How To Lose a Troll in 10 Days

[thekidsare0kay]

When; Today?
Rating; Probably going to get a little inappropriate up in here :< M for Mature. T for trolling each other. K for likelihood of kissing.
Characters; Dave Strider ironicool and Sollux Captor thekidsare0kay
Summary; Dave and Sollux have reached the point in gay flushed chicken where they've agreed to go on a date. Hoo boy.
Log;

Sollux could almost, kinda, sorta, maybe see a bit. Enough that he made his way down to Dave's apartment without too much difficulty, though he still had a tendency to lick the air a little when he got a bit muddled, and he moved painfully slowly.

Still, he made it, and he found the right door, so that was a win.

He raised a hand and knocked. They had agreed to meet at 5, and it was now 4:45 - Sollux figured Dave expected to come to his place to pick HIM up, what with Sollux being blind and all. But he had decided to do this, since he could, and maybe was a little proud of the fact that he could.

Besides, this way they couldn't get teased and/or yelled at by Karkat or Terezi.

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Dave hadn't been expecting Sollux to be early. Dave hadn't been expecting him at all, actually. He'd planned his evening around his ambling up the 4 floors between them a half hour later than their meeting time, because he's a coolkid and coolkids don't give a fuck about time. Which in itself is a little ironic, considering what he's the hero of.

He's on the couch when the knock at the door comes; showered, thankfully, but still wearing the ironic pink sweater Rose knitted him. Needless to say he hadn't considered the fact that the blind kid might actually make the effort to stumble all the way down stairs.

Obviously, he's a little caught off guard. There's a moment of confused, maybe shocked, silence after he pulls the door open.

"... You came to pick me up." Dumbly, without a shred of coolkid sass. Way to catch him off guard.

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Sollux hadn't quite expected the shock to be this deep. He also hadn't expected the sweater. He leaned closer, sniffing. "Nice shirt, ck," he said. "Is that what Rose made you?"

He grinned. "I can kinda see, sort of. So I thought I'd see if I could get here without getting lost. I'm glad I didn't miss you."

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"Thought it'd go nicely with your eye sockets."

Sylladex to the rescue. In less than a moment he's captchalogued the IRONICALLY AWFUL SWEATER (1+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+2+2+1+2+2+1+2+2+2+1+1+2+1+2 = 37) and changed into the ALPHA DAVE CHERRY APOCALYPSE RECORD SHIRT (1+2+2+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+2+1+2+2+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+2+2+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+2+2+2+1+2+2 = 60) instead (and don't let it be said that he hasn't considered changing his Fetch Modus back to what Davesprite was using, because he has. It's just that old habits die really, really hard). The alpha shirt is hardly anything new or exciting, but he's got a choice of either t-shirts or suits and he isn't about to don a tuxedo on a first date. As ironic as that would be.

"Ready to sweep me off my feet? I'm all set to get my swoon on."

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Sollux crooked a self-deprecating smile, then turned his head away while Dave changed his shirt. Which he discovered didn't really help, since he could still smell him no matter which direction his head was turned. He blushed.

"Not sure you want me carrying you out of here," he said, grinning. "Considering I'm still pretty blind." But he stepped a little closer and slipped his arms around Dave's waist, leaning in for a kiss.

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They're kissing now? He's okay with that. Almost. Not being the initiator makes him feel like a chick, and doing this in the middle of the hallway right outside his and John's and Rose and Jade's door makes him somewhat uneasy. Internally, anyway. Externally he's eternally okay with whatever's thrown his way.

During the motion of the kiss he slides his shades off, fumbling with them to put them over Sollux's eyes. It's not that he has a problem staring at the inside of empty eye sockets, but he'd rather ward off accusing glances from passersby.

That, and everyone looks pretty damn attractive in aviators.

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Sollux pauses in the kiss, startled as he feels Dave slide the shades on over his own eyes. He draws back a bit, licking his lips. "You...want me to wear these?"

He's more than a little startled. So far as he knows, Dave doesn't go anywhere or do anything without those shades on.

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Don't be too surprised; he's got another pair. Granted they are iShades and have this weird future-generation glowing thing going on half the time, but they're more or less the exact same pair. However, for now he keeps them buried deep inside his sylladex, confident that he can keep his emotions from showing in his eyes. For the moment, anyway. It isn't like Sollux isn't fucking blind.

Besides, the eye color secret has already been blown wide open.

"Unless you want people ogling the inside of your head."

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Sollux grinned shyly and reached up, adjusting the shades a little on his nose. "I was thinking of buying myself some new glasses, actually, because yeah...I bet it's pretty gross to look at every day. And I always used to wear them."

He sobered a little. "But... I can't take your shades, ck. These are yours."

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"Borrowing," He corrects with a click of the tongue. "just for tonight. Consider yourself an honorary Strider."

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Sollux nodded, his heart beating a little faster. This meant something, right? He had no idea what, but it sort of seemed to mean something, possibly.

He gave Dave another quick kiss on the lips.

"Thanks, I'll take good care of them," he said, then drew back. "So where are we going?"

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Freeze. Shit.

"Uh." It's a moment of complete uncoolness, his total ignorance showing. Where do you take dudes on dates? "We can just walk around and find somewhere."

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Sollux wasn't sure, either. And he literally knew nothing about the city except for a few locations inside of this building.

"Okay," he said with a shrug, placing his hand on Dave's arm. He could see a little, but it was easier and faster to rely on Dave to guide him.

"I've never been on a date, before," he admitted, sensing Dave's uncertainty and feeling a little better about his own. "I don't know what humans do, either. So whatever you like to do is fine with me."

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Oh, thank God. Suddenly the uncertainty doesn't matter in the slightest because not even Sollux know what he's doing, and for that Dave's fourteen kinds of thankful. It also makes him wonder about Aradia, but he decides not to press it. Apparently it's ~complicated~

"Some host you're turning out to be," he says with a smirk, starting off down the hallway. "So this was just some giant ploy into getting me to take you out."

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It was complicated. He and Aradia hadn't gone on dates because there wasn't really anything around Aradia's hive to do. So unless you counted caving as a date... which maybe they were. But it wasn't this sort of date.

"Hey, if you want to go back to my respite block instead of having a date, I won't stop you," Sollux said, with a smirk of his own. "But kk's there, and he's royally pissed about all the people flying around, so I don't think you really want to deal with that."

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Dave snorts air roughly through his nose, giving the flattest look imaginable. Which is an amazing feat when your main expressions are unbothered, uncaring and unmovable. "I wouldn't want to deal with him even if he was in a great mood, singing and handing out free candy like Saint Nick himself." That reference will probably lead to more confusion, but he's okay with that.

It's a relatively short trip, and they're suddenly outside the building, streets awash with color as the sun starts to disappear for the day. Idly, Dave wonders how the sun works on Alternia. He knows shit all about the place, save for the few things Terezi had shared.

"I want to play a game," Wow, deja vu. Bro loved that movie. "Quid pro quo, what do you say? Question swapping."

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"Yeah, I'm sure the feeling's mutual. Except the Saint Nick thing."

Sollux hung onto Dave's arm, but tilted his head back a little, sniffing and trying to make sense of all the chaos. It wasn't easy.

He cocked his head curiously. "Okay, sure."

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Testing the waters here. He probably shouldn't bring it up, but curiosity and Dave don't go well together. He's never been one to honor tact, and it's hard to be ironic about a situation that you don't really know much about. Aside from the fact that someone apparently died in the end.

"What happened with you and Aradia?"

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Sollux stiffened visibly at the question. "That's a pretty long story," he said cautiously. "I don't mind telling you, if you really want to know."

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Coolkid shrug and a total poker face.

"Vriska make you kill her, she turned into a robot, exploded, and somehow made it to God Tier." He says, bitter taste in his mouth at the words God Tier. "That about the gist of it?"

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Sollux was silent for a few moments. "Basically," he said, nodding. "Equius gave her the robot body, and tried to make her flushed with him. And I think the God Tier thing is because when your Jack destroyed Derse, her dreamself was in her Quest Cocoon. But you've got the essentials."

There was a questioning lilt to the last few words. If Dave knew all that, what was he asking Sollux for?

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Why, you ask? So Sir Strider here, Knight of Roundabout Methods and Cagey Answers, can casually use that question as a standing point to launch into the next one, which goes as follows:

"So, what's happening with you and her now?"

Sure is hard being this smooth.

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Sollux grins faintly. "I thought it was my turn to ask a question, now." Not that he's against answering questions, but it's not like he can give Dave an easy time of it. That would invite disaster.

"So what's the deal with you and Jade? Are you going to marry her?" Equally smooth, that's Sollux.

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Rude, blind bro. Give the kid some closure, here! He's got a point though, as much as Dave's curiosity needles at him.

"Totally. Bought the ring and everything. Her devilbeast's gonna be my best man." You liked sarcasm, right?

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Shrug. "Your friend eg seems to think he has to marry Rose, so I wasn't sure."

He hesitated. Time to answer Dave's question, he supposed. "AA and I aren't really sure what we're doing, now, and that's the best answer I can give you. We're friends, I guess. It's awkward."

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Great, Karkat's ass-retarded shipping chart strikes another moron down. Dave had figured only John was foolish enough to take relationship advice from the irrationally angry troll who can barely stand to admit to his own love life, but apparently it takes two to misunderstand shitty pictures drawn by a jackass.

"Because we were the last 4 people on Earth, and the Lalonde-Egbert, Strider-Harley matchups were the only ones that worked slimeways." As an afterthought, with a smug tilt in his voice: "Same can be said for Harley-Lalonde, Strider-Egbert, too."

A tilt which completely drops out at Sollux's next answer. He listens, staying silent even after the troll's done talking. Aradia's pretty cool and really nice, for a girl. He kind of feels like a big dick suddenly, clearing his throat.

"You're not dating?"