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[terribubble]

)(-ELLO -EV-ERYON-E!
It feels really weird to be away from t)(e dream bubbles but t)(ey probably don't need me anemonemore, so t)(at's okay.
I'm )(ere to )(elp, rig)(t? So I s)(ould be w)(ere people actually need me!
It sounds like a pretty silly job if you ask me but we all )(ave a job to do.
And t)(ere are so many awesomely weird looking people )(ere.
)(e)(e, t)(is is so -----EXCITING!
But it looks like lots of us are already )(ere too. 38O
S)(ees)(! )(ow did you guys get all t)(e way over )(ere before me guys?
Somet)(ing sure seems a little fis)(y.

Oops, I got a little sidetracked so I will introduce myself now.
My name is Feferi Peixes, and t)(at's all you really need to know.
If I'm not mistaken I )(eard t)(ere was a war going on but I'd like to )(ear a little more about t)(at.
W-ER-E ALL GOING TO BE GOOD FRONDS!

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[terribubble]

That's stupid, I already said I'm sure everything will be alright.

[ she opens the door to her room. ]

We're here!

[biifurcatiion]

[It's not the same room she had before. It's not even the same house. And it's not the same Feferi, either, is it, really? Since she doesn't remember anything at all.]

Lookth boring.

1/2

[terribubble]

Hey! Don't call my Respiteblock boring. It just needs to be decorated with lots of cuttlefishes!

[terribubble]

[ annnnd

she smiles right after. grouchy motherglubber <3. ]

Well, maybe just plush cuttlefishes. They can't live here.

[biifurcatiion]

[He doesn't know where to sit or what to do or anything. He's forgotten how weirdly empty and impersonal all these rooms are, until you start really living in them.]

You didn't leave any behind latht time, tho I don't have any to give you. I have thome of your thtuff, by the way, not a whole lot but thome. And you wouldn't be able to catch any anyway, becauthe you won't be able to really breathe underwater anymore.

[terribubble]

I can't? I thought I felt a little weird.

[ oh no she's a little sad. ]

[biifurcatiion]

Not that, and not anything elthe. No life thtuff, no hauling around whaleth.

[terribubble]

That's retarded!

[ she's not okay with this ]

They gave us new powers right? But they didn't have to go and take my glubbing gills.

[biifurcatiion]

[He sympathizes.]

I jutht thaid they won't work anymore, not that they ripped them out of your body or thomething. You want to talk to me about retarded, do you know how bad my head hurtth all the time now that I can't dithcharge any of the energy kicking around my thinkpan?

[terribubble]

Sollux.

[ 38(

she turns back to him, and holds cups his face with her hands as an act of comfort, as well as to position his forehead down to touch hers. ]

You reeeeally need a nap.

[biifurcatiion]

[He's starting to get taller, more and more every week, in small spurts. He has to bend to meet her now, his eyes easing almost-closed, tense and tired.]

No time. Can't jutht let you flounder around. I have...thtuff. That I have to tell you, eventually.

[terribubble]

Why not? [ she's getting a little annoyed that he's being so stubborn! but it is like him and she's not ready to just yell at him yet. it takes a few more seconds for her to add: ] And what stuff? Spill it!

[ he should at least tell her now if it is what's bothering him. ]

[biifurcatiion]

[He strokes her hair gently with his fingertips, trying to swallow around the terrified lump in his throat.]

We were. In a weird place, when you left.

[terribubble]

Sollux. Get to the point!

[biifurcatiion]

[He looks like he'd rather crawl into a hole and die than tell her about this. But if he doesn't, the guilt will just keep weighing on him, and she deserves to know the truth. It's the right thing, to tell her.]

We weren't really, uh, talking a whole lot anymore. Jutht thometimeth, when thomething went wrong, but I never heard from you until after that thingth had happened and I jutht. Thought maybe you were tired of me, you didn't need me anymore, and that wath ok. We jutht never got to talk about it before you left, and thtuff happened.

[terribubble]

Well, that's glubbing stupid! Of course I need you, and I still will. I sure sound real fishy if you ask me.

[ this was really confusing alright! it sure didn't sound like anything she would do, but she knew that wasn't the end of the story so... ]

Well, what happened? Or are you going to continue to beat around the coral about the stuff! [ should she be nervous right now? she wasn't sure but she did know she wanted to know, now. ]

[biifurcatiion]

You had Glybubble whatever the hell that thing ith called to look after, you had better thingth to do.

[He's depressed, and he really believes that, and he knows he has to tell her but it's hard to admit it to her.]

Once you left, uh, other people confethhed to me that while we were thort of thtruggling they'd thtarted to get interethted, and I- I kind of reciprocated, a little bit.

[There, it's out, it's done, he told her. But he doesn't feel relief. He looks like he might throw up at any second, he looks completely defeated, hanging his head in exhausted guilt.]

[terribubble]

What?

[ she looks rather devastated. the only guy she ever liked just admitted to having feelings for someone else, and now she wasn't sure if she was suppose to be angry or sad.

... maybe both. she takes a step back. ]

What do you mean you reciprocated!?

[biifurcatiion]

[Sollux looks like he would rip his throat out right there for her if it made her feel any better. He doesn't try to hold onto her, and he keeps his gaze resolutely anywhere but at her, at some point in the middle ground above her head to keep that soft, vulnerable spot open to her. No resistance.]

It wathn't intentional. One of them wath black, it wath accidental, it jutht thort of happened. The other one wath my friend, I jutht wanted thomeone to hang out with if you weren't talking to me tho much, and thhe ith human, tho it'th not pothhible. And there wath you. I couldn't not tell you, even if I had been able to really ever let go of you or give you up, and I would have done it if that wath what you wanted. It would be like cheating, even if nothing ever happened and nothing came of it. [He swallowed hard.] I thought about at leatht letting you get thettled before I told you, but that wath- you have a right to know.

[terribubble]

[ she doesn't hit him or yell at him, but it didn't mean he was off the hook. it was quite far from that.

her tone turns icy. ]

Well... I don't really care if you find a kismesis but the otter one is unacceptable. Who were they? [ she didn't really know if she wanted to know. what would she even do? ] That isn't what I want, Sollux.

[biifurcatiion]

[If she'd slapped him, he couldn't have even blamed her. She'd have a perfect right to do it, she's his matesprit- was?- she can do whatever she likes, he's the one who's at fault here.]

Doeth it matter who?

[Sollux just holds his ground, not flinching, his voice quiet and resigned.]

[terribubble]

We're not breaking up.

[ an order? not really, but it may come off that way from her tone. ]

I want to know. [ if he still decides not to tell her, she probably wouldn't press it, only because she's not completely sure if she wants to know herself. ]

[biifurcatiion]

[It does sound a bit like an order, but at the same time, he left it in her hands. He's not in much position to disagree here; if he can't bring himself to leave her, and she still wants him, then...]

What good will it do, Feferi.