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When; This weekend!
Rating; T for troll shenanigans
Characters; Eridan, Sollux, and Karkat
Summary; Family curse shenanigans are a go. Karkat is a single mother of a very trying bipolar teenaged kid, who has the most annoying boyfriend in the multiverse.
Log;

Sollux cursed as he stomped out of his room. Eridan was on his way over to hang out, and he wanted to be ready, but life was hard for a teenager with an attitude, and a mother with anger management issues.

"Mom!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. "Where are my thockth?"

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Fuck you. Life was even harder for a single mom with a deadbeat finfucker of a boyfriend and a bitchy preteen. Why there was never any peace in this house was beyond Karkat. All he wanted was some quiet to read his magazines, dammit.

"Have you looked in your fucking mouth?"

"What?" He stares at Karkat. "Woah, way to dethtroy my preciouth thelf ethteem by mocking my thpeech impediment mom. Everyone thayth my thelf image ith very fragile at thith age!"

"You have way to much self esteem when you are in your other mood, son," Karkat snarls with an eye roll.

"Check the fucking dryer."

"I don't think that'th pothhible," Sollux said, then flashed a grin and padded off to the dryer. "Fuck, you are tho annoying thometimeth."

He poked his head into the dryer and rooted around to find matching socks.

Karkat's lips turned back into a grin. Oh Sollux was in for a surprise. "I only washed the white ones."

"What?" He has a white sock in his hand and stares at Karkat again, aghast. "But I don't have any clean black oneth! Why wouldn't you clean my black oneth, too? I can't walk around with only one thock!"

He turns his head, smirk on his features. "Maybe that will teach you that you need to do your own fucking laundry from time to time. Moma is a busy troll."

"Moma thitth around all day reading hith erotic magathineth, and I have homework," Sollux retorted, slamming the dryer door and stalking back to his room. He'd just have to find a black sock that wasn't too dirty.

Edited 2011-12-18 03:11 (UTC)

"Oh fuck that shit," Karkat growled, getting up to follow after him.

"I cook two meals a day for you. I clean your shit as well as mine. Fuck, I take care of you when you're sick and even respect your privacy. I'd like to see you pull all of that off!"

"I could!" Sollux snapped, digging under his recuperacoon. "Anyway, I'm not thaying you don't do thothe thingth, but you could at leatht have washed my goddamn black thockth inthtead of making me look like a tool in front of Eridan!"

He jumped to his feet, a dusty black sock in his hand, and beat it against his thigh. "You want me to look like a tool, don't you!" he said accusatorially.

All the while Karkat leaned against the doorway. "Excuse me? That's my fucking boyfriend, Sollux. It doesn't matter how you look."

Sollux sat down on the edge of his 'coon and pulled on his sock, scowling. "It matterth."

"I heard that," Karkat snorted. Really, just what was Sollux's problem here? Eridan was coming soon, possibly with something to eat. And then? Well, who knew.

"Tho why do you want me to look like an idiot in front of your boyfriend, then?" Sollux asked accusatorially. "If you like him, and he'th thort of part of thith family, than it affectth me, too."

"Sollux Captor, it's just a fucking sock," he huffed. Karkat started to creep closer to his charge.

"It'th not jutht a thock! I have my duality thing, and it'th ME," Sollux wailed. "You washed jutht the white oneth on purpothe, that'th what I'm thaying."

"Wear a red one and blue one," he said, putting his arms around Sollux with a purr. He didn't do it on purpose, really. He hadn't gotten to the others yet.

The tension drained out of Sollux at the cuddle, and he nuzzled into Karkat's shoulder, if a little grudgingly. "I could do that..." he said. That hadn't occurred to him. He'd planned on white and black today.

Maybe some day, Eridan could get Karkat and his kid to move in with him. Because his apartment was definitely better. Mostly he just really liked the idea of living with Karkat. Coming over all the time didn't cut it, because he had to wait for invitations and make pointed comments. Living together was where it was at.

Right now, he had to be happy with when he did come over, which was now. He made sure his scarf was lying properly around his neck before knocking on the door. He's brought halibut (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Grilled-Halibut-with-Cilantro-Garlic-Butter/Detail.aspx).

"That wasn't so hard, now was it?" he chuckled, giving him a nuzzle in return.

Then there came a knock at the door. With a sigh and another squeeze, Karkat got up to answer it. Of course it would be Eridan. With fish. While fish was great and all, Karkat wasn't all that interested in it. Nope. His lip quirked slightly and he leaned in to give Eridan a kiss and no chaste one at that.

Sollux changed his socks and padded out in one blue and one red sock in time to see Karkat and Eridan liplocked. He scowled and glared sullenly at the floor.

"Hey, ed," he said, when they finally came up for air.

A small part of Eridan went 'oh god' although he really wasn't certain why. Most of him was either paying attention to the kiss, or else glad that he had the tupperware the fish was in in a bag over his arm, so that he could dedicate both arms to Karkat: the one with the bag at his waist, and the other one at the side of his head.

He was the luckiest. It was him.

It took him a while to realise that Sollux was standing there, but he supposed it was only reasonably polite to stop eventually, seeing as he was there.

Okay, now.

Now.

Now?

Right.

"Hey, Sol," he said in return.

Karkat was telling all parts of his mind to shut the fuck up. This feeling was great and he was not about to give it up. During the kiss, his arms slid up and around Eridan's neck. At first, he didn't know why this wonderful warmth was being taken away. When his eyes looked around for the source of the disruption?

Sollux. Oops.

Well at least Karkat had a happy look on his face.

It was hard to be truly irritated when his mom looked so happy. Sollux yellowed and stepped closer, reaching to relieve Eridan of the bag. "I'll jutht put thith on plateth, while you two get your grothh lip lock on, shall I?"

The sight of it just made him feel a little lonely, that was all.

Laughing slightly, Eridan handed off the bag to Sollux and turned back to Karkat. Oh, he was happy. He loved it when he got to make his grumpy boyfriend happy. It made him feel special, and important. He smiled, perhaps rather smugly, and pulled Karkat as close to him as he could manage.

"Wwhere wwere wwe?" he asked, stereotypically. He was not above a horrible line. He was not above leaning right back in to a deep kiss, either.

"I have such a good boy," Karkat said and bit his lip. He was a little worried about Sollux. Happy to be in his love's arms or not, there was still a strong connection with his "son." Something was wrong and the other wasn't willing to talk to him about it. This was troubling.

Eridan's voice pulled him away from such thoughts. Rather, his lips did. It brought another little smile to his face as he eagerly returned the gesture. Cliche movie lines were the best.

Sollux watched them for a few moments longer, then slouched into the food preparation block and pulled out three plates. Eridan always brought them fish. It was cute, and pretty endearing, and he was getting better at preparing it. At first, it had just been raw and he and Karkat had had no idea what to do with it.

He plated the three big halibut steaks and then put together a side dish out of leftovers in the fridge, listening to the smacking sounds in the next room.

"Food'th ready!" he called, hunting through the thermal hull for a bottle of orange juice - no pulp - and then pouring himself a glass.

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