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[The longer she put this off, the worse it was going to be. Nepeta had been unusually quiet since a certain blue troll had returned to Balamb, and it was no wonder why. At some point she was going to have to break it to him that while she still cared deeply for him, her feelings were no longer red. She couldn't help but be a little frustrated with her life. She had put off telling Vriska for so long because she knew that Equius could return at any moment. Yet for some many perigrees he remained gone, keeping her from fulfilling her wish to break things off with him first. Then lo and behold, when she finally caves in and tells Vriska, Time Compression decides to bring him here.

Whining about it would do little, and she knew it was sort of stupid to think of Time Compression as a sentient entity. Even more so than regarding your past and future selves as separate entities.

She knew she should tell him, but each time she thought about it she could just imagine the hurt and anger it would cause him and guilt and cowardice kept her from uttering a word. Equius had been the only partner she had ever had before Vriska, so she had no clue how to go about breaking up with him. How do you do it without hurting their feelings? Was it even possible to do that? A small part of her hoped that maybe since he hadn't seen her in so long, that his feelings might have ebbed away as well. She really, really hoped that was the case. If not, it would make this whole ordeal worse if anything.

Right now she was curled up on the couch in her and Vriska's dorm, flipping through channels without really seeing anything. She had been like this for the past couple of days.]

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What are you moping about? [She leans over the back of the couch and waves a feather she uses to tease Noodles with in Nepeta's face. She had noted Nepeta's behavior for the past few days, but she had let it slide without too much comment in hope she'd pull herself out of whatever slump she was in. A part of her wondered if it had to do with Equius's return and another part of her told her well no shit, idiot what else would it be?]

[Nepeta jerks back, not having quite expected that and then turns her head away to give a small sneeze. Despite herself she can't help but smile at Vriska.]

I'm moping over how crappy everything that's currently showing is. [That was a joke. Well. Kinda. Everything that was on right now was kinda crappy]

You don't mope over a TV for three days! C'mon, at least try to lie to me. [She's still waving that feather near her face.]

[Stop tempting her she bats a little at the feather, unable to resist and that's all it takes before she's flopping onto her back on the couch, batting at it some more. She does that for a bit before finally answering.]

Well. It's Equius of course. I guess I'm just trying to [Her batting slows d until she stops completely] figure out how to break it to him.

[She's oddly quiet after Nepeta talks, letting her bat at the feather.] Just make sure I'm not around when you break it to him. I'll be his first target on his hit list.

[Nepeta might have laughed if there wasn't a grain of truth to that. While she knew Vriska was certainly no push over she did have her doubts about how she would be able to handle Equius. He was the strongest of them all, and he had only been killed by Gamzee because he let Gamzee kill him. Her frown deepened.]

No it's definitely going to be just us. And maybe it would be better to do it somewhere where there aren't a lot of other people around. [Like the training center.]

Is there anything I can do to make it not hurt?

Can't go wrong with that. [She props her chin up with a hand.]

No. It's going to hurt no matter what you do. I think you're the only one he cares about the most. [She chews on her lower lip. Okay maybe that wasn't the best thing to say, all things considered.] But he'll move on. He isn't weak.

[Yes that did indeed make things worse. Nepeta had always known that in all likelihood there wasn't a way she could break up with him without hurting his feelings, but Vriska's words drove a point she hadn't really considered before. She didn't like to think that she was the only one Equius had, but hadn't he said almost as much himself? He had supposedly been here in Balamb for almost as long as she had and according to him, he had made no friends.

He made his feelings about all thr trolls quite clear. Nepeta of course made no plans to cease speaking with him and trying to be there for him once they did break up, but would he even accept her friendship? Would be be alone if she left him? Her brow furrowed.]

Not physically anyway.

[She drops the feather on Nepeta's face and pulls back a little, running a hand through her hair. She inhales through her nose and looks away.]

This would be easier if he tolerated me even a little.

I thought you guys got on at least a little. I mean you lived right next to each other right? Didn't you in any of those years visit each other or...do anything?

[Not to mention Vriska is pretty high up there on the hemospectrum, only a little below Equius himself.]

Well yeah! We've known each other since... fuck, since we were wrigglers, but after a few sweeps we just started to tolerate each other. Well, he tolerated me.

I think he only let me hang around because I was a blueblood too, even if I pissed him off. We just benefited from each other, that was it.

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