[action] the lobby near the dormitories.

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[Since arriving and being interviewed, Sollux had spent the entirely of his stay at Balamb Garden curled up in his room. He couldn't sleep - not when he was so wound up and distinctively lacking a recuperacoon. But the outward world was a scary place, and he didn't have very high hopes for it. Despite the fact that his hosts had yet to actually do something terrible to him, it was nigh impossible to put the possibility out of mind.]

[But eventually he goes out, if only to prove to himself that he can and that he's allowed to. He's almost surprised when nobody stops him from leaving the dorms, and once he's to the lobby he's officially out of ideas of what to do with himself. Everyone he's seen is the same, pink skinned alien race he saw in Timber, and he doesn't feel comfortable talking to them. At least not of his own accord.]

[So he finds a slightly concealed area of the lobby and perches himself on it, watching people pass by, and trying to coax himself down from persistent idea that he should be trying to escape. It's not like he actually has anywhere to go.]

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[Oh man that's not the answer he wanted at all.]

Uh. Sollux.

[Oh hell no, he was rejecting the fuck out of this reality.]

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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But if you're me.. How can you still see. Alternate timeline I guess but then. You're older so.

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I mean, how old even are you?

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

No, fuck, no more of this timeline shit. What...what the fuck does that even mean...I can't...

[And everything starts feeling off balance again, and he braces himself against the railing, muttering things under his breath.]

[Sorry kid, he's a bit distracted with being deranged.]

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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Hey, hello? It's okay... Sollux. It's not really that big of a deal.

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I mean you know about the alternate timelines, right?

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He looks at his little doppelganger and then away.]

No.

[He stresses that word like it's important that the other troll understand how out of the loop he is.]

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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That didn't come up in your sgrub session? Didn't Aradia explain it to you?

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

Aradia? Is she...?

[He looks up, vaguely hopeful, but it doesn't last long. No, he's pretty sure whatever this kid is referring to it's something incomprehensible to him.]

I don't know what that is.

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

Aradia's fine.

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I guess it's not important. An alternate timeline is basically like another world where things happen to you differently. Like you never played sgrub, I did, you never got lost your sight I'm assuming, I did. It comes up a lot in that sgrub thing I mentioned that you don't really need to know about, but yeah. I guess. That's what a timeline is.

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[...actually, that explanation is a bit easier to swallow. He nods vaguely, looking a bit more receptive to information.]

What was Sgrub?

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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Some bullshit game. It kind of destroyed our universe and then we beat it to make another one.

Sorry, you probably want to know more than that, but it's a really really stupidly long story.

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[Oh wow, destroyed universes. Heavy shit. But in the face of all the other weird things happening, it just kind of washes over him.]

...So you never entered the military, then?

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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No.

You did I take it?

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He nods, slowly.]

Yeah. For like...two sweeps, I guess.

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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...Did you have KK- I mean. A Karkat, in your timeline?

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[That gets a sad face.]

Yeah. I do. Did. [He doesn't know how to phrase that here.] Do you?

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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Dude, if I didn't know KK how could I ask you about him?

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So I guess he survived then.

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[Sollux snorts at that.]

Not without considerable effort. You...did he ever tell you his blood colour?

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

Eh. It kind of came out. Sgrub's a really violent game. He still hung up about it when he's whatever age you are?

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He actually smiling a little, and while Sollux can't see it, it shows a bit in his voice.]

In kind of a different way. He's with the Rebellion. They're all about blood equality, so...

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

Weird.

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Yup. Weird. So wait. If you're in the military. Then.

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Well. Nice to meet you I guess.

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[Sollux raises his eyebrow a little, ignoring the pleasantries at the end.]

Then what?

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

Well. Are you guys like enemies or something or what?

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He takes a deep breath like he's trying to steady himself.]

We were. For a long time.

[hindsight2fold.livejournal.com]

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Sounds like a fun time.

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He shrugs a little.]

I didn't even know he was alive. Until the end.

He's the one that got me out.