>Sollux: Return home

[a1a100]

642 Hastings Boulevard

[Early in the morning, about 4 in the morning of the 15th, Sollux quietly walks into his house, closing the door behind him slowly. He hopes that returning home at 4 in the morning means that no one is awake and he can sneek in without getting caught...]

Phone, later in the day

I'm sure some of you noticed that I've been gone for a couple of days but I'm back now. I had some business to take care of and you don't need to know about it so don't ask.

Comments

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

If I went off self-sacrificing, I wouldn't be here.

[cullscuttlefish]

Not necessarily. Not if you're 'useful'.

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

I can't tell you what I did but I can tell you what I didn't do and I didn't go talk to the Condesce.

[He feels absolutely terrible for lying but it's for the best]

[cullscuttlefish]

...I...I want to believe that but my gut feeling says no.

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

I promise you that I didn't go anywhere near her. Please, don't go after her or anything.

[If you confront her about this, you'll all be in a lot of trouble]

[cullscuttlefish]

All right. If you promise...

[Why is her stomach still twisted in knots, then?]

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

I do.

[Ugh he feels terrible]

...do you... want to come over or anything?

[time to do the moiraily thing]

[cullscuttlefish]

Yeah. I do.

[There's a shaky, shaky breath from her.]

I'll be over in a bit.

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

Alright.

[He hangs up and waits by the door for her.]

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[cullscuttlefish]

[She knocks once, lets herself in, then pulls him into a crushing hug.]

I swear, if you ever scare me like that again...

1/2

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

[Unexpected huggings again!]

2/2!

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

{He wraps his arms around her, holding her tight.]

I'm sorry, I promise I'll never do that again.

[He really does feel bad and he wishes he could tell her why he was gone but he couldn't chance it.]

[cullscuttlefish]

You better not. I - just don't scare me like that. Especially not with her here. If - if you were dead because of her I don't even know what I'd do.

[She just buries her head in his shoulder. She wants to say something but she can't because she doesn't know what to say.]

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

[He closes his eyes and hugs her a little more.]

It'll be okay now, I promise.

[cullscuttlefish]

How can you promise something like that when I can't promise it to everyone? She's...I...

[Feferi trails off, and all she can do is hug him more.]

...you scared the shit out of me, you know.

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

I know, I don't think I can feel any worse then I already do.

...wtf LJ?

[cullscuttlefish]

...I don't guess I can ask what made you feel so bad, besides scaring us.

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

Worrying you and scaring you over nothing.

[Well, it's not really nothing]

[cullscuttlefish]

Are you sure it's not nothing?

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[cullscuttlefish]

[She's going to worry anyway.]

If you say so...

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

How about we talk about something else?

[cullscuttlefish]

Oh! That reminds me. I had something to give you.

[She fishes around in her bag for the yellow-wrapped present.] It's this human holiday like 12th Perigee's Eve soon, so...

[If he looks inside, he'll find she's made him a plush of his lusus. Only it's got a diamond stitched on its chest.]

[a1a1000.livejournal.com]

[It's too bad that he can't see what it looks like.

He unwraps it and takes the plush out of the wrapping/box.]

It feels like a stuffed toy of some sort.

[cullscuttlefish]

It's supposed to look like your lusus. Only he's got a diamond on him. Because I could.