it wasn't as long as I was expecting and you didn't get panwiped, so I wouldn't worry about it.

[echidna]

But I... [ She drops her calendar, looking more lost than ever. She screws up her face, trying to remember anything that's happened over the past few weeks. ] Where was I?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

You were here, just panscrubbed. Come on, you've been here long enough to know how it works.

[echidna]

No, I mean, where was I? [ which is...exactly the same question she just asked. ] The me that's me and not a drone.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

How should I know? I don't even remember ever being panscrubbed.

[echidna]

[ Jade buries her face in her hands, sighing in frustration. ]

Sorry, I thought maybe you would.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Why question it?

I know the things that keep getting pulled on us are inexplicable and frustrating, but the point is you're here, and your memory is in tact.

[echidna]

Yeah... [ It takes a minute before she lets her hands fall away from her face, she's a little red faced but a bit calmer now. ] That doesn't mean I have to like it.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Did I ever try to force you to like it?

I'm glad you're back.

[echidna]

Hehe... [ She's starting to feel a little better, and it is definitely hugging time now. ] I am glad to be back.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Tentative hugs...]

It would be a real mess to deal with if you forgot everything.

[echidna]

Oh, I don't even want to think about that. [ hug hug hug hey wait she just noticed-- ] You're a human!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I went to the post office.

[echidna]

Why?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Sopor slime.

It's something we sleep in, it helps with dreams. Gamzee eats it. He's not supposed to, but it...it helps him, I think.

[echidna]

Oh, you mean... [ It feels like forever that they had that conversation. Jade nods, gives him a tight squeeze around the shoulders. ] How much of that stuff do you have? Can I help?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Plenty for now. I can get more if I need to.

As long as he has it, he'll eat it on his own and I hope it'll be enough. You don't have to do anything unless I get panscrubbed or something.

[echidna]

Alright, but you don't have to do it all alone, okay?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I know. I think I can handle him, but I'm glad you, Kanaya, and Terezi know about him, too.

Just be careful, don't tell anyone else. I'm not even telling people about the sopor, I really don't need him to find out that's why I'm human again.

[echidna]

I won't tell anyone. [ She finally releases him from the hug, smiling. ] Hey, did I miss anything important while I was, uh, panscrubbed?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Not really. Everyone was an asshole as usual.

...I did overhear some juicy gossip that some human is going around forming ill-advised relationships with the universe's most loathsome fish shitbag.

[echidna]

[ ruh roh. ]

Hehe, well, gossip is just gossip, right? [ oh this isn't fair she hasn't even gotten a chance to talk to Eridan yet. ] I wouldn't know anything about that.

[ She's not even really trying to lie. ]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay, let me rephrase that.

Eridan, for some reason assuming I care, told me that you agreed to be his moirail. Is he making up shit like he usually does, or did you actually fucking go along with that when I fucking explained to you what moirallegience is about?